63 hours deep, about to head into the last chapter. I've taken my sweet ass time, found every secret area, killed every giant frog, read every single journal entry. I genuinely love this game and feel sad that it's going to be over eventually.
there are more stuff to unlock in NG+ so dont worry. you can only unlock wukong stance after NG+++ with each playthru got secret ending sooooooo.......
no, PUBG peaked 3.2M back in 2018 and at that time it was priced $15. they went f2p in 2022 but yeah still an impressive and amazing feat by black myth: wukong
If you use the hidden artifact found in their respective chapters, the two boss fights against the Yellow Wind Sage and the Hundred Eyes become remarkably easy. I learned this the hard way.
ya i mean those are the actual things in jttw where wukong defeated the bosses with, it's automatically logical for people who know about the story to look for those items after the npcs leave a hint, without them it should be insanely hard.
@jamesfeng9922 True, Wukong is strong but what he face is not those just Youkai/Demon, what he face and lost to is those weapon/item (that usually owned by Buddhas, Boddhisatvas or some High Deities) in Journey to the West story. with two exception that i can remember is Samadhi Wind (Skill) owned by Yellow Sage in chapter 2, and Samadhi Fire (skill) owned by Red Boy in chapter 5. those 2 skill is really trouble wukong alot.
Was just coming here to say this! If you use the vessel you get from the chapter with the 100 eyed daoist it negates the phase with the eyes that drains your stamina and helps with the yellow brow fight in consecutive runs
above all astonished by the storytelling and presentation. i knew the bosses and graphics would be cool as hell but positively surprised by how much it has spoken to me emotionally. the characters and the dialogue and everything, what a journey
Yellow Wind Sage is ultra chill when you Look around and get to the secret Area Because you get an item that makes the 3rd Phase (And i think even 2nd Phase, Didnt test that) easy 100-Eye is also chill when you, again, get the item from the secret Area. Makes the "Transformation" Phase, where the background is yellowish, easy to Do
The act1 bear boss is fighting on the fire ground and the vessel you get from the side quest is fire resist and immune to fire-ground. The act3 boss, Yellowbrew immune Immobilize so you get Spell Binder on side quest. The game is actually very encourage the player to explore and do the side quests.
@@stefenleung You basically Always get Something to help you With the final Boss. Act 1: The Fireproof Mantle Act 2: The Bell for defense up and removes the Sand Tornado Act 3: Spell Binder Because you cant Use Immobelize or Cloud Step (I think He is also annoying when you Use Rock Solid) Act 4: Needle for the 100-Eye Act 5: There you actually dont get Something to help you With the fight, you basically Already have everything at that point
its kinda like the game letting u choose to do things the easy way or the hard way, the easy way gonna take a bit more work tho but i dont think anybody would have any complains
@@g4pls yellowbrow actually just counters all your mana related spells. Immobilise turns him gold and he turns your clones against you when you use a pluck of many.
Fun fact, canonically from the novel, even wukong himself couldn't beat him because his wind would blind him, which is why he does that in game, in game, the wind tamer can completely remove all his winds and tornado, the same item used to counter him in the novel aswell
A man had a dream in which a white fox transformed into a beautiful woman and lived a lifetime with him. At the end of the dream, the fox couldn't control its animal instincts and reverted to its original form from the human shape. The man woke up terrified by the dream, and solely because of his imagined fears from the dream, he killed the injured fox.
In ancient Chinese folklore, foxes symbolize the ability to enchant and deceive people. There are many legends of foxes transforming into beautiful women to captivate men, and this concept is easily understood within the East Asian cultural sphere.
@@jaredliu6740 But in this case, the man basically projected the assumption the fox is evil and simply killed her out of fear. The fox never intended to hurt him.
Tiger vanguard is probably in my top five boss fights in my gaming history. None of his mechanics felt like stupid cheese to make him difficult, he just had a believable but challenging move set.
@@yewknight none of his attacks felt like it was cheap or bull. It all felt like something you could dodge with ease the more you get used to it. That's what i mostly love about black myth wukong.
Exactly, and not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them. I have completed the whole game on PS5 also. No issue!
No I had some stuttering issues , you can tell when the menu items scroll really slowly. The fix is fairly simple, save, turn off PS5 and then restart it. It'll work properly again. In like the 30+ hours I've played stuttering happened only 2 times and this fix made it go away for hours at a time.
@@vasanthpragash854 I heard this so-called stuttering issue was caused by lack of storage space. People said they fixed it by removing stuff on their drive.
@vasanthpragash854 Exact same experience ive had. Only time I've had any stuttering start to happen is after playing for hours at a time and soon as it starts i just close it all down and restart and it's all fine again.
@@joseduarte2146 your life is boring lol, if you can't event beat one boss then you've to get better, Wukong is a masterpiece, No souls game, nothing comes close to it.
Feel happy for you, and it is more pleasure if you go to the "TRUE" ending, fighting the four heaven king and Erlang in its origin form. MAN, THAT IS CRAZY!
Regarding that fox story, it’s actually itself turned into a woman, not that man run into some random girl. The fox is the girl. Now with that mindset, watch that again.
Yeah the secret area in chapter 5 is tied to the horse quest. If you fucked that up you can’t get there. I did that on my blind play through. Fucked everything up for me because that secret area has a lot of items you need to get platinum.
Red boy was last of his kind true, but it was the Celestial court that kill his people, or at least that was implied. and he was meant to be a pawn in the power struggle between Heaven and Buddha realm so it's kinda understandable that he was pissed.
I have completed the whole game on PS5 with Quality settings. No problem at all. This guy maybe trolling. Not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them.
Mine did stutter a bit in chapter 3 but restarting the game helped. Plus it was mostly smooth so I wouldn’t say it ruined the game. Cyberpunk when it launched in PS5 caused me lots of hard crashes in the middle of game missions so that is something I didn’t tolerate as much.
A thing to add - it's interesting that OP mentions being "borded out" by the same environments in most Asian games. This game described at most 50 pages of the 2300-page novel in the Journey to the West book. I barely completed the book and found that a lot of elements were missing from this game. I guess since this story is "based off" of Wukong, it doesn't detail his actual adventure. He traversed between the celestial, earthly, and even underworld realms, which weren't depicted in the game. Half the novel depicts his journeys in the celestial palace and the underworld (hel), but only shows him in the earthly realm. Also, it would take a significant amount of money and imagination to design all three realms. That was mentioned by the dev team.
@@HMan2828 Yeah I heard and I'm hyped 😂They said their next releases will include more Chinese horror elements, which is awesome because this game needs more of it lol. Chinese horror is so different from conventional horror since its more "spiritualistic" in a sense and not the jump-scare childsplay. Its more in-depth and always has some hidden meaning behind it, usually related to ritualistic practices made during ancient time periods. The fight in that blood pool with the Tiger Vanguard was one example. It's probably horrifying to western audiences, but that's what traditional Chinese horror is. It's masterful art imo.
@4:08 I encountered no "big technical issue" playing & completed the game on PS5 (true ending) last week and I only encountered lagged or stuttered once continuously during a boss fight on Chapter 6 first boss. I was on Quality setting. I changed to Balance for that boss & rest my PS5 for an hour in case it was heat issue. And that boss lag had never appeared again and I have even switched it back to Quality setting after that. I have no stutter or lag issue at all throughout any fight or exploring game play ever apart from that one time occurrence. I only experienced game crashed 3 times during this wonderful journey also. So minor technical issue maybe definitely not a "big one." Highly recommended this game, and definitely one of the best if not the best single player game ever.
i have a theory: that in the opening cutscene when wukong approaches the four kings, he scratches his head for a sec and rubs his fingers together and then sharply throws "something" away and i think that is a strand of his hair just in case he was defeated and needed a clone to ressurect. i believe this clone he threw is you and i have 2 reasons that this is true.1. in the game everytime you "die" you essentially turn into a strand of hair which makes more sense when i tell you reason 2. in other movies and depictions such as the forbidden kingdom with jackie chan and jet li it was a thing that happened for jet li's monk character was also a clone and this has significant continuity within wukong lore so much so that i came up with this theory
And btw, you’re 100% right! This is undoubtedly one of the all time greats, a certified banger. Since firing up the game, I’ve been consumed with retrying boss fights, exploring for (imo) the best secret and side missions I’ve ever seen in a game (and I’ve played and loved Elden Ring.. still do). I just can’t stop playing the game… also, I don’t think it’s necessary to penalise people (dropping souls on death) in souls games, as in this game some bosses are so punishing, that you don’t need more unnecessary punishment. This game is so well done - so unexpected!
So the equipment or spells you get in the sidequest/secret areas? They usually have story significance that are call backs to the original Journey to the West. Quite often, in the original story, Wukong encounters a foe or situation he is unable to overcome without completely obliterating everything. And so he calls upon the help of various Gods and Deities. The 100 Eye Daoist and the Yellow Wind Sage are characters from the original story. Against the Yellow Wind Sage, you can get a bell that completely negates his BS tornado, a callback to when Sun Wukong got a magical bead that negated his winds. Against the 100 Eye Daoist, Sun Wukong called upon the help of a Rooster Deity who pecked the ever living crap out of the Centipede Yaoguai. The needle artifact you get from the secret area there is a callback to that, when the Snake Deity helped to re-empower the needle after you defeat the corrupted Rooster.
all the shit boss you mention HAVE a counter, it is VESSEL. if you snooping around and get all the secret area in each chapter you get the vessel mean to counter each of those boss. the centipede guy when he turn gold can be cancel by the needle, the rat king wind shit can be cancel by the wind bell. the vessel discribtion mention highly effect again certain ennemy. about wise voice his laser CANT hit you if you stay behind him, when he take your max hp you also deal much higher dmg so it a trade off. The only dodge worthy move is the glowing hand slam, the timming off that move is so tight I almost got hit everytime and depend on your health it can be fight ending move. The time I dodge that hit is the time I kill him. About the cart after Pingping use the fan to snuff the fire you can go back where you came and you will see a path that was blocked be fire earlier that is where you find the last one
Also worth mentioning that the area vessel items can resolve your main issues with yellow wind sage and the daoist if you find them in the secret areas
Both the Buddha and the celestial sides court are metaphors of the religion and the royalty in the original journey to the west story, simply put pretenders who did a lot bad stuffs.
It might be a little crazy to say but this game is geniunely my 2nd favourite game ever and im ONLY at chapter 3,whiteclad noble,kang jin loong,tiger vanguard,are some of my favourite bosses EVER,and i heard the game only gets better,a game like this comes once in a life time man…what a game.
Chapter 6 of this game has the best... Most frustrating.. most EPIC boss fight I've ever experienced.. (I'm not taking about the "secret" optional boss) ...
@@NSBOKOLOLO some rumor said the map in Chapter 6 was the first one they made. I guess they didn’t have much experience at that time. so that's why it looks below average.
you need relic on yellow wind sage and hundred eyes daoist, this is actually how the developers encourage players to discover hidden content, bosses become a lot easier when you have them, also those relive refers back to the actual lore
The things you hated about the Yellow Wind Sage and the 100 Eyeed Daoist are both solved by doing the secret areas of their relative chapters and using the item you get as a reward during their 3rd phase.
i am so happy you enjoy this game and your honest, informational review !! if you try to find the hidden boss, it will bring your experience to another level.
Did you know they use motion capture to get action from actual cats for this game? I know this after beating the Tiger Vanguard and can't help but think:"F**ked, my ass got whooped 30+ times by a cat!!!!"
the stuttering is an unreal engine 5 thing with the shaders if you launch the game on steam with -dx12 put in the launch properties and launch the game in compatibility mode it runs flawlessly, specially with frame generation
I started out with not much stuttering, but it started accumulating and getting worse over time. I stopped yesterday well into Chapter 3 because a combination of graphical glitches with snow and really bad stuttering was sucking the fun out of it. I’ll give your suggestion a try…
Not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them. I have completed the whole game on PS5 also. @4:08 I encountered no "big technical issue" playing & completed the game on PS5 (true ending) last week and I only encountered lagged or stuttered once continuously during a boss fight on Chapter 6 first boss. I was on Quality setting. I changed to Balance for that boss & rest my PS5 for an hour in case it was heat issue. And that boss lag had never appeared again and I have even switched it back to Quality setting after that. I have no stutter or lag issue at all throughout any fight or exploring game play ever apart from that one time occurrence. I only experienced game crashed 3 times during this wonderful journey also. So minor technical issue maybe definitely not a "big one."
@@WorthWatchingStudiosactually chapter 3 is really laggy , if you on pc just play on low in this area, unless ofc you have rtx 4090 , i play on rtx 3060ti and i play on high settings frames sometimes drops in intense fights but yeah its an old card but still doing great , i think they should make the game work in full screen maybe it would work a little better
@@malyman316Well I’ve completed Chapter 3 - I made the changes above but still had some problems, but reduced enough that I could finish the final boss. Now that I’m done with that chapter I’ll try going back to better specs!
Many people says Martial arts like kung fu is not effective in real life , but in games like this ,its beautiful move set to play ❤ i enjoy a lot ,GOTY for me
I'll never understand everyone's beef with Captain Wise Voice. He's probably the easiest boss in the entire game, yet everyone talks about him as though he was a nightmare to fight.
I personally had lots of trouble with him, 20+ tries when before that I was getting most bosses within 5 tries, I guess my playstyle was just bad against him lol
14:25 I am sorry that ppl had hard time in this combat, but actually this combat is faithfully recreated the first combat of wukong and yellow wind sage in the "the journey to the west" novel. spoiler alarm . . . . . In the novel, Wukong defeated yellow wind sage by borrowing the wind tamer vessel and the flying dragon staff.from Lin Gi Bodhisattva.
That's crazy man, I'm on ps5 and barely had any performance issues. It's weird that performance is different between ps5 players. I thought that would only happen on pc due to different specs and what not. Anyway great video as always Edit: good on you calling out screen rant and ign
In the game's version of Red Boy, his grudge is against the Celestial court, not the Bull Demon King. He's only staging a coup because he wants the relic and probably the kingdom's resources in a war against the Jade Emperor.
The game just keeps you on your feet all the time, which is the No.1 element for a great game. Wise-Voice is counter intuitive as after a couple boss fights we have learned to keep our distance, dodge and wait for oppotunities, but if you stay under him and just pedicure him, it's actually not that hard a fight.
id flip yaksha king and wise voice, wise voice was extremely simple but ig thats whats fun about these games everyone struggles with different encounters
I love that im only on chapter 4 and ive been thinking DLC and sequels for this😂 You know a game is amazing when your hoping/thinking of the future beyond the game
Weird I had barely to NO shuttering ... and I play in Cinematic Mode + Dlss + framge gen with 4090. Smooth af. Ocasionally I got it yes, but not during boss fight in my experience and im 70h in. Maybe 1 time for half a second or something
I’m only a few hours in but it has blown me away. I kinda forgot how stunning modern AAA can look. The combat has a ton of depth and feels great. The bosses are great. The game is overall punishing but fair and forgiving at the same time. It’s just been a breath of fresh air.
The only reused enemies I can think of are the frogs (although with different abilities) and a skeleton-snake-neck-guai wearing blue garments, found in Chapter 1 and 4.
Im on my second playthrough on ps5 i've had no stuttering like what i see in this video, i have it on performance mode and it's been smooth the whole way through. Awesome game everyine needs to get this
most of the bosses that you didn't like fighting are actually designed to be that way, because you might find side quests that give you items or abilities that make fighting them easier. Ex. the tornados can be negated by an item that you get, yellow brow's gold armor can be hurt by increasing your attack from another spell you learn, and the hundred eye dude's 3rd phase can be canceled with a needle item that you get that flies around.
17:38 some of these structures, walls with sculptures, statues, temples, scenaries, even bridges are actually exists in China, Game science went scanning them locally into 3d modules!!
14:38 ya, i agreen the hitbox of the front side of the centipede is bad, i always hit his sides. this is also a faithful recreation from the novel, 100 eyes centipede was so powerful that wukong has to ask for help from some deity. spoiler alarm . . . . wukong borrowed a needle vessel to dispell the golden blazing lights from centipede 's 100 eyes.
07:37 spoiler alarm, there are many ways to recover some of your mana . . . . . . .Finding a Celestial Taiyi Pill that increases Max Mana permanently also restores the mana bar in the process. The Galeguard Greaves are foot armor that restore a moderate amount of Mana if the player can perfect dodge three times in quick succession. The Spirit Shards skill for the Immobilize spell recovers Mana when you crash the immobilization on an enemy. The Bold Venture skill for the Rock Solid spell recovers Mana if used correctly - in fact, it's one of the best Black Myth Wukong skills. One option for the Fuming Ears Relic has the same effect as Bold Venture, allowing the player to regain half the cost of the Rock Solid Deflection Spell when they successfully parry an enemy with it. In Chapter 3, defeating the optional Apramana Bat boss fight will cause the Turtle Tear to drop on the beach nearby. This is a Soak for your Gourd that restores Moderate amounts of Mana if you drink it at full health.
I didn’t have any shuttering issues. I’m also playing on the PS5. But I do notice that with consoles, sometimes you get such issues when it gets too hot after a while. I always makes I turn on the A/C or at least the room is not stuffy
In pagoda realm, there are mtfks like street lamp walking around, u need to defeat nine of them to cancel the half health bar effect! Also the hundred eyes mtfk, there is a item from secret area called weaver needle or smt like that can counter the boss pharse 2!
The effect of the Pagoda Realm is actually the Boss doing, after you beat it and head back down there, you will never had that effect again, so it fair to said he using that in the fight as well lol. Oh and one more thing if you beat that boss before dispatch all the lattern head, you will miss out a curio drop by defeating all of them...
id like to say this non white is under rated of a boss like that theme is so sick and the vibe of the fight where your fighting for your life against a crazy serial killer who freezes and poisons you
IKR! Weird concept. It's like the developers wanted you to explore the Pagoda, to figure that you have to kill the lantern creatures before fighting the boss.
Just to add on the part on the story of Chapter 5. It wasn't the Bull King who killed off Yaksha's race. It was hinted that it was Lingshan (Buddha's faction) which orchestrated the genocide of Yaksha's entire race. The Princess and Red Boy were the last surviving members and proof of their doing. Red Boy was a test tube baby borned (by will of the Celestial Court) to be used as a leverage against Lingshan as living proof of their deed (genocide) against the Yakshas. Bull King was aware, but he was powerless in his struggle and tried to protect his family from harm by being tame.
About Yaoguai and Xian Though both have some supernatural abilities, Yaoguais are creatures who are of manace, while Xian are creatures who are benign. The Fox is an Xian who craves for human life, so she changes into a female human form, marry with male human, and have a baby, but the change pose certain fatal risk to her life.
07:02 you meant Vessels? cause relics are the magical items you got at the end of each chapter, represent wukong's ear, nose, touge, body, eyes, and mind
Funny that the issues with those bosses you mentioned can be redirected if you got the relic from secret quest/area of the same chapter, and for captain Wise-voice Gamescience seem acknowledged how annoying it was and nerfed it in recent patch
11:34 yellow brow disguised himself as Maitreya Buddha（they have the same looks with different robes), and his ambition is to bulid a system/religion to replace buddhism.
I'm not sure about this review at all, especially when he claimed there was a "big technical issue" on PS5 which I haven't experienced it & I have finished the whole game last week with true ending on PS5 with Quality setting. Not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them.
The Yaksha King's people were wiped out by the Buddhas' faction in the celestial court. Yes, there are factions: the imported Buddhas versus the Native Chinese Gods like Erlang. The Yaksha King was the last prince of his kind. His soul was revived by someone from the Native Gods' side to cause trouble for the Buddhas. It was placed in the queen’s womb, so he wasn’t truly Bull King’s bloodline. When he learned the truth, he turned against Bull King for surrendering to the celestial court and sought a relic from him to take revenge.
15:41 ha! i am so proud of myself for figuring that out! u can immediately cancel that yellow light phase, by using that needle artifact! °^° 16:41 i found that one to be o the easier side. just cuddle his foot, until he becomes untargetable, dodge the shit out of the lightning like the floor is lava and proceed to step on his foot again x:
63 hours deep, about to head into the last chapter. I've taken my sweet ass time, found every secret area, killed every giant frog, read every single journal entry. I genuinely love this game and feel sad that it's going to be over eventually.
there are more stuff to unlock in NG+ so dont worry. you can only unlock wukong stance after NG+++ with each playthru got secret ending sooooooo.......
Wait for dlc bro
the true ending animation is worth the effort too
Good one... Me still stuck on the bear
DLC will come very soon, in a year i guess
Wukong's favorite food is peach, not banana.
The monkeys in china originally ate peaches.
Monkeys in India eat banana
Depends, bananas use to be a tropical fruits in the past. In ancient China monkey don't get bananas as China isn't tropical climate.
Then peaches be immortal
@@zixinxia194 Wukong is about ancient China, so it's peach.
"the monkey steals the peach" is a particularly gruesome kung fu move.
Considering that PUBG is multi player and free, Black Myth: Wukong's No.2 on Steam is even more impressive
no, PUBG peaked 3.2M back in 2018 and at that time it was priced $15. they went f2p in 2022 but yeah still an impressive and amazing feat by black myth: wukong
@@uhWilliamrealistically if pubg was $60 i don't think it would've reached as high as black myth
Just remember:
"No one wants to play single-player games anymore"
@@uhWilliamyou could cut that count in half if it was 60 dollars.
@@TommasoFirminithat was always a lie
If you use the hidden artifact found in their respective chapters, the two boss fights against the Yellow Wind Sage and the Hundred Eyes become remarkably easy. I learned this the hard way.
Right, and for most people who know journey to the west story, they mostly knew the items is needed to easily defeat those boss.
ya i mean those are the actual things in jttw where wukong defeated the bosses with, it's automatically logical for people who know about the story to look for those items after the npcs leave a hint, without them it should be insanely hard.
@jamesfeng9922 True, Wukong is strong but what he face is not those just Youkai/Demon, what he face and lost to is those weapon/item (that usually owned by Buddhas, Boddhisatvas or some High Deities) in Journey to the West story. with two exception that i can remember is Samadhi Wind (Skill) owned by Yellow Sage in chapter 2, and Samadhi Fire (skill) owned by Red Boy in chapter 5. those 2 skill is really trouble wukong alot.
Yeah I think the devs want to encourage you to find them in hidden areas and use them
Was just coming here to say this! If you use the vessel you get from the chapter with the 100 eyed daoist it negates the phase with the eyes that drains your stamina and helps with the yellow brow fight in consecutive runs
It’s now sold more than 18 million copies.🎉
On PC only
@@hugo-pg5tvPC and PS5 if you not aware
@@hugo-pg5tvPC and PS5 if you not aware
@@dennisly9933 it says 18 million on PC
above all astonished by the storytelling and presentation. i knew the bosses and graphics would be cool as hell but positively surprised by how much it has spoken to me emotionally. the characters and the dialogue and everything, what a journey
Yellow Wind Sage is ultra chill when you Look around and get to the secret Area Because you get an item that makes the 3rd Phase (And i think even 2nd Phase, Didnt test that) easy
100-Eye is also chill when you, again, get the item from the secret Area. Makes the "Transformation" Phase, where the background is yellowish, easy to Do
The act1 bear boss is fighting on the fire ground and the vessel you get from the side quest is fire resist and immune to fire-ground. The act3 boss, Yellowbrew immune Immobilize so you get Spell Binder on side quest. The game is actually very encourage the player to explore and do the side quests.
@@stefenleung You basically Always get Something to help you With the final Boss.
Act 1: The Fireproof Mantle
Act 2: The Bell for defense up and removes the Sand Tornado
Act 3: Spell Binder Because you cant Use Immobelize or Cloud Step (I think He is also annoying when you Use Rock Solid)
Act 4: Needle for the 100-Eye
Act 5: There you actually dont get Something to help you With the fight, you basically Already have everything at that point
@@g4plsthe fan does help with the hand-face birdman you fight at the very beginning of chapter 6 tho
its kinda like the game letting u choose to do things the easy way or the hard way, the easy way gonna take a bit more work tho but i dont think anybody would have any complains
@@g4pls yellowbrow actually just counters all your mana related spells. Immobilise turns him gold and he turns your clones against you when you use a pluck of many.
Fun fact, canonically from the novel, even wukong himself couldn't beat him because his wind would blind him, which is why he does that in game, in game, the wind tamer can completely remove all his winds and tornado, the same item used to counter him in the novel aswell
beat this game 2 times slowly making me way through the 3rd and still enjoying every second of it
the 3rd play through is very fun
10m is only for for sales in first 3 days. After 2 weeks, it is around 18-20m sales
bro I loved wukongs camera after experienceing the horror of elden ring's camera
A man had a dream in which a white fox transformed into a beautiful woman and lived a lifetime with him. At the end of the dream, the fox couldn't control its animal instincts and reverted to its original form from the human shape. The man woke up terrified by the dream, and solely because of his imagined fears from the dream, he killed the injured fox.
In ancient Chinese folklore, foxes symbolize the ability to enchant and deceive people. There are many legends of foxes transforming into beautiful women to captivate men, and this concept is easily understood within the East Asian cultural sphere.
@@jaredliu6740 But in this case, the man basically projected the assumption the fox is evil and simply killed her out of fear. The fox never intended to hurt him.
The tiger vanguard fight is hard but very fun.
he was so fun to fight ong
And Yin Tiger is even better.
Tiger vanguard is probably in my top five boss fights in my gaming history. None of his mechanics felt like stupid cheese to make him difficult, he just had a believable but challenging move set.
It's been years since I yalled in pure joy defeating him knowing I just bested not only a great designed challenge but also myself.
@@yewknight none of his attacks felt like it was cheap or bull. It all felt like something you could dodge with ease the more you get used to it. That's what i mostly love about black myth wukong.
i seriously had 0 of the stuttering issues on ps5
Exactly, and not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them. I have completed the whole game on PS5 also. No issue!
No I had some stuttering issues , you can tell when the menu items scroll really slowly. The fix is fairly simple, save, turn off PS5 and then restart it. It'll work properly again.
In like the 30+ hours I've played stuttering happened only 2 times and this fix made it go away for hours at a time.
one of you is lying. ya'll have the same specs but different experience? lmao console gamers
@@vasanthpragash854 I heard this so-called stuttering issue was caused by lack of storage space. People said they fixed it by removing stuff on their drive.
@vasanthpragash854 Exact same experience ive had. Only time I've had any stuttering start to happen is after playing for hours at a time and soon as it starts i just close it all down and restart and it's all fine again.
Just downloaded the game, probably my most anticipated of the year, can't wait to see how amazing it is.
Me too. Black Myth: Wukong is even better than I expected.
I totally regret buying it
What a waste
Wu kong is much better with camera than fromsoft. Like the wind sage cor instance. It autospins you to lock on him during his teleporting
I have one word for this game 'PEAK!'
I said this on the last video but it got taken down :>
Nah game is not peak it’s gets boring
@@joseduarte2146nah you are too poor to even buy this game
@@joseduarte2146 your life is boring lol, if you can't event beat one boss then you've to get better, Wukong is a masterpiece, No souls game, nothing comes close to it.
Oh my god the intro meme had me rolling lmao.
Feel happy for you, and it is more pleasure if you go to the "TRUE" ending, fighting the four heaven king and Erlang in its origin form. MAN, THAT IS CRAZY!
Regarding that fox story, it’s actually itself turned into a woman, not that man run into some random girl. The fox is the girl. Now with that mindset, watch that again.
i cant understand you, fix your english first
Yeah, the fox was a Yaoguai to begin with.
@@khajitt I can't understand you either. Fix your comprehension.
It was just a regular fox. The man had a wet dream and blamed it on the innocent fox.
@@khajitt that means you are stupid
This game has shaken the gaming industry for good. A well deserve Game Of The Year
I hate the game
Worst game I played
mate, you missed the secret area at Chapter 3, player village is not a secret area.
Your talking about the true ending area?
Yeah the secret area in chapter 5 is tied to the horse quest. If you fucked that up you can’t get there. I did that on my blind play through. Fucked everything up for me because that secret area has a lot of items you need to get platinum.
Red boy was last of his kind true, but it was the Celestial court that kill his people, or at least that was implied. and he was meant to be a pawn in the power struggle between Heaven and Buddha realm so it's kinda understandable that he was pissed.
It's not the Celestial Court. It's actually Budha, and it's stated in the journals.
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Technically The West did it but very close❤
My PS5 hasnt stuttered so far.
I have completed the whole game on PS5 with Quality settings. No problem at all. This guy maybe trolling. Not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them.
Mine only did after playing many hours in a row. Closing it all down and restarting and it would be perfectly fine again.
@@YCHTTyall finally understand that this woke agenda is real? We've been telling yall for years
Mine did stutter a bit in chapter 3 but restarting the game helped. Plus it was mostly smooth so I wouldn’t say it ruined the game. Cyberpunk when it launched in PS5 caused me lots of hard crashes in the middle of game missions so that is something I didn’t tolerate as much.
A thing to add - it's interesting that OP mentions being "borded out" by the same environments in most Asian games. This game described at most 50 pages of the 2300-page novel in the Journey to the West book. I barely completed the book and found that a lot of elements were missing from this game. I guess since this story is "based off" of Wukong, it doesn't detail his actual adventure. He traversed between the celestial, earthly, and even underworld realms, which weren't depicted in the game. Half the novel depicts his journeys in the celestial palace and the underworld (hel), but only shows him in the earthly realm. Also, it would take a significant amount of money and imagination to design all three realms. That was mentioned by the dev team.
Studio originally had planned for 13 chapters instead of 6, two large DLCs incoming!
@@HMan2828 Yeah I heard and I'm hyped 😂They said their next releases will include more Chinese horror elements, which is awesome because this game needs more of it lol. Chinese horror is so different from conventional horror since its more "spiritualistic" in a sense and not the jump-scare childsplay. Its more in-depth and always has some hidden meaning behind it, usually related to ritualistic practices made during ancient time periods. The fight in that blood pool with the Tiger Vanguard was one example. It's probably horrifying to western audiences, but that's what traditional Chinese horror is. It's masterful art imo.
@4:08 I encountered no "big technical issue" playing & completed the game on PS5 (true ending) last week and I only encountered lagged or stuttered once continuously during a boss fight on Chapter 6 first boss. I was on Quality setting. I changed to Balance for that boss & rest my PS5 for an hour in case it was heat issue. And that boss lag had never appeared again and I have even switched it back to Quality setting after that. I have no stutter or lag issue at all throughout any fight or exploring game play ever apart from that one time occurrence. I only experienced game crashed 3 times during this wonderful journey also. So minor technical issue maybe definitely not a "big one." Highly recommended this game, and definitely one of the best if not the best single player game ever.
i have a theory: that in the opening cutscene when wukong approaches the four kings, he scratches his head for a sec and rubs his fingers together and then sharply throws "something" away and i think that is a strand of his hair just in case he was defeated and needed a clone to ressurect. i believe this clone he threw is you and i have 2 reasons that this is true.1. in the game everytime you "die" you essentially turn into a strand of hair which makes more sense when i tell you reason 2. in other movies and depictions such as the forbidden kingdom with jackie chan and jet li it was a thing that happened for jet li's monk character was also a clone and this has significant continuity within wukong lore so much so that i came up with this theory
And btw, you’re 100% right! This is undoubtedly one of the all time greats, a certified banger.
Since firing up the game, I’ve been consumed with retrying boss fights, exploring for (imo) the best secret and side missions I’ve ever seen in a game (and I’ve played and loved Elden Ring.. still do). I just can’t stop playing the game… also, I don’t think it’s necessary to penalise people (dropping souls on death) in souls games, as in this game some bosses are so punishing, that you don’t need more unnecessary punishment. This game is so well done - so unexpected!
So the equipment or spells you get in the sidequest/secret areas? They usually have story significance that are call backs to the original Journey to the West. Quite often, in the original story, Wukong encounters a foe or situation he is unable to overcome without completely obliterating everything. And so he calls upon the help of various Gods and Deities.
The 100 Eye Daoist and the Yellow Wind Sage are characters from the original story. Against the Yellow Wind Sage, you can get a bell that completely negates his BS tornado, a callback to when Sun Wukong got a magical bead that negated his winds. Against the 100 Eye Daoist, Sun Wukong called upon the help of a Rooster Deity who pecked the ever living crap out of the Centipede Yaoguai. The needle artifact you get from the secret area there is a callback to that, when the Snake Deity helped to re-empower the needle after you defeat the corrupted Rooster.
all the shit boss you mention HAVE a counter, it is VESSEL. if you snooping around and get all the secret area in each chapter you get the vessel mean to counter each of those boss. the centipede guy when he turn gold can be cancel by the needle, the rat king wind shit can be cancel by the wind bell. the vessel discribtion mention highly effect again certain ennemy. about wise voice his laser CANT hit you if you stay behind him, when he take your max hp you also deal much higher dmg so it a trade off. The only dodge worthy move is the glowing hand slam, the timming off that move is so tight I almost got hit everytime and depend on your health it can be fight ending move. The time I dodge that hit is the time I kill him. About the cart after Pingping use the fan to snuff the fire you can go back where you came and you will see a path that was blocked be fire earlier that is where you find the last one
Also worth mentioning that the area vessel items can resolve your main issues with yellow wind sage and the daoist if you find them in the secret areas
23:00, Bull King has never destroyed the red boy's kingdom. It was the court doing that.
Actually Budda did that ，master of his mother from the court saved red boy
@@RElolipop he cannot differentiate them anyway.
Both the Buddha and the celestial sides court are metaphors of the religion and the royalty in the original journey to the west story, simply put pretenders who did a lot bad stuffs.
It might be a little crazy to say but this game is geniunely my 2nd favourite game ever and im ONLY at chapter 3,whiteclad noble,kang jin loong,tiger vanguard,are some of my favourite bosses EVER,and i heard the game only gets better,a game like this comes once in a life time man…what a game.
1:16 had me spitting food over my screen
In al fairness the journalists that said their is no women in the game, cannot define what a woman is...
Chapter 6 of this game has the best... Most frustrating.. most EPIC boss fight I've ever experienced.. (I'm not taking about the "secret" optional boss) ...
Not the mountain sized rock?
@@vasanthpragash854The big shigandang is visually cool but actually so bad to fight😂, everyone in China hates him
yea just the boss fight not the map. i think chapter 6's map is unfinished
@@NSBOKOLOLO some rumor said the map in Chapter 6 was the first one they made. I guess they didn’t have much experience at that time. so that's why it looks below average.
you need relic on yellow wind sage and hundred eyes daoist, this is actually how the developers encourage players to discover hidden content, bosses become a lot easier when you have them, also those relive refers back to the actual lore
The things you hated about the Yellow Wind Sage and the 100 Eyeed Daoist are both solved by doing the secret areas of their relative chapters and using the item you get as a reward during their 3rd phase.
Bro you only got 3 of the transformations… please replay the game, you missed a lot homie…
i am so happy you enjoy this game and your honest, informational review !! if you try to find the hidden boss, it will bring your experience to another level.
Did you know they use motion capture to get action from actual cats for this game? I know this after beating the Tiger Vanguard and can't help but think:"F**ked, my ass got whooped 30+ times by a cat!!!!"
But the cats have sword though. So they learnt Kungfu and I'm fine with it.
the stuttering is an unreal engine 5 thing with the shaders
if you launch the game on steam with -dx12 put in the launch properties and launch the game in compatibility mode it runs flawlessly, specially with frame generation
I started out with not much stuttering, but it started accumulating and getting worse over time. I stopped yesterday well into Chapter 3 because a combination of graphical glitches with snow and really bad stuttering was sucking the fun out of it. I’ll give your suggestion a try…
Not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them. I have completed the whole game on PS5 also. @4:08 I encountered no "big technical issue" playing & completed the game on PS5 (true ending) last week and I only encountered lagged or stuttered once continuously during a boss fight on Chapter 6 first boss. I was on Quality setting. I changed to Balance for that boss & rest my PS5 for an hour in case it was heat issue. And that boss lag had never appeared again and I have even switched it back to Quality setting after that. I have no stutter or lag issue at all throughout any fight or exploring game play ever apart from that one time occurrence. I only experienced game crashed 3 times during this wonderful journey also. So minor technical issue maybe definitely not a "big one."
@@WorthWatchingStudiosactually chapter 3 is really laggy , if you on pc just play on low in this area, unless ofc you have rtx 4090 , i play on rtx 3060ti and i play on high settings frames sometimes drops in intense fights but yeah its an old card but still doing great , i think they should make the game work in full screen maybe it would work a little better
@@YCHTTI’m a big fan of the game so my report of glitches is sincere and shouldn’t keep anyone from playing it.
@@malyman316Well I’ve completed Chapter 3 - I made the changes above but still had some problems, but reduced enough that I could finish the final boss.
Now that I’m done with that chapter I’ll try going back to better specs!
The thrust stance is even more satisfying after you get Erlangs spear
Funny af. "I'd like to congratulate for not having a burning village..." (Pans to burning temple) " ...those don't count"
Character animation is some of the best I’ve seen…..especially the big headed boss guy…….
They are working on DLCs and bug fixes, I’m imagining some wall areas could lead to new stories if not all.
This game is masterpiece level good. 2 full playthrus. Now playing again from start. What perfection
Many people says Martial arts like kung fu is not effective in real life , but in games like this ,its beautiful move set to play ❤ i enjoy a lot ,GOTY for me
I'll never understand everyone's beef with Captain Wise Voice. He's probably the easiest boss in the entire game, yet everyone talks about him as though he was a nightmare to fight.
He is easy! Simple as heck. For me he was a big time let down boss .
I personally had lots of trouble with him, 20+ tries when before that I was getting most bosses within 5 tries, I guess my playstyle was just bad against him lol
He's not hard, just annoying... Shooting lasers and running away every time you get in melee range...
As for yellow wind monster, if you collected the secret treasure the third phase will be easy; same for the scorpion boss
Lacking in inclusivity and diversity that's a CON? I thought that would be in the nobody cares section.
14:25 I am sorry that ppl had hard time in this combat, but actually this combat is faithfully recreated the first combat of wukong and yellow wind sage in the "the journey to the west" novel.
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In the novel, Wukong defeated yellow wind sage by borrowing the wind tamer vessel and the flying dragon staff.from Lin Gi Bodhisattva.
That's crazy man, I'm on ps5 and barely had any performance issues. It's weird that performance is different between ps5 players. I thought that would only happen on pc due to different specs and what not.
Anyway great video as always
Edit: good on you calling out screen rant and ign
If all the games are like BM Wukong I will not complain $59.99 each time at all.
In the game's version of Red Boy, his grudge is against the Celestial court, not the Bull Demon King. He's only staging a coup because he wants the relic and probably the kingdom's resources in a war against the Jade Emperor.
For chatter five, if you passed the rolling ball lane. Go backwards, some where there were flame now it’s empty, turn and there are 3 more bosses
The game just keeps you on your feet all the time, which is the No.1 element for a great game.
Wise-Voice is counter intuitive as after a couple boss fights we have learned to keep our distance, dodge and wait for oppotunities, but if you stay under him and just pedicure him, it's actually not that hard a fight.
I just love the way you speak and structure you video. I've never said this to anyone
Yellow wind sage is ez when u have the wind tamer its lore accurate too
id flip yaksha king and wise voice, wise voice was extremely simple but ig thats whats fun about these games everyone struggles with different encounters
I love that im only on chapter 4 and ive been thinking DLC and sequels for this😂
You know a game is amazing when your hoping/thinking of the future beyond the game
Weird I had barely to NO shuttering ... and I play in Cinematic Mode + Dlss + framge gen with 4090. Smooth af.
Ocasionally I got it yes, but not during boss fight in my experience and im 70h in. Maybe 1 time for half a second or something
great vid, keep up the good work
I’m only a few hours in but it has blown me away.
I kinda forgot how stunning modern AAA can look. The combat has a ton of depth and feels great. The bosses are great. The game is overall punishing but fair and forgiving at the same time.
It’s just been a breath of fresh air.
maaaaan You are SO FUN :D This channel is gem for me!
The only reused enemies I can think of are the frogs (although with different abilities) and a skeleton-snake-neck-guai wearing blue garments, found in Chapter 1 and 4.
Im on my second playthrough on ps5 i've had no stuttering like what i see in this video, i have it on performance mode and it's been smooth the whole way through. Awesome game everyine needs to get this
most of the bosses that you didn't like fighting are actually designed to be that way, because you might find side quests that give you items or abilities that make fighting them easier. Ex. the tornados can be negated by an item that you get, yellow brow's gold armor can be hurt by increasing your attack from another spell you learn, and the hundred eye dude's 3rd phase can be canceled with a needle item that you get that flies around.
Yellow Brow's armor only needs one fully charged heavy to break it.
5:09 Chapelle Show Samuel L Jackson sketch. Damn hilarious
17:38 some of these structures, walls with sculptures, statues, temples, scenaries, even bridges are actually exists in China, Game science went scanning them locally into 3d modules!!
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ya, i agreen the hitbox of the front side of the centipede is bad, i always hit his sides.
this is also a faithful recreation from the novel, 100 eyes centipede was so powerful that wukong has to ask for help from some deity.
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wukong borrowed a needle vessel to dispell the golden blazing lights from centipede 's 100 eyes.
07:37 spoiler alarm, there are many ways to recover some of your mana
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.Finding a Celestial Taiyi Pill that increases Max Mana permanently also restores the mana bar in the process.
The Galeguard Greaves are foot armor that restore a moderate amount of Mana if the player can perfect dodge three times in quick succession.
The Spirit Shards skill for the Immobilize spell recovers Mana when you crash the immobilization on an enemy.
The Bold Venture skill for the Rock Solid spell recovers Mana if used correctly - in fact, it's one of the best Black Myth Wukong skills.
One option for the Fuming Ears Relic has the same effect as Bold Venture, allowing the player to regain half the cost of the Rock Solid Deflection Spell when they successfully parry an enemy with it.
In Chapter 3, defeating the optional Apramana Bat boss fight will cause the Turtle Tear to drop on the beach nearby. This is a Soak for your Gourd that restores Moderate amounts of Mana if you drink it at full health.
experienced those freezing issue myself, but recent updates seem to have it improved for me
I didn’t have any shuttering issues. I’m also playing on the PS5. But I do notice that with consoles, sometimes you get such issues when it gets too hot after a while. I always makes I turn on the A/C or at least the room is not stuffy
A lot of the areas and buildings are actual real places in China. The Devs used 3D digitization (drones & cameras).
In pagoda realm, there are mtfks like street lamp walking around, u need to defeat nine of them to cancel the half health bar effect!
Also the hundred eyes mtfk, there is a item from secret area called weaver needle or smt like that can counter the boss pharse 2!
Strangely, after turning off Ray Tracing, and following a guide (which I’ll post here later), I no longer have any stuttering.
The best literature in any video game ever. Elden Ring is not even close to its toe.
ye its a wonderful world
Doesn't really matter tho cause it gets crushed overall be elden ring. It isn't that replayable
The effect of the Pagoda Realm is actually the Boss doing, after you beat it and head back down there, you will never had that effect again, so it fair to said he using that in the fight as well lol. Oh and one more thing if you beat that boss before dispatch all the lattern head, you will miss out a curio drop by defeating all of them...
Gotta point out the great backround music you chose by starting with the land of dragons music
id like to say this non white is under rated of a boss like that theme is so sick and the vibe of the fight where your fighting for your life against a crazy serial killer who freezes and poisons you
Been waiting for this one
@16:22 it’s almost as if the area boss was the same being that was doing that in the pagoda realm 😂
IKR! Weird concept. It's like the developers wanted you to explore the Pagoda, to figure that you have to kill the lantern creatures before fighting the boss.
Just to add on the part on the story of Chapter 5. It wasn't the Bull King who killed off Yaksha's race. It was hinted that it was Lingshan (Buddha's faction) which orchestrated the genocide of Yaksha's entire race. The Princess and Red Boy were the last surviving members and proof of their doing. Red Boy was a test tube baby borned (by will of the Celestial Court) to be used as a leverage against Lingshan as living proof of their deed (genocide) against the Yakshas. Bull King was aware, but he was powerless in his struggle and tried to protect his family from harm by being tame.
The princess and red boy are 2 different races. Both were wiped out though.
getting just 3 transformation is crazy
About Yaoguai and Xian
Though both have some supernatural abilities, Yaoguais are creatures who are of manace, while Xian are creatures who are benign. The Fox is an Xian who craves for human life, so she changes into a female human form, marry with male human, and have a baby, but the change pose certain fatal risk to her life.
17:19 what is the music playing here? it's on the tip of my tongue lol
07:02 you meant Vessels? cause relics are the magical items you got at the end of each chapter, represent wukong's ear, nose, touge, body, eyes, and mind
I cant believe you only have 7k subs, this vid was hilarious. you got a sub from me
I'm on ps5 and noticed that I didn't have the stutter in the beginning... It often happens in games after updates...
Funny that the issues with those bosses you mentioned can be redirected if you got the relic from secret quest/area of the same chapter, and for captain Wise-voice Gamescience seem acknowledged how annoying it was and nerfed it in recent patch
11:34 yellow brow disguised himself as Maitreya Buddha（they have the same looks with different robes), and his ambition is to bulid a system/religion to replace buddhism.
I love how your reviews are a reflection of an average player. Keep up the good work.
Great review!
I'm not sure about this review at all, especially when he claimed there was a "big technical issue" on PS5 which I haven't experienced it & I have finished the whole game last week with true ending on PS5 with Quality setting. Not a lot of people know this, the smearing campaign against this game is still ongoing. There have been cases where some top Chinese streamers were approached and offered good money to produce smearing video about this BM:Wukong game. Certain guidelines were given to them, some have came out to expose it showing the communication in details. So I'm sure they are doing the same with western streamers also. Just hope this channel isn't one of them.
You missed the chance to play the perfect dodge sound after each gunshot in that opener! Fantastic video ❤
The stuttering on PS5 may be down the the frame-gen on performance mode. Try balanced, which is essentially performance mode without frame-gen.
I completed the game on PS5 with true ending last week on Quality setting. No issue.
The Yaksha King's people were wiped out by the Buddhas' faction in the celestial court. Yes, there are factions: the imported Buddhas versus the Native Chinese Gods like Erlang. The Yaksha King was the last prince of his kind. His soul was revived by someone from the Native Gods' side to cause trouble for the Buddhas. It was placed in the queen’s womb, so he wasn’t truly Bull King’s bloodline. When he learned the truth, he turned against Bull King for surrendering to the celestial court and sought a relic from him to take revenge.
15:41 ha! i am so proud of myself for figuring that out! u can immediately cancel that yellow light phase, by using that needle artifact! °^°
16:41 i found that one to be o the easier side. just cuddle his foot, until he becomes untargetable, dodge the shit out of the lightning like the floor is lava and proceed to step on his foot again x:
As their first triple A game, even with several flaws in the game, there are so many elements that just made this a serious contender for goty!!
I don't know why you have some problems on PS5. I only realise my game perf gets worse when it overheats.. and my ps5 is quite new.. hmm