![]() Keeping the rhythm as you move and battle powers up your moves and abilities, giving you the strength necessary to conquer every opponent. Of course, he has his newfound powers to help him out, with every action moving to the beat of his musical heart. Suddenly, Chai is dragged into a conspiracy that extends all the way to the top of the company, and has to battle his way through increasingly powerful foes to unravel the mystery. Hi-Fi RUSH's campaign is surprisingly excellent, with plenty of reasons to replay levels. Labeled as a defect, Chai is beset upon by the corporation's security and is unable to escape, until he meets the adorable mechanical cat 808 and their genius creator, Peppermint. The process goes awry, however, when his music player is mistakenly embedded in his chest, seemingly giving him musical superpowers. You play as Chai, a wannabe rockstar who signs up to have his disabled arm be augmented by a futuristic, totally-not-evil megacorporation. ![]() Instead, there's a linear single-player campaign divided into neat sections and levels, with a huge amount of underlying content hailing from secrets, upgrades, challenges, the search for higher scores, oodles of Achievements, and more. ![]() This isn't a live service game, and there is no online multiplayer. It's such a complete experience from top to bottom, beginning to end Hi-Fi RUSH is pure video game fun in the same vein as other recent indie hit Vampire Survivors, and that's high praise indeed.īesides the undeniable style that comes from the visuals, transitions, and the effortless seamlessness of it all, Hi-Fi RUSH is straightforward. That may seem like a strange word to attribute to a video game, but nothing in Hi-Fi RUSH stands out or feels out of place. There are currency-like gears to pick up, boxes and barrels to smash, secrets to find, collectibles to collect. This is a game that brazenly embraces that it's a video game inside and out. It all blends together so seamlessly, that I immediately wanted to get lost in Hi-Fi RUSH's cartoonish world. Everything in Hi-Fi RUSH moves and reacts to the beat of the game's soundtrack, which is comprised of original scores and wonderful tracks from a variety of major artists like Nine Inch Nails. Hi-Fi RUSH is aggressively fun and bright, and the entire world is dancing to the beat of its music. Its cel-shaded visuals are crisp, vibrant, oozing with charm and attention to detail, and absolutely beg for comparisons to similarly colorful classics like Jet Set Radio and Sunset Overdrive. ![]() It becomes immediately apparent when you start Hi-Fi RUSH that this game cares not for the industry's obsession with photorealistic visuals. ![]()
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