Things start simple enough: light attacks take one beat and heavy ones two, and while it’s easy enough to follow along with the music there’s the world and gauges that pulse and move in time as well to help you keep on the beat. In some further twist of fate, Chai’s attacks now sync up with the MP3 player’s music, and if you hit the attack button in time you’ll earn extra damage and points. While he gets his all-new robot arm, that MP3 player has also been surgically attached to Chai’s chest, and it’s powering his new metal appendage while it’s at it. The quality of production that Tango Gameworks has brought to bear is spectacular, iterating and expanding on the timeless design brief of creating a playable cartoon a la Jet Set Radio and Viewtiful Joe. Hi-Fi Rush looks like a cartoon, and that’s whether you’re watching the cutscenes or you’re playing in-game. You can’t escape from Hi-Fi Rush’s clear selling point the animation and cel shaded visuals are absolutely stunning. It’s turned out to be one hell of a game. Hi-Fi Rush is one of the rare games to pull this off, shadow-dropping into existence during a Microsoft showcase.
This does not happen anymore! Thanks to long development cycles, the need to build hype, and the push for a community before a title’s even launched, this kind of immediate, spontaneous interaction with a game only comes once every blue moon. There’s something pretty magical about discovering a new game that you’ve never heard about – looking at the box art, turning it over to see some screenshots, and then being swept up in the excitement of a batch of new possibilities and experiences when you get it home.
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