Kena: Bridge of Spirits Developers React to 25 Minute Speedrun

Even though it just released earlier this year, speedrunners have already found ways to beat Kena: Bridge of Spirits in under 30 minutes. Ride along with members of the Kena: Bridge of Spirits development team from Ember Labs as they watch their game get completely broken by speedrunner SwiftShadow.
Participating in the commentary from Ember Labs are: Josh Grier (Producer/Writer), Tyler Kirk (Engineer), and James Beck (Combat Designer & Animator).
Check out more from speedrunner SwiftShadow here:
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#IGN #DevsReact #Kena

[@dragonitepnw]

You guys should be very proud of this game. It was beyond refreshing from what else is out there. It’s beautiful.

[@Triforce9426]

Beat the game on master spirit guide difficulty last night. Don't let the Pixar aesthetic fool you, when it comes to bosses this is becomes a Dark Souls game.

[@Carlisho]

To me inexperience is the biggest difficulty additive in this game, Master was actually easier than Normal. Its all about knowing enemy weaknesses and attack patterns to hit those parries.

[@TheJasonmanguy]

@@Carlisho which is exactly how Dark Souls difficulty works. If you know when to roll and where to stick next to bosses they are laughable exploitable.

[@sk8reru]

whats the sauce for your pfp

[@Carlisho]

@@TheJasonmanguy yeah exactly

[@phantompain9944]

@@sk8reru its joker from persona 5

[@mikevilla1694]

You can really hear the duality of the creators, one side is like that so cool wow!! While the other side saying ooh we need to patch that.

[@EmberLab]

hahaha you're so right! 🧡

[@RBAWintrow]

People like the game so much they learned every possible secret to speedrun it. That is dedication and passion!

[@breakthecode4634]

@Broadway Dad no it wouldnt. It would make them want to solve a new puzzle.

[@kevinb5417]

@@breakthecode4634 Speedrunners will often just play on an older patch if developers patch out the tech they use.

[@breakthecode4634]

@@kevinb5417 that or just try a new challenge.

[@l_am_Cloud]

“Come on Toshi, do your worst!” Toshi: Continues to do nothing

[@DaPunkNdFunk]

Congratulations for the speedrun, and outstanding job you guys! The game was really fun!

[@metallicafan416]

Congrats for what exactly

[@Arnell_Mediocrity_Long]

Just beat this game today. It was an enjoyable experience.

[@anshitgupta1294]

Exact same here

[@Arnell_Mediocrity_Long]

@@anshitgupta1294 Nice!

[@Youre-absolutely-right]

how long is the normal playtime my man? Thanks in advance!

[@LittlefootOnthetrail16]

@@Youre-absolutely-right 8-10 hours. It took me 15 hours to do a 100% playthrough on the master spirit guide to open the platinum trophy.

[@Arnell_Mediocrity_Long]

@@Youre-absolutely-right About 8 hours give or take. If you're trying to do everything then it's almost double that.

[@lieutenantpepper2734]

best debugging session for those devs

[@EmberLab]

🧡🧡🧡

[@ivanleon6164]

how many jira tickets created from this video? lol.

[@mrak592]

Such an amazing emotional ride game ever but look swift just breaks the record of everyone by doing speed run of it Congratlations

[@googlymoogly6422]

Amazing first game from your studio. Can't wait to play more in the future

[@bizzarboxx2642]

Please release a new game+!

[@Innocenceii]

This game was a joy to play! The Bosses we're definitely Dark Souls Level for sure tho😭😂 James Beck (Combat Designer) Huge shoutout! And outstanding work to the whole team for a great experience edit: Easy mode is so painful to watch

[@themostwanted774]

Ohh heyy Innocenceii :D really great to see you here! Love your videos man! :D

[@monkmell]

Hey! Don’t knock it… some people (me!) really need that level. 😅😊

[@JLH111176]

looked like an epic final boss battle

[@Kcbzobear]

Insanely beautiful game! Really enjoyed my play-through, also a big fan of this series !

[@chooktin78]

This is probably the most interesting speedrun I’ve seen. The game is incredible too.

[@kzx414]

Speedrunners are underappreciated. They literally comb the game in and out to find glitches/bugs so the devs can make a better game next time or make it more enjoyable for the fans. I'm sure if another game comes out they'll surely learn to fix these glitches before releasing it.

[@geoffbaumgartner5335]

Loved the game, and* bravo to Ember Lab, but it took me like 25 Hours to get everything, and I'm stuck at 90% with Trophies since these guys patched out the Master Mode Exploit... and it's not gonna happen for me the legit way. New Game Plus, guys???

[@Stillhovering]

25 minutes ? Wow just wow

[@italoa.9168]

my GOTY, for sure. Great speedrun and congrats, Ember Lab, for this awesome game

[@bossbabydotone1174]

Love how everyone is quiet when the bosses just stand there getting attacked easily.

[@axelbrians]

always love the developer react series

[@fredcustodio5078]

How do they know those shortcuts and triggers to glitch? Impressive

[@Ryard89]

Git gut scrub

[@forthehomies7043]

Cannot wait for the future of Ember Labs in the game world

[@visual_chris]

What an amazing first game.. so fleshed and amazing (looking) Thank you guys

[@fraktux]

Well, devs gonna have to fix many things after watching this.

[@DillyDabblez]

It's funny hearing the devs be like "H-HOW DID HE DO THAT, YOU SEE THAT?"

[@caramelzappa]

As long as the bugs presented here don't effect players during normal gameplay, there's no reason to patch them.

[@nicks3401]

This game was phenomenal. Thanks, devs!

[@ngovandang1997]

Devs mind: In Kena2 we will remove jump and dash features 🤣

[@spideyprince7077]

Devs mind, we have to make the out of bounds area nice too XD

[@riyaan_za8055]

Would definitely like to experience this game

[@Explore531]

hope you make Kena 2 Beyond Bridge of Spirits, you guys awesome thanks for making me enjoying the game

[@Espeedy80]

This game is Amazing

[@brickweathertop7907]

Eh pretty mediocre gameplay. Cool graphics tho

[@Azrael5677]

@@brickweathertop7907 this game is basically "discounted _version of legend of Zelda breath of the wild" don't u think so Zelda has stylized graphics still it looks better and has better gameplay.

[@SleepTightEgger]

@@Azrael5677 in what way is this game anything like botw aside from freeing some spirits

[@toooydoeur]

@@Azrael5677 this is better than botw

[@freezeframeplease]

me: watches the intro backflipping me: ocarina of time ptsd flashbacks

[@danielesquivel9326]

Shoutouts to the homie SwiftShadow

[@vugolol]

Gotta love out of bounds that skip 95% of the game LOL

[@markpotter9096]

One of the most beautiful games

[@OsuOverlord]

This game is such an eyecandy and really so beautiful!

[@ZBlinkZ]

Thinking of playing this, what experience do you guys have with it? Is it fun?

[@badisgood5335]

Way better than GTA VI

[@fartyfat6539]

Its bit on the shorter side (since it was made by a small studio) but the game feels, looks, and plays like a AAA action/platformer game.

[@bobdole2184]

9/10

[@belindaa9733]

Great game but master difficulty is ridiculous for anyone who hasn't played dark souls kind of games.

[@sup3rAVATARtlafAN]

Great game, graphics are phenomenal and the story is short but sweet. Definitely worth playing

[@JJsiN84]

Loved this game, nothing wrong with players finding creative ways to beat the game. Thats what speed running is all about. Takes so much trial and error then of course skill.

[@dighad3824]

so this game has 2 unskippable cutscenes, at the beginning and the end. that's neat

[@karadiina3257]

"Hes going to get the rock what a nice guy.....oh...."😂😂😂😂

[@visual_chris]

Amazing game .. hope to see a dlc sometime in the future

[@tzisorey]

Wow - that opening reminds me a LOT of the opening to Raya and the Last Dragon - but knowing how long it takes to accomplish anything in both game and movie production, I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

[@badelmo7021]

Hey, you should ask Ready At Dawn to react to the world record run of Lone Echo. It's an amazing run with many many glitches

[@audun1234567890]

What a beautiful game!

[@literally0-0]

How come he has toshi mask without beating adira?

[@pgp]

At least Kena looks gangsta lol

[@moha1911]

Amazing game !

[@leonvaleeni2487]

Are they forcing ads for every video again?

[@tabouna5823]

are we having a part 2 ?

[@braces11111]

9:26 - 9:35 how does he teleport?

[@DracoSura]

Why are the bosses not attacking the player?

[@Carlisho]

Lowest difficulty

[@nubiiiii]

Story mode not expert or let's say the lowest difficult(Very Easy Mode)

[@satibel]

It seems they are staggering the boss

[@WeirdAmerica219]

Man this guy completely game freaked their game lol 😂

[@beastritualist9734]

Hate when they do these, they're gonna get patched out lmao. Nah, love the video

[@andrewscott985]

Kena - I've seen things more disturbing than your most feared enemy. Player - Really? And what could that actually be? Kena - Untextured geometry. Player - 😱😱😱

[@DarthLordRaven]

so they did patch this.

[@cattigereyes1]

Games ate getting short

[@andeeznation]

Umm this just came out….. how

[@christrengrove]

Great game and a great video

[@icalculi]

SQA reacts?

[@nightal78]

You make it, they breck it

[@whatwespinning]

they watched this then still patched skips that didn’t effect casual players. L on the devs

[@RAWRMAND0]

I'm just taking advantage of the loopholes you provided me.

[@heartlessginger9465]

Can anyone explain how to do that flying exploit?

[@clarathesassy]

We stack the pause menu and photomode menu on top of each other, then we do to a ledge and do a dash after we've lined it up. We then time a pose+opening up photomode again to extend our dash without losing any height.

[@heartlessginger9465]

@@clarathesassy pardon another question but what's the button combination if possible. Like how do you stack the menu? I've been trying to do for a couple hours and can't seem to figure it out

[@chibi.k.o.3968]

Limp Bizkit - Rollin

[@SuperVMFG]

Heey devs can you put in the NG+ option? THAAANKS

[@Elibbb-sx3kg]

Is this the krusty krab ?

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

No this is patrick

[@istoryaquin4518]

Jak vibes

[@clawtoris]

what is this? lol. is this current patch or beta?

[@CasepbX]

And people say this game isn't short! 🙄

[@ThatFreikugel]

Speedrunners will always amaze me

[@kkio8258]

Miss opportunity to make the title *Kena* *Bridge* *of* *Speedrun*

[@StrikerSionis]

This is fake where are the fields and taro tree bosses huh

[@GoFigure]

Devs should hire speed runners so they won't be 'grossed' by their creations

[@ardalanafra5261]

its in story mode aka easy mode

[@galatasaray984]

ahw man who dares ² ''crack'' this beautiful game:(

[@FrostRare]

Lmao surprised the engineer didn’t get fired on camera

[@ProjectCodex]

why?

[@Stu-pot]

Why would they? They made such an amazing game. It was a great experience playing it

[@Muskar2]

Making your single-player game exploit-free might be appealing for the perfectionist, but what does the average player really get out of it, rather than a more expensive game?

[@rhyboy1]

Why do all the bosses look broken?

[@greatman2196]

Hey how long did it took you developer's to make a 25 min game 😆 🤣 😂

[@bubba1682]

It's a shame it sounds like the Devs are making a list of ways to stop the processes the Speedrunner is taking rather than just really enjoying it.

[@fartyfat6539]

Because one of the major part of game developing is to fix up bugs that may lessen the intended gaming experience to the players. Sure its cool you can just roll over to avoid events in speed-runs, but what if a regular player accidentally roll over pass those events?

[@bubba1682]

@@fartyfat6539 It takes very specific methodology to do most of these speedrunning strats. This group of Devs have already decided to remove things that were incredibly difficult to get to and only used by Speedrunners in the first week of the release.

[@InsertLogic]

I've been in talks with one of the devs and they shared their interest in the run and have stated that the devs want to keep the speedrun enjoyable and keep it's integrity. Speedrunners are safe with this game.

[@goodcat132]

Took me 26 hours to beat the game on 100%

[@millamaxwell7781]

Fun looking game

[@vprrealtor6244]

Dude, you abused the rolling feature of the game.😂

[@Seriesfan1]

Please IGN tells Devs to please port this to the Switch

[@niel_u]

With that graphics though, you'll fry up your switch 😂

[@Seriesfan1]

@@niel_u a man can only dream 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@chestahkillah]

Ps plus game soon

[@VelocityRoss]

This was a joy to watch😅

[@joedorben3504]

They should've just named this game Horizon: Breath of the Dark Blind Forest Souls to be honest

[@LittleRedRubberDuck]

Beautiful game :)

[@rains2693]

This game is quite difficult to achieve a trophy. Fans avoid it. In recent games, trophies are becoming easier, so please refer to it in the production of KENA2.

[@breakthecode4634]

It's called a trophy for a reason. Not a participation ribbon

[@DarthLordRaven]

nah only the master difficulty is pretty hard

[@yobro2796]

They seem salty

[@breakthecode4634]

If anything they seems intrigued. Not at all salty.

[@godmaster2209]

Please do Hollow Knight ❤️

[@taimermega6447]

Dope

[@Dreamybloo101]

Awesome

[@Rinrin-ms3lp]

Kena? More like Get Hit, amirite amirite?

[@user73955-b]

Yes, it correct. Get Hit is English translation from Kena (in Indonesian Language)

[@Rinrin-ms3lp]

@@user73955-b Yeah, i'm trying to make a pun, i'm an Indonesian btw

[@marcusmeins1839]

Fix the bugs XD

[@sreeshnelp]

[@JournalistGamer]

Easy mode...

[@Random-mt4jt]

damn

[@ello20000]

Pog!

[@Nightwalker601]

Yawn

[@manny3918]

This was not a speed run lol, he literally skipped majority of the bosses using glitches.

[@sharpkatana1178]

Is this the first time you've ever watched a speedrun? If it said "glitchless"then your comment would be valid. Speedrunners can you glitches unless stated otherwise.

[@almightygod87]

Is this your first time watching a Speedrun?

[@filipkolasny908]

Watch a glitchless speedrun then

[@AMV_KINGDOM_mv]

....you must not watch alot of Speedrun the glitches Speedrun are the most prominent because they take levels of skill some people don't how and some have to be perfectly executed

[@marenelinea]

Lol

[@Catnapper1769]

luar biasa

[@isaiahholcomb3055]

Beautiful graphics, but boring especially when you compare to games like horizon zero dawn!

[@MrMagoor]

most boring game ive ever played . This should be movie , not a game ...

[@brazzilianboy]

Whatta bad coding 😀