Sifu isn't just a fighting game, but an engrossing lesson in risk versus reward. 

It's a stylish single-player action brawler, where every punch, every kick, block, parry, dodge, and glass bottle crunched into a skull, matters. It's a thinker, like old-school arcade beat 'em ups, and it's effortlessly cool, like any one of the myriad Chinese martial art films it's inspired by.