It’s hard to mess things up too badly even in the over-the-top boss fights. It’s a combat system that’s both stylish and forgiving, at least on the default difficulty level. You’ll gain points by striking in time, but won’t lose anything if you miss it - you’ll just do less damage and gain fewer style points than you might have. You can move, jump, dash, and grapple to your enemies with a little more freedom, but the attack restriction means that most of the gameplay is locked into the beat of the background music. You can button-mash all you want, but Chai will only actually strike his foes on the beat: either one beat for the light attack or two for the heavy. The latter is where the gameplay shines, giving you a wide selection of tools to wreak rhythmic destruction. Hi-Fi Rush alternates between basic platforming sections, populated with a bunch of moving platforms and predictably breakable crates, and boxed-off combat arenas filled with robots for you to musically pummel. You can button-mash all you want, but Chai will only strike his foes on the beat When the surgery also implants his off-brand iPad into his chest, Chai gains the power to see the pulse of the world around him, wield a Flying V made out of trash a la Quick-Draw McGraw, and power up his attacks by smashing on the beat. This aspiring rockstar has had his arm replaced with a cybernetic trash collector after volunteering for experimental surgery at one of those giant, cartoonishly evil companies that seem to populate the Borderlands universe. You play Chai, a protagonist who fell right out of a 2000s-era Fox Kids show.
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