![]() ![]() That all said, Chai as a protagonist is the least interesting character in this game’s ensemble by far. The comedic pacing of its exaggerated animation is delightful, and it had me constantly engaged throughout. I love the overall exaggerated anime aesthetic and design sensibility of this game. Now, before I get into the gameplay, I want to get one of my main criticisms of this game out of the way. Alongside his new magnetic powers, which form trash into a makeshift guitar, he begins a journey to fight his way to freedom, and take down the cartoonishly evil corporate leaders responsible for selling him a false promised life of musical fame. You play as Chai, a young man desperate for fame and rock stardom, who unquestioningly signs up for the ArmStrong project, a corporate campaign designed to turn fame and success hungry youths into corporate worker drones equipped with cybernetics suited for jobs like magnetic trash collection.ĭue to a mishap, Chai’s iPod is mechanically wired into his body during this process, allowing him to see the world as moving in time with the beat of the music. Gone are the dark and gritty setpieces, replaced with a colourful anime art style that is perhaps the best use of cel shading I’ve ever seen, and gameplay that mixes Devil May Cry style character action combat with music rhythm elements more comparable to games like Crypt of the Necrodancer. So, what actually is Hi-Fi Rush? Developed by Tango Gameworks, previously best known for survival horror titles The Evil Within and The Evil Within 2, as well as handsign magic action title Ghostwire Tokyo, Hi-Fi Rush is a stylistic and tonal departure from the studio’s previous work. While Hi-Fi Rush isn’t without its issues, and things that I would change if I could, I cannot deny that I have fallen head over heels in love with this game. Having now completed the game’s core story mode on normal difficulty, played through the post game challenges to unlock the secret ending, then gone right back into replaying the levels to aim for a ranking of S on each stage in hard mode, I can say that my initial impression an hour into playing this game has held true. ![]()
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