Going Platinum in Kena: Bridge of Spirits – Yes, the Author Cheated for the Hardest Trophy

A personal feature on Push Square recounts one player's experience hunting the platinum trophy in Kena: Bridge of Spirits – and openly admitting to bending the rules to nail the game's most demanding achievement.

The piece is a first-person account rather than a news story, so specific mechanical details about which trophy was targeted or exactly what exploit was used aren't spelled out in the source excerpt. The broader premise is clear though: the hardest trophy in Kena stood between the writer and platinum, and rather than grind through it legitimately, they found a shortcut.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits, developed by Ember Lab, launched in 2021 and earned a reputation for punishing combat on its higher difficulty settings. Its platinum is widely considered one of the more demanding in its tier of indie-adjacent action-adventure games, largely because several trophies are locked behind Master difficulty – a mode that asks for near-perfect play against some aggressive boss encounters. That context makes the "I cheated" confession land with a bit more weight for anyone who has bounced off those fights.

The feature sits in Push Square's ongoing Going Platinum series, which follows writers and community contributors through the messier, more honest side of trophy hunting – less "here's a guide" and more "here's what it actually cost me."