Track of the Week: “Resistance and Extermination” (Gravity Rush)

This became one of the hardest articles for me to write. As I selected a song from Gravity Rush, I couldn’t help but want to ditch this article and go back to playing the game. I can give you a few reasons why but I’ll save that for the review coming soon. As I started Gravity Rush, I was instantly surprised by the soundtrack. The overall feel of this game is light, and fun. Just when you think the game is about to be serious, you’ll find a silly conversation with a character around the corner, and that’s not a bad thing. The music certainly helps convey this adventure mixed with serious, light, and fun themes.

Resistance and Extermination is the theme played while engaged in combat. It combines the serious and fun feel of the game. While this music is playing, there is so much going on. Enemies are spawning, and civilians need to be protected. You can fight on the ground with your ground combos as well as float in the air and use gravity to deliver attacks. There are times where you are swarmed by enemies with your gravity bar is depleting, which leaves you fighting on the ground until it fills back up. The music delivers this feel of tension as you are fighting on the ground then in the next second or two, shifting into the gravity state to deliver an attack to a flying enemy which you might miss and try again, while a civilian is crouched over asking to be saved. All of this with Kat flying through the air, screaming, getting ready to land her Gravity Kick. This game does have a serious moment or two but overall never tends to get too serious. It’s filled with a light story, adventerous gameplay, and a world to explore, followed by a soundtrack that conveys the exact feeling you should be feeling given the scenerio. It was tough to decide on what piece I wanted to make my article about, but I believe this theme gives the listener a taste of what this game is about.