People rly don’t realize how many anime’s have a character with inspiration from wukong, goku, 3rd hogake and his weapon, Luffy from one piece. So cool we can finally get a game that goes over wukong mythology
Something you might not know, is that Erlang and Wukong are good friends, and sworn brothers too. He threatened to level Wukong's mountain to make the celestial court happy, but in the end, he didn't actually do it. When Wukong threatened to pluck out Erlang's third eye, he actually means to store his memories in it to be retrieved by his descendents (the player character) Erlang was the first to rebel against heaven, even before Wukong. He was a demigod, born as Jade Emperor's sister made love to a mortal man. As a punishment, his mother was locked away, his father and sister killed. He holds a grudge against the celestial court even now, and respects Wukong for his rebellion greatly. While each of them is able to create a ruckus, they are unable to overthrow the old order.
People don't know how strong Sun Wukong really is. The guy fought Buddha. He tanks hits from literal gods. He is extremely feared and respected. The voice is very fitting in English. Wukong has always had that kind of voice and tone.
@@painvillegaming4119 Though he did survive the force of the entire Universe coming down on him when Buddha palmed him since the entire universe was in Buddha's palm. Even if you don't want to scale it that high he at least survived an entire mountain crashing down on him.
@@readlater8962 yeah he's 7 times immortal that his thing Plus buddha is omnipotent in Chinese mythology he knows the significance the monkey king will have throughout history
@@painvillegaming4119not even 7 times. Two of those are from him eating hundreds of immortality granting items. He’s probably thousands of times immortal.
SunWuKong was born in a rock located in the "Mountain of Flowers and Fruits" and was hailed the monkey king after winning a bet, and started enjoying himself. But later after one of his close friends died, he realized that he'll eventually die and not be able to be happy anymore. So he traveled far and learned powers from an immortal, and became extremely powerful (and obtained immortality). And then he searched for a suitable weapon for him. He found one in the East Water Dragon King's temple, and took it after winning another bet. The weapon weighted around 8000kg and can grow and shrink at will. The Water Dragon snitched on SunWuKong and the Jade Emperor tried various ways to pacify SunWuKong. But it failed and he attacked the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits. SunWuKong was captured by YangZian (The three eyed guy with the dog), and was put into a crucifix to be molten into an elixir. But SunWuKong survived and ended up destroying heaven and almost killed everyone. So Buddha was forced to come and trapped SunWuKong under a magical mountain, he was trapped there for 500 years before a monk came. The monk was the protagonist of "The Journey to the West" and was the person who went on this journey. SunWuKong tricked the monk into freeing him and became the monks apprentice. But the monkey was mischievous, and ran off after being unhappy with his new master. After he ran off, another immortal came and gifted the monk a magical golden headband, and gave instructions on how to use it. The monk tricked SunWuKong into putting on the headband, which caused immense pain when a certain magical poem was read. After that SunWuKong obeyed his master and protected him with two other apprentices, a humanoid pig and a blue-skinned-read-haired-humanoid. After they made the journey after 9 long years, SunWuKong was made a Buddha. But SunWuKong found the rules of being a Buddha cumbersome, so he returned to his birthplace to live in peace. And that is where the game begins. (Note: The Monk wasn't a bad guy for forcing SunWuKong to obey him, what I explained has highly oversimplified. Also, The last two sentences about SunWuKong returning to his mountain is made up, not originally in the story. Although it is highly believable.) Please liek this took me 30 minutes. Hot diddly-dog that's a lot of likes, most support I ever gotten.
dont forget that monkey king has gaind immortality......seven times.......he is not killible as why you dont take damage as you play wukong in the begining off the game
The Changing Pole weapon is actually a giant pillar that held the sea in place. My mans Wukong just took the pillar, causing the entire sea and undersea palace to go into disarray lmao
I doubt anyone will see this but homeboy in the beginning is "Erlang Shen" aka the other baddest mfer to walk the planet other than Wukong himself. He is the Jade Emperor's (Zeus equivalent in the Chinese pantheon) go-to headknocker. Bit more extra context, before Wukong's Journey to the West, that man legitimately wanted ALL the smoke from everybody and WON until the supreme Buddha (creator of the universe more or less) intervened and humbled him along with the Goddess of Mercy who put the famous circlet on him. In short, Wukong was HIM
Hell yea man! I was wondering if anybody else was aware of who that was supposed to be. I tried to look it up to back my assumption but couldn’t find anybody else talking about it (obviously because most people would be completely unaware). But now that I see you say this I know we are both right that is absolutely Elang Sheng (or Erlang Shen? Not sure how it’s spelled)
I know the general story of Sun Wukong from things such as fate, god of high school, and other things so I was so excited getting a game like this, playing as our great sage equal to heaven. Though it’s interesting that it’s after the journey. I love how cultural the game is, every enemy gets a poem and a folk tale, even the mobs get one, I love this game so far and the fact I’m learning more about the journey. Jinchi is a part of the original journey right?
Afro, it should be pointed out that the prologue featured the OG Sun Wukong. The reason you didn't receive damage is because he's basically invulnerable and immortal. I highly recommend listening to the "Journey to the West" audible, it really is a great listen and won't spoil the story as the events of Black Myth Wukong happen after the story (recall how Wukong reflected that the master was safe and the scriptures are secured).
Watching afro pass all the items, story points and bosses never gets old. My guy skipped an entire left side of the forest and went straight to the bobble head fight hilarious
@adelaidatorres9717 Dang... Only 2 ?? Its the first time I play a souls like game, eventho its not totally a souls, but even if it wasnt my first time, I dont see myself beating it in just 2 tries hahaha you too good xD
So the guy fighting wukong in the beginning is who tien is inspire by in dragonball. He has similar power set to wukong and is one of the few people that can best wukong. The head piece that was giving wukong a headache in the cutscene is used by his master in journey to the west to control wukong darker tendencies. Anyone that can recite the mantra for it can give wukong a headache, immobilizing him. Just a little info dump for anyone that wants to read this
When I realised that the baby didnt even attack you if you just let it be I skipped it, took it down later when I got stuck on the tiger for a while instead
@@FaweEr420 you saved yourself a lot of time, only having the starter kit is what made the baby so difficult, we were all just starting the game as well
In the story (journey to the west) the staff is a pillar that can change in size and he is the only one strong enough to pick it up. He shrinks it and puts it behind his ear
other note, the staff was originally a measuring tool to measure the depths of the sea and height of the heavens. its just Sun Wukong saw it as a perfect weapons so he used it as such.
yes, the real name of Wukong's staff means something like "The Sacraed Needle for Pacifying Oceans" in addition, the stupid dog has a name, which should mean "Heaven Howling Canis/Dog" His clould mount's name is "Somersault Cloud". All of these has a story behind in the original Journey to the West novel.
@@fabianbiere5653 The Eastern Sea Dragon King, yes. Then he kinda badger the Eastern Sea Dragon for more stuff, until the Dragon called his fellow Dragon Kings from the other cardinal directions and they gave him his armor, greaves and his signature Pheonix Tail headdress to appease him and get him out of his palace. The Wukong we saw at the beginning is him in full gear.
@@ImTheMangaReaderafter Wukong DESTROYED the whole chinese pantheon and was sealed by the Omnipotent Buddha himself on a mountain, he was freed by a monk but something was put on his head, with a chant from the monk that thing would cause an intense headache on Wukong as a way to keep him from going overboard or something worse Or that's what i remember
G, I love the enthusiasm you have for Kratos but my dude Wukong in the myths gained like 7 layers of immortality, fought against all the gods in heaven and won against most if not all of them, was brought to the underworld and removed his name from the book of death. Bro wore black air forces before black air forces were even a thing. My dude wanted the smoke and made all of heavens into his cigarette pack.
Some background on Sun Wukong: He was a monkey who ate from the tree of immortality and obtained godly strength. For awhile he teamed with the other deities in their court and they effectively made Sun Wukong a secret weapon against various demonic threats. Sun Wukong shares Goku's lust for battle so when there wasn't a lot of demonic entities left he kinda just said "Fuck it" and decided to duke it out with the deities. I'm fairly certain that after this point he teams up with a Monk who helps Sun Wukong out and they travel to the West. Also pretty sure that along the way, Sun Wukong get's like.... eight different kinds of immortality so... yeah. Also, fun fact: Sun Wukong's pole is just a pillar from a Dragon's house that he shrank down into a staff. The Dragon wasn't very happy with him but... not like the Dragon could really do anything against Sun.
You forgot yo mention that pole had no real purpose other than to measure the high of the sea or a river. It was literally just a measuring stick in the dragon's eyes but Wukong saw the perfect weapon.
You did miss the part where Buddha imprisons him in a mountain for 1000 years for his shenanigans. The monk he “teams up with” is Sanzhang and he didn’t exactly team up with him. He was tasked to escort Sanzhang on a pilgrimage to the west beginning his “Journey to The West”. He was forced to wear a golden headband that Sanzhang can shrink with a chant causing him great pain in order to control him. The headband appears on his head at the end of the opening boss fight.
You missed the fact that he got sealed by buddha into a mountain after challenging the heavens. And he himself was the one that sent wukong and the monk in the journey
Someone explain please, Wukong got Sealed after tear apart Heaven right? After that he got released by the monk, and Buddha Task Him to Escort the Monk to the West And is after that he Back to the Mountain, and this Story (the game) begin? Is he Got Sealed again after lose to Erlang in the Opening? Or something similiar? And the MC of the Wukong Game is not Wukong himself but Another Monkey? 🤔 Is his task to release the true Wukong or what? Please explain me....
15:16 The scene where he transforms into a peach is a nod to a moment from the original story. Sun Wukong was once invited to the heavenly realm to guard the celestial peach garden. But seeing so much fruit, the Monkey King couldn’t resist indulging himself. After eating his fill, he transformed into a peach on the tree and fell asleep. He revealed himself when a heavenly maiden came to pick the peaches and unknowingly picked him.
What has wukong done to show that he's a threat to Kratos, the Destroyer of multiple Universes and their God's? Kratos has Wukong in strength, speed, and I'd suggest even skill.
You are playing as the clone of wukong. A strand of hair that survived. This story is closer to a more brutal story of wukong rather the journey of the west story. Its more catered to a brutal form of gods who treated wukong like shit, and his people. This is after he has lost to buddah, went through enlighten after eating all the peaches and making him self 5 times immortal. Then he has 72 variations so you have to kill this guy 72 different times lol. He toys with his enemies and sings of confidence. Dragon Ball Z's Goku was inspired by the Wukong character. Wukong loves to fight, become stronger and help his friends and kind.
Hello people! Here to give some context on the beguinong of the game for whoever feels a bit lost, including Afro. This game is supposed to be after journey to the west, we don't play as Wukong, but a random monkey that is destined to bring Sun Wukong back, that's why we start like fodder after fighting Erlang (the other most powerfull warrior on the whole universe besides Wukong) If anyone wants to know more about the monkey king, please, feel free to ask. And to answer the question about Kratos vs Wukong, yeah, Wukong would fold Kratos like and omelette so hard it wouldn't even be funny
@@mauricejackson4253 For that you are searching for the novel "Journey to the west". Is an old novel from the XVI century so if you are not into reading long novels you better search for a resume or something on YT. Nontheless, the novel is great.
@@mauricejackson4253 Overly Sarcastic Productions has a video series recaping the story. Its currently not finished because Journey to the West is long as fuck, but its a good watch.
This game has adaptive difficulty. Some bosses have a second phase, but they won't trigger unless you're really good and beat their first phase really quickly. Otherwise they'll just die normally. Really interesting way of handling difficulty.
which boss has this? i haven’t seen a phase 2 except from the whiteclad noble in chapter 1 and i’ve currently beaten every boss + secret boss in chapter 1 and 2
Just so you know the character we play as is not son wukong but the “destined one” an original character tasked with gathering the relics of wukong to try and release him from his rock.
most of the streamers don't realize it even if it can't be more obvious, we literally see him getting defeated, and old monkey talks that his remains are in rock and many years has passed
@@redragon9588 tbf that monke looks, like, the EXACT same, even i was confused i thought wukong just sorta woke the f up given the guys got i think 8 forms of immortality
Sun Wukong is both a trickster, and an immortal being on the level of gods who once defeated all the armies of heaven. That voice is indeed very fitting.
I think all the people who know Journey to the West know that voice is pretty damn good in both languages. All the English speakers were expecting Goku or something.
I don't know him getting cooked in a celestial alchemy furnace for 49 days, and instead of death, he came out with true sight is probably top 3 for me. A very frustrating monkey indeed.
23:45 wukong can change his hair into an exact copy of kratos, with all his abilities, he has 86k hair with each of them able to change into more copy of kratos to fight kratos. Kratos is not winning this one
To those who are out of the loop, we're playing as a "random" monkey who will "revive" or awake the OG Monkey King Sun Wukong. From what I know this game takes place after the Journey of the West wherein Sun Wukong became buddha which is why there's no hp bar since he technically have multiple layers of immortality after his quest.
yea i dont understand how ppl can think this could be the past, when you can clearly see the mountain get covered with growing wildlife during the seasonal skips. and the old monkey clearly says the rock has been there ever since he was born. so its clear this happens a couple decades after wukong has been `defeated` .
The first boss is Erlang Shen, one of the god in heaven. He also has 72 transformation as Wukong. So, Wukong has 2 rivals that can match him are Natra and Erlang Shen👀 Also he doesnt have health bar cuz he erased his name in the book of life and death when he’s mess around in the hell. That's why Wukong cant die. Hope it helped to clear the first intro ! Updated : The king of hell reported to Jade emperor that he messed around the hell. Then he go to the heaven stealing some fairy peaches, drink some miracle wine, and take elixirs before goddess party begin. 😂
He has like 8 different sources of Immortality too. Its not just him erasing his name in the book. He also ate an entire garden of peaches where every single peach could grant immortality. They took a god slaying axe to his neck and the axe broke.
Funny enough, saying Erlang has 72 transformations would put him on par with Wukong, the thing is, canon lore has it that Erlang has 73, just one more than wukong, thus beating him
Hell yeah, bro. Your war with the Wight was awesome. This was the first game I’d played in about 10 years and the first game of its kind I’d ever tried… got a ps5 just to play it, and beat the Wight in about 12 tries. Felt AMAZING
There is no immortality for Kratos. He will die if he is killed while Our boi Wukong just can't die even with his immortality removed because of how many layers he have.
Wukong is arguably the strongest fictional character there is. This dude got multiple layers of immortality and every single one of his hair can turn in a clone just as powerful as the original and those clones can make more clones. This just the base, he got even more power so, as much as I love Kratos, he is not winning against Wukong.
While he is OP, 'Strongest in fiction' is excessive wank. Several layers of immortality is impressive, yeah. But several of those immortalities are just longevity, and they also, as this game shows, doesn't stop him from getting defeated. (Not to mention that there are plenty of enemies in the book that he needed help to defeat). Aside from that and the clones(both of which other fictional characters have similar abilities to, none of his tricks are really all that special if compared against all of fiction. Like, there are fictional,characters capable of destroying universes with a thought, which Wukong really wouldn't have an answer to. You could say he is the strongest in Journey to the West, and you would have a reasonable stancfe.
Its also worth noting that every trick Wukong has is LEARNED, not innate to him. Meaning that, aside from the immortality, theoretically any character in his own book could learn his tricks, and there are several examples of characters actually doing so.
Man, I was thinking the same thing. But, people don't realize the influence wukong has had on everything. Movies, anime, etc. But, Kratos is a different kind of beast. If they fought three times? I would say Kratos comes out top. The reason is, Wukong was arrogant and made a lot of mistakes. Kratos anger and rage is what would propel him to beat him. Who knows though, but that's my opinion.
@@jonathangoodwin5609 counterpoint, if wukong fought some insane being he would probably be able to learn its powers. He isn't the strongest in journey to the west (supreme buddha still has him beat) but i think he is kind of like goku, as in he can become infinitely powerful.
By the way Afro, after the tutorial it does take place in the future because the mountain is still in the same destroyed state that wukongs brother left it in.
Ok so back when the game was announced I took it upon myself to read the novel, couldn't read the whole thing as it got weird and I lost interest but I guess I got though the prologue just before the "Journey to the west" began. Here's what I remember: There's this nice mountain, and in that mountain there's a rock, that rock gets showered by cosmic energy and eventually after a many many years, something happens and the monkey is born from the rock, as he is born the whole world takes notice that something happened. Years go by and the monkey is living in the mountain with his other monkey having fun and stuff until he eventually gets bored (maybe he fears death and goes seek imortality) and then he goes on an adventure. He travels a bit and eventually reaches a temple with a bigshot monk in it. The monk gives him a riddle and the monkey solves it, and the monk decides to give him a Buddhist name. He first thinks of Sun MuWon, but that has some negative meaning and then he finally lands on Sun WuKong which means monkey awakened to emptiness. He stays there some more, learns cool stuff, like a bunch of transformations and a nice summersault and then leaves. (forgot if he got some form of immortality from this). On his way back he stops by some kind of king's temple, berates the king and steals the king's cool item including the power pole (it has something nice inscribed in it but I forgotwhat). He also erases his friends' names from the records of death so they're all immortal now I guess. Eventually he gets back to him original mountain, and he gets the name handsome monkey and monkey king (or maybe that was before his trip). Anyways, the gods get annoyed at him for being arrogant and want to teach him a lesson so they come down to beat him up. Turns out WuKong is hella tough and gives them a run for their money. They keep sending ops, but no one is strong enough for our boy. Until the, Jade Emperor, who is the big shot god in this pantheon, think Odin, Zeus, Amon Ra, summons the man the myth the legend Erlang (this is the guy that was fighting WuKong at the beginning in the video). This guy is described the be insanely handsome. They battle it out, both take on a bunch of forms in between, including birds at some point (like in the video) but it either ends up in a stalemate or Erlang wins. Stuff happens, and they reach a deal where all the gods agree to send WuKong to heaven, but give him a fake title that has 0 responsabilities. It takes a while for him to realize this and when he does he gets mad and demands to be given the title "Great Sage Equaling Heaven", which is very arrogant. Stuff happens they give him the title and he is put in charge of a garden. The heavens are about to hold a big banquet, WuKong is bored and he eats some fruit from the garden that he was supposed to take care of, which he definitely shouldn't have done. He pulls up to the banquet and he drinks the fancies wine, gets drunks, which he definitely shouldn't have done, and then he eats one more thing and gets high, which he definitely shouldn't have done. Turns out, all 3 of those things give immortality and he now has, like 3 or 4 layers of immortality. The heavens are absolutely fucking livid at him and they send a bunch more gods to fight. Eating all 3 things made him into a super saiyan basically so he was unstoppable, no matter who came at him, WuKong beat their ass. It wasn't until Buddha himself, the omnipotent one above all, the presence, zeno-sama, the creator, the writer of the novel himself pulled up and told him if he could leave his hand, WuKong would be free to go otherwise he'd surrender. Wukong was like bet, did an insane summersault, travelled to the edge of the universe in seconds, took a piss at the corner, wrote something down and then summersaulted back. He thought he passed the test, but turns out he was in Buddha's hand all along, (this scene gets referenced in other media so it's good to know the origin). So he gave up, got sealed somewhere on earth, and had the tiara thing that tightens a lot causing immense pain on his head at some point. This is bout where I stopped reading, but after this the novel starts going bouncing from character to character, reciting poems and becomes a bit hard to follow. But it picks up again when a certain monk is tasked by a Boddhisatva to take very very ultra important scrolls somewhere west, and forces WuKong to accompany this new monk as a way to atone. He is joined by Sandy, and Pig something (the one Wukong referrences at the begging) who the Boddhisatva met when he laid the groundwork for the scripture to be transferred. And so began the Journey to the West. Thanks for reading all this, you probably could've read a summary online, but thanks anyways
here are some errors i found and clarifications that might help you understand better: 1 - At the beginning of the story, Sun and his fellow monkeys saw a stream and decided to follow it and see where it led to. They soon find out it leads to a huge waterfall. The monkeys decide that whoever goes into the waterfall and comes out alive will be honored as a king. Of course, Wukong goes in and out alive so they make him their majesty and call him their Handsome Monkey King. There was a giant room with a throne behind the waterfall (idk how to say it in English). Wukong and the monkeys decide to live there and they did for a while. One day, an elder monkey dies from old age and that triggers Wukong mid-life crisis (death battle joke). Wukong started to fear death so he decided to leave the palace to seek immortality and that's when he starts his first adventure. 2 - He actually meets 2 monks with the 2nd one teaching him his 72 tricks. Transformation, summersault cloud and pluck of many being some of them. He leaves one of the monks because of a misunderstanding and the other one because his master doesn't see any reason for him to stay since he taught him everything. He hasn't reached immortality yet. 3 - A powerful being needs a powerful weapon, so he seeks to the Dragon's Palace in search for a good weapon. None of the weapons the Dragon King provided was useful to him so he wanders around and finds a gigantic pole that can change size at will. In the King's eye, it was just a useless pole he used to measure the depht of the sea, but it was the perfect weapon for Sun Wukong. 4 - He only erases HIS name in the book of death so he literally cannot die. 5 - When the gods and goddesses gave Wukong a job in the heavens, he was a stableboy aka the last rank in heaven. Basically his job was to take care of horses and horse shit. Of course, he gets mad and wants to have a proper job. The Jade Emperor finally decides to make him the Guard of the Immortal Peaches. 6 - At the banquet, while being drunk, he also gets into one of the god's palace (I forgot who) and empties like 5 gourds each with thousands of immortality pills. So he's basically OVER 9000!! in immortality. 7 - The Buddha reached nirvana so the entire universe was in his palm. That's why Wukong couldn't get out of his hand. (btw that also means he pissed on the buddha's finger and wrote on one of his fingers aswell). So because he lost the bet, Bouddha locked him under a mountain in timeout for 500 years. After 500 years (don't forget he's immortal so he didn't die) he's tasked to escort a monk to the west Tangsanzhang thus beginning his pilgrimage to the West. bonus fact: in the tv series (and the story), there was a kid who would feed wukong while he was locked in the mountain and once he got out, he met an old man who was once that kid who fed wukong all these years ago (ofc he wasn't 500 yrs old). So this was another reference to Wukong's immortality. 8 - Pigsy and Sandy were actually monsters/obstacles on Wukong's path, but his master Tangsanzhang decided to recruit them. Pigsy was once a god but got caught acting sus towards other goddesses while drunk and Sandy was a guard that killed anyone who dared step foot on a bridge. bonus fact: Pigsy's name in Chinese literally means 8 forbidden things. So after being punished and reincarnated into a pig, he couldn't do 8 things (like drinking and other stuff). Hope this helped!
The reason why Sun Wukong is confident is because he was able to beat the Divine Army no problem the first time they attacked him. When they attacked him a second time, that’s the three-eyed god(who Tien from Dragon Ball is inspired from) who is the Jade Emperor’s nephew, joined in along with his squad and dog. Sun Wukong would beaten the nephew as well, but TLDR, the nephew was just barely able to subdue the Monkey King with help due to luck.
Erlang is on par with Sun Wukong in terms of power. Both of them mastered the 72 transformations and have achieved several legendary feats, that is why Guanyin recommended the Jade Emperor to send Erlang Shen to subdue Wukong in the novel "Journey to the West".
This game is sooooooo freaking awesome! I haven’t been excited and addicted to play a game since Elden Ring. I don’t fully know the original story but the story is great so far and I can’t put it down. This game is a breath of fresh air!
Adding some context to Wukong vs Kratos. You remember that part in Ragnarök during the fight with Thor where you get a fake game over? Wukong would've ate that hit 10x over and still take him on no difficulty. Wukong has 7 variations of immortality to the point where fighting him is flat out impossible. The only reason why Erlang Shen was able to best him was because of the circlet on his head that gives him an ear splitting headache when a chant is performed, one of the very few ways the gods in Chinese mythos can take on Sun Wukong without burying him in a mountain.
the directors of ragnarok already confirmed that the fake game over was just a one thing they wanted to do and that kratos wasn't killed nor knocked out by it. Which is proved as kratos is tanking full power thor in the 2nd fight and overpowering him without himself going full power. Old kratos has been confirmed by Cory barlog to be stronger than his younger self and We've never seen old kratos go full power against anyone. Kratos is possibly the strongest god in all mythos and wukong prolly the closest to him as Kratos destroyed a whole mythology which is Greece and proceeded to destroy Norse's strongest god without even needing to go full power. Plus the director also told that during baldur vs kratos first fight. He wanted a mountain to be thrown at kratos but it was not technically possible at that time but now with ps5 maybe in the next game we can see kratos get bigger fights
Kratos slaps wukong...didnt you just see him die in the beginning lol. Kratos fought and killed all Greek Gods in the same day LOL. then goes to another timeline and killed their gods stop it. Kratos slams wukong
Well, for context you are basically the villian in the journey to the west wukong is a absolute menace, he fought whatever and whenever he wanted he was asked to guard the peaches of immortality and was caught eating from them erased his name from the book of death, and drunk from the immortal wine, which is why he laughs when Erlang brings up immortality
“He is challenging Gods!” [currently watching and paused] In lore, Wukong bested the entire army of Heaven and its Generals in combat and they had to get Erlang to come and beat him to which he couldn’t but had him on the ropes before Heaven intervened. This Wukong has already become a Budha and has made his journey…He has beaten Gods and demons feared by Gods and is stronger than he has ever been. As for the start of the video Afro! I am reading the novel and I recommend it!
@@VSM101 but this is Erlang in the clip not his father. Or am I wrong? Because in the novel he never fought his father from my understanding during his journey with the tang monk and his father wasn’t one of the Generals who he bested in the original army or was he?
@@bryzantine1571 Bro,I'm Chinese.This game story is not same as the old novel.But I knew some video that explain the story in Bilibili. IF you have intrests,contact me.
i dont remember how i found out about wukong, but the fact he's been so unknown even tho is he every single shonen anime is crazy. so glad he's finally in a widely known area, and with one my ne favorite games ever
13:51 the old monkey just got done rambling about how Sun Wukong got his ass kicked, his body is in a rock, and he scattered pieces of himself around to hide. How did you hear that and still think this is the past?
Ngl idk if Afro knows that he’s not actually playing as Sun Wo Kong I genuinely think everything from that cutscene just went in one ear and out the other 😂
@@johnathonparnell9026I think we play as a clone of Wukong. When we die we turn into a hair and reform from it at the shrines. Wukong’s clones are created from him plucking a hair and creating a clone from it.
@@johnathonparnell9026 Me: listening, not even watching, and wondering why he's confused by the fact his character doesn't speak. The old monkey literally told him he's seeking out the relics that could revive Wukong lol.
@@trumps_toupee nah I was blowed when time was fast forwarding and the narrator was explaining that time was moving forward and the first thing Afro said is “ Is this the past ? “
Easiest way to beat the Wandering Wight is to get him to not face you, sneak up on him and execute 3 back-to-back light combos. He falls, regen stamina, hit 2 light combos, hit a power hit, knocking him down. Regen to half stamina, hit 1 light combo and a power hit, then finish it off with an immobilize, and combo/power hit the last bit of his health. It only took me like 20 times to win finally LOL
Seeing afro struggle against wandering wight is hilarious. This baby monk boss was made tougher intentionally. Whipped my ass a good amount of times before I got him lol 😂
You missed a secret boss that drops a new move for you. And pro tip when you freeze enemies try to catch them when they are falling down from a stagger. When the freeze breaks they still have to fall down and get back up. Ez licks... good luck monke.
@@oOoExcellence in the area where you fight the wight, you want to go up the hill to the left of where it's wandering, there's a bridge with an arrow grunt on it, once you find him the gate for the secret boss is not far.
in lore, wukong is him. basically does what he wants and bodies anyone that doesnt let him. if he cant body them he finesses them. if he cant do either, he plays jokes on them and leaves. and as he goes, he just goes up. the only thing that messes him up is his pride. but it always ends up working out for him in the end. dude is untamable.
So many references in that beginning fight . And how the game gives you a glimpse of wukong at his strongest is very similar to god of war 2 when we start off as the god of war and Kratos then loses all his powers
Wukong's stick is called Dinghai God Needle, which is a huge pillar object in the Dragon Palace under the sea, which is used to stabilize the whole ocean.
as a fan of all things jttw, its halarious to watch someone play black myth wukong who only knows what he knows about wukong from a google search like hour prior to playing, peak content
Afro really had 11 sparks at the end of the video, spend them! You’ll regret it later if you don’t. Also, explore everywhere and double back later. If you don’t you’ll miss out on some valuable abilities
I had some problems on that mini boss too, strangely enough it was harder than all the others and even the final boss (at least on that level, I just finished the first chapter in the woods). You should go back, you left one of the most useful powers behind, if you go right from the area of the mini boss you should find another zone with a bell and a guardian there
@@thelukygamer17 There is a hidden boss in the first chapter, the boss is a dragon, inside the waterfall, you need to take a key in the second chapter 🔑, the key is behind the Thousand Buddha wall in the second chapter, it is a dragon scale, with a big head impact to break the Thousand Buddha wall, enter to get the key (dragon scale)😂
The funny thing is, the invincible fighting Buddha a.k.a. the protagonist is multiple times immortal even after being hit with the furnace of immortality removal that’s not the official title. I just couldn’t think of the right term.
11:35 if you ever watched God of High school anime that should make your brain think of something. Remember in the anime when Mori Jin had the same crown and his head started hurting when he kept using its power, SAME REFERENCE in the game when he held on to his head falling from the sky.
Dragon ball has an episode where Goku has given by Mr popo that crown it looks exactly the same, and that crown summons the thunder, it was part of Goku training
Wukong is actually the second most powerful divinity from his mythology. He is prob the most powerful non omnipotent being in among all the mythologies
The original Wukong is sealed within the rock, The One you play as came after and was given the task of bringing wukong back with the relics. Based on the elders story
bro this is the best commentator to his own video, i had to keeep killing those npc till i hit 22.. this boss was so fkn hard.. i lost my shiit.. went to casino > lost > came back.. and beat him
I am a GOW fan. I love Kratos and have been there for every game. The problem is that Mythological Accurate Wukong should be leaps and bounds above Kratos. Though thats also ignoring Kratos Hope scaling as that becomes weird.
“What type of power does wukong have?”
Yes.
Literally the only best way to describe his abilities
So like imagine every power and that’s what he has
yes he alao has a unique ability to learn others unique powers @DerpyTC
The original king of asspulls
72 of them if I remembered correctly
I don’t see enough people talk about the clouds moving with the characters’ movements and attacks like am I the only one that finds that hard asf?
Its amazing detail
The longer I play, the more amazed I am at the details of the game's physics interactions
I find it distracting in my playthrough
筋斗雲在第六章中，你可以完美駕駛筋斗雲😂
I love this game just for those little details
People rly don’t realize how many anime’s have a character with inspiration from wukong, goku, 3rd hogake and his weapon, Luffy from one piece. So cool we can finally get a game that goes over wukong mythology
How is Luffy inspired by Wukong?
sun wu kong is the pinyin of Chinese. Japanese anime is a copy of Journey to the West. You illiterate, read more books.
@@pxg1773 One piece is literally a "Journey to the west". Also the devil fruits are reminiscent of the celestial peach's that grant immortality.
@@pxg1773his free nature is inspired by wukong
@@pxg1773monkey d luffy the name personality the stretch etc
39:42 “I need a bonfire, dont be a boss fight please, not right now”…. “This humble one’s name is Guangmou” 😂😂😂😂
❤
“What in the anime” my brother in Christ, Wukong’s story inspired the shonen genre.
No literally almost every shonen Mc literally is a one to one of wukong lmao
Ok...
Are you done pounding your chest?
@rSkraff okay tell me how ichigo is one for one copy 😅
@@sin6713 the entire basis and revolving arcs of shonen MCs r based off the premix of wukong
@rSkraff not gonna answer the question when you said almost all shone mc one to one
Note Afro: Wukong in the mythology throws hands with all the gods....just to piss them off
And yet they got beat up so bad they have to call erlang (the one who wukong fight again for the second round) and Buddha himself to defeat wukong
@@jimmytuplano3843 and the goddess wich gave him the circlet
@@jimmytuplano3843Buddha can’t defeat him only seal him, also Buddha never would go that extra mile of killing anyone it’s not it’s nature too.
@@DocterBumSki forgot to add that detail I know it I just forgot to add it since Buddha is very nice god so thank you for helping me add that
@@DocterBumSki
Not native Eng speaker?
The Great Buddha defeated him as he couldn't escape his palm to show how small his power is.
First episode is already 10/10 anime of the year contender
😭 I'm saying shit was cinematic asf
Journey to the west was anime before anime existed
@@thetoyodacar2264 Grandpappy of shounen
Something you might not know, is that Erlang and Wukong are good friends, and sworn brothers too. He threatened to level Wukong's mountain to make the celestial court happy, but in the end, he didn't actually do it.
When Wukong threatened to pluck out Erlang's third eye, he actually means to store his memories in it to be retrieved by his descendents (the player character)
Erlang was the first to rebel against heaven, even before Wukong. He was a demigod, born as Jade Emperor's sister made love to a mortal man. As a punishment, his mother was locked away, his father and sister killed. He holds a grudge against the celestial court even now, and respects Wukong for his rebellion greatly. While each of them is able to create a ruckus, they are unable to overthrow the old order.
People don't know how strong Sun Wukong really is. The guy fought Buddha. He tanks hits from literal gods. He is extremely feared and respected.
The voice is very fitting in English. Wukong has always had that kind of voice and tone.
Fighting Buddha is a bit of an overstatement
Need to be more Arrogance and Mischief
Like, i don't feel the Arrogance enough from his talk to Erlang
@@painvillegaming4119 Though he did survive the force of the entire Universe coming down on him when Buddha palmed him since the entire universe was in Buddha's palm.
Even if you don't want to scale it that high he at least survived an entire mountain crashing down on him.
@@readlater8962 yeah he's 7 times immortal that his thing
Plus buddha is omnipotent in Chinese mythology he knows the significance the monkey king will have throughout history
@@painvillegaming4119not even 7 times. Two of those are from him eating hundreds of immortality granting items. He’s probably thousands of times immortal.
SunWuKong was born in a rock located in the "Mountain of Flowers and Fruits" and was hailed the monkey king after winning a bet, and started enjoying himself. But later after one of his close friends died, he realized that he'll eventually die and not be able to be happy anymore. So he traveled far and learned powers from an immortal, and became extremely powerful (and obtained immortality). And then he searched for a suitable weapon for him. He found one in the East Water Dragon King's temple, and took it after winning another bet. The weapon weighted around 8000kg and can grow and shrink at will. The Water Dragon snitched on SunWuKong and the Jade Emperor tried various ways to pacify SunWuKong. But it failed and he attacked the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits. SunWuKong was captured by YangZian (The three eyed guy with the dog), and was put into a crucifix to be molten into an elixir. But SunWuKong survived and ended up destroying heaven and almost killed everyone. So Buddha was forced to come and trapped SunWuKong under a magical mountain, he was trapped there for 500 years before a monk came. The monk was the protagonist of "The Journey to the West" and was the person who went on this journey. SunWuKong tricked the monk into freeing him and became the monks apprentice. But the monkey was mischievous, and ran off after being unhappy with his new master. After he ran off, another immortal came and gifted the monk a magical golden headband, and gave instructions on how to use it. The monk tricked SunWuKong into putting on the headband, which caused immense pain when a certain magical poem was read. After that SunWuKong obeyed his master and protected him with two other apprentices, a humanoid pig and a blue-skinned-read-haired-humanoid. After they made the journey after 9 long years, SunWuKong was made a Buddha. But SunWuKong found the rules of being a Buddha cumbersome, so he returned to his birthplace to live in peace. And that is where the game begins. (Note: The Monk wasn't a bad guy for forcing SunWuKong to obey him, what I explained has highly oversimplified. Also, The last two sentences about SunWuKong returning to his mountain is made up, not originally in the story. Although it is highly believable.)
Please liek this took me 30 minutes.
Hot diddly-dog that's a lot of likes, most support I ever gotten.
dont forget that monkey king has gaind immortality......seven times.......he is not killible as why you dont take damage as you play wukong in the begining off the game
The Changing Pole weapon is actually a giant pillar that held the sea in place.
My mans Wukong just took the pillar, causing the entire sea and undersea palace to go into disarray lmao
Sun Wukong was named after his master, Patriarch Bodhi
Mountain of flowers and fruit is "Hoa quả sơn"😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks, love this information
“Give me a health bar, I’m ready for the difficulty”. Famous last words😂
😂😂😂
bro jinx
He’s in for a ride
"we don't even need a nimbus we raw dawgin" lmfao yeah that part was crazy😂9:44
I doubt anyone will see this but homeboy in the beginning is "Erlang Shen" aka the other baddest mfer to walk the planet other than Wukong himself.
He is the Jade Emperor's (Zeus equivalent in the Chinese pantheon) go-to headknocker.
Bit more extra context, before Wukong's Journey to the West, that man legitimately wanted ALL the smoke from everybody and WON until the supreme Buddha (creator of the universe more or less) intervened and humbled him along with the Goddess of Mercy who put the famous circlet on him. In short, Wukong was HIM
That's sick! keep spreading the info💯
I wanna know more now thx
Hell yea man! I was wondering if anybody else was aware of who that was supposed to be. I tried to look it up to back my assumption but couldn’t find anybody else talking about it (obviously because most people would be completely unaware). But now that I see you say this I know we are both right that is absolutely Elang Sheng (or Erlang Shen? Not sure how it’s spelled)
Nah Erlang Shen was more like Ares than Zeus
I know the general story of Sun Wukong from things such as fate, god of high school, and other things so I was so excited getting a game like this, playing as our great sage equal to heaven. Though it’s interesting that it’s after the journey. I love how cultural the game is, every enemy gets a poem and a folk tale, even the mobs get one, I love this game so far and the fact I’m learning more about the journey. Jinchi is a part of the original journey right?
Afro, it should be pointed out that the prologue featured the OG Sun Wukong. The reason you didn't receive damage is because he's basically invulnerable and immortal. I highly recommend listening to the "Journey to the West" audible, it really is a great listen and won't spoil the story as the events of Black Myth Wukong happen after the story (recall how Wukong reflected that the master was safe and the scriptures are secured).
Have you got a link? I'd love to listen to it
The fifth monkey on youtube has a free version that is (imo) better than the audible version.
Or watch some Journey to the West retelling on youtube
Now yk Afro ain’t reading shit 😂
This should be pinned
Watching afro pass all the items, story points and bosses never gets old. My guy skipped an entire left side of the forest and went straight to the bobble head fight hilarious
i just said the same thing
Bro, it's hilarious. 😅😂🤣
Yup... And even with the transformation the big head boss took me ages...
@@jwg0814how? It only took me 2 tries without a transformation. I thought it was going to struggle more since i watched Afros pov first 😂
@adelaidatorres9717 Dang... Only 2 ?? Its the first time I play a souls like game, eventho its not totally a souls, but even if it wasnt my first time, I dont see myself beating it in just 2 tries hahaha you too good xD
1:50 oh we negotiating
Oh we NOT negotiating
Lol
So the guy fighting wukong in the beginning is who tien is inspire by in dragonball. He has similar power set to wukong and is one of the few people that can best wukong. The head piece that was giving wukong a headache in the cutscene is used by his master in journey to the west to control wukong darker tendencies. Anyone that can recite the mantra for it can give wukong a headache, immobilizing him. Just a little info dump for anyone that wants to read this
This also has me wonder who was reciting the mantra and why did it work since he had become Budha
Maaaaan as soon as I seen the three eyes, I just knew
Also im sure that krillins character was inspired by the monk that wukong went on a journey with
and naruto lmaooo shar rinnagan like 6 paths
He reminds me of Erlang Shen
immediately started laughing when he was talking about not being able to increase the difficulty, that giant baby was rolling me too lmao
yeah.. harder than the proclaimed Yaoguai King Lingxuzi
@@mraneo1484 way harder lol, took him out in like 2 tries but that baby had me thinking he was a boss I wasn’t meant to be fighting yet 😂
@@k1ngtobi ik that hw was fighting it and got his ass clapped soo many times
When I realised that the baby didnt even attack you if you just let it be I skipped it, took it down later when I got stuck on the tiger for a while instead
@@FaweEr420 you saved yourself a lot of time, only having the starter kit is what made the baby so difficult, we were all just starting the game as well
4 YEARS!! I USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THIS!!!!!!
Seriously, remember watching those early teaser and thinking this will never be released lol 😂
In the story (journey to the west) the staff is a pillar that can change in size and he is the only one strong enough to pick it up. He shrinks it and puts it behind his ear
From the palace of the dragon emperor right?
@@fabianbiere5653Yes. The dragon of the eastern sea.
other note, the staff was originally a measuring tool to measure the depths of the sea and height of the heavens. its just Sun Wukong saw it as a perfect weapons so he used it as such.
yes, the real name of Wukong's staff means something like "The Sacraed Needle for Pacifying Oceans"
in addition, the stupid dog has a name, which should mean "Heaven Howling Canis/Dog"
His clould mount's name is "Somersault Cloud".
All of these has a story behind in the original Journey to the West novel.
@@fabianbiere5653 The Eastern Sea Dragon King, yes. Then he kinda badger the Eastern Sea Dragon for more stuff, until the Dragon called his fellow Dragon Kings from the other cardinal directions and they gave him his armor, greaves and his signature Pheonix Tail headdress to appease him and get him out of his palace. The Wukong we saw at the beginning is him in full gear.
I can already feel the Elden Ring rage already😂
😂😂☠️
He might not rage that hard most reviews say the game isn’t that hard
25% ER Rage fr, game isn’t that hard.
Shadow of the Erdtree sucks. This is a lot better than that nostalgia cashgrab
@@juanrodriguez26ragebait used to be believable
"All this because of a headache?" Bro that's like half the story of Journey To The West right there. 🤣
Bro show some respect to migraine. I wanna kill myself when I have it.
Can you explain pls.
@@ImTheMangaReaderafter Wukong DESTROYED the whole chinese pantheon and was sealed by the Omnipotent Buddha himself on a mountain, he was freed by a monk but something was put on his head, with a chant from the monk that thing would cause an intense headache on Wukong as a way to keep him from going overboard or something worse
Or that's what i remember
@randomdeinternet3582 is that the crown that show on early of the game?
@@Benerkankatagw1188 yeah, i think
G, I love the enthusiasm you have for Kratos but my dude Wukong in the myths gained like 7 layers of immortality, fought against all the gods in heaven and won against most if not all of them, was brought to the underworld and removed his name from the book of death. Bro wore black air forces before black air forces were even a thing. My dude wanted the smoke and made all of heavens into his cigarette pack.
I think its 72 layers
@@mpogaming2728 that's the 72 earthly transformation, they are not extra lives and are more like 72 divine abilities.
Some background on Sun Wukong:
He was a monkey who ate from the tree of immortality and obtained godly strength. For awhile he teamed with the other deities in their court and they effectively made Sun Wukong a secret weapon against various demonic threats. Sun Wukong shares Goku's lust for battle so when there wasn't a lot of demonic entities left he kinda just said "Fuck it" and decided to duke it out with the deities. I'm fairly certain that after this point he teams up with a Monk who helps Sun Wukong out and they travel to the West. Also pretty sure that along the way, Sun Wukong get's like.... eight different kinds of immortality so... yeah.
Also, fun fact: Sun Wukong's pole is just a pillar from a Dragon's house that he shrank down into a staff. The Dragon wasn't very happy with him but... not like the Dragon could really do anything against Sun.
You forgot yo mention that pole had no real purpose other than to measure the high of the sea or a river. It was literally just a measuring stick in the dragon's eyes but Wukong saw the perfect weapon.
Why they want him back?
You did miss the part where Buddha imprisons him in a mountain for 1000 years for his shenanigans. The monk he “teams up with” is Sanzhang and he didn’t exactly team up with him. He was tasked to escort Sanzhang on a pilgrimage to the west beginning his “Journey to The West”. He was forced to wear a golden headband that Sanzhang can shrink with a chant causing him great pain in order to control him. The headband appears on his head at the end of the opening boss fight.
You missed the fact that he got sealed by buddha into a mountain after challenging the heavens. And he himself was the one that sent wukong and the monk in the journey
Someone explain please,
Wukong got Sealed after tear apart Heaven right?
After that he got released by the monk, and Buddha Task Him to Escort the Monk to the West
And is after that he Back to the Mountain, and this Story (the game) begin?
Is he Got Sealed again after lose to Erlang in the Opening? Or something similiar?
And the MC of the Wukong Game is not Wukong himself but Another Monkey? 🤔
Is his task to release the true Wukong or what?
Please explain me....
15:16 The scene where he transforms into a peach is a nod to a moment from the original story. Sun Wukong was once invited to the heavenly realm to guard the celestial peach garden. But seeing so much fruit, the Monkey King couldn’t resist indulging himself. After eating his fill, he transformed into a peach on the tree and fell asleep. He revealed himself when a heavenly maiden came to pick the peaches and unknowingly picked him.
Afro: Kratos Vs Sun Wuko-
Me: Don't even finish that sentence
I know right, no amount of prep time can make Kratos stand toe to toe with the Monkey King.
What has wukong done to show that he's a threat to Kratos, the Destroyer of multiple Universes and their God's? Kratos has Wukong in strength, speed, and I'd suggest even skill.
@@Twitchy-l1u nah bro kratos is toast
@@Twitchy-l1u he beats the dude with hacks cause this brother has ALL THE HACKS IN THE WORLD
@@Twitchy-l1ubrother as much as I love Kratos I know damn well he's not standing a chance against sun wukong
You are playing as the clone of wukong. A strand of hair that survived. This story is closer to a more brutal story of wukong rather the journey of the west story. Its more catered to a brutal form of gods who treated wukong like shit, and his people. This is after he has lost to buddah, went through enlighten after eating all the peaches and making him self 5 times immortal. Then he has 72 variations so you have to kill this guy 72 different times lol. He toys with his enemies and sings of confidence. Dragon Ball Z's Goku was inspired by the Wukong character. Wukong loves to fight, become stronger and help his friends and kind.
This is the future Afro the monkey king has been sealed and his kin is on a quest to unleash him
He'll figure it out...eventually.
My....god.....lmao
Hello people! Here to give some context on the beguinong of the game for whoever feels a bit lost, including Afro. This game is supposed to be after journey to the west, we don't play as Wukong, but a random monkey that is destined to bring Sun Wukong back, that's why we start like fodder after fighting Erlang (the other most powerfull warrior on the whole universe besides Wukong) If anyone wants to know more about the monkey king, please, feel free to ask.
And to answer the question about Kratos vs Wukong, yeah, Wukong would fold Kratos like and omelette so hard it wouldn't even be funny
Thanks for clearing up cuz I was lowkey confused along with Afro😭
Where can I read or watch the story
@@mauricejackson4253 For that you are searching for the novel "Journey to the west". Is an old novel from the XVI century so if you are not into reading long novels you better search for a resume or something on YT.
Nontheless, the novel is great.
when he got his headache how did that happen and why
@@mauricejackson4253 Overly Sarcastic Productions has a video series recaping the story. Its currently not finished because Journey to the West is long as fuck, but its a good watch.
This game has adaptive difficulty. Some bosses have a second phase, but they won't trigger unless you're really good and beat their first phase really quickly. Otherwise they'll just die normally. Really interesting way of handling difficulty.
Is there a way to turn that off?
@@strawhatcat23no.
Ew
which boss has this? i haven’t seen a phase 2 except from the whiteclad noble in chapter 1 and i’ve currently beaten every boss + secret boss in chapter 1 and 2
Is this for real ?
Even an Elden Ring pro struggles with that big head boss lmao
Just so you know the character we play as is not son wukong but the “destined one” an original character tasked with gathering the relics of wukong to try and release him from his rock.
I was waiting to see if he realized that lmao
Afro’s brain just doesn’t work
@@Packnheetlmao like he doesn’t pay attention at all
most of the streamers don't realize it even if it can't be more obvious, we literally see him getting defeated, and old monkey talks that his remains are in rock and many years has passed
@@redragon9588 tbf that monke looks, like, the EXACT same, even i was confused i thought wukong just sorta woke the f up given the guys got i think 8 forms of immortality
Sun Wukong is both a trickster, and an immortal being on the level of gods who once defeated all the armies of heaven. That voice is indeed very fitting.
I think all the people who know Journey to the West know that voice is pretty damn good in both languages. All the English speakers were expecting Goku or something.
@@thorinhannahs4614 I was just expecting either deep voice or no voice at all so I was like wtf at first.
@sethwho7167 Why a deep voice? He is a monkey trickster.
@@thorinhannahs4614its better in mandarin but i am playing it in english, he just sounds more evil in english when hes not really evil
Hardest wukong action is when he erased his name from the book of life and the book of death. GOAT
I don't know him getting cooked in a celestial alchemy furnace for 49 days, and instead of death, he came out with true sight is probably top 3 for me. A very frustrating monkey indeed.
23:45 wukong can change his hair into an exact copy of kratos, with all his abilities, he has 86k hair with each of them able to change into more copy of kratos to fight kratos. Kratos is not winning this one
Sun Wukong is a permanent black air force council member. Dude is literally the Fighting Buddha. Thats what he does, he runs hands
Word for word 🔥
He is THE overpowered character. Probably the first of them all.
@@Tyler_18_ and he done things to get his powers insted of them just pop appears out of nowere.
@@Tyler_18_technically Erlang Shen (first dude Wukong fights) comes before Wukong and is also an overpowered character
Bro might be the original Black Air Force council founder
To those who are out of the loop, we're playing as a "random" monkey who will "revive" or awake the OG Monkey King Sun Wukong.
From what I know this game takes place after the Journey of the West wherein Sun Wukong became buddha which is why there's no hp bar since he technically have multiple layers of immortality after his quest.
yea i dont understand how ppl can think this could be the past, when you can clearly see the mountain get covered with growing wildlife during the seasonal skips. and the old monkey clearly says the rock has been there ever since he was born. so its clear this happens a couple decades after wukong has been `defeated` .
thx for the spoiler
@@shadowingmirror4634how is this a spoiler? He’s telling you everything the game told you at the start, did you not pay attention once?
@@shadowingmirror4634you didn’t have to read it, but you are too dense I guess
@@shadowingmirror4634it’s not a spoiler but ok
The first boss is Erlang Shen, one of the god in heaven. He also has 72 transformation as Wukong. So, Wukong has 2 rivals that can match him are Natra and Erlang Shen👀
Also he doesnt have health bar cuz he erased his name in the book of life and death when he’s mess around in the hell. That's why Wukong cant die.
Hope it helped to clear the first intro !
Updated : The king of hell reported to Jade emperor that he messed around the hell. Then he go to the heaven stealing some fairy peaches, drink some miracle wine, and take elixirs before goddess party begin. 😂
He has like 8 different sources of Immortality too. Its not just him erasing his name in the book. He also ate an entire garden of peaches where every single peach could grant immortality.
They took a god slaying axe to his neck and the axe broke.
@@shadowdragon73473* Elixir of immortality, are a peach that gave him immortality, and erasing his name from the book of death.
Its actually 72 abilities and transformation is one of them. He can transform into literally anything
Funny enough, saying Erlang has 72 transformations would put him on par with Wukong, the thing is, canon lore has it that Erlang has 73, just one more than wukong, thus beating him
I legit want Black Myth Erlang and Black Myth Nezha after this.
Hell yeah, bro. Your war with the Wight was awesome. This was the first game I’d played in about 10 years and the first game of its kind I’d ever tried… got a ps5 just to play it, and beat the Wight in about 12 tries. Felt AMAZING
23:51 Wukong and it ain't even close like it's insane how fast and easily kratos would die
Fax lol the kratos hype gotta die at some point 🤷🏾♂️
💯.
There is no immortality for Kratos. He will die if he is killed while Our boi Wukong just can't die even with his immortality removed because of how many layers he have.
@MarcSilva-xp7xm 是的
@@free_spirit2100 Ik
Wukong is arguably the strongest fictional character there is. This dude got multiple layers of immortality and every single one of his hair can turn in a clone just as powerful as the original and those clones can make more clones. This just the base, he got even more power so, as much as I love Kratos, he is not winning against Wukong.
While he is OP, 'Strongest in fiction' is excessive wank. Several layers of immortality is impressive, yeah. But several of those immortalities are just longevity, and they also, as this game shows, doesn't stop him from getting defeated. (Not to mention that there are plenty of enemies in the book that he needed help to defeat). Aside from that and the clones(both of which other fictional characters have similar abilities to, none of his tricks are really all that special if compared against all of fiction. Like, there are fictional,characters capable of destroying universes with a thought, which Wukong really wouldn't have an answer to. You could say he is the strongest in Journey to the West, and you would have a reasonable stancfe.
Its also worth noting that every trick Wukong has is LEARNED, not innate to him. Meaning that, aside from the immortality, theoretically any character in his own book could learn his tricks, and there are several examples of characters actually doing so.
Man, I was thinking the same thing. But, people don't realize the influence wukong has had on everything. Movies, anime, etc. But, Kratos is a different kind of beast. If they fought three times? I would say Kratos comes out top. The reason is, Wukong was arrogant and made a lot of mistakes. Kratos anger and rage is what would propel him to beat him. Who knows though, but that's my opinion.
@@jonathangoodwin5609 counterpoint, if wukong fought some insane being he would probably be able to learn its powers. He isn't the strongest in journey to the west (supreme buddha still has him beat) but i think he is kind of like goku, as in he can become infinitely powerful.
While wukong is powerfull, he's far from the strongest in the story let's alone in fiction
This game is legit. Stellar blade, shadow of the erd tree, and now this. We are winning
Only the other two not mid blade
We are eating good fr fr
@@pwsjsks you didn't like stellar blade? I thought it was good compared to the bull we've been getting
@@pwsjsks skill issue
@@seriusblack6870I thought stellar blade was just soft core p@rn?
I like that you didnt cut out the Ls. Its good to show this. Most cutout that portion to make it look like one easy game lol. GL bro
When wukong dies he’s reborn into an incarnation, the cost is him losing his memories, this is one of the 7 immortal traits of wukong.
8:19 My mans went full Saiyan for a sec🤣 my lord that sequence was dope
By the way Afro, after the tutorial it does take place in the future because the mountain is still in the same destroyed state that wukongs brother left it in.
Dude I just clicked to see why everyone is playing, now I cant stop watching
Ok so back when the game was announced I took it upon myself to read the novel, couldn't read the whole thing as it got weird and I lost interest but I guess I got though the prologue just before the "Journey to the west" began. Here's what I remember:
There's this nice mountain, and in that mountain there's a rock, that rock gets showered by cosmic energy and eventually after a many many years, something happens and the monkey is born from the rock, as he is born the whole world takes notice that something happened. Years go by and the monkey is living in the mountain with his other monkey having fun and stuff until he eventually gets bored (maybe he fears death and goes seek imortality) and then he goes on an adventure.
He travels a bit and eventually reaches a temple with a bigshot monk in it. The monk gives him a riddle and the monkey solves it, and the monk decides to give him a Buddhist name. He first thinks of Sun MuWon, but that has some negative meaning and then he finally lands on Sun WuKong which means monkey awakened to emptiness. He stays there some more, learns cool stuff, like a bunch of transformations and a nice summersault and then leaves. (forgot if he got some form of immortality from this).
On his way back he stops by some kind of king's temple, berates the king and steals the king's cool item including the power pole (it has something nice inscribed in it but I forgotwhat). He also erases his friends' names from the records of death so they're all immortal now I guess. Eventually he gets back to him original mountain, and he gets the name handsome monkey and monkey king (or maybe that was before his trip). Anyways, the gods get annoyed at him for being arrogant and want to teach him a lesson so they come down to beat him up. Turns out WuKong is hella tough and gives them a run for their money. They keep sending ops, but no one is strong enough for our boy. Until the, Jade Emperor, who is the big shot god in this pantheon, think Odin, Zeus, Amon Ra, summons the man the myth the legend Erlang (this is the guy that was fighting WuKong at the beginning in the video). This guy is described the be insanely handsome.
They battle it out, both take on a bunch of forms in between, including birds at some point (like in the video) but it either ends up in a stalemate or Erlang wins. Stuff happens, and they reach a deal where all the gods agree to send WuKong to heaven, but give him a fake title that has 0 responsabilities. It takes a while for him to realize this and when he does he gets mad and demands to be given the title "Great Sage Equaling Heaven", which is very arrogant. Stuff happens they give him the title and he is put in charge of a garden. The heavens are about to hold a big banquet, WuKong is bored and he eats some fruit from the garden that he was supposed to take care of, which he definitely shouldn't have done. He pulls up to the banquet and he drinks the fancies wine, gets drunks, which he definitely shouldn't have done, and then he eats one more thing and gets high, which he definitely shouldn't have done.
Turns out, all 3 of those things give immortality and he now has, like 3 or 4 layers of immortality. The heavens are absolutely fucking livid at him and they send a bunch more gods to fight. Eating all 3 things made him into a super saiyan basically so he was unstoppable, no matter who came at him, WuKong beat their ass.
It wasn't until Buddha himself, the omnipotent one above all, the presence, zeno-sama, the creator, the writer of the novel himself pulled up and told him if he could leave his hand, WuKong would be free to go otherwise he'd surrender. Wukong was like bet, did an insane summersault, travelled to the edge of the universe in seconds, took a piss at the corner, wrote something down and then summersaulted back. He thought he passed the test, but turns out he was in Buddha's hand all along, (this scene gets referenced in other media so it's good to know the origin). So he gave up, got sealed somewhere on earth, and had the tiara thing that tightens a lot causing immense pain on his head at some point.
This is bout where I stopped reading, but after this the novel starts going bouncing from character to character, reciting poems and becomes a bit hard to follow. But it picks up again when a certain monk is tasked by a Boddhisatva to take very very ultra important scrolls somewhere west, and forces WuKong to accompany this new monk as a way to atone. He is joined by Sandy, and Pig something (the one Wukong referrences at the begging) who the Boddhisatva met when he laid the groundwork for the scripture to be transferred. And so began the Journey to the West.
Thanks for reading all this, you probably could've read a summary online, but thanks anyways
here are some errors i found and clarifications that might help you understand better:
1 - At the beginning of the story, Sun and his fellow monkeys saw a stream and decided to follow it and see where it led to. They soon find out it leads to a huge waterfall. The monkeys decide that whoever goes into the waterfall and comes out alive will be honored as a king. Of course, Wukong goes in and out alive so they make him their majesty and call him their Handsome Monkey King. There was a giant room with a throne behind the waterfall (idk how to say it in English). Wukong and the monkeys decide to live there and they did for a while. One day, an elder monkey dies from old age and that triggers Wukong mid-life crisis (death battle joke). Wukong started to fear death so he decided to leave the palace to seek immortality and that's when he starts his first adventure.
2 - He actually meets 2 monks with the 2nd one teaching him his 72 tricks. Transformation, summersault cloud and pluck of many being some of them. He leaves one of the monks because of a misunderstanding and the other one because his master doesn't see any reason for him to stay since he taught him everything. He hasn't reached immortality yet.
3 - A powerful being needs a powerful weapon, so he seeks to the Dragon's Palace in search for a good weapon. None of the weapons the Dragon King provided was useful to him so he wanders around and finds a gigantic pole that can change size at will. In the King's eye, it was just a useless pole he used to measure the depht of the sea, but it was the perfect weapon for Sun Wukong.
4 - He only erases HIS name in the book of death so he literally cannot die.
5 - When the gods and goddesses gave Wukong a job in the heavens, he was a stableboy aka the last rank in heaven. Basically his job was to take care of horses and horse shit. Of course, he gets mad and wants to have a proper job. The Jade Emperor finally decides to make him the Guard of the Immortal Peaches.
6 - At the banquet, while being drunk, he also gets into one of the god's palace (I forgot who) and empties like 5 gourds each with thousands of immortality pills. So he's basically OVER 9000!! in immortality.
7 - The Buddha reached nirvana so the entire universe was in his palm. That's why Wukong couldn't get out of his hand. (btw that also means he pissed on the buddha's finger and wrote on one of his fingers aswell). So because he lost the bet, Bouddha locked him under a mountain in timeout for 500 years. After 500 years (don't forget he's immortal so he didn't die) he's tasked to escort a monk to the west Tangsanzhang thus beginning his pilgrimage to the West.
bonus fact: in the tv series (and the story), there was a kid who would feed wukong while he was locked in the mountain and once he got out, he met an old man who was once that kid who fed wukong all these years ago (ofc he wasn't 500 yrs old). So this was another reference to Wukong's immortality.
8 - Pigsy and Sandy were actually monsters/obstacles on Wukong's path, but his master Tangsanzhang decided to recruit them. Pigsy was once a god but got caught acting sus towards other goddesses while drunk and Sandy was a guard that killed anyone who dared step foot on a bridge.
bonus fact: Pigsy's name in Chinese literally means 8 forbidden things. So after being punished and reincarnated into a pig, he couldn't do 8 things (like drinking and other stuff).
Hope this helped!
你可以看看电视剧的😂
Aint read all that
The reason why Sun Wukong is confident is because he was able to beat the Divine Army no problem the first time they attacked him. When they attacked him a second time, that’s the three-eyed god(who Tien from Dragon Ball is inspired from) who is the Jade Emperor’s nephew, joined in along with his squad and dog. Sun Wukong would beaten the nephew as well, but TLDR, the nephew was just barely able to subdue the Monkey King with help due to luck.
That and Guanyin + Buddha’s headband
Erlang is on par with Sun Wukong in terms of power. Both of them mastered the 72 transformations and have achieved several legendary feats, that is why Guanyin recommended the Jade Emperor to send Erlang Shen to subdue Wukong in the novel "Journey to the West".
Missed a boss that gives you a transformation ability. Go left of the area you fought the baby boss.
THIS
I HIGHLY recommend playing this game in it's original Chinese, the tonal and vocal performances are wonderful!!
This game is sooooooo freaking awesome! I haven’t been excited and addicted to play a game since Elden Ring. I don’t fully know the original story but the story is great so far and I can’t put it down. This game is a breath of fresh air!
Really waited 4 years for this game and I couldn't have been more impressed. Amazing game man 😭😭
Adding some context to Wukong vs Kratos. You remember that part in Ragnarök during the fight with Thor where you get a fake game over? Wukong would've ate that hit 10x over and still take him on no difficulty. Wukong has 7 variations of immortality to the point where fighting him is flat out impossible. The only reason why Erlang Shen was able to best him was because of the circlet on his head that gives him an ear splitting headache when a chant is performed, one of the very few ways the gods in Chinese mythos can take on Sun Wukong without burying him in a mountain.
the directors of ragnarok already confirmed that the fake game over was just a one thing they wanted to do and that kratos wasn't killed nor knocked out by it. Which is proved as kratos is tanking full power thor in the 2nd fight and overpowering him without himself going full power. Old kratos has been confirmed by Cory barlog to be stronger than his younger self and We've never seen old kratos go full power against anyone. Kratos is possibly the strongest god in all mythos and wukong prolly the closest to him as Kratos destroyed a whole mythology which is Greece and proceeded to destroy Norse's strongest god without even needing to go full power. Plus the director also told that during baldur vs kratos first fight. He wanted a mountain to be thrown at kratos but it was not technically possible at that time but now with ps5 maybe in the next game we can see kratos get bigger fights
@@zarnubareacts2841Wukong still slams
@@zarnubareacts2841huge cope, he died lol. I don’t think you’re quoting them right
@@RokuDB Not even close Kratos killed ALL Greek Gods in the same day LMAO
Kratos slaps wukong...didnt you just see him die in the beginning lol. Kratos fought and killed all Greek Gods in the same day LOL. then goes to another timeline and killed their gods stop it. Kratos slams wukong
Well, for context you are basically the villian in the journey to the west wukong is a absolute menace, he fought whatever and whenever he wanted he was asked to guard the peaches of immortality and was caught eating from them erased his name from the book of death, and drunk from the immortal wine, which is why he laughs when Erlang brings up immortality
People don't know this but his staff was literally one of the pillars which held up heaven. Bro just took it cuz he was strong enough.
“He is challenging Gods!”
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In lore, Wukong bested the entire army of Heaven and its Generals in combat and they had to get Erlang to come and beat him to which he couldn’t but had him on the ropes before Heaven intervened. This Wukong has already become a Budha and has made his journey…He has beaten Gods and demons feared by Gods and is stronger than he has ever been. As for the start of the video Afro! I am reading the novel and I recommend it!
Which version are u reading. Been wanting to read it but there's so many different ones
What's the name of it?
@@VSM101 but this is Erlang in the clip not his father. Or am I wrong? Because in the novel he never fought his father from my understanding during his journey with the tang monk and his father wasn’t one of the Generals who he bested in the original army or was he?
@@bryzantine1571 Bro,I'm Chinese.This game story is not same as the old novel.But I knew some video that explain the story in Bilibili. IF you have intrests,contact me.
@@VSM101I'm pretty sure you're talking about Third Lotus Prince,Nezha's dad not Erlang's.Erlang's dad is a human who married a goddess.
Afro getting mad about people saying monkey every 15 minutes in the game.
Afro every 5 minutes: Monkey
Freeza would be proud of you
i dont remember how i found out about wukong, but the fact he's been so unknown even tho is he every single shonen anime is crazy. so glad he's finally in a widely known area, and with one my ne favorite games ever
37:44 😂 “What else” was crazy timing, didn’t even know he had a grab
Black myth wukong is finally here!
13:51 the old monkey just got done rambling about how Sun Wukong got his ass kicked, his body is in a rock, and he scattered pieces of himself around to hide. How did you hear that and still think this is the past?
Ngl idk if Afro knows that he’s not actually playing as Sun Wo Kong I genuinely think everything from that cutscene just went in one ear and out the other 😂
@johnathonparnell9026 I'm watching and that's the most frustrating part. Dude was NOT paying attention at all 😂
@@johnathonparnell9026I think we play as a clone of Wukong. When we die we turn into a hair and reform from it at the shrines. Wukong’s clones are created from him plucking a hair and creating a clone from it.
@@johnathonparnell9026 Me: listening, not even watching, and wondering why he's confused by the fact his character doesn't speak. The old monkey literally told him he's seeking out the relics that could revive Wukong lol.
@@trumps_toupee nah I was blowed when time was fast forwarding and the narrator was explaining that time was moving forward and the first thing Afro said is “ Is this the past ? “
Easiest way to beat the Wandering Wight is to get him to not face you, sneak up on him and execute 3 back-to-back light combos. He falls, regen stamina, hit 2 light combos, hit a power hit, knocking him down. Regen to half stamina, hit 1 light combo and a power hit, then finish it off with an immobilize, and combo/power hit the last bit of his health.
It only took me like 20 times to win finally LOL
You should return to where the big headed dude was, there is another boss there which gives you shapeshift into a wolfman :D
1:20 I don't think he understands how powerful the Monkey king really is 😅
We will let wu Kong show him for himself 😌
Bro literally has 7 layers of immortality
Seeing afro struggle against wandering wight is hilarious. This baby monk boss was made tougher intentionally. Whipped my ass a good amount of times before I got him lol 😂
28:29 That strike having it's own lighting effect by the face is incredible.
So the Promised Crashout begins his Journey to the West: this is gonna be good
I’m glad to see it does have some difficulty, seeing you going against the wandering wight made my night 😂
You missed a secret boss that drops a new move for you. And pro tip when you freeze enemies try to catch them when they are falling down from a stagger. When the freeze breaks they still have to fall down and get back up. Ez licks... good luck monke.
where is this boss
@@oOoExcellence in the area where you fight the wight, you want to go up the hill to the left of where it's wandering, there's a bridge with an arrow grunt on it, once you find him the gate for the secret boss is not far.
@@Crazyfayze just found him. thank you so much!!!!
Bro, I watched this intro couple times but your reaction gives me goosebumps for the first time
in lore, wukong is him. basically does what he wants and bodies anyone that doesnt let him. if he cant body them he finesses them. if he cant do either, he plays jokes on them and leaves. and as he goes, he just goes up. the only thing that messes him up is his pride. but it always ends up working out for him in the end. dude is untamable.
I think everyone had a similar experience with the giant baby
@notrlygrim7268 I beat him in like my third try. His moves are very easy to dodge and the timing window for perfect dodge is really forgiving.
So many references in that beginning fight . And how the game gives you a glimpse of wukong at his strongest is very similar to god of war 2 when we start off as the god of war and Kratos then loses all his powers
When he talked about Zhu, I literally pointed at the screen mouth open
Yeah!!! I'm pretty sure the eye-gouging part is a reference too
As an adult who’ve been a fan of “Journey to the West” and SonWuKong since childhood, this game is a godsend
“Black myth wukong is a bad game” if this happens, these series would be fire guaranteed!
Wukong's stick is called Dinghai God Needle, which is a huge pillar object in the Dragon Palace under the sea, which is used to stabilize the whole ocean.
"HE'S CHALLENGING GODS?!?!"
It wouldn't be the first time, honey. Wukong has no chill 🤣
Yeah, that's kinda his thing 😅
as a fan of all things jttw, its halarious to watch someone play black myth wukong who only knows what he knows about wukong from a google search like hour prior to playing, peak content
Afro really had 11 sparks at the end of the video, spend them! You’ll regret it later if you don’t. Also, explore everywhere and double back later. If you don’t you’ll miss out on some valuable abilities
Bro is gonna have Rahdan flashbacks the moment he gets stuck on any boss
I had some problems on that mini boss too, strangely enough it was harder than all the others and even the final boss (at least on that level, I just finished the first chapter in the woods). You should go back, you left one of the most useful powers behind, if you go right from the area of the mini boss you should find another zone with a bell and a guardian there
THIS!!!
第一章有個隱藏Boss在瀑布裡面，Boss是條龍，鑰匙在第二章的千佛墻後面，用大頭打碎，鑰匙是一片龍鱗😂
@@Ali瑤海 I’m sorry but I don’t understand anything apart from “Boss” and 😂
@@thelukygamer17 There is a hidden boss in the first chapter, the boss is a dragon, inside the waterfall, you need to take a key in the second chapter 🔑, the key is behind the Thousand Buddha wall in the second chapter, it is a dragon scale, with a big head impact to break the Thousand Buddha wall, enter to get the key (dragon scale)😂
@@Ali瑤海 got it
Uh uh uh uh uh today not tomorrow 😂 11:58
The funny thing is, the invincible fighting Buddha a.k.a. the protagonist is multiple times immortal even after being hit with the furnace of immortality removal that’s not the official title. I just couldn’t think of the right term.
Wukong is not the protagonist of the game.
@@jonathangoodwin5609 but he is?
@@dembi2770 it's is wukong descendent
@@hunterroses8921 are we sure? I thought it was wukongs reincarnation.
@@dembi2770Nah he’s not. We play as a different monkey.
8:22 Afro: *dies of sauce* 😵
“Wow you are really strong Deku” had me dead 💀 32:45😂😂😂🤣
This dude’s commentary just elevated that intro fight by 200% 😂
28:05 he does a fourth 😂😂
And .. the kamehameha 🤣
And a kamahamaha🗣️🔥🔥
"He's challenging gods!?"
Yea man. Wukong was really like that.
11:35 if you ever watched God of High school anime that should make your brain think of something. Remember in the anime when Mori Jin had the same crown and his head started hurting when he kept using its power, SAME REFERENCE in the game when he held on to his head falling from the sky.
Dragon ball has an episode where Goku has given by Mr popo that crown it looks exactly the same, and that crown summons the thunder, it was part of Goku training
Bro he is inpired by wokong to
Wukong is actually the second most powerful divinity from his mythology. He is prob the most powerful non omnipotent being in among all the mythologies
I don’t think Afro realises he’s not playing as wukong 😭
7 hours in, almost through chapter 2 I love this game. So so good
They tell stories in various ways, and those carefully crafted animations are even more interesting than beautiful graphics.
The original Wukong is sealed within the rock, The One you play as came after and was given the task of bringing wukong back with the relics. Based on the elders story
bro this is the best commentator to his own video, i had to keeep killing those npc till i hit 22.. this boss was so fkn hard.. i lost my shiit.. went to casino > lost > came back.. and beat him
I am a GOW fan. I love Kratos and have been there for every game. The problem is that Mythological Accurate Wukong should be leaps and bounds above Kratos. Though thats also ignoring Kratos Hope scaling as that becomes weird.
@blackfox7309 I don't think his hope scaling would matter especially if we include Wukong achieving nirvana
Kratos has literally zero ways to get around Wukong’s MULTIPLE layers of immortality.
Wukong takes it
True, but that doesn't guarantee that Wukong can beat Kratos. He CAN, but the immortality isn't the deciding factor.
@@jonathangoodwin5609 wukong wipes the floor with Kratos wym
@@jonathangoodwin5609Wukong can hold up the weight of 2 heavens while running at the speed of light, Kratos fans gotta chill
Kratos dies in seconds @@jonathangoodwin5609
@@nandog2597but have you considered the fact kratos might say “nah, I’d win” ?
So hyped for this series 🙏🙏🙏
Seeing him struggle with wandering wight was so cathartic, shit took me longer than anything through to the end of act 2
The tutorial fight... You can hear it in his voice. The fun the exitement. This is how games were ment to be made.