History Awesome / HiFiRush

---> " [...], we've begun accepting preorders for the humorously themed 'I survived [[TheDreaded the Project Armstrong Defect]] Fiasco' hoodies. They will be available in white nimbus colorway with the text in a font called Tangolian Rail. [[GoYeHeroesGoAndDie They will be individually numbered for any surviving employees]]."

--> '''Chai:''' I don't need a guitar. I ''am'' a rockstar.

--> '''CNMN:''' Was I "Dope", Mister Chai?
--> '''Chai:''' That was ''very'' dope, CNMN.

---> '''Macaron:''' You've ruined this company enough!
---> '''Korsica:''' Can't believe I looked up to you!
---> '''Peppermint:''' This isn't just about Vandelay. It's about FAMILY.
---> '''Chai:''' And this... is Game Over!

--> Chai: I don't need a guitar. I ''am'' a rockstar.

** But wait, there's more! With one arm missing, the Zanzo-bot is still going strong. Then, of all people, CNMN rushes over to the arm cannon and ''integrates into the cannon'', and you get to play as him while he does so. After spending the entire level trying his best to help, CNMN gets his time to ''shine''. The entire team helps CNMN lift up the arm cannon to aim, followed by one last beat section for the level. Right as he's about to put in the final charge, CNMN pulls out his marker, and draws a real ''GameFace''. That final blast ''atomizes'' the giant robot, and the sheer recoil renders CNMN [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Bot He Used To Be]]. But CNMN got his wish: he finally got to really help the gang.

** The final phase of this fight literally takes place in a vault [[PooledFunds full of money]], which Roquefort takes advantage of, diving in and out of the gold coins to attack Chai. Chai can outsmart him by having him bite iron, then wail on him. In the end, Roquefort doesn't run away like in the previous two phases, instead trying to blow Chai away. However, Korsica assists Chai and blows the winds back, then Chai finishes him off.

* At the end of the level, the audience, who had been cheering for Mimosa in the beginning, starts cheering for Chai instead. For a guy who wants aspires to be a rockstar, this must be a dream come true for him. And once Chai wins, he turns Mimosa into a spectacular firework.

* After defunding the R&D department, quickly defeating Zanzo, and then getting his password key for SPECTRA, the gang makes their escape after a brief encounter with Kale and Korsica. The rest of the Track is an exciting big chase and battle scene (set to ''Inazawa Chainsaw'' by ''Music/NumberGirl'') where Korsica is ordered to go after Chai with robots and lasers. Korsica gets a moment for capturing Chai after he had just beaten Zanzo in ''a single hit'', while Chai himself gets a moment because he ensured everyone but him escapes.

* Creator/TangoGameworks themselves went above and beyond to make sure that almost everything, from the actions of characters in and out of battle, to the sound effects, cutscenes and even the controller's rumble feature, is in-sync with the music; even the artists and animators of some of the 2d animated cutscenes had to work hard to accomplish this.

** The final phase of this fight literally takes place in a vault [[PooledFunds full of money]], which Roquefort takes advantage of, diving in and out of the gold coins to attack Chai. Chai can outsmart him by having him bite iron, then wail on him. In the end, Roquefort doesn't run away like in the previous two faces, instead he tries to blow Chai away. However, Korsica assists Chai and blows the winds back, then Chai finishes him off.

* After escaping from Kale's trap (which is already an awesome moment), Chai and the gang jump out of a window, dramatically PowerWalk toward the camera, and set off to stop Kale, all while ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGTcNNVufmg Whirring]]'' by ''The Joy Formidable'' plays in the background. As Kale and his minions block ways for Chai, his friends open up new ones constantly.

--> " [...], we've begun accepting preorders for the humorously themed 'I survived [[TheDreaded the Project Armstrong Defect]] Fiasco' hoodies. They will be available in white nimbus colorway with the text in a font called Tangolian Rail. [[GoYeHeroesGoAndDie They will be individually numbered for any surviving employees]]."

* You can totally parry a volcano if you want to. In fact, there's two in-game achievements tied to this.

** Should Rekka grab Chai with a telegraphed grapple, she will fling him skyward, use the brief window to fix her hairstyle, then leap up, grabbing Chai by the neck and leg before using her downward plummet to inflict a ''damaging'' spiinebreaker on him that takes off a chunk of Chai's health, leaving him writhing in pain on the floor as a bell rings and Rekka triumphantly poses. Painful, but proof that Chai's not the only one who can use style in a fight. Chai himself deserves props for being able to recover from an attack that should have paralysed him and keep fighting anyway.

** Another awesome part of Chai begins even before the game starts: how he deals with a DreamCrushingHandicap. It's been [[WordOfGod confirmed]] that Chai was disabled prior to the start of the game, but he had never let it define him, even as the game progresses. He remains positive and never once had given up on his dream despite his arm, even after he finds out that his arm was meant for 'garbage collecting'. Now ''that'' is an inspiration.

** Getting this score also has an audience cheering on Chai by chanting his name!

* Kale does not play around. He instantly brainwashes Chai and separates him from the other heroes. When 808 still tries to fight back, Kale attempts to set him on fire. He might not be as great as his mother, but he is not an idiot at all.

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* The capture and escape. First, Kale shows why he is in charge by distracting everyone with his brainwashing mother and then capturing them in a seemingly inescapable wall. However, with moral support of his friends, Chai has a moment of ''brilliance'' as he discovers the nearly inescapable trap can be broken through if Chai follows the same rhythm as it. As he finally breaks through, he says this beautiful line.

* After escaping from Kale's trap (which is already an awesome moment), Chai and the gang jump out of a window, dramatically PowerWalk toward the camera, and set off to stop Kale, all while ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGTcNNVufmg Whirring]]'' by ''The Joy Formidable'' plays in the background.

** But wait, there's more! With one arm missing, the Zanzo-bot is still going strong. Then, of all people, CNMN rushes over to the arm cannon and ''integrates into the cannon''. After spending the entire level trying his best to help, CNMN gets his time to ''shine''. The entire team helps CNMN lift up the arm cannon to aim, followed by one last beat section for the level. Right as he's about to put in the final charge, CNMN pulls out his marker, and draws a real ''GameFace''. That final blast ''atomizes'' the giant robot, and the sheer recoil renders CNMN [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Bot He Used To Be]]. But CNMN got his wish: he finally got to really help the gang.

--> Chai: I don't need a guitar. I am already a rockstar.

--> '''CNMN:''' ''(HalfTheManHeUsedToBe)'' Was I "Dope", Mister Chai?
--> '''Chai:''' That was VERY dope, CNMN.

** The game itself being shadow dropped (announced only a few hours before its release) and almost instantly rocketing into the top ten top sellers on Steam.

* Mimosa's fight is a performance spectacle, involving dance moves and performance gimmicks. How does she fight? The dress that she's been wearing this whole time turns into ''a pair of wings'' she can fly around with, as well as armor that can withstand brute force. She also can darken the surroundings and create barriers that have to be disabled by Peppermint ''and'' Macaroon.

** The final phase of this fight literally takes place in a vault [[PooledFunds full of money]], which Roquefort takes advantage of, diving in and out of the gold coins to attack Chai.

* Not to be outdone, Kale pulls out one more ace up his sleeve: Remember that giant robot Zanzo was going to sick on you before he was defunded? Yeah, ''[[ChekhovsGunman it's back]]'', fully finished, and it lives up to the hype. Chai and co. can only ''run''.
* After a while running, Korsica knocks a bunch of construction stuff onto the robot's cannon arm, exposing a weak point. Chai eventually gets beneath it, uses a Jump Pad to rise up to the arm and ''hack it clean off!''

* The final battle against Kale definitely is a spectacle, set to ''The Perfect Drug'' by ''Music/NineInchNails''. Between fighting on top of a tower with a thunderstorm raging above, it's technically a just a 1v1 against a suited up Kale (though his friends are still needed to break through his defenses). Between blocking lasers and lightning, this is definitely one of the greatest final bosses of all time.
** In the final rhythm game portion of Kale's fight, ''everyone'' gets a chance to beat down Kale together in a crazy awesome sequence of hits, paying him back for all the grievances he's caused.

* Getting an S Rank during a fight is awesome, but getting ''all'' S rank in a fight ''and'' keeping your combo throughout the entire fight gives you an 'S Star'.

* Chai dressing up as a shark for a disguise, which was something he made up on the spot. Looks like his smarter allies started changing him for the better.
* Mimosa's fight is a performance spectacle, involving dance moves and performance gimmicks. How does she fight? The dress that she's been wearing this whole time turns into ''a pair of wings'' she can fly around with.
** In one of the phases of her fight, she and Chai literally have a [[DanceOff dance off]], with Chai on his makeshift guitar.
* At the end of the level, the audience, who had been cheering for Mimosa in the beginning, starts cheering for Chai instead. For a guy who wants aspires to be a rockstar, this must be a dream come true for him.

* The fact that Roquefort turns into a ''GIANT CYBORG WEREWOLF''. And what a boss fight it is, with a stellar remix of Wolfgang's Symphony playing in the background, parrying feels ''epic'' in this battle.

* When the security bots catch up to Chai, an action-packed two-minute cutscene has Peppermint and Macaron help him clear the L.I.F.T. area of them before starting it up. As usual, the action and attacks sync with the Track's music.