Hi-Fi RUSH Review
And now a reenactment of me learning about Hi-Fi RUSH: “There’s a new action game that was surprise released the other day.”“Oh cool.”“It’s like cel shaded Devil May Cry.”“Oh cool.”“And the combat is rhythm based in time with the game’s music!”“Oh no…” Hi-Fi RUSH is set in a cheerful, light-cyberpunk universe where almost everyone is named after a kind of food because everything needs a theme. Our main character, Chai, comes to an event hosted by the biggest robotics company on Earth, Vandelay Technologies, that promises to give anyone who volunteers cybernetic limbs for a better life. Chai’s surgery doesn’t quite go as expected though, and after a freak accident he wakes up with a magnetic robot arm and his iPod embedded in his chest, which somehow has made the entire world move in sync to the tempo of the songs his iPod plays. This unexpected technological event has branded…