Kena: Bridge of Spirits Xbox Series X | S Review - The Final Verdict

When it first launched for PlayStation consoles and PC, Kena: Bridge of Spirits may not have set anybody’s world on fire, but it was received well enough for the many strengths that it did possess- strengths that Xbox players are now going to have the chance to experience.
Ember Lab’s action- adventure title has arrived on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One at long last, three years on from its original release, and it’s a solid game that fans of the genre looking for an engaging experience should pick up. Kena: Bridge of Spirits isn’t the most original game you’ll play, and some might find it a bit too straightforward in its design, but there’s more than enough here for players to enjoy, including its charming visuals, gorgeous setting, and more.

[@GreyEagle]

It's a great game, 100% recommend

[@DEVILTAZ35]

If your expectations are low it’s alright . Lack of any foliage interaction ruined it for me as theirs is just Zero immersion . Maybe there is on high end PC?

[@AcceFIN]

Totally agree. Great game!

[@spaidakula]

I am playing it know on my pc it's very good pc port if play with a ps3 controller. If tell ut ps4 it still works

[@shrekrealista5045]

This game is 100% fun, I loved every minute ❤

[@ZakiHaider-y9o]

@@shrekrealista5045 not as good as wukong

[@Deedric_Kee]

I just finished replaying a month ago on my PS5 and 65"4K 2.1 TV. It's a fantastic game. I got 92% done before I finished it. 👍

[@trendzsetta4374]

Who cares 🤣😂

[@504Trey]

U said all that extra irrelevant detail like somebody is supposed to care 💀

[@SteelSquare]

NOBODY needed those extra details my guy

[@yannpafemy]

Glad to see that xbox owner can enjoy this game. I was totally surprised how really good this game is.

[@mateosimon4237]

This game visually is really a masterpiece🥇

[@mtnman8783]

Great game. Absolute joy to play

[@azzart979]

This and Guardians of the galaxy are probably the most enjoyable games I played on Steam Deck these past two years. I can't reccomend them enough. 😬

[@SoulixStories]

Mannn I absolutely loved Guardians of the Galaxy you just made me wanna play it again lmao

[@rycmrc]

Hope they can make a souls-like game as vibrant as this

[@michaelboys2602]

Really want to play this but the framerate seems a bit jittery. Or is this footage on fidelity mode?

[@Keyfram3d]

Is it just me or did the frame rate seem to stutter in the reviews footage?

[@simonknight30]

Really enjoyed this game to the end

[@sagepirotess6312]

I think the story is fine. Your issue, as you stated, you played and reviewed it before, hence wanted a different or new experience.

[@pixeljauntvr7774]

lol no. stop putting words in other peoples mouths.

[@sagepirotess6312]

@@pixeljauntvr7774 what he said it himself. He said he played it on ps. So his playthrough, story a second time was meh. Simular to the reviewer who did rune factory 5 on two systems. So a bias review.

[@davidm2168]

Sprinkle with pony salt review.. No professionalism in so called journalism anymore..

[@koerel]

Didn't really like this game back when I played it on PS5. The one thing it has going for it is how it looks. It's a gorgeous game with great animation and atmosphere, as the reviewer mentions. But the actual gameplay never really worked for me, and it's not just because of the shallow and somewhat repetitive combat, but more the overall feel of the game. All of the traversal and overall movement in the game feels kind of stiff and choppy which I never managed to get used to. You can sort of tell this game was made by people who previously only did animation work because they still seem to have some things to learn about how to make a game feel good to play. They should probably try doing what Shigeru Miyamoto's team did early in the development of Super Mario 64 where they basically locked Mario in an empty room and didn't let him out until the player was able to have fun just controlling the character without anything else present 😅

[@Milkiy-Hazard]

Environments looked the same, puzzles were boring. The highlight was the final boss.

[@robchuk4136]

Now this is an honest review. I agree about the repetitive combat, but that's a good point about how the movement and traversal "feels." As a first-time studio, i didn't hold this against them too much, but over time, yea, it contributed to me not enjoying it as much as I hoped I would.

[@xFilter1967]

It’s a wonderful game!!

[@roschy1003]

Can't wait 🤘

[@mattfayne9691]

He titles the video ''SERIES X'' review and then says he's not sure what the FPS is on Series X. facepalm!!!

[@Keyfram3d]

It definitely looks stuttery. Enough for me to wait on a patch

[@soshady9572]

It's their upload. I'm playing on the Series X now and both modes are rock solid.

[@Keyfram3d]

@@soshady9572 thanks for the info!

[@DEVILTAZ35]

‘A solid port’ would indicate parity with PS5 so how do you explain it is worse looking in both modes on Series X compared to PS5? By a rather considerable margin too. Xbox is missing mid to distant ambient occlusion leaving areas in light that should be dark. It also has most of the forest canopy removed when you look up where both PS5 and PC have proper coverage. Details like fern fronds are lacking in detail as well looking like they are partially missing on Xbox consoles. This is disgraceful with a further 12 months development time that yet again Xbox owners get shafted with inferior quality. The most likely explanation is the Series S settings as draw distance on Series X is very close to series S and not PS5 in either mode. Laziness by the developer in optimisation seems to be the main issue though. It was just easier to just phone in the settings between S and X than bother to go for parity with PS5. Oddly no version has any foliage interaction dramatically affecting the immersion whilst playing. Unless this is an option on maxed out PC version perhaps? Even though the PS5 version is better looking it doesn’t stop the game from being a repetitive bore anyhow.

[@acevedoaandres]

The game is ok , no more no less. Forget the playstation fanboys hype, is adequate.

[@mattfayne9691]

PLAY TILL THE LAST BOSS THEN QUIT. Was great until the last boss. The final boss is harder than ANY boss I ever faced in Dark Souls or Elden Ring!!! The fight goes on WAAAAY too damn long with ZERO checkpoints. One failure, you're starting all over again from the beginning. This is when I said oh hell no...DELETE!!! Moved on to a different game.

[@cornell9355]

I kid you not I have no idea how it happened but I was playing the hardest difficulty for the achievement. And when I got to the last boss. I came across some bug or something and I didn’t take any damage what so ever during the last boss beat the game and got my achievement.

[@bigored1990]

Video games

[@hecticworld4692]

Gamepass or not buying after 3 years later.

[@Eufeion]

Maybe support the developers, instead of wanting everything in Game Pass

[@SoulixStories]

@@EufeionI say that all the time lol ppl won’t pay to support developers but they’ll turn around and say no games release because they aren’t added to game pass for them to play

[@GoldenCaLiber]

Not everything needs to be on gamepass. How about buy a game instead?

[@bigored1990]

Story easy

[@DRE2XL]

Sony should of bought this studio, this game was impressive

[@roschy1003]

Sony has no money for acquisitions more

[@FreakinSweet1987]

Xbox fans: "Have fun with your baby game, ponies!" Also Xbox fans: "Another game added to the Xbox library! Congrats on losing a great exclusive, ponies!"

[@matthall7359]

Another Sony fan who has to have fun by being obsessed with Xbox because ps5 has no exclusives very sad to see

[@FreakinSweet1987]

@@matthall7359 Video game collector of 25+ years. Own every console and handheld from the Atari 2600 onward. Just like calling out pathetic, hypocritical fanboys that shit talk games until they come to their console.

[@roschy1003]

​@@FreakinSweet1987 Of course

[@chr463]

It was always a timed exclusive, lol

[@matthall7359]

@@FreakinSweet1987 all those video games and you still gotta make people up to feel smug about

[@archangel2015]

Yet another gamingbolt review where they trash the game while sort of praising it. You know the only reason this three year old game is being released on the Xbox X/S is because Microsoft kept pestering the developers to release it on there system as well.

[@rjjeffreys]

I have especially dislked this particular GB reviewer, since day one here.

[@megilacuttyjones735]

Lol. Pestering. I highly HIGHLY doubt Xbox cares that much about a kena release. They released it on Xbox because exclusives arent doing well on PlayStation 5...so yea that's the reason...not because it's such a big release xbox wanted it so bad😂😂😂. I don't think it'll sell well on Xbox because honestly the game isn't that great. I own a sx and PS5...my bro got me this game awhile back and it wasn't that good.

[@SoulixStories]

lol ps5 giving out 1 crappy exclusive doesn’t mean they do crappy they do a lot better than Xbox. Plus Xbox gave PlayStation more than one exclusive so if PlayStation is doing bad Xbox is in turmoil cause they can’t even compete with switch. Not to mention thin Phil has openly said he wants PlayStation exclusives and openly said that Xbox lost in last place. Yeah PlayStation doing so bad lmao

[@Nedk82]

This game was fantastic gamingbolt has horrible taste.

[@lordxboss5700]

@@SoulixStories60million PS5 and games selling less than 1million copies is bad 😢those Xbox games released on PS5 sold way more copies than Kena 🤯

[@jegjrtp87]

Xbox players won't buy it.

[@SteveNaranjo]

I already did

[@Will0502]

Pre ordered.

[@MarioRodriguez-fw1nb]

Sames as ps5 players

[@jegjrtp87]

@@MarioRodriguez-fw1nb wrong. Go away

[@shadowsnake3867]

They won't buy it as it may end up on game pass. It's a great game not on the level of Zelda but you will have fun.

[@KeshawnDancer-q6o]

A PlayStation exclusive came too the great Xbox 😂😂 pony not going to like this now just waiting on Spider-Man the last of us and god of war and other exclusive 😈😈😈😈😈😈🤣🤣 time for pony too cry🎉

[@chr463]

Was always a timed exclusive Xbert, 😂😂😂😂😅😂😂 Pssst GOW, TLOU, Spiderman, HFW never coming to Xbox

[@johnnyg1237]

Who cares? Both companies are getting away from exclusivity anyways. Its time to stop arguing about which one is better.

[@onehitsword6800]

I played because it was on Sony Service. I get bored with very quickly.

[@Milkiy-Hazard]

Environments looked the same, puzzles were boring. The highlight was the final boss.