A fellow Xbox gamepass User IT seems.

Nope, I'm just someone who waits for sales and has a bit of an indie streak.

This was after my First playthrough. Now, with George putting out his video, im back in. My god, its marvellous.

I see we follow similar creators! I only just picked Pentiment up last week -- Jacob Geller's recent 2023 video is what originally put Pentiment on my radar and then George's video gave me that final push into playing it for myself. I'm extremely glad for having done so because Pentiment has quickly become quite special to me. I already look forward to making subsequent playthroughs despite still working on the first.

Hifi Rush was great, but felt too formulaic for me, so i abandoned it after the first or second Boss. Too much running arpund, No real banger music between Bosses.

I can see where you're coming from. From a macro perspective, the game's essentially just a series of battle arenas stitched together by corridors and platforming challenges... nothing incredible there. What makes Hi-Fi Rush special for me is the novel fusion of rythm mechanics and spectacle fighter mechanics -- they complement each other extremely well. (Forgive me for explaining at you like this. I just can't help myself when it comes to talking about this game)

Normally, I can't stand DMC-likes because of the requisite rote memorization. HFR flips this dynamic on its head by making the memorization incidental -- it happens naturally as you practice playing the combo on-rythm. Perhaps even more importantly; just as mastery of a combo string comes within reach, the underlying musical qualities all suddenly spring into focus and turn the sequence into a musical phrase. It clicks together in a very intrinsically satisfying way IMO. Naturally, this all compounds in on itself and gets double-fun once you start improvising your own "melodies" during real combat. You like Jazz? Because it's like Jazz if Jazz killed people.

Now, obviously this isn't going to hit the same way for everyone (nor should it!)... but if you've not yet buckled down in training mode and truly mastered a string or two for yourself, then I would very emphatically encourage you to give the game a second try. I actually had to do the exact same thing myself before I really "got" the game and my mindset shifted. Hi-Fi Rush truly is the Dark Souls of 3rd-Person Action videogames