-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Gravity Rush 2 |OT| Mewton's Law of Gravity
- Thread starter Kindekuma
- Start date
Gravity Rush 2 in a nutshell. Still like it a lot though.
Now I wonder if there's any out-of-context dialog about stealth.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
He had to remind everyone of his root lmao
I turned my motion sensitivity waaaaay up. Maybe that's why I haven't had any problems with combat of any sorts, really. It's super easy to do complete turn-arounds mid-air, or aim my Stasis objects.
Maybe it's my Splatoon experience carrying over, since that's also Stick+Gyro. =p
Seriouslyyyy
Never even played it, but when my brother said, "Was the developer on something when he did this?" I'm like, "Whelp, developer, now it makes sense!
Cave Johnson
Member
Just played the firat few chapters. The world built by Toyama is unparalleled, giving the sense of familiarity, surreal and otherworldliness combined. Coming from Hong Kong, the buildings evoke a similar presence from early 90s Kowloon (probably took inspiration from the Kowloon Walled City), mixed with the architecture and themes from Euro/China as the distinction elite.
I could literally spend hours just navigating this architectural sophistry and its Bioshock: Infinite style surrealness. Such an amazing world building that could have massive potential for a great RPG setting had the gaelmeplay not result from the Ubi-style progression.
Still, love Kat and her gravity quirks.
I could literally spend hours just navigating this architectural sophistry and its Bioshock: Infinite style surrealness. Such an amazing world building that could have massive potential for a great RPG setting had the gaelmeplay not result from the Ubi-style progression.
Still, love Kat and her gravity quirks.
"Kill it with fire!"
Agh, that reminds me to post my few not-horrible attempts of using it.
Lunar style allows you to wall jump between two nearby surfaces; that's always real cool and it's easy to do in Hekseville. That style seems built for suddenly getting into motion, what with spring jumps, rocket jumps, and wormhole kicks, though it's actually the slowest style for shifting and sliding. Lunar style also allows you stand on trees instead of falling through them; that's true of other light surfaces as well.
One neat mechanical quirk: if Kat jumps from a higher surface to a lower surface (the difference only has to be about 1 metre) you can jump again and she'll do a cool-looking trick jump with a lot more airtime. As long as you're decreasing in elevation you can do this many times in succession, even when you're not shifting.
L2+X while on the ground is also a fun way to get into the air fast.
When you're falling from great heights, spamming R2 lets you immediately start running at full speed.
Normal style Gravity Kicks are good for changing direction without losing speed; just be sure to cancel them with R1 and quickly start shifting with X. Additionally, if you stop shifting (L1) mid-kick, when you collide with the ground you can do the trick jumps I mentioned earlier.
Gotta admire Kat's composure.
Just kick it in all of its eyes!
DriftingSpirit
Member
Yep. Really good duo.
lmao.
Gravity Rush 2 in a nutshell. Still like it a lot though.
It hurts how true this is.
Trigonometrize.
Member
Percentage wise it felt like the original took away gravity powers more than 2 does though. When Dusty runs away, a lot of when you're in the world pillar, some of Boutume I think...
Oh yeah, how many Side Missions are there? In spoilers, of course.
Got the trophy for 20 last week, and the 40 trophy tonight, so it's easy to assume 60. But then I'd be doing just that. Assuming.
49.
Cool cool. Thanks.
It's not that I hate them, but I am getting to the point of, "Okay, I kind of just want to play through the story now..." Especially with what's happening in the game's world. Like, why am I running around helping civilians when there's something much bigger to worry about, again?
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Taking away your powers is honestly an overblown criticism. I feel like the game does a pretty fluid way of doing it that doesn't break the pacing of the gameplay.
No one forces you to play them though, and I'm pretty sure they're not missable either. And even then, there's plenty of times throughout the game where Kat actually doesn't have any pressing matters to contend to. Honestly, I never even understood this criticism to begin with; it comes off as people acting as if they rather not have the sidequests, even if that isn't actually what they mean by it.
I have to play them as they become available
Partially because nonsensical reasons, but mostly because I know I'd never go through them after beating the game and seeing something like twenty side missions in the menu. Seeing six after a Chapter had me feeling overwhelmed.
As to the edit, that's definitely not the case. It's just that I spent nearly four hours playing this evening and got two Story Missions done. I like to see progress in the main storyline, doing the side stuff adds to the charm and fun of the game but it again boils down to wanting more of the story and being "barred off" from it; even if that barring off is just my mentality of having to clear everything before moving on.
Edit: or was it three? They've been kind of running one into another, so I'm getting confused heh.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
What I did was beat a story mission, then beat 2-4 side missions. I was only left with 5 when the game was over.
I'm similar in that I don't want like 15+ side missions to tend to after beating the game, but I can admit that they are times draining, where like I can do a few of them, but I'm less likely to do a few of them and continue on with the story. But that's fine for me, because I have a bad habit of beating games too quickly anyhow.
I get that. I like the sidequests but I hated the feeling of beating a story mission and seeing 5+ new sidequests open up. I do appreciate that the game stops giving you new ones at the end.
Yea my bad, I nearly always come up with new stuff to say lol
Definitely, I hardly ever thought it was an issue in 2.
It's just trying to keep up on Mobile that it gets difficult haha. PC you can preview and all that jazz with another tab.
Honestly, if people didn't point it out, I probably wouldn't have noticed it much. Glad they didn't pull the same things 1 did. Those sections didn't even have fun characters and/or scenarios to pull things along.
Awesome! Tad bit late for me, but cool for everyone!
chrominance
Member
I don't mind it in principle, but some of the side missions that take away your powers seem designed for maximum frustration. Case in point: the first Poterie Doll mission.
The game simply is not built for precision maneuvering through thick crowds, especially not on narrow fucking staircases. It's basically luck of the draw if you manage to get through half the time, and it's not fun in any way.
I actually liked it, as
with each time you wake up, the mood becomes increasingly more and more disturbing, in that obviously something is clearly awry. And fortunately, just when I thought things were taking too long, things began to happen again, to put it lightly.
I liked the side mission, but the challenge mission that occurs because of it is arguably the worst challenge mission in the entire game, because for whatever reason it's much more difficult in that context.
As for the side mission itself, I found it pretty funny, just turn around every now and then, and just laugh at
the dozens of people chasing you like they've lost their minds.
It got slightly saved by the fact that you can check back on it later on, and find out that her house had fallen apart due to having too much stuff lmao
----
By the way guys, when you get to Hekesville and do the side missions there, it seems that for some (maybe all?) of the side missions you complete, you can get additonal info (an epilogue of sorts) on how things are going concerning how that side mission concluded. Just check your mailbox at your pipe house after completing the mission. I hadn't noticed until much later on, so I likely missed out on a few bits of dialogue.
StarCreator
Member
Was just about to start chapter
, but then I looked at the clock and realized I was supposed to be in bed two hours ago. Oops.
Of course the dusty token rates are increased when I'm not able to play anything online right now. Oops again.
Hrm, I only ever saw one piece of mail arrive. Wasn't aware there was more than one.
23
Of course the dusty token rates are increased when I'm not able to play anything online right now. Oops again.
By the way guys, when you get to Hekesville and do the side missions there, it seems that for some (maybe all?) of the side missions you complete, you can get additonal info (an epilogue of sorts) on how things are going concerning how that side mission concluded. Just check your mailbox at your pipe house after completing the mission. I hadn't noticed until much later on, so I likely missed out on a few bits of dialogue.
Hrm, I only ever saw one piece of mail arrive. Wasn't aware there was more than one.
Admittedly I've only seen one so far, but I only just realized that mail could come in to begin with, which made me think I've missed some all this time that I've been there. Also for a side mission concerning
Aujean and his son, apparently there's a "epilogue" of sorts of that as well, so I'm thinking that maybe that's a mail related thing that I missed. Not entirely sure yet though, as I'm not yet completely done with the game.
The only letter I've seen is from "Flow My Tears, the Man Said" -
the factory boss and his grumpy dad. In the letter the boss thanks Kat for reintroducing his father to music, and says that if she sees him in the street she's welcome to join in for a song or two.
I've completed all main and side quests.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I actually liked it, aswith each time you wake up, the mood becomes increasingly more and more disturbing, in that obviously something is clearly awry. And fortunately, just when I thought things were taking too long, things began to happen again, to put it lightly.
I liked the side mission, but the challenge mission that occurs because of it is arguably the worst challenge mission in the entire game, because for whatever reason it's much more difficult in that context.
As for the side mission itself, I found it pretty funny, just turn around every now and then, and just laugh atI didn't like the moving-day one. That was my very last one, and it was just boring, and not particularly charming either for once.the dozens of people chasing you like they've lost their minds.It got slightly saved by the fact that you can check back on it later on, and find out that her house had fallen apart due to having too much stuff lmao
----
By the way guys, when you get to Hekesville and do the side missions there, it seems that for some (maybe all?) of the side missions you complete, you can get additonal info (an epilogue of sorts) on how things are going concerning how that side mission concluded. Just check your mailbox at your pipe house after completing the mission. I hadn't noticed until much later on, so I likely missed out on a few bits of dialogue.
That side missions is definitely the worst. The problem is that some civilians will see you ahead of you reaching them and run straight for you and you have little time to react. Most of the challenges I was able to obliterate gold medals on except this one. Spent the better part of 45 minutes on it.
McFadge
Member
Interesting! I was playing a few hours ago and was still getting 2 for photo reviews. Will have to jump back in.
Edit: Just reviewed a photo and got 15, nice!
chrominance
Member
I can confirm that's not a mail thing. The only mail I received is below:
So I don't think you missed any mail, or if you did, we all missed it. Most of the epilogues I saw were conversation markers.
Right, I probably should've said challenge. I couldn't remember how the side mission differed from the challenge, but the challenge is definitely annoying as hell. Probably the only challenge I won't be able to improve past bronze.
Okay, that's the mail I had received. So I dunno, maybe I didn't miss anything after all lol
We'll see though, because apparently there's supposed to be a follow-up concerning
Aujean's side mission with him as an alcoholic. Maybe I need to beat everything first?
Side mission or challenge mission? The challenge mission is the one I struggled with.
It took me awhile, but I got it. I just had to time my jumps. Also if you get caught when going up the stairs, you should just restart the whole thing imo. The place that they put you at just ruins the whole flow and makes you that much more likely to run into a fan, and you lose so much time.
----
Also I hear the update made the gems much more visible?
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I meant to say challenge mission. Specifically the 2nd one where you gather up fans.
boredandlazy
Member
I managed to have an awesome run when I eventually finished that challenge mission, but I was unable to send it out to people as a challenge because the damn servers were offline...
I didn't care for it that much in the first game but it's so, so good this time around.
Gravity Rush 2 has the most (and best) saxophone of any video game since Deadly Premonition.
It means you can't do it because you don't have access to that part of the world currently.
You'll be able to get back to it later.
Thanks
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I know how you're feeling man.
This game left a void in my heart I'm still not over ((
((I managed to have an awesome run when I eventually finished that challenge mission, but I was unable to send it out to people as a challenge because the damn servers were offline...
Damn dog that's rough
. The feeling of getting a t ally great score and knowing someone probably won't beat it is satisfying as fuck.The side mission followups are totally jarring because they spawn out of nowhere and ambush you on top of statues and places when you're trying to set up a picture
Also the Reporter and Eugie and man in the black suit keep spawning event though I acknowledged their messages.
I did the photo trophies after all the side missions and tried to do them without looking them up for hours so I saw a lot of the followup prompts
Also the Reporter and Eugie and man in the black suit keep spawning event though I acknowledged their messages.
I did the photo trophies after all the side missions and tried to do them without looking them up for hours so I saw a lot of the followup prompts
I know how you're feeling man.This game left a void in my heart I'm still not over
I don't normally get it but the end-game depression is kicking in. Games I really enjoy give me this feeling and, just, UUGHHH
Okay so I jumped back in and did a Challenge blitz. Gold Medal'd everything available to me right now. First shot all but three; two tries for a race, where I just got lost for some reason; two tries for the Poterie crowd gather, though the first go-around I actually wasn't completely sure how I scored so I went into a finish zone with like five people; and four tries with the Poterie crowd fleeing. Only one actual completion though, because I reset the mission three times due to getting caught. Ain't wasting time finishing what I'm going right back in for... From the sounds of things I got that luck of the draw you guys were just mentioning with the last two. Which is totally fine with me.
That high score for the crowd gathered tho. Whoo boy. 500 something. They must have found a way to abuse the AI or somethin'. And they had to be on a PS4 Pro. My poor system was chugging along sloooooowly with 137...
Raven's theme is amazing. Though I thought of Mario Kart 8 (and will now have to give Deadl Premonition's OST a listen!). Dolphin Shoals has some top-tier saxy sax. It's still one of my favorite songs in recent years and that can be greatly attributed to said saxophone.
That high score for the crowd gathered tho. Whoo boy. 500 something. They must have found a way to abuse the AI or somethin'. And they had to be on a PS4 Pro. My poor system was chugging along sloooooowly with 137...
Raven's theme is amazing. Though I thought of Mario Kart 8 (and will now have to give Deadl Premonition's OST a listen!). Dolphin Shoals has some top-tier saxy sax. It's still one of my favorite songs in recent years and that can be greatly attributed to said saxophone.