Going Platinum: Yeah, I Kinda Cheated to Get the Hardest Trophy in Kena: Bridge of Spirits

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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.

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