![]() Draw on the power of the Spirit Realm to restore this once-majestic world. Explore: A forgotten village and a strange curse.Build Your Team: Find and collect Rot to gain powerful abilities, make discoveries, and transform the environment.They maintain balance by decomposing dead and rotting elements. Timid and illusive spirits scattered throughout the forest. She struggles to uncover the secrets of this forgotten community hidden in an overgrown forest where wandering spirits are trapped. ![]() Kena, a young Spirit Guide, travels to an abandoned village in search of the sacred mountain shrine. Players find and grow a team of tiny spirit companions called the Rot, enhancing their abilities and creating new ways to manipulate the environment. ![]() Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a story-driven action adventure set in a charming world rich with exploration and fast-paced combat. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2023This product entitles you to download both the digital PS4™ version and the digital PS5™ version of this game. Between the Switch's vast copy/paste re-release library and the PS5/Xbox's many odd simulator and niche/generic titles, this generation is off to a bit of a slow start. I hope this indie studio make a lot more games, fresh and original games like this are strongly needed this generation. Her little rot friends are able to heal and reverse this.Īge rating, I'd say 10 or 12+ based on some of it's more somber themes and slightly darker/menacing looking enemies. There's also a corruption caused by these malevolent spirits that is poisoning her village and land, killing the tree's and grass. The story deals with spirits and death, your character Kena is a spirit medium or guide that can interact with the dead - helping them move on from 'limbo', but also must stop lingering evil or malevolent spirits. On master spirit guide, some bosses are like those from Elden Ring but harder as perfect parry timing is needed and death comes in 1 - 2 hits. And then on the hardest difficulty (master spirit guide) it will give veteran souls/borne/ring players a tough run for their money, trust me. This game has an easy difficulty for those that want to enjoy the story or may be younger. For an indie game, this won't be finished in under 30hrs unless you rush through it on easy difficulty neglecting most collectibles. There's even a trial area to complete difficult challenges for unlockables and a new game+ mode. The collectibles extend to rot hats, costumes for Kena, unlockable perks or attacks, masks and charms that give passive abilities. These range from binding enemies and heavy power attacks to a bow and using blue healing flowers in the battle area's. You also gain some abilities from the little cute 'rot' creatures you find that become your companions. You can lock on, do a weak or strong attack and evade or parry. In terms of gameplay, there's some exploration and platforming/climbing mixed with a little puzzle solving and quite decent combat. The music uses Japanese wind instruments, sparing tribal drums and delicate bell/wind pads to give a meditative and lonely vibe perfectly fitting for exploring lonely ancient woodland where spirits remain. The sound and music is very nice, whether it's the voice acting or fitting music. This is what Zelda: Breath of the wild should look like by now, yet sadly fails to still relying on decades old washed out cel shading. ![]() The animation is also very nice, flawless actually, the dense trees and grass move on the wind and Kena's combat is smooth as butter as she transitions from one move to the next, there's no jank here. Visually, it's one of the best looking games I've seen, vibrant, sharp details and full of colour and texture (grass, tree's, sky box in the distance) plus the characters. And gives a vibe similar to the early PS1/N64 games like Crash Bandicoot or Ocarina of Time, mixed with a Disney or Dreamworks movie. For a somewhat early next gen title, it does the PS5 justice. Nothing negative to really say about this.
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