I had difficulty with the combat for this game. As someone who was playing Elden Ring at the same time as Kena, it sometimes felt like Elden Ring was the easier option because dodge-rolling in Elden Ring provided frames of invincibility - Not the case in Kena. It genuinely felt impossible to dodge out of certain enemies attacks and when I opted for the shield instead, it would often times just break instead, causing me damage.

Towards the end-game, I actually had to lower the difficulty because I was just getting destroyed and lemme tell you, the drop in difficulty made the game so much easier to the point where it wasn't even a challenge anymore, enemies were practically killing themselves.

I also had a few stuttering issues in the game, as well as a couple of bugs I noticed, one which involved a member of my rot team spinning around me in circles for seemingly no reason and another bug which had me just fall through the floor.

The story for Kena is good and the cinematics are fantastic, I feel like I would have enjoyed Kena more as a film than a game but it was a fun time, regardless of its problems.

Reviewed on Jul 12, 2022


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1 year ago

The combat is really a problem in this game. You don't see the game preparing you for the bosses with regular battles. Outside the bosses everything is so easy and they don't teach anything new to prepare you for what's coming.