Gravity Rush Kat

Kat (Battlestar Galactica), a pilot in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica TV series; Kat (Gravity Rush), the protagonist of the Gravity Rush series; Kat Hillard, the second Pink Ranger from the third to fifth generations from the Power Rangers TV series; Kat Slater, from the BBC soap opera EastEnders; Karate Kat, main character of the same-named. Kat, known in Japan as Kitten, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Gravity Rush series. A teenage girl with amnesia, she awakens in the city of Hekseville after falling from the sky and sets out to discover the origins of her power to shift gravity.

Kat, the superheroine of Gravity Rush 2, has plenty of opportunities to save the day (and the world), but she most often spends her time and her powers on the mundane. A typical afternoon is spent delivering newspapers, catching runaway balloons, running errands for the elderly, and, with whatever she has left of her day, dismantling a financial system that favors the few over the many. You know, like any socially conscious young person.Gravity Rush 2 is, and this isn’t me reaching, 2017’s first (and potentially only) big-budget video game about the income gap, the ethical and personal complexities of salvaging modern capitalist societies, and one jumper-loving young woman.

With the help of a cat made of stardust, Kat pursues, often by force, a historic economic rebalancing.The game is set in the sky on a collection of villages and cities built onto man-made islands that float on air. Social status is layered like a bitter trifle. The most affluent citizens live in spacious estates in clear skies. Miles beneath, in the clouds, wades a collection of marketplaces ensconced by sun-cooked apartment buildings. On the lowest archipelago, tenements and industrialization are stacked atop each other, held together by a purple, mucousy fog. The politics in ‘Gravity Rush 2’ aren’t subtleKat’s power lets her steer the direction of gravity; which is to say, in a video game about the pyramid of income inequality, you play as the person who can invert what goes up and what comes down.

I’d claim the game lacks subtlety, but compared to the political blockbusters of Peter Berg, it’s Bulgakov.Even without the political messaging, Gravity Rush 2 is an unlikely creative gamble from Sony. Its predecessor, initially released in 2011 on Sony’s neglected portable, the PlayStation Vita, was promising, but under promoted and overlooked, neither a critical darling nor a sales phenom.

Over the years, Sony did the minimum to retain the game’s small, but passionate fan base. In 2012, Kat appeared in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, an aborted attempt to cordon Sony’s roster of exclusive characters in a middling fighting game. Islandz grid. In January 2016, a console that’s reach is tens of millions larger than the Vita. Fan serviceWhile Gravity Rush 2 has some of the most relatable and well-drawn female protagonists in a blockbuster video game, it occasionally regresses to fan service. One early mission has Kat snapping candid photos of “pretty women” on the street at the request of an elderly man.

You see, he claims he needs these photos or he’ll die.The female characters, while sharply written, wear wardrobes imagined by men. Kat’s clothes include a sexy cat costume and a maid outfit — both originally appeared as DLC for the original Gravity Rush. Kat’s partner Raven wears a bodysuit that covers enough to avoid a Mature rating. And many of the local women walk to work in bikini tops.

There’s nothing wrong with strong women wearing sexy clothing. Rather it feels at odds with a game that otherwise has no interest in sexuality or even romantic relationships.Hopefully anyone interested in Gravity Rush 2 made time to play the remaster. (I’d encourage you to just read the Wiki, but the Plot section has needed expansion since 2013, as good a sign of cultural apathy as any.) The story begins where its six-year-old predecessor concluded, and the characters seem just as perplexed as incoming players.The developers, SIE Japan Studio and Project Siren, created an introduction that’s doubly off-putting: narratively impenetrable to newcomers and aesthetically backwards to fans. A game that promises a superhero soaring through crowded cities begins with an exhausting and patronizing tutorial set atop a claustrophobic mining vessel.

Long stretches of dialogue patch together labor on an abstract alien environment, where Kat mines for ore, busting stone after stone after stone after stone. The game gives you an idea, intentionally or not, of the existential grind of its fictional working class.The intro, however banal, is consistent with the overall tone. Gravity Rush 2 is a superhero story with a sense of humility, down to Kat’s gift.

Manipulated gravity is unpredictable, so Kat doesn’t fly so much as she drops into a semi-controlled “fall.” Like Alice in the rabbit hole, she tumbles downward, upward, and sideways. Her telekinesis lifts boxes and hurls them at enemies, though only half the time do they make contact. Just as often, a flying box ricochets off a lamp post, splinters into the ground, or zips into the horizon.But the game rewards commitment, practice, and patience, each hour richer and more thoughtfully designed than the one before it. Once the mining ship takes port at the city, a couple hours into an unexpectedly long and episodic story, Kat is introduced to a map full of missions, a menu of unlockable powers, and a list of side activities. Just zipping from mission to mission is a pleasure.

Flight is loose and relaxed, as if the entire world is underwater and Kat has just dove in.Gravity Rush is enamored with architecture, particularly with how Kat’s gift allows the player to look at and experience buildings and publics space in new, intimate fashions. Because entire skyscrapers often float on tiny islands of their own, the buildings can be viewed like 3D models. Like Kiki’s Delivery Service (another tale of a young girl with the gift of flight who prefers the mundane over heroics) the aesthetic borrows liberally from Sweden along with port cities across Europe, but speckled through the different towns are a variety of quirky inspirations, from the alleys of the Greater Antilles to the shopping centers of Shinjuku.

The game’s architecture isn’t just a pretty backgroundWalls, rooftops, and the underbellies of the constructions are speckled with a pink gem currency that upgrades Kat’s powers and provides the minimum excuse to investigate the nooks and crannies of every building. This would be tedious if not for the game’s ecstatic sense of momentum. Besides falling, Kat has the power to slide across surfaces in any direction — it feels sort of like grinding in Tony Hawk Pro Skater or Jet Set Radio. Slipping up a 50-story clock tower, then free falling over the other side never loses its thrill.The game revels in this disorienting effect, sometimes to a fault. Up close, the lack of precision is irritating, and the camera can get caught behind buildings or inside of giant enemies. I remember zipping between enemies with lighting-fast jump kicks in the original, but found it tedious here, focusing my upgrades on telekinetic powers that turned shipping pallets and tables and humans into lethal projectiles.I would miss the acrobatics if it weren’t so fun to hurl boxes into a row of foot soldier, like Darth Vader bowling with force powers.In time, Kat gains additional skills, including two alternate styles of controlling gravity. One styles makes her moves floatier and balletic.

Another gives her added weight and force, turning her into a human comet. Watching this character goofily master gravity while she wobbles through political revolution is so unlike anything in games, regularly subverting masculine power fantasies of the “man unnaturally good at everything,” destined to save the day. In fact, all of the game’s strongest and most active heroes and villains are women, not just lithe acrobats that have become a cliche of action films, but muscular and proven fighters that men turn to when the going gets tough. Late in the game, Kat’s friend Raven arrives as the would-be prince in shining armor. 'The man told me you need saving,' she says with a smirk.And so we have a game about a band of women overthrowing a collection of old men who maintain a corrupt and deadly status quo. Maybe it’s capitalism.

Or maybe it’s communism. The architecture and flying cars take clear inspiration from Cuban design, and one layer of islands is named Havina. The writers seem less interested in critiquing specific political systems than highlighting how threats to crooked financial structures are like flies in a spiderweb; it’s hard to untangle from the inside working out. Missions are bookended with conversations about meeting the obligations of a system that feeds you, your family, and your employee dependents; protecting one’s own survival; and making sacrifices for the basic equity of universal human rights. What could have been a Robin Hood is a morally curious exploration of responsibility.

Contents History Before Gravity RushWhen Queen Alua fell from, her guardian, in the form of a cat, appeared and saved her from the fall. He is all she sees when she eventually wakes up.Gravity RushA black cat watches Kat awaken in the slum area of a yet unnamed town. She tells it to go away, but instead follows her around until they witness a boy being dragged into a. After helping Kat rescue the boy (named ) by giving her powers, she decides to give him the name Dusty. He soon ran off after spotting a. Later on when he runs off again, he leads Kat into a strange plane devoid of life and colour; it becomes clear at this point that Dusty is the source of Kat's powers, thus she cannot afford to lose him.As Kat leaves to find the missing part of, the city's factory district, Dusty nibbles on what appear to be cookies, but they were actually 'Nevidelic', a pesticide of sorts that kills any that consumes it. The poisonous treats severely weaken Dusty, and thus Kat's ability to shift gravity as she explores the for the lost piece of the town.

By the time she recovers it, Dusty vomits up the Nevi killer and his powers return to normal. Much later in a dream Kat has, Dusty is split into 20 copies which Kat must retrieve to fight the panther that had created. When she is jolted from her sleep, Dusty crawls out from under her bed cover.Dusty is later captured by the to prevent Kat from fleeing or resisting when they soon try to capture her. He is saved by, and soon transforms Kat into a panther to deliver the final coup de grace to the Sea Anemone and save Hekseville from impending doom.Another Story: The Ark of Time - Raven's ChoiceWhen Raven returns from the and finds the whole town in a frozen time state, Dusty leads her to Kat in front of one of the Loop Stations. His most important role in the story is when he merges with Xii to help Raven defeat the giant.Gravity Rush 2Dusty is nowhere to be seen in the opening episodes of Gravity Rush 2, leaving Kat to work the mines in pressurised suit. When a gravity storm hits, Dusty finally reappears before Kat after she chases after, who had secretly been looking after him when he, along with Kat and, first arrived through a gravity storm.

From there, he accompanies Kat throughout the whole story.When Kat makes it to Eto, he is caged up with Xii, and kept in an icy chamber where imprisoned. During the fight against the, Dusty's remaining power is drained, causing him to disappear along with Kat's remaining powers. Kat soon merges with both Dusty and Xii to form a giant Gryphon that summons countless Dusty and Xii clones to destroy the giant beast. The guardians join Kat as she heads to the bottom of the world to seal the Darkness away, with Dusty staying behind, and Xii returning to. A year later, as Raven is out patrolling the city, she hears a familiar cry. Believing it to be Dusty, she frantically searches for him as she begins to question her grip on reality. His return is ambiguously confirmed given Raven's reaction to one final cry.Characteristics AppearanceDusty appears to resemble a starry night sky that has taken a physical shape.

Of course, he takes the shape of a cat. When he radiates gravity energy, two bright red 'stars' glow (see above image) brighter than all others, giving these the appearance of a pair of eyes.AbilitiesAs a guardian, Dusty grants the power to shift gravity to his owner. His power allows his owner to float and 'fall' through the sky, use special attacks, and throw objects with a. When Kat powers up enough, Dusty gains the ability to transform into a panther for a limited time, letting Kat bound quickly through the air and do massive amounts of damage.It's shown that Dusty's true form is actually the Gryphon Guardian, which was split in half into Dusty and Xii. They have the ability to merge into a new, far more powerful form that can shoot out countless clones of the two smaller Guardians.

Its full power is used by Kat to defeat the.Appearances Gravity RushDusty appears in every episode in the game.Another Story: The Ark of Time - Raven's Choice.Gravity Rush 2 Story MissionsDusty appears in every story episode, except for the following:.Side MissionsDusty appears in most side missions. He sits out of the ', and 'Find the Idol' series of side missions, where Kat is unable to use her powers.External AppearancesDusty has made appearances in games outside of the Gravity Rush series. Everybody's Golf 6/ Hotshots Golf: World invitational - as a prop for the lobby character, and in one of Kat's victory poses. Playstation All Stars Battle Royale - appears in some of Kat's Intro & Outro animations, one Taunt, accompanies her throughout.Gallery.

Dusty alongside with Kat and others.Trivia. If you touch Dusty during the game, he will disappear and reappear. ​Also, if you touch it in Kat's house, he will meow. Strangely, if you travel too far up, down, towards, or even away from the Pillar, Dusty will teleport you back to Hekseville. He is however, less restrictive in how far Kat is allowed to travel in Jirga Para Lhao, mostly due to it's size and layout. However, Dusty will stop Kat from heading up to Douwa Hiraleon, unless she is required to go there for a mission, such as in. During, Dusty appears before Queen Alua as she falls from Eto, but the way this scene plays out suggests that he was created by, since her fall seemed to catch his attention.

In Gravity Rush 2 during Chapter 1: Banga Settlement, Dusty is finally revealed to be male, upon talking to Cecie in.in the Gravity Rush series.