![]() ![]() ![]() As you move through these Shibuya-inspired streets, the world and everything in it pulses to the rhythm of the game’s soundtrack (a blend of originals and licensed tracks from bands such as the Black Keys and Nine Inch Nails). Marked for extermination, you must guide Chai to safety, then help him to take down his oppressor. The operation goes wrong when an old iPod-style music player is fitted to Chai’s chest. ![]() Then theres Reo Uratani, a former Capcom composer and member of BlackLute who did the music for Monster. Hi-Fi Rush includes some solid licensed music that’s thoughtfully integrated. First up is Shuichi Kobori, a former Konami composer who did music for a lot of BEMANI games (mostly DDR and IIDX games), a bunch of Metal Gear Solid games, both Metal Gear Acd games, the first Zone of the Enders, and all 4 Boktai games. You play as Chai, an ebullient teenage boy who enrols in a biological augmentation program with a shady pharmaceutical company. Hi-Fi Rush is 2023's first true game of the year contender, delivering an unforgettable rhythm-action experience. This is a brawler set to the beat of a drum. Here is a complete list of Hi-Fi Rush’s licensed tracks and artists: 1,000,000 Nine Inch Nails. So too does its bright, cartoonish styling: this game is as brazenly colourful as a Jet Set Radio fever dream, and even as plastic Guitar Hero instruments clog up the nation’s cupboards, it’s refreshing to play a game that is so unashamedly music-centred. So the simultaneous announcement and release in late January of Hi-Fi Rush – the kind of “go and buy it right now” revelation Apple is known for – feels breezily countercultural. The video game industry’s hype cycles are typically measured in months and years, not minutes and seconds. ![]()
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