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[CrimsonSquall]

From a tweet posted earlier today

I'm playing #KenaBridgeofSpirits! Here are my first impressions:

- Best indie ever produced in history (at least for me);
- Stunning visuals;
- BRUTAL use of the SSD;
- Fabulous soundtrack;
- Super fluid combat and gameplay;
- Pixar movie level title

H y p e. Cant get this game yet cause Im playing Hades and Deathloop but a couple buds are so I cant wait to hear their impeessions.

Will prolly get this and Death Stranding. Playstation got games rollin in now, I fucking love Fall

 

[thatJohann]

From a tweet posted earlier today

I'm playing #KenaBridgeofSpirits! Here are my first impressions:

- Best indie ever produced in history (at least for me);
- Stunning visuals;
- BRUTAL use of the SSD;
- Fabulous soundtrack;
- Super fluid combat and gameplay;
- Pixar movie level title

Oooof! Hype hype hype! just hope it runs at a stable 60fps.

 

[dottme]

Is there any formal review I missed or just tweets?

édit: ok, i missed a message saying review will come later.

 

[reksveks]

BRUTAL use of the SSD;

Interested to see what they have done cause its cross gen afaik and doesn't seem to have mandated a ssd on pc. I wonder if they have massively upped the lods or anything.

 

[Elder Legend]

Returnal was a weak concept, never looked so good and had tons of problems, I am not surprised.

What alternative universe are you from? Returnal was a very well recieved game and is one I enjoyed myself greatly as well.

Its one thing to dislike it but another to say it had a ton of issues and bad concept when majority of reviews say otherwise lol

 

[CrimsonSquall]

Returnal was a weak concept, never looked so good and had tons of problems, I am not surprised.

You're entitled to your opinion but you're just wrong across the board

 

[mckmas8808]

Interested to see what they have done cause its cross gen afaik and doesn't seem to have mandated a ssd on pc. I wonder if they have massively upped the lods or anything.

Doesn't that mean they don't use the SSD at all! And that it's done in a really bad way?

 

[EverydayBeast]

Barely knew this game was coming out, felt like it should have been hyped.

 

[reksveks]

Doesn't that mean they don't use the SSD at all! And that it's done in a really bad way?

Not necessarily, possibly
- it might be custom to ps5 and not the ps4/pc
- pc is using a slightly different technique to get the same or similar effect

 

[mckmas8808]

Not necessarily, possibly
- it might be custom to ps5 and not the ps4/pc
- pc is using a slightly different technique to get the same or similar effect

So, did that person play it on PC?

 

[reksveks]

So, did that person play it on PC?

Have no clue, it looked like a ps5.

 

[MrHydra933BR]

I've heard of this game but didn't know it was coming out so soon.

 

[graywolf323]

that kinda suggests an embargo of midnight eastern on release day?

 

[M.W.]

that kinda suggests an embargo of midnight eastern on release day?

Yep, a la Doom 2016

 

[M.W.]

Doesn't that mean they don't use the SSD at all! And that it's done in a really bad way?

Brutal mean Awesome. He's from Brazil.

 

[Banjo64]

From a tweet posted earlier today

I'm playing #KenaBridgeofSpirits! Here are my first impressions:

- Best indie ever produced in history (at least for me);
- Stunning visuals;
- BRUTAL use of the SSD;
- Fabulous soundtrack;
- Super fluid combat and gameplay;
- Pixar movie level title

Best indie ever produced in history? So better than Rocket League, Hollow Knight, Ori, Shovel Knight, Hades, Streets of Rage 4, Cuphead etc? High praise indeed.

 

[Bear*Walken*the*Sweeper]

that kinda suggests an embargo of midnight eastern on release day?

He is still with Game Informer, right?

 

[Bear*Walken*the*Sweeper]

The game looks good to me. Most of us here are informed enough to not need any marketing to know if we want a game or not. We will also be the ones to say up or down for those who need that extra bit to be sold on a game such as Kena, so it is not a big surprise to me.

 

[graywolf323]

He is still with Game Informer, right?

yep, Reiner is the Editor-in-Chief now there

 

[Dr Bass]

Anyone know if you will be able to copy the soundtrack from the PS5 to your computer if you get the digital deluxe edition? I don't think the recent games I've bought with that featured have allowed that. Doesn't make sense to me though, who is going to sit there and listen to a soundtrack on their PS5 ...

 

[bender]

- BRUTAL use of the SSD;

What does this even mean?

 

[thatJohann]

What does this even mean?

In Spanish, Brazilian and other languages brutal is used in the context of a good thing. Like a synonym for fierce or savage or incredible or amazing or awesome etc so this is a good thing.

 

[El Pistolero]

I honestly thought it would be bad...Visually pleasing, but clunky and boring. I only assumed so because it was the brothers first foray into the medium...It sounds as if I might end up eating some crows? Interested in knowing more, at least...

 

[mckmas8808]

Brutal mean Awesome. He's from Brazil.

Oh wow! Thanks for the info!

 

[skit_data]

Just saw this:



Sooo.. roughly 7 hours left til review embargo lifts.

 

[Captain Toad]

Returnal was a weak concept, never looked so good and had tons of problems, I am not surprised.

Wishful thinking? Because you're wrong.

 

[Bear*Walken*the*Sweeper]

Just saw this:



Sooo.. roughly 7 hours left til review embargo lifts.

yeah they are clearly under an embargo

 

[PJX]

All three of those have third party publishers, which was the original point. Publishing a physical copy requires a large amount of up-front capital which isn't available to most indies.

Anyway Kena is now getting a physical version published by Maximum Games.

Your original post said no one was lining up to give an unproven studio money to make physical copies. I listed three unproven studios that "people" spent whatever to print physical copies for their games.

 

[Captain Toad]

Still no reviews up?

 

[DapperSloth]

where was this Deathloop advertising, I never saw any

 

[iorek21]

Seeing people getting confused about the use of "brutal" in Portuguese makes me wonder how'd be the reaction to "do caralho", "bom pra porra" or "pica".

 

[IntentionalPun]

I wouldn't trust random game reviewers to even understand SSD usage in any random game anyways lol

The entire game with decompression would only fill up PS5's memory a few times over.. the SSD is likely a non-factor in this game from a design perspective.. but you'd expect the load times to be near non existent. Which is awesome.. but calling it "use of the SSD" is a bit much.. it's a small game being loaded on a really fast SSD..

 

[Pantz]

no reviews before release?

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

Sorry, Deathloop took everything.

 

[jakinov]

- Games is self-published so small budget for marketing
- Sony can post stuff on their blog and show them off at events but they don't create material for other companies. This game released their launch trailer very close to release when people can buy the game like most games do. So making a special traler for the September event for PlayStation is a waste of money.

 

[Phase]

no reviews before release?

 

[M.W.]

no reviews before release?

Reviews launch at 12am EST, so when the game launches. Rumors are it's good.

 

[bender]

In Spanish, Brazilian and other languages brutal is used in the context of a good thing. Like a synonym for fierce or savage or incredible or amazing or awesome etc so this is a good thing.

Thank you. That certainly lost me in translation.

 

[Delt31]

I totally slept on this game and just found out it's releasing tomorrow. It looks amazing. Def buy.

 

[Karak]

Oooof! Hype hype hype! just hope it runs at a stable 60fps.

Would anyone in the world say "We are posting a review you don't want to read it"

 

[Gamerguy84]

So reviews starring in an hour I guess?

 

[Dusktildawn48]

Would anyone in the world say "We are posting a review you don't want to read it"

Karak liked the game confirmed.

But in all seriousness, hope to see your review in the morning.

 

[dano1]

nobody knows this is coming out

I do Playing in 45 minutes!

 

[bender]

Would anyone in the world say "We are posting a review you don't want to read it"

 

[dano1]

Kena Bridge of Spirits Review | It’s worth buying? | Ultimate Of Times

ultimateoftimes.com

 

[M.W.]

Kena Bridge of Spirits Review | It’s worth buying? | Ultimate Of Times

ultimateoftimes.com

Yeah, that be a fake review. Did you read it? Pretty sure it was written by AI

 

[ahtlas7]

I'm not interested in marketing hype but will listen to good reviews from trusted reviewers.

 

[dano1]

Yeah, that be a fake review. Did you read it? Pretty sure it was written by AI

Had no idea. But it's written better than some humans

 

[ManaByte]

Yeah, that be a fake review. Did you read it? Pretty sure it was written by AI

Yea it's a word salad SEO bait story.

 

[Karak]

My review


A Buy. Game is pretty fucking amazing