mainline final fantasy game that is less about the characters and their interaction with the world and more about the world and its interaction with the characters. shows that a game doesn't need immense dialogue to be well-written because few-but-well-put-words and good cutscene direction (jun akiyama is amazing) can do a very good job - i also love the voice acting, gideon emery's balthier is really good.

the gameplay is perfect. i've spent more than 100 hours doing most of the content and exploring the gambit and the job system. of course you have Certain Characters with faster speed animations with especific weapons (basch is better with spears than penelo, for example), but you can try any job combo that'll work as long as you can understand and dominate the gambit system.

it's a phenomenal videogame. my favorite final fantasy so far (and probably gonna be for a long time).

this game is echoing in the dephts of my mind for a long time.

it's both a letter of love from a passionate gamer, a letter of hate from a creator limited by big corporations and most important, a reminder that killing your past is not only an act of moving foward but also an act of respect: your past is what made you the way you are, even if you change, you only change because of who you were. if you gonna kill it, do it with dignity.

it's a game about killing our own heroes, our own projects and our own dreams, but also building a future to new heroes, new projects and new dreams. absolutely beautiful and introspective work of art.

there's two main things i'd like to talk about this game:

1) i have mixed feelings about the combat. kat is that clumsy girl with a new power that she doesn't understand and this is translated in the way she moves and to the way she fights: her basic attack is only a kick, but she can also use three special moves and use gravity attacks - and that's my problem. the gravity attacks itself are a question to get used to, but as long you advance in the game, there'll be new types of nevis and you gotta fight all of them. many of them are flying types and it turns out to be really hard to hit their cores sometimes. the camera going crazy in small spaces (where many of them appears) does not help too.

i can understand that choice and do not necessarily dislike the enemy design but the combat is slow paced and i couldn't but thinking about "what if this game had a real lock-on?". i thinked about sonic's homing attack and maybe it's the first time of my life where i thought that homing attack could be good in any game - including sonic ones! i mean, imagine if the combat itself was fast-paced with some kinda of homing attack and the challenge were more about finding the position to target and hit the enemy? maybe even doing some combos, like attacking many and creating a kind of momentum while also doing the gravity stuff?

maybe i'm just thinking too much about how a game should be and not how it is. maybe those problems are solved in gravity rush 2 and the real guilty was this being a psvita game with probably the budget of a fried egg. anyway!

2) LOOK. I KNOW THAT GRAVITY RUSH IS DIRECTED BY KEIICHIRO TOYAMA, THE SILENT HILL AND SIREN GUY, TWO HORROR GAMES, BUT WHY DO THE ENEMIES IN THIS GAME LOOKS LIKE HUMAN FLESH? I MEAN, THEY EVEN HAS BONES IN THEIR WEAK POINTS TO PROTTECT THEM, LIKE, THEY ARE EVOLVING??? THERE'S EVEN ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE A PERSON DIVING IN THE GROUND AND IT IS REALLY DISTURBING. PLEASE MAN, DON'T DO THIS EVER AGAIN IN A NOT-HORROR-GAME. PLEASE. I BEG YOU. I KNOW THAT YOU PROBABLY DID IT IN THE SEQUEL, BUT PLEASE.

overall is a good game, i had fun despite all the problems. want to play the sequel because it felts like it needed one. love to walk-or-fall-around with my gravity powers in some big vertical steampunk cities while listening to some jazzy or funky music and doing some missions to adorable characters - kat it's a lovely protagonist, btw. i love her!!