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Platinum Trophy #31: Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Date Earned: 23rd September 2021
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Confession time: I have the platinum Trophy for Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and I used an exploit to make it happen.
Second confession time: I don't feel bad about it at all.
I could spend most of this feature writing about how bad I feel for platinuming this game by cheating, but it wouldn't be the truth. The truth is I'm perfectly cool with it. Besides, I wouldn't have the plat at all if I didn't get it this way.
Context time: I reviewed Kena: Bridge of Spirits, meaning I played it and finished it before its launch on 21st September 2021.
I rather enjoyed the game, and got nearly all Trophies by simply playing normally. I'd definitely recommend giving this cute action adventure a shot, especially with the sequel on the horizon.
However, one Trophy, Master Spirit Guide, requires you to beat the whole game on Master difficulty, a setting that only unlocks after completing it on one of the other difficulty levels first.
In other words, you have to play through it twice, the second time being much more difficult. Most of the time, I'm not into that.
I finished my time with Bridge of Spirits and was ready to move on, at peace that I wouldn't be getting the plat on this occasion.
Just after launch, I saw some discussion online about the game, and somebody had pointed out the exploit I mentioned earlier.
It turns out you could get the Master Spirit Guide Trophy without having to go through the whole game again.
A bug allowed you to load your endgame save file after starting up a new playthrough on Master difficulty, and it wouldn't recognise that it was your progress from a separate session. It meant you could skip pretty much the entire game and nab that precious gold Trophy in next to no time.
Under the guise of research for a news story on the subject, I tried it myself to see if it would work, and it did. The perfect crime.
The exploit was patched out fairly quickly and I think it's now impossible to replicate, but yes, I got my digital trinket while I could.
As I said, there was no way I'd bother doing it properly. For all the good things the game does, I recall it having some kinda iffy difficulty spikes even on Normal. I didn't want to deal with any of Bridge of Spirits' nonsense ratcheted up even further.
So yeah, there you go. Bit of a sneaky one, this. I'm not proud of it, but I also don't feel guilty. Just a game, innit?
Cheers, Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
Do you have the platinum Trophy for Kena: Bridge of Spirits? Tell us in the comments section below.
Comments 8
We NEED to see more on Kena 2 SOON, I was sold after the first trailer alone!!
Man, I wish I knew about this at the time. I actually wanted to get the platinum as I was really enjoying myself, but I didn’t want to go again on Master Difficulty!
Maybe one day!
I see no issues here. Why should you have to suffer more than necessary because of a developers’ lack of consideration of your time and/or skill level?
People seem to forget or not realize that trophies aren’t like Olympic medals. In any given event, only one person/team will claim the gold. Trophies/achievements were designed from the very beginning so that any number of people can have that trophy/100%/Platinum. Gatekeeping trophies behind overly tedious or absurdly difficult criteria is bad design, and so long as someone isn’t using an exploit with the express purpose of lying about the feat to boast about how skilled they are (when they’re clearly not), then I see no problem here. Some of us just want that 100%+Platinum in a reasonable amount of time to satisfy our OCD so we can move onto the next game.
This is an interesting glitch that pops up in similar ways in different games. I think Apotheon, Guacamelee 1, Callisto Protocol, and Uncharted 4 had something like this. Bioshock maybe, too.
So, I guess I could play my physical copy all patched up and then reinstall the game and play it unpatched to exploit the bug?
I still haven’t played this all these years later. I’m going to do it when kena 2 is near I reckon
I literally turned off the Internet on my PS5 while playing this game at launch as I feared it would be patched before I finished the game. IIRC it ended up being the right call as the patch dropped a day or two before I finished. And yes, I have no shame about that at all.
Who cares what you had to do to get platinum? You bought the game, play it how you see fit. Silly notion to have any kind of shame attached to doing it. I'm amazed you felt that way at all.
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