If, like us, you are excited to get your arms on Kena: Bridge of Spirits, we’ve somewhat bittersweet information: According to an announcement from Ember Lab, the game is slipping from a vacation 2020 launch to the primary quarter of 2021. The studio says the choice was made for the sake of the game’s high quality, in addition to for the well-being of the group.
Here’s the official assertion, in its entirety:
The Ember Lab Team is overwhelmed and humbled by the optimistic response and outpouring of help for Kena: Bridge of Spirits. Your sort phrases and pleasure for the game have been an inspiration to the group. This yr has introduced many challenges and our transition to working from residence has induced improvement to maneuver slower than we hoped. For this cause, we’ve made the tough determination to delay the discharge of Kena: Bridge of Spirits to Q1, 2021. We haven’t made this determination frivolously, however really feel it’s best for the game and well-being of the group. We will use this time to provide the game the polish it deserves and ship an expertise that meets our imaginative and prescient and your expectations. We sit up for sharing extra about Kena within the coming months and delivering an incredible expertise early subsequent yr.
It’s definitely disappointing within the brief time period, however it’s exhausting to argue with if it means a greater game in the long run and, much less selfishly, if the delay makes it doable for the game to be accomplished and polished with out burning out its employees.
