KingKongLoL Reacts To Black Myth: Wukong - Official 13 Minutes Gameplay Trailer

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Check out this trailer for Black Myth: Wu Kong, a new action adventure RPG based on the Journey to the West mythology!

The upcoming action brawler Black Myth: Wukong purports to retell the story of Sun Wukong while still honoring the original Journey To the West.

The premier trailer for Black Myth: Wukong, which reimagines the mythical story of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, has blown up on social media, exciting fans of both Chinese culture and mythology-based brawler games like God of War. English-speaking gamers unfamiliar with Chinese literature may have many questions about this upcoming game, questions such as: who is the Monkey King? Why do all the enemies have animal heads? How does the monkey player character pull weapons out of his ear? This article will answer all these questions and more by translating key lines of dialogue from the Chinese-language trailer, then contrasting the narrative presented in the previewed gameplay with its original source — the classical Chinese book Journey to the West.

Journey to the West, first published in 16th century Ming Dynasty China, is a classic novel of spectacular adventure and magical marvels which doubles as a symbolic allegory for the Buddhist quest towards enlightenment. The protagonist of this novel is nominally Tang Sanzang, a pious, faultless Chinese monk sent on a journey to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from a monastery in India. In practice, though, the narrative spotlight is frequently stolen by Tang Sanzang’s divine bodyguards: the river ogre Zha Wujing (nicknamed Sandy), the pig demon Zhu Bajie (nicknamed Pigsy), a dragon named Yulong that nobody ever remembers, and an immortal stone monkey called Sun Wukong, better known worldwide as the Monkey King.

Sun Wukong was a mischievous trickster hero, a monkey who hatched from a stone egg and ruled over the monkey tribes on Flower Fruit Mountain. After mastering esoteric disciplines taught by a Daoist Sage, he became immortal and mastered the arts of shapeshifting, cloud-riding, and the creation of combat clones using hairs plucked from his body. From the Dragon King of the East Sea, he received golden armor and the Ruyi Jingu Bang, a 17,550 pound gold-banded staff that could grow to the size of a tower and shrink to the size of a needle. After gorging themselves on the peaches of immortality from the Celestial Bureaucracy’s garden and dubbing himself “The Great Sage Equal to Heaven,” the Jade Emperor dispatched armies of gods who fought — and failed — to defeat the Monkey King. In the end, only the Buddha himself could stop the Monkey King’s rampage through heaven, sealing them underneath a giant mountain until the day a traveling Buddhist monk needed a bodyguard…

Where You Know Sun Wukong's Story From

If any of these details sound familiar, it’s because both Journey to the West and its character Sun Wukong have inspired a vast number of adaptations and spin-off works, the most famous example being the Dragon Ball manga/anime franchise. The Monkey King has also appeared in several video games, many of them MOBA titles such as Smite and League of Legends. The video game Black Myth: Wukong stands out among these adaptations for two reasons: one, it’s a Chinese language game made by the China-based studio Game Science. Two, it returns to the Monkey King’s roots, drawing extensively from the original Journey to the West novel even as it adds new twists to the classic legend.

Black Myth: Wukong’s Narrator: Who Is The Old Monk?

The opening narration at the start of the trailer for Black Myth: Wukong is delivered by an elderly monk, who talks about the different, conflicting stories surrounding Sun Wukong and wonders aloud which myth is true. Did he help Tang Sanzang retrieve the Buddhist Scriptures and ascend to enlightenment? Did he die during his journey to the west, only for an imposter to take his place as the “Victorious Fighting Buddha”? Did he even exist at all? The narrating monk then proceeds to tell the viewers his own Monkey King story, a story that becomes the gameplay of Black Myth: Wukong. The identity of this old, starved-looking monk is still unknown, but their simian-looking features hint at a personal connection to either Sun Wukong or the monkey subjects he used to rule.



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Black Myth: Wukong - Official 13 Minutes Gameplay Trailer
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