Gravity Rush Remaster is a frustratingly fun action/exploration game where you play as the protagonist Kat with her companion cat named Dusty.
You explore the city via using a gravitational shift and pull abilities while fighting enemies known as the Nevis which are these monsters with giant eye balls that are exposed as the weak spots for the enemies.
The game can be very peaceful in terms of using the shift ability in order to traverse different areas of the city as well as overall feeling the flow of gravity as you control it.
The game has gravity as the basis of both movement and attack, while you are able to traverse on foot and attack on foot, it's better to just attack while in Gravity mode as it allows you to both dodge and hit enemies easier. You throughout the game will gain 3 special abilities:
1. The first is a drill abilities that causes Kat to drill into the enemies.
2. Second is a telekinesis ability where Kat launches a bunch of rocks at enemies to tons of damage and killing a lot of enemies.
3. Lastly being this tornado/saturn ring spin ability which causes Kat to go inside a ball of energy and it spins while this ring does a lot of damage, however this being the last ability, you think it'd be the best but it's the one you'd probably never use.
The gravitational pull can get very annoying to control as they game does not have a lock on feature to lock on to enemies, at the very least during a gravity kick (while in gravity mode, pressing □ will cause Kat to do a gravity kick) will 8/10 land on an enemy without missing or making Kat go beyond the enemy.
The gravity mode can be fun in exploring and traversing, but can be a pain when you have to do said exploring/traversing, while fighting in combat.
The challenge modes are where you can tell the developers want to make certain modes as tedious as possible, or just annoying enough where the jank of the Flow of gravity can make it feel unfair and harder on purpose.
Challenges consist of:
•Hit all the checkpoints and get a fast time
•Hit all the checkpoints and get a fast time but you're only allowed to use gravity slide (Hold L2+R2)
•Hit all the checkpoints but your gravity meter is depleted but you can collect gravity items that limit a small portion of the gravity meter in order to help you be faster, and complete at the fastest time.
• Find and Grab people and take them to a certain area for a certain amount of points before time runs out.
• Get a certain amount of points while killing enemies in any way
• Get a certain amount of points while killing specifically with the throwing ability (Best way to do these is press circle and then press L1 immediately to deactivate Gravity mode as it's easier to throw objects on solid ground than on the gravity mode)
•Throw objects into a specific area in order to gain a certain amount of points before time runs out.
And in the challenges there are 3 ranks, which are:
GOLD 🪙
SILVER🥈
BRONZE🥉
Which give you crystals🔷️
Which depending on the rank you achieve will stack on top of the either, except for bronze, meaning:
Let's say in this challenge you got gold rank, this means your diamonds will stack:
🪙 - 🔷️800 ⬅️ YOU
🥈- 🔷️700
🥉 - 🔷️400
Total you get for first place: 🔷️1900
Total you would get for second: 🔷️1100
Total you would get for bronze/3rd: 🔷️400 only
These crystals can also be found all throughout the city and you collected them, and use them to level up your attacks, your health your gravity meter, your grab range, your dodges, and your super moves.
The game's story is interesting as well as establishes an interesting world with Kat being very likeable and cute, while having a badass side to her.
The city is full of hypocritical jerks as they request for her help while saying that "shifters are no good" so it makes you hate the civilians, however the characters who are friends with Kat are really great.
Also I find it artistically beautiful in visuals and artstyle, that it's beautiful to behold. I also appreciate the language created for the game as it has aspects of Japanese mixed with French, but it is it's own fictional language, still you can hear aspects of both which is nice.
Raven is similar to Kat however her animal partner is... a raven lol. She has this serious, yet hot attitude about her, with a sweet caring side, it's very nice to see even if you do have to fight her twice which can be difficult but fun.
Boss fights can be fun and difficult as the weakspots are usually/always exposed however you must be careful as you have to strategically plan out your attack but also fight against the gravity as it can be janky.
The story has a lot of nice moments with Kat and Dusty, as well as a lot of interesting moments in terms of hinting of Kat's forgotten past however we never see that as the focus was more so saving the city, instead of looking deep into Kat's past, however the game certainly has the sequel to look into that I'm assuming (I haven't played 2 yet when I made this review)
The games story is told in these comic/manga panel styles where it changes to a different panel to express emotions or characters speaking/reacting, to sometimes in-game cutscenes that are either 1. Just in the game as is (plays like a regular cutscene) or during the comic panels, the comic panel will be replace with said animated in game cutscene within the panel.
Kat can unlock several different outfits in this remaster:
Maid
School Girl
Kat Biker
Military Uniform
All of these look cute on Kat, except the Military outfit as it makes her forehead big, the Biker outfit is the best though.
The games final boss is both cool, but the boss is certainly janky to fight against, but the finisher is badass. The ending shot can be seen as abrupt but luckily the game has a nice conclusion at the end with the credits as it shows final comic/manga panels showing how everyone reacted to the events and what happened after while also hinting at the sequel (which obviously does exist and I'm planning on playing next)
Gravity Rush Remaster is a good experience that everyone should try, I think the gravity control is really fun, but also very frustrating in terms of not trying to mess of the flow when Kay traverses or fights. With bosses that can be fun and sometimes easy, which has a interesting, yet ok story as it leaves a lot of open questions, which most likely will be answered when I play Gravity Rush 2.
The game is good for what it is and is a treat to have gotten a Remaster of a game that could've been another victim stuck on the vita.
Had a weird thing that occurs in the map and cutscenes where for no reason they decide to use the gyro controls in order to "move the manga panel" or the map in a 3d axis which is just weird. In gameplay it's more so just used to allow for another way of moving Kat in gravity mode, though its better to just use the joysticks instead.
I recommend buying this game digitally as physical copies are hard to come across and are expensive, I luckily stumbled upon one at my local gamestop, but just buy it digitally as it only costs $9.99. I played it physically on my PS5 and it ran superbly, though I also believe it runs great on the PS4.
I recommend Gravity Rush🙏🏻😁
You explore the city via using a gravitational shift and pull abilities while fighting enemies known as the Nevis which are these monsters with giant eye balls that are exposed as the weak spots for the enemies.
The game can be very peaceful in terms of using the shift ability in order to traverse different areas of the city as well as overall feeling the flow of gravity as you control it.
The game has gravity as the basis of both movement and attack, while you are able to traverse on foot and attack on foot, it's better to just attack while in Gravity mode as it allows you to both dodge and hit enemies easier. You throughout the game will gain 3 special abilities:
1. The first is a drill abilities that causes Kat to drill into the enemies.
2. Second is a telekinesis ability where Kat launches a bunch of rocks at enemies to tons of damage and killing a lot of enemies.
3. Lastly being this tornado/saturn ring spin ability which causes Kat to go inside a ball of energy and it spins while this ring does a lot of damage, however this being the last ability, you think it'd be the best but it's the one you'd probably never use.
The gravitational pull can get very annoying to control as they game does not have a lock on feature to lock on to enemies, at the very least during a gravity kick (while in gravity mode, pressing □ will cause Kat to do a gravity kick) will 8/10 land on an enemy without missing or making Kat go beyond the enemy.
The gravity mode can be fun in exploring and traversing, but can be a pain when you have to do said exploring/traversing, while fighting in combat.
The challenge modes are where you can tell the developers want to make certain modes as tedious as possible, or just annoying enough where the jank of the Flow of gravity can make it feel unfair and harder on purpose.
Challenges consist of:
•Hit all the checkpoints and get a fast time
•Hit all the checkpoints and get a fast time but you're only allowed to use gravity slide (Hold L2+R2)
•Hit all the checkpoints but your gravity meter is depleted but you can collect gravity items that limit a small portion of the gravity meter in order to help you be faster, and complete at the fastest time.
• Find and Grab people and take them to a certain area for a certain amount of points before time runs out.
• Get a certain amount of points while killing enemies in any way
• Get a certain amount of points while killing specifically with the throwing ability (Best way to do these is press circle and then press L1 immediately to deactivate Gravity mode as it's easier to throw objects on solid ground than on the gravity mode)
•Throw objects into a specific area in order to gain a certain amount of points before time runs out.
And in the challenges there are 3 ranks, which are:
GOLD 🪙
SILVER🥈
BRONZE🥉
Which give you crystals🔷️
Which depending on the rank you achieve will stack on top of the either, except for bronze, meaning:
Let's say in this challenge you got gold rank, this means your diamonds will stack:
🪙 - 🔷️800 ⬅️ YOU
🥈- 🔷️700
🥉 - 🔷️400
Total you get for first place: 🔷️1900
Total you would get for second: 🔷️1100
Total you would get for bronze/3rd: 🔷️400 only
These crystals can also be found all throughout the city and you collected them, and use them to level up your attacks, your health your gravity meter, your grab range, your dodges, and your super moves.
The game's story is interesting as well as establishes an interesting world with Kat being very likeable and cute, while having a badass side to her.
The city is full of hypocritical jerks as they request for her help while saying that "shifters are no good" so it makes you hate the civilians, however the characters who are friends with Kat are really great.
Also I find it artistically beautiful in visuals and artstyle, that it's beautiful to behold. I also appreciate the language created for the game as it has aspects of Japanese mixed with French, but it is it's own fictional language, still you can hear aspects of both which is nice.
Raven is similar to Kat however her animal partner is... a raven lol. She has this serious, yet hot attitude about her, with a sweet caring side, it's very nice to see even if you do have to fight her twice which can be difficult but fun.
Boss fights can be fun and difficult as the weakspots are usually/always exposed however you must be careful as you have to strategically plan out your attack but also fight against the gravity as it can be janky.
The story has a lot of nice moments with Kat and Dusty, as well as a lot of interesting moments in terms of hinting of Kat's forgotten past however we never see that as the focus was more so saving the city, instead of looking deep into Kat's past, however the game certainly has the sequel to look into that I'm assuming (I haven't played 2 yet when I made this review)
The games story is told in these comic/manga panel styles where it changes to a different panel to express emotions or characters speaking/reacting, to sometimes in-game cutscenes that are either 1. Just in the game as is (plays like a regular cutscene) or during the comic panels, the comic panel will be replace with said animated in game cutscene within the panel.
Kat can unlock several different outfits in this remaster:
Maid
School Girl
Kat Biker
Military Uniform
All of these look cute on Kat, except the Military outfit as it makes her forehead big, the Biker outfit is the best though.
The games final boss is both cool, but the boss is certainly janky to fight against, but the finisher is badass. The ending shot can be seen as abrupt but luckily the game has a nice conclusion at the end with the credits as it shows final comic/manga panels showing how everyone reacted to the events and what happened after while also hinting at the sequel (which obviously does exist and I'm planning on playing next)
Gravity Rush Remaster is a good experience that everyone should try, I think the gravity control is really fun, but also very frustrating in terms of not trying to mess of the flow when Kay traverses or fights. With bosses that can be fun and sometimes easy, which has a interesting, yet ok story as it leaves a lot of open questions, which most likely will be answered when I play Gravity Rush 2.
The game is good for what it is and is a treat to have gotten a Remaster of a game that could've been another victim stuck on the vita.
Had a weird thing that occurs in the map and cutscenes where for no reason they decide to use the gyro controls in order to "move the manga panel" or the map in a 3d axis which is just weird. In gameplay it's more so just used to allow for another way of moving Kat in gravity mode, though its better to just use the joysticks instead.
I recommend buying this game digitally as physical copies are hard to come across and are expensive, I luckily stumbled upon one at my local gamestop, but just buy it digitally as it only costs $9.99. I played it physically on my PS5 and it ran superbly, though I also believe it runs great on the PS4.
I recommend Gravity Rush🙏🏻😁