Sifu is, without a doubt, a hard nut to crack as a video game, with a host of challenging enemies and obstacles to overcome during your quest for vengeance. Naturally, you’ll be looking for ways to make yourself stronger during the course of the game, one of those ways being your own health. Here’s everything you need to know about your health bar in Sifu.
Can You Increase Your Health Pool In Sifu?
No, Sifu offers no chance to increase your total health pool. In fact, the pool can only decrease during the game. Sifu’s main gimmick comes in the form of the protagonist’s talisman, which revives the players from death at the cost of years of their life.
Basically, every time the player dies, the death counter goes up by 1. When you rise up from death, your total age will go up by the number specified in the death counter. Your death counter status, along with your XP and upgrades, will carry over to the next levels, but players can drop the death counter by one when they take out certain minibosses and the end of level bosses.
Every 10 years, you’ll go through a trade-off, losing a small portion of your health bar in favour of increased damage. As your deaths pile up and you’ve been revived a few times, your talisman will gradually lose power until you hit age 70. At that point, one more death means game over and starting the level again. The end goal is to run through the levels, accrue upgrades and defeat the final boss before hitting age 70 and dying.
Can You Recover Your Health In Sifu?
While increasing your overall health pool in Sifu is impossible, recovering any lost health is achieved in a few ways, the most immediate being simply taking out enemies. Any defeated enemy will recover your lost health by a small chunk, and there’s an upgrade you can receive from shrines that will increase the amount of health you gain back when defeating enemies with takedowns (triangle + circle).
There are a couple of passive ways of regaining health too. Interacting with a shrine will instantly recover all of your health, which is useful as there’s always one shrine located just before an end of level boss. Speaking of bosses, each one has two phases to get through, and beating the first phase will see your health recover when the second one starts, so that’s nice. Finally, when you die, you’ll rise up again with a full health bar, which is lovely. The health recovery, I mean. The death isn’t lovely.
Sifu is available on PC, PS4 and PS5.
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