>Knows she has a guest coming >Know that he saved her cat, he's on her side and can kick Vandelay butt >Asks for his help >Leads him to her hideout, she knows he's coming >First thing she does is trap him and give him a head concussion >Then expects him to work for her
What did Peppermint mean by this?
Yah I thought that was definitely a c**t move. I just headcanon'd it as a trap for her hideout that she forgot to undo before Chai came. Pepper was a b***h at first but she atleast got better as the game went on. And Chai handled her b***hiness pretty well imo.
And this endears us to her...how?
I'm serious, the writing never lets go for a single scene that Chai isn't smart and holds it against him. But Peppermint's b***hiness is never punished. Why did the writers think that wouldn't annoy us?
>Until Microsoft decided she was better as a lesbian.
Do we know Microsoft actually did that? Also She feels like she could be Bi more than anything. It's just Korsica is hotter than Chai.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Do we know Microsoft actually did that?
Might as well have been. You know MS is not any less obsessed with wokeness than Sony.
As that anon said, CNMN does dab on her with the personality test, but also Chai is genuinely moronic as frick which is based, but it also justifies Peppermints attitude
Neither of those do, though >CNMN
The test means nothing to the plot. Chai's antics actually matter. If anything, Macaron and CNMN are punished for Peppermint's flaws, not hers. Which isn't how flaws in fiction should work >Chai
That's the problem. The writing wants so hard to justify Peppermint's b***hiness that it refuses to put any limit on Chai's moronation. He's hurt by it.
What's more, whether the writers realise it or not, he's actually right in most of his criticisms about Peppermint. Early on, she's a terrible communicator, and I'd say all the things she gets mad at Chai about are actually on her. (namely the reason why the Vandelay board know about them) But when is she called out by the plot in a way she actually regrets? Never. That's why CNMN's personality test feels so token, and a flaw should not be simply token.
She was supposed to be a tsundere I guess since later she's usually worried sick for Chai. Until Microsoft decided she was better as a lesbian.
We were so close to greatness, anon. This close.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>it refuses to put any limit on Chai's moronation. He's hurt by it
Chai's endless stupidity is what makes him charming.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Microsoft demanding the punk dyke looking girl be gay
That’s pretty stereotypical of you, Microsoft.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The test means nothing to the plot.
Its literally the turning point. She becomes gradually more accepting of Chai after this.
I swear to God, people say this game has basic writing yet fail to grasp the beats.
1 year ago
Anonymous
that pun fricking SUCKS
1 year ago
Anonymous
Hehehehehe
You're deluding yourself. Her running after Chai after he seems to have lost matters way more than anything she did after the psych test. She really doesn't get any less snarky. And you're still missing the point that Peppermint is never punished for her flaws.
You know those two scenes happen nearly back to back, right? The end of Verse 3 and a decent amount of Verse 4 touches on Peppermint being a huge butthole for most of Tracks 2 and 3. From 5 and on she's still snarky but much more understanding of Chai and charitable to him.
>BUT SHE MUST BE PUNISHED
For being rude? Why? She got called out for being kinda b***hy and started working on it.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>You know those two scenes happen nearly back to back, right?
That's my entire point.
>The end of Verse 3 and a decent amount of Verse 4 touches on Peppermint being a huge butthole for most of Tracks 2 and 3.
How? The test doesn't count, lampshading her flaw is not addressing her flaw: we've been over that already. And she still continues to be snarky. She and Chai do not have a moment where they actually appreciate each other until Roquefort's defeat. >From 5 and on she's still snarky but much more understanding of Chai and charitable to him.
>For being rude? Why? She got called out for being kinda b***hy and started working on it.
Because flaws when unaddressed make characters unlikeable. This is writing 101. Don't make your flaws token, don't forget to balance them out. And if you have heartfelt moments between people where they overcome their flaws? Earn them.
There's an alternate world where this game came out, and Peppermint not only has no limit or method to her b***hiness, and she gets crucified for every mistake, while Chai's stupidity is never so much as lampshaded. Is this better? No. I'd find it just as awful. I'd find both characters just as difficult to appreciate as I do now, despite all the good work the writers put in otherwise.
1 year ago
Anonymous
You sound autistic, holy shit.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Anon, you're sounding pretty b***hy rn
Just name-calling then. GGs
1 year ago
Anonymous
Okay you can leave now
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Name-calling
No, you're an idiot who doesn't understand people if you think being a bit of a c**t deserves some kind of meaningful punishment.
If I was name-calling I'd call you a homosexual.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Writing 101. I don't know why this concept offends you so much
Okay you can leave now
no u
1 year ago
Anonymous
Anon, you're sounding pretty b***hy rn
1 year ago
Anonymous
You're deluding yourself. Her running after Chai after he seems to have lost matters way more than anything she did after the psych test. She really doesn't get any less snarky. And you're still missing the point that Peppermint is never punished for her flaws.
you can even see it in the game where she says like 3 times reassuring chai she trusts him, so the game clearly states that peppermint has problems with trusting/feeling for other people
>give him a head concussion
Dude, Chai is made of anime plot armor, no way he got hurt from that.
And as for why the rope snare, likely to make sure Chai doesn't so anything stupid when he walks in, he has a habit of that.
How can she be there when my face is currently being used as her chair while she reads emails?
You must have the robo-version that Vandelay recently released anon.
Honestly I find the story and the characters legitimately cringe-inducing and hard to get through sometimes.
Gameplay is great and I know they're trying to go for that whole "saturday morning kids' action cartoon from the 2000's kinda feel," but I can't stand the lead character, it's just too much.
I know, I already stated that I know they were trying to go for that but even then it's still too obnoxious.
I liked Chai basically until the moment Peppermint showed up. In the first chapter, there was a lot of method to his madness. He wasn't dumb, he was out of his depth. And he was clearly upending the order of Vandelay.
>Dismissed as good for nothing but garbage collecting >Is actually really musically gifted but in a world where music isn't valued >Music player transplanted onto his heart >Suddenly extremely capable in a fight, sees the world in the rhythm of music
Writers need to have rules for their archetypes so they can earn their moments. Bugs Bunny was never the aggressor; he always struck out in self-defence. Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes had moments of hubris, but that's clearly because he was artistically minded and creative. In Hi-Fi Rush's case, they could have kept all their beats with Chai, so long as they rephrased them. No need for him to be oblivious, or not know what 'oblivious' means, or mess up to the point that you'd believe he can mess up anything.
>Chai is artistically minded in a world that shits on creatives >Let him be smart at the things he's good at >Have all his idiot moments be results of his shortcomings
That's it. It would have been really easy to do too, since Chai is surrounded by mathematically gifted minds, he's up against the managerially gifted corpos, and there is not one other artistically minded character to make him look worse.
I thought they were going for this, since the tutorials are literally Chai's vision of him as a rockstar surrounded by adoring fans and encouraging announcers. But sometime after the Zanzo fight, when the writers resorted to making him dumb in every possible capacity instead, I realised they weren't. Which is a downgrade.
Yeah, he doesn't know how to play the guitar, he wants to be a rock star without knowing how to actually make music. He doesn't show any real rhythm until the defect comes into play. He's just jamming on air guitar before that
There's music books next to his couch in the hideout. Chai isn't a complete poser, he actually does give a shit about music. He just didn't get to harnessing that potential until the music player got embedded in him
While that doesn't sound like a bad way to take Chai's character, I actually really like his happy go lucky stupidity. He's so unfazed by how most people talk to him that I can't help but respect him.
That's what I loved about him initially, since in the first three chapters he's absolutely too brave to be ashamed. But later on, he did seem fazed. I wish he'd taken more of his dumb moments with a devil-may-care bravado, like a wannabe Dante who refuses to be the butt of the joke no matter how hard the world tries to make him one
>Chai is artistically minded in a world that shits on creatives >Let him be smart at the things he's good at >Have all his idiot moments be results of his shortcomings
But that's exactly what the game does. All his failures are due to either his arrogance, his refusal to actually listen to other people, selfishness or being overeager. All his successes come from his creativity, his ingenuity, his kind heart and his confidence. He progressively gets better at what he does as the game goes on and changes as a person. People insult him constantly because he's ignorant in a world that only values knowledge.
You're not criticizing the game for lacking internal logic. You pre-conceived the character and were disappointed when he didn't meet your expectations.
You know what, you're right. I am disappointed he didn't meet my expectations. And you're extra right about his successes, especially since the party come around to him at the endgame. But it's not true that his failures come just from his ego and hubris - the dude makes the Korsica fight harder for himself because he doesn't know what 'oblivious' means, for pity's sake. Was that really necessary for that battle to work? Would it really have been so bad for there to have been more internally consistent limits on the ways Chai can be moronic?
Considering how Chai used the word, he definitely knew what oblivious meant. I'm pretty sure when he said he didn't know what it meant it was to try and damage control the situation once he realized he messed up and the developers making the old oblivious joke.
I think half the point of Chai is you're not really sure how much of his stuff is "lucky dumbass" or how much is "he has a method to his madness". He's so overbearingly confident when things work out even when he clearly had minimal control over it that it may well be both.
>But it's not true that his failures come just from his ego and hubris - the dude makes the Korsica fight harder for himself because he doesn't know what 'oblivious' means, for pity's sake.
How is using words you don't know the definition of not a problem with being overeager? He jumped the gun and said words without thinking. He then had to go "wait, does that mean what I thought it did?"
>Dismissed as good for nothing but garbage collecting
He wasn't dismissed, that's actually all he was good for. Like, he wants to be a rockstar and has yet to take the first step.
Half of Chai's journey and development is learning to cultivate his potential rather than letting his insecurities and arrogance stagnate his growth.
Honestly yeah, a surprising amount of art seems to always be done during a lead up to release. Which this game didn’t have. It’s a popular game, more will come.
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME >IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME >IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME >IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME >IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
Charming? Looking at this makes me more embarassed than at anime. At least in anime most people pretend it to be not for children but looking at something western where the characters look like 12 is just I can't.
Why the frick homies like you gotta act high-brow and like you're some mature high iq individuals when we're talking about toys here? Your realistic soldier shüt or open world arpg is in no way more mature than this game
Get out, underaged tardling. Only the dumbest and most tryhard of stupid little childrens give frickall about the perceived maturity of the things they like.
Chai's English VA was the dub voice of Akechi, and looking long enough they kind of look like brothers who went completely different directions in life.
Why is it that this game somehow avoids being cringe? It has the same "UHHH THAT JUST HAPPENED AM I RIGHT?" dialogue as borderlands or forspoken, yet in this game I can actually tolerate it. What makes this game different?
the issue was never the dialogue itself, in Forspoken's case it was because the dialogue deflates the sincerity and more serious tone it wants to go for, and in Borderlands' case its because the dialogue never knows when its time to stop fricking talking
Hi-Fi Rush doesn't take itself too seriously to begin with so it doesn't feel that out of place
we used to call these things cheesy instead of cringe
Because that kind of dialogue actually fits a saturday morning cartoon with wacky characters and not a faux-edgy """adult""" story that takes itself way too seriously.
>cartoon artstyle so exaggerated movements go well with quirky dialogue as opposed to grown realistic adults saying these lines >everyone is actually a real friend and they care about each other, the lines are just friendly banter, in Marvel it's all sardonic, nihilistic, petty and spiteful one-liners obviously meant to belittle others >girls aren't c**ts, Korsica apologizes instantly after joining and is grateful they saved her, Peppermint genuinely cares about Chai and compliments him if he does stuff well >the combat and special attacks/assist show they work well together etc. >the humor is really well paced and edited and also unapologetic, game knows what it is and is not ashamed of it >Marvel humor is just a statement of insecurity, every super serious moment has to be underlined by some shitty humor while the game has genuinely nice moments among friends
Its jokes aren't taking the piss out of its own premise. When they do break the fourth wall, most of the time it's to poke fun at an homage to something else (the Xenogears one is a good example) > It has the same "UHHH THAT JUST HAPPENED AM I RIGHT?" dialogue as borderlands or forspoken
Breaking the fourth wall can have a lot of different implementations. For example, you can be making fun of your own premise or you can be making a soliloquy to the audience about your thoughts and feelings.
Chai's is firmly in the latter camp. it's just that he's a doofus so his comments to the audience are more comedic than dramatic. But that's still firmly separate from Borderlands making fun of itself for being a video game.
Forspoken's issue is much more the MCU issue of being sort of embarrassed by its own premise of being an isekai.
Soul. Not cynical, they loved what they were doing. Humans have a sixth sense for this shit. It’s why Forspoken always felt off, is why Redfall always look like shit. It’s corporate design, not soul design
>beat Kale >game ends >spectra is still around >chai doesn't become a rockstar >no extra 'true final boss'
Great game but man it could have been so much more if it just had a better ending.
I think the three things they had cut in early development were a Zanzo fight, a level going back through Production at night, and a boss fight with a SPECTRA-controlled version of either Roxanne or Chai (the latter would need playable assist characters). I think what they plugged the holes with was charming but you can feel the pacing fluctuate.
>think the three things they had cut in early development were a Zanzo fight
Entire Zanzo fight is the devs telling the player they ran out of budget for it
Feels like they really should have put that one a bit later, because it means the second 'big boss' isn't actually there. If it was the third or fourth that'd be a bit more tolerable, but going from Rekka being a proper fight to Zanzo just being a fight gauntlet is a little weird, pacing-wise.
I feel like stage 1 and Rekka feels like a proof of concept thing where they're expanding the world so they can do whatever they wanted but as you can sense later on that they seem to have cut down a lot of things and hard focused on the level designs to not show more or do more than they needed to to save on the budget.
How is he gonna become a rockstar when he doesn't know how to play a guitar. He starts learning at the end so maybe in a sequel.
Spectra doors is just post game homie
What would even be the true final boss? Kale was the main big bad
All I need is the Korsica suit. What's the requirement? I already did a perfect run of her fight so I hope it's that and I get that as soon as I beat the game.
For Gamepass it will, if the publisher believes its good enough to entice people with one release trailer. MS pays you roughly half of MSRP for every GP download, even if it's never launched. Bethesda has probably made their money back before even considering Steam sales.
>spending shit tons of money in marketing
I wish you guys would stop pretending marketing isn't done for this game.
Shadow dropping is a form of marketing.
We are even in a paid shill thread right now.
There was clearly a marketing budget, but unlike most major publishers who dump tons until ads and tie-ins, they made one trailer and a few interviews at Tango and then threw a few generic Twitter ads up. Somebody at MS or Bethesda thought this is the kind of game designed for word of mouth and they were right.
I've seen a few threads that have OPs that look like shilling but even in those you see people genuinely talking about the game and its handful of shortcomings in spite of liking it overall.
Nta but yah if anything I could see it just being some interns or low-level guys that work at Tango doing the shilling themselves. There couldn't be more than 3 to 5 of them.
It's the best way to release short-burst single player games.
No matter how hard you work on a project like this, at the end of the day, people are going to buy it and complete it in a weekend.
https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/US >hi-Fi Rush at 6 still >Forespoken about to fall off list entirely
I actually had to Ctrl+F to find Forespoken
List is sorted by money made within a certain period and refunds count against it.
Let this sink in: >Skyrim made more money than Forspoken this week >Days Gone made more money than Forspoken this week >Sea of Thieves made more money than Forspoken this week >Literally who indies and niche shit like Ready or Not and American Truck Simulator made more money than Forspoken this week
Guys, guys, you're supposed to replay the game and choose a different soundtrack the second time through while also doing the challenge rooms and upping the difficulty.
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1000000, Inazuma Chainsaw, Invaders Must Die, and that intro track were all worth it (Roquefort's fight as well but that's public domain music). Rekka & Mimosa are probably better off with the originals, and TOO BIG TO FAIL is almost as good as 1000000.
Negotiation is the most underrated boss track though. It's perfect, but maybe only in combination with the boss fight rather than alone.
Whirring and stage 11 is too ludokino to pass up too.
Nah, INAZAWA CHAINSAW and Invaders Must Die were used way too well to pass up
1000000, Inazuma Chainsaw, Invaders Must Die, and that intro track were all worth it (Roquefort's fight as well but that's public domain music). Rekka & Mimosa are probably better off with the originals, and TOO BIG TO FAIL is almost as good as 1000000.
Negotiation is the most underrated boss track though. It's perfect, but maybe only in combination with the boss fight rather than alone.
Nah, INAZAWA CHAINSAW and Invaders Must Die were used way too well to pass up
I was honestly shocked Number Girl was there, I remember I listened to their music on spotify randomly like weeks before the game came out, then i heard this track and thought i know it from somewhere
They broke up back in the 90s, came back together in 2020, then broke up again for the last time in December of last year. The devs were probably secret Number Girl fans and wanted to have a song in their game as a sort of memorial.
Pretty based regardless, though. I fricking love the album Inazawa Chainsaw is on
>Negotiation is the most underrated boss track though. It's perfect, but maybe only in combination with the boss fight rather than alone.
Absolutely. I wish that Korsica fight would last a bit longer with more mixing up and chaining combos because it was fricking great.
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1000000, Inazuma Chainsaw, Invaders Must Die, and that intro track were all worth it (Roquefort's fight as well but that's public domain music). Rekka & Mimosa are probably better off with the originals, and TOO BIG TO FAIL is almost as good as 1000000.
Negotiation is the most underrated boss track though. It's perfect, but maybe only in combination with the boss fight rather than alone.
When Korsica gets mad is when the song truly becomes great
Macaron is the best character as he is >gentle giant >doesn't ever actually belittle Chai, putting him leagues about Peppershit >Cheers up O5-KAR
Change nothing about him
Boy, even with how much I like Korsica, she and Macaron added frick all to the group dynamic. Hell, I’d go as far as to say CNMN contributed more than those two with how he played off both Chai and Peppermint’s bickering and differences.
Macaron is probably the worst of the group even though i do not dislike him.
Weakest design and personality that is too passive to do anything big. Korsica joined later so she gets some slack.
But honestly after the Xenogears joke and the song in credits i think they really might have removed some levels and stuff inbetween before the finale.
It's kind of crazy how a game that makes fun of cutting probably another 2 hours of content that they had planned feels so finished for the most part. I guess they put everything they saved cutting that stuff into polishing what they kept.
With how hard they drove the point of “balancing the budget with realistic expectations” thing during Zanzo’s section, I’d believe it. I suppose I can accept it, though. The amount of effort put into the game made it clear that making it too long would be very, very expensive
Korsica feels like a big sister to Chai. She likes his stupid pums and when he calls her in she says "Chai, are you okay?" She's also not afraid to compliment him.
If there’s not a fapfic written about this very thing within the next week then I’ll cry about it in whatever thread exists at that time.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Lemme get some weed and alcohol and I'll see what I can do.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Do what is needed anon
1 year ago
Anonymous
>fapfic written about Korsica
Soon as I figure out how to "write out" a scottish accent, I might be able to take a stab at it. Now were you looking for slow burn or "I want Korsica to shatter my pelvis"?
Also, have you seen her suit alt costume?
1 year ago
Anonymous
I don’t know about other anons but to me Korsica seems like the pelvis shattering type
I feel like Macaron is the only one of the group that gets the worst of it since Korsica comes in late but still adds enough contribution dialogue wise to get what the chemistry is to the group.
Doesn't help that Macaron is probably the least useful assist. Z Shielding isn't that common and Gravity Well is situational at best. His grounded Beat Hit is great way to do an Overkill Launcher but besides that I constantly skip over him to use Peppermint and Korsica.
I do not like the Barrier, Z-Shielding and Fire Mechanics.
Playing rock, paper, scissors in my action games annoys the shit out of me, this is why I hated Blitz enemy in DMC4 and why I hated DmC: Devil May Cry.
Hi-Fi Rush has a lot of fun nestled inside but I feel like my creativity has been stifled because of all the mechanic juggling.
Also Z-Shielding needing 2x Macaron hits is bullshit, he has a long ass cd even with the cd chip. It's double bullshit his damage chip only goes up to 75% instead of double damage. >hurr durr just parry to break in one
Yeah, that is a shit work around though. I want to keep up the momentum not sit around waiting to parry.
The worst part about it is that you have to cycle through them. If they were a button combo instead I’d bet it’d feel way more intuitive than having to sift through the three for some butthole enemy with a shield or something
i mean dmc5 has cycling with dante but having it on the upper left is a bit hard to track sometimes because theres also no physical difference on what you have selected
The worst part about it is that you have to cycle through them. If they were a button combo instead I’d bet it’d feel way more intuitive than having to sift through the three for some butthole enemy with a shield or something
One of the Peppermint special attacks breaks Z-shielding.
Also, any combo ender with Mac will count as a hit.
I don't think they tried to go for "normal in crazy world", they put a ton of overdesigned elements in him, I think they just failed to make him interesting
He's a mega dumbass who wants to be a rockstar but also never picked up a guitar in his life. He's charming as character while being what the villian called a 'Loser'. He's not supposed to look like he stands out, he's just a regular joe shmoe who wanted a robot arm & the arm was made to collect garbage.
>Generic brown hair white kid
He is a placeholder.
Customization being post-game was a really weird choice, my only guess is that they didn't want people burning all their gears on clothes during the first run.
No, it's fairly common for this type of game to unlock additional content once complete. DMC5 does the same thing, hell, that has an entire system locked behind game completion since you're intended to replay these games.
The only thing that's a weird choice was not making tutorials optional and the spacing of some of the checkpoints.
He’s supposed to look bland and dorky so the average nerdy narcissistic gays who play video games can also self-insert his shoes.
I’m sure glad that he had a clear personality, though. There’s so many Japanese games where you play as a dude but for some reason they keep trying to make the MC a stand in for (You), despite showing signs of individuality
>He’s supposed to look bland and dorky so the average nerdy narcissistic gays who play video games can also self-insert his shoes. >implying they care anymore and are hard stuck on social media
Top kek
I'll be honest with you, to implement modded tracks you'd first need a tool to make sure they'll match the og songs beat by beat. Or you could go with it anyway to up the difficulty
I'll be honest with you, to implement modded tracks you'd first need a tool to make sure they'll match the og songs beat by beat. Or you could go with it anyway to up the difficulty
I'm sure a ton of songs are 4/4 at whatever BPM they use or close enough to be recognizable edited to it. There's also a Fast BPM option in Training you could potentially mess with.
>broke my pacifist run and destroyed the cleaning bots in the room where the robot was trying to get some sleep >nothing happens >now when a cleaning bot sees me they run away and panic
🙁
Well we don't really know which of the 10 you've found so it's difficult to help.
Rule of thumb is that, if there's a hidden area, a drone package is probably also around
Can confirm you can get all of them right now. There's also one if your turn around after walking up the musicly collapseing slope at the begining of macaroons side as well.
Something about Peppermint’s head shape bothers me. Its honestly probably just the shitty haircut though. It makes her look all baby faced since she’s half bald
Where are all the robots I need to help?
What cans do I have to throw into the trash for the challenge?
Where is all instances of Sebastian Castellanos in the game? Apparently I need to find ALL of them and listen to his dialogue.
I know in mission 3 there is a vending machine directly next to a trash can right before the room with z shielding being introduced I think. That made it easy to kick the cans in since i did 3/5 by accident
I mean Corsica is the region Corsican tea is named after, and Macarons are more associated with tea cookies than tea-cookie flavored teas, so I don't think the devs had hard rules on names. Just general themes (heroes = comfort flavors related to tea, villains = potent flavors).
Good guys: >Chai - tea flavor >Peppermint - tea flavor >Macaron - confection sold in cafes with tea >CNMN - cinnamon >Korsica - comes from corsican tea
Bad guys: >Rekka - ramen >Zanzo - ??? >Mimosa - a fancy wienertail >Roquefort - a kind of cheese >Kale - leaf cabbage
>what else could you ask for?
Better gameplay, an artstyle that isn't knockoff anime shit, a leading girl that isn't an ugly dyke, an actual Japanese person to direct it.
Rhythm action game where everything moves to the beat, and staying on beat makes you stronger and gives you cool bonuses.
Imagine if Devil May Cry and Guitar Hero had a baby that was into comic books and anime.
Suprising to me that twitter culture war gays are more eager to shit on this than Ganker
I thought the way it looks is cool and does really capture some of that 2000s cartoon network feel
Some of the worlds geometry actually has collisions. Like in the security dept (I think) with the big conex boxes on rails on the ceiling you can stand on top of them.
First playthrough, doing VH. When the fricking samurai starts showing up is when shit hit the fan. Like frick the timing on both his rhythm ones, its significantly easier to hope your special attack kills him before you have to do the rhythm showdown. Outside of this one enemy its been pretty easy.
>YOU THINK YOU'RE RADICAL >BUT YOU'RE NOT SO RADICAL >IN FACT YOU'RE FANATICAL >FANATICAL >YOU THINK YOU'RE RADICAL >BUT YOU'RE NOT SO RADICAL >IN FACT YOU'RE FANATICAL, >FANATICAL
Honestly. Didn't care much for Rekka's design but her personality, cutscenes, and boss theme were one of my favorites.
First playthrough, doing VH. When the fricking samurai starts showing up is when shit hit the fan. Like frick the timing on both his rhythm ones, its significantly easier to hope your special attack kills him before you have to do the rhythm showdown. Outside of this one enemy its been pretty easy.
Yah anon those samurai don't frick around. Same with those birb homies.
I wonder if they'll build up on his special arm powers one day, him being able to break that on his own show that Chai is just someone really special and he didnt get there through dumb luck.
Just his talent for fighting alone makes that clear. They never really address it, and yeah the music stuff clearly helps but he's clearly just a surprisingly good innovator in a fight.
>when this song dropped in sync with a big group of enemies and Chai getting ready to fight them >the whole stage with your friends clearing the way for you >CNMN's section >him using going full power and then drawing his face for the proper reaction
The whole stage was euphoric. The feeling it gave me was incredible.
>and then drawing his face for the proper reaction
I need a clip of this. That small section playing as CNMN and the whole giant robot arm bit was fricking K I N O
Yeah that's the one. I only played a bit of Gitaroo Man on my older bro's hacked psp way back in 08 when I was like 13. Then I found that song on the Vidya Album Forever that some anons and tripgays made way back in the day. Would listen to it while doing my runs almost every day.
/blog
First witcher game's combat is basically low-key rhythm game where you have to time clicks at the end of an attack animation to connect combos properly.
First witcher game's combat is basically low-key rhythm game where you have to time clicks at the end of an attack animation to connect combos properly.
How the frick do I deal with the bird enemies quickly in the Rhythm Tower? By the time I get to them after the first boss they eat up all the time I got and I'm desperate for beat hits and parries after clearing them out. I use the Punch Special to stun them but it feels like their health is super bloated or I'm doing something wrong. It takes forever to get it in a parry state as well but that may just be because I'm taking too long in general
Magnet into the fire ones to open them up for assist barrage, then beat the shit out of them.
Parry them to break their stamina.
Also just save your reverb to nuke them
Magnet into the fire ones to open them up for assist barrage, then beat the shit out of them.
Parry them to break their stamina.
Also just save your reverb to nuke them
Rekkas and Mimosa's. Great songs but not boss fight quality stuff compared to the original songs. The 9 inch nail songs and their replacements are even imo and both are good for different reasons. I think chainsaw and roquefort's themes are the only ones where the replacements fall off a bit.
They for sure had to cut out a few levels, maybe even some mechanics and they openly admit to it in credits but man, what remains is such pure quality you cannot even blame them. Every scene, stage, level, attack and element of the game is done with such care and passion it's insane. Puts every other AAA slop to shame, really.
Just makes the need for a sequel that much more apparent. I don't want them milking this forever, but the foundation is strong and could really use another shot. Just being able to play as the assist characters would justify it.
Damn you Black folk are really getting low quality with your baits and troll posts. >frick capitalism
Not. It makes fun of corporatism but it's not your generic shitty message: >company was actually good and helped people when it started and ending implies things returned to that, meaning capitalism can be fixed and managed properly by right people >Kale has a point in some of his arguments that the issue of corporate life is to make a product that will sell and it's extremely difficult
There are also other things like Zanzo showing issues with managing budget etc.
>It makes fun of corporatism
Corporatocracy*
Corporatism is a based ideology in which society is divided into groups based broadly on role within society and led by a governing body made up of the leaders of said groups.
It promotes interdependence and cooperation between organs of the state such as the military and medical services.
In corporatism, the business/financial class cooperates for mutual benefit with the labor class with the rest overseeing and having a say such that neither group exploits the other fundamentally.
>unfeasible ideal
Slovenia, Ireland, Hong Kong, The Netherlands and culturally China all have strong corporatist elements in their governments today.
France, Italy and Portugal had corporatist laws in the past.
Classical Athenian democracy was proto-corporatist, as was the governmental structure in provincial Rome.
The fact you grew up under Neo-Liberal Capitalism doesn't mean different systems have not, do not and will not exist or function to the benefit of society.
Yeah, things aren't quite as bad there, but it still isn't the ideal you described.
1 year ago
Anonymous
That doesn't mean it's not a feasible ideal, just that it's hard to implement when there are outside forces pushing in other directions.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Human nature makes any perfect system unfeasible.
Corporatist systems are better than the US capitalist model, but still not fully attainable in their ideal form. We can probably make a further jackass-resistant system with more work.
Jesus frick Barry you're throwing anything and everything to see what sticks huh?
Damn you Black folk are really getting low quality with your baits and troll posts. >frick capitalism
Not. It makes fun of corporatism but it's not your generic shitty message: >company was actually good and helped people when it started and ending implies things returned to that, meaning capitalism can be fixed and managed properly by right people >Kale has a point in some of his arguments that the issue of corporate life is to make a product that will sell and it's extremely difficult
There are also other things like Zanzo showing issues with managing budget etc.
Already said it better than I could. Not like you'll reply.
IF we will get a sequel (which honestly i could see happening) they should just build up the story from peppermints dad or something, being the real evil guy
>credits song alludes to how they had to cut things and tried their best to make things work with what they had >someone in the staff probably went "wouldnt it be funny if we added in a xenogears reference for that, it would be hilarious"
>Everyone gushing over Chai over whatever amazing shit he just did. >"And now we'll never mention that again" like he's fricking bugs bunny.
This fricking game man.
korsicas fight was still probably my favorite with the combination of music and pace of it. and the qtes kinda felt like part of the song with how aggressive they were. and of course i want to frick korsica
I haven't had this much fun in a game since God Hand. My hands legit hurt after the Invaders Must Die section on Very Hard, it was such a fricking blast.
He was when he was at Capcom and to an extent his short stint at Platinum. But he's taken a back seat since Evil Within 1 since Tango was about giving the future directors he's prepping experience at the top. Mikami is legitimately one of the most influential singular developers of all time though, Capcom owes a ton to him let alone the ridiculous numbers of games directly inspired by games he made or saw potential in. Ironically that Dead Space Remake dropped the same week, since Dead Space basically wouldn't exist without RE4.
Because this is the only recent Mikami involved action title since the last titles were Horror or Horror Adjacent. It might be primarily Jon's game but Mikami still had some involvement and hired the right kinda people to be involved
Tango Gameworks is Mikami's studio but as stated by another anon, it's him passing the torch to a new generation. Which is why he's usually a producer but hasn't been back in the director's chair in a while. On top of that, Tango hasn't put out too much and what has been out was mainly stuff that came off like Zenimax mandating the RE4 guy do RE4 type stuff
Hi-Fi Rush might be the first time that Tango didn't have to deal with executive mandates and shit.
The shit that Zenimax did was so bad with Ghostwire that Nakamura had to go on stress leave, before departing the company.
I genuinely believe Ghostwire would've been a more interesting and well-made game if Ikumi stuck around, she's got an eye for design (did concept art of Bayonetta 1 which should say plenty) and it seems like a lot of experienced staff were on HFR when she left so the remainder of the team probably had to scramble.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Ghostwire would've been a more interesting and well-made game if Ikumi stuck around, she's got an eye for design (did concept art of Bayonetta 1
Doing concept art for a good game doesn't mean she knows diddly squat about game design.
1 year ago
Anonymous
As a director, having an eye for visual design goes a long way, combat and level design are done by people the director oversees. Johannes isn't why HFR has great combat, that's Yamada, but he knew what direction to push things in. Somebody moving from art to design & direction is hardly a new thing.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Mikami had faith in her, and was trying to push her into the director's seat for a while, but the problem was that Mikami probably didn't realize how hard Zenimax was going to end up messing with development, plus Nakamura getting pregnant during development.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Ghostwire would have been better as an immersive sim game where you ready about Yokai and have to set up conditions to dispel or placate them
They'll drop that in a week when Slopwards Legacy is out.
They have to play whatever is getting hits because they want views, they probably hate video games and don't even pat attention, it's like a wagecuck job to them, which is a shame since passionate people would probably push HFR quite well.
Then there's morons like Woolie that refuse to play it because he's scheduled a bunch of shit no one cares about and he himself has no passion for instead.
Reminder that Hi-fi rush is the latest decision by Shinji Mikami to diversify and let Tango Gamework's new employees train themselves on smaller games in order to broaden their studio's portfolio so that they aren't known as the horror game studio. Big games take over 5 years or so to make now and it's better to let people learn things from smaller games and to apply them to bigger ones, they probably have more stuff in the works now too.
>Korsica will never idly play with your dick while she sits on your face. Sipping her decaf and checking her emails. Someone should write a fapfic about that.
>decaf
After reading that disgruntled bot reprogramming all the coffee machines to only put out decaf I wasn't expecting it to be a running gag all the way to the end
It's great in how stupid it is.
All the stages that dont have a hideout segment before it have this kind of dialouge about fricking with continuity. First time the inbetween segment of korsica's stage and everyone questions how you already broke out.
It's only strong because it comes out in 4 beats with a hitbox on each beat rather than having a Heavy leave you open for a beat. The Beat Hit is good but there's better ones to use, and if you want an Assist BH fast just use Quick BH.
Their mix of Perfect Drug was kinda weird, I really liked that song. They should add a mode where you can pick and choose between the licensed and custom songs. Too Big To Fail is better than the NIN song, Joy Formidable is better than the custom song and so on
Replaying the first level again, the city reveal was pretty good too. The game has a lot of cool shots like this
Kale's plan isn't even flat-out evil. Dude didn't want to spend time having to study marketing trends, and just wanted to brainwash people to buy whatever products that they pumped out.
Kale was just lazy.
I think that’s why the game resonated so much with a lot of people, it’s not misery porn everything is cynical. Like Neil saying TLOU is about love, ffs, what a depressing way to look at love. And then you have this game, where Chai is thinking about his friends trying to find the frequency. Cringey, sure, but charming af too. Sometimes you just want to see the good guys win and that’s it
Man, if I wasn't playing on Steam Deck, I'd take the time to record some of Chai's thoughts without the music to make a decent AI model of his speech patterns and have him say dumb stuff.
Or, even better, speak with whats-her-face from Flopspoken.
A Pizza Hut in the garage?
LOOK YOU BIG-EARED FREERF
ッ
>Knows she has a guest coming
>Know that he saved her cat, he's on her side and can kick Vandelay butt
>Asks for his help
>Leads him to her hideout, she knows he's coming
>First thing she does is trap him and give him a head concussion
>Then expects him to work for her
What did Peppermint mean by this?
She's girlbossing
She wanted to see his nipples
Chai's silky smooth hairless belly.... Wanna lick so badly.
inb4 he also has almost no pubes
I am no briefsgay, but for some reason I think they would fit him more.
SEX
WITH
PEPPERMINT
Yah I thought that was definitely a c**t move. I just headcanon'd it as a trap for her hideout that she forgot to undo before Chai came. Pepper was a b***h at first but she atleast got better as the game went on. And Chai handled her b***hiness pretty well imo.
She was a bit b***hy but banter was fun and in the end she genuinely cared about Chai and complemented him on stuff he did well.
She thought it was funny.
CNMN lets her know later that she has an empathy problem.
And this endears us to her...how?
I'm serious, the writing never lets go for a single scene that Chai isn't smart and holds it against him. But Peppermint's b***hiness is never punished. Why did the writers think that wouldn't annoy us?
She was supposed to be a tsundere I guess since later she's usually worried sick for Chai. Until Microsoft decided she was better as a lesbian.
>Until Microsoft decided she was better as a lesbian.
Do we know Microsoft actually did that? Also She feels like she could be Bi more than anything. It's just Korsica is hotter than Chai.
>Do we know Microsoft actually did that?
Might as well have been. You know MS is not any less obsessed with wokeness than Sony.
No we don’t
As that anon said, CNMN does dab on her with the personality test, but also Chai is genuinely moronic as frick which is based, but it also justifies Peppermints attitude
Neither of those do, though
>CNMN
The test means nothing to the plot. Chai's antics actually matter. If anything, Macaron and CNMN are punished for Peppermint's flaws, not hers. Which isn't how flaws in fiction should work
>Chai
That's the problem. The writing wants so hard to justify Peppermint's b***hiness that it refuses to put any limit on Chai's moronation. He's hurt by it.
What's more, whether the writers realise it or not, he's actually right in most of his criticisms about Peppermint. Early on, she's a terrible communicator, and I'd say all the things she gets mad at Chai about are actually on her. (namely the reason why the Vandelay board know about them) But when is she called out by the plot in a way she actually regrets? Never. That's why CNMN's personality test feels so token, and a flaw should not be simply token.
We were so close to greatness, anon. This close.
>it refuses to put any limit on Chai's moronation. He's hurt by it
Chai's endless stupidity is what makes him charming.
>Microsoft demanding the punk dyke looking girl be gay
That’s pretty stereotypical of you, Microsoft.
>The test means nothing to the plot.
Its literally the turning point. She becomes gradually more accepting of Chai after this.
I swear to God, people say this game has basic writing yet fail to grasp the beats.
that pun fricking SUCKS
Hehehehehe
You know those two scenes happen nearly back to back, right? The end of Verse 3 and a decent amount of Verse 4 touches on Peppermint being a huge butthole for most of Tracks 2 and 3. From 5 and on she's still snarky but much more understanding of Chai and charitable to him.
>BUT SHE MUST BE PUNISHED
For being rude? Why? She got called out for being kinda b***hy and started working on it.
>You know those two scenes happen nearly back to back, right?
That's my entire point.
>The end of Verse 3 and a decent amount of Verse 4 touches on Peppermint being a huge butthole for most of Tracks 2 and 3.
How? The test doesn't count, lampshading her flaw is not addressing her flaw: we've been over that already. And she still continues to be snarky. She and Chai do not have a moment where they actually appreciate each other until Roquefort's defeat.
>From 5 and on she's still snarky but much more understanding of Chai and charitable to him.
>For being rude? Why? She got called out for being kinda b***hy and started working on it.
Because flaws when unaddressed make characters unlikeable. This is writing 101. Don't make your flaws token, don't forget to balance them out. And if you have heartfelt moments between people where they overcome their flaws? Earn them.
There's an alternate world where this game came out, and Peppermint not only has no limit or method to her b***hiness, and she gets crucified for every mistake, while Chai's stupidity is never so much as lampshaded. Is this better? No. I'd find it just as awful. I'd find both characters just as difficult to appreciate as I do now, despite all the good work the writers put in otherwise.
You sound autistic, holy shit.
Just name-calling then. GGs
Okay you can leave now
>Name-calling
No, you're an idiot who doesn't understand people if you think being a bit of a c**t deserves some kind of meaningful punishment.
If I was name-calling I'd call you a homosexual.
Writing 101. I don't know why this concept offends you so much
no u
Anon, you're sounding pretty b***hy rn
You're deluding yourself. Her running after Chai after he seems to have lost matters way more than anything she did after the psych test. She really doesn't get any less snarky. And you're still missing the point that Peppermint is never punished for her flaws.
you can even see it in the game where she says like 3 times reassuring chai she trusts him, so the game clearly states that peppermint has problems with trusting/feeling for other people
It's clearly something inherited, as Kale has an even worse version of it.
>epic loner hacker is autistic
Many such cases
>give him a head concussion
Dude, Chai is made of anime plot armor, no way he got hurt from that.
And as for why the rope snare, likely to make sure Chai doesn't so anything stupid when he walks in, he has a habit of that.
Tsundere
Are you a dubgay?
808
>you'll never get affectionately licked by the smooth tongue of your cat wife
Why live?
a bit smoother
STOP
TRYING
TO
FRICK
THE
CAT
CHAI
A boxers-only version of Chai?
All I want is Chai in his underwear. Is that really too much to ask for?
Korsica is in my bed!!
How can she be there when my face is currently being used as her chair while she reads emails?
You must have the robo-version that Vandelay recently released anon.
I'm gonna get to the bottom of the head of security
Honestly I find the story and the characters legitimately cringe-inducing and hard to get through sometimes.
Gameplay is great and I know they're trying to go for that whole "saturday morning kids' action cartoon from the 2000's kinda feel," but I can't stand the lead character, it's just too much.
they are made that way on purpose. Its not made to take seriously, is just goofy and thats ok, its part of the whole appeal of the game
I know, I already stated that I know they were trying to go for that but even then it's still too obnoxious.
If you try to force that too hard it just becomes tacky.
I liked Chai basically until the moment Peppermint showed up. In the first chapter, there was a lot of method to his madness. He wasn't dumb, he was out of his depth. And he was clearly upending the order of Vandelay.
>Dismissed as good for nothing but garbage collecting
>Is actually really musically gifted but in a world where music isn't valued
>Music player transplanted onto his heart
>Suddenly extremely capable in a fight, sees the world in the rhythm of music
Writers need to have rules for their archetypes so they can earn their moments. Bugs Bunny was never the aggressor; he always struck out in self-defence. Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes had moments of hubris, but that's clearly because he was artistically minded and creative. In Hi-Fi Rush's case, they could have kept all their beats with Chai, so long as they rephrased them. No need for him to be oblivious, or not know what 'oblivious' means, or mess up to the point that you'd believe he can mess up anything.
>Chai is artistically minded in a world that shits on creatives
>Let him be smart at the things he's good at
>Have all his idiot moments be results of his shortcomings
That's it. It would have been really easy to do too, since Chai is surrounded by mathematically gifted minds, he's up against the managerially gifted corpos, and there is not one other artistically minded character to make him look worse.
I thought they were going for this, since the tutorials are literally Chai's vision of him as a rockstar surrounded by adoring fans and encouraging announcers. But sometime after the Zanzo fight, when the writers resorted to making him dumb in every possible capacity instead, I realised they weren't. Which is a downgrade.
>Is actually really musically gifted but in a world where music isn't valued
He's a poser he doesn't actually know how to play the guitar
Yeah, he doesn't know how to play the guitar, he wants to be a rock star without knowing how to actually make music. He doesn't show any real rhythm until the defect comes into play. He's just jamming on air guitar before that
There's music books next to his couch in the hideout. Chai isn't a complete poser, he actually does give a shit about music. He just didn't get to harnessing that potential until the music player got embedded in him
Thank you for missing the point. I'm saying what they could have done instead to make Chai's dumb moments and smart moments better written
Chai literally can't play guitar in the beginning
While that doesn't sound like a bad way to take Chai's character, I actually really like his happy go lucky stupidity. He's so unfazed by how most people talk to him that I can't help but respect him.
Uoh
Sexy teen mocha
That's what I loved about him initially, since in the first three chapters he's absolutely too brave to be ashamed. But later on, he did seem fazed. I wish he'd taken more of his dumb moments with a devil-may-care bravado, like a wannabe Dante who refuses to be the butt of the joke no matter how hard the world tries to make him one
>Chai is artistically minded in a world that shits on creatives
>Let him be smart at the things he's good at
>Have all his idiot moments be results of his shortcomings
But that's exactly what the game does. All his failures are due to either his arrogance, his refusal to actually listen to other people, selfishness or being overeager. All his successes come from his creativity, his ingenuity, his kind heart and his confidence. He progressively gets better at what he does as the game goes on and changes as a person. People insult him constantly because he's ignorant in a world that only values knowledge.
You're not criticizing the game for lacking internal logic. You pre-conceived the character and were disappointed when he didn't meet your expectations.
You know what, you're right. I am disappointed he didn't meet my expectations. And you're extra right about his successes, especially since the party come around to him at the endgame. But it's not true that his failures come just from his ego and hubris - the dude makes the Korsica fight harder for himself because he doesn't know what 'oblivious' means, for pity's sake. Was that really necessary for that battle to work? Would it really have been so bad for there to have been more internally consistent limits on the ways Chai can be moronic?
Considering how Chai used the word, he definitely knew what oblivious meant. I'm pretty sure when he said he didn't know what it meant it was to try and damage control the situation once he realized he messed up and the developers making the old oblivious joke.
I think half the point of Chai is you're not really sure how much of his stuff is "lucky dumbass" or how much is "he has a method to his madness". He's so overbearingly confident when things work out even when he clearly had minimal control over it that it may well be both.
I liked it because he wasn't going with baby gloves with Korsica. She's a grown ass woman, she can take some words
>But it's not true that his failures come just from his ego and hubris - the dude makes the Korsica fight harder for himself because he doesn't know what 'oblivious' means, for pity's sake.
How is using words you don't know the definition of not a problem with being overeager? He jumped the gun and said words without thinking. He then had to go "wait, does that mean what I thought it did?"
>Dismissed as good for nothing but garbage collecting
He wasn't dismissed, that's actually all he was good for. Like, he wants to be a rockstar and has yet to take the first step.
Half of Chai's journey and development is learning to cultivate his potential rather than letting his insecurities and arrogance stagnate his growth.
Chai on a date with peppermint at a restaurant with the "excuse me he asked for no pickles meme"
Korsica fits more thematically
I want head of security so bad
Is this where Hi-Fi Rush smut is going to peak?
Not until we get Krekkov and afrobull to do some art of a sweaty post-workout Korsica hungry for some Chai-dick.
This game needs more fan art
True. There’s more everyday but yet it’s still not enough.
The only reason this game doesn't have much fanart is because people are too busy playing the game to draw.
Honestly yeah, a surprising amount of art seems to always be done during a lead up to release. Which this game didn’t have. It’s a popular game, more will come.
Also no anticipation/hype culture.
People will be drawing art when they think back on it rather than in anticipation for it.
cute and funny
>what wlsw could you ask for
gato sexo?
I don't play games for filthy casuals.
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME
>IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME
>IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME
>IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
THIS GAME HAS NO ENDGAME
>IS A GLORIFIED TECH DEMO SOLD AT FULL PRICE
>full price
But it's $30.
>where's muh endgame
>must keep consooming
Funny part: there is endgame
Playing the same game instead of moving onto new product is not consooming.
Do you mean postgame? What could this game have had?
Maybe something like Bloody Palace or maybe extra challenges or even a must style mode
In other words, more like Devil May Cry?
It's a joke this game actually has all that stuff
Hi-Fi Rush literally has all three of those.
it's jork
Name 5 pure action games with an "endgame"
Barry, this thread isn't even comparing it to Forspoken. Give it a rest man.
It has a big fricking postgame. Seethe.
do you know what "tech demo" means?
Charming? Looking at this makes me more embarassed than at anime. At least in anime most people pretend it to be not for children but looking at something western where the characters look like 12 is just I can't.
>Huff!!! You still play with TRANSFORMERS?! Why you don't play with GI Joe like me? So embarassing!
But transformers is an old franchise and it even has had big animated movies. Meanwhile in this game you play as this kid.
He's 25.
I don't care what age your 20 000 year old e-girl dragon princess identifies as.
that kind of argument doesn't really work here
chai is tall and lanky and sounds like a young male
"He" is like an inch taller than the shortest girl character in the game.
Why the frick homies like you gotta act high-brow and like you're some mature high iq individuals when we're talking about toys here? Your realistic soldier shüt or open world arpg is in no way more mature than this game
Get out, underaged tardling. Only the dumbest and most tryhard of stupid little childrens give frickall about the perceived maturity of the things they like.
Something good.
Yes. It may have taken 7 years but Tango finally released a good game.
Not being pozzed or leaning towards it pointlessly for the brownie points.
One of the characters is lesbian and black
Being black isn't pozzed when it isn't for race quotas. The Dyke thing definitely is, though.
Microsoft likely demanded it.
>blonde hair
>green eyes
>slightly tan
>hurr she’s black
Lmao her mother is a poo in the loo. Not everything is USA politics
Unless we get word from Johan, I'm going with bi.
Probably. At least it shows there will be romance in the future.
Thread full of bots
has anyone else pointed out that this guy really looks like the loss guy?
Hardly. I'd argue Ethan's main physical traits are his haircut and shirt, neither of which Chai has.
idk, maybe is just me
Definitely just you
He looks more like Ken from Persona 3 if he was grown up and American
and if he wasn't a DIRTY TEAMKILLER
Chai's English VA was the dub voice of Akechi, and looking long enough they kind of look like brothers who went completely different directions in life.
He's literally just Hiccup from HTTYD.
Why is it that this game somehow avoids being cringe? It has the same "UHHH THAT JUST HAPPENED AM I RIGHT?" dialogue as borderlands or forspoken, yet in this game I can actually tolerate it. What makes this game different?
It's PG. It's not trying to be FRICKED UP and HELLA WEIRD. It's being a fun cartoon.
It doesn't take itself seriously at all so you laugh at the cringe instead of cringing. It's still too much for some anons though, which is fair
the issue was never the dialogue itself, in Forspoken's case it was because the dialogue deflates the sincerity and more serious tone it wants to go for, and in Borderlands' case its because the dialogue never knows when its time to stop fricking talking
Hi-Fi Rush doesn't take itself too seriously to begin with so it doesn't feel that out of place
we used to call these things cheesy instead of cringe
because you are a SHILL
any adult watches the first "OMG LE WACKY RIFF THIS IS SO COOL" scene and asks for a refund
Cope. Seethe. Dilate
Because that kind of dialogue actually fits a saturday morning cartoon with wacky characters and not a faux-edgy """adult""" story that takes itself way too seriously.
>cartoon artstyle so exaggerated movements go well with quirky dialogue as opposed to grown realistic adults saying these lines
>everyone is actually a real friend and they care about each other, the lines are just friendly banter, in Marvel it's all sardonic, nihilistic, petty and spiteful one-liners obviously meant to belittle others
>girls aren't c**ts, Korsica apologizes instantly after joining and is grateful they saved her, Peppermint genuinely cares about Chai and compliments him if he does stuff well
>the combat and special attacks/assist show they work well together etc.
>the humor is really well paced and edited and also unapologetic, game knows what it is and is not ashamed of it
>Marvel humor is just a statement of insecurity, every super serious moment has to be underlined by some shitty humor while the game has genuinely nice moments among friends
Its jokes aren't taking the piss out of its own premise. When they do break the fourth wall, most of the time it's to poke fun at an homage to something else (the Xenogears one is a good example)
> It has the same "UHHH THAT JUST HAPPENED AM I RIGHT?" dialogue as borderlands or forspoken
Breaking the fourth wall can have a lot of different implementations. For example, you can be making fun of your own premise or you can be making a soliloquy to the audience about your thoughts and feelings.
Chai's is firmly in the latter camp. it's just that he's a doofus so his comments to the audience are more comedic than dramatic. But that's still firmly separate from Borderlands making fun of itself for being a video game.
Forspoken's issue is much more the MCU issue of being sort of embarrassed by its own premise of being an isekai.
Soul. Not cynical, they loved what they were doing. Humans have a sixth sense for this shit. It’s why Forspoken always felt off, is why Redfall always look like shit. It’s corporate design, not soul design
boobs and dickys
Meh that you dont have a boss for stage 30 in rhythm tower.
my soulful japanese devs had to crunch for this stupid reddit shit
crunch is only a problem to call out when it happens to games I already hate
This isn't a forspoken thread
yea it's a troony thread. look at her
she literally looks like a man. silly americans don't know what's sexy anymore with all the troony propaganda in your country
Even if you show snoy 2013 victoria secret model and he will find "bulge" and call her troony if she is not branded with snoy logo
Yeah no shit she looks like a man with that ugly tumblr artstyle, in the game shes pretty cute
Meanwhile Barry's waifu looks like a skinwalker in every moment of the game
Peppermint my beloved
she still looks like a man
Are you meaning the game or saying some gay shit?
More Coom skins for the last characters would be cool I think
>beat Kale
>game ends
>spectra is still around
>chai doesn't become a rockstar
>no extra 'true final boss'
Great game but man it could have been so much more if it just had a better ending.
I think the three things they had cut in early development were a Zanzo fight, a level going back through Production at night, and a boss fight with a SPECTRA-controlled version of either Roxanne or Chai (the latter would need playable assist characters). I think what they plugged the holes with was charming but you can feel the pacing fluctuate.
>think the three things they had cut in early development were a Zanzo fight
Entire Zanzo fight is the devs telling the player they ran out of budget for it
Feels like they really should have put that one a bit later, because it means the second 'big boss' isn't actually there. If it was the third or fourth that'd be a bit more tolerable, but going from Rekka being a proper fight to Zanzo just being a fight gauntlet is a little weird, pacing-wise.
I feel like stage 1 and Rekka feels like a proof of concept thing where they're expanding the world so they can do whatever they wanted but as you can sense later on that they seem to have cut down a lot of things and hard focused on the level designs to not show more or do more than they needed to to save on the budget.
How is he gonna become a rockstar when he doesn't know how to play a guitar. He starts learning at the end so maybe in a sequel.
Spectra doors is just post game homie
What would even be the true final boss? Kale was the main big bad
Anyone found the secret ending yet?
>shadowdropped so not datamined by trannies
>game is full of soul and 'old-school' vibes
There's obviously a secret ending somewhere.
Someone posted it online with the other Spectra doors.
GATO
SEXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
when do I get the parry?
Like 3 hours into the game dude, stop posting and play more
bring shadman out of jail so he can do hi-fi tush
>what else could you ask for?
An end to the marketing.
NO! Don't talk about good games! More Forpoken, genchin cumpact shilling, dead space shitflinging and thinly veiled off-topic threads is what I want!!
Also over half of these are just facts
Just unlocked the Sketch outfit.
I'm not sure I have the will to 100% this game. Replaying all the levels 3 more times feels like a chore.
All I need is the Korsica suit. What's the requirement? I already did a perfect run of her fight so I hope it's that and I get that as soon as I beat the game.
You can just buy that one
I wonder if "shadow dropping games instead of spending shit tons of money in marketing" will become a trend ?
For Gamepass it will, if the publisher believes its good enough to entice people with one release trailer. MS pays you roughly half of MSRP for every GP download, even if it's never launched. Bethesda has probably made their money back before even considering Steam sales.
>spending shit tons of money in marketing
I wish you guys would stop pretending marketing isn't done for this game.
Shadow dropping is a form of marketing.
We are even in a paid shill thread right now.
Stop being delusional
>if you like games on a videogame board you're a paid shill
There was clearly a marketing budget, but unlike most major publishers who dump tons until ads and tie-ins, they made one trailer and a few interviews at Tango and then threw a few generic Twitter ads up. Somebody at MS or Bethesda thought this is the kind of game designed for word of mouth and they were right.
I've seen a few threads that have OPs that look like shilling but even in those you see people genuinely talking about the game and its handful of shortcomings in spite of liking it overall.
Nta but yah if anything I could see it just being some interns or low-level guys that work at Tango doing the shilling themselves. There couldn't be more than 3 to 5 of them.
It's the best way to release short-burst single player games.
No matter how hard you work on a project like this, at the end of the day, people are going to buy it and complete it in a weekend.
Good character design, 90% of the late 2000 cartoon were pure trash.
CAUSE THERES NO PLACE THAT I COULD BE WITHOUT YOU
Why did Corgan have a meltdown and take all of Zwan's songs off of Spotify?
Because it’s Billy Corgan
Why is Barry so obsessed with Hi-Fi Rush's sales performance?
He needs Forspoken to beat SOMETHING
https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/US
>hi-Fi Rush at 6 still
>Forespoken about to fall off list entirely
I actually had to Ctrl+F to find Forespoken
List is sorted by money made within a certain period and refunds count against it.
Let this sink in:
>Skyrim made more money than Forspoken this week
>Days Gone made more money than Forspoken this week
>Sea of Thieves made more money than Forspoken this week
>Literally who indies and niche shit like Ready or Not and American Truck Simulator made more money than Forspoken this week
This is the best theme in the game, anyone who disagrees is simply wrong
I feel robbed playing w/ licensed tracks.
Nah, INAZAWA CHAINSAW and Invaders Must Die were used way too well to pass up
Guys, guys, you're supposed to replay the game and choose a different soundtrack the second time through while also doing the challenge rooms and upping the difficulty.
Whirring and stage 11 is too ludokino to pass up too.
1000000, Inazuma Chainsaw, Invaders Must Die, and that intro track were all worth it (Roquefort's fight as well but that's public domain music). Rekka & Mimosa are probably better off with the originals, and TOO BIG TO FAIL is almost as good as 1000000.
Negotiation is the most underrated boss track though. It's perfect, but maybe only in combination with the boss fight rather than alone.
I was honestly shocked Number Girl was there, I remember I listened to their music on spotify randomly like weeks before the game came out, then i heard this track and thought i know it from somewhere
They broke up back in the 90s, came back together in 2020, then broke up again for the last time in December of last year. The devs were probably secret Number Girl fans and wanted to have a song in their game as a sort of memorial.
Pretty based regardless, though. I fricking love the album Inazawa Chainsaw is on
>Negotiation is the most underrated boss track though. It's perfect, but maybe only in combination with the boss fight rather than alone.
Absolutely. I wish that Korsica fight would last a bit longer with more mixing up and chaining combos because it was fricking great.
When Korsica gets mad is when the song truly becomes great
WHERES MY GAS MASK FACEMOD TO KORSICA'S ASS
Isn't Mimosa the same no matter if you play with streamer mode?
streamer mode off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbxqtbqyoRk (Or some remix)
on - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDbi2XkbZ4
Oh makes sense, i was a bit jarred on why they dropped the jazz theme for her boss fight
So would you guys have liked Macaron to be a gigahomie?
>So u be saying u gonna let her crazy ass go wild and tired? homie you a muhfuggin genius!
Macaron is the best character as he is
>gentle giant
>doesn't ever actually belittle Chai, putting him leagues about Peppershit
>Cheers up O5-KAR
Change nothing about him
I was joking anon
Big homie bro is a underrated trope and the representation gaming deserves
He's just a big teddy bear. I appreciate him always trying to see the best in everyone.
>808 highfives Mac in the last cutscene
the cat is very cute
>what else could you ask for?
far far less shit shilling
Boy, even with how much I like Korsica, she and Macaron added frick all to the group dynamic. Hell, I’d go as far as to say CNMN contributed more than those two with how he played off both Chai and Peppermint’s bickering and differences.
Macaron is probably the worst of the group even though i do not dislike him.
Weakest design and personality that is too passive to do anything big. Korsica joined later so she gets some slack.
But honestly after the Xenogears joke and the song in credits i think they really might have removed some levels and stuff inbetween before the finale.
It's kind of crazy how a game that makes fun of cutting probably another 2 hours of content that they had planned feels so finished for the most part. I guess they put everything they saved cutting that stuff into polishing what they kept.
With how hard they drove the point of “balancing the budget with realistic expectations” thing during Zanzo’s section, I’d believe it. I suppose I can accept it, though. The amount of effort put into the game made it clear that making it too long would be very, very expensive
Chai and Mint banter definitely hard carries
>Peppermint your plan to recruit Korsica is trash, watch this
Korsica feels like a big sister to Chai. She likes his stupid pums and when he calls her in she says "Chai, are you okay?" She's also not afraid to compliment him.
ONEESAN SEX
She is my wife
Get in line chief
Sorry lads. Korsica loves going after the new hires first.
If there’s not a fapfic written about this very thing within the next week then I’ll cry about it in whatever thread exists at that time.
Lemme get some weed and alcohol and I'll see what I can do.
Do what is needed anon
>fapfic written about Korsica
Soon as I figure out how to "write out" a scottish accent, I might be able to take a stab at it.
Now were you looking for slow burn or "I want Korsica to shatter my pelvis"?
Also, have you seen her suit alt costume?
I don’t know about other anons but to me Korsica seems like the pelvis shattering type
I feel like Macaron is the only one of the group that gets the worst of it since Korsica comes in late but still adds enough contribution dialogue wise to get what the chemistry is to the group.
Doesn't help that Macaron is probably the least useful assist. Z Shielding isn't that common and Gravity Well is situational at best. His grounded Beat Hit is great way to do an Overkill Launcher but besides that I constantly skip over him to use Peppermint and Korsica.
It is looking good sir
I do not like the Barrier, Z-Shielding and Fire Mechanics.
Playing rock, paper, scissors in my action games annoys the shit out of me, this is why I hated Blitz enemy in DMC4 and why I hated DmC: Devil May Cry.
Hi-Fi Rush has a lot of fun nestled inside but I feel like my creativity has been stifled because of all the mechanic juggling.
Also Z-Shielding needing 2x Macaron hits is bullshit, he has a long ass cd even with the cd chip. It's double bullshit his damage chip only goes up to 75% instead of double damage.
>hurr durr just parry to break in one
Yeah, that is a shit work around though. I want to keep up the momentum not sit around waiting to parry.
The worst part about it is that you have to cycle through them. If they were a button combo instead I’d bet it’d feel way more intuitive than having to sift through the three for some butthole enemy with a shield or something
i mean dmc5 has cycling with dante but having it on the upper left is a bit hard to track sometimes because theres also no physical difference on what you have selected
808 glows a different color for each assist you have selected
Blue - Pepper
Green - Mac
Red - Mommy
One of the Peppermint special attacks breaks Z-shielding.
Also, any combo ender with Mac will count as a hit.
All you need is Reverb.
We need an edgy rival in the sequel
Maybe with a katana inside a guitar
a protagonist that doesn't look like a placeholder
the rest is amazing, and that makes the design of the protagonist even more puzzling
>Generic brown hair white kid
He is a placeholder.
God tier reading comprehension
>like a placeholder
He looks fine to me, looking relatively normal in a crazy world is kind of the point of stuff like this.
I don't think they tried to go for "normal in crazy world", they put a ton of overdesigned elements in him, I think they just failed to make him interesting
He's a mega dumbass who wants to be a rockstar but also never picked up a guitar in his life. He's charming as character while being what the villian called a 'Loser'. He's not supposed to look like he stands out, he's just a regular joe shmoe who wanted a robot arm & the arm was made to collect garbage.
Customization being post-game was a really weird choice, my only guess is that they didn't want people burning all their gears on clothes during the first run.
No, it's fairly common for this type of game to unlock additional content once complete. DMC5 does the same thing, hell, that has an entire system locked behind game completion since you're intended to replay these games.
The only thing that's a weird choice was not making tutorials optional and the spacing of some of the checkpoints.
It makes sense it's a "bonus thing" since a lot of the cutscenes has the characters default costumes baked in
Ahem...
BROWN HAIRED WHITE GUY IS THE BEST PROTAG DESIGN
WELL NOW
quads of truth
the quads of quality have spoken
quads are right
the Lord has spoken
It is undeniably so.
>Verification not required.
He’s supposed to look bland and dorky so the average nerdy narcissistic gays who play video games can also self-insert his shoes.
I’m sure glad that he had a clear personality, though. There’s so many Japanese games where you play as a dude but for some reason they keep trying to make the MC a stand in for (You), despite showing signs of individuality
>He’s supposed to look bland and dorky so the average nerdy narcissistic gays who play video games can also self-insert his shoes.
>implying they care anymore and are hard stuck on social media
Top kek
This humor is pretty gay, did Ganker make this game? Is that why they're shilling it here? Gay.
>Supposed to go to the AI labs
>Goes to AR labs instead because AI labs is closed
>Peppermints reaction
>2023
>Actually getting the videogame version of FLCL
It can only go down from here.
Fricking denuvo is stopping us from modding in our own tracks
We should mod in
ONE GAME
I DON'T KNOW WHY
I'll be honest with you, to implement modded tracks you'd first need a tool to make sure they'll match the og songs beat by beat. Or you could go with it anyway to up the difficulty
Nah frick that mod the game's beat to match the track. They already showed it can be dynamic and changed on the fly in the training room
That also works, too. Imagine a Hotline Miami playlist for the mod
FRICK DENUVO
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm sure a ton of songs are 4/4 at whatever BPM they use or close enough to be recognizable edited to it. There's also a Fast BPM option in Training you could potentially mess with.
People mod Denuvo games all the time.
Changing assets but you can't change the code. You could put in a song with the same BPM and have it fit but nothing more complicated
Sonic Frontiers.
Anon I think you got the wrong thread.
Or board.
It's a bot/spammer. Just ignore it.
I'm in stage 5 with the side mission, where the hell is all of the drones?
I literally haven't even found a Side Mission since the pigeon one. How many are there?
3
pigeons
drone packages
golden can
I did this but didn't get the robot helper achievemo 🙁
>broke my pacifist run and destroyed the cleaning bots in the room where the robot was trying to get some sleep
>nothing happens
>now when a cleaning bot sees me they run away and panic
🙁
No help so far? I've only found 7 right now. Where's the rest?
Well we don't really know which of the 10 you've found so it's difficult to help.
Rule of thumb is that, if there's a hidden area, a drone package is probably also around
Well i saw a path with some kind of generator that i cant interact with, assuming i need some kind of future ability.
there's no drone package in the area that leads you to, no extra abilities are needed to get them all
Can confirm you can get all of them right now. There's also one if your turn around after walking up the musicly collapseing slope at the begining of macaroons side as well.
Theres a video on YouTube that shows all the pick ups, but the stand out one is in the 2d section on macaroons path.
Got a link to that?
Is Korsica tall or is Chai a manlet? Either way I wanna give her a hug and bury my face in between her breasts to get a big whiff of ‘em
Tall I'd say. She's probably something like 175cm. Tall for japanese women.
>what else could you ask for?
less input lag
dialogue and story that isn't mind-numbingly stupid
>less input lag
Check your latency
Something about Peppermint’s head shape bothers me. Its honestly probably just the shitty haircut though. It makes her look all baby faced since she’s half bald
Sexo with Korsica
Agreed
MOD WHEN
How the hell are you going to complete generator minigame then? It is already pretty hard to time the key when you see this
there's something satisfying about korsikas minigame, her animation, the hi-hat beat and chai cheering her on
Chai cheering her and Mac on during their assists during platforming is so fun.
I'll happily take failure, just GIVE IT TO ME AAAAAAAAAA
Low IQ: Staring at Korsika's ass.
High IQ: Staring at 808's wacky poses.
When Denuvo is removed/cracked, I guess.
Korsica underbutt
>verification not required
why is her belly button so high up it looks weird
fixed up for you, anon
they know what they're doing
THEY FRICKING KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AAAAAAAAAAAA
>Oi, anoon, why ar'ye postan me arse on 4chen?
>has denuvo
Damnn let me try your game before buying bro.
just refund if you don't like it, should be able to play 1 or 2 levels
Completely forgot about refunds, thanks brah
How the frick do I do Peppermint's combo attack?
Do I have to do it during the little green circle thing at the end of a combo?
first of all you need at least 1 reverb bar ( the orange meter on top )
then you press the assist button when the green circle hits the red circle
Yes and you need a reverb bar too
Where are all the robots I need to help?
What cans do I have to throw into the trash for the challenge?
Where is all instances of Sebastian Castellanos in the game? Apparently I need to find ALL of them and listen to his dialogue.
>What cans do I have to throw into the trash for the challenge?
Break a nearby vending machine, knock those cans into the trash.
I know in mission 3 there is a vending machine directly next to a trash can right before the room with z shielding being introduced I think. That made it easy to kick the cans in since i did 3/5 by accident
Chai?
i want to drink him
why the hell like half of the cast is named after food?
>chai
>peppermint
>macaron
>cnm
>kale
Devs were hongry
Clearly they were hungry AND horny
Because naming characters after food is always good fun and hasn't failed yet
What, you want them named after tools? Is that it?
All the good guys are spice/tea related, things designed to calm you down.
All the bad guys are named after hearty foods and potent drinks.
Rekka is a food or drink?
https://thejoyoffood.life/ramen-danbo/
That's pretty neat, thanks for the link. I thought her name was a pun on wrecker. Perhaps it serves as both.
Korsica is a food?
Yep it's also a tea flavor.
Huh, well I stand corrected.
Corscian Tea.
Wtf is Zanzo?
I belive that he just big reference to jojo
Every other character has a food name, there's gotta be something there.
Energy drink?
Im assuming its Sanzo, but that stands out as a brand name as opposed to an actual food/drink
I mean Corsica is the region Corsican tea is named after, and Macarons are more associated with tea cookies than tea-cookie flavored teas, so I don't think the devs had hard rules on names. Just general themes (heroes = comfort flavors related to tea, villains = potent flavors).
Okay, let me see if I'm getting this right:
Good guys:
>Chai - tea flavor
>Peppermint - tea flavor
>Macaron - confection sold in cafes with tea
>CNMN - cinnamon
>Korsica - comes from corsican tea
Bad guys:
>Rekka - ramen
>Zanzo - ???
>Mimosa - a fancy wienertail
>Roquefort - a kind of cheese
>Kale - leaf cabbage
Basically. Some places sel macaron flavored teas, and cinnamon is a common spice in teas, coffees, and associated drinks and sweets.
All the villains are stuff with strong impression and not as directly pleasant.
>Zanzo - ???
This anon got it
Especially since a bit mentions that Zanzo forces you to only consume his drink and there are tons of vending machines in his levels.
A lot of this is probably just dev in-jokes. Like maybe the company only provided Sanzo as refreshments at the office.
>Zanzo - ???
Might be a play on Sansa Apples, there is also a cuisine shop called Zanzos
>what else could you ask for?
Better gameplay, an artstyle that isn't knockoff anime shit, a leading girl that isn't an ugly dyke, an actual Japanese person to direct it.
If Shinji Mikami believes in somebody, I believe in them too. Johannes is cool in my book after this game.
Sweaty anal sex with Chai with underwear on each other~! (his scarf stays too)
Shut up, Korsica.
What kind of game is this?
Action Guitar Hero
>The Cook
Devil May Cry with a guitar and rhytm elements to the combat
Rhythm action game where everything moves to the beat, and staying on beat makes you stronger and gives you cool bonuses.
Imagine if Devil May Cry and Guitar Hero had a baby that was into comic books and anime.
>reddit is now charming and fun
go suck some wieners Ganker. You guys are the worst hypocrits there is.
Suprising to me that twitter culture war gays are more eager to shit on this than Ganker
I thought the way it looks is cool and does really capture some of that 2000s cartoon network feel
https://www.techgoing.com/the-new-sci-fi-game-hi-fi-rush-of-agency-b-will-be-launched-this-year/
What the frick is this concept art?
Looks like a bot article. That artist doesn't work at Tango
Fake bullshit.
Companies will create nonsense and let certain people have access to it so they can suss out leakers.
>02/01/2023
a time traveler got lost and posted this article
>If only you knew how bad things really are
wait, is that on the actual game?
yes, play the game. It's not real and Chai is having some delusions while being knocked out.
Anon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SPFrQrnlI8
wtf is that real???
It's a straight up twin peaks reference
fricking kino
how did i not get the snapping LMAO this game
?t=11
talk about soul
HOLY SHIT IS THAT REAL?!?!
wtf is that real
does it have any lgbtq+ representation in it? i won't buy it otherwise
One girl blushes at another girl in the ending cutscene.
not good enough, I will buy forspoken instead
no Black folk and dykes
For me? it's The Pulse
>uuuuuuuuh
>uoooo uoooo oooooh
How do I get there?
Anyone?
Some of the worlds geometry actually has collisions. Like in the security dept (I think) with the big conex boxes on rails on the ceiling you can stand on top of them.
Zanzo boss fight dlc
First playthrough, doing VH. When the fricking samurai starts showing up is when shit hit the fan. Like frick the timing on both his rhythm ones, its significantly easier to hope your special attack kills him before you have to do the rhythm showdown. Outside of this one enemy its been pretty easy.
A good game
Peppermint is such a miserable eyerolling c**t and whoever wrote her should be locked away
She's a bit c**ty but she's really fine. She cares and is nice and supportive when it really matters.
She's just tsundere towards Chai
>YOU THINK YOU'RE RADICAL
>BUT YOU'RE NOT SO RADICAL
>IN FACT YOU'RE FANATICAL
>FANATICAL
>YOU THINK YOU'RE RADICAL
>BUT YOU'RE NOT SO RADICAL
>IN FACT YOU'RE FANATICAL,
>FANATICAL
God tier taste
Honestly. Didn't care much for Rekka's design but her personality, cutscenes, and boss theme were one of my favorites.
Yah anon those samurai don't frick around. Same with those birb homies.
I like how they went all-in on Rekka being VERY dumb, but in a markedly different way from Chai.
What does the haiku say? Any moon rune reader knows?
Post YFW this track dropped.
This and the ending song with the vocalist from Smashing Pumpkins got me, it was actually peak kino
This one got me to be honest. I was not expecting to tear up at this cringefest of a game
I wonder if they'll build up on his special arm powers one day, him being able to break that on his own show that Chai is just someone really special and he didnt get there through dumb luck.
Chai is already doing stuff beyond dumb luck by Track 4.
Just his talent for fighting alone makes that clear. They never really address it, and yeah the music stuff clearly helps but he's clearly just a surprisingly good innovator in a fight.
Yeah that part was real feels. Reminded me of the final song from Gitaroo Man, Made me remember my buds in the navy.
Gitaroo Man was so fricking good
>when this song dropped in sync with a big group of enemies and Chai getting ready to fight them
>the whole stage with your friends clearing the way for you
>CNMN's section
>him using going full power and then drawing his face for the proper reaction
The whole stage was euphoric. The feeling it gave me was incredible.
this game actually does a good job with transitions in songs, every stage has some different part of the song and "idle" versions when platforming
>and then drawing his face for the proper reaction
I need a clip of this. That small section playing as CNMN and the whole giant robot arm bit was fricking K I N O
*Ludo
What's the difference anon?
Yeah that's the one. I only played a bit of Gitaroo Man on my older bro's hacked psp way back in 08 when I was like 13. Then I found that song on the Vidya Album Forever that some anons and tripgays made way back in the day. Would listen to it while doing my runs almost every day.
/blog
I wonder if they wanted all the character to be playable
God CNMN painting on his faces is such a cool fricking gimmick i don't think i ever seen anything like that.
>One scene during slowmo CNMN is in the process of drawing his face.
I kek'd
I think it's very obvious that was the goal if they didn't have to cut anything.
>Cliche story
>Abysmal Marvel quip dialog
>Bog standard art style
>6 hours long
Why did this game become FotM?
It's fun.
>People ITT shit on Thr Witcher for being a rhythm action game, but let this game slide because it's FotM
You guys are fricking queer beyond belief.
>Witcher
>rhythm
what
First witcher game's combat is basically low-key rhythm game where you have to time clicks at the end of an attack animation to connect combos properly.
Yeah the witcher isn't fun though.
TW series didn't exist until TW3.
>6 hours long
It's not 6 hours long. It's actually about 12-14
Anon things not taking themselves seriously isn't "marvel"
How the frick do I deal with the bird enemies quickly in the Rhythm Tower? By the time I get to them after the first boss they eat up all the time I got and I'm desperate for beat hits and parries after clearing them out. I use the Punch Special to stun them but it feels like their health is super bloated or I'm doing something wrong. It takes forever to get it in a parry state as well but that may just be because I'm taking too long in general
Use both ranged assists as you approach, use Dash Heavy or something to engage instead of Magnet.
I'll give it a shot, cheers lads
Magnet into the fire ones to open them up for assist barrage, then beat the shit out of them.
Parry them to break their stamina.
Also just save your reverb to nuke them
So which original tracks are better than licensed stuff in your opinion?
My Heart Feels No Pain
Captive Normals
And I honestly wanna give it to Too Big To Fail since it's stuck in my head.
Rekkas and Mimosa's. Great songs but not boss fight quality stuff compared to the original songs. The 9 inch nail songs and their replacements are even imo and both are good for different reasons. I think chainsaw and roquefort's themes are the only ones where the replacements fall off a bit.
Intruders can't touch Invaders Must Die.
Intruders is still a decent replacement. Not as great but fine as a secondary if I put on streamer mode.
They for sure had to cut out a few levels, maybe even some mechanics and they openly admit to it in credits but man, what remains is such pure quality you cannot even blame them. Every scene, stage, level, attack and element of the game is done with such care and passion it's insane. Puts every other AAA slop to shame, really.
Just makes the need for a sequel that much more apparent. I don't want them milking this forever, but the foundation is strong and could really use another shot. Just being able to play as the assist characters would justify it.
A game that doesn't look like clown vomit.
Game is only popular because it pushed a, "frick capitalism," message, and nothing else.
You should reach the ending.
Everyone on the planet should be saying 'frick crony capitalism and corruption' even though it's too late
They don't though. No one really cares
>They don't though
Yeah we do. We just can't change it.
Damn you Black folk are really getting low quality with your baits and troll posts.
>frick capitalism
Not. It makes fun of corporatism but it's not your generic shitty message:
>company was actually good and helped people when it started and ending implies things returned to that, meaning capitalism can be fixed and managed properly by right people
>Kale has a point in some of his arguments that the issue of corporate life is to make a product that will sell and it's extremely difficult
There are also other things like Zanzo showing issues with managing budget etc.
>Force the world to accept good products instead of popular ones.
Kale did nothing wrong.
>Kale did nothing wrong.
Except mind control his mom which is pretty fricked up.
She was standing in the way of destroying the corruption in capitalism because "what if we were just nice uwu".
You do that AFTER you destroy the problems with the system.
Yeah.... But that's your mom. Also who uses Seduce as a description to saying 'I forced my mom into mind control.'
>It makes fun of corporatism
Corporatocracy*
Corporatism is a based ideology in which society is divided into groups based broadly on role within society and led by a governing body made up of the leaders of said groups.
It promotes interdependence and cooperation between organs of the state such as the military and medical services.
In corporatism, the business/financial class cooperates for mutual benefit with the labor class with the rest overseeing and having a say such that neither group exploits the other fundamentally.
Yeah, it's a cool, unfeasible ideal.
>unfeasible ideal
Slovenia, Ireland, Hong Kong, The Netherlands and culturally China all have strong corporatist elements in their governments today.
France, Italy and Portugal had corporatist laws in the past.
Classical Athenian democracy was proto-corporatist, as was the governmental structure in provincial Rome.
The fact you grew up under Neo-Liberal Capitalism doesn't mean different systems have not, do not and will not exist or function to the benefit of society.
Yeah, things aren't quite as bad there, but it still isn't the ideal you described.
That doesn't mean it's not a feasible ideal, just that it's hard to implement when there are outside forces pushing in other directions.
Human nature makes any perfect system unfeasible.
Corporatist systems are better than the US capitalist model, but still not fully attainable in their ideal form. We can probably make a further jackass-resistant system with more work.
Jesus frick Barry you're throwing anything and everything to see what sticks huh?
Already said it better than I could. Not like you'll reply.
>frick capitalism
You did not play the game lmao
IF we will get a sequel (which honestly i could see happening) they should just build up the story from peppermints dad or something, being the real evil guy
that the chocolate tummy was straight.
What's the Xenogears reference everyone keeps talking about?
i forgot what track/chapter. think it was after mimosa where theres a time skip before the cannon load up to wolfmans place
>credits song alludes to how they had to cut things and tried their best to make things work with what they had
>someone in the staff probably went "wouldnt it be funny if we added in a xenogears reference for that, it would be hilarious"
They were right.
Even with shit cut, it still has more worthwhile content than most action games.
Imagine a sequel be a DMC5 level of commitment to Hi Fi's DMC4 level of cut content.
>Everyone gushing over Chai over whatever amazing shit he just did.
>"And now we'll never mention that again" like he's fricking bugs bunny.
This fricking game man.
>Sitting in the exact same pose too.
top fricking kek
And in both games cases, they were used as an excuse to give exposition to cut content.
korsicas fight was still probably my favorite with the combination of music and pace of it. and the qtes kinda felt like part of the song with how aggressive they were. and of course i want to frick korsica
For me it was Roquefort, the black blade
>the black blade
FRICK BOC THEMED BOSS WHENNNNN
And one of my personal favorites from them.
KCHACK CHARK
...KCHA-KCHA-KCHACK
WHOOOSH
KCHACK
Not the biggest fan of the character design but korsica looks really good.
For me it's not the legwear but the jacket
>doesn't cover up her cleavage post-surgery
either she really got brain damage or she's a little bawd inside
weird how despite her ripped coat, she gets new shoes too and the v on her jacket is shifted up by her collar bone
She's if you took Morag from Xenoblade 2 and stuck her in the body of that redhead from Ace Attorney.
Goddamn man you keep saying she looks like Morag on every thread and no one cares, move on
>looks like Morag
Learn some reading comprehension, ESL-Kun.
>fun gameplay
>makes snoyBlack folk seethe
>music is good
>qt brown tomboy waifu
GOTY
I haven't had this much fun in a game since God Hand. My hands legit hurt after the Invaders Must Die section on Very Hard, it was such a fricking blast.
It has the Shinji Mikami stamp of approval.
Why is this guy not as talked about on Ganker like Itsuno or Iwata? Like these miracle worker devs that just bless everything they touch?
He is, but only in action game threads, so you don't see it because everything is just twitter screencaps and AAAslop.
He was when he was at Capcom and to an extent his short stint at Platinum. But he's taken a back seat since Evil Within 1 since Tango was about giving the future directors he's prepping experience at the top. Mikami is legitimately one of the most influential singular developers of all time though, Capcom owes a ton to him let alone the ridiculous numbers of games directly inspired by games he made or saw potential in. Ironically that Dead Space Remake dropped the same week, since Dead Space basically wouldn't exist without RE4.
Because this is the only recent Mikami involved action title since the last titles were Horror or Horror Adjacent. It might be primarily Jon's game but Mikami still had some involvement and hired the right kinda people to be involved
Tango Gameworks is Mikami's studio but as stated by another anon, it's him passing the torch to a new generation. Which is why he's usually a producer but hasn't been back in the director's chair in a while. On top of that, Tango hasn't put out too much and what has been out was mainly stuff that came off like Zenimax mandating the RE4 guy do RE4 type stuff
Hi-Fi Rush might be the first time that Tango didn't have to deal with executive mandates and shit.
The shit that Zenimax did was so bad with Ghostwire that Nakamura had to go on stress leave, before departing the company.
I genuinely believe Ghostwire would've been a more interesting and well-made game if Ikumi stuck around, she's got an eye for design (did concept art of Bayonetta 1 which should say plenty) and it seems like a lot of experienced staff were on HFR when she left so the remainder of the team probably had to scramble.
>Ghostwire would've been a more interesting and well-made game if Ikumi stuck around, she's got an eye for design (did concept art of Bayonetta 1
Doing concept art for a good game doesn't mean she knows diddly squat about game design.
As a director, having an eye for visual design goes a long way, combat and level design are done by people the director oversees. Johannes isn't why HFR has great combat, that's Yamada, but he knew what direction to push things in. Somebody moving from art to design & direction is hardly a new thing.
Mikami had faith in her, and was trying to push her into the director's seat for a while, but the problem was that Mikami probably didn't realize how hard Zenimax was going to end up messing with development, plus Nakamura getting pregnant during development.
Ghostwire would have been better as an immersive sim game where you ready about Yokai and have to set up conditions to dispel or placate them
We're all gonna make it bros
>At first went straight.
>Found a male bot.
>Thought it was some gay shit at first.
>Walked around, saw the receptionist, breathed a sigh of relief.
For gaming to follow it's example and put the money second.
Any draw anon, please draw Korsica and Chai fricking I beg of you. People aren't working fast enough.
They can be more efficient by removing Korsica from equation and drawing Chai getting railed by me/random mobs.
kekw
It's not much but it'll have to do anon.
it's WIP you vacumn-tier numb nuts
Honestly I just thought it was some anon doing something quick to have a laff.
Keep it up bro.
heh
You are a gentlemen and a scholar good sir.
HEY
CHAI
This game is what Brutal Legend should have been.
True. It's just missing the celebrity guest VAs unless I'm out of the loop and they credited some irl rockstars already.
Do you get a unique game over if you die as 808?
>all the streamers drop it after a day to play Slop Space instead
this is why gaming is dead and why streaming is cancer on the industry
They'll drop that in a week when Slopwards Legacy is out.
They have to play whatever is getting hits because they want views, they probably hate video games and don't even pat attention, it's like a wagecuck job to them, which is a shame since passionate people would probably push HFR quite well.
Then there's morons like Woolie that refuse to play it because he's scheduled a bunch of shit no one cares about and he himself has no passion for instead.
I wish the game let you swap individual licensed tracks for original stuff.
Uhm....
now we are getting somewhere.
sex
SEXOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CULO TETAS CHICHIS PUSSY CULO TETAS TETAS TETAS TETAS
Reminder that Hi-fi rush is the latest decision by Shinji Mikami to diversify and let Tango Gamework's new employees train themselves on smaller games in order to broaden their studio's portfolio so that they aren't known as the horror game studio. Big games take over 5 years or so to make now and it's better to let people learn things from smaller games and to apply them to bigger ones, they probably have more stuff in the works now too.
>My prosthetic hurts.
>Chai keeps talking about some time he groupied for Rush.
>I wish I was eating Korsica's flaming bush right now.
>very short
>autistic gameplay
>goofy scrimblo characters
IT'S JUST LIKE MY BING BING WAHOO
>very short
>autistic gameplay
>goofy scrimblo characters
all of these are good things
Yes
Every stage has one I believe. Also different parts of stages too.
Attractive characters.
>YOU ARE THE PERFECT DRUG
>THE PERFECT DRUG
>THE PERFECT DRUG
kek i didnt know about this
>that korsica accent
hnnngggg
>Korsica will never idly play with your dick while she sits on your face. Sipping her decaf and checking her emails.
Someone should write a fapfic about that.
>decaf
After reading that disgruntled bot reprogramming all the coffee machines to only put out decaf I wasn't expecting it to be a running gag all the way to the end
It's great in how stupid it is.
All the stages that dont have a hideout segment before it have this kind of dialouge about fricking with continuity. First time the inbetween segment of korsica's stage and everyone questions how you already broke out.
10 more days till the marketing budget runs out
Cope. Seethe. Dilate.
you'll be shilling some new game in ten days rajesh. I'm sure it'll be about rivalry with snoys or not letting the SJWs win or whatever.
Cope. Seethe. Dilate.
>he cant tell when Ganker genuinely enjoys a game
fricking tourist
I love this boss fight so much, it helps that best girl is the subject.
Good work with these so far Anon, if you are the same one who did this one
Chai is such a fun protagonist. I want him in Smash, even though its never happening
I liked No Straight Roads, will I like this?
Yes, especially if you enjoyed parrying in nsr and wanted more of that.
I loved parrying in NSR, Guess Ill buy this and try it out.
Refreshing to play a game from one of the big 2 that just wants to be fun first that came out on a console that isn’t Nintendo
It's been so long since I've seen this meme get restyled.
So we're in agreement that Kale 3 is up there with the ranks of Virgil 3 and Armstrong (Sam), right?
>the generic 4 times (x) combo is one of the strongest combos
Did they even balance it?
It's only strong because it comes out in 4 beats with a hitbox on each beat rather than having a Heavy leave you open for a beat. The Beat Hit is good but there's better ones to use, and if you want an Assist BH fast just use Quick BH.
This honestly was the best shot in the game for me, idk why but im a sucker for these kinda moments
Their mix of Perfect Drug was kinda weird, I really liked that song. They should add a mode where you can pick and choose between the licensed and custom songs. Too Big To Fail is better than the NIN song, Joy Formidable is better than the custom song and so on
Replaying the first level again, the city reveal was pretty good too. The game has a lot of cool shots like this
You know what? I'm glad that the future doesn't look like a complete dystopia in this game.
same everything being more "advanced" but the suns still out and people still smile feels nice
Kale's plan isn't even flat-out evil. Dude didn't want to spend time having to study marketing trends, and just wanted to brainwash people to buy whatever products that they pumped out.
Kale was just lazy.
Vanderlay has a great marketing team
I think that’s why the game resonated so much with a lot of people, it’s not misery porn everything is cynical. Like Neil saying TLOU is about love, ffs, what a depressing way to look at love. And then you have this game, where Chai is thinking about his friends trying to find the frequency. Cringey, sure, but charming af too. Sometimes you just want to see the good guys win and that’s it
!ALERT!
Ammount of rule 34 search results for "hi-fi rush" increased.
About frickin time
Man, if I wasn't playing on Steam Deck, I'd take the time to record some of Chai's thoughts without the music to make a decent AI model of his speech patterns and have him say dumb stuff.
Or, even better, speak with whats-her-face from Flopspoken.
It's already over anon, they locked it down
to late homie pour one out its dead
The best thing to come outta this.
>Zanzo says GO GO GO!
>the funny Jojo Kanji appears
>the sound effect they imply is generally translated as "gogogo"