I've play BM Wukong for under 10 hours and it's more akin to GoW with Souls-like boss battles with elements of open world exploration. I'd recommend this game to anyone who wants an action adventure rpg. Love it!
Everyone keeps saying this. Some of the bosses are really hard, I think it’s closer to a souls game than some people like to admit. There’s no punishment for death etc and it’s definitely not an elden ring but it’s still a tough game
@@sbeeezz True. It's more action centered than what players are expecting or comparing something like Elden Ring or Dark Souls to in terms of boss fights. There's plenty or mini bosses and main chapter bosses, some are relatively easy while others are a bitch. And if you don't explore your surroundings, you can actually skip a handful of boss battles
You are experiencing a lag for the heavy attack because you are trying to use it without a focus point. That’s the games punishment for using it without a focus point. Then if you look at the skill tree you can change what happens when you use the focus point with the heavy attack. One of the upgrades is having your heavy attack be apart of your combo (varied combo). So it’s not going to get patched because it’s apart of the combat design
@@edge3646 i don’t have to try, this game is a snoozefest and will be dead in a week and forgotten about in month just like all the other slop you people hype up
Kinda reminds me of that old Bioshock bug where shooting or hitting a splicer in the head and killing them would have them on the ground doing jazz hands sometimes😅
Just saw the secret boss fight of the 2nd ending. This game makes GOW , elden ring , dark souls 3 , Sekiro and Godzilla vs Kong look like kiddy cartoons . This is not a game . This is what we gamers wanted to play for a long time . This is art people This is pure art . 1. The multiple endings 2. The atmosphere 3. The sheer spectacle 4. The ever changing gameplay Is ironic that she ask these tests, it was a chinese game that proved gaming can be revolutionized by anyone . Thank you GAME SCIENCE. ❤THEY HAVE DELIVERER ON THEIR PROMISE.
There could be a physical release down the line. They haven’t outright said they won’t make a physical copy, just that they were “having issues with distribution”. If you can believe that
@@undrwrldsk8fred that's probably just a cover story. They don't want to outright say it but if you've been paying attention to the trends in gaming for the last few years it's clear the industry wants to move away from physical releases. I guarantee you the PS6 will be digital only, they'll probably spend the next 2 or 3 years preparing us for it.
A 3rd person action game with a focus on combat? Whatever do we call this genre, it must be a "souls-like", that's a gamer word, right? The game looks fine, but if ppl are praising it like the 2nd coming of the savior of action games, that ain't gonna help anyone. But it will force ppl to go back to the PS2/PS3 eras to play all those amazing and diverse 3rd person games we got. From games like Genji 1 and Blood Will Tell, to the more popular stuff like Devil May Cry and even the 3rd person fixed camera action games like God of War 1-Ascension and Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks(we need a Shaolin Monks 2 more now than ever, they could dominate the fixed camera action genre).
Those games didn't have hard af bosses. Just rewarded mastery of the games mechanics, which is what bosses should do. Games these days focus on the sense of fulfilment and the scope of challenge. You need master more than the mechanics of a game these days.
Is it just me, or does every action game that uses middle ages era weapons (and even some early gun powder ones) get accused of being a "Souls Like" these days?
It's a circle jerked term by gamers that don't have enough of an expanded vocabulary to describe "moderately difficult action game that may have a bonfire mechanic"
The fighting system reminds me of Biomutant. Their were some issues on Biomutant that stopped me from playing the game when it released back in 2021 but I came back to give it a try again in 2024 recently since with the updates and fixes and all but now, I’m very impressed and I been loving it 😎👍🏻
I’m not sure why so many people are surprised by these numbers. It’s just like domestic vs worldwide box office. The game is from China, and based on Chinese lore. That means there are 1.4 billion new people/nationalists you can add to the possible pool of supporters that may not have purchased western releases.
Yeah the vast majority of players are Chinese. But this is the first major single-player game that China has made in forever. This success could be the start of a developing market of single-player Chinese videogames.
Beyond the rare frame dip on Performance mode, I haven't had any technical issues, really. Even on Performance, I find it to look absolutely beautiful. Got about 8 hours in. I freaking love this game so far. Might just nudge out Stellar Blade for my GotY. I do agree that some of the button presses don't do exactly what you might expect though. It's a weird choice to have to hold down the heavy attack, or some of the other special attacks to get them to trigger. But they are meant to be that way and there are different upgrades to change some of those behaviors.
a game based on one of the most popular chinese literature work is releasing to a country of more than 1.1 billion ppl. of course it would have such online, lol like more than 92% of that players are chinese, lol. more news at 8.
@@CrimsonBladezz to be fair the PlayStation 5 hardware was considered last gen compared to gaming rigs on the day it released. That was 4 years ago. Theres nothing next gen about the current generation of consoles that are likely nearing the end of their cycle. Pro versions should come out soon, if not entirely new consoles.
@@CrimsonBladezz and I wasn’t making excuses??? I was saying, it’s playable. If you demand every game you buy run at a locked 60fps you’re going to miss out on alot of great games, especially the games considered to have the best graphics ever. Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty with ray tracing, Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, Red Dead Redemption, I don’t think any of them run at a constant 60fps on ps5. But they’re all more than playable. They’re all incredible games. I think this one, at least so far in my play time, falls in that category.
I 100% heard it was made buy one guy for the longest time. After the first video he showed I heard a company basically "hired" him to actually help finish the game. But that was like 4 timelines ago lmao
You guys have to explain how this game exploded like that in popularity. Its not an established IP or anything. Idk what made so many people so attracted to it
It's an established IP in the "classical-traditional" sense. The novel Journey to the West, and the Monkey King character specifically, show up in so many different forms - Dragonball (yes that one) is even a version.
Goku from dragon ball is based on this, journey to the west is gigantic in the east. Now you see why movie studios kept trying to break into the chinese market; its gigantic
I am willing to bet we are going to have news storys coming up soon about the player base dropping, Really missing the point of gaming not every game is a "live" service
Scott might be confusing Black Myth Wukong with Lost Soul Aside's single developer. It's Also a Chinese developed game but isn't any closer to coming out it seems.
Have you just found out there is a big world out there (which happen to play games)? Who cares if the players are Chinese, South Africans or Martians?! You guys are sad bro. The game looks really fun, will definitely buy it.
There is talk that something fishy is going on regarding the Steam score. Black Myth Wukong achieved an Overwhelmingly Positive exceedingly fast despite the obvious issues some are having with the game.
Is this not the same game that told streamers not to mention “feminist propaganda” in order to be able to get the key for the game? Which they mentioned specifically because of the articles that came out regarding how uncomfortably sexist and misogynistic the studio heads were, followed by one of the heads of the studio suggesting that he doesn’t make games for women because women prefer showing off purses than playing video games? Yeah, I don’t care how good the game is, I’m not giving that studio money.
Honestly I don’t know what this guy is on about with the ps5 version. I have played a lot further than he has, and yes by some waterfalls and a little bit in a later area there are some frame rate drops, but I never had any issue in boss fights or anywhere else besides the mentioned. But hey maybe I’m just lucky
True, but I and everyone I know who games at work have also bought this game. My twitch feed of people I follow is basically 90-95% them playing this game. It’s popular period and trying to act like it’s because of China only is disingenuous, of course it would be huge there, there are 1.4 billion people in that country and Wukong is basically a national treasure there
@@robdurfee6861 but it is also the reason why it has high sales. Its sales figures outside of China are not spectacular. Remember personal experience is not evidence.
I hate souls like games, this is truly not that hard at all. Just make sure to explore. You can tell when you aren’t ready for a boss but once you explore and come back the boss may take you like 2 tries, 20 minutes tops
@robdurfee6861 thanks that puts my mind a little at ease. I'll probably pick it up so when it goes on sale. I did like the idea looks a little like God ot War playstyle only about a monkey and the boss fights look great.
@DemetriusBarner978 thanks yes Im in the same boat as yourself. The last thing I want to do is pick up a game and can't even get past the 1st level embarrassing 😅
For $79.99 Canadian where I am from = HARD PASS. I cannot be bothered to pay for these games at these prices anymore. Especially with all of the fanboysm reviews that ignore all of the issues this game has. When will we ever get a console release that plays a solid 60 FPS? Weren’t we all asking for this back at the end of the PS3 days? Like come on, quite worrying about how pretty the grass and trees look and let me get some smooth movement without jutters and stutters and input lag. Everyone CRATERS and just puts up with this horsesh!t and buys these games anyways which tells these companies they can release games that aren’t polished.
Whoever is calling the wandering wight one of the hardest bosses in the souls genre should never review video games again. He was harder than I expected for this game, but as hard as Orphan of Kos? Malenia? Isshin? Sister Friede? Nameless King? Demon of Hatred? Consort Radahn? Hell, even comparing the wandering wight’s difficulty to the first tree sentinel in Elden Ring is ludicrous. He’s definitely similar to the Tree Sentinal, in that he’s an over tuned early boss ment to be skipped and returned to, but he doesn’t rank in the top twenty most difficult bosses imo. Even though he took me over an hour, he doesn’t rank.
Agreed. His move set is extremely easy to learn. For most people, the Tree Sentinel is not beatable with a new character but Wandering Wight is absolutely beatable off the rip. He took me about 5 tries.
I watched Fighting Cowboy beat him on his second try, and not just beat him but beat the brakes off the Wight. As someone above said, fight him aggressively not defensively and he’s much easier, there are also 4 pillars around the arena that you can get him to crash into which gives you some free damage on him which also helps
Representation on the national level is a big deal. There are a lot of countries that are looking to prove they can play in the big leagues. But it's wild that this is being hailed as the first Chinese AAA, when Genshin and all those Sword & Fairy games have had $100M+ budgets all this time. Hype aside, I don't think any PC+PS5 game is ever going to match mobile-gacha revenues. But maybe it's about prestige, instead of money.
We cannot discount how crucial the absence of competition is to the game's success. Would Black Myth be doing as well if it wasn't releasing in a single-player wasteland? Would it be as successful if it wasn't surrounded by unwanted soulless looter shooters and the vitriol they have accrued? The game looks great, I have been on its bandwagon for years now so I am glad to see it is getting praise, but we cannot separate its success from Western Studios failures. Black Myth Wukong's success serves as yet another example of what Western audiences want, high-quality single player games not beset by identity politics. The question is, will Western Studios finally accept this, or will they continue to push out slop nobody wants, losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the process?
played it for 8 hours but the appeal to keep playing feels like its dwindling already....the lore is not going to be to everybodys taste....... Its not a souls game or a souls like............We need to stop calling everything a souls like lol...... It looks visually great but the combat is kinda meh......... Only 8 hours so ill keep going for now and see what happens.. but yeah ill give it a 6/10 up to now..
What??? Everyone loves Goku so just that alone will keep people playing, you also act like God of War using both Greek and Norse mythology didn’t keep a ton of people interested in playing them. Sometimes I feel like some of these comments are industry plants to downplay certain games as part of an agenda
@@robdurfee6861 No industry plant lol although they definitely do exist. Just my opinion thats all. Ill up my score to 7/10 just for you... The industry would never do that :)
Black Myth is a solid 7 game around Lies of P or Stellar Blade level, certainly below Fromsoft games, GoW, Nioh, DMC, etc. It's a huge success because it's made by Chinese for Chinese so it's boosted by their patriotism to see a good AAA game made by their government sponsored dev
Game looks dope but they clearly botted their numbers... come on now. 100k reviews in like 8 hours? No shot. Like triple the amount of elden ring which was the most anticipated game in forever. Me and my other dev buddies were watching them go up and theres just nooooo way.
Chinese people love this character, he’s a national hero to them, so yes it’s possible because they all bought the game. You also act like this game hasn’t been highly anticipated since its debut trailer 4 years ago
Most likely they just put the word out on QQ to have folks immediately buy & review. Remember that Tencent is behind this, and they basically own social media in China.
Can’t imagine how anyone can play this knowing how violently misogynistic, homophobic, fatphobic and toxic the workplace the company that made this game is… Never mind, of course I can imagine it! Those are all cultural values shared by the west and ‘communist’ China!
Because enjoying a good, well made game has nothing to do with the politics of the devs who made it? Believe it or not, gamers actually DON'T want politics or ideology propaganda in their games, they want good stories and engaging gameplay.
@@Arcadia95 You love politics in your games, they just have to be your politics. Then you don’t consider it political at all, because in your mind your politics are just the way things are/are supposed to be. Everything is political, including to the choice to ‘not’ be political, because that is a subjective, biased appraisal of what is and is not important. Choosing to “not be political” to not alienate potential consumers is political, because you are putting your success ahead of taking a stand on something, which materially is the same as taking a stand for the other position. You can say you don’t want politics in your games all you want, the fact is there will always be politics in media, because all media is made by people, and all people have their world view shaped by their politics. Any attempt to be unbiased will itself be biased by what your subjective idea of what bias looks like. To someone who thinks slavery is good, portraying slavery as neither good nor bad would be unbiased in their eyes, but this would be biased towards being pro-slavery as it portrays it as something worth debating.
@@DoctorCarth As I said, these violent bigotries are cultural values of the west and China. People like you would love living in China, if it weren’t for all the Chinese people.
I would argue that Hollywood's pursuit of the Chinese market has not been a net positive for the movie industry. It allows an authoritarian, oppressive regime too much influence over the industry & society. It was only a couple weeks ago where French security guards were ripping signs & towels away from fans at the Olympic Games IN FRANCE, simply bc those items said the word Taiwan on them, no political message, just that word to cheer on their countrymen.
@@eurothejii7328 unless they’re planning on making it a live service game, the phrase “dead game” doesn’t really apply, does it? They had 2 million steam players on day one. If it doesn’t sell a single copy more, the game was a success.
To each their own but if you think this game looks boring, wtf do you think is awesome? Probably Rimworld or Depp Rock Galactic…or something tells me you’re a live service simp
There’s 80 something bosses. Def good on the diversity front. The fodder mobs are less diverse so far, but I’m still in the first area. Haven’t even fought the first main boss.
i'm just wondering if we'll ever get to see how many chinese people vs american people played it it's badass regardless. love to see this type of success
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I've play BM Wukong for under 10 hours and it's more akin to GoW with Souls-like boss battles with elements of open world exploration. I'd recommend this game to anyone who wants an action adventure rpg. Love it!
Got me sold
Everyone keeps saying this. Some of the bosses are really hard, I think it’s closer to a souls game than some people like to admit. There’s no punishment for death etc and it’s definitely not an elden ring but it’s still a tough game
@@sbeeezz True. It's more action centered than what players are expecting or comparing something like Elden Ring or Dark Souls to in terms of boss fights. There's plenty or mini bosses and main chapter bosses, some are relatively easy while others are a bitch. And if you don't explore your surroundings, you can actually skip a handful of boss battles
Fam! The game was originally debuted as a one-person dev team. Scott Tailford, you are not imagining it.
That's what I was thinking too, but couldn't remember if I was right or losing my mind.
You are experiencing a lag for the heavy attack because you are trying to use it without a focus point. That’s the games punishment for using it without a focus point. Then if you look at the skill tree you can change what happens when you use the focus point with the heavy attack. One of the upgrades is having your heavy attack be apart of your combo (varied combo). So it’s not going to get patched because it’s apart of the combat design
Best way to describe this game is god of war but with the monkey king.
Which is Perfect!
why are we surprised by a game from a country that's about what's basically their national hero for 1.4 billion people having numbers like this
Massive Series S facepalm for XBox...again. Imagine having a series X knowing you can't play this because the S exists.
Yes imagine not being able to play this snoozefest boss rush simulator with trash story no one cares about
Lol nice try @@CrimsonBladezz
@@CrimsonBladezzcan tell you ain’t played it then. Guessing your a salty Xbox player
@@edge3646 i don’t have to try, this game is a snoozefest and will be dead in a week and forgotten about in month just like all the other slop you people hype up
@@CrimsonBladezz I found the person who works at sweet baby inc!
Scott has flailing jazz hands every time he talks.
And I'm here for it 😂
He's very jazzed about the game
Kinda reminds me of that old Bioshock bug where shooting or hitting a splicer in the head and killing them would have them on the ground doing jazz hands sometimes😅
He’s glitching
It’s stupidly good the bosses are MONSTERS feels like Digimon but it’s amazing
Just saw the secret boss fight of the 2nd ending.
This game makes GOW , elden ring , dark souls 3 , Sekiro and Godzilla vs Kong look like kiddy cartoons .
This is not a game . This is what we gamers wanted to play for a long time .
This is art people
This is pure art .
1. The multiple endings
2. The atmosphere
3. The sheer spectacle
4. The ever changing gameplay
Is ironic that she ask these tests, it was a chinese game that proved gaming can be revolutionized by anyone .
Thank you GAME SCIENCE. ❤THEY HAVE DELIVERER ON THEIR PROMISE.
@@jacksmith-mu3ee no spoilers please and Yh it’s beautiful it’s actually beautiful
Heavy attacks require a focus point. Furthermore, (from what I've gathered) you're supposed to use the heavy attack in conjunction to light attacks.
I guess it's safe to assume we're going to start seeing a lot more digital only games as we prepare for the PS6.
So sad... I was really bummed to learn this one wasn't going to be physical.
There could be a physical release down the line. They haven’t outright said they won’t make a physical copy, just that they were “having issues with distribution”. If you can believe that
@@undrwrldsk8fred that's probably just a cover story. They don't want to outright say it but if you've been paying attention to the trends in gaming for the last few years it's clear the industry wants to move away from physical releases. I guarantee you the PS6 will be digital only, they'll probably spend the next 2 or 3 years preparing us for it.
A 3rd person action game with a focus on combat? Whatever do we call this genre, it must be a "souls-like", that's a gamer word, right?
The game looks fine, but if ppl are praising it like the 2nd coming of the savior of action games, that ain't gonna help anyone. But it will force ppl to go back to the PS2/PS3 eras to play all those amazing and diverse 3rd person games we got. From games like Genji 1 and Blood Will Tell, to the more popular stuff like Devil May Cry and even the 3rd person fixed camera action games like God of War 1-Ascension and Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks(we need a Shaolin Monks 2 more now than ever, they could dominate the fixed camera action genre).
Those games didn't have hard af bosses. Just rewarded mastery of the games mechanics, which is what bosses should do. Games these days focus on the sense of fulfilment and the scope of challenge. You need master more than the mechanics of a game these days.
Is it just me, or does every action game that uses middle ages era weapons (and even some early gun powder ones) get accused of being a "Souls Like" these days?
It's a circle jerked term by gamers that don't have enough of an expanded vocabulary to describe "moderately difficult action game that may have a bonfire mechanic"
It's the game play style, combat, features that make a game similar to souls games. It's not hard to comprehend.
The fighting system reminds me of Biomutant. Their were some issues on Biomutant that stopped me from playing the game when it released back in 2021 but I came back to give it a try again in 2024 recently since with the updates and fixes and all but now, I’m very impressed and I been loving it 😎👍🏻
I'm on area 2 and it opens up and the levels get larger and saying it chuggs is misleading
The staggered review embargo release for PC scared us, but we can breathe a sigh of relief
Looked more promising in the trailer, and once I see the prologue... Iam gonna buy and play it right away ❤
I’m not sure why so many people are surprised by these numbers. It’s just like domestic vs worldwide box office. The game is from China, and based on Chinese lore. That means there are 1.4 billion new people/nationalists you can add to the possible pool of supporters that may not have purchased western releases.
That’s a very good point.
Not just China but pretty much all Asia. Us here in SIngapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia grew up with various versions on Monkey King on TV.
Yeah the vast majority of players are Chinese. But this is the first major single-player game that China has made in forever. This success could be the start of a developing market of single-player Chinese videogames.
@@richardwhite3521 So you think that the average Chinese has the income of the average American or European? Dont jump to non logical assumptions.
@@Dr.Kyriazidis what on earth are you talking about?
Pressing triangle starts charge and will strong attack after charging
Beyond the rare frame dip on Performance mode, I haven't had any technical issues, really. Even on Performance, I find it to look absolutely beautiful. Got about 8 hours in. I freaking love this game so far. Might just nudge out Stellar Blade for my GotY. I do agree that some of the button presses don't do exactly what you might expect though. It's a weird choice to have to hold down the heavy attack, or some of the other special attacks to get them to trigger. But they are meant to be that way and there are different upgrades to change some of those behaviors.
a game based on one of the most popular chinese literature work is releasing to a country of more than 1.1 billion ppl. of course it would have such online, lol like more than 92% of that players are chinese, lol. more news at 8.
Ps5 performance is fine so far. If you can handle bloodborne on ps5, this has smoother frames than that.
No excuses this game is on next gen hardware not the ps4
@@CrimsonBladezz to be fair the PlayStation 5 hardware was considered last gen compared to gaming rigs on the day it released. That was 4 years ago. Theres nothing next gen about the current generation of consoles that are likely nearing the end of their cycle. Pro versions should come out soon, if not entirely new consoles.
At this point in this generation shouldn't have a game under 60 fps.This is the ps5 we are talking about not a ps4.Stop defending mediocrity
@@CrimsonBladezz and I wasn’t making excuses???
I was saying, it’s playable. If you demand every game you buy run at a locked 60fps you’re going to miss out on alot of great games, especially the games considered to have the best graphics ever. Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty with ray tracing, Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, Red Dead Redemption, I don’t think any of them run at a constant 60fps on ps5. But they’re all more than playable. They’re all incredible games. I think this one, at least so far in my play time, falls in that category.
The ps5 version is just fine
Good to know.🥂😎
It is most definitely not, digital foundry had less then stellar words for it.
I 100% heard it was made buy one guy for the longest time. After the first video he showed I heard a company basically "hired" him to actually help finish the game. But that was like 4 timelines ago lmao
YEP... same here. It WAS put out there as being developed by one person.
@@WolfStory Glad to hear more than one person report that lol thought I was crazy for a second
Y'all are thinking about lost soul aside
Definitely my GOTY personally but I do hope the devs fix the strong attack delay & using the gourd too as sometimes you press L1 & it doesn’t work
I have the ps5 version and it runs just fine.
You guys have to explain how this game exploded like that in popularity. Its not an established IP or anything. Idk what made so many people so attracted to it
Son Goku is an incredibly popular character in both the west and east, no game has come closer to bringing him to life.
It's an established IP in the "classical-traditional" sense. The novel Journey to the West, and the Monkey King character specifically, show up in so many different forms - Dragonball (yes that one) is even a version.
Good marketing
Goku from dragon ball is based on this, journey to the west is gigantic in the east. Now you see why movie studios kept trying to break into the chinese market; its gigantic
I can't wait to play this but probably gonna be Oct before I can get my hands on it unfortunately.
Originally thought Wukong was going to be a Devil May Cry-like.
Omg their actually not complaining about something in this video!! 🤯
Just from looks, it’s GOW combat + Ghost of Tsushima myth (eastern) + Elden Ring boss detail
Is it like Sifu, in terms of its mix of soulslike-boss rush?
Its black myth vs rebirth for goty
Love the T-Shirt Scott :D
Thinking about upgrading my gpu from 2060 to 4070, should I get this then or now on my ps5?
I say wait for the 4070. Strictly a better experience and you'll get to enjoy so many other things on that gpu as well
I’m playing on a 4070, wait for it cause high settings with ray tracing is the definitive way to play this game.
Cool shirt
I am willing to bet we are going to have news storys coming up soon about the player base dropping, Really missing the point of gaming not every game is a "live" service
Whoa a company released a complete single player experience and it sold well?.. Well I'll be
Scott might be confusing Black Myth Wukong with Lost Soul Aside's single developer. It's Also a Chinese developed game but isn't any closer to coming out it seems.
Black Myst Wu Kong and Stellar Blade prove we just want games that are fun and simple
Get a life
@@sunumonidas9966cry😢😢😢 some more.
Simple? It’s fun but not simple lol
@@sunumonidas9966 Stop crying
@@sunumonidas9966 Quit crying 😭😭
Have you just found out there is a big world out there (which happen to play games)? Who cares if the players are Chinese, South Africans or Martians?! You guys are sad bro. The game looks really fun, will definitely buy it.
companies should take the hint, and make more single player games then
I'll buy it in September there's nothing else for me till October/November.🥂😎
Totally not my thing 😅
love the mitski hat
Love that shirt.
I love the game but for some reason I thought it was some how a 1 dev person thing at first too
I also remember hearing that it was a one man dev team Scott, might have been ign that said it? 🤔
I gotta finish dragons dogma 2 before I can play it 😢
*Fab game, but like any its got bugs and i always wait until they're ironed out for maximum enjoyment. Around 3 plus month's*
There is talk that something fishy is going on regarding the Steam score. Black Myth Wukong achieved an Overwhelmingly Positive exceedingly fast despite the obvious issues some are having with the game.
Is this where someone tries to coin the term "soulslite"?
Is this not the same game that told streamers not to mention “feminist propaganda” in order to be able to get the key for the game? Which they mentioned specifically because of the articles that came out regarding how uncomfortably sexist and misogynistic the studio heads were, followed by one of the heads of the studio suggesting that he doesn’t make games for women because women prefer showing off purses than playing video games? Yeah, I don’t care how good the game is, I’m not giving that studio money.
PS5 RUNS IT SMOOTHLY
Honestly I don’t know what this guy is on about with the ps5 version. I have played a lot further than he has, and yes by some waterfalls and a little bit in a later area there are some frame rate drops, but I never had any issue in boss fights or anywhere else besides the mentioned. But hey maybe I’m just lucky
Man I Guess I got another game I gotta download!
Sounds like nic picking for the ps5. Smh
One guy thing is lost soul aside that ur thinking about
Fantastic
Like 95% of the player base is in China, BTW.
How do you know??
@@GothPaokibecause the steam data says so. And it is a Chinese game that is actually available in China.
True, but I and everyone I know who games at work have also bought this game. My twitch feed of people I follow is basically 90-95% them playing this game. It’s popular period and trying to act like it’s because of China only is disingenuous, of course it would be huge there, there are 1.4 billion people in that country and Wukong is basically a national treasure there
@@robdurfee6861 but it is also the reason why it has high sales. Its sales figures outside of China are not spectacular.
Remember personal experience is not evidence.
Let's pretend that's true . So what ? Are chinese gamers considered less than American gamers ?
Not intrested in the difficulty, so I'm gonna miss this 1. I'll have a great time playing Star Wars, though
I hate souls like games, this is truly not that hard at all. Just make sure to explore. You can tell when you aren’t ready for a boss but once you explore and come back the boss may take you like 2 tries, 20 minutes tops
This game is much easier than you think. With all of the upgrades and systems you can turn your character into an OP beast in this game
@robdurfee6861 thanks that puts my mind a little at ease. I'll probably pick it up so when it goes on sale. I did like the idea looks a little like God ot War playstyle only about a monkey and the boss fights look great.
@DemetriusBarner978 thanks yes Im in the same boat as yourself. The last thing I want to do is pick up a game and can't even get past the 1st level embarrassing 😅
Meh. Might get it if on sale.
this games a middle finger to sweet baby inc and all their kind
I dont like hard games. That being said, this game is pretty good. Im a Dragon ball fan so of course i was going to play this
7 out of 10, not enough female propaganda
Wow some fragile people are coping hard with the success of this game. Dont hate, eat the facts that this game is absolutely earthshattering
Game looks great do a big part of its success is that it’s the Chinaest game to ever China kinda how endgame was to the rest of the world
Man this game looks good!
Take notes,Western devs!😎
Space Marine 2 is coming out in 2 weeks
For $79.99 Canadian where I am from = HARD PASS. I cannot be bothered to pay for these games at these prices anymore. Especially with all of the fanboysm reviews that ignore all of the issues this game has. When will we ever get a console release that plays a solid 60 FPS? Weren’t we all asking for this back at the end of the PS3 days? Like come on, quite worrying about how pretty the grass and trees look and let me get some smooth movement without jutters and stutters and input lag. Everyone CRATERS and just puts up with this horsesh!t and buys these games anyways which tells these companies they can release games that aren’t polished.
I have to finish Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn before I start this game. But I am ready!
Suicide Squad lol
Whoever is calling the wandering wight one of the hardest bosses in the souls genre should never review video games again. He was harder than I expected for this game, but as hard as Orphan of Kos? Malenia? Isshin? Sister Friede? Nameless King? Demon of Hatred? Consort Radahn? Hell, even comparing the wandering wight’s difficulty to the first tree sentinel in Elden Ring is ludicrous.
He’s definitely similar to the Tree Sentinal, in that he’s an over tuned early boss ment to be skipped and returned to, but he doesn’t rank in the top twenty most difficult bosses imo. Even though he took me over an hour, he doesn’t rank.
I played the game for 30 mins and beat him in like 3 tries. He wasn't hard at all lol
@@DoctorCarthhe is difficult if you play conservatively, if you play aggressively he was pretty easy since he seem pretty prone to stagger
Agreed. His move set is extremely easy to learn. For most people, the Tree Sentinel is not beatable with a new character but Wandering Wight is absolutely beatable off the rip. He took me about 5 tries.
I watched Fighting Cowboy beat him on his second try, and not just beat him but beat the brakes off the Wight. As someone above said, fight him aggressively not defensively and he’s much easier, there are also 4 pillars around the arena that you can get him to crash into which gives you some free damage on him which also helps
I don’t see what the fuss is. I beat him on the first try. He was pretty easy for me. I just didn’t let up. But the snake guy took me about 20 tries.
Wukong is a solid game, very pretty, but not nearly worthy of the hype it's getting
Representation on the national level is a big deal. There are a lot of countries that are looking to prove they can play in the big leagues. But it's wild that this is being hailed as the first Chinese AAA, when Genshin and all those Sword & Fairy games have had $100M+ budgets all this time. Hype aside, I don't think any PC+PS5 game is ever going to match mobile-gacha revenues. But maybe it's about prestige, instead of money.
Who made you arbiter of hype?
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Reject Sweet Baby Inc's ideologies, return to Monkey!
You mean the Chinese government? Why do you hate women?
We cannot discount how crucial the absence of competition is to the game's success. Would Black Myth be doing as well if it wasn't releasing in a single-player wasteland? Would it be as successful if it wasn't surrounded by unwanted soulless looter shooters and the vitriol they have accrued? The game looks great, I have been on its bandwagon for years now so I am glad to see it is getting praise, but we cannot separate its success from Western Studios failures. Black Myth Wukong's success serves as yet another example of what Western audiences want, high-quality single player games not beset by identity politics. The question is, will Western Studios finally accept this, or will they continue to push out slop nobody wants, losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the process?
80 percent Chinese players
played it for 8 hours but the appeal to keep playing feels like its dwindling already....the lore is not going to be to everybodys taste....... Its not a souls game or a souls like............We need to stop calling everything a souls like lol...... It looks visually great but the combat is kinda meh......... Only 8 hours so ill keep going for now and see what happens.. but yeah ill give it a 6/10 up to now..
What??? Everyone loves Goku so just that alone will keep people playing, you also act like God of War using both Greek and Norse mythology didn’t keep a ton of people interested in playing them. Sometimes I feel like some of these comments are industry plants to downplay certain games as part of an agenda
@@robdurfee6861 No industry plant lol although they definitely do exist. Just my opinion thats all. Ill up my score to 7/10 just for you... The industry would never do that :)
I know I'm old bc I just don't understand why people like these kinds of games...
a game from china that is being dominated by chinese players, anything new
Ps5 is best version I don’t make the rules
Lol
So much misinfo on the technical aspect from this guy
This game is not a souls-like...
Black Myth is a solid 7 game around Lies of P or Stellar Blade level, certainly below Fromsoft games, GoW, Nioh, DMC, etc. It's a huge success because it's made by Chinese for Chinese so it's boosted by their patriotism to see a good AAA game made by their government sponsored dev
Game looks dope but they clearly botted their numbers... come on now. 100k reviews in like 8 hours? No shot. Like triple the amount of elden ring which was the most anticipated game in forever. Me and my other dev buddies were watching them go up and theres just nooooo way.
Chinese people love this character, he’s a national hero to them, so yes it’s possible because they all bought the game. You also act like this game hasn’t been highly anticipated since its debut trailer 4 years ago
Most likely they just put the word out on QQ to have folks immediately buy & review. Remember that Tencent is behind this, and they basically own social media in China.
I hate the bloody game
First one here!
Can’t imagine how anyone can play this knowing how violently misogynistic, homophobic, fatphobic and toxic the workplace the company that made this game is… Never mind, of course I can imagine it! Those are all cultural values shared by the west and ‘communist’ China!
Because enjoying a good, well made game has nothing to do with the politics of the devs who made it? Believe it or not, gamers actually DON'T want politics or ideology propaganda in their games, they want good stories and engaging gameplay.
@@Arcadia95 You love politics in your games, they just have to be your politics. Then you don’t consider it political at all, because in your mind your politics are just the way things are/are supposed to be. Everything is political, including to the choice to ‘not’ be political, because that is a subjective, biased appraisal of what is and is not important. Choosing to “not be political” to not alienate potential consumers is political, because you are putting your success ahead of taking a stand on something, which materially is the same as taking a stand for the other position. You can say you don’t want politics in your games all you want, the fact is there will always be politics in media, because all media is made by people, and all people have their world view shaped by their politics. Any attempt to be unbiased will itself be biased by what your subjective idea of what bias looks like. To someone who thinks slavery is good, portraying slavery as neither good nor bad would be unbiased in their eyes, but this would be biased towards being pro-slavery as it portrays it as something worth debating.
I already bought the game. You don't have to keep trying to sell it to me.
@@DoctorCarth As I said, these violent bigotries are cultural values of the west and China. People like you would love living in China, if it weren’t for all the Chinese people.
Ofc you can't imagine. Because game has nothing to do with all these things you mention. They're just in your head
I would argue that Hollywood's pursuit of the Chinese market has not been a net positive for the movie industry. It allows an authoritarian, oppressive regime too much influence over the industry & society. It was only a couple weeks ago where French security guards were ripping signs & towels away from fans at the Olympic Games IN FRANCE, simply bc those items said the word Taiwan on them, no political message, just that word to cheer on their countrymen.
This game will be dead after 1 month.
Have you played it? It’s pretty good man. I doubt it will be dead anytime soon. It’s an excellent game so far.
Probably. But it's a slow games-year, so let them ride the wave.
@@eurothejii7328 unless they’re planning on making it a live service game, the phrase “dead game” doesn’t really apply, does it? They had 2 million steam players on day one. If it doesn’t sell a single copy more, the game was a success.
I will never understand why people keep hyping up the most boring looking games
To each their own but if you think this game looks boring, wtf do you think is awesome? Probably Rimworld or Depp Rock Galactic…or something tells me you’re a live service simp
Slow [gaming] news year 🤷♀
these click bait titles are abysmal, seriously.
What about the diversity?
There’s 80 something bosses. Def good on the diversity front. The fodder mobs are less diverse so far, but I’m still in the first area. Haven’t even fought the first main boss.
This game will be dead after month.
why
It is single player not live service game.people finish it now and then it is done.
@@eurothejii7328so it won’t be dead people will have just completed it?
i'm just wondering if we'll ever get to see how many chinese people vs american people played it
it's badass regardless. love to see this type of success