Kena: Bridge of Spirits

A beautiful game with adorable companions, an interesting story, beautiful visuals and an incredible soundtrack. It takes some time to get into, and the bosses can be hard, but it is a great experience.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits
✪ {ᏚᏟᏫᏒᎬ : 8.2}
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᯽ : “this was such a beautiful game. from it's absolutely beautiful soundtrack and the masterwork of it's animations and cinematics, to its intense gameplay and it's cute artsyle, everything was crafted with care and love and you could absolutely tell.
i came in blind so i didn't expect it to be a souls-like game, but it was honestly a welcome surprise. the balance it found between it's absolute adorableness and it's crazy intensity really worked together and made for something unique.
i really really liked it.
and wiredly enough it was actually the first souls-like game I've ever actually finished.”

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🝰 | 𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶𝚂

• Story : 6.6
𐄁 Characters : 6.8
𐄁 Voice Acting : 7.7

• Atmosphere : 8.3
𐄁 Immersion : 8.0
𐄁 Intensity : 8.7

• Gameplay : 8.5
𐄁 Combat : 8.6
𐄁 AI : 7.9
𐄁 Movement : 4.6
~ the slow walking animation looks awkward and walk/run/sprint animations snap on and off. her head is also too stiff.
platforming is very consistent at being inconsistent and controlling the water monster thing is wired too.
𐄁 Navigation : 5.6
~ it can be very hard figuring out where you need to go at times. map isn't always very helpful and it's blank at parts, you can't mark things on it neither.
• Level Design : 8.3
𐄁 Pacing : 7.8
𐄁 Puzzles : 6.9
𐄁 Difficulty : Hard

• Visuals : 8.6
𐄁 Textures : 7.1
𐄁 Lighting : 8.8
• Environment Design : 8.5
⋆ Cinematography : 9.6

⋆ Animations : 9.1
𐄁 Movement Animations : 8.8
⋆ Facial Animations : 9.1
⋆ Combat Animations : 9.2

⋆ SoundTrack : 9.2
• Sound Design : 8.6

• Performance : ￪￪￬
~ i ran into ALOT of invisible loading walls, they took very long to load too. a few crazy frame drops, some textures loading in late or not loading in and stuff like that. nothing too gamebreaking tho.

⎆ 𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝚂⬎
• Side Content : -
𐄁 Customization : 7.6
𐄁 Replayability : 7.4
𐄁 Innovation : ⍟⍟
𐄁 Accessibility : ⍟
𐄁 Setting Options : ⍟⍟⍟⍟
~ i love it's photo mode! so many cool tools.
𐄁 UI/HUD : 7.2
𐄁 Extras : ꭗ
𐄁 Collectibles : 6.0
𐄁 Trophies : 6.8
~ thankfully i could glitch through the master difficulty one, otherwise I'd probably end up crazy.

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？| 𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂

𐄁 Do i recommend this game? 100%.
𐄁 Did it make me take my time with it? yes.
𐄁 Did it meet my expectations? went above and beyond.

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〄 | 𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽

- Platforms : PS4 Pro
- First Playthrough : 17.9.23
𐄁 Finished at : 19.9.23
𐄁 Playtime : 11h 39m′
𐄁 Difficulty : Spirit Guide
- Beaten : 1 time
- Trophy Progress : 100℅ ᩶
⟆⟅ | Platinumed on 20.9.23

Excellent game. Kinda hard for me, since I’m not really into Soul type games

Played on: Playstation 5
Version: Playstation 5
Edition: Digital

Brilliant. I absolutely loved this game & it is pathetic that an indie title that came out of nowhere beats the fuck out of Triple A titles. It is extremely polished & a lot larger than I expected. The story is fantastic, the score is euphoric, & the gameplay & the characters that inhabit it are some of the best in recent memory.

Final verdict: Buy it

Feel like I'm missing something with this one. The world is beautiful there's no doubt but the story is kinda eh and the movement and combat just don't feel responsive enough for what it asks of the player. If I die I want it to be because I messed up not because my roll didn't have i-frames that time for some reason.

Maybe I'll dive back in one day but when a dude started being able to heal to full mid fight I decided that was enough.

Well, I did beat it. Upgrading it to a 5 but can't really go any higher I don't think because the start of the game is just too much of a slog to excuse. I wish it had done something like Kingdom Hearts 2 Critical Mode where you get the cool shit early on the hardest difficulty, but alas.

I would die for the rot babies