Post Script
What’s my age again? How Sifu makes getting old feel new
A warning: if your hair is already an elderly grey when you reach this fight, you’re probably best starting over
The trouble with getting old is that you don’t want it to happen. In Sifu, that is. Watching your character’s beard gradually form, lengthen and whiten might be the game’s single coolest idea, but in practice it’s also a sign things have gone wrong.
Sharing progress with fellow reviewers, there’s a lot of lamenting our characters’ current ages. Too old for The Club, we moan, might as well be dead – just one of the many setups for an ‘and in the game’ punchline that had to be resisted in the writing of this Post Script.