Hi-Fi Rush: The Kotaku Retrospective Review

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With developer Tango Gameworks shut down, let’s look back on its final game

There’s a scene late in Hi-Fi Rush , the rhythm action game by the now-defunct Tango Gameworks , in which protagonist Chai explores a museum dedicated to the antagonistic, oppressive megacorp Vandelay Technologies . In it, the corporation tells a sanitized version of its own history, one that glosses over the impact of its founder and how she was forced out to protect exploitative corporate interests. To say that Hi-Fi Rush hits a bit harder a year after its launch in 2023 is an understatement.

The rigidness of these bits feels so antithetical to the expressive play of most of Hi-Fi Rush’s action that I dreaded every time a powerful enemy showed up because I knew I’d have to deal with the odd, often imprecise patterns. Ironically, when Hi-Fi Rush makes a harder pivot into being a rhythm game over an action game imbued with rhythm elements, it grinds against its own joy.

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