Call it a pet peeve, but I’ve never felt great at platforming. ![]() It’s rewarding, never punishing a feel-good game that always seeks to lift spirits. Sure, he might secretly fumble a combo or deal less damage, but the action never lets on that mistakes are being made. Instead, he keeps pumping along regardless of your own sense of rhythm. You aren’t punished with Chai stumbling out of his flow, flailing about as he fails to keep in sync. The same is true for attacks, every swing hitting at just the right moment. When Chai moves, his feet stomp along to whatever’s blaring in the moment, whether that be The Prodigy or Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony. Enemies, backgrounds, the entire world thumps along to the tune. As music blares out, he’s forced to move to the beat. While this would probs just make me very concerned about the cardiovascular issues that come with the heart suddenly beating along to Nine Inch Nails, Chai just powers on with a grin on his face. A very cool dude, Chai has an ipod in his heart. ![]() If main character Chai was in Cyberpunk 2077, he’d be a verified choom. In Hi-Fi Rush, though, I always leave with my head held high. A barrage of borked bleeps and bungled notes tend to leave me with spirits sunk. My eyes glued to notes floating across the screen, trying to hit them at just the right time, you’d probably see Time hiding in a corner to my left, giggling at my repeated failure. Even nuzzled into my chair with a controller in hand, I simply can’t stick to the beat. ![]() That lack of rhythm isn’t just native to the dance floor of an awkward family party, though. Think Octodad in a night club and you’d be on the right track (although the disastrous limb flailing is enough to keep me out of the clubs). That is to say I have none at all, and that any time spent dancing turns me into an uncontrollable set of limbs flailing in the wrong directions. I like to think I have rhythm, in the same way that a wobbly air dancer lunging about sporadically has rhythm.
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