Summary
I have a confession to make, one as embarrassing as it is alienating.
Is it not just sadder that the studio was making this game in the first place?
That is what makes this an embarrassing confession.
Hi-Fi Rush, from Ghostwire: Tokyo developers Tango Gameworks, is a 2023 action game that focuses on rhythm as a core gameplay mechanic. As Chai, you must take on the nefarious megacorp that created your cybernetic arm.
But when layoffs happen every week, how do you not become numb to it?
If I allowed myself to be concerned every time strangers were fired I’d never know a moments peace.
I say the right things about how much it sucks, but do I actually care?
AfterXbox’slatest move, I think I finally do.
Executives, on the other hand, are people.
It’s sad to see Arkane Austin end like this afterPrey.
Hi-Fi Rush, from Ghostwire: Tokyo developers Tango Gameworks, is a 2023 action game that focuses on rhythm as a core gameplay mechanic. As Chai, you must take on the nefarious megacorp that created your cybernetic arm.
But it’s not that unusual.
Again, on an academic level, I think that’s a bad way to operate.
It will lead to worse, staler games.
I feel bad for feeling this way, but that doesn’t change the fact that I do.
These are expected turns of events.
It was shadowdropped and became one of the breakout hits of 2023,that year to end all years.
Hi-Fi Rush was the future.
It did everything it could have possibly done to represent the Xbox name and did it with style.
It was not the haggard zombie of a live-service age slowly dying, but a dawn of something new.
There was always a little bit of superiority in my shrugging.
An arrogant sense that I was not so optimistic or naive to be blindsided by layoffs.
But in the wake of Hi-Fi Rush, I see how foolish I was.
This is not a studio that overreached or chased trends or played it safe.
What is the point of all this?
At least there was something of a decisive executive outlook in the other executions.
What do you learn from Hi-Fi Rush?
Stop making original things, but also, as the other layoffs teach us, stop chasing trends.
So, do nothing?
Know that no matter what you do youll be out of a job in a year?
My lesson is to stop shrugging and taking these layoffs for granted.
If they can happen to Hi-Fi Rush, they can happen to anyone.
And if they can happen to anyone, they shouldnt be happening at all.
As Chai, you must take on the nefarious megacorp that created your cybernetic arm.
