Awesome analysis on Wukong! Super fair! Loved how you explained Game Science's consideration to use 'Wukong' and gave the character his real Chinese name. Also, the research you did into Buddhism and temples and the background of Journey to the west was really cool. About the Lingji head in British museum- it’s actually from a Guanyin statue since Lingji is fictional and he shouldn’t have his statue in real temple, but as a Chinese gamer it’s great to see that people care about our millions of lost cultural artifacts since the Opium war! BTW love those music! Especially the celestial symphony - brought back so many memories of watching JTTW during childhood! Looking forward to your next video!❤
Your depth into Chinese culture and mythology is very respectable! I like to make 2 points here. One I don't think the old monkey is either Wukong himself or JinChanZi(TangSanZang). Through the game you see the 2 are the most anti-establishment characters. One killed himself to break free from the golden band, the other believes firmly all beings should be equal and Buddhas should not live on the mortals, and paid heavy price for his belief. The old monkey looks much like part of the system to run a controlled opposition, the scheme known as "destined one". Two, there are 2 heavens. One is Taoist, the other is Buddhist. The journey to the west actually is a political struggle between the 2 factions, though they maintain peace and cooperation on the surface. Regarding LingJi, there seems to be plot within the plot. A pretty convincing theory says he himself is a victim, an outcast from LingShan, forced to set up the stages of yellow wind ridge to do the dirty work for LingShan. Here turning the kingdom into rats is just the small part. While using this to turn yellow wind sage against himself and LingShan and making an YaoGuai king for the destined one is the real job. Yes the rabbit hole is really deep.
I'm sad most people forgot about the dragon prince. While he really did not get that much air time but hey, he was still the "White" disciple, as opposed to "Non-White" boss.
BTW in some of our social media people comparing Shanxi province and British for fun, now we can still see videos talking about because they have similar size and shape😂 so it’s might be a sense of humor of Game science because the dialect lingji spoke, when he doesn’t have head is from north of Shanxi province- where Scotland has a similar geographical location within UK 😅😅😅 I would be more inclined to this guessing
The British Museum never stole anything. First, because that's not something it can do as an institution, but that's pedantry because it can very much receive stolen artifacts. But second because the vast majority was obtained under (at the time) lawful means. Looting during war was legal, buying things at bargain prices is legal, buying things from the colonial government is legal, receiving donations and gifts is legal.
Xuanzang set out in 629, not 1629.
Wow what a mistake, I re recorded that line to fix it but for some reason it got lost! Miss spoke there, thanks for correcting!
Awesome analysis on Wukong! Super fair! Loved how you explained Game Science's consideration to use 'Wukong' and gave the character his real Chinese name. Also, the research you did into Buddhism and temples and the background of Journey to the west was really cool.
About the Lingji head in British museum- it’s actually from a Guanyin statue since Lingji is fictional and he shouldn’t have his statue in real temple, but as a Chinese gamer it’s great to see that people care about our millions of lost cultural artifacts since the Opium war!
BTW love those music! Especially the celestial symphony - brought back so many memories of watching JTTW during childhood!
Looking forward to your next video!❤
Sun Wukong does not mean "Monkey King," but rather "awakened to emptiness" or "void." Evidenced by the boss Non-Void, whose name means the opposite
Your depth into Chinese culture and mythology is very respectable! I like to make 2 points here.
One I don't think the old monkey is either Wukong himself or JinChanZi(TangSanZang). Through the game you see the 2 are the most anti-establishment characters. One killed himself to break free from the golden band, the other believes firmly all beings should be equal and Buddhas should not live on the mortals, and paid heavy price for his belief. The old monkey looks much like part of the system to run a controlled opposition, the scheme known as "destined one".
Two, there are 2 heavens. One is Taoist, the other is Buddhist. The journey to the west actually is a political struggle between the 2 factions, though they maintain peace and cooperation on the surface.
Regarding LingJi, there seems to be plot within the plot. A pretty convincing theory says he himself is a victim, an outcast from LingShan, forced to set up the stages of yellow wind ridge to do the dirty work for LingShan. Here turning the kingdom into rats is just the small part. While using this to turn yellow wind sage against himself and LingShan and making an YaoGuai king for the destined one is the real job.
Yes the rabbit hole is really deep.
I'm sad most people forgot about the dragon prince. While he really did not get that much air time but hey, he was still the "White" disciple, as opposed to "Non-White" boss.
Great job explaining the theory. Things make a lot more sense now with the story
BTW in some of our social media people comparing Shanxi province and British for fun, now we can still see videos talking about because they have similar size and shape😂 so it’s might be a sense of humor of Game science because the dialect lingji spoke, when he doesn’t have head is from north of Shanxi province- where Scotland has a similar geographical location within UK 😅😅😅
I would be more inclined to this guessing
Apart from a few mistakes this is a great breakdown
TLDR the iceberg is massive lol the lore is crazy deep
28:09 that's actually the green capped martialist since he has hooves for a feet
Very good analysis
Good work!
What is the song in the background @23:42?
Good song taste! It's a song from Berserk - ruclips.net/video/vZa0Yh6e7dw/видео.htmlsi=AcwDesR9lP9Xfjs0
The British Museum never stole anything. First, because that's not something it can do as an institution, but that's pedantry because it can very much receive stolen artifacts.
But second because the vast majority was obtained under (at the time) lawful means. Looting during war was legal, buying things at bargain prices is legal, buying things from the colonial government is legal, receiving donations and gifts is legal.