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A version of this article appears in Game Informer Magazine issue 329.<\/em><\/p>\n Kena: Bridge of Spirits debuted during Sony\u2019s PlayStation 5 event, so it was only fitting that we got to see it running on the upcoming console. That\u2019s not the only way players can experience the game, which is also coming out on PlayStation 4 and PC via the Epic Games Store, but we were excited to see what the next-gen hardware brings to the table. As it turns out, the answer is fairly interesting.<\/p>\n First up, there\u2019s the matter of load times. Sony has touted the speed of the PS5\u2019s solid-state drive, and how it virtually eliminates long loads. In practice, we watched as Kena was launched from the PlayStation 5 system menu. It took about two seconds. That\u2019s not resuming a suspended game, but launching the game fresh.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThey have a whole thing set up where you can do transition and it\u2019s very nice, but frankly it doesn\u2019t have time to play the animation. It just loads the game so fast,\u201d says Josh Grier, chief operating officer at Ember Lab.\u00a0<\/p>\n The game wasn\u2019t originally designed with the PS5\u2019s hardware specs in mind, but the additional horsepower has allowed Ember Lab to do more within the boundaries it initially established.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been really nice,\u201d says chief creative officer Mike Grier. \u201cWe\u2019ve been on development on PS4 for most of the project, and squeezing it and getting the performance that we wanted out of it was a nightmare. But having done all that, when we went to PS5 it was nice, because we had a good baseline and then we could just add to it and take advantage of the extra juice.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of the changes seem fairly substantial. We didn\u2019t see a side-by-side comparison on the game running on PS5 and PS4, but Mike says the forest is more lush and dense in the PS5 version. He says that combat is one of the game\u2019s foundational elements, and ensuring that it performed well on the older hardware took priority over the amount of foliage players would see in the environments.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another thing that will probably be apparent is the number of Rot that players will see in the world. There are 100 of the tiny creatures to discover in the world, and PlayStation 5 players can potentially see all of them scampering around onscreen simultaneously. On PlayStation 4, you can still find all of the Rot, but they won\u2019t all be represented visually. Mike says that even with the game\u2019s aggressive level-of-detail scaling on the creatures, the performance suffered too much on PS4 with the whole crew onscreen, so they had to make concessions. Their functionality is the same on both versions, but the visual differences are there.<\/p>\n The PlayStation 5\u2019s controller is another significant upgrade. \u201cThe triggers on the DualSense controller have resistance on them, so we\u2019re utilizing that for the heavy attacks, but also for the bow,\u201d Mike says. \u201cYou draw it, and the way it sounds and the resistance feels like a bow tightening up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe triggers are a part of it, but when you get the haptics in the hands, it really brings it all together,\u201d Josh adds. \u201cObviously, you feel the tension in your trigger finger, but when you\u2019ve got the bow drawn and you add the Rot into it, we can dynamically say, \u2018OK, this right palm feels the Rot jumping into it.\u2019 And then when we use the Rot cloud, as the cloud shifts from left to right on the screen, you can feel it transitioning from left to right in your hand, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Designer Liz Fiacco says she was particularly excited about that haptic feedback, which provides a greater degree of feedback to players than the traditional rumble. She says that when she worked at Naughty Dog, the team there used a tool to create rumble on the fly using DualShock inputs. On PlayStation 5, haptic feedback is controlled using an audio wave, which gives creators much more freedom on how it\u2019s implemented. \u201cWe\u2019re a small team, and there\u2019s only so much experimentation we can do with it, but we\u2019ve gotten some cool stuff in already,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Since the team is building the game for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, there\u2019s a fair bit of switching around between older and newer hardware. Unsurprisingly, there\u2019s a pretty clear winner, at least according to Josh. \u201cOnce you go here, it\u2019s kind of hard to go back,\u201d he says, pointing to the PS5 controller in his hand. \u201cI like the DualShock controller, don\u2019t get me wrong, but I want to play with this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re still on the fence about making the next-gen transition, or aren\u2019t able to get one at launch, that doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t check out Kena on PS4. To sweeten the deal, Ember Lab has announced that players who pick up the game on PS4 can get a free PS5 upgrade when they decide to upgrade to the next console generation. \t\t\tPublisher: Ember Lab<\/p>\n \t\t\tDeveloper: Ember Lab<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tRelease:![](\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/prod-media.gameinformer.com\/styles\/body_default\/s3\/2020\/09\/08\/c2855868\/kena_forest_w0.jpg\")
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