- Tested on PC via the Game Pass
- Test configuration: RTX 4090 + i9-9900K
- Completed in hard in about 10 and a half hours
- This game contains a hilarious reference to Twin Peaks as well as a robot cat: GOTY?
Hi-Fi Rush is surprising to more than one title. From one, he landed unannounced, released directly into nature after a Xbox & Bethesda Dev Direct. By two, this rhythmic action game is made by Tango Gameworks (The Evil Within 1 and 2, Ghostwire Tokyo), a studio that had previously only worked in the horror genre. It's kind of like Darmanin abandoning the interior to become captain of the Ocean Viking: everyone would be surprised. Hi-Fi Rush Does he have the rhythm in his skin?
When music is good
The first thing that hits when you throw Hi-Fi RushIt's his rule. Ornate with flamboyant textures in cel shading, we instantly take full view. The camera zooms, dezooms and veers, when it does not completely change perspective time cutscene overvitaminated and punctuated with well-feeling slow motion. The adventure, free from any technical and fluid trick like the morning dew, lives almost without any time dead, from beginning to end.
As mentioned above, it is an action game to the third person oriented beat‘em up, with an emphasis on the notion of rhythm. Understand that you will have to smash the robotic skulls of your enemies and chain combos without false note to maximize the damage. If you too have never been able to align yourself with other guests' mumblings when singing « Happy birthday », rest assured. You're not alone anymore. Then, Hi-Fi Rush offers a whole host of accessibility options that will make it easier for you to read the rhythm to better synchronize with the tempo.
Rather technical in its range of hits, you will have to spend many points in store to acquire and master all the subtleties of the combat system. The latter fabricates throughout the game and goes as far as making you collaborate with three characters, to invoke at the right time, for example to break a shield otherwise indestructible, or to extinguish flames. Robotic arm requires, it is also possible to equip chips to modify some statistics.
Turn on the fire
If, in form, the structure of the fighting is rather classical, it is nevertheless perfectly executed. We like to give scratches to the rhythm of excellent compositions, mostly original. It's almost exclusively a good old rock n的roll. The guitar riffs are legion and the whole is occasionally embellished with lyrics or even electronic effects, special mention in this boss fight on a remix of the 5nd Beethoven's Symphony. More contemporary groups also participate, such as The Black Keys, Prodigy or Nine Inch Nails To name but a few.
The boss fights also enjoy an ultra dynamic staging, transcended by music and comic-style onomatopoeia, to the Viewtiful Joe. It often happens that the fights have not even begun yet that we are already all excited in hand, to tap from the foot. Hi-Fi Rush also allows to vary the pleasures with scenes of QTE of the most beautiful effect, Heatrhythm or Guitar Hero, to run in rhythm to counter-attack.
Chai missed
From a scenario perspective, the player plays Chai, a 25-year-old man with an arm and a nice temperament. loser who dreams of becoming a rock star. Unfortunately, he couldn't play with a hand. To regain the use of its ghost member, Chai decided to participate in the Armstrong project, initiated by Vandelay Technologies. This cousin of our real world GAFAs is however animated by other intentions...
To not disclose anything, let's say one thing by driving another, Chai finds itself literally merging with his MP3 device. Provided with a musical player instead of the heart and a magical robotic guitar, he will do everything possible to expose the plot behind the Armstrong project. Hilarante or touching at times, history is a treat to follow. A true satire of the company, the intrigue continues to fly. If you've already worked in a firm, you'll find yourself snuggling regularly.
Out of nowhere, Hi-Fi Rush creates the surprise. Equipped with a rutilating staging, with a background that serves a story completely crazy and transcended by a playful and striking gameplay, Tango Gameworks' latest-born is in every respect rejoicing. It is always a pleasure to see a studio out of its comfort zone and, in this case, risk-taking has proved to be a cost. Hi-Fi Rush is not only an excellent game with the sweet scent of the Gamecube/PS2 era, it is also a condensed of joy of living that will give you a smile. A little happiness, quite simply.
For
- Unbelievable and rutilating staging
- Beautiful visual inventiveness
- Musically impeccable
- A potato of every moment
- Technically without hooks
- hilarious satire from the watermark company
- A team of endearing braces
- English dubbing very fair
- Endgame content for players looking for a last reminder
Against
- Maybe a little too much. « Marvelizing » at times
- We want even more rhythm games and they're more complex.
- Short, less interesting platform phases
A RTX 4090... Well, it pays well to work at MaG.
Yeah, if you read the test well, you'll see I put the word « doritos » each paragraph.
[...] He is now captain of his own Tango Games studio (The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Hi-Fi Rush) and it is therefore Capcom's internal team that had to take over after a start of [...]
I still haven't played the game, I'll have to catch up. Pardi I have plenty of free time but I run after time anyway.