40 Fun Facts About Gravity Rush

Which mysterious cat follows Kat through Gravity Rush and turns out to be the source of her powers?

Dusty is the one who actually bends gravity for Kat, a fact she discovers while saving a boy from a gravity storm. Kat later joined PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale as a downloadable fighter.

The invented language spoken in Gravity Rush's Hekseville was designed to sound like which real language?

French was the model because Keiichiro Toyama felt Japanese dubs of that country's films sounded natural. He also wrote the ending theme's lyrics in the made-up tongue.

Gravity Rush director Keiichiro Toyama made his name at Konami by creating which famous horror series?

Silent Hill left Toyama labelled a horror director, and Gravity Rush was his bid to prove he could design outside the genre.

Sony's 2012 adventure about the wall-walking heroine Kat is sold in Japan under which title?

Gravity Daze was chosen to suggest strangeness as well as the gravity premise, and Western audiences first saw the game under that name before it was retitled in 2011.

Which rival with the same powers as Kat sees her as an enemy for much of the first Gravity Rush?

Raven starts out hostile but ends up fighting at Kat's side, and by the sequel the two are partners.

Which gravity style added in Gravity Rush 2 makes Kat heavier so that her attacks hit with more impact?

Jupiter style weighs Kat down for harder hits, while its opposite, Lunar style, makes her light, fast and able to jump higher.

Gravity Rush was unveiled alongside Uncharted: Golden Abyss as an early showcase for which handheld console?

PlayStation Vita hardware was unfinished when work began, forcing the team to build the game on Windows PCs, a rarity for a first-party Sony studio.

A free costume released for Gravity Rush 2 in 2017 dresses Kat as 2B, the heroine of which game?

Nier: Automata lent Kat the look of its heroine 2B as a free download, which reached Japan about a week before the West.

Which monsters, spawned by gravity storms, does Kat battle across the city of Hekseville in Gravity Rush?

Nevi were designed to combine geometric shapes with a feeling of life, and Kat beats them by hitting their weak spots.

Kat from Gravity Rush makes a cameo appearance in which game released alongside the PlayStation 5 in 2020?

Astro's Playroom celebrates PlayStation history with cameos from many of its series, and its makers consulted the original developers on the Easter eggs.

Kat wakes up in Hekseville at the very start of Gravity Rush suffering from which condition?

Amnesia was a deliberately simple, familiar trope, picked by writer Naoko Sato to help Kat appeal to a wide audience.

In Gravity Rush, what do the people of Hekseville call those who can manipulate gravity as Kat does?

Shifters is the label Kat learns from the first friend she makes in Hekseville, a police officer she has just rescued.

Which nickname does Kat earn in Hekseville after restoring the parts of the city swallowed by spatial rifts?

Gravity Queen stuck as Kat's title, and Sony's store page for the sequel introduces her by it.

When fighting on the ground in Gravity Rush, Kat strikes at her enemies' weak spots with which attacks?

Kicks are Kat's main weapon, and when she attacks using her powers a longer run-up means more damage.

In the original handheld Gravity Rush, which physical action aims the direction in which Kat will fall?

Tilting the console steers Kat's fall, and the game leaves out any targeting reticle or auto-aim partly to keep players' attention on that motion control.

The floating city of Hekseville in Gravity Rush surrounds which gigantic structure stretching below the clouds?

The World Pillar was where the artists began, and the rest of Hekseville was designed outward from it.

Which Hekseville police officer becomes a friend to Kat after she saves him early in Gravity Rush?

Syd stays close to Kat through both games, and once the police are absorbed into the army he ends up serving in the military.

Which studio, known for remastering Shadow of the Colossus, rebuilt Gravity Rush for PlayStation 4?

Bluepoint Games raised the frame rate and upgraded the character models to the kind being built for the sequel, and the remaster bundled every DLC pack.

Kat's final look in Gravity Rush was meant to carry an exotic quality similar to which famous game heroine?

Lara Croft was the comparison because Kat was meant to have no exact origin: the design keywords were ninja, strong woman and unknown nationality.

Keiichiro Toyama had the Gravity Rush team watch which superhero film to study sluggish flight for Kat?

Hancock showed the animators a hero who lurches rather than glides, though Toyama said the story itself owed more to the 1970s anime of his childhood.

Which composer, also known for the Sakura Wars games and the One Piece anime, scored both Gravity Rush titles?

Kohei Tanaka was hired because Toyama felt only he could recall the orchestral melodies of 1970s animation, and his early music went on to shape the gameplay.

Which comics artist, illustrator of The Incal, inspired the falling scenes and art style of Gravity Rush?

Jean Giraud, also known as Moebius, drew characters falling through space in that series, images Toyama set out to emulate.

Which open-world action game did Keiichiro Toyama name as the greatest gameplay inspiration for Gravity Rush?

Crackdown shaped both the open world and the upgrade system, and one reviewer likened Kat's wall-walking to that game's climbing.

The long Japanese subtitle of Gravity Rush took its inspiration from the subtitle of which Stanley Kubrick film?

Dr. Strangelove carries a famously sprawling subtitle, and Toyama wanted a lengthy one of his own simply because it would look impressive.

The streets of Hekseville in Gravity Rush were modelled on Amsterdam and which other European capital?

Copenhagen and its Dutch counterpart supplied the mix of old buildings and modern transport, with towns across northern and eastern Europe as wider references.

Kat helps hunt which criminal in Gravity Rush, finally sending him into a garbage crusher?

Alias is tied to the monsters plaguing Hekseville, and he returns to trouble Kat in a nightmare later in the story.

When Kat returns to Hekseville after a year away in Gravity Rush, D'nelica has risen to which office?

Mayor D'nelica rules a city under martial law, and his scheme to control Hekseville with a monster-powered weapon ends with crowds demanding his resignation.

In Gravity Rush, which vessel does Kat activate to carry the lost children up from a city far beneath Hekseville?

The Ark later doubles as a weapon, when Kat and her allies summon it as a missile against a rampaging war machine.

In Gravity Rush, Kat first descends far below Hekseville to recover which item dropped by a grieving woman?

A letter, the last one the woman received from her late boyfriend, is finally handed to Kat by the boyfriend's ghost.

Gravity Rush won the 2012 Grand Prize, ahead of Skyrim and Super Mario 3D Land, at which annual ceremony?

Japan Game Awards gave it the Grand Prize during Tokyo Game Show 2012, and when a fan congratulated him online Toyama replied that he would do his best on a sequel.

Gravity Rush director Keiichiro Toyama left Sony in 2020 and co-founded which company, maker of Slitterhead?

Bokeh Game Studio marked his return to horror, and he set it up with Junya Okura, who had been the designer of Gravity Rush.

In Gravity Rush 2, Kat's uprising in the floating city of Jirga Para Lhao overthrows which usurping rulers?

The Council keeps the city's poor in line by military force until the revolt restores the people of Banga Village to their rightful rule.

Gravity Rush Remastered's limited North American disc edition was sold exclusively through which retailer?

Amazon alone stocked the disc, after the remaster had first been announced for that region as a download-only release.

Which weapon, unveiled at a Hekseville rally, goes berserk and attacks the city in Gravity Rush's finale?

Sea Anemone was sold to the public as a monster-destroyer, but once it runs wild its builder triggers a self-destruct with no thought for the city.

Which company, best known for the Rebuild of Evangelion films, animated the Gravity Rush anime Overture?

Studio Khara's short arrived weeks before the sequel came out, to fill the story gap between the two games.

Gravity Rush's first prototype tested its physics using character models borrowed from which earlier horror game?

Siren: Blood Curse was the team's previous project, and Gravity Rush's main staff were veterans of that horror series.

Brainwashed into serving the rulers of Jirga Para Lhao in Gravity Rush 2, Kat's partner fights under which name?

Night Gale is beaten and freed by Kat, and that victory sparks the uprising that topples the city's usurping rulers.

Which Sony Worldwide Studios president encouraged Keiichiro Toyama to move Gravity Rush onto a new handheld?

Shuhei Yoshida backed the switch in 2009, when the machine was in development and known inside Sony as the Next Gen Portable.

Alongside European comics, which science fiction film was a named influence on the world design of Gravity Rush?

The Fifth Element fed into the look of the city, a style one magazine later summed up as Studio Ghibli meets Charles Dickens.

Returning to Hekseville in Gravity Rush 2, Kat finds which mysterious newcomer has replaced her as the city's hero?

Kali Angel turns out to be one of two kidnapped girls whose crystal-given powers a mad scientist plans to use to stop time itself.