I'm a really big fan of weird experiment-type games where a bunch of psychos decided to randomly smash two genres together and work their asses off to make it fun, so the fact Hi-Fi managed to pull that off while being funny and having multiple different genres of music in its soundtrack (some of which was made by Nine Inch Nails, for Christs' sake) means it was basically destined to be loved by me as soon as I got around to it.

It's astounding just how deeply they cared about mixing in the combat of a spectacle fighter and a rhythm game to the point every small detail encourages even just moving around the levels to the beat, let alone using every skill and technique you have to make awesome combos and dedicate a good portion of your brain matter just to memorizing the perfect ways to deal with enemies. It was, however, kind of annoying to deal with enemies because the game arbitrarily locked the whole mechanic of parrying behind the halfway mark of the main story.

Everything about this game is just pure passion and fun and, outside of just a tiny bit of jank and odd decisions, it's worth playing regardless if you're a spectacle fighter fan or a rhythm game fan; it's just a good time all around for everybody.