After all these years, Microsoft still has the power to come in and surprise us. Yesterday, seemingly out of the blue, Microsoft dropped an entire action rhythm game, and according to the internet, it’s actually good. Everyone has their own little guilty pleasures, be it the metalhead who loves nothing more than watching Idols or the health coach whose favourite meal is Burger King – my guilty pleasure? Rhythm games.
I love everything about rhythm games, and the only reason I don’t talk about them more is that they’re more often than not pretty bad and hard to come by. Still, when Microsoft dropped Hi-Fi Rush yesterday, I was interested. Developed by Tango Gameworks, the Japanese studio best-known for horror games like The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo, Hi-Fi Rush is a rhythm game best described as if Crypt of the NecroDancer and Devil May Cry had a baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgd4aU56Kig
Visually, Hi-Fi Rush looks like every other third-person action game out there, but when the music and rhythm aspects are introduced, the game becomes truly special. It’s hard not to push Game Pass when Microsoft releases a game like this without any build-up.
Not only are surprise game releases rarer than me choosing to run on a weekend, but great ones are like finding out the tooth fairy is real and living in a metropolis of your teeth.
Hi-FI Rush is out now on Xbox Series X|S and Steam, as well as via Game Pass.