{"id":675602,"date":"2026-07-05T20:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675602\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:59:20","slug":"going-platinum-yeah-i-kinda-cheated-to-get-the-hardest-trophy-in-kena-bridge-of-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675602\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Platinum: Yeah, I Kinda Cheated to Get the Hardest Trophy in Kena: Bridge of Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Going<\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

Platinum Trophy #31: Kena: Bridge of Spirits<\/a><\/p>\n

Date Earned: 23rd September 2021<\/p>\n

Dopamine Index: <\/p>\n

Confession time: I have the platinum Trophy for Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and I used an exploit to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Second confession time: I don’t feel bad about it at all.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Context time: I reviewed Kena: Bridge of Spirits, meaning I played it and finished it before its launch on 21st September 2021.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Going<\/a>\"Going<\/a><\/p>\n

Just after launch, I saw some discussion online about the game, and somebody had pointed out the exploit I mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n

It turns out you could get the Master Spirit Guide Trophy without having to go through the whole game again.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

Cheers, Kena: Bridge of Spirits.<\/p>\n

Do you have the platinum Trophy for Kena: Bridge of Spirits? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square Platinum Trophy #31: Kena: Bridge of Spirits Date Earned: 23rd September 2021 Dopamine Index: Confession…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[165238,242,59,117802,157195,112,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ember-lab","tag-features","tag-gb","tag-going-platinum","tag-kena-bridge-of-spirits","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}