![]() In designing the world to suit Kat’s powers and to explain the story somewhat, there’s a disconnect between the parts you interact with and the rest.įor instance, the characters you meet along the way are generally-speaking, quite interesting, with some genuinely fun backgrounds and stories, but with the exception of Raven, they exist only in the bubble of time in which Kat interacts with them. The only downside is despite the bustling crowds and people going about their daily lives, there’s little to it that feels like a functioning place. ![]() Of all the changes and improvements Gravity Rush 2 does bring, this is probably the most impressive. More importantly, this is more freeing to Kat’s gravity-defying powers. It’s a really interesting bit of world design where class and power is visually shown as how high up your home is. Instead of just being a wide expanse of land, the city floats on crystal-powered islands with the poor relegated to the murkier, shack-filled depths, the general population in the European-looking city above them, the elite rich sit further up in massive, luxurious homesteads, and the military towers above them all in a hulking skybase. As you begin working through the story, however, you soon learn just how large and varied this new locale is. When you arrive at the port of the city early on, it looks like nothing more than a sharper, less grungy-looking upgrade of Hekseville. The game still retains the delightful 80s European cartoon/Japanese anime hybrid visual style, with a nice mixture of in-game cutscenes and comic book panels moving the story along, but there’s more scope and depth to the world design. It’s more than twice the size of the original game’s map in fact. ![]() Gravity Rush 2 is in entirely new locations, built with the power of a console in mind. Of course she soon encounters her old foe the Nevi, and reunites with Dusty before she ends up embroiled in a rebellion against the rich and powerful of this world as well as the ever-escalating threat posed by the Nevi. Life is tough, and the rules enforced by the village’s leader, along with a distinct lack of gravity powers, make it difficult for Kat to earn a living. Now mining for their supper as part of a ragtag mining community of Banga Village. Kat’s latest adventure picks up a little ways after the events of the first game where, as an amnesiac with powers, she battled the oily-looking, pink-orbed creatures known as the Nevi (you can watch the bridging mini-feature anime to fill a gap if you wish) and she finds herself far from her adopted home of Hekseville, without fellow gravity shifter Raven or the cosmos-patterned feline, Dusty, who unlocks Kat’s powers, but still lumped with the lazy, bumblingcharmer, Syd.
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