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They can cry all they want, I always played souls games for the fashion. If the boss have a blingy crown, IT'S MINE. No tricks will be cheap enough to stop me from robbing him.
To anyone confused. This story takes place after Journey to the west. So it's a original story from Game Science after Sun Wukong achieved buddahood for completing his journey with Tripitaka.
Fun fact: Sun Wukong's crown is a Heaven-sent magic treasure designed to reign in the immortal’s unruly, rebellious nature (which is weird, because that was put on him during his Journey to the West arc, after he defeated the armies of Heaven). So it's basically like those anti-mutant collars from Deadpool 2
Was it not because he was tasked with guarding Tripitaka and *immediately* decided not to, so needed some encouragement to follow orders through the crown?
Yep the circlet was forced upon Wukong to prevent him from going astray. Similar to Inuyasha's beads of subjugation for anyone who's watched Inuyasha which shares a lot of similarities to Journey to the West.
Happens to all of them. Must be some sort of initiation ritual, or an obligation. Once you reach a certain amount of subscribers, you HAVE to message at least ONE minor. That's the rule.
The first guy is Erlang Shen, the Divine General of Heaven. He is the greatest warrior of heaven, and the nephew of the Jade Emperor. Born a demigod, he used an axe as a young child to split a mountain and save his mother who was trapped underneath. He has a third divine eye and a celestial hunting hound. He is one of the most revered gods in Chinese myth. In the original Journey to the West, he was Sun Wukong’s biggest obstacle in the fight against Heaven. Not only that, but the novel (technically it wasn’t a series back in the day) portrayed Erlang Shen as winning the fight against Wukong. Wukong studied under Subodhi, and taught Wukong the 72 transformations, cloud summersault, etc. but Erlang was portrayed to be slightly superior, such as having 73 transformations. In their fight, they didn’t merely Duke it out with hands and weapons, but had transformation battles as well (such as Wukong transforming into one animal, Erlang transforming into a predator, and Wukong would transform into the predator of that predator and so on). Though, from a powerscaling perspective, it is unclear if Wukong surpasses Erlang in strength by the end of the story. Though as the Buddha of Victory in Battle, I’d probably say Wukong at the end is stronger.
I always thought they are on par during the 1 on 1, wu kong might even had the upper hand few times. Erlang only won because he have the other gods as backup
bro I love Chinese stories "Shortly after being born as an infant, little Xian Xian (born and dubbed immortal under the supervision and 65536 blessings of supreme divines and who is a protagonist of this realm btw) used the fingertip of his pinky toe to split the 80km high mountain (smallest of the bunch back then) into 100 thousand (uncountable) pieces when his pet grasshopper got trapped underneath, the largest chunks of the mountain that crashed all over the land have formed the mountain ranges of modern China"
1:26 I didn’t tho, The Golden Headband Wukong wears is a precaution for when he goes bananas. When he does, it tightens around his head causing the wearer excruciating head pain.
not exactly. it crushes his head whenever the monk, whose name i forgot, recites a specific mantra. Its meant as a way for the monk to control wukong and make sure he actually helps him pilgrim to the west instead of just murdering the monk and running away
3:00 Fun fact, the 72 in that isn't how many things he can transform to, it's actually 72 different spells. The shapeshifting is the 43rd spell and it can transform him into whatever he imagines, even a stronger version of himself. The full list below: "1: Freely come and go between the Underworld and the Living World. 2: Illusion and trick against the gods. Only work on the divine. 3: Withstand and lift heavy weight. 4: Waterproof. 5: Control the wind. 6: Making cloud. 7: Call the sun. 8: Call the rain. 9: Withstand fire. 10: Freely move in the water. 11: Cover the sun, usually mean as eclipse. 12: Ride the wind and cloud. 13: Making medicine, pill and elixir. The divine kind. 14: Fire breathing. 15: Blade swallowing. 16: Change the size of objects. 17: Have the soul leave the body. 18: Walking on water. 19: Basically a substitute jutsu but you actually leaving behind your body and just escape with your soul. 20: Making clone of yourself. 21: Invisibility. 22: Live without a head. 23: Pressure point hitting. 24: Demon slaying. 25: Calling god. The one make people think he is weak, but it is actually a spell. 26: See and interact with soul. 27: Track and destroy soul. 28: Calling cloud. 29: Catch the moon. 30: Move thing with the mind. 31: Dream control. 32: Split the body part. 33: Pass the pain to someone else. A literal "Pain pain fly away". 34: Stop water flow. 35: Push away bad luck, bad fate. 36: Escape the bad luck,bad fate. 37: Alchemy. 38: Sword mastery. Saber class? 39: See-through eyes. 40: Moving underground. 41: Clairvoyance. 42: Territory Creation. 43: Shapeshift. 44: Shapeshift other. 45: Change object by point the finger at it. 46: A better version of spell 19 that just leave behind some clothes or equipment. 47: Making illusion. 48: Calling object to you. 49: Return the object back. 50: Beast dialogue and control. 51: Bird dialogue and control. 52: Live without breathing. 53: Monstrous strength. 54: Go through rock. 55: Eyes glowing. Can actually shoot strong light: Eyes Beam. 56: Making medicine, pill and elixir. Different kind of medicine compare to spell 13, but still the divine kind. 57: Know the way to go. The reason why he is always in front. Just relate to direction. 58: Eating anything without harm. 59: Walk through wall. 60: Super jump. 61: Grow another head since just spell 22 is inconvenient. 62: Steal. You know like Kazuma from Konosuba? 63: Unlimited stomach. 64: Withstand the snow and the cold. 65: Withstand the sun. 66: Medical skill. Doctor Wukong is here. 67: Magical skill. He can even be a magus, this monkey. Caster class? 68: Making medicine, pill and elixir. The normal kind. 69: Know the time. Like having a clock of the place. 70: Know the place. Like having a map of the place. 71: "Mist Eating", basically living by just eating energy in the air. 72: Mind/Psychic attack. He actually use this to speak to other's mind instead of learning some telepathy."
Your fun fact is incorrect and not fun. These details and expanded interpretations are from other sources, and are not part of the original Journey to the West text.
Another fun fact: Sun Wukong's staff, the Ryui Jingu Bang (or Grand Pillar), was actually a treasure of the Eastern Dragon King and basically used to keep the oceans calm iirc. So yeah, if you wanna blame anyone for choppy waves or tsunamis, blame that chaos gremlin of a stone monkey And, Zanny, to answer the question of "who is that guy" at 1:02 when fighting the three-eyed guy: that is Erlang Shen, a god who was called in by the Jade Emperor (the ruler of Heaven) to basically just deal with Wukong when he first fought the armies of Heaven since *literally no one else could match him in a fight*, and even then I'm pretty sure he had to cheat? Sources vary in that. If I'm right, he got help from the Four Heavenly Kings (the four giant guys posted up behind him) and Laozi, an alchemist turned deity (I think?) who used a literal diamond snare to trap the mad monkey and just get him to *stop* After that, since they wanted to kill Wukong for his assault on Heaven but can't since he's immortal, they had to throw him into Laozi's Brazier, a giant pot where they intended to cook Wukong for 49 DAYS to drain the immortality out of him... It just made him angrier, and it got so bad that fucking BUDDHA Himself had to step in and say "Bro. Chill." Journey to The West lore is wild is what I'm saying bro-
Erlang was beating Wukong in nearly every single round even without help. Wukong had to flee multiple times in the fight. Wukong also had to ask Erlang for help to fight the 9 headed beast which destroyed both Wukong and pigsy. Erlang made Quick work of the fight with no difficulties. Wukong also nearly died by red boy and he got outpowered by yellowbrow.
Fun Fact: Goku from DBZ is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Goku in Japan and Monkey King in the West). He even had a powerpole as a kid, that magically extends like Wukong's staff
I believe his name is written similarly to how sun wukong is written as well, which is why the tournament announcer got his name wrong, directly calling kid goku sun wukong
A while ago I felt a weird disturbance in the force, now I realise it was because it was Zanny saying "message to all autobots, the gameplay is smooth" while he was recording this vid.
fun fact the staff, the jingu bang, is in fact not a staff but a pillar from the palace of the Dragon king of the sea, who's a total bro. Also the story is set after the journey to the west, I think
@@Apotheosis- the total bro who told on Wukong to Heaven. Jk tho, he actually does become a bro. I love how Wukong is the first Shounen protagonist to use the power of friendship and it’s all completely off screen. 500 years under a mountain and suddenly everyone you went to war against is your best friend.
@@Crippledsteel if you watched the full cutscene of the opening you will see Wu Kong himself mentioning that he already completed the journey (the scripture is safe). After some time he left the court (heavens) and Buddhism to retire / spend the rest of his life at his mountain with his clan. However for some reason this offended the court, maybe they are paranoid of him or maybe there's something evil controlling the gods, and they proceed to slaughter his clan. Then we came to this game's opening scene
@@Crippledsteel nope this is entirely after Journey to the West. Notice in the opening scene, Wukong talked about his master is safe and the scripture from the West was unharmed and he also achieved Buddhahood. The game changed the fact that he decided to abandon his duty to live with mortals and it pissed off Heaven
A fun fact: In the release date trailer, they play the same motif that occurs in the 1970/80’s(?) journey to the west tv show’s intro. One for the og asians that had their parents make them watch it as a kid (I remember it on a pirated vhs)
One really interesting thing. The Tiger Vanguard in the Flashback realm is the same dude as the one on the bridge, the blood pool tiger is one of his 2 sons and the other one you can fight after a hidden quest with an item dropped by the bridge version. If completed you fight the other son. Also it's very cool that even in the flashback and then later on the tiger family worked with the yellow wind guy. One got corrupted, so did the latter Vanguard. The game's writing is subtle but insanely well done. 10/10
No, it's not. The flashback tiger vanguard is the original tiger vanguard from Journey to the West killed by Wukong. His older son becomes the vanguard tiger we fight in the game, and the lesser one is the crazy tiger who dwells in the well. The dude you fight on the bridge is one person who was deceived by the crazy tiger that could cure his son's disease (which is caused by the yellow wind), in return he lures and kills people to feed the crazy tiger. His name ‘虎伥' means a person manipulated by the tiger as a lure to more human flesh. The villagers discovered the truth and killed his son due to anger. That's why you can see those zombies surrounding that house while doing this quest and the world turns grey because it's all spiritual left for that kid.
actually you're wrong, the tiger in the flashback died when the journey to the west happened, killed by Wukong, the man on the bridge's story is a little long so bear with me(or you can find the story in the journal about the mad tiger in the well/other son): The two sons of the original tiger vanguard survived and the older one began to manage the monsters on the mountain, resulting in the villagers worshipping him, and when the yellow wind sage came back, the two brothers united against him, when they lost, to protect the younger brother's life, the older brother surrendered and became the new vanguard, the younger brother however is not happy about it and ran off to hide in a well. later on, a swordsman appeared in the well, he told the tiger that he is seeking out Budha to cure his son, the tiger, seeing the man as a useful asset, lied and said he is the older brother(worshiped by the villagers) and can help. When the story checked out, the swordsman brought his son down the well, and the tiger fed the kid water from a special gourd which only temporarily solved the issue, and told the swordsman that he needs to eat humans to regain strength to defeat the yellow wind sage, which would get rid of the wind around town which is destabilizing the son's soul, causing the illness. The man reluctantly complied. As time went on, the tiger liked the kid, so he gave the gourd to the kid to keep, but then one day the man never came again, apparently the villagers found out the man was luring humans into the well for the tiger, so in revenge they beat the kid to death, and the swordsman murdered the whole village and left. so the tiger brought the coffin containing the son's body down to the well with him as a reminder that he needs to defeat the yellow wind sage.
@@josiahclarke3535 ah here another douchebag. Erlang Shen was born demigod, his father was a mortal, and his mother is sealed under a mountain by Jade Emperor (which is her brother) because of her wedding with a mortal. Erlang Shen, or actually Yang Jian was the first to defy the heaven because he splits the mountain where his mother sealed with an Axe (thus a mountain-splitting axe in the intro)
The game I'm having the most fun on this year is power wash simulator. It's just the dings that really are so satisfying, and it just shows you that patience really brings happiness to those who wait
This game has a boss mechanic where bosses only change into second phase if players are able to defeat the boss within a certain time frame. So if you're good and the boss is too easy for you, the boss will get a second phase to make the fight more difficult. If you are struggling and is just barely able to beat the boss, it won't go into second phase and your boss fight ends there.
This makes some sense from a story perspective. Like the fight against the tiger - it’s not to the death, so if he gets beat up quickly then he tries harder and goes into phase 2. I have mixed feelings from a gameplay perspective. My initial thoughts are “just get good” and “might be nice since I’m so bad”
I am glad that wukong story managed to make it way to the west. Mostly main land asia used to know it and they grew up watching hundred chapters of journey to the east (with wukong in all yellow attire)
Wukong being imprisoned is a pretty iconic trope for his character. In manga he is always depicted as being behind bars, but I think he was imprisoned inside of a mountain.
0:40 the music zanny used here is from the 1986 TV show Journey to the West. This version of the story is an absolute classic, the best even till this day, embedded the childhood of an entire generation
Nah, the 72 transformations are actually 72 different magic spells, not extra lives. Wukong has 7 different forms of immortality so he cant die unless ypu bypass all of it.
I really love your channel, man. I'm subscribed to hundreds of people, but you're one of the very few where liking once isn't nearly enough. Thank you for all the good moments you share with us and the work behind. Love you Zan man
I absolutely love how after some of the boss fights, the headless monk will come out of nowhere to just troll on the enemy with a music number, while also poetically dunking on the British (and rightfully so) for stealing his head LMAO.
If I’m remembering correctly, the crown in the books was given to him as a “gift”. He got tricked into wearing it because it same with new clothes or something, but when the monk he escorting says a specific mantra (?) it gives Wukong a migraine or something like that.
@@luckystarplays1837 correct. It’s a sutra that constricts the ring and it basically starts crushing Wukong’s head. Pigsy also has one. So does the other dude (idk his English name).
I feel like I'm the only one who immediately thought "oh sick we play as reincarnated Wukong"? Cause Wukong achieved Buddahood so he can be reincarnated.
The Monkey King has more than 72 forms. The 72 Earthly Transformations is kind of a misleading name, they're the 72 powers he gained from training with a daoist monk, one of which was shapeshifting, but he isn't limited to 72 forms.
Just to let you know, people cannot post there IG or X in your comments for the giveaway 9:50 RUclips will auto detect them as spam and delete the comment. i was wondering why no one was entering the give away. They proly are but the comments are getting deleted like my first comment was. Tryin to help.
12:40 SECRET LEVEL REFERENCED LET'S GO RAAAAAAAAAA I can't tell if the monkey noises in the video are from the game or just Zanny being really excited.
An improvement to the whole respawning and death system, would be to simply have the monkey lay unconscious and for a passage of time effect to play over his face, then his eyes open and you're back to full. Watching you fall off the bridge, comically fall into the sand and die, then have to run back over and over again was kinda painful, I suspect it was painful to play. VR taught me that when you fall in a videogame, you should always stay in the experience, and just have to climb up again. It's way more immersive, and doesn't waste so much time with archaic mechanics.
@@theoinserlastname6346 they are basically the same thing. In DB, flying nimbus is “kinto’un” Which is just the Japanese way of pronouncing “jin Dou Yun” the name of Wukong’s cloud.
Hello fellow apes 🐵
Wanted to let you know that the giveaway is over as I've already sent the codes to the winners. Congratulations to @Kythrix, @IggyPicon and @gigabit5958 and thanks to everyone who joined 🎉🎊🎉🎊
these giveaways make me go bananas, they're really just some monkey business
Congrats. Lucky people. Now to just go over to the corner to cry.
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Day 2 of asking Zanny to do Batman: Arkham Shadow
Your commentary is hilarious🔥🤌🏻💀😭
sometimes i forget that wukong makes vocal sounds and just assume it's just zanny going "wahoo!" or "woha!" lol
Wait, that is not zanny??
@@Shellyhealer245 ikr
@@Shellyhealer245 no, it's just that zanny is sun wukong
bruh i literally thought it was him and going to ask why he making monkey sounds lol
@@realmeme6no, zanny is son wukong
I can already see youtubers with the "No heal, no skills, no transformation run, the true manly ending"
And then they'll gatekeep other players from using them too.
All players seem to have a universal opinion atm and it’s forget everything revert to monkey.
@@AliK48 Fking sweats
They can cry all they want, I always played souls games for the fashion. If the boss have a blingy crown, IT'S MINE. No tricks will be cheap enough to stop me from robbing him.
There's already tons of no hit boss video already man lol
To anyone confused. This story takes place after Journey to the west. So it's a original story from Game Science after Sun Wukong achieved buddahood for completing his journey with Tripitaka.
I miss Red's journey to the west episodes 😢
Look up something called monkey magic. It was a program from back in the day lol
@@ishtarinanna4478Still ongoing. Isn't it one episode every year?
people get confused because they lose the focus on what's important tbh. you're a monkey. that's all that matters.
We can but hope it's once a year
Zanny: "It's more like God Of War"
"YOU'RE ON FIRE KRATOS!" proceeds to play every time he's set alight
Fun fact: Sun Wukong's crown is a Heaven-sent magic treasure designed to reign in the immortal’s unruly, rebellious nature (which is weird, because that was put on him during his Journey to the West arc, after he defeated the armies of Heaven). So it's basically like those anti-mutant collars from Deadpool 2
Was it not because he was tasked with guarding Tripitaka and *immediately* decided not to, so needed some encouragement to follow orders through the crown?
@@deathrayman8074
Yeah, lol. It's for Wukong to cooperate with him
Yep the circlet was forced upon Wukong to prevent him from going astray.
Similar to Inuyasha's beads of subjugation for anyone who's watched Inuyasha which shares a lot of similarities to Journey to the West.
then why not force him to wear it all the time? I have absolutely 0 knowledge abt this game and its lore so dumb it down but not too bad
Or inuyasha collar
16:41 The fact that he came out of nowhere and started playing Chinese music as the tiger withered away is so funny to me
I read the subtitles and it's even better than that before he's basically singing "you just got trolled"
This singing headless Buddha is a real sculpture. The head of this Buddha was taken away by the British and placed in the British Museum.
@@AAIDreamer Of course.
@@AAIDreamer ...of course they did
@@AAIDreamer The Chinese have always been headless so it fits
When you can’t tell the difference between in game monke noises and Zanny monke noises
Its all zanny noises actualy
THIS
17:35, I was already laughing at the majority of the video but the awkward silence as the ‘rat imperial guard’ flipped around and missed was golden
8:56 “Message a Minor”💀
Definitely a wildcat reference lol
Minilad
dr disrezanny
zanny is unhinged 💀
Happens to all of them. Must be some sort of initiation ritual, or an obligation. Once you reach a certain amount of subscribers, you HAVE to message at least ONE minor. That's the rule.
The first guy is Erlang Shen, the Divine General of Heaven. He is the greatest warrior of heaven, and the nephew of the Jade Emperor. Born a demigod, he used an axe as a young child to split a mountain and save his mother who was trapped underneath. He has a third divine eye and a celestial hunting hound. He is one of the most revered gods in Chinese myth.
In the original Journey to the West, he was Sun Wukong’s biggest obstacle in the fight against Heaven. Not only that, but the novel (technically it wasn’t a series back in the day) portrayed Erlang Shen as winning the fight against Wukong.
Wukong studied under Subodhi, and taught Wukong the 72 transformations, cloud summersault, etc. but Erlang was portrayed to be slightly superior, such as having 73 transformations.
In their fight, they didn’t merely Duke it out with hands and weapons, but had transformation battles as well (such as Wukong transforming into one animal, Erlang transforming into a predator, and Wukong would transform into the predator of that predator and so on).
Though, from a powerscaling perspective, it is unclear if Wukong surpasses Erlang in strength by the end of the story. Though as the Buddha of Victory in Battle, I’d probably say Wukong at the end is stronger.
Chinese deep lore. Very cool
I've heard that 72 transformations is a mistranslation. He has 72 abilities, transformation being one of them. He could transform in anything
Journey to the west truly was the first Percy jackson
I always thought they are on par during the 1 on 1, wu kong might even had the upper hand few times. Erlang only won because he have the other gods as backup
bro I love Chinese stories
"Shortly after being born as an infant, little Xian Xian (born and dubbed immortal under the supervision and 65536 blessings of supreme divines and who is a protagonist of this realm btw) used the fingertip of his pinky toe to split the 80km high mountain (smallest of the bunch back then) into 100 thousand (uncountable) pieces when his pet grasshopper got trapped underneath, the largest chunks of the mountain that crashed all over the land have formed the mountain ranges of modern China"
1:26 I didn’t tho, The Golden Headband Wukong wears is a precaution for when he goes bananas. When he does, it tightens around his head causing the wearer excruciating head pain.
Specifically to those that know the mantra to cause it to tighten.
@@overthemoon34 thanks for adding that, I forgor
Also, it looks cool
Thx for the lore
not exactly. it crushes his head whenever the monk, whose name i forgot, recites a specific mantra. Its meant as a way for the monk to control wukong and make sure he actually helps him pilgrim to the west instead of just murdering the monk and running away
Don't forget, Sun Wukong can remember every monkey ever born. I learned that from a certain someone.
He went to the underworld and crossed out all the dates of death for every monkey he needed their names to do this
Zanny when Black Myth Wukong drops after improving his for honor Shaolin drip:wooimboutamaganamefomysevyea
Wa bi bo bo
@@DrChaotix21wa bi Bo bo
what is that from?
@@InsertGibberish-hh5eo Deadpool & Wolverine
Zanny shot up there and said what up doc
7:37 "sprinkle coke on the body" is insane 😭
A dave chapelle reference
“it’s not a souls like, i need a break”
*proceeds to die immediately*
"We're gonna beat the army of heaven"
Erlang: *Name appears on boss bar*
Me: "No you freaking ain't!"
Who is Erlang?
@@Battery-acid2nephew of the jade emperor ( king of heaven ) and wukongs greatest rival.
17:01 “loser has to play Star Wars outlaws next week” lmaoooo
I hope for the guys sanity he doesn’t play it ☠️
@@DukeShaw12228
He already did
3:00 Fun fact, the 72 in that isn't how many things he can transform to, it's actually 72 different spells. The shapeshifting is the 43rd spell and it can transform him into whatever he imagines, even a stronger version of himself.
The full list below:
"1: Freely come and go between the Underworld and the Living World.
2: Illusion and trick against the gods. Only work on the divine.
3: Withstand and lift heavy weight.
4: Waterproof.
5: Control the wind.
6: Making cloud.
7: Call the sun.
8: Call the rain.
9: Withstand fire.
10: Freely move in the water.
11: Cover the sun, usually mean as eclipse.
12: Ride the wind and cloud.
13: Making medicine, pill and elixir. The divine kind.
14: Fire breathing.
15: Blade swallowing.
16: Change the size of objects.
17: Have the soul leave the body.
18: Walking on water.
19: Basically a substitute jutsu but you actually leaving behind your body and just escape with your soul.
20: Making clone of yourself.
21: Invisibility.
22: Live without a head.
23: Pressure point hitting.
24: Demon slaying.
25: Calling god. The one make people think he is weak, but it is actually a spell.
26: See and interact with soul.
27: Track and destroy soul.
28: Calling cloud.
29: Catch the moon.
30: Move thing with the mind.
31: Dream control.
32: Split the body part.
33: Pass the pain to someone else. A literal "Pain pain fly away".
34: Stop water flow.
35: Push away bad luck, bad fate.
36: Escape the bad luck,bad fate.
37: Alchemy.
38: Sword mastery. Saber class?
39: See-through eyes.
40: Moving underground.
41: Clairvoyance.
42: Territory Creation.
43: Shapeshift.
44: Shapeshift other.
45: Change object by point the finger at it.
46: A better version of spell 19 that just leave behind some clothes or equipment.
47: Making illusion.
48: Calling object to you.
49: Return the object back.
50: Beast dialogue and control.
51: Bird dialogue and control.
52: Live without breathing.
53: Monstrous strength.
54: Go through rock.
55: Eyes glowing. Can actually shoot strong light: Eyes Beam.
56: Making medicine, pill and elixir. Different kind of medicine compare to spell 13, but still the divine kind.
57: Know the way to go. The reason why he is always in front. Just relate to direction.
58: Eating anything without harm.
59: Walk through wall.
60: Super jump.
61: Grow another head since just spell 22 is inconvenient.
62: Steal. You know like Kazuma from Konosuba?
63: Unlimited stomach.
64: Withstand the snow and the cold.
65: Withstand the sun.
66: Medical skill. Doctor Wukong is here.
67: Magical skill. He can even be a magus, this monkey. Caster class?
68: Making medicine, pill and elixir. The normal kind.
69: Know the time. Like having a clock of the place.
70: Know the place. Like having a map of the place.
71: "Mist Eating", basically living by just eating energy in the air.
72: Mind/Psychic attack. He actually use this to speak to other's mind instead of learning some telepathy."
This is amazing
I'm sorry, "catch the moon"??
Your fun fact is incorrect and not fun. These details and expanded interpretations are from other sources, and are not part of the original Journey to the West text.
Not true. 悟空72变 literally means wukongs 72 transformation, in original source material at least.
According to your list, some of his spells are repeating / redundant 😂
Another fun fact: Sun Wukong's staff, the Ryui Jingu Bang (or Grand Pillar), was actually a treasure of the Eastern Dragon King and basically used to keep the oceans calm iirc. So yeah, if you wanna blame anyone for choppy waves or tsunamis, blame that chaos gremlin of a stone monkey
And, Zanny, to answer the question of "who is that guy" at 1:02 when fighting the three-eyed guy: that is Erlang Shen, a god who was called in by the Jade Emperor (the ruler of Heaven) to basically just deal with Wukong when he first fought the armies of Heaven since *literally no one else could match him in a fight*, and even then I'm pretty sure he had to cheat? Sources vary in that.
If I'm right, he got help from the Four Heavenly Kings (the four giant guys posted up behind him) and Laozi, an alchemist turned deity (I think?) who used a literal diamond snare to trap the mad monkey and just get him to *stop*
After that, since they wanted to kill Wukong for his assault on Heaven but can't since he's immortal, they had to throw him into Laozi's Brazier, a giant pot where they intended to cook Wukong for 49 DAYS to drain the immortality out of him... It just made him angrier, and it got so bad that fucking BUDDHA Himself had to step in and say "Bro. Chill."
Journey to The West lore is wild is what I'm saying bro-
Erlang was beating Wukong in nearly every single round even without help. Wukong had to flee multiple times in the fight. Wukong also had to ask Erlang for help to fight the 9 headed beast which destroyed both Wukong and pigsy. Erlang made Quick work of the fight with no difficulties. Wukong also nearly died by red boy and he got outpowered by yellowbrow.
Fun Fact: Goku from DBZ is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Goku in Japan and Monkey King in the West). He even had a powerpole as a kid, that magically extends like Wukong's staff
I believe his name is written similarly to how sun wukong is written as well, which is why the tournament announcer got his name wrong, directly calling kid goku sun wukong
he even got a tail
Peak Ball inspiration mentioned. Based MF detected.
The reason is because when Akira Toriyama was first writing the original Dragon Ball it was supposed to be a rude comedy spoof of Journey to the West
Goku also has the Flying Cloud before like Wukong had
0:01 wooimboutamakeanamefomyself
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youknowhowlongivebeenwaitinforthis
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Apparently this game has a secret 5th ending that requires 100 hrs of playthru....
Zannys gonna be here a looong while
love your videos!
Hello there.
Ending is so worth it. I'm surprised the devs decided to hide that spectacle and not make it an ending that everyone gets for their first run.
Is it just need 100 hours? Or is there any other requirements? I prerty much want to get it if can, thanks
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10:27 finally a rapper that doesn't mumble
5:36 lore accurate Fabio
Tikbalang 🗿🗿🗿
@@SiegCosplayWorks First thought ngl LMAO "Uy tikbalang"
A while ago I felt a weird disturbance in the force, now I realise it was because it was Zanny saying "message to all autobots, the gameplay is smooth" while he was recording this vid.
fun fact the staff, the jingu bang, is in fact not a staff but a pillar from the palace of the Dragon king of the sea, who's a total bro.
Also the story is set after the journey to the west, I think
See that's where I'm confused cause it looks like this can slot in in-between WuKongs backstory and journey to the West
@@Apotheosis- the total bro who told on Wukong to Heaven.
Jk tho, he actually does become a bro. I love how Wukong is the first Shounen protagonist to use the power of friendship and it’s all completely off screen. 500 years under a mountain and suddenly everyone you went to war against is your best friend.
@@Crippledsteel if you watched the full cutscene of the opening you will see Wu Kong himself mentioning that he already completed the journey (the scripture is safe). After some time he left the court (heavens) and Buddhism to retire / spend the rest of his life at his mountain with his clan. However for some reason this offended the court, maybe they are paranoid of him or maybe there's something evil controlling the gods, and they proceed to slaughter his clan. Then we came to this game's opening scene
i've heard of both wukong, his staf ruyi jingu bang and the palace of the dragon king, but never knew his "staff" came from there.
@@Crippledsteel nope this is entirely after Journey to the West. Notice in the opening scene, Wukong talked about his master is safe and the scripture from the West was unharmed and he also achieved Buddhahood. The game changed the fact that he decided to abandon his duty to live with mortals and it pissed off Heaven
Im happy to see that i wasnt the only one getting knocked off the bridge fighting the tiger acolyte lol
Babe wake up, new zanny video just dropped
Beat me to it 😂
13:44 that Mimir joke actually went somewhere.
A fun fact: In the release date trailer, they play the same motif that occurs in the 1970/80’s(?) journey to the west tv show’s intro. One for the og asians that had their parents make them watch it as a kid (I remember it on a pirated vhs)
Monkey magic?
@@thegreatsaiyaman1126 no, that one is the western adaptation haha
Pirated vhs is craaaazy😂
Zanny: *planning shit*
The skaven at 17:12: *_primate thing go dead-dead_*
22:10 LIAR!!!
The journey to you will take the clone 2000 years is all
Don’t rush to judge this could be all fabio’s fault 🤔
You're with him. You brought him here to kill me!
(Sorry, I couldn't help it)
Who’s Danny’s boss
Reject humanity, return to monke
🙊🙉🙈
Spoken like a tru monke
Okay Dio
BECOME MONKE
Monke
The amount of inside jokes in this video must make Zanny’s vids so strange to newcomers. I love it
Last time I was this early, Saruman had not abandoned reason for madness
One really interesting thing. The Tiger Vanguard in the Flashback realm is the same dude as the one on the bridge, the blood pool tiger is one of his 2 sons and the other one you can fight after a hidden quest with an item dropped by the bridge version. If completed you fight the other son. Also it's very cool that even in the flashback and then later on the tiger family worked with the yellow wind guy. One got corrupted, so did the latter Vanguard. The game's writing is subtle but insanely well done. 10/10
No, it's not. The flashback tiger vanguard is the original tiger vanguard from Journey to the West killed by Wukong. His older son becomes the vanguard tiger we fight in the game, and the lesser one is the crazy tiger who dwells in the well. The dude you fight on the bridge is one person who was deceived by the crazy tiger that could cure his son's disease (which is caused by the yellow wind), in return he lures and kills people to feed the crazy tiger. His name ‘虎伥' means a person manipulated by the tiger as a lure to more human flesh. The villagers discovered the truth and killed his son due to anger. That's why you can see those zombies surrounding that house while doing this quest and the world turns grey because it's all spiritual left for that kid.
actually you're wrong, the tiger in the flashback died when the journey to the west happened, killed by Wukong, the man on the bridge's story is a little long so bear with me(or you can find the story in the journal about the mad tiger in the well/other son):
The two sons of the original tiger vanguard survived and the older one began to manage the monsters on the mountain, resulting in the villagers worshipping him, and when the yellow wind sage came back, the two brothers united against him, when they lost, to protect the younger brother's life, the older brother surrendered and became the new vanguard, the younger brother however is not happy about it and ran off to hide in a well.
later on, a swordsman appeared in the well, he told the tiger that he is seeking out Budha to cure his son, the tiger, seeing the man as a useful asset, lied and said he is the older brother(worshiped by the villagers) and can help. When the story checked out, the swordsman brought his son down the well, and the tiger fed the kid water from a special gourd which only temporarily solved the issue, and told the swordsman that he needs to eat humans to regain strength to defeat the yellow wind sage, which would get rid of the wind around town which is destabilizing the son's soul, causing the illness.
The man reluctantly complied.
As time went on, the tiger liked the kid, so he gave the gourd to the kid to keep, but then one day the man never came again, apparently the villagers found out the man was luring humans into the well for the tiger, so in revenge they beat the kid to death, and the swordsman murdered the whole village and left. so the tiger brought the coffin containing the son's body down to the well with him as a reminder that he needs to defeat the yellow wind sage.
The boss at the beginning is Erlang Shen, the man the Jade Emperor had to get to beat Wukong after the heavenly armies couldn’t.
Also the Jade Emperors nephew
Literally Heavens special boy
@@josiahclarke3535 ah here another douchebag.
Erlang Shen was born demigod, his father was a mortal, and his mother is sealed under a mountain by Jade Emperor (which is her brother) because of her wedding with a mortal.
Erlang Shen, or actually Yang Jian was the first to defy the heaven because he splits the mountain where his mother sealed with an Axe (thus a mountain-splitting axe in the intro)
@@josiahclarke3535so your saying under heaven he alone is the chosen?
@@starvinmarvin2130 No I’m saying he is a nepo baby
The crown is actually a curse that gods gave him when people said, like sone sacred vow, it would shrink, crushing his head
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Now all I can picture is Po in his metal pan hat and apron going: Woooimmabouttomakeanameformyselfhere!
16:03 having the For Honor shaolin's quote play faintly in the back of the monkey swarm got me WEAK 🤣
Fun Monkey Fact: in Japan, Sun Wukong is called Son Goku. Yes, Goku from Dragon Ball is based off of Sun Wukong
Damn definitely nobody knew
We know… lol
yahoo!
The game I'm having the most fun on this year is power wash simulator. It's just the dings that really are so satisfying, and it just shows you that patience really brings happiness to those who wait
Bruh even the tigers using rivers of blood 😭 14:33
Thank god I'm not the only 1 lol
the tiger kinda sounds like durlin from gow ragnarok imo
Day 241 of asking Zanny to do an uncharted series:
Stay strong 💪
I believe in your cause
Zanny liking your posts is lowkey they icing on the cake, here's hoping he does get to them lmao
Don’t stop believing
Keep going
Zanny: "Monke vs Rhino"
Health bar with name saying Bull: "Am I a joke to you?"
zanny: "Monkey vs Rhino"
Bullguard: "Bruh. I am Bull you know"
😂
1:11 The WAH BI BO BWOAH shadow clone no jutsu was peak😂
This game has a boss mechanic where bosses only change into second phase if players are able to defeat the boss within a certain time frame.
So if you're good and the boss is too easy for you, the boss will get a second phase to make the fight more difficult.
If you are struggling and is just barely able to beat the boss, it won't go into second phase and your boss fight ends there.
Oh so… most bosses I’ve been hasn’t showed their second phase. Meaning I’m… bad(?). 😢
@logicgaming7976 no, it just means you aren't clearing them super fast. Yet. Think of the replayability though
@@planet_gardener4031 ahhh i appreciate the reply :))
I dont like that, there is no timer or any visual indication for it. So how are you supposed to know you missed a phase?
This makes some sense from a story perspective. Like the fight against the tiger - it’s not to the death, so if he gets beat up quickly then he tries harder and goes into phase 2.
I have mixed feelings from a gameplay perspective. My initial thoughts are “just get good” and “might be nice since I’m so bad”
18:19 this part gave me such a flash back of the demon souls fight (the endless falls)
*game protagonist has a staff weapon
*waiting for the inevitable Darth Maul mod
Zanny is a man of culture as well O7
Zanny:"You don't know who you're messing with."
Dog person: "Who are you?!"
The dog person did not in fact know who Zanny was
14:33
I was half expecting Zanny to yell "LADY MARIA!" right here
Zanny would never play Black Myth Wukong
Zanny : plays wukong
monkey : pox
It would be a crime for Asian to not play Black Myth Wukong
I am glad that wukong story managed to make it way to the west. Mostly main land asia used to know it and they grew up watching hundred chapters of journey to the east (with wukong in all yellow attire)
The 360-perfect dodge-wallbang-noscope-ladder stroke-decline the windows 11 update combo at 7:13 is impressive!
the combo at 8:47 was even more impressive specially the finishing move
WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY
WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY
WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY
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WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY
WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY
Ngl the los pollos joke has to be One of my favorite jokes I’m still in awe from the interaction it came from it’s so unbelievably funny
8:50 bro that quick somber turn that’s why I love ur vids sm keep going
4:18 "You're on fire Kratos" xD
17:21 rat governor is just the average politician
Wukong being imprisoned is a pretty iconic trope for his character. In manga he is always depicted as being behind bars, but I think he was imprisoned inside of a mountain.
3:56 “alright later” = code for “i duck smoke bc i dont have upgrades” the rancor pities thee zanman, you should have persisted like a man
0:40 the music zanny used here is from the 1986 TV show Journey to the West. This version of the story is an absolute classic, the best even till this day, embedded the childhood of an entire generation
0:11 SMITE MENTIONED
Smite is horrible
The memes and references are just immaculate and begging to be said lol
Zanny calling out his moves like a instructor at dance recitals is funni as hell
5:59 "Late is the hour in which this conjurer chooses to appear." xD
"Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!"
Zanny: I’ll make a longer deep rock video
-said the liar
3:01 fun fact he in fact has infinite transformations. The name comes from the fact that it gives him 72 lives
How tf does that work?
@@syabilimran6576 means he can die 73 times before actually dieing
Nah, the 72 transformations are actually 72 different magic spells, not extra lives. Wukong has 7 different forms of immortality so he cant die unless ypu bypass all of it.
Frickin love the headless singer.
*boss dies*
Headless singer:🎸🎸
“Hit the balls hit the balls hit the balls🗣️🗣️🔥🔥” 16:11
17:03 plot twist: zanny intentionally lost so he could play the new Star Wars game
me: sees big freog do the tongue thing. also me: says "ITS FUCKING OGGDO BOGDO"
10:58, "Ned Stark"
I died
I really love your channel, man. I'm subscribed to hundreds of people, but you're one of the very few where liking once isn't nearly enough.
Thank you for all the good moments you share with us and the work behind. Love you Zan man
11:08 Zanny has Fallen Order PTSD
"I'm gonna edge walk away, and then perfect doge-" 🤣
%10 of the video "Monke doing acrobatics"
%90 of the video "FOOLISH TIGER"
8:00 I died when he said this😂😂
8:49 Welcome to the Diddy party Zanny
8:55 throwing shade like a pro 🤣
1:46 Oooh, missed opportunity... Zan Wukong.
Fabio hitting the gym is now canon
Bro unlocked "The Wind Tamer" after losing his sanity to the Yellow Wind Sage 😭😭
And the reviewers said game doesn't have enough exploration
I absolutely love how after some of the boss fights, the headless monk will come out of nowhere to just troll on the enemy with a music number, while also poetically dunking on the British (and rightfully so) for stealing his head LMAO.
the missed opportunity to say "curse you gale" at the tornado
If I’m remembering correctly, the crown in the books was given to him as a “gift”. He got tricked into wearing it because it same with new clothes or something, but when the monk he escorting says a specific mantra (?) it gives Wukong a migraine or something like that.
@@luckystarplays1837 correct. It’s a sutra that constricts the ring and it basically starts crushing Wukong’s head. Pigsy also has one. So does the other dude (idk his English name).
@@yanyanzhang5813 the fish spirit?
@@yanyanzhang5813 Sha Wujing I think
@@hoainamphan458 yeah, that’s the Chinese name, I dunno the English name.
@@yanyanzhang5813 was it Sandy?
“I’m about to make a name for myself”
that you did my friend, that you did.
I feel like I'm the only one who immediately thought "oh sick we play as reincarnated Wukong"? Cause Wukong achieved Buddahood so he can be reincarnated.
2:10 Aah Monkey🐒 vs Bird🦅
Woah woah this bird's throwing feathers 😂
The Monkey King has more than 72 forms. The 72 Earthly Transformations is kind of a misleading name, they're the 72 powers he gained from training with a daoist monk, one of which was shapeshifting, but he isn't limited to 72 forms.
This is going to be one of those videos you always come back to
If you explore and find the secret area in each region, you'll recieve a relic that immensely helps with the chapter boss.
The real reason Zanny is on PC instead of PS is because he still has it running deciding whether to kill or spare Jin’s uncle
grab Mount Funnier and Cyber Maul gamers 🐵
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Why is this game good? And an ad
Im up my glorious white night thank you for coming to mine rescue sir zanny with this absolute banger of a vid been hyped for this play through
Just to let you know, people cannot post there IG or X in your comments for the giveaway 9:50 RUclips will auto detect them as spam and delete the comment. i was wondering why no one was entering the give away. They proly are but the comments are getting deleted like my first comment was. Tryin to help.
the second tige is wearing a robe. Does this mean the first tiger had been naked while fighting ?
I can’t comment I just wanna submit for the giveaway.😔😔😔
12:40 SECRET LEVEL REFERENCED LET'S GO RAAAAAAAAAA
I can't tell if the monkey noises in the video are from the game or just Zanny being really excited.
Probably both tbh
An improvement to the whole respawning and death system, would be to simply have the monkey lay unconscious and for a passage of time effect to play over his face, then his eyes open and you're back to full. Watching you fall off the bridge, comically fall into the sand and die, then have to run back over and over again was kinda painful, I suspect it was painful to play.
VR taught me that when you fall in a videogame, you should always stay in the experience, and just have to climb up again. It's way more immersive, and doesn't waste so much time with archaic mechanics.
2:20 Me when Zanny drops another banger video
fun fact the character son goku is inspired by son wukong gokus nimbus cloud is very similar to the cloud wukong travels on same with gokus power pole
@@theoinserlastname6346 they are basically the same thing.
In DB, flying nimbus is “kinto’un”
Which is just the Japanese way of pronouncing “jin Dou Yun” the name of Wukong’s cloud.
就是同一个人，日本人喜欢改中国小说。比如三国关羽
@@shaowangyou son goku and son wukong different characters same aspects
@@theoinserlastname6346 yes，这两个都是我童年喜欢动画人物。