Kina: Review of the Bridge of Souls
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What is it? A game about saving souls by defeating them and yielding.
Estimated payment: 40 USD/32 GBP
Developer: Embers Lab
Publisher: Embers Lab
Comment time: GeForce GTX 1650, AMD Ryzen 5 3550H, 8 GB RAM
multiplayer game: not any
release date: September 21, 2021
Association: Epic Games Store
Keener: “Bridge of Souls” is a bystander, and Pixar, which has been flying around, makes sense to some extent. The lush world and its big-eyed residents exude individuality. Even the corrupt bulbs that plague this land are strangely attractive. Keener made Hollywood look down, but it also made Hollywood determined to stay safe.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits may look like a Zelda game at first glance, but it is a major linear action-adventure game that takes place on a large map, and you rarely need to backtrack your steps. In any case, the map is dotted with warp points, and the game is automatically saved periodically, so you will never be in danger of losing too much progress or repeatedly crossing the same blank area. It allows the story to evolve in 8 to 10 hours of running time, without much friction except for some potentially tricky battles, depending on the difficulty you choose. Overall, “Bridge of Souls” is a pleasant voyage through the waters of the familiar action platform.
Kaina herself is a spiritual mentor. Her job is to help the soul leave the mortal world. This means looking for relics in harmony with the souls in the three areas, cleansing up corruption and defeating the less friendly souls on the way. Looking for personal items to gently move the soul, I can understand, but repeatedly tapping them on the face with a stick? It looks very unorthodox, but I think it shows my understanding of the spirit.
(Image source: Ember Lab)
The battle, there are many of them, works well, but I can’t be more enthusiastic about it. There are light attack, heavy attack, block and parry, as well as other unlocking abilities (including the bow, which becomes essential in combat, for the switch used in light traversal puzzles).Although some enemies require specific tactics to defeat, or defeat Effectively, Generally speaking, it is a bit button-like. Arenas are often quite small, and enemies often approach from outside the camera, which is of no avail. I ended up avoiding a lot.
The little creatures that accompany you on your journey are called rotting, they are good gods LovelyYou can sit down and enjoy or play with them at any time, but they also have practical uses. In battle, you can recharge “courage”, allowing you to distract the enemy, help destroy the enemy’s spawn point, or activate an unlocked ability (such as the Hammer of Corruption, which can be removed from the enemy’s health bar Take out a large piece). Wandering on the main road sometimes generates new small followers, which is very suitable for my game style. I must admit that Rot is really useful sometimes; a boss made me very frustrated, I went underground as soon as I got close, until I realized that I could order my lovely army to fix it for a few seconds, and I was hit a bit.
(Image source: Ember Lab)
The next one is rot?
When exploring the main world, decay is also essential. They are used to destroy corrupt areas that hinder your advancement, and you can order them (at specific points) to throw switches or carry items. There are some clever implementations of this, but generally speaking, the potential here has not yet been fully explored.
The basic problem with Kena, which can be seen almost everywhere, is that you have done almost everything provided here a hundred times before. The battle is very familiar, and the enemy has luminous weaknesses. There are huge flowers as grab points. There are targets to shoot within the time limit. As with tradition, the ledges you can grab are marked with signs that I can only assume it is bird droppings. The strategic use of game design conventions is not a bad thing in itself, but Kena cannot go beyond conventions in any area.
This story feels a bit incomplete-cutscenes are sometimes considered deleted scenes from movies I haven’t seen, and none of the characters are particularly fulfilling, especially Kaina herself-but it does generate enough curiosity, Makes me want to move forward. On the surface, this is another traditional choice: the village and land are destroyed by magic and evil, and the soul needs help to leave the world. However, it does not throw its theme to you like a pie, like a pie full of emotional life suggestions, and many media feel guilty about it. Its comments on sadness — and the terrible things people do when driven by that dark engine — are gently pushed towards the player and are easily recognized as daily facts.
(Image source: Ember Lab)
Art and story help support the so-so gameplay, but there are still battles and platform highlights to discover. In the end one of the bosses is very good, forcing you to constantly look around and switch between bow and arrow and staff. Once you unlock it, sticky bombs can also confuse things. It is useful in combat (and mandatory for one type of enemy), but it is also used in some traversal puzzles. The explosion will temporarily throw fragments into the air, which means you need to quickly jump from one brick to another (and sometimes you need to rotate them with properly placed arrows). Although you don’t need to shoot in mid-air, you always have a strict time limit. In fact, the biggest challenge is to find the crystals needed for shooting on a rotating platform.
If I don’t have any fun at all, Kena’s cute elf buddies and disturbing enemies will not let me go on. The characters and environment in the game-sunny forests, moody caves, snow-capped mountains-are not wasted, even if they are not fully adapted, it is fun to play. I like to explore all of these, even though I have to fiddle with the settings to get my satisfactory performance.
Using my GTX 1650 and 8 GB RAM (at the low end where needed), Kena runs very smoothly during the first half of the game. However, from the second half of the year, I started to experience a noticeable drop in frame rate and had to lower the graphics settings to sort out the performance I got at the beginning. The number of Rot visible on the screen is a factor, and there is a setting to limit the number of Rot visible at one time. Developer Ember Lab also said that future patches will include Rot optimization and improvements.
If you want to know where the soul went after Kena beat them so generously, the Bridge of Souls did answer the ultimate question of life, because she crossed to the other side while chasing the soul. What is life like after death? The answer seems to be “always so slightly purple.”
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