However, Gravity Rush 2 over extended itself a bit trying to shake up the game’s mission structure. If the game stuck to that formula, it would have been a smooth experience throughout. It makes for thrilling moments such as ripping through quick, hard to catch Nevi in Lunar style, crashing down on a group of enemies with a massive shockwave-inducing Jupiter drop kick, and then switching back to normal Kat to stasis field debris (and even enemies) into the weak spot of a tougher baddie. Gravity Rush 2 is at its best when it puts Kat in a wide open area to have at her enemies any way the player wishes. Each style has their own spin on Kat’s normal and special attacks, without obsoleting the need for normal Kat, which has its own advantages as well.
The combination of the three styles gives Gravity Rush’s combat a much needed shot of variety, arguably the original’s biggest issue. The other style is Jupiter, which makes Kat slow and heavy, but grants her new destructive attacks that can obliterate groups of enemies in an instant. In this style she can launch herself off the ground and travel great distances without the need of gravity and also deliver quick, accurate, but less powerful attacks. Kat can go into Lunar style and be lighter than air. The gameplay is very similar to the original game, with the biggest most noticeable change being the addition of two new combat styles in addition to Kat’s normal one. It’s just as fun to fly around doing nothing productive and showing off your powers, as it is to progress the story and complete the game’s challenges. Although Gravity Rush 2 isn’t explicitly a “superhero” game in the way that you might think of one in the era of the Marvel Universe dominating our media, make no mistake, Kat is a superhero with all the perks that come with it. Kat can alter gravity to fly through the air, create powerful physics-defying attack combinations, or stick herself underneath, or on the side of, large buildings to get a tactical advantage. Gravity Rush 2’s main strength, though, is its unique superhero gameplay. You’re always rooting for her to be happy, even if you don’t know exactly what’s going on. Honestly though, the story is more of just a vehicle to get to know Kat better Gravity Rush 2’s lovable main character Kat remains genuinely cheerful, optimistic, and kind no matter what she goes through, and never comes off as phony. It doesn’t help that the pacing is a bit strange, as the plot will jerk you from relative calm, to epic climaxes that feel like they could be the game’s final mission, and back again multiple times throughout Gravity Rush 2.
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The game’s many side quests are critically important for understanding the full breadth of the story, and those that skip ahead (especially people that didn’t play the first game) are going to be armed with very little information for what’s going on beyond what is right in front of them. Even after playing the first game, I still struggled at times to suss out the finer details. It slowly gets more confusing as Kat’s past catches up to her and starts to intertwine with this new story. Kat has to reunite with old allies, and make new friends, in order to turn things around for the people in this land, and get back to her home.Īlthough the story gets a fresh start of sorts, putting Kat in a new area with new characters, it assumes that you have played the previous game and remember all of its details.
Kat and others are pulled into a gravity storm that drops them into a foreign and depressing land where people are forced into hard labor just to survive under a police state. Gravity Rush 2 picks up where the last game left off. And despite the game’s flaws (of which there are definitely some glaring ones), it’s hard to not fall in love with its charm.
It’s a game that takes on the personality of its main character: the sweetly charismatic and unbreakable Kat. In a world where so many games are formulaic, annual, bleak, gritty, and brown Gravity Rush 2 is colorful, different, and cheerful, even at its darkest moments. There are so many reasons to be appreciative of Gravity Rush 2, a game that PlayStation 4 fans should consider lucky to have, considering the original (remaster aside) was a niche game for a niche – and arguably at this point – failed handheld.
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