#Clustertruck boss movie#

There's a couple of associated gimmicks - as you age, your health goes down, but your damage goes up - but otherwise, you might as well put it out of your mind. It's an interesting storytelling concept - really drives home the main character's obsession if he's willing to waste an entire puberty bringing down one troublesome boss fight - but in practical terms, it's not much more than a classic lives system with a hard limit.

So you start out as a fresh-faced Disney prince in his school jogging trousers, and death-by-death, watch his beard grow and his muscles fill out, until by the end, he's about 46 and looks like an overgrown ornamental rock garden. The first interesting bit is the gameplay mechanic wherein, every time your character dies from getting kung-fued too much - which will happen frequently, because the basic combat also borrows from the retro arcade gaming tradition of being designed to remove coins from the pockets of unsupervised schoolchildren with all the fervor of the CIA removing democracy from an easily-bullied oil-rich South American country - then they immediately come back to life, but age an entire year. I guess it's pretty interesting that it's being done in 3D over-the-shoulder-style, although it does, on one or two occasions, switch to a 2D side-on camera when it starts to fret that the reference might be going over people's heads. It even ends each level with a colorful boss and litters the environment with disposable melee weapons, because apparently, the only things people throw away in this world are beer bottles, broom handles and fileting knives.

Oh wait, that's not very interesting, either that's just the bog-standard retro arcade brawler template. Okay, so it's a game where you go through a sequence of levels based on urban settngs where every single person you meet, from junkies to janitors to businessmen to substitute maths teachers, is trained to the exact same standard in one highly specific martial art, except for the fat ones, who all learned grappling techniques from handling their enormous sandwiches.

You play a young martial artist who, as a child, watched their mentor get killed, and who then trains for years before going flip-out spanky-wan- oh, hang on, that's not very interesting at all. It's like how it's easy to lose confidence in your stand-up set if the opening act was a gigantic golden dancing rhinoceros that spunked diamonds at ballistic velocity and killed eleven audience members.Д«ut anyway, I've been getting requests for Sifu, and finally had the chance to play through it last week, and I have to say, it is an interesting game. It's not usually this bad this time of year I think Elden Ring might've frightened everything off.

Sifu is a third-person brawler that came out a while back, but holy Jesus human-centipeding Christ, are new releases dead right now! They're so fucking dead, they're planning to start their comeback tour in Sarajevo.

#Clustertruck boss movie#

Now, let's turn to Sifu and explore instead the martial arts movie plot, in which the protagonist watches their mentor get killed as a child and then trains for years before going flip-out spanky-wanky all over the baddies responsible and eventually concluding that revenge isn't really worth it, while not wearing a pointy hat, and sometimes even manages to get through the whole process inside a century, Shenmue! So we did the samurai movie plot in Trek to Yomi, in which the protagonist watches their mentor get killed as a child and then trains for years before going flip-out spanky-wanky all over the baddies responsible and eventually concluding that revenge isn't really worth it. This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Sifu.