Kena: Bridge of Spirits

TriedandTested · 2 Oct 2021 at 14:54

First of all...how is there not a thread on this?!

Second. Here's a thread for this incredible game.

It's totally blown me away. Gameplay, characters, great puzzles, the story so far...and the graphics are off the chart. Stunning really. I almost let this one pass me by, but glad i didn't and have spent the day glued to it. If it keeps it up this could be my game of the year.

Couple if in-game screenshots:

smogsy · 2 Oct 2021 at 16:20

i have it but only played 3 minutes of it as heard there some bugs that block progress so held off whats it like?

Darujhistan · 2 Oct 2021 at 19:19

Skill up loved it, and he's probably doing the best game reviews anywhere right now.

TriedandTested · 2 Oct 2021 at 20:55

smogsy said:
i have it but only played 3 minutes of it as heard there some bugs that block progress so held off whats it like?

No problems at all so far. 4+ hrs in.

wunkley · 2 Oct 2021 at 20:55

Yes, v surprised there’s not been a thread already for this title.

The pc game forum generally seems a bit moribund these days.

steve45 · 2 Oct 2021 at 21:45

This wasnt even on my radar. After reading this I did a bit of digging and reading reviews and have decided to take a punt on it.
I'm definitely after light hearted, something new, something fresh. I've been playing too much War thunder recently and its turning me properly bitter!
Hopefully it delivers!

xaldub · 2 Oct 2021 at 23:15

It's a lovely looking game but it could do with some fine tuning on the boss fights which are much harder than other parts of the game. In fact, think Souls hard, or worse. Which is odd, because the rest of the game is cutesy, and plays like a Pixar movie. I find the controls a bit clunky and unresponsive at times and the parry / dodge window timings are brutal.

Random Guy Esq. · 2 Oct 2021 at 23:22

wunkley said:
Yes, v surprised there’s not been a thread already for this title.

The pc game forum generally seems a bit moribund these days.

Yeah, a lot of forums seem to be going that way unfortunately. I'd actually be in favour of merging the gaming forums on OcUK into one.

Anyway, Kena is definitely on my radar. It looks lovely!

y2ck01 · 3 Oct 2021 at 00:00

I finished this one last week. I very much enjoyed it. Don't let the Pixar graphic style fool you, it can be quite challenging.

It's fairly short compared to most titles which I think is reflected in the price. With that said what's there will definitely impress you. The graphics, world, characters and story are great. To top it off the game is complete and I personally never encountered a bug as far as I can tell.

smogsy · 3 Oct 2021 at 07:24

xaldub said:
It's a lovely looking game but it could do with some fine tuning on the boss fights which are much harder than other parts of the game. In fact, think Souls hard, or worse. Which is odd, because the rest of the game is cutesy, and plays like a Pixar movie. I find the controls a bit clunky and unresponsive at times and the parry / dodge window timings are brutal.

patch tonight fixes parry apparently

Subzero85 · 3 Oct 2021 at 09:37

Downloading it now, looks great, good thing is i believe this is the studios first full game, they were more into animation i believe, looking forward to playing it, hope they have a bright future

aardvark · 12 Oct 2021 at 12:20

i'm enjoying it, but did have to put it on story mode - its pretty hard.
The camera is not great during combat so that makes it much harder.

TriedandTested · 12 Oct 2021 at 17:09

aardvark said:
i'm enjoying it, but did have to put it on story mode - its pretty hard.
The camera is not great during combat so that makes it much harder.

I found the difficulty OK up until a certain boss. I'm a bit stuck at the moment!

xaldub · 12 Oct 2021 at 18:50

TriedandTested said:
I found the difficulty OK up until a certain boss. I'm a bit stuck at the moment!

I'm assuming you've just come across

Corrupted Taro

?

Tombstone · 28 Oct 2021 at 16:04

Not my usual sort of game this but have been playing it this week and have to say its one of the prettiest games I've ever seen

8myers8 · 28 Oct 2021 at 16:31

Am going to wait till it is on steam store , if it ever does ...really like the look off it .

syks · 28 Oct 2021 at 17:18

Forgot about this game, where can i cop it please? as guess its not on steam?

Edit...ahh i found it lol

smogsy · 14 Nov 2021 at 09:03

anyone finished this? was it worth it? i bought it but not played more than 10 minutes yet

xaldub · 14 Nov 2021 at 19:11

smogsy said:
anyone finished this? was it worth it? i bought it but not played more than 10 minutes yet

Yup, I've finished it. It's an audio/visual treat and would probably be my GOTY if it wasn't for the difficulty which is all over the place. Bosses are very hard, almost Dark Souls hard. And the "normal" difficulty" isn't really ... it's almost identical to "expert".

smogsy · 14 Nov 2021 at 19:45

xaldub said:
Yup, I've finished it. It's an audio/visual treat and would probably be my GOTY if it wasn't for the difficulty which is all over the place. Bosses are very hard, almost Dark Souls hard. And the "normal" difficulty" isn't really ... it's almost identical to "expert".

apparently fixed in a patch so may try it BUT my wife really wants to play it but only plays on the XBOX so everytime she sees it she gives me daggers

its only on PS5