Sifu

A very violent one.

I’m becoming a bit frustrated with it.

I don’t understand how you can avoid taking hits. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and it doesn’t seem timing dependant, it just doesn’t seem to work reliably. I’d love to see someone really skilled just parry a room to death, Batman-style, but it doesn’t seem possible. And because messing up the parry means you’re going to take 3 or 4 hits, you end up losing lives to it.

Also, no directional throws, it’s more of a barge backwards. Even the unlockable grapple just switches places with someone rather than damaging them. And no disarm. That’d be rally useful when the botanist pulls out the machete and starts cutting you up.
It feels a bit limited in a lot of ways that a Kung-fu master sort of shouldn’t be.

It does have that “just one more go” factor though.

His 2nd phase is wrecking me so bad…

Every rougelike I've ever tried I've had a really good first run, and then every subsequent run has felt like failure in comparison. 
It's probably luck, but it's one of the main reasons I hate roguelikes. 

That said, this sounds pretty ace, and apparently you can restart later levels at the lowest age you started them, so it's more about improving your runs than restarting from scratch each time. 

Bit worried that losing the attacks you've bought is going to fuck up muscle memory though. 

Made in to The Club aged 42 Not good enough!

Starting to buy more abilities and have unlocked a couple permanently. Not sure if there were better options than the kicking of environmental stuff, but it looks pretty good!

You don't really do nuance do you

Ah, okay. I'll be honest, I thought one of the themes of the game was the inability of Samurai to cope with anybody who didn't play by their rules. Also that they're kind of dicks to anybody 'lower' than them (Jin's uncle at any rate).

Yeah the timing on avoid is much easier than anything else.

Yeah, I did a far more aggressive run after posting and it’s way easier. Finished level 1 at age 31 though, so still need to work on getting that younger.

Best run I had was finishing it at 23, and that was my first go.

I think it actually gets harder the more you play it. When I went back to that first level I finished it at 39. I was too preoccupied with trying to parry stuff and use some of the more complex moves. I still don't have a clue how best to play it.

I hate that second mini boss, just can't get a read on him. Then to fight them both before the boss is an absolute cunt.

Rest of the game is actually meant to be easier than level 2 from what I've read. I've been super shit at this today, concentration just not there.

The third strike with the glowing fist needs to be blocked late. Once you get the timing down on it it's a lot easier.

Breezed that corridor in around 30 secs but the next time lost a couple of lives. SEESH.

Definitely think that grinding level 1 to prep some unlocks will help.