Gravity Rush
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| Studio |
 SCE Japan Studio / Project Siren, Bluepoint Games (PS4 version) |
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| Publisher |
Sony Interactive Entertainment
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| Senior Developer | Keiichiro Toyama (Director)
Makato Isomine (Producer) Keiichiro Toyama (Designer) Yoshiaki Yamaguchi (Artist) Naoko Sato (Author) Keiichiro Toyama (Author) |
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| composer | Kohei Tanaka | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
Playstation Vita February 9, 2012 June 12, 2012 June 15, 2012 Playstation 4 December 10, 2015 February 2, 2016 February 5, 2016  |
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| platform |
PlayStation Vita , PlayStation 4 |
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| genre |
Action adventure , action role-playing game |
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| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Gamepad | ||
| medium |
NVG Card (PSV), Blu-ray (PS4), download |
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Gravity Rush (original title: Gravity Daze / Guraviti Deizu ) is a video game released in 2012 , developed by SCE Japan Studio / Project Siren and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation Vita . As Gravity Rush Remastered , an extended implementation for the PlayStation 4, developed by Bluepoint Games, followed in late 2015 / early 2016 . In January 2017, the direct successor Gravity Rush 2 appeared , exclusively for the Playstation 4.
development
According to art director Keiichiro Toyama, who previously worked on survival horror games such as Silent Hill or Siren , the first plans and concepts for Gravity Rush were drawn up ten years before the game was released. The actual development began in 2008 under the project name Gravité (French: gravity). He mentions the works of the comic artist Jean Giraud (Moebius) as a visual influence , the cel shading style of the characters is intended to be a mixture of anime and western comics.
In Japan the game was called GRAVITY DAZE / 重力 的 眩暈: 上層 へ の 帰 還 に お い て 彼女 の 内 宇宙 に 生 じ た 摂 動 ( Guraviti Deizu / Jūryoku-teki Memai: Jōsō e no Kikan ni-Oite, Kanojo noū ni Shōjita Setsudō ) published (German about: Gravitationsschwindelwohl: The disturbance of your inner space, caused by the home management of the upper class ). For Western publications, on the other hand, Sony relied on the catchy title Gravity Rush .
After the game was released for the Playstation Vita, three DLCs appeared , the housemaid, the military and the spy package, each of which offered new storylines, costumes and challenges. The remastered version for PS4 already included all of this content.
action
A young, blonde woman wakes up in a big city with no memory . She is accompanied by a mysterious black tomcat whom she names Dusty. She quickly notices that she has the ability to manipulate gravity for herself. So she rescues a little boy from a gravitational storm and helps the residents of the city against monsters called "Nevi". The residents recognize a so-called "shifter" in it, although at first they can hardly imagine that. Since she cannot remember her own name, she is later given the name Kat by the police officer Syd because of her hangover. Kat realizes that her ability to change gravity is related to her hangover.
Kat begins to help the residents of the city of Hekseville by bringing back parts of the city that were previously separated from the city by gravitational storms and the Nevi and are now in intermediate dimensions, into which Gade, a “creator” brings them. She finally meets another female shifter, the grim Raven, who is hostile to her and fights her, to Kat's incomprehension. As the "gravitation queen", Kat gains popularity among the population, but she turns down an invitation from the military to join it.
Hekseville is a city in the clouds that winds around a gigantic column that seems to reach down endlessly. Kat travels down the pillar to find a woman's lost letter, her last memento of her deceased friend. There she meets Raven again, who attacks her. Far below Hekseville, Kat arrives in the town of Boutoume, where children and young people live who have fallen from the sky and are now desperately waiting for rescue. They live under the threat of the giant Nevi monster Nushi, which only Kat and Raven can defeat together. Raven explains her dislike, believing Kat would support the seedy D'nelica. The settlement is slowly but surely threatening to decline and disappear. Cyanea, a mysterious girl from the settlement, puts Kat into a trance. In this Kat realizes that she comes from a place high up in the world pillar, she held a high position, but also had a heavy burden to bear.
Through newly gained strength from this state, Kat manages to activate an "ark", an old stone airship, which is supposed to bring the children back to Hekseville. But she is separated from Raven and the children. When she later reaches Hekseville alone, Kat is surprised to find that a year has apparently passed. There is no trace of the children either, only Kat meets Cyanea. Kat realizes that the attacks by the Nevi on Hekseville have increased significantly this past year, which is why D'nelica is now mayor, who established a strict military dictatorship, but at least with this one has been able to fend off all attacks so far. Eventually, the Nevi monster Nushi appears in town. But before Kat can defeat it, it is incidentally destroyed by Yunica, a kind of female cyborg in the service of the military.
Kat helps a clumsy-looking scientist who pretends to be studying the Nevi. However, he turns out to be a high-ranking scientist of the regime, who had the intention to steal Kat's powers, for which Dusty is captured. He also developed the secret weapon "sea anemone" with which D'nelica wants to control the Nevi and with whose power he wants to expand his power. This plan fails and the sea anemone, powered by Nevi, threatens to destroy the entire city. Kat, with the freed cat, and Yunica manage to damage the weapon, but the self-destruct mechanism, which D'nelica has indifferently ordered, continues to destroy the city. It is only by joining forces that Kat, Yunica, Raven, Cyanea and Gade manage to eliminate the threat and save the city. The sea anemone explodes far above the city and thus also destroys the airship of the fleeing D'nelica. Gerneaux, an army officer, recalls a prophecy about the harbinger of a catastrophe falling from an upper world, referring to Kat.
Gameplay
The special feature of the game mechanics is that the character Kat can influence gravity for himself and create points of attraction for himself at will. At the push of a button and aligning with the right stick, the respective point of attraction changes, towards which Kat then flies, or rather falls. Any level, upside down or vertical, can serve as a reference point for Kat, whereby floating on the spot is also possible. This is not possible indefinitely, a rechargeable bar grants her this skill. If this is empty, normal gravity also applies to Kat. Different skills can be equipped and upgraded like in a role-playing game. The open game world invites you to explore and offers numerous secondary tasks in addition to the main story.
A fantasy language is spoken in the game, according to critics phonetically a mixture of Japanese and French. The plot itself is pushed forward in subtitled comic stills.
Anime
In December 2016, Sony released the roughly 20-minute anime Gravity Rush: The Animation - Overture on YouTube . This should close the gap between Gravity Rush and the successor Gravity Rush 2 . If many players also complained about open questions about the game, these will be answered in the follow-up.
reception
| Magazine / website | Rating |
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| 4players | 87% |
| GamePro | 81% |
| Metacritic | 83% |
| M! Games | 80% |
| Famitsu | 38 of 40 |
The reviews of Gravity Rush were overall very positive. Matthias Schmid from the magazine M! Games particularly praised the unused game concept. He calls the graphic style, “a mixture of cel-shading look and studio Ghibli anime aesthetic”, “very handsome”. Although he criticizes “initially flat dialogues”, he emphasizes the “exciting plot” overall.
"Because while the flawless touch interface, the fast travel system or the bombastic comic sequences seem all of a piece, Kat not only stumbles over annoying edges, especially in the first few hours, but also over the camera work that takes getting used to in the free 3D space as well as lots of uniform monster battles with faceless blob minions. However, if you ignore them, you will experience an optically intoxicating, unconventional action adventure with an atmospheric soundtrack and an exciting story from the second third of the game. "
“It is extremely fascinating not to just fly, but to plop like a wet sack hundreds of meters in any direction, only to stop there on the wall of a house! (...) What is lacking in narrative facets makes up for in the imaginative setting. And although I miss a greater playful variety overall, even after dozens of hours I am still enthusiastic about the unique freedom of movement. “The sky is the limit,” says an English saying. Here I look for any limit - and just fly towards it. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gravity Rush Was Ten Years In The Making. In: Siliconera. December 16, 2011, accessed January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Gravite (Gravity Daze) [PS3 - Prototype] - Unseen64. May 8, 2012, Retrieved January 24, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ PlayStation.Blog. In: PlayStation.Blog. Retrieved January 24, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ GamesRadar 2016-02-09T21: 12: 34 39ZXbox One: GR + Live: Come talk to Sony about Gravity Rush, PS4's new darling. Retrieved January 24, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Test (rating) on Gravity Rush (Action) - 4Players.de. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Gravity Rush - Reviews, Articles, Videos & More - GamePro. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Gravity Rush. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Dirk Harms: Gravity Rush. In: MANIAC.de. September 22, 2013, accessed January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ GRAVITY DAZE / 重力 的 眩暈: 上層 へ の 帰 還 に お い て 、 彼女 の 内 宇宙 に 生 じ た 摂 動 [Vita] / フ ァ ミ 通 .com. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.maniac.de/content/gravity-rush?page=0,1
- ↑ http://www.4players.de/4players.php/dispbericht_fazit/PS_Vita/Test/Fazit_WANY/PS_Vita/27177/76202/Gravity_Rush.html