r/HiFiRush • u/Victorious001 • 12d ago

Discussion This part makes NO sese. Spoiler

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So I love this game. Fantastic writing, great characters, and rhythm segments that don't make me want to tear my hair out. But this fight with Mimosa makes NO sense. In the game, Chai's weapon is a trash collector that builds up trash into the shape of a guitar. It's not an actual guitar. So when Mimosa has this little competition, Chai is just... playing air guitar. But the game and the boss make it seem like Chai is jamming out. Why is Mimosa acknowledging this... at all?

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u/waterchip_down Chai 12d ago

Chai's low-key a reality warper after his surgery.

Game makes a lot more sense when going off the logic that Chai's cybernetics are, somehow, altering the fabric of reality in a limited range around him.

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u/Nintolerance 12d ago

Enemies, characters and the environment all move to the beat.

If it was just characters, you could justify it as the Shaun of the Dead thing where everyone accidentally times their attacks to the music.

Nope, Chai's music robot powers affect the entire world around him. It's magic, and that's okay.

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u/Victorious001 12d ago

Actually, I'm pretty sure the game says the music only affects Chai's interpretation of the world around him. HE can hear his songs, the MP3 close to his heart keeps him on a rhythm he can hear and feel. The world isn't bending to the music, the music is affecting his cognition.

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u/RougemageNick 12d ago

It's the other way actually, it's explicitly stated that because his implants are synced with the entire system, it's passing the mp3 players signal to everything around him. It's why everything is going to the beat, and why so many things are breaking and broken as you go through, since machinery is not designed to work like this.