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Sifu is a very nice adapting game, I love it. I've always wanted games like this that were Beat 'Em Up genres and were simple. Sifu delivered and I am very happy about this. The Review: The story of Sifu is about a young man who seeks out for 5 people to get revenge on them for killing his father. This brings in 5 long levels and each level will have the main bosses at the end. Sifu STARTED out as a simple and easy game with the introduction making you, the player, feel very strong until you actually start the game as the MC. When I looked at the pause screen, I felt overwhelmed by the combo lists. Some moves were exactly like what fighting games like Mortal Kombat or Tekken have where you'd have to perform a combo of button mashing to unleash a specific attack. But the more I used those moves, the more I felt comfortable with it and soon enough, I was not fazed anymore. When I dived deeper into the game and reached a specific boss, I had a HUGE amount of my time thrown out the window just because I did not use 2 buttons on my controller against him. The dodging mechanic is very vital if you want to get through most of the bosses if not against everybody you fight. Now this is the unique thing about Sifu, it makes you learn and adapt. The enemy A.I does not hold back whether you are new or not and neither should you. The Unique Selling Point: This unique selling point is something that's obviously... unique in the game and personally, I don't think any game has done this to me. Sifu made me memorize EVERY enemy's fighting patterns including the boss'. Let's talk about the Death Mechanic before we dive deeper. It's something new for once instead of having to just respawn at your last checkpoint and continue on when you die-- no! It's basic yet Sifu has done it again. When you die, you DO respawn at the exact same spot you died but it adds numbers to your age. The more you die, the more your death counter will increase and will be added to your age. With every 10s you past in your age, your health will decrease and your damage will increase. The maximum age you can go up to is below 80. The Death Mechanic is what helps you to adapt in-game and to be very honest, I love the potential replay value in this game. Structure Mechanic and other skills: Like Sekiro, Sifu has a Structure mechanic that is a bar that will slowly fill up when you block attacks and once the bar is full, the bar will break and you will be vulnerable to attacks and the enemies have the same thing too which once broken, you will be able to perform an instant kill move. There's a skill tree that allows you to unlock movesets but some movesets have an age limit to which you can unlock them, same goes for the shrine abilities that you can find throughout the 5 levels. Every skill in the skill tree have something called a "Permanently Unlock" button. You'll have to unlock a skill first then you have to spend the same amount of XP 5 more times before you can permanently unlock them. Difficulty: Holy hell, this game was... difficult for me at least. It WAS difficult until I got used to it, which is what Sifu wants us to do, and I was able to do reruns and finish at the age of 23 (You start the game at age 20). I have memorized every boss's pattern except for the 3rd one, that boss genuinely gave me a hard time. Overall, Sifu is a wonderful game and I'm glad this game exists. 10/10, am still playing again. Discount or not, get Sifu if you love games like this.

Yakuza 0 is just... wonderful. I love that you can play as Majima besides Dead Souls and Kiwami 2. The story's plot was well thought out and I love that you can use the money you get from business and fights to upgrade both Kiryu and Majima to the point where you have to spend a billion yen to upgrade 1 skill but is backed up since the game took place in the Bubble era aka when the economy was good. The atmosphere really felt like I was in the '80s and I love it. The character build-ups were impressive, given the fact that a character you didn't expect to be the final boss actually becomes the final boss. Although getting a few billion yen from business (looks at Real Estate minigame) can be time-consuming, the game implemented a special enemy where you can get more money faster. This special enemy is known as Mr. Shakedown, this enemy can carry up to a billion yen once you've fought him and won a couple of times but they'll get tougher so don't expect it to be a walk in the park. This enemy is a "high risk, high reward" type of enemy since if you lose the fight, he'll take ALL of your money but you'll be okay if you equip a secret wallet. Let's not forget about sub-stories, they are like little side quests but are actually fun to do since all sub-stories have their own respective stories. And finally, the combat. Starting from Yakuza 1 (PS2) all the way to Yakuza 5, you only have 1 fighting style but Yakuza 0 introduced a variety of fighting styles that provides up to 8 fighting styles in total from both Kiryu and Majima. Although both will start out with 3, beating a certain minigame will allow you to unlock their respective styles like Mad Dog of Shimano and Dragon of Dojima. Overall, the story and music are stunning. A strong 10/10 for me. Go buy it.

I bought this game in the late November 2020 since I heard AC Unity was very buggy so I decided to wait out for a while. So far, I haven't experienced any bugs or anything related to that, I have to say that AC Unity is such a beautiful game with new controls that gives you the opportunity to act with stealth unlike the previous AC games, parkour system was VERY awesome and VERY fluid, this game was way ahead of its time. But not all games are perfect, there is bound to be 1 problem in every game. For AC Unity, it's the story but I'll get to that later. To me, it felt very repetitive during the story missions, it's like "sneak in and assassinate this person" every time. Yes, there are some unique missions here and there but the majority of it is just the classic sneak->assassinate. But what I really like is you don't have to have a stealthy playstyle, you can choose what type of assassin you want to be. If you're not good at stealth, you can be an enforcer or a heavy wielder, you can be a ranged backup assassin. It all depends on you after all. The thing that got me hyped was the co-op missions, you can play with friends and it will feel much better and more in-depth than just playing by yourself, it makes you feel like a real assassin. But some people might not take the mission seriously but that's not the point. The combat system is very good in my opinion, it's better than the counter kill mechanic in the previous games, the new combat system really makes you think about what to do and gives you some challenge. But you can't just rush in, you'll have to upgrade your equipment to give yourself an easier challenge. The graphics are just out of this world for a 2015 game, Ubisoft did a very good job on the graphics. Ah yes, the characters. In my opinion, Ubisoft tried to create another Ezio using Arno. They tried to make Arno care-free, charismatic, funny and made him wiser at the end of the story just like Ezio. The characters had very little development towards the players because some just randomly appear for a short bit then disappears, the only real character development they had was Elise and Arno but the development wasn't that deep at all. The story is pretty dull and wasn't interesting, I appreciate the opportunity for us to play as the main character before becoming an assassin just like any other AC games except AC1, Rogue, and Freedom Cry but AC Unity's story feels like it's being forced down our throats. I really like the opportunity to use smoke bombs, Phantom Blades, and other distractive/killing equipment since it really gives the players a more in-depth feeling of the game while playing. If AC Unity had a better story and better character development, it would have been way better than it is now. Overall, gameplay and mechanics are beautiful but the story is a let-down. I'm giving it a strong 8.5/10.