Tldr This game is quite frustrating. Not because itās not good. But because it should have been great. It had everything going for it. And yet a shitty porn prevent it from greatness.
Visuals: quite phenomenal. Playing on an iPhone 14 and the cell shaded graphics with the mood lighting of Asian mega cities is absolutely a sight to behold. Too bad I canāt behold it given how often the camera goes wonky. Really frustrating to be in a fight and your camera decides that the best point of focus is the ceiling. Given the mechanics of the game this is particularly infuriating. To the point where I have died many times over due to (what I believe) camera issues.
Controls: I think this is a very complicated and complex subject. While I did play sifu on ps5 for a little bit I never got to beat. Now that Iām playing it on phone, it feels like the game requires hyper precision/precise inputs , but the performance of the game doesnāt allow for it. Particularly infuriating to die because you didnāt press the exact location for the dodge button.
On top of that, Iāve lost a few lives due to accidentally inputting my press of a button as a swap app input causing me to pause the game instead of block or dodge.
Gameplay overall is quite fun, setting is quite beautiful, sound design is punchy and attacks feel heavy (love throwing bottles) but it really is marred by poor optimization. I find it crazy that in 2026 we donāt have a āperformance settings ā dial we can use to improve the quality of the gameplay.
The part thatās frustrating is that i know they can do better. As a game dev, I know itās not easy to optimize and fine tune but a lot of this stuff could have been averted.
Such a shame that such a cool universe wonāt really get explored by me due to me being unable to explore it.
To put things in perspective, Iāve had my fair share of gaming. Iāve played dead cells on mobile, beat blasphemous, have been racing a ton in sonic racing and on console I feel fairly confident in playing difficult games such as dark souls, bloodborne, Elden ring and Rayman haha. I donāt think the difficulty is a skill issue. Rather I think the difficulty is getting the game to work with you