This fantastic and brand-new video game series is narrated to lead the single player charge in 2024. That’s a clean sweep if you ask me. You know that new feature that shines a spotlight on everything that is wrong in the modern video game world? That is Wukong. Wukong makes every other video game of its kind look like a joke.
- Part 1: What Is Black Myth: Wukong About?
- Part 2: Hard-crashed Boss In Each Episodes You Can’t Miss!
- Part 3: Watch Black Myth: My Master Is Wukong On ReelShort
Part 1: What Is Black Myth: Wukong About?
This incredible video game is and action RPG, based on the storyline of Journey To The West, a Chinese classic folk-lore movie that everyone and their family members should watch by all means. The video game was created by Game Science, and is currently on PlayStation 5 and Windows, which was released on August 20, 2024.
The lead character of the game is a monkey that has the ability to morph into a human and it goes on different conquests, fighting against different bosses/demons in different stages of the game. Much like the movie.
Sun Wukong ascends in the start of the video game to Buddhahood. This ascension by Sun Wukong, happened at the end of the movie version which can be seen when the Monkey King which Sun Wukong mistakenly releases from bondage under Buddha, starts pulling out Sun Wukong’s hair as punishment.
I must confess, the Monkey King was rather ruthless in the movie, but that discussion would be left for another day.
In the video game version, Sun Wukong ascends only after escorting his master, Tan Sanzang for a quest, hereby acquiring the scripture of Buddha as a reward, or journal for feature tasks.
Part 2: Hard-crashed Boss In Each Episodes You Can’t Miss!
Erlang: The Sacred Divinity
Erlang is the first boss in Black Myth: Wukong Game Series with no stamina and nearly nothing to fall back on. That is because he appears twice in the course of the journey of the Destined one. The first time the Destined One meets Erlang, it is optional to fight him or not, and that is where he becomes easy to beat.
The next time the Destined One meets with Erlang, it is mandatory to fight against him, and he is not at all easy to defeat this time around.
Erlang’s personality is kinky, audacious and arrogant. He has swag, and it can be easily seen in his body movement.
Man-In-Stone
Man-In-Stone is located in Fright Cliff. He is a Yaoguai Chief in Black Myth: Wukong game. Imagine living inside a stone or being built out of rock, as in being a round piece of rock, yet you carry the heaviest attitude in the world. One would wonder who would ever be jealous of a stone, I mean, with all that attitude? Why?
Anyway, unlike Erlang, Man-In-Stone manages to render a good amount of damage to the Monkey King, but it is guaranteed that he must end up defeated. Easy task!
Guess what? After fighting against Man-In-Stone and most likely defeating him, he becomes friendly with the Destined One, turns into a store, and starts selling commodities.
Father-Of-Stones
Yet another stone man. I saw a review somewhere that stated that China must have put something dangerous in their stones because why are all these bosses made of stone, and deliver real damage to the Destined One?
Father-Of-Stones is located in the Woods of Ember. He is also a Yaoguai Chief in Black Myth: Wukong.
As soon as Father-Of Stones is defeated, he will release the Knot of voidness and Refined Iron Sand. He will also release his Spirit.
Elder Armourworm
Yet another Yaoguai Chief, and it is located in the Webbed Hollow.
In the past, someone cast two Celestial Eggs from Mount Kulun into a Blessed Land on Earth. What we don’t know is if the person did it deliberately or it was done by mistake.
While that was done, unlike the Celestial Realm, the will power of the Mortal Realm was not as abundant and so the eggs failed to fully nurture, making it lose most of its sacred and magical abilities.
In fact, it took on several weird forms that were not familiar with its usual form in the Celestial Realm.
One of these Celestial Eggs was used to redeem guilty people, and the other was hidden by someone who had bad plans.
From this hidden egg, all sorts of creatures emerged, mostly bad, one of which was Elder Armourworm.
Elder Armourworm is one of those fluid bosses just like in every other video game. You know those bosses that are so easy to kill, it’s so satisfying while doing it. A huge wormlike creature towers above you and tries to do damage, but you end up doing the most damage to it, and easily at that.
Tiger’s Acolyte
Tiger’s Acolyte is a Yaoguai Chief as well, and he is found in Yellow Wind Formation.
Tiger’s Acolyte used to be a warrior. He lived in Sandgate Village with his wife and child, and then his wife became ill because of the desert wind. His son also came close to falling ill as well, so Tiger’s Acolyte became desperate, looking for a cure for his family.
However, during his search for a cure, his hopes were tarnished when his bodhisattva got missing.
He was passing by a dry well when he heard a roar and found it out to be a mad tiger who was weak following a battle it had against the Yellow Wind Sage.
The mad tiger became Acolyte’s elder brother, having Acolyte lure villagers to him where he would devour them.
In exchange for such a favor, the Tiger would release medicine for his son, which was derived from the Tiger’s special gourd, helping to rejuvenate his condition.
This underworld boss simply says, ‘You can’t cross that bridge.’ Another easy to beat boss who is literally just there to disrupt the Monkey King from his quest. There is nothing much about this boss, he’s just a hiccup.
Black Loong
Eventually, we get to meet not any of the Chieves, but the Yaoguai King. He is located at Fright Cliff. There are actually four Loong’s, and Black Loong is just one of them. Black Loong is located in ‘’Hidden Long Cavern,’’ a secret area reachable from Fright Cliff’s Rockrest Flat Area.
The area is protected by a sand waterfall, and in order to dispel it, one requires Loong Scales.
When one defeats Black Loong, he will release a Mind Core, Refined Iron Sand (two times), and a chest.
Okay, Black Loong is an interesting boss of Black Myth: Wukong Game. He is a dragon pig. Yes, you read correctly, a dragon pig that is pretty difficult to defeat.
Black Loong has lethal thunder strikes, but the real deal occurs when he starts pounding the ground rhythmically and sending out shock waves that send the Monkey King out of place.
You can easily dodge Black Loong’s lethal tactic by jumping and dodging over the waves, or you can try and look for a boulder in the arena and stand on it. The boulder is usually not affected by the pounding and shock waves that Black Loong sends into the earth.
These are just a few of the bosses in Black Myth: Wukong that we can talk about in this review because there at least 95 bosses in the total span of the video game. Yes, 95! Should I mention them all?
No. I thought so.
Part 3: Watch Black Myth: My Master Is Wukong On ReelShort
Wukong plays the Master to Clive of the Douglas family in this version of Black Myth. What was supposed to be a fair ascension process into the heavens turned out to be a blood bathed catastrophe.
Clive and Woody are both sons of the Douglas family and disciples of the sect. As it was with other older members of the Douglas family, it was time for another trip of ascension, and Clive and Woody were slated at the same time.
There was just one task, make sure to grab a token out of the four to five tokens that were displayed by the chief. Well, it was supposed to be a somewhat easy task, at least, Clive appeared to be ready and capable of it, and he actually achieved it, except that he was bullied by his relative, Woody.
Why? From the look of things, Woody was also able to grab his own token, so why didn’t he just do so and ascend into the next realm?
In Black Myth: My Master Is Wukong Series, Woody, who had a heavier aura and power than Clive, bullied Clive and took his token. In fact, if Woody had just bullied Clive and let him go, it would have been fair.
Woody went ahead to exhume Clive’s elixir, and also break his spine, humiliating him to be a disabled person just like his mother. In fact, Woody must have really hated Clive, and one would wish that the narrative of the plot revealed the reason.
After doing all that to Clive, he went ahead to send Clive into the Snake pit, or what have you.
While Clive was there, he happened to be brought back to life by the Monkey King, Wukong, who had been trapped under a mountain for 15000 years by just a small piece of paper with inscriptions written on it and stuck to the mountain.
Monkey King promised Clive that if he set him free of that mountain, he would help him by entering him and making Clive his disciple.
Don’t forget that Monkey King Wukong has a heavy demon aura, in fact, he is the chief demon of all the demons.
Clive released Wukong, and we can trust Wukong to be happy to wreak havoc to all and sundry, so he did just as he had promised, and entered Clive.
The Douglas family did not know what was coming for them.
Monkey King promised Clive that if he set him free of that mountain, he would help him by entering him and making Clive his disciple.
Don’t forget that Monkey King Wukong has a heavy demon aura, in fact, he is the chief demon of all the demons.
Clive released Wukong, and we can trust Wukong to be happy to wreak havoc to all and sundry, so he did just as he had promised, and entered Clive.
The Douglas family did not know what was coming for them.