I didn't have, "control a cartoon cat, fighting a anime corporate villain to the beat of at Nine Inch Nails song" on my 2023 bingo card... but here we are.
I love how real they wrote Kale’s dialogue. He more than others gets interrupted or sidetracked in his words it makes him seem less like a mega villain with all his lines rehearsed. But you know his comments are off the cuff expressions of his mood. He’s witty but just not witty enough. It’s great.
It’s not quite about rehearsal, though your assessment is still accurate; it’s security. Kale is EXTREMELY insecure, and feels the need to justify every single little thing he says and does because he doesn’t have the confidence to let his actions speak for themselves. After all, he was told he wasn’t worthy of Vandelay when Peppermint was poised as next in line. He felt he had to mind control people to get them to reliably buy because he didn’t trust the ideas under his own leadership. This man is PATHETIC AND IT MAKES FOR SUCH A FANTASTIC VILLAIN
Despite his claims otherwise, Kale's plan still ultimately amounts to taking over the world since it involves robbing humanity of their free will in order to ensure complete customer loyalty to Vandelay. All this because he was too lazy to figure out what the customers want.
I mean, I don't blame him for thinking finding what customers want is too hard. Did a course on business startups, and the truth is that 'customers' far from any sort of monolithic buying entity, all want different and often contradictory things, and are essentially impossible to market new products to with any reliable degree of success.
@@sslingo Same with me and Mimosa’s one, oddly enough. Wasn’t paying much attention to the music so I thought it said “fast as, fast as, fast as you can” and I used that to win
"Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to make something people actually want to buy!?" Bro people will buy just about anything. Whether they need it or not. You're just bad.
7:39 someone else pointed this out, but i love how the parries are perfectly with the lyrics ( ik HFR's gimmick is that, but especially here) Strike-dodge-strike-strike-dodge-strike you-are-the-per-fect-drug
Kale feels like an immature angsty teen and its amazing Every time they’re on screen it always makes me giggle even when the scene is supposed to be tense or dramatic
U know what i find crazy? I feel Roquefort was more of a threat than Kale was. Yes, kale was the final boss, but we saw Roque toss Chai around, slammong him through walls and tiring him out.
@@chriss.249 Roquefort felt like he cared more for the company (mainly because of the money) and he was the only boss where Chai was terrified of fighting at first and the one where he needed direct help from one of his friends to beat (you could say other bosses also made chai be forced to work in a team but with Roquefort it felt like he was useless alone)
Tbh, I love the musical connection with both the first and last boss having a Nine Inch Nails song. Really made Kale feel that much more fitting as the final boss
It was pretty disappointing that none of the other boss tracks were that good though. Also how the fuck do you license two NIN tracks for boss battles and you don't use Hand That Feeds OR Head Like A Hole both of them even have lyrics that fit the story BRUH
I just realized that at the end, when we do a combo move with each of our team, we are actually following the same rules as the enemies for their telegraphed multiattacks. We first input the intent, then after a few beats the intent is played out exactly how we telegraphed it.
Not only that, but Chai lets all his friends hit the heavy attacks while he hits the light ones, which signifies that he has realized that it’s not always about being in the spotlight, and is willing to let others take the lead. Or, he realizes that this fight means a whole lot more for the others, and is willing to let them get the best hits on Kale.
I had no idea that The Perfect Drug was gonna be the boss theme, but as soon as it kicked in, it put me in the zone. This game was very good with a very satisfying end. I can’t believe they just dropped that shit on Game Pass out of nowhere! I know it’s a shorter game, but it’s challenging and fun and I’m in my 40’s now. I need shorter games. 😂
Sumn i never understood was how the characters are ok with murder. Heck Pepermint and roxanne were ok with killing Kale. Isnt that family? Theres also no fallout from the fact that many of the lead staff at vandaley are dead and not managing their respective areas. As trash as they were they did keep the company going. U would think chai would be facing life in jail for murder, with the homies doing hard time too on account of being accomplices. Then again ive watched so many crime shows thats where my mind goes😂
@@chriss.249 I'll put a few arguments as to why nobody really bats an eye. 1. Armstrong Defects are to be utilized, read, killed by incineration and recycled. - It could be argued Chai was defending his own life, even if the contract says they have the right to basically kill him for the defect. 2. When Kale has no use of someone, he gets rid of them. Korsica is the perfect example. She learned too much, he fired her and attempted to kill her. 3. When Zanzo made his laser bots, he implemented a self destruct for when they fail dramatically. With all that in mind, I don't think Chai and his friends are directly killing anyone, the explosions being caused by a potential self destruct implemented into the robotic augmentations each of the bosses had. The only exception being Roquefort who died by being careless and not realizing he was standing underneath a money chute.
I love how he throws out that word so casually. The kind of word most people stop using after they graduate high school. It really shows the type of villain that he is
Ehhhh. Disagreed. when the music kicked in with the amped up chorus the bad guy was talking and the music was low. Pretty horribly done actually. You don't turn the volume down when the beat drops.
@@crushingit5128 Well if you think about it your playing as 808 in that part; she doesn't listen for beats to move or attack, But once you start playing as chai again, the syncs (and beats) show up again which is a pretty neat detail in my opinion.
@@crushingit5128 it's called *ahem* "Adaptive Music", as someone else said, the music adapts to 808s "style" because they dont follow beats, because they don't need to, Chai on the other hand, does. So as soon as chai is playable, the music adapts to his style.
All these comparisons to Armstrong when Kale seems more like Sundowner. Red and black attire, cares about profits and markets more than anything, battles you on a rooftop, deploys shields you have to break...
Hilariously, Kale doesn't care about markets at all. That's the whole point of SPECTRA: all profits with none of the actual hard work, which is market research. He's super lazy.
It's hard to pinpoint a specific favourite moment in HFR but 00:24 - 00:40 is easily up there. Kale's "That's the point..." line, the 808 combo and Peppermint's reaction (Erica Lindbeck killed it)...*Chef's Kiss*
I think one of the biggest reasons I like this fight so much is that controlling 808 comes out of left field. It gives serious Kingdom Hearts 2 vibes when you first get to control King Mickey. Gives you this rush of hope in spite of being in a losing situation. Then every bit of Kale being an asshole with an ego complex is the cherry on the cake, making the moments you beat up on him with Chai that more satisfying.
@@elijahshanklin2k10 I was thinking about it for a bit and I’m pretty sure Chai kills more bosses here than Dante does in DMC3 considering most of them turn into weapons in that game 😂
I feel like the bosses blowing up is a reference to Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Everytime Scott beat one of the Bosses (Or if we go by the film, one of the seven evil Ex's), they expload into Quarters I could be looking too far into it but Scott Pilgrims Music tie in battles and this games Music tie in battles and bosses exploding in both
you can really speed up the arms phase by just bouncing off him by hitting him with lights 3 times to make him counter, then you parry that and he goes into one of his three breakable arm moves
Whenever Kale did that "I HAVE THE POWERRRRR!" lightning field, It felt satisfying everytime I heard it with this music. Even if he was kicking my ass.
I love the attention to detail of Chai briefly losing his music powers and the cutscene suddenly isn't in sync with any of the beats until his heart kickstarts again.
Fun fact: Kale's voice actor is Roger Craig Smith and he is famously for voice acting Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio Auditore in Assassin's Creed, and Captain America in several Marvel project
When I first found out that The Perfect Drug was the final boss song of this game (unless Streamer Mode is on), I got so nostalgic since I listened to a lot of NIN through Rock Band. To any new fans who discovered NIN's music through this game, welcome aboard!
everybody is talking about kale as a character which he is amazing but nobody is talking about the remix version of the perfect drug for his boss theme its such a fucking bop and it also perfectly complements kales edgy personality
If Nine Inch Nails ever performed this song or 1,000,000 live at a concert in the future, I hope to God that some people would chant “CHAI!” during the chorus’s.
You'd be surprised how likely that could be in today's culture. I was at a Slipknot concert just before the pandemic and an NXT chant broke out when they played All Out Life. "Nerd culture" is now "pop culture."
very glad his hands make a clanking sound when he snaps, it annoys me so much when gloved characters and such snap and it sounds like a normal hand lol
Yoo, this episode of Spider-Man vs Sonic boutta be insane🗣🔥, Basically Chai has the same voice actor as Spider-Man and Kale has the same voice actor as Sonic
You know for someone who is lazy in working in marketing and chooses to control others into buying Armstrong products while he sits back, Kale's an adept fighter. He knows his techniques and seems to work with his suit more so than him letting it do all the work for him. He's pretty dangerous by that logic.
I went back to beat Kale on very hard mode once again to have a higher rank than a D. I died only two times and have an A rank. It's soo better than having a D on the final boss.
@@yeetbro7254 right on. I’m just trying to finish some achievements, the play through on all the other difficulties. I’m hoping my next couple rounds with Kale will be easier, now knowing how to get through it. The first two phases were great. Then the third phase stepped in… I got wrecked most of my deaths on that last part. Lasers, fire beams, god sword! Glad to know it’s possible to do better! Cheers
Frankly I think this game goes off the Scott pilgrim rules where the villains wake up in their beds and realize that being evil is dumb, because funny, and these guys are way too casual about the murdering
I played this fight on very hard the first time. It took me sevaral hours and was the most rewarding thing ive ever done in a videogame. I hope hifi rush is just the first of a slew of games like this Guitar hero god of war. We can call them Rush-likes
@@LegitimatelyJustTasha im talking about making the rythm the main selling point for a genre. I could care less about all the cookie cutter action games that are already out there. But this one really stands out as its own thing to me.
I just opened the game and tried it, unfortunately it just shows Chai’s game over screen. To be fair, if 808 were to fail it would be a game over for both of them, so it’s still kinda fitting.
Fun fact: I had a friend accidentally click on this vid despite him not knowing what the hell the game was. I described it as Sonic the Hedgehog being beaten up by Hubert and Celica from Fire Emblem, someone that basically sounded like Morag from Xenoblade, an accomplished singer and a cat, and his reaction was a perfectly sensible "...Yeah, that checks out" Video games are quite the perfect drug, with perfect brain damage to go with it. I now believe this more than ever.
![Hi-Fi Rush - All Bosses + Ending [Rhythm Master] [No Damage]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ae7m5dsGJps/mqdefault.jpg)
![Hi-Fi Rush - All Bosses + Ending [Rhythm Master] [No Damage]](/img/tr.png)
![HI-FI RUSH - Roquefort Full Bossfight [Streamer Mode Off]](/img/n.gif)
He took off his coat to put on another coat. It's so goofy, yet so badass.
Literally sounds like something handsome Jack would do in boarderlands
@Ritvik Mishra he gives handsome jack vibes
Ye0
Jack and kale with suits full of cash
Jack: kale.
Kale: jack.
(Chai casually just picking money off the floor)
man just put his battle coat on
I tried using the cat cute stun and he just SHRUGS it off by saying he's a dog person. 10/10 game
Based!
Is there a video I can see this on?
@@vincenthawthorne9360 I don't know the exact timestamp but it happens in the final Pat Stares At Hi-Fi Rush stream.
@@vincenthawthorne9360 www.twitch.tv/patstaresat/clip/CharmingUninterestedSwanTBTacoRight-PLUPvK5q8KAozKMS?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
@@Leet-iz2fz 59:35 in his Finale. Just went and found it myself cause I couldn't believe it lol
Man straight up rage-quit his own Boss Fight once he realized he was going to lose. Absolute Legend.
I didn't have, "control a cartoon cat, fighting a anime corporate villain to the beat of at Nine Inch Nails song" on my 2023 bingo card... but here we are.
Right at the start of the year too
"This is just too much work" *becomes a nuclear bomb*
Just like Wild Dog does after you defeat him in Time Crisis.
killed himself just to spite them, what a dick
Unfathomably based
@@enisx9585 had to look that up, good to know.
@@enisx9585 Yeah but somehow, he's still alive! XD. Watch Time Crisis 6 comes out, and here he comes back lol
Kale: You think I can't deal with a cat?
Narrator: It turned out that he could not deal with a cat...
808: DON'T UNDERESTIMATE MY SIZE, FOOLISH HUMAN!
no one can deal with cats, cats deal with you
Famous last words
I love how real they wrote Kale’s dialogue. He more than others gets interrupted or sidetracked in his words it makes him seem less like a mega villain with all his lines rehearsed. But you know his comments are off the cuff expressions of his mood. He’s witty but just not witty enough. It’s great.
It’s not quite about rehearsal, though your assessment is still accurate; it’s security. Kale is EXTREMELY insecure, and feels the need to justify every single little thing he says and does because he doesn’t have the confidence to let his actions speak for themselves. After all, he was told he wasn’t worthy of Vandelay when Peppermint was poised as next in line. He felt he had to mind control people to get them to reliably buy because he didn’t trust the ideas under his own leadership.
This man is PATHETIC AND IT MAKES FOR SUCH A FANTASTIC VILLAIN
Kudos to Roger Craig Smith. Even as Sonic's voice actor of over a decade, he's got style when he's playing a villain.
@@user-vy9ml5vw9j wait that's roger craig smith? I barely ever hear his voice go that low.
@@mrpixelcactus6810 He has before. Remember how Sonic's tone was more serious in Frontiers?
@@user-vy9ml5vw9j even as a Sonic fan, i still hear him more as Ezio Auditore, just without the italian accent.
Despite his claims otherwise, Kale's plan still ultimately amounts to taking over the world since it involves robbing humanity of their free will in order to ensure complete customer loyalty to Vandelay. All this because he was too lazy to figure out what the customers want.
Yeah, what a major dirtbag Kale is.
Yep
Like..its so..corporate
Corporates in a nutshell
I mean, I don't blame him for thinking finding what customers want is too hard. Did a course on business startups, and the truth is that 'customers' far from any sort of monolithic buying entity, all want different and often contradictory things, and are essentially impossible to market new products to with any reliable degree of success.
Here's one thing about Kale we can all agree on.
He's got the Drip.
Idk, felt more like of a pathetic Vergil cosplayer to me in the end 😅
i love this game but kale is an even gayer homophobic homosexual sephiroth.
@@digitaldevil696 Nah, Doc Ock LARPer with a lightsaber.
This is how we know the devs had a good time playing the game
@@kaiyote7924 how tf dis nigga can be homophobic and gae at the same time?
I love nothing more than the fact someone said: Yes, Perfect Drug is the final boss theme. Yes, the battle begins as a fucking cat.
Of all the amazing little details, the final parry/dodge sequence being in time with the "You / are / the-per / fect / drug" is my favourite
Holy crap I never noticed that!
It even works with In a Blink “I’ll/give/you/what/you/want”
that's how i was able to time it lmao
@@sslingo Same with me and Mimosa’s one, oddly enough. Wasn’t paying much attention to the music so I thought it said “fast as, fast as, fast as you can” and I used that to win
I like how his fight form is just to become more fabulous
takes off his suit just to put on another suit
Bro was dante/vergil with sonics voice.
Loved this boss fight 👏🏿
@@elijahshanklin2k10 He reminded me of Corey Cruise,which was funny i guess
When he powers up with the lightning, it pops his collar for him
@@josephfox7068 then takes off his suit again
If this isn't the most worse case of "canonical skill issue" out there, I dunno what is.
mans got the most advanced tech and gets beaten by boy with screw guitar
"Do you have ANY idea how hard it is to make something people actually want to buy!?" Bro people will buy just about anything. Whether they need it or not. You're just bad.
Man's got the most advanced technology in the world and he loses to a cat and a boy with a garbage collection stick covered in metal
@@pef_v6107 Hey he also loses to the trio of gun, punch, and spinny
@@rheawelsh4142 my favorite variation of RPS
I love how 808 was ready to throw tf down
"You betrayed my favorite human. Then tried to control my second favorite human. Prepare to die"
Bro fkn squared up, I love it
7:39
someone else pointed this out, but i love how the parries are perfectly with the lyrics ( ik HFR's gimmick is that, but especially here)
Strike-dodge-strike-strike-dodge-strike
you-are-the-per-fect-drug
It also fits with the chorus of In A Blink (Which is the Streamer mode song for this boss fight) -I'll-give-you what - you - want.
Kale feels like an immature angsty teen and its amazing
Every time they’re on screen it always makes me giggle even when the scene is supposed to be tense or dramatic
He's just a singular guy, dude
@@CapnShades yeah and the singular guy is funny
funnily enough, Kale is voiced by Roger Craig Smith, aka the voice of Sonic currently
U know what i find crazy?
I feel Roquefort was more of a threat than Kale was.
Yes, kale was the final boss, but we saw Roque toss Chai around, slammong him through walls and tiring him out.
@@chriss.249 Roquefort felt like he cared more for the company (mainly because of the money) and he was the only boss where Chai was terrified of fighting at first and the one where he needed direct help from one of his friends to beat (you could say other bosses also made chai be forced to work in a team but with Roquefort it felt like he was useless alone)
Tbh, I love the musical connection with both the first and last boss having a Nine Inch Nails song. Really made Kale feel that much more fitting as the final boss
It was pretty disappointing that none of the other boss tracks were that good though. Also how the fuck do you license two NIN tracks for boss battles and you don't use Hand That Feeds OR Head Like A Hole both of them even have lyrics that fit the story BRUH
@@aortaplatinum tbh those tracks don't fit the game
@@genesi544ig Everything fits better?
Mimosa bossfight had Fast As You Can by Fiona Apple which is pretty fitting in my opinion. @aortaplatinum
I just realized that at the end, when we do a combo move with each of our team, we are actually following the same rules as the enemies for their telegraphed multiattacks. We first input the intent, then after a few beats the intent is played out exactly how we telegraphed it.
kale just don't got rhythm
I like that they did it that way at the end so i could actually enjoy the action without staring at the music bar lol
Not only that, but Chai lets all his friends hit the heavy attacks while he hits the light ones, which signifies that he has realized that it’s not always about being in the spotlight, and is willing to let others take the lead.
Or, he realizes that this fight means a whole lot more for the others, and is willing to let them get the best hits on Kale.
One thing all Hi-Fi Rush players will forever remember is "Oh yes. We will."
It's so hilarious in this video. Kale being smug about his 4 arms but then a guy with a guitar broke them all in less than 15 minutes.
I love how casual everyone is about killing Kale
they’ve never really think about how they turn everyone into fucking dust at the end of the fights.
Personally I think it’s Scott pilgrim rules, where they wake up in their beds and realize that being evil is dumb
@@Moth-man Wait, that happens in the comic?
Cool
Especially Peppermint since Kale is her brother lol
I had no idea that The Perfect Drug was gonna be the boss theme, but as soon as it kicked in, it put me in the zone. This game was very good with a very satisfying end. I can’t believe they just dropped that shit on Game Pass out of nowhere! I know it’s a shorter game, but it’s challenging and fun and I’m in my 40’s now. I need shorter games. 😂
Sumn i never understood was how the characters are ok with murder.
Heck Pepermint and roxanne were ok with killing Kale. Isnt that family?
Theres also no fallout from the fact that many of the lead staff at vandaley are dead and not managing their respective areas. As trash as they were they did keep the company going.
U would think chai would be facing life in jail for murder, with the homies doing hard time too on account of being accomplices.
Then again ive watched so many crime shows thats where my mind goes😂
@@chriss.249 in chai’s defense they did try to kill him first
First great game Microsoft has gotten out of buying Zenimax
@@chriss.249 I'll put a few arguments as to why nobody really bats an eye.
1. Armstrong Defects are to be utilized, read, killed by incineration and recycled. - It could be argued Chai was defending his own life, even if the contract says they have the right to basically kill him for the defect.
2. When Kale has no use of someone, he gets rid of them. Korsica is the perfect example. She learned too much, he fired her and attempted to kill her.
3. When Zanzo made his laser bots, he implemented a self destruct for when they fail dramatically.
With all that in mind, I don't think Chai and his friends are directly killing anyone, the explosions being caused by a potential self destruct implemented into the robotic augmentations each of the bosses had. The only exception being Roquefort who died by being careless and not realizing he was standing underneath a money chute.
I love how 808 just squares up
She is still synchronized to chai
And that makes them both fighters
His facial animation at 8:29 is just so good
Bullies and popular kids be liked:
I love how he throws out that word so casually. The kind of word most people stop using after they graduate high school. It really shows the type of villain that he is
I'm dying 😂😂😂 Smith's delivery of the line is phenomenal
Man you feel that shit as Chai summons the guitar while Trent screams "as I want you"
I'm sent that he throws off his coat, just to grow another coat, which he proceeds to throw off again.
You know you are screwed up when Chai whips out the real guitar
This guy has the best last words before death ever, it summarize him so well
funny number of likes
1:18 I get that this game is designed around this but the music sync is so cool.
Ehhhh. Disagreed. when the music kicked in with the amped up chorus the bad guy was talking and the music was low. Pretty horribly done actually. You don't turn the volume down when the beat drops.
@@crushingit5128 Well if you think about it your playing as 808 in that part; she doesn't listen for beats to move or attack, But once you start playing as chai again, the syncs (and beats) show up again which is a pretty neat detail in my opinion.
@@crushingit5128 it's called *ahem* "Adaptive Music", as someone else said, the music adapts to 808s "style" because they dont follow beats, because they don't need to, Chai on the other hand, does. So as soon as chai is playable, the music adapts to his style.
@@crushingit5128Slightly nitpicky, isn’t it?
I personally love the sword at 0:52 in time with the guitar
All these comparisons to Armstrong when Kale seems more like Sundowner. Red and black attire, cares about profits and markets more than anything, battles you on a rooftop, deploys shields you have to break...
Hilariously, Kale doesn't care about markets at all. That's the whole point of SPECTRA: all profits with none of the actual hard work, which is market research. He's super lazy.
NINE INCH NAILS!? THE ONES FROM QUAKE!?
Yep!
Well technically the “one” but yeah :P
@@lednails was about to say this haha, also at the time the Quake OST was made
I recommend checking them out and their other albums, they're solid gold dude.
@star Atticus Ross hasn't been in band from the creation of it so he's right
It's hard to pinpoint a specific favourite moment in HFR but 00:24 - 00:40 is easily up there.
Kale's "That's the point..." line, the 808 combo and Peppermint's reaction (Erica Lindbeck killed it)...*Chef's Kiss*
8:14 Gotta appreciate how even 808 got a final hit
I think one of the biggest reasons I like this fight so much is that controlling 808 comes out of left field. It gives serious Kingdom Hearts 2 vibes when you first get to control King Mickey. Gives you this rush of hope in spite of being in a losing situation. Then every bit of Kale being an asshole with an ego complex is the cherry on the cake, making the moments you beat up on him with Chai that more satisfying.
I still can't get over that he just blows up. Fuck this im out lol Damn near choked on my drink when that happened
It's crazy cuz he just murders most of the bosses lmao
I thought I was going crazy when everyone was so calm when other Humans BLEW THE **** UP
dudes own mother didn't even give a notion of sympathy lol.
@@elijahshanklin2k10 I was thinking about it for a bit and I’m pretty sure Chai kills more bosses here than Dante does in DMC3 considering most of them turn into weapons in that game 😂
SPOILER:
Kale isn’t QUITE dead. Do the SPECTRA rooms
I feel like the bosses blowing up is a reference to Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Everytime Scott beat one of the Bosses (Or if we go by the film, one of the seven evil Ex's), they expload into Quarters
I could be looking too far into it but Scott Pilgrims Music tie in battles and this games Music tie in battles and bosses exploding in both
you can really speed up the arms phase by just bouncing off him by hitting him with lights 3 times to make him counter, then you parry that and he goes into one of his three breakable arm moves
Ah nice. I was wondering if there was a consistent way to speed up that phase.
Ahhh, I didn't know that.
You can also parry his lighting dome attack, it does a lot of stun damage.
You kinda missed the point of this video...
Honestly excited to see how speedrunners deconstruct this game and go crazy with it
Dude i freaked out when NIN started to play! I have not felt so much emotion playing a game before.
This wasn't even the first NIN song in the game
@@hipsterelephant2660 i didn't specify at what part. When I heard 1mill is when i flipped.
@@VonRemnant ah okay lmao
Whenever Kale did that "I HAVE THE POWERRRRR!" lightning field, It felt satisfying everytime I heard it with this music. Even if he was kicking my ass.
Damn, Kale gives some Handsome Jack vibes...
As someone who played thousands of hours of Rock Band drums I popped off _so hard_ when I heard the starting notes of "The Perfect Drug".
"you should see what this body is capable of" * whips out tentacles*
Well... Yeah...
Gumball sitting behind desk: _I think we all know where this is going._
@@pcachu dont give them ideas, its only a matter of time until "that site" reaches the thousands
@@thischannelwasamistake9403 Don’t worry, from what I’ve heard, they’re too busy with… 808?
@@TheManDudewhy the cat?!
Quick tip for the Mech phase, I found out getting Korsica to extinguish the flamethrower arm before it attacks also stuns Kale.
I love the attention to detail of Chai briefly losing his music powers and the cutscene suddenly isn't in sync with any of the beats until his heart kickstarts again.
Since Jet Set Radio no one used adult track for teen game😎
The best usage of NIN's in games since first Quake🤘
808 truly is best cat sidekick you could have
BoB is truly based
"This is just too much work."
*explodes*
Fun fact: Kale's voice actor is Roger Craig Smith and he is famously for voice acting Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio Auditore in Assassin's Creed, and Captain America in several Marvel project
When I first found out that The Perfect Drug was the final boss song of this game (unless Streamer Mode is on), I got so nostalgic since I listened to a lot of NIN through Rock Band.
To any new fans who discovered NIN's music through this game, welcome aboard!
2:21-2:28 this sounds so good
"This is just too much works" Kayle just got struck by a burnout lol
Taking off the coat just to form a second, identical coat is such a flex.
Hi-fi: hey can I copy your handsome jack
Borderlands: sure just make it a lil different
Hifi: say no more
I love that it's canon for Kale to lose to 808 in a duel
"You think I can't deal with a cat?!"
-man who was dealt with by a cat
I’m in love with the art style. It looks amazing
Kale really just turned into a 1970 - 1980's dad "this is just too much work" proceeds to straight up explode
A cool bit of meta-storytelling is that is the only non-original boss song, even his boss music is not his own.
Free radicals (Rekka's theme) is also one made much before the game too unless I misunderstood what you're saying
I never knew I would need Perfect Drug by NIN to be used in a bossfight until now.
It fits way too good.
“This is just too much work.”
*fucking explodes*
0:29 this is why i love kale. He hears a generic thing and gets annoyed by the generic hero thing.
I love how colorful and pop art the game is while they use a sinister song from a masochistic and nihilistic band
They got nine inch nails in this game?! Honestly already was an amazing ass game and this made it better.
everybody is talking about kale as a character which he is amazing but nobody is talking about the remix version of the perfect drug for his boss theme its such a fucking bop and it also perfectly complements kales edgy personality
5:40 this phase wrecked me too many times first go on Hard.
Luckily it took me one continue on my second.
Even on normal mode, it's a tricky fight.
8:29 You got your ass kicked in by a *cat,* Kale. You have no right to talk.
If Nine Inch Nails ever performed this song or 1,000,000 live at a concert in the future, I hope to God that some people would chant “CHAI!” during the chorus’s.
You'd be surprised how likely that could be in today's culture. I was at a Slipknot concert just before the pandemic and an NXT chant broke out when they played All Out Life. "Nerd culture" is now "pop culture."
very glad his hands make a clanking sound when he snaps, it annoys me so much when gloved characters and such snap and it sounds like a normal hand lol
THAT LAST HIBIKI WAS FUCKING METAL
Yoo, this episode of Spider-Man vs Sonic boutta be insane🗣🔥,
Basically Chai has the same voice actor as Spider-Man and Kale has the same voice actor as Sonic
You know for someone who is lazy in working in marketing and chooses to control others into buying Armstrong products while he sits back, Kale's an adept fighter. He knows his techniques and seems to work with his suit more so than him letting it do all the work for him. He's pretty dangerous by that logic.
My man has the SIVA replication complex
I love to see how the culture takes a song and adapts it overtime in different ways, it's really cool
Reminder that this game, not the much-hyped Starfield, was the game that took home a trophy for XBOX at The Game Awards 2023.
Dude the air combos you used on Kale were *_S I C K A S H E L L_*
Bro I died 89 times and it took me two hours to finally beat him on very hard mode
Took me 26 attempts on hard mode so i couldn't imagine beating kale on the harder difficulty
I had to try 12 times yo, but it still felt like an eternity
89…. Weak… took me 121 times! Lol… so glad when I finally beat him!
I went back to beat Kale on very hard mode once again to have a higher rank than a D. I died only two times and have an A rank. It's soo better than having a D on the final boss.
@@yeetbro7254 right on. I’m just trying to finish some achievements, the play through on all the other difficulties. I’m hoping my next couple rounds with Kale will be easier, now knowing how to get through it. The first two phases were great. Then the third phase stepped in… I got wrecked most of my deaths on that last part. Lasers, fire beams, god sword! Glad to know it’s possible to do better! Cheers
Lost Highway is one of my favorite films and it has one of my favorite soundtracks.
I'm happy Perfect Drug ended up here
Frankly I think this game goes off the Scott pilgrim rules where the villains wake up in their beds and realize that being evil is dumb, because funny, and these guys are way too casual about the murdering
such a great song for this amazing final kale boss battle.
8:25 the cat suddenly finding himself in the air is hilarious.
Handsome Jack
Kale: What you think I can't deal with a cat?
Kale at 1:51 : Damn cat's got hands.
Idk why there's a warmind in the back, but man does this game ROCK
Me whenever I see the dishes in the sink 8:56
I just beat the final boss last night, and ngl I shit when
1: 9 inch nails came on 2x
2: I can play as 808
I'm so proud that they enriched the game by using one of the best tracks of NIN
as a nine inch nails who doesnt know anything about this game its so cool seeing the music out in the wild like this
this has to be one of the most frustrating battles i've *ever* done, massive congratulations on that s rank
Love both the skill and showmanship on display, great watch
6:17
everyone in the story: "chai is such a hopeless loser smh"
chai: *parries three orbital cannons in a row*
Chai can survive Smash Bros World of Light
Handsome Jack meets Sundowner
Come on. That's just handsome jack.
Handsome Jack didn’t rock out to NIN. :-)
Butt Stallion says hello
this moment blew up my brain when one of my favourite NIN songs started playing and i was fighting as the robot cat, all in a single moment
Kale is a Tumblr icon and you can't convince me otherwise
I played this fight on very hard the first time. It took me sevaral hours and was the most rewarding thing ive ever done in a videogame. I hope hifi rush is just the first of a slew of games like this
Guitar hero god of war. We can call them Rush-likes
I mean, Hi-Fi Rush is just "Devil May Cry rhythm game".
The main genre for Hi-fi Rush is "Stylish-action game" with the likes of Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, etc.
@@LegitimatelyJustTasha im talking about making the rythm the main selling point for a genre. I could care less about all the cookie cutter action games that are already out there. But this one really stands out as its own thing to me.
@@opticalmoose8091 as i said. Guitar hero god of war lol
@@DoctorPhilGud how about Rhythm-fighters? We honestly need more combat-based rhythm games.
Yo when he takes the sword out after insulting 808 was too good
The kickboxing catbot made my day.
Random (probably heartbreaking) question, does 808 have her own game over screen? You have one for Chai, and for Zanzo, maybe there is one for 808.
I just opened the game and tried it, unfortunately it just shows Chai’s game over screen. To be fair, if 808 were to fail it would be a game over for both of them, so it’s still kinda fitting.
Fun fact: I had a friend accidentally click on this vid despite him not knowing what the hell the game was. I described it as Sonic the Hedgehog being beaten up by Hubert and Celica from Fire Emblem, someone that basically sounded like Morag from Xenoblade, an accomplished singer and a cat, and his reaction was a perfectly sensible "...Yeah, that checks out"
Video games are quite the perfect drug, with perfect brain damage to go with it. I now believe this more than ever.
I mean, you're not wrong.
Such an amazing game
Kale is basically Handsome Jack.
But has less screentime
Wow! That looks so cool. Love it.