A fine story with some awkward scenes with music that unfortunately didn't illicit emotion nor felt as though it earned the duration of time to be played for as long as they are. I respect the direction it goes ultimately but it sort of plays out with the deuteragonist having a weirdly stunted feeling moment depending on how you played which for me just felt a little wrong and forced. Great pixel artwork but honestly I love the blue sort of illustrated moving images in certain transitional scenes a lot more I wouldn't mind playing an entire game that looked like that! The pixel artwork does have some strong key scenes though such as the parade which is hammed up a little much narratively but looks great besides the water/goop (?) you trudge through. The gameplay itself feels half baked and underdeveloped it could've gone further but what's here feels like it would be better served housed in something that doesn't involve occasionally awkwardly stealthing through small corridors and a some minor puzzles.

Good fun I'm not a fan of the aiming and forced button presses for harpoon fishing honestly but that is an addictive gameplay loop done well here. The Sushi restaurant side of things I would've liked some more complexity or an option for longer opening hours such as opening during the afternoon - not for economy issues It just felt it had more to give. It's a shame the cooking mama gameplay is reserved for certain VIPs much of which come late into the main content. It's a very back ended game becoming more reliant and heavy on gimmicks and joke scenarios seemingly because it isn't confident in the gameplay loop it's presented for the last 10-15 hours. It goes too far in some of these more indulgent encounters especially an egregious chase sequence that far outstays its welcome. Had the mini games that crop up more towards the final few hours of the game been better spread out among the other new additions to farming etc. It might've gone down better for me but the ending and game was fine if a bit anticlimatic for sequel/dlc bait (who knows what's next after Godzilla content.)

Inoffensive but really boring for me. I played it expecting a playable Disney movie but what I got was a bland and empty world with gameplay typical to a modern PlayStation game - simple uninteresting platforming and climbing, simple action combat with a hint of Pikmin but not enough. All the story and intrigue for this game happens inside cutscenes so honestly I would’ve preferred a version of Kena I could watch rather than play. Another problem when trying to emulate Disney is that when something feels off it drags it down a lot such as the loading zones sometimes, weird death (or lack there of) animations especially for fall damage. Kena as a character doesn’t do anything interesting there’s no story there that’s ever unpacked just the tiniest of threads. There’s things to find most of which is a cosmetic or the currency for said cosmetic. Just really disappointing but in fairness if they were going for Disney the music and cutscenes sold me on that much - similarly to Raya and the last dragon I don’t know what they were thinking but I guess it looks right sometimes.