Lowkey addicted to vampire survivors. My eyes, they burn!
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As someone who personally cannot stand Rick and Morty's humor, it's wild that I'm enjoying "High on Life" on the game pass lol. The Mackincheese Brothers had me cackling. I'm having fun. Not a bad game so far!
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Chai 🎸
Hi-Fi Rush 🥊
By me! 🎨
Please, support me with likes 💓 and reblog 💞
I appreciate it. 🙏🏻✨
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This isn't quite how I remember it 😅
Since I've gotten Xbox Gamepass I have started playing Disney Dreamlight Valley for the first time! It's interesting to see how Disney stories influence the plot of the game 💫
Comment any DDV tips for a new player!
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Hi-Fi Rush & Priority of Fun
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In 2023, video games are being confronted with the stark reality of a long gestated, mutated state. Live service games are being announced and shut down in months, companies are doubling down on sure bets, and mismanagement runs wild.
This is the world Hi-Fi Rush enters, and its existence feels like a borderline aberration. It's a game out of time in the best possible way. A super-coloured, cel-shaded shot of enthusiasm and joy popping off the screen. It has echoes from a very specific time in gaming, the PS2/GameCube/Xbox. It's an action game that draws from early Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe in addition to the style-is-substance panache of Jet Set Radio. It has one massive twist though, It's also a rhythm game.
Hi-Fi Rush is a game that has painstakingly animated every facet of its world to the rhythms and melodies of its fantastic soundtrack. Grunts slice their swords to punctuate back beats, laser beams pinpoint eighth note guitar riffs and Chai (Hi-Fi's MC) literally has rest attack combos. Yes, literally music rest attack chains.
Hi-Fi's marriage to rhythm and timing make it unlike any other character action game. A wholly unique, and shockingly brilliant set of systems which elevate it as a new genre classic. Its synthesis of rhythm and combat reciprocally makes rhythm games and combo-heavy action games more approachable by relying on each other. Hi-Fi's design frames the necessary rhythm as the drive for attacks, and attack strings add effects to music; a masterful harmony.
Its accessibility options are inviting. Its insistence on checkpoints and modulation of challenge, full of gentle yet decisive player-driven graces, is approachable. Games don't always come out feature complete let alone this well cooked. Hi-Fi Rush is one of the most well designed and consistent games released in a decade. At last, east meets west game design where both forces are made better with contact.
But above all else, this game is massively, massively fun. Its characters are charming, the writing is regularly funny and damn near every interactive piece of this thing feels spritely. This is a game going to war with cynicism and winning handily. The best Xbox game in an age, Hi-Fi Rush is already a landmark game for this generation and the highest point for Tango Softworks.
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