Black Myth: Wukong Review

Before you dive into the fight, you'll want to make sure you have everything you need to improve your chances of victory. Black Myth: Wukong doesn't give you a lot of tools to begin with , but there are certain items you can grab to make things eas

Speaking of which, Black Myth: Wukong doesn’t hold your hand by any means. There isn’t a quest journal that neatly shows you exactly where to go or what you have picked up. Every item you find and NPC you interact with, you will have to uncover their progression on your own. Most of the time, NPCs will give you hints or descriptions of where you need to go, but because these locations are so large, you can easily forget as it could be across the entire map before things move onto the next stage of the quest. You’ll stumble across the numerous secrets in the world, and not having a neatly guided journal makes the mystery and journey all the better for it.


When the pious Buddhist monk Tang Sanzang embarks on his westward journey to retrieve the Buddhist Sutra, three disciple bodyguards accompany him (four if you count the horse who's actually a shape-shifted dragon). There's Zhu Bajie, a gluttonous pig-demon who wields a giant rake. There's Sha Wujing, a dutiful River Ogre. And then there's the character who steals the show in most adaptations of Journey To The West : Sun Wukong the Monkey King , the "Great Sage Equal To Heaven," who wields the size-changing staff called Ruyi Jingu Bang, creates clones of himself through tufts of his hair, and shape-shifts into many different forms using Daoist sorc


You’ll be glad to have those breaks too, since Black Myth Wukong guide Myth: Wukong is relentless. Without a block or a parry mechanic, fights are fast-paced brawls that require you to perform precise dodges to avoid taking damage. You have a range of fighting stances which let you perform different dodging styles, such as one that lets you sit on top of your extended staff to avoid ground attacks. You’re never required to switch stances to take down enemies, but some fights are definitely easier depending on which stance you t


Going by their imperious command to the player and the eerie-looking temple they inhabit, odds are good this mysterious antagonist/boss is the "Yellow Brows Great King" mentioned above, a spirit-turned-demon presiding over their own twisted version of the Buddhist faith. They may even be same narrator who recites the " Thou Shalt Kill " monologue earlier in the Black Myth: Wukong trailer, cementing themselves as an actual ideological enemy of Buddhism in-game, rather than just another of Wukong's demonic souls who wants to become immortal by devouring the flesh of a holy m

Black Myth: Wukong doesn’t have an open world like Dark Souls or Elden Ring , but instead has segmented chapters. Each chapter has its own theme and enemy types, be it traversing spooky villages filled with bug people or battling the heat of the desert and rat warriors. This keeps the encounters and environments fresh because as soon as you might get bored with one area and its inhabitants, it will shift to something completely new and original. The areas themselves are immense. While you can critical path through the main story, there are numerous branching paths you can go down, unraveling side quests and unlocking abilities and side-bosses.


The original Lords of the Fallen is often cited as one of the first true Soulslikes. Releasing in 2014, the game didn't exactly try to hide its inspirations, with many of its mechanics directly taken from Dark Souls . Critics were divided on the game, with some feeling that the combat was too slow and labored, and the story bland and uninteresting. Eight years after a sequel was first announced, the IP re-emerged with a trailer at Gamescom 2022 that raised a few eyebrows. Dubbed as a reboot of the series, which goes some way to explaining why The Lords of the Fallen dropped the number from the title , it looks to be adopting a very different tone from the previous g

This has elements of Souls games, but it’s closer to a traditional action game. You won’t be managing attributes, but instead be given skill points that can be spent to level up specific abilities within the protagonist’s arsenal. This includes mystical arts, martial arts and transformations, just to name a few. This is where Combat really shines as, while the majority of the time you will be slamming the light attack button until your Focus meter is charged up, allowing you to unleash a devastating heavy attack, it’s splicing in different unique abilities in-between that make it more compelling.


This strange spirit seems to be an acerbic ally to the player character, but their thoughts about Buddhist and Daoist practices echo the cynicism of Black Myth: Wukong's antagonists . Specifically, the spirit seems to believe that the ideals of Buddhism and Daoism are too difficult to achieve - or, at the very least, too impractical for the majority of people in the world to perfectly uphold (though their willingness to conduct divinations using "Bagua" symbolism implies they are affiliated with Daoist spirituality in some w