Twitch Livestream | Hi-Fi Rush [Series X]

The completion for this game is kinda brutal but once the gameplay clicks for you it gets so much easier, especially once you get all your summons, it makes higher combos much easier & parrying becomes second nature to allow you to play extra aggressively.

Also it's kinda weird that it's an anime game, but it's so well localised you don't realise it's natively Japanese for most of the game, even with some of the robots being designed after Japanese cultural designs & mythlogical creatures. The humour and slapstick absolutely plays into the strengths of the medium. I really think you'd enjoy this if you gave it another shot, the accessibility options can help improve the experience further

The korsika fight is the worst

JoJo....all of Zanzo's references are JoJo

I really wanted to watch this video but it’s impossible to do on account of the ads. Ads every 1 minute 11 seconds on a rhythm based game has made this video unwatchable.

A little sad that this will only remain as a one-off as this is by far my favorite game to have come out in years, but super hyped Ray played it too. This is actually my first rhythm based game yet like he said the characters, story, animation, and mechanics are just so spot on it makes it hard to find anything really wrong at all. I appreciate seeing a playthrough even if it wasn't his playstyle. The Korsika boss fight ending was probably one of the funniest cutscenes in all the game, plus the fact that the end of the bossfight can actually be funnier with one option you select unintentionally.

Man, when every streamers do a one off for a game it, I lose interest in checking out the one off. I find it hard to get invested in something that not going to continue.

I dont know if it was on purpose or its just because both have guitars, but the guitar combat really reminds me of FLCL

Thnx for the reminder glasses 😂

god i hope this evolves into a full playthrough

aaww, i missed chat jukebox :(

I love this game. Streamer mode is *wild*, considering in the default game the first boss is a Nine Inch Nails song.

Hey Ray(or Tina), you have the game set to Metroid Prime

This is giving me NSR vibes

I'm glad ray liked the game. This is one my my goty contenders already. I hope he keeps playing.

Yo playing this game on hard difficulty is no joke. Thankfully I beat it, but damn is it a good game imo. Excellent soundtrack, gameplay, and characters.

To be honest, I didn't expect this to be up Ray's alley, but I'm glad he tried it out. I'm also glad studios seem to be trying new things. I think a more adult version of this would be pretty badass.

Just a note, you mentioned about Metal Hellsinger how you are always on beat. That is true for Hi-Fi Rush as well, one of the early tutorials mentioned you are always on beat, but if you get a perfect note then you do more damage (or something along those lines). I never paid too much attention to being on beat all the time and just enjoyed the game.

That being said achievement-wise this would be a potentially bad option for Ray as the Rhythm Master difficulty I believe fails you if you fall below a certain grade.

This is the game I have wanted him to play. Hopefully there is more!

As a Pakistani 🇵🇰 , i found the protagonist's name funny because Chai means tea in Urdu.

Guys I don't think bullying will work for this one sadge

Honestly the first half of the game is pretty rough. You are still collecting core mechanics up until the 3rd boss. It really feels harder without them. But after you get those you really do start to feel super powered

I love this game very much but the 100% is brutal having to s rank every stage on every difficulty and beating the rhythm tower twice and with no items man it’s tough

that was fun

Do you think smidge is related to the vending machine from atomic heart?

Vandelay Technologies? Nice Seinfeld reference

Cool that you tried the game but i understand that the rhythm game aspects are not for everyone. Im not quite sure is it going to be GOTY contender worthy but it's pretty damn close. Maybe try out Pizza Tower next?

Happy to see it finally played! Also, remember- accept all the challenges from the wall of fame in the hideout, you get a fuckton of gears

Please continue

Just wanted to say thanks again for all that you do. I am really excited to be going for my M.A., and knowing that this community will be there and I will have a good form of stress relief is a breath of fresh air. (Awolf1234567)

this game is great. Ray needs to play more of this!!!
could it be time for the YT frogs to rise up and bully him?! (in game)

I liked the video but I can't watch because I want to play the game lol

Thank you for last night's stream, stayed up till 6am to catch it live, 6 hours of Creed? What a treat :)

Forgotton Anne is similar in style to this.

I know the gameplay aint for everyone, so I'm just glad he gave the game a shot and liked it. Thanks for the content Ray!

Yup, chat jukebox was amazing!

Please enjoy and continue it Ray

Play the rest please

Also ray if you do keep playing, the way I got used to staying on beat was to literally just dodge on beat all the time outside of comeback. Tapping my foot while playing also helped. Got me used to the whole rhythm mechanic real quick.

God this game is such a gem. No advertising whatsoever, dropped on the same day as overhyped forsaken, and in my opinion a GOTY contender. The plot isn’t the best but the fun gameplay, bangin soundtrack, and contextual writing and VA performances make up for it big time.

We gotta get this to up to hundreds of likes and views. Else this'll be stuck in the one off, which is a shame.

I loved playing this game, and I'm glad Ray played it

Hey Ray, sad that it didn't click for you. But I just wanted to say that if the game wasn't rhythm based then the other positives you've gave the game might've also not exist like the writing and the characters and cutscenes.

Sorry if it came out ignorant or such! But if Hi-Fi Rush didn't click, how about DMC 5?

Got home from work at 11pm and desperately tried to catch up on the ~4hr of chat jukebox I missed... got ~3hr in before the purge, thankfully.

Definitely an awesome game. But the completion is going to be a challenge for sure. Needing five separate playthroughs to S rank everything is a bit of a jerk move on their part, but it's doable. Just gonna take a long time.

So why this an one off

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO