![]() Marked for extermination, you must guide Chai to safety, then help him to take down his oppressor. ![]() The operation goes wrong when an old iPod-style music player is fitted to Chai’s chest. You play as Chai, an ebullient teenage boy who enrols in a biological augmentation program with a shady pharmaceutical company. This is a brawler set to the beat of a drum. So too does its bright, cartoonish styling: this game is as brazenly colourful as a Jet Set Radio fever dream, and even as plastic Guitar Hero instruments clog up the nation’s cupboards, it’s refreshing to play a game that is so unashamedly music-centred. So the simultaneous announcement and release in late January of Hi-Fi Rush – the kind of “go and buy it right now” revelation Apple is known for – feels breezily countercultural. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.The video game industry’s hype cycles are typically measured in months and years, not minutes and seconds. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. An absolute win.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. It’s joyful, addicting and something I may play twice just for the hell of it. I would recommend Hi-Fi Rush to anyone, even many non-gamers. It feels like another High on Life situation (with more love from critics and no accompanying scandal). ![]() I’m not sure I would have bought this game for $30, which is what it’s selling for on Steam, but the ability to download and play after the stealth drop generated a whole lot of instant goodwill toward Xbox and Game Pass and reminded me “oh yeah, that’s why I’m paying for this” even as it has lacked larger releases which were delayed out of 2022. In the larger context of this release, this feels like the kind of win on Game Pass that Xbox needs. At first it seemed like Chai might be a Star Lord-but-worse knock-off, but he’s weirdly charming, and I enjoyed both his various team members and the bosses he’s tasked with taking down, many of which result in some really creative fights. I was also surprised just how much I liked the story and characters as well here. ![]()
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