Kena: Bridge of Spirits Is Another Great PS5 (and PS4) Game - Beyond Episode 718

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano and Mitchell Saltzman to discuss Kena: Bridge of Spirits, another great console exclusive game for the PS4 and PS5 lineup. We jump into Mitchell's thoughts from his review, in which he called Kena a great game, what we love and hope to see improved about the combat and exploration in future games, our love of the beautiful art design and detail, and we weirdly get hung up on the game's fonts. But in general, we discuss what's so great about Kena's gameplay and world, and why you'll want to pick up Ember Lab's first game on PS4 or PS5. Plus, we dive into the recent reports about Quantic Dream's alleged Star Wars game, if that's a combination we're interested in seeing, and whether it makes sense for Quantic Dream to explore settings like the original trilogy or apply its choice-based gameplay to an era like The High Republic. We also dive into the reports about discussions of a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 remaster, and Mitchell gives us some insight into why the project is so fervently demanded, and what we hope to see from an MvC 2 remaster. We also read a new Memory Card story, offer wild Super Smash Bros. Ultimate predictions for a PlayStation guest character, and much more!

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:11.4	Beyond and hello, everyone. My name is Jonathan Dormbush and this is podcast Beyond IGN's weekly
0:16.5	PlayStation Show where I forgot the PlayStation passion of my movie. Anyway, it's on now and
0:23.5	we're ready to talk about all the biggest news in the world. The PlayStation, including
0:27.5	another PlayStation console exclusive. We have to add so many words to the word exclusive
0:32.7	now because it's a very strange term these days. But of course, we're going to be talking
0:36.8	about Kena Bridge of Spirits now that's out but we'll be staying pretty spoiler free for
0:41.3	these stories. So if you're just jumping in or waiting to jump in, we'll dive into our
0:45.5	thoughts on that. But before we get into that and some other news, I'm joined this week
0:48.9	by Brian Altana. Beyond. Beyond Brian and Mitchell Saltsman.
0:53.1	Beyond and hello. Hello, good to see you both. Mitchell, you of course reviewed Kena and
0:58.2	so we'll be jumping in to a little bit of your thoughts on that. But before we do, I
1:02.9	wanted to throw a curveball to both of you as I love to do so often and to get that
1:07.1	good, good SEO. There's an Nintendo Direct this week. If you would like to see one PlayStation
1:13.2	character join Super Smash Brothers as the final Smash Brothers character, who would it
1:17.4	be? Go ahead, Brian. Prado's.
1:20.8	Good. I've said from the beginning that Crash Bandicoot absolutely needs to be in Smash
1:27.8	Brothers to finish the finish. It's like trifecta of having Mario, Sonic and Crash the same
1:33.9	game. So absolutely, it's got to be crash. I would love to see that happen. It feels
1:39.1	like it should have been an inevitable one and just weird that we're not there. I saw
1:43.1	he was never in PlayStation All Stars Balleray. So I feel like what happened there?
1:47.5	I'm a scum. Mitchell, whatever All Stars two gets announced, which of course we've been
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