My favorite part about this maybe becoming a series will be Jev explaining the small details because im guessing he either read the book or did his research, and he's gonna be playing a game based on something he enjoys
I must explain the opening dialogue, the content of eternal life, the English translation is incorrect, here must introduce the background of the story: Wukong once in order to immortality and learn to become immortal. But in heaven he was not accepted by the other gods, so he made war with them and was captured. Later, in order to get parole, he agrees to a task: he must protect a monk on a journey to the West. That gold band on his head used to be a paroled torture device to keep him from escaping. He later completed his mission and became a Buddha and gained eternal life. The video begins with him giving up his position as a Buddha and the ability to live forever, returning to the place of his birth in the hope of living a full life, and frankly pointing out his new understanding of the ability to live forever: all the disasters in this world come from the immortality of the gods.The purpose of the game is not to actually revive Goku, but to find his relics and become the new Goku, immortality is a disaster. It keeps the world from changing and there will be no new Goku. But the gods are always superior, and the common man never has the chance to control his own destiny.
Goku was inspired by Wukong. Wukong is one of the most badass characters of all time period. He is not immortal because of some silly ability, he wiped off his name from paradise and hell so he can't enter either of them. Making him immortal and can't die no matter what you do to him
He also eat a bunch of peaches making him immortal then crashed a God party drank all the wine made from the peaches and the peaches making him more immortal Then took some pills that make you immortal
Pretty much the story takes place after completion of a Journey to the West, Wukong already completed his journey and he decided to forgo his title and return to his mountain with his monkeys but that just prologue we don't actually play Wukong. We just play as the destined one and you'll see who the destined one is it's the last story of Wukong.
In the Novel, Guangzhi and Guangmou are two monks with the Elder Jinchi, they abettd the Elder to burn Tang Sen (Sun Wukong's Master) to death in his sleep, because the Elder was extremely greedy and wanted to take possess of Tang Sen's kasaya. The Elder had been collecting beautiful kasayas for many years, yet as he saw the one Tang Sen had, he knew he must have it. But because Sun Wukong secretly protected his master by covering him in a fire-repelling cage that he borrowed from other deities, the fire ended up burning the whole Guanyin Temple down, and Elder Jinchi was hit by a fallen pillar and died. That kasaya then was stolen by the Black Bear Guai, who was also in connection with the Elder.
And why Guangzhi uses a fire blade while Guangmou uses a fan? In Chinese there is a word "煽风点火”, which can be translated into "fan the flames", it means to make a tense situation worse or foster someone's jealousy/hatred against another. Fan and flame, that's what the two monks uses as weapons, and exactly what they did in the JTTW: Fostering the greed of Elder Jinchi.
This is how you know Jev is a passionate gamer. Not only does he play the game and give excellent commentary, but he also knows the lore from Journey to the West and did research on it as well.
The Story line is post Journey to the West. Wukong has attained Buddahood and completed the mission in the JTTW. Wukong wanted to go back to his homeland Faguo Mountain to has a simple life but the Heavenly Celestial Kingdom wanted him to serve the Jade Emperor in the Celestial Kingdom which Wukong refused where the Emperor had send his troops and Erlang God to defeat him, turning him into a stone. The main character played in this game is the descendant of Wukong with the mission to gather the 6 relics of Wukong and bring it back to Faguo Mountain which may revive Wukong. In this game’s journey the descendant will acquire the skills, magic, philosophy of life as what Wukong did. There’s a Wukong inside everyone’s of us!
the team planed to make the original one with 13chapter but the huge workload make it impossible to complete . in order to keep the quality purpose ,they hv to cut 8 and have chosen 5 of them to make it done .
@@LeV01DYeah, games like dishonored and dishonored 2 definitely over did it. They went for quality over quantity but you can literally finish dishonored 2 without in 30 minutes with no glitches or anything like that is unacceptable for even for a 40 dollar game.
That first fight is so glorious the way the smoke moves with you and the staff its so beautiful and from my understanding the clones aren't as powerful as him but split his power into the clones
Jev’s a goat for knowing his stuff, really makes you understand the context and history of the story for someone who’s just getting into it like myself🙌
30 mins of JEVERSON?! Mhm being on a ship in the middle of an foreign ocean for our country is worth it since I can see Jev Edit: Most likes I’ve gotten on a comment I appreciate yall 🫡
if no facecam is the only tradeoff for longer videos on this then that's a worthy sacrifice. I'm enjoying this game more than i thought and your enthusiasm and little side notes are top notch I love the context you gave even tho it was brief i should get more into this
Wow, someone actually know the lore of the story and understand how well the English VA of Wukong is staying true to the original VA. I was pleasantly surprised and enjoying you accurately pointing out every easter eggs and back story and correctly naming the characters in the intro. Damn impressed, Subbed!
"Journey to the West" is a novel adapted from real characters. More than a thousand years ago, the eminent Chinese monk Xuanzang traveled from China to ancient India alone to seek Buddhist teachings. Wukong's abilities came from Taoism, and he eventually converted to Buddhism. Erlang Shen is a half-human and half-god. When he was young, he also caused trouble in the Heavenly Palace and used an ax to split a mountain to save his mother. A character named Nezha also appears in the game. He used to cause trouble in Heavenly Palace. Among the five giants who appeared at the beginning, the middle one was the giant spirit god, and the four in front were the four generals of the demon clan. The four generals of the Demon Clan are the subordinates of Nezha’s father.
@@user-tl5bk9uv8x You're welcome. In Chinese mythology, Nezha is good friends with Sun Wukong. He also has a rebellious spirit and admires Sun Wukong very much.
After you discussed the lore I watched several videos explaining the legend of Wukong. Really interesting story/legend and loved your gameplay, keep it coming!
This was SUPER well done, played the intro last night and watching you play through it was so fun & you explained everything so well I was surprised at how much you knew lol. Legit helped me understand a lot of the intro. I REALLY hope you do these all week man.
Ok imma try to give as most context as I can: Long time ago there’s was a rock born from heaven sitting in a mountain, one day a monkey was born out of it, he latter founds a group of monkeys and he becomes their king later the monkey releases that he’s not immortal so he goes in a journey to be imortal, in the way he learns tricks from a teacher in a town, that gives him abilities to transform and duplicate ect, (this is where he gets the name of Sun wukong) until one day Wukong broke his teacher promise of not ever using his abilities to be famous, so the teacher kicks him out, wukong decides to continue his journey of power and immortality, he keep fighting demons and exploring until he founds a palace underwater, he goes in and ask for a weapon he almost didn’t found one until the king gave wukong the magic staff, but wukong wanted armor too so the king, scared called other palaces, they came thinking they were going to fight until the king told them to not engage “he’s too strong,” so they all agree and give wukong pieces of armor, after wukong leaves the kings tells what happens to the gods of heaven and “hell” and they obviously get pissed off so hell takes wukong there, wukong founds a type of temple that has a book, on that books there’s the names of every creatures so he founds his name and the names of his family’s and cross them, this gives wukong 1 point of imortality, after this he goes back to his family but heaven not trusting wukong tells him to come to heaven, wukong agrees, the gods give wukong the job of a stable man, for wukong he thought this was amazing but in reality this was the worst rank on heaven, wukong gets super pissed and leaves, he gets back home and to wukong it’s been just a few months but for his family it’s been years, so they throw a party, the gods (trying to control Wukong) tells wukong to come back that they have a higher rank job to give to Wukong, wukong again agrees and goes, the job is basically to protect a tree, that tree has the peaches of immortality, and it’s wukong job to protect it, wukong agrees and protects the tree until one day a group of ladies come to the tree, asking wukong for a few peaches, wukong ask why and they tell him that the gods are having a party and he is not invited, after the ladies leave Wukong gets super pissed to he eats all of the peaches, this makes him immortal by a bunch of times then he goes to the party (which it haven’t started) and drinks the kings wine of immortality he also goes to the kitchen and eats a bunch of pill of immortality he founds, after he sobers up he relies in the amount of problems he is in so he runs away back to his family, the gods of heaven extremely pissed wants to kill Wukong so Wukong and a group of soldiers that he has goes and fights a bunch of gods he ends up wining so the king had to call Buddha, a then buddha puts in a prison for 500 yrs. One day a monk named Tang Sanzang was “talking to Buddha” aperently there was a war going on and they had to stop it, Buddha gives the monk Tang Sanzang a bunch of scriptures, if someone ever read those scriptures they would be come peaceful no matter what, but there’s was a problem he had to go to the west and a bunch of demons wants to kill Tang Sanzang because they believe they will be immortal if they do this, so Buddha gives Tang Sanzang a group of body guards first (Sun Wukong) then a god that haves been kicked from heaven then cursed to turned into a half human half pig (Zhu Bajie), and a cursed half human half fish (Sha Wujing) before they left Buddha put on them a golden headband, this would help Tang Sanzang so if they tried something the golden headband would squeeze causing a lot of pain. this formed the trio that would help Tang Sanzang through the journey to the west. (I’m going to skip ahead because I would be texting this all day) when they finally get to the west the trio are finally set free and found peace, this is where black myth wukong kicks in, after wukong comes back to his family for some reason the gods of heaven started killing wukongs family, this pisses a lot wukong so he goes amd tries to fight them but loses, a few centuries later a recantation of sun wukong is born called the destined one, his job is to find all wukong artifacts to posibly revive him. This took ages to type, sorry if I was wrong in some stuff (I’m new to jurney to the west) I would appreciate if you found something wrong to tell me since I’m also learning, also sorry if my English isn’t perfect I’m still learning, I had to skip a loooot of stuff from journey to the west because the book is really really long, but I really recommend it, also I really recommend this game, I stared playing and it’s amazing.
I just started PT school this week and i was going to wait as well. But the hype for this game and my hype for the game is too much. I just hit the purchase button on it... i'll just restrain myself from diving tooo deep
Not sure what I’ve seen is true but looking through comment sections of Black Myth playthroughs is that there’s an extra layer of “difficulty” spikes that happen with boss fights (not sure if they all have them) it’s that depending on how good and fast your first attempt at a fight is the boss activates a “second phase” that spikes there damage, attack speed and increases damage resistance but doesn’t activate if you lose your first attempt or just barley beat the boss
I had a second phase while fighting the snake-like yaoguai in the lake. It was my second attempt but I beat him really fast and it activates the second phase.
Also idk if anyone knew this funny detail but its also very likely that Wukong by nature of being a stone monkey (he hatched from a stone egg) was probably already immortal. He had lived up on flower fruit mountain with other monkeys for hundreds of years before he began his journey off the mountain. I have always found it funny that he likely didn't need to go through all those hurdles to attain immortality because he probably always was immortal.
@@benzohhhhhthere is basically a parry in the game!! It’s the rock solid transformation plus the immobilize acts sort of as a parry as well. When timing the immobilize when they are just about to attack it’ll increase the duration they are stunned and the damage taken just can’t spam them cuz they have a cooldown and mana cost but they do work as a parry in the game
The reason why a masterpiece is a masterpiece is that it can make readers have different feelings after reading it. As the saying goes, everyone has a different face. You can understand its bizarre world by reading it for the first time, and then appreciate the criticism of the current social situation in the book. Then, you can savor it carefully and reflect your own current situation, understand the essence of life, and give people the motivation or inspiration to move forward. With the growth of experience, you can understand that Journey to the West is not about the story of the four masters and apprentices going to the West to worship Buddha and seek scriptures, but the process of self-cultivation to let go of greed, anger, ignorance, hatred, love, evil, and desire. But at the end of life, there will be an understanding of life, just like everyone will have a different interpretation of Journey to the West. Here we can quote a Buddhist saying, "There is no Bodhi tree, and the bright mirror is not a stand. There is nothing at all, so where can dust be raised?"
FINALLY someone who actually knows the story of journey to the west before playing this. Crazy that most people won't even take the time to hear the story this game is from.
First time in my LIFE I'm not lying in my bed and wishing I could play the games Jev plays, now I can experience the joy and rage with him now that we play the game at the same time 😂
I've seen at least 30+ streamers on TH-cam on the first opening scene some who know about the Journey to the West but none of said anything about how Jev explained exactly what was going on. Good shit Jev thanks.
I appreciate the lore tidbits from Jev because most of these references would go over my head. I’m familiar with the story but I haven’t heard it for myself.
The ancient history of China and Japan etc , is insane the lore and everything throughout their old af history’s, it is next level…. This series gonna be LIT!!!🔥 It’s like the Three kingdoms era, the story type, legend that the renowned generals had still lives on to this day in some areas like Guan Yu for example… or my personal favourite to ponder what ifs about, is the legend of Lubu to be known by all and feared by many in a time where its swords shields etc is pure God tier stuff to imagine someone of that skill level and prowess is hard…. Sucks we western and EU people got nothing even close to that level of historical lore and story’s, imo anyways.
Actually, Lu bu is the original style of Armor and headwear , coz his war armor style is so famous in 2nd century AD , Eastern Han dynasty, when Journey to the west book published in 16th century, writer, got inspired Wukong from wushiqi from traditional folklore, he combined Wukong with Famous Lu Bu style and Wukong became so much popular again , wushiqi is the southern Chinese monkey monster god and mostly from Chu era, later, when dragon ball writer Toriyama, wrote dragon ball inspired by Wukong, and even Goku is in Japan name for Sun Wukong, and yeah Wukong is original Sun Goku , So chronologically, Wukong style and features are inspired from Lu bu and Go ku is directly inspired from Wukong.
@@emperoroak7331 that’s so cool! Thanks for sharing this 🔥🙏 I knew I saw the similarities as soon as I saw Wukong. Love when inspirations come from different places. So cool!
@@Sickage as an Asian man from Southeast Asia, Romance of Three Kingdomd( Lu bu ) and Journey to the west (Wukong) are not just tradition of China, these are our Asian childhood stories and our Pride too , love to share , my friend ✌️✌️
wow 30 min long video is crazy. I love theese longer vids like that bloodbourne one, but I get how hard it is to maintain daily uploads while recording and editing longer videos. Thank you so much for the work you put into making it longer, even tho it takes a lot of work. You are the best, and still managed to upload the video today. Just a legend man! lets go Jev
I’ve been watching you since like 2014 and I’ve watched everything never miss a vid and I can already tell this is gonna be one of my favorite series from you this game looks crazy
Man, I love how Jev breaks down the gameplay and lore! It adds a whole new layer to it. Can't wait to see how he tackles the next part. Also, did anyone else catch that detail about Wukong's powers? 🤔🔥
Photorealistic imaging is seriously something else. Every environment and character has so much detail it’s hard to find something bad about the graphics
just a little note since you dont get one for a while that transformation that u got, if you build up the little meter on the bottom right and do a dodge + heavy attack it does insane damage. best way to build it up is the fast light attacks. I like combining the transformation and immobilize
I think Jev's one of the only people that I've watched play this game that actually knows about the story of journey to the west as well as the folklore behind Son Wukong
This was in my opinion one of the best intro fights I've ever seen, although technically there some similarities to Goku. Goku was actually made in Wukong's image. I've already beaten the game one time and am on my second play through and I genuinely think this is going to be another game like Skyrim where i come back to it a lot.
Jev there is a secret behind the waterfall you just need to make some progress in chapter 2 to get a key item then back track to the waterfall. There’s a wall with statues carved in it that you need to break with a VERY heavy attack after fighting an optional boss. You’ll know the wall when you see it. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND DOING THIS! You won’t be disappointed. Also when you fight the father and son next chapter don’t kill the father only kill the son.
Is swear this heavy attack is so satisfying to land it’s like you’re slam dunking on them heads lol loving this game as a fan of the lore, keep up the great work Jev!
Loving this game so much. Excited for your series too. I love that you know the lore because I don’t really. I’m playing on ps5 and it definitely could use some optimization updates but it hasn’t crashed once in 10 hours of play time. Smooth 60fps 90% of the time.
Jev just a tip in this game if you dodge more than 3 times in quick succession there is a longer recovery time. So it’s best to only use the dodge button when you actually need to dodge an attack and use the sprint to close the gap on enemies.
I don't know if anybody in the comments has mentioned it (not digging through to find out), but if you're interested in and/or enjoy stories based around "Journey to the West," I highly recommend giving Enslaved: Odyssey to the West a go. Very underrated game, and well worth checking out (especially because it goes on sale on Steam a few times a year, so when it's only $5 at the time, it's pretty much theft at that point).
it feels nice to watch a dude play Wukong who actually knows about Wukong
Can you explain what is it ?
@@ChapoxDvsearch up journey to the west
@@ChapoxDv the monkey King of old Chinese mythology (specifically an epic)
@@ChapoxDv did you watch the first 30 seconds?
@@lunar7240 no lol
My favorite part about this maybe becoming a series will be Jev explaining the small details because im guessing he either read the book or did his research, and he's gonna be playing a game based on something he enjoys
Jev*
@@xNiteTime my name is faze jeff
@@WackNoir oh shit sorry guys I’m narcoleptic
Fr jev read the books??
No way Jev reads books lmao
The way Jev knows the lore, is gonna make this series sooo good.
wukong is literally the inspiration for the majority of shonen manga. we wouldn’t have stuff like naruto, dragon ball, or jjk without him
火影忍者跟悟空没有关系
@@user-px9gv9tt5p 影分身之术，灵感就是吹毛成兵，还有四尾名字就叫孙悟空
@@fcfhujjbb 这个16000年西游记原著就有了 你在说什么？
@@NeoMa-pt3yy他在說火影忍者啦
@@NeoMa-pt3yy 16000 years?!
I must explain the opening dialogue, the content of eternal life, the English translation is incorrect, here must introduce the background of the story: Wukong once in order to immortality and learn to become immortal. But in heaven he was not accepted by the other gods, so he made war with them and was captured. Later, in order to get parole, he agrees to a task: he must protect a monk on a journey to the West. That gold band on his head used to be a paroled torture device to keep him from escaping. He later completed his mission and became a Buddha and gained eternal life. The video begins with him giving up his position as a Buddha and the ability to live forever, returning to the place of his birth in the hope of living a full life, and frankly pointing out his new understanding of the ability to live forever: all the disasters in this world come from the immortality of the gods.The purpose of the game is not to actually revive Goku, but to find his relics and become the new Goku, immortality is a disaster. It keeps the world from changing and there will be no new Goku. But the gods are always superior, and the common man never has the chance to control his own destiny.
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bro used wrong translation tool to translate Wukong into Goku, which are the same characters in Chinese and Japanese kanji
W knowledge
when you die or teleport in game you show your true form is a hair. sooo technically the monkey in game still wukong.
immortality sounds like capitalism to me
Wukong laughing at the word "Immortality" is irony because he had immortality times 7🤣
I thought he kept it idk much about wukong
@@BoyMadeOfCardBoard yeah he still has them he just keeps getting sealed by the gods since they can’t defeat him
Didn’t he eat a bunch of gourds filled with immortality fruits or wtv?
@@ibechillin_3440I can’t remember isn’t his 72 transformation count as his immortality as well? Means he has 72 lives.
你操作的是一个叫“天命人”的猴子，并不是wukong。
Goku was inspired by Wukong. Wukong is one of the most badass characters of all time period. He is not immortal because of some silly ability, he wiped off his name from paradise and hell so he can't enter either of them. Making him immortal and can't die no matter what you do to him
Giorno solos
@@ogdudu6872who?
@@ogdudu6872 Stalemate at best, I'm afraid. This is coming from someone who believes that Giorno beats Goku
He also eat a bunch of peaches making him immortal then crashed a God party drank all the wine made from the peaches and the peaches making him more immortal
Then took some pills that make you immortal
@@magicfibre stalemates who, goku or wukong? I hope you don’t think giorno could stalemate wukong
Pretty much the story takes place after completion of a Journey to the West, Wukong already completed his journey and he decided to forgo his title and return to his mountain with his monkeys but that just prologue we don't actually play Wukong. We just play as the destined one and you'll see who the destined one is it's the last story of Wukong.
In the Novel, Guangzhi and Guangmou are two monks with the Elder Jinchi, they abettd the Elder to burn Tang Sen (Sun Wukong's Master) to death in his sleep, because the Elder was extremely greedy and wanted to take possess of Tang Sen's kasaya. The Elder had been collecting beautiful kasayas for many years, yet as he saw the one Tang Sen had, he knew he must have it. But because Sun Wukong secretly protected his master by covering him in a fire-repelling cage that he borrowed from other deities, the fire ended up burning the whole Guanyin Temple down, and Elder Jinchi was hit by a fallen pillar and died. That kasaya then was stolen by the Black Bear Guai, who was also in connection with the Elder.
And why Guangzhi uses a fire blade while Guangmou uses a fan? In Chinese there is a word "煽风点火”, which can be translated into "fan the flames", it means to make a tense situation worse or foster someone's jealousy/hatred against another. Fan and flame, that's what the two monks uses as weapons, and exactly what they did in the JTTW: Fostering the greed of Elder Jinchi.
@@xugao5018 很棒的补充, 惭愧的是我自己看过西游记都快忘了这些角色.
This is how you know Jev is a passionate gamer. Not only does he play the game and give excellent commentary, but he also knows the lore from Journey to the West and did research on it as well.
30-minute video from Jev? You have truly blessed us sir.
the fact that jev knows the story of wukong makes this so much more fun to watch
Was about to go sleep but this changes everything.
classic
Rise and Shine my sweet prince
Get a job
@@ItsClaxton average youtube degen comment
@@ItsClaxton Did you know that you can watch youtube and still have a job????!!!?!? 😱😱😱😱😱
The Story line is post Journey to the West. Wukong has attained Buddahood and completed the mission in the JTTW. Wukong wanted to go back to his homeland Faguo Mountain to has a simple life but the Heavenly Celestial Kingdom wanted him to serve the Jade Emperor in the Celestial Kingdom which Wukong refused where the Emperor had send his troops and Erlang God to defeat him, turning him into a stone.
The main character played in this game is the descendant of Wukong with the mission to gather the 6 relics of Wukong and bring it back to Faguo Mountain which may revive Wukong.
In this game’s journey the descendant will acquire the skills, magic, philosophy of life as what Wukong did. There’s a Wukong inside everyone’s of us!
Black Myth is far better than I expected. After defeating Yellow Wind, that cinematic made me realize how much care and effort went into it.
the team planed to make the original one with 13chapter but the huge workload make it impossible to complete . in order to keep the quality purpose ,they hv to cut 8 and have chosen 5 of them to make it done .
@@jimmysusanto6582 Quality over quantity as always.
@@LeV01D thered always dlc
@@thanosianthemadtitanic You can have quality and quantity, as long as you don't overdo it.
@@LeV01DYeah, games like dishonored and dishonored 2 definitely over did it. They went for quality over quantity but you can literally finish dishonored 2 without in 30 minutes with no glitches or anything like that is unacceptable for even for a 40 dollar game.
That first fight is so glorious the way the smoke moves with you and the staff its so beautiful and from my understanding the clones aren't as powerful as him but split his power into the clones
I feel bad for the people who bought this game expecting it to not be souls difficult
@@rezalmao souls is still considerably harder so I'd say this game has a good difficulty range.
@@thatoneguy7126 eh i disagree i had a harder time with wukong than souls games
Jev’s a goat for knowing his stuff, really makes you understand the context and history of the story for someone who’s just getting into it like myself🙌
30 mins of JEVERSON?! Mhm being on a ship in the middle of an foreign ocean for our country is worth it since I can see Jev
Edit: Most likes I’ve gotten on a comment I appreciate yall 🫡
Coastguard?
@@tristonwilder6360 more than likely Navy. Props to him because I can't be on a boat for that long. Let alone in the middle of the ocean.
Did we just get classified military information ? 😂
grown man glazing this much is crazy
Right and I'm watching from space,jesus you people will believe anything 😂 😂 😂
if no facecam is the only tradeoff for longer videos on this then that's a worthy sacrifice. I'm enjoying this game more than i thought and your enthusiasm and little side notes are top notch I love the context you gave even tho it was brief i should get more into this
Wow, someone actually know the lore of the story and understand how well the English VA of Wukong is staying true to the original VA. I was pleasantly surprised and enjoying you accurately pointing out every easter eggs and back story and correctly naming the characters in the intro. Damn impressed, Subbed!
Coming from radbrad to Jev and the skill difference is insane lol
whos better?
@@itslux0936jev lol
@@itslux0936who’s is FaZe?
@@itslux0936 is this a serious question ? 😂
Its insane how Rad Brad is awful at every game he plays
Video starts at 0:01
Your the hero we need 🙏
Video ends at 29:13
Dead internet theory
Thx bro
thank you
"Journey to the West" is a novel adapted from real characters. More than a thousand years ago, the eminent Chinese monk Xuanzang traveled from China to ancient India alone to seek Buddhist teachings.
Wukong's abilities came from Taoism, and he eventually converted to Buddhism.
Erlang Shen is a half-human and half-god. When he was young, he also caused trouble in the Heavenly Palace and used an ax to split a mountain to save his mother.
A character named Nezha also appears in the game. He used to cause trouble in Heavenly Palace.
Among the five giants who appeared at the beginning, the middle one was the giant spirit god, and the four in front were the four generals of the demon clan. The four generals of the Demon Clan are the subordinates of Nezha’s father.
Thank you for sharing
@@user-tl5bk9uv8x You're welcome. In Chinese mythology, Nezha is good friends with Sun Wukong. He also has a rebellious spirit and admires Sun Wukong very much.
Nezha，曾经抽出龙的筋，大闹东海龙宫，在他父亲眼里是个怪胎，他们关系有些问题，然后，哪吒用将自己身上的肉和骨头分离，分别还给母亲和父亲。
The fact you can set Lingxuzi's fur on fire and the way he tries to pat it out as it panicked was so dope to me.. LOVING this game so far
After you discussed the lore I watched several videos explaining the legend of Wukong. Really interesting story/legend and loved your gameplay, keep it coming!
This was SUPER well done, played the intro last night and watching you play through it was so fun & you explained everything so well I was surprised at how much you knew lol. Legit helped me understand a lot of the intro. I REALLY hope you do these all week man.
Honestly tho, never thought Jev is so knowledgeable regarding jttw, which makes me quite happy as im a super fan of that novel. Nice job, Jev
this series will feed families, thank you jev
Ok imma try to give as most context as I can:
Long time ago there’s was a rock born from heaven sitting in a mountain, one day a monkey was born out of it, he latter founds a group of monkeys and he becomes their king later the monkey releases that he’s not immortal so he goes in a journey to be imortal, in the way he learns tricks from a teacher in a town, that gives him abilities to transform and duplicate ect, (this is where he gets the name of Sun wukong) until one day Wukong broke his teacher promise of not ever using his abilities to be famous, so the teacher kicks him out, wukong decides to continue his journey of power and immortality, he keep fighting demons and exploring until he founds a palace underwater, he goes in and ask for a weapon he almost didn’t found one until the king gave wukong the magic staff, but wukong wanted armor too so the king, scared called other palaces, they came thinking they were going to fight until the king told them to not engage “he’s too strong,” so they all agree and give wukong pieces of armor, after wukong leaves the kings tells what happens to the gods of heaven and “hell” and they obviously get pissed off so hell takes wukong there, wukong founds a type of temple that has a book, on that books there’s the names of every creatures so he founds his name and the names of his family’s and cross them, this gives wukong 1 point of imortality, after this he goes back to his family but heaven not trusting wukong tells him to come to heaven, wukong agrees, the gods give wukong the job of a stable man, for wukong he thought this was amazing but in reality this was the worst rank on heaven, wukong gets super pissed and leaves, he gets back home and to wukong it’s been just a few months but for his family it’s been years, so they throw a party, the gods (trying to control Wukong) tells wukong to come back that they have a higher rank job to give to Wukong, wukong again agrees and goes, the job is basically to protect a tree, that tree has the peaches of immortality, and it’s wukong job to protect it, wukong agrees and protects the tree until one day a group of ladies come to the tree, asking wukong for a few peaches, wukong ask why and they tell him that the gods are having a party and he is not invited, after the ladies leave Wukong gets super pissed to he eats all of the peaches, this makes him immortal by a bunch of times then he goes to the party (which it haven’t started) and drinks the kings wine of immortality he also goes to the kitchen and eats a bunch of pill of immortality he founds, after he sobers up he relies in the amount of problems he is in so he runs away back to his family, the gods of heaven extremely pissed wants to kill Wukong so Wukong and a group of soldiers that he has goes and fights a bunch of gods he ends up wining so the king had to call Buddha, a then buddha puts in a prison for 500 yrs. One day a monk named Tang Sanzang was “talking to Buddha” aperently there was a war going on and they had to stop it, Buddha gives the monk Tang Sanzang a bunch of scriptures, if someone ever read those scriptures they would be come peaceful no matter what, but there’s was a problem he had to go to the west and a bunch of demons wants to kill Tang Sanzang because they believe they will be immortal if they do this, so Buddha gives Tang Sanzang a group of body guards first (Sun Wukong) then a god that haves been kicked from heaven then cursed to turned into a half human half pig (Zhu Bajie), and a cursed half human half fish (Sha Wujing) before they left Buddha put on them a golden headband, this would help Tang Sanzang so if they tried something the golden headband would squeeze causing a lot of pain. this formed the trio that would help Tang Sanzang through the journey to the west. (I’m going to skip ahead because I would be texting this all day) when they finally get to the west the trio are finally set free and found peace, this is where black myth wukong kicks in, after wukong comes back to his family for some reason the gods of heaven started killing wukongs family, this pisses a lot wukong so he goes amd tries to fight them but loses, a few centuries later a recantation of sun wukong is born called the destined one, his job is to find all wukong artifacts to posibly revive him. This took ages to type, sorry if I was wrong in some stuff (I’m new to jurney to the west) I would appreciate if you found something wrong to tell me since I’m also learning, also sorry if my English isn’t perfect I’m still learning, I had to skip a loooot of stuff from journey to the west because the book is really really long, but I really recommend it, also I really recommend this game, I stared playing and it’s amazing.
please make this a series. jev actually goes into detail about the lore. i know some of it but the way he explains it helps a lot.
Was gonna hold out on buying this until winter break so it doesn't get in the way of my life rn. BUT, after watching this, Idk if I can resist.
I just started PT school this week and i was going to wait as well. But the hype for this game and my hype for the game is too much. I just hit the purchase button on it... i'll just restrain myself from diving tooo deep
It's so good dude.
nah genuinely this game is good asf havent had fun ona game like this since elden ring
Had no plans of buying it, within the first hour of it being out I was sold lol.
Reject humanity, embrace monke
Not sure what I’ve seen is true but looking through comment sections of Black Myth playthroughs is that there’s an extra layer of “difficulty” spikes that happen with boss fights (not sure if they all have them) it’s that depending on how good and fast your first attempt at a fight is the boss activates a “second phase” that spikes there damage, attack speed and increases damage resistance but doesn’t activate if you lose your first attempt or just barley beat the boss
I had a second phase while fighting the snake-like yaoguai in the lake. It was my second attempt but I beat him really fast and it activates the second phase.
真相是: 游戏里某些boss的二阶段取决于玩家的dps 在一定的时间里对boss造成足够的伤害，boss就会进入二阶段（更强 更硬 更大）。反而言之如果你打到boss的时间太长，boss到死都不会开启二阶段。
Quite surprised with Jev’s Knowledge of the Universe! Makes me want to watch just to learn
Thought he might know a thing here and there but nahhh. Pleasantly surprised. So excited for this playthrough
It brings me immense joy that Jev is so knowledgeable about the lore as someone who is also a huge fan of journey to the west
Also idk if anyone knew this funny detail but its also very likely that Wukong by nature of being a stone monkey (he hatched from a stone egg) was probably already immortal. He had lived up on flower fruit mountain with other monkeys for hundreds of years before he began his journey off the mountain. I have always found it funny that he likely didn't need to go through all those hurdles to attain immortality because he probably always was immortal.
End of chapter 2 gets pretty hard. Not having parry is so awkward but I'm loving it so far
Factsssss. Dude where is the parry? Peak nonetheless
It's not soul's get use to it l
@@benzohhhhhthere is basically a parry in the game!! It’s the rock solid transformation plus the immobilize acts sort of as a parry as well. When timing the immobilize when they are just about to attack it’ll increase the duration they are stunned and the damage taken just can’t spam them cuz they have a cooldown and mana cost but they do work as a parry in the game
I love how much lore Jev knows, could hear him all day talking about this stuff
Black Myth Requis is the original
Ain't no way you calling requis a monkey 💀
The reason why a masterpiece is a masterpiece is that it can make readers have different feelings after reading it. As the saying goes, everyone has a different face. You can understand its bizarre world by reading it for the first time, and then appreciate the criticism of the current social situation in the book. Then, you can savor it carefully and reflect your own current situation, understand the essence of life, and give people the motivation or inspiration to move forward. With the growth of experience, you can understand that Journey to the West is not about the story of the four masters and apprentices going to the West to worship Buddha and seek scriptures, but the process of self-cultivation to let go of greed, anger, ignorance, hatred, love, evil, and desire. But at the end of life, there will be an understanding of life, just like everyone will have a different interpretation of Journey to the West. Here we can quote a Buddhist saying, "There is no Bodhi tree, and the bright mirror is not a stand. There is nothing at all, so where can dust be raised?"
I love that you got to know the lore of the myths & legends before the game came out makes it that much better when you get to experience it!
This is a straight up anime that’s playable and I’m so ready for this journey
A jev a day keeps the sad thoughts away
also jev need a gsupps flavor
@@fallen_3334he does brother
Ironically your comment is a sad thought
Cringe
Got to say Im really impressed that Jev learned or read about the lore before playing the game!
The fact he figured they’d hide something behind the waterfall was funny to me he just didn’t have the things to stop the waterfall to go behind it
FINALLY someone who actually knows the story of journey to the west before playing this. Crazy that most people won't even take the time to hear the story this game is from.
First time in my LIFE I'm not lying in my bed and wishing I could play the games Jev plays, now I can experience the joy and rage with him now that we play the game at the same time 😂
Just seen a bot steal your comment 😭😭😭
@@ImABigTumor bruh what 🤣
please make this a series! face cam, commentary, all of it!
You know the shits real when the mighty Sun Goku is inspired by this guy. He is him!!!
Bro, the explanation at the start made (what Wukong said at the start) so much sense. Better than the AFRO guy that I watched before him. 👌🔥🔥🔥
I've seen at least 30+ streamers on TH-cam on the first opening scene some who know about the Journey to the West but none of said anything about how Jev explained exactly what was going on. Good shit Jev thanks.
25:26 knocked big boy on his ass lol!🤣🤣🤣
Edit: This game looks amazing MORE JEV PLEASE GIVE US MORE!!💯💯💯💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
We need this to be a series
Everyone says that, no matter what game it is.
@@MrPiter48 because it is true
A few videos ago, he already said he was going to do a series on this game
that big stone head boss was ignorant to encounter at 11 at night. bro had me heated 😂
I appreciate the lore tidbits from Jev because most of these references would go over my head. I’m familiar with the story but I haven’t heard it for myself.
this game is so pleasing to the eyes to the point of calling it gorgeous is simply an understatement
nah the dog at 3:05 threw me off that mf is Chop from GTA5 😭😭
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@@SmokinTonicI care.
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@@SmokinTonic i care
@@Lil-S3 damn
"Oh that a HANDY ability" we see what you did there 😂 17:22
You're the most knowledgeable TH-camr I had watched regarding the Chinese mythology. You even know Erlang is the nephew of the jade emperor xD
The ancient history of China and Japan etc , is insane the lore and everything throughout their old af history’s, it is next level…. This series gonna be LIT!!!🔥
It’s like the Three kingdoms era, the story type, legend that the renowned generals had still lives on to this day in some areas like Guan Yu for example… or my personal favourite to ponder what ifs about, is the legend of Lubu to be known by all and feared by many in a time where its swords shields etc is pure God tier stuff to imagine someone of that skill level and prowess is hard…. Sucks we western and EU people got nothing even close to that level of historical lore and story’s, imo anyways.
30 minute video, today is a good day.
19:40 Little did jev know
Saw a comment on Reddit saying it was a secret boss I came back here so quick lol
Wukong is Goku and Lu Bu into one haha!
Actually, Lu bu is the original style of Armor and headwear , coz his war armor style is so famous in 2nd century AD , Eastern Han dynasty, when Journey to the west book published in 16th century, writer, got inspired Wukong from wushiqi from traditional folklore, he combined Wukong with Famous Lu Bu style and Wukong became so much popular again , wushiqi is the southern Chinese monkey monster god and mostly from Chu era, later, when dragon ball writer Toriyama, wrote dragon ball inspired by Wukong, and even Goku is in Japan name for Sun Wukong, and yeah Wukong is original Sun Goku ,
So chronologically, Wukong style and features are inspired from Lu bu and Go ku is directly inspired from Wukong.
@@emperoroak7331 that’s so cool! Thanks for sharing this 🔥🙏 I knew I saw the similarities as soon as I saw Wukong. Love when inspirations come from different places. So cool!
@@Sickage as an Asian man from Southeast Asia, Romance of Three Kingdomd( Lu bu ) and Journey to the west (Wukong) are not just tradition of China, these are our Asian childhood stories and our Pride too , love to share , my friend ✌️✌️
san goku is japanese language for Sun Wukong. The comic was inspired by journey to the west
@@emperoroak7331 Lu Bu is a real person.
wow 30 min long video is crazy. I love theese longer vids like that bloodbourne one, but I get how hard it is to maintain daily uploads while recording and editing longer videos. Thank you so much for the work you put into making it longer, even tho it takes a lot of work. You are the best, and still managed to upload the video today. Just a legend man! lets go Jev
I’ve been watching you since like 2014 and I’ve watched everything never miss a vid and I can already tell this is gonna be one of my favorite series from you this game looks crazy
Lettssssss gooooo
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Man, I love how Jev breaks down the gameplay and lore! It adds a whole new layer to it. Can't wait to see how he tackles the next part. Also, did anyone else catch that detail about Wukong's powers? 🤔🔥
"You guys know, I love hitting some charged heavies"
*cuts to Immobilize into Charged Heavy* :D love it!
THANK YOU FOR GIVING INFO ON WHATS GOING ON FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVENT SEEN THIS SERIES BEFORE
Photorealistic imaging is seriously something else. Every environment and character has so much detail it’s hard to find something bad about the graphics
This game is so beautiful. We need a series
Out of all the playthroughs ive watched Jev has performed the best 🔥🔥
I did not expect Jev to know this much about Chinese mythology
It’s so awesome seeing people enjoy Chinese folk lore the way I’ve known about it growing up super cool.
We want a full playthrough, the entertainment from you is unmatched
just a little note since you dont get one for a while that transformation that u got, if you build up the little meter on the bottom right and do a dodge + heavy attack it does insane damage. best way to build it up is the fast light attacks. I like combining the transformation and immobilize
It is so fun to watch you play this, you really know the background story behind the game
I think Jev's one of the only people that I've watched play this game that actually knows about the story of journey to the west as well as the folklore behind Son Wukong
This was in my opinion one of the best intro fights I've ever seen, although technically there some similarities to Goku. Goku was actually made in Wukong's image. I've already beaten the game one time and am on my second play through and I genuinely think this is going to be another game like Skyrim where i come back to it a lot.
Been anticipating watching Jev and Hollow playing this game. This is gonna be lit.
Jev there is a secret behind the waterfall you just need to make some progress in chapter 2 to get a key item then back track to the waterfall. There’s a wall with statues carved in it that you need to break with a VERY heavy attack after fighting an optional boss. You’ll know the wall when you see it. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND DOING THIS! You won’t be disappointed. Also when you fight the father and son next chapter don’t kill the father only kill the son.
I really want Jev to make this a series and continue Lies of P too! I love watching Jev play thru these kinds of games tbh
Watching Jev play these souls like games makes me want the video to never end. Please make more Wukong videos!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the 30 minute video! Would love a series on this game from you!
Is swear this heavy attack is so satisfying to land it’s like you’re slam dunking on them heads lol loving this game as a fan of the lore, keep up the great work Jev!
I really like Jev's playthrough and commentary! Will keep watching for the whole story! Can't wait haha
Loving this game so much. Excited for your series too. I love that you know the lore because I don’t really. I’m playing on ps5 and it definitely could use some optimization updates but it hasn’t crashed once in 10 hours of play time. Smooth 60fps 90% of the time.
Please play the full game, it's nice watching someone who knows the story of Sun Wukong!
Jev just a tip in this game if you dodge more than 3 times in quick succession there is a longer recovery time. So it’s best to only use the dodge button when you actually need to dodge an attack and use the sprint to close the gap on enemies.
Yeah you’re my player of choice to watch seeing as you actually know lore about wukong and the universe. Please do a whole series on this.
Was not expecting Jev to know all the Journey to the West lore
brooo, jev knowing the lore makes this sooooo much better
Fun fact: The weapon our monkey carries weighs about 14,881 pounds, or roughly 6.75 tons.
Yes, have a whole series on this game, I need something to watch.
I don't know if anybody in the comments has mentioned it (not digging through to find out), but if you're interested in and/or enjoy stories based around "Journey to the West," I highly recommend giving Enslaved: Odyssey to the West a go. Very underrated game, and well worth checking out (especially because it goes on sale on Steam a few times a year, so when it's only $5 at the time, it's pretty much theft at that point).
HELL YEA THIS NEEDS TO BE A SERIES... AND I LOOK FORWARD TO IT RHAHHHH
I might cry if this drops to 10-15mins videos bc this looks sooooo good graphics wise and gameplay
Please make this a series. This game looks so good
Son wukong is one of my most favorite fictional characters of all time. I like his story and powers/abilities. And insane how goku is inspired by him.