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Beyond the main story there are loads of side-missions to get stuck into, taking in everything from newspaper deliveries to mining to helping out a rather seedy old geezer with photos of attractive local girls (for health reasons, apparently). By turns she’ll have to play investigative reporter, rich woman’s dogsbody, volunteer firefighter, revolutionary, singer and all-round force for freedom. On the one hand, Kat becomes embroiled in the local class struggle, as it becomes clear that those below are getting a raw deal from above. While it might not have the depth or the responsive population of a more conventional open world, it’s still a fascinating place to buzz around. While it’s tempting to describe it as a manga version of Bioshock’s Columbia, that doesn’t really do Jirga Para Lhao justice. It’s a bigger world than you first suspect, the tight streets and market plazas of the central areas giving way to flying fortresses and weird, clustered suburbs, all without the artificial separations that made Hekseville possible within the limitations of the Vita’s hardware. It’s Hekseville on steroids bigger, brighter, more colourful and varied, with its class structure rendered physical, the poor struggling in shanty flotillas of airboats beneath cloud level, the rich living it up on their lofty island mansions. With the preliminaries over, the cast introduced and a fantastic psychedelic world explored, the game reveals its real setting – the floating city of Jirga Para Lhao. Have we really left Hekseville behind for this?ĭon’t worry, Gravity Rush 2 is only fooling with you. While you’ll still find Kat subverting the laws of physics, ‘falling’ horizontally, running up walls or along the underside of ledges, tackling vicious otherworldly critters with a flurry of kicks, some of the old glamour seems to have disappeared. Where the original gloried in its idiosyncratic urban open world, Gravity Rush 2 appears to have adopted a more episodic structure, its missions and side-quests arranged loosely round the mining fleet hub. Even with her powers returned, hovering in the air with a tap of R1, aiming with the right stick, speeding forwards and clinging to a surface with R2, Kat still doesn’t seem her old self. Prepare to be baffled by the opening half hour, which sees Kat stripped of her gravity-twisting powers and stranded far away from her hometown, Hekseville, working with a nomadic band of miners salvaging crystals from strange ruins floating in the sky. It’s just the game you need to brighten up a gloomy start to 2017. What starts as a peculiar sequel to one of PS Vita’s smartest, most imaginative games blossoms into something even better. It's often in sale in the psn store and well worth a try.Like its ‘gravity queen’ heroine, Gravity Rush 2 delights in confounding expectations, switching directions and adding complications until you can’t tell which way’s up and which way’s down.
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Try this game if you want to experience something new, full of character and mysterious. Most of the main characters strike the right note in terms of charisma and emotion (the very cute and weird made up language helps a lot). The weird mixed french-Japanese fantasy feeling works wonders for the style and it's a truly creative world, assisted by some great music. But most fun is just floating through the world, collecting and doing quests. A few of the side missions are tediously designed, luckily the main missions are far more solid. The story is pretty vague at times (personally that worked for me to keep me curious but I can easily see that most won't like it). It is a gem with some rough edges though. The game is not for everyone though, and it being a niche game that had a lack of marketing make it an often overlooked gem. The game is not for everyone though, and it being Gravity rush is an often overlooked stylish game with a beautiful world and exquisite music.
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Gravity rush is an often overlooked stylish game with a beautiful world and exquisite music.