Do yourself a favor and play Hi-Fi Rush. It's budget price to begin with and has had some great discounts for a game just a couple months old, or you can just play it on Game Pass.

The combat style isn't up there with the best of the best but you have to reach all the way back to the PS2 era for my absolute favorites. I like this better than the combat of any of the Platinum brawlers, but I've always been a bit of a hater there. And of course the art style and soundtrack are delightful. Hardly a day has gone by that I haven't put the Beacon into my Spotify queue.

The writing is my biggest disappointment. It works well enough but it tries really hard to make you laugh and it mostly just manages a chuckle here and there. CNMN the robot drawing his facial expressions on his head with a sharpie to convey his emotions was probably the consistent source of amusement. The game has such a light-hearted feel-good energy that is hindered a bit by the mid Netflix comedy tier dialogue. Hopefully they can bring a marquee comedy writer in for the sequel that I truly hope gets made.

There are a lot of great budget and indie titles these days but in terms of the full 3D action adventure ones (A Plague's Tale, Hellblade, Kena) this is of the highest quality.