Great smaller title with excellent pacing and just a fun attitude. This is an excellent combat and a more casual take on the Japanese action games that really started with Devil May Cry.
Wonderful art style and animation, and a great cast of colorful and likable characters. Great set of enemy lieutenants that make up the games boss battles.
Some negatives - Chai's walk speed is ridiculously slow and you spend a lot of time navigating environments that make this blatantly obvious. His walk is timed to the BPM of the music playing in any given level, and due to the combat being all rhythm based, it seems like they had no other choice than to give Chai this slow run speed, but it does slow things down and drag on at times.
Another small complaint. Not every enemy lieutenant has a boss fight, and all the best ones that do exist are stuffed into the last two hours of the game. I would have liked to see bigger more bombastic bosses in the first half.
Among these kinds of action-games, I think HiFi Rush is one of the weaker entries (when compared to Wonderful 101, Bayonetta, DMC) but is still a great game and certainly the most refreshing thing to come from Xbox Game Studios since Sea of Thieves.
Wonderful art style and animation, and a great cast of colorful and likable characters. Great set of enemy lieutenants that make up the games boss battles.
Some negatives - Chai's walk speed is ridiculously slow and you spend a lot of time navigating environments that make this blatantly obvious. His walk is timed to the BPM of the music playing in any given level, and due to the combat being all rhythm based, it seems like they had no other choice than to give Chai this slow run speed, but it does slow things down and drag on at times.
Another small complaint. Not every enemy lieutenant has a boss fight, and all the best ones that do exist are stuffed into the last two hours of the game. I would have liked to see bigger more bombastic bosses in the first half.
Among these kinds of action-games, I think HiFi Rush is one of the weaker entries (when compared to Wonderful 101, Bayonetta, DMC) but is still a great game and certainly the most refreshing thing to come from Xbox Game Studios since Sea of Thieves.