Declared a defect, Chai must join forces with a mysterious hacker named "Peppermint" and fight his way out of the evil tech campus by defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends- I mean, middle managers, to end the machinations of the villainous CEO, Kale. But things go awry when his tragically retro MP3 player - oh Christ, MP3 players can be tragically retro now? I've been doing this way too fucking long - gets merged with his body during the cyborg process, and he gains the ability to summon a magic guitar-shaped piece of metal that twats the absolute fuck, and furthermore, fucks the absolute twat out of things, as long as he keeps in time with the beat. In Hi-Fi Rush, we play a massive dork named "Chai", who volunteers to get a robot arm glued on by a powerful tech company, and is too busy enjoying his rocking and rolling music to notice how blatantly evil the whole arrangement is. Someone's going to do a version of Civilization where you get extra points for invading the Turks just as "Ride of the Valkyries" kicks in. Where BPM and Hellsinger were FPSes, and Crypt of the NecroDancer was a roguelike dungeon crawler, Hi-Fi Rush brings rhythm action to the noble spectacle fighter, which goes to show that rhythm action can work in basically any style of combat I'm sure there's already a fucking gold rush brewing on Steam. I'm sure, eventually, one of these days, I'll run into a rhythm action game I don't get off with it's bound to happen if the genre keeps gaining popularity, when someone makes a game about catching falling turds in a bucket in time with "Peter and the Wolf" or something.īut it's not happened yet, 'cos Hi-Fi Rush is great fun. It's not strictly a new genre, but certainly one that's going through a bit of a heyday, between BPM, Metal: Hellsinger, and now this thing, Hi-Fi Rush. It doesn't take a genius to compare the experiences of playing a drum kit and twatting lots of people with sticks lots of very short people in metal hats who complain very loudly.
"Rhythm action" might sound like one of the marketing bullet points for a fancy dildo, but it is, in fact, a genre of video game, in which the player is obliged to perform some kind of combat mechanic in time with the backing music a logical innovation, really. This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Hi-Fi Rush.
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