Hi-Fi Rush is the surprise we all needed | Kaser Focus

This week’s Xbox Developer Direct show was poised to be precisely as boring as I thought it would be — which, to be fair, they did warn me about ahead of time. But then they had to go and shadow-drop one of the most delightful games I’ve seen in a long time right in the middle of the show. Hi-Fi Rush looks like the kind of action game I would love, but I realized just how much I wanted it the instant I got it into my greedy mitts. That’s the best kind of surprise — and now I want more just like it.

Funnily enough, it seemed that the other game to make a big splash this week was an old one: Goldeneye 007, which brought its aging self over to Game Pass and Switch. I tease, but it’s nice to see that an older yet iconic game can be brought to modern consoles without needing a bells-and-whistles remake. Those are nice when we can get them — and I’m going to devour Dead Space when I have the chance — but nobody has the time or money to remake everything.