With Hi-Fi Rush, Tango Gameworks has a little surprise in store. The rhythm hack and slay scores with well thought-out game elements, great music and a chic graphic style. You can only concentrate on the latter to a limited extent in the heated battles. The freshly released photo mode now provides a remedy.
If you look at previous games from Tango Gameworks, Hi-Fi Rush quite literally steps out of line. With The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo, the studio has so far devoted itself more to horror-heavy works. No wonder, since Resident Evil veteran Shinji Mikami founded the game company in 2010. He recently left the company, but hopefully this has nothing to do with the rhythm hack and slay.
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In any case, Tango released a small surprise hit with Hi-Fi Rush. The game was released as soon as it was announced at the end of January 2023 and delighted the players with clever gameplay mechanics, groovy music and a chic cartoon graphic style. At its most basic, it’s a Devil May Cry-style hack-and-slay that rewards rhythm-based input. Something like metal: Hellsinger, just not as a shooter.
As well as it all works, there is one problem with the fast process: you hardly have time to enjoy the chic graphics. With a new update, Tango Gameworks is now able to remedy this. Because this adds a photo mode. All characters can be brought into certain poses here. There are of course also some frames, filters and camera effects.
Additional content of the update irons out minor errors. These include, for example, adjustments to the stick and trigger dead zones, behavior changes for the first boss and much more. All changes can be found in the patch notes linked here.
With Hi-Fi Rush, a new game from Tango Gameworks was surprisingly presented and published directly. Quite atypically for the studio, the title comes in a brightly colored look and relies on rhythm elements. You look for horror in vain.
