Swiftly they also team up with Macaron, Quinoa, Almond Milk, and Organic Fairtrade Coffee Beans. For some reason most of the characters are named after – bear with me on this – foodstuffs with slightly hipstery associations. 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 it keeps in time to 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 gonna do a version of Civilization where you get extra points for invading the Turks just as Ride of the Valkyries kicks in. I’m sure there’s already a fucking gold rush brewing on Steam. 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. 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, but it’s not happened yet, ‘cos Hi-Fi Rush is great fun. I’m sure eventually one of these days I’ll run into a rhythm action game I don’t get on with. 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. Lots of very short people in metal hats who complain very loudly.
A logical innovation, really, it doesn’t take a genius to compare the experiences of playing a drum kit and twatting lots of people with sticks. “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. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for ZP merch.
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