Agree, Saying lack of diversity when this is one of the few games that will give us high quality visuals of chinese culture and characters in the gaming industry haha. It seems chinese culture and characters are not considered as notable for these racist IGN journalists lol.
IGN don't like us, asian people, they already showed it with their discourse about my country (japan), so now they attack chinese people, we should being united against all these woke idiots who try to bring their ideology inside our cultures, wokism should stay in the west and not come in the East
@@EvilSlothsTony Why would it be? If shooting a movie can cost up to 300 mil, why cant a game cost a shit tone as well? Where do you think the money goes.
Activision Blizzard did things, legit things (which led to a suicide), and got virtually zero criticism after two months or so. A Chinese game dev says something crude and it's being treated as the absolute worst thing in human history that can never be forgotten. The way some parts of western twitter (and various forums) have spun this is steeped in Sinophobia. So just know that and try not to take too much of it seriously. Also, 99% of people do not care about this stuff. They just want good games and I'm happy that Chinese developers are really hitting a stride. I look forward to more great Chinese made games!
We already saw how a simple Olympic games already have alot of Sinophobic tripe towards Pan Zhanle who won fair and square (not to mention, Chinese athletes had to do "testing" 10 times more than other nations, that is downright discrimination), but there were already racism and jealously towards all Chinese athletes as they can't believe "An Asian who swim faster than a white guy". This is why we can't have nice thing.
"You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know." I don't know if this quote came from someone or if it really did originate on reddit, but I share it with my bilingual friends all the time Please don't stress about your english. You're doing better than 80% of America.
I'm rooting for Wukong too. I feel like China has a lot of untapped potential outside of the gacha market and it will be exciting to see what they can bring to the table
Agree. I will definitely play this and already pre-ordered. Wukong was one of my favorite character growing up and to finally have a high quality game about him is something I have waited for sooo long. I was hoping for a more traditional turn based RPG based on wukong but action rpg will be good for now lol. Hopefully in the future we can get a party based and turn based rpg featuring wukong and chinese mythologies. Also planning to gift this to tow of my nephews since they actually like action rpg unlike me who actually prefer turn based rpgs haha
@@FEI_fiii I want to see some Xanxia games.. imagine immortal cultivation games.. would be amazing, I think I saw a pill cauldron in one of the wu kong trailers.
So basically the people were saying that historically, games like the ones from Blizzard were acting like club promoters at the time. You know... like advertising all the women going to their events, offering women free entry and free drinks just to populate their clubs and attract men to pay entrance fees. The Wukong developers were saying we don't need to do that, our game is good and can stand by itself we don't need to use women to attract players. Then IGN says they are sexist and mysogynists LOL.... the cognitive dissonance...
Thank you. I'm sorry the irrational and politics obsessed engage in racketeering so blatantly that you have to do this but I hope it brings you success :) Keep up the great work.
Thank you. I saw you did a lot of videos about this matter 🤣🤣 Western players are really hate this too. I found it Strang before, I thought you like it 😅
I'm honestly lowkey happy that IGN wrote that terrible article because people often don't believe that Sinophobia is that big, and now the IGN writers have shown their asses and are receiving waves of criticism from literally everyone of all races which I'm happy to see 😭I'm glad people care more about the games than the drama!
They've also removed points for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 for a lack of diversity*, namely black people. The game is about Europe in the year 1403 🙂 * the game confirmed at least Czech, Germans, Polish and Cumans * the first game even had a gay character and released a entire DLC dedicated to women
They complain about lack of diversity in Western games, and yet when a game that highlights a non-Western culture comes out, they then complain it isn't diverse and want to Westernise it. The hit job is all because the developers didn't bow down and pay millions for a consultation they didn't want or need and that we all know would ultimately ruin the game. I don't understand how a Western company thinks it has the right to tell an Eastern company how to depict Eastern Culture!!
@theobell2002 😅😅 far from it. If I see people complaining, I see people complaining. If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's usually a duck.
@@FEI_fiiione mistake at 4:05 u said sex women lol i think it should be sexy women cuz sex women it's totally different meaning 😅 otherwise your English is very good 😊
Thank you for explaining and showing the original posts that caused the issues This is clearly a translation problem. This is the equivalent of putting Chinese charachters into Google Translate and you get a literal transatation on an expression/idiom that isn't meant to be interpreted on face value. A local translator would know this but a foreigner would not. Having said that, I'm super excited for this and brings back a lot of nostalgia as the IP is one of my favourite as a Chinese kid growing up in a Western country. I can't believe it has taken so long for a game to be made in this setting!
It's just like how the lying media bastards translated Vladimir Putin's comment on Tucker Carlson "he's a dangerous man" and spun it as an insult or a threat based on the literal words. In reality in many Slavic cultures, the phrase "dangerous man" is a compliment and is akin to saying someone is cunning and mentally sharp. Even anti-Russian Ukrainians were blasting such a blatant mistranslation.
Hello I'm from Indonesia, I grew up watched probably 2 iterations of Wukong TV series (+ 1 Nezha, I believe it's title is God of Honor CMIIW). Because of that, I'm quite hyped with Black Myth because of the familiarity I got with the original reference. So your insight is quite helpful for everyone. People seems to forget the reason the want to buy the game is just to have fun when we play rather than to focus the representation in it. Keep up your good work!
´´People seems to forget the reason the want to buy the game is just to have fun when we play rather than to focus the representation in it. Keep up your good work!´´ .... the losted common sense.... it is really sad... Politics on entertaintment are cancer. I am from south america and really hyped like you to know more about this fascinating story.
I often read wuxia, xianxia and xuanhuan novels but having difficulty finding decent related games. Any breakthrough games from China is very much welcomed.
I read a lot of those novels as well and have been searching for good games that are in those genres. The best game I've found so far is Gujian3(古剑奇谭三). This game is really good and I definitely suggest checking it out if you haven't yet.
Ngl It's odd to me that people are admitting Wukong is a "breakthrough game" from China. Yet simultaneously attacking anyone who was skeptical about it to begin with and calling them "racist."
they just need to bring others down to make themselves feel better for some reason, real bad hivemind a lot of Westerners have for this and thank lord I'm not one of them 😂
I do not use social media at all, pls everyone else who does pls share this video, this is the best perspective to clear up this whole mistranslation nonsense and also provide a female gamer perspective.
Sadly, the media IGN affiliated with ,like today article on PC Gamer, wont bother find the truth and context. They will be an echo chamber of IGN without clarification because truth is not their goal, but to spread certain agenda
I sincerely hope that more English/Chinese translators and content creators can join and create more videos on this subject. It is sad to see our language has been misread as problematic.
Yes, Black Myth: Wukong definitely carries the flag for whole Chinese game developing community. That's precisely why West wants to shoot it down. Luckily, no one takes Western gaming journalists seriously since they continue proving their utter incompetence again and again, and the game is massive success.
thanks for the video 😊 i'm also a young woman, i not only play games but i've worked in the games industry. i'm from scotland, but i lived in china for a year, (a few years ago), after i graduated from my degree and loved it. back then, i remember thinking "i wish there was a bigger games industry in china", so that i could work there in my industry haha (i don't work in the industry anymore as it doesn't pay well enough for the workload). so, even though i'm not chinese, i still feel very proud of this game from china that has had massive success on release. i know how western media is usually hysterical about anything about china, so of course i'm not brainwashed like a lot of other people in the UK. the only thing is, i really dislike the debate/drama around it. i can actually understand why some women, even with context, would feel a bit sad about some of the game devs' views. i know i did, and i heard about it i think a year or just under two years ago. but that's all, it's not a big deal and i still am very happy to play the game and hope for it's success. they're a new, small game company that is mostly full of guys - it's obviously going to have like inappropriate views at work lol. i do think those recruitment ads were a bit creepy, and shouldn't have been done. but i'm sure that will improve with their success, and it really is not that big of a deal that it deserves this kind of drama from western media lol. i also understand that the review of the game is a bit unfair. however, i think honestly after reading the IGN review that came up after i googled it, it still is a good rating. i honestly don't think many people care about what gaming news companies say about a game before they play it anymore. 8/10 is what IGN gave it. there are bugs in the game, and this will also impact the score. the off-hand comment about diversity, i think has been overblown by a certain far-right aspect of the gaming crowd in the west, to create drama around it. so it gets so overblown, with people claiming ridiculous stuff like that the game is seen as bad because there's not lots of ethnicities of monkeys or whatever. but i've not seen anyone genuinely say that, only people claiming that's what's happening. so i think some of the drama from the other side is really overblown, and these people trying to blame it on "wokeness" is really silly. minorities who haven't criticised the game are getting caught in the crossfire because some other extremist gamers are getting too offended about a review that most people won't read anyway. i feel like if it wasn't overblown by that side, a lot of the devs' comments would have been swept under the rug, and most people would forget. now it's turning into some culture war lol. i mean, i think the devs did say some sexist comments. but it's not the end of the world that they said stuff like that, and it's not the end of the world that people criticised it. people are going to have their say on both sides, and there are valid points on both sides. anyway, i've rambled a bit lol. i'm just going to hope the drama from both sides goes away quickly and just enjoy the game 😁 this was a good video! i also think even if the game was "perfect" to western media lol, they would find a way to criticise it unfairly just because it's from china, and they don't like feeling threatened 😂 so that's why i wouldn't care what games journalism thinks, the reviews on steam are very good (except people complain about bugs/disk space etc)
Thanks for your comment. When I saw the article I know it’s not only an article that towards the game but also the country, I already get used of it , 😅😅😅 I even got attacked just because I’m Chinese. And now I’m not sure if it’s right for me to do this video . Kinda scared now 😅😅😅
at the end of the day, a bunch of western commentators tried to impose their western political psychoses onto this game. of course, the game is actually good, so it didn't work. i would like to live in a world where these parasitic universalizing western chauvinists (both the right wingers and the "left" wingers) didn't exist so that we could actually enjoy things without some fucking lazy scumbags trying to commit moral extortion on us
you're totally right and I hope the creator of this video took your points on board and doesn't rile up the overblown conspiracy theory nonsense too much. hopefully they've just sourced ragebait unintentionally or misinterpreted some of the western discussion on this game.
Thank you so much for your insight. It is obvious there was a cultural misunderstanding in the translation and you helped clear that up. I do hope the game succeeds. It looks really good and so far most reviews based on gameplay and technology and design are extremely favorable.
There are idioms like this in any language. In my mother tongue, also Asian in origin, when two people (independently of gender) engage in praising each other a bit too strongly, we say that they engage in "mutual d**k s****ing." Today, when someone says "I'm not interested in mutual d**k s****ing," it does not mean they are homophobic, it means they are not interested in having a conversation in an echo chamber, where their ideas would not be criticized. And obviously, it's a bit rude, you would not use this expression in a polite conversation.
Many thanks Fei - enjoyed your video so much. And you are so very cute and smart! You are absolutely right this is ancient Chinese mythology but also based on Chinese Zen/Tao/Philosophy. To appreciate the deeper meanings hidden behind all those details in the game, one could check out the Chinese novel “A journey to the west” or the Chinese Zen Book “How to be Happy: the Wisdom to Attain Happiness and Success by Constructing an Invincible Mind”.
1980's Diversity: Lets celebrate games made by other races and cultures. 2020's Diversity: Lets only celebrate games about a very specific American demographic (and also Muslims for some reason).
That seems to be the general consensus about Chinese games in general. As a Chinese person myself, I long felt Chinese games even before mobile games were just not worth looking at. That is why Black Myth Wukong surprised me, and I am hoping that it will succeed. South Korea has shown they could step up and make something for consoles. So why not China? And as for the sexism accusations, yeah, choice of words in a professional setting would be nice, but we get the meaning. And then there's this 'lack of diversity' over a game about one of the most famous Chinese stories ever written featuring animals and demons. Why take anyone seriously?
@@federicocasali1565 First, they barely did play part of the game. Second, it's really quite hard to say whether a monster that has few human traits is male or female. If you look at a dog, can you tell whether it's male or female without looking at its bits? Of course not. Third, while I know there are female characters in the novel, I also know that there were more and more prominent male characters. I also know there ARE female characters in Black Myth Wukong (there are at least few already shown, at least one of them prominent). How exactly can someone that has none of the above knowledge claim to be in a position to grade it?
@@kikixchannel uhm with monsters designs it's usually quite explicit if they are male or female coded, especially if they're humanoid like many that we see in the trailers, like in Nioh there's plenty of female yokai
@@federicocasali1565 I bet you didn't even read the novel and probably don't know anything about Chinese mythology or culture... I've read Journey to the West, watched the Wuxia and Xianxia films based on it, read graphic novels about it and researched the history behind the story...the female characters you claim serve very minimal roles in the story and the game indeed does have female characters judging by the many cutscenes and other gameplay I've seen online during its development and since it's release.... Screen Rant even admitted that they didn't even play passed the second chapter, how the f*ck do you make a claim about a video game if you haven't even played the full game?? And who the f*ck do you think you are coming to a Chinese person's channel and trying to dictate to everyone about THEIR MYTHOLOGY AND THEIR STORIES?? Smells like closeted racism if you ask me, and why are you defending Screen Rant so much? Are you on their payroll or something? Typical woketivist behavior.... You act all progressive and say things like "not enough diversity" while sh*tting all over Chinese mythology and Chinese culture revealing your hidden bigotry!
Thanks for some clarification, I was looking for a video made by a chinese about the subject, since i don't normally trust IGN after years of bad and misleading reviews
You are soo adorable! I looove the dolls behind you !!! Black Myth Wukong is NOT my usual type of game that I play but I pre-purchased the deluxed edition to support the dev team and the studio (and as middle finger to the racist journalists who kept harassing the devs)
As a native english speaker, it is obvious that you have put forth a significant amount of effort in teaching yourself the language. Its very impressive, good job!!!😊
They really ran away with that translation! I'm so glad that there's a great deal of love for this game - I'm so excited to try it out once there's a physical edition! (PS5)
Great video! The game looks so cool! The original story is so important to the literary world and so popular. I'm surprised at the backlash from certain groups. Sadly, my first public knowledge of the game came from a coworker saying(censored)"No, I won't play that Chinese game. They're stealing the market".
The west think grape are tasty before they are able to get one, but as soons they realize they couldn't get one, they will claim grape is sour to justify their failure, sounds familiar?
@@maximedamour5192 you mean the baseless accusations from the IGN liars? They just exposed themselves as racist yesterday. Keep yourself informed, dude. Have fun playing your dustburn. 😂
Just wanted to say thank you and send my support because I'm sure that the bigger an audience you reach, the more likely you are to attract those insane people. If that happens please don't the hate the send your way get at you. You're doing the right thing by clarifying things and representing your country. Hope you'll have fun with the game.^^
Thanks so much, this whole sorry affair makes much more sense now. So IGN didn't totally make it up off a mis translation, just exaggerated the little that was there to tell their hateful story. I've seen interviews with the devs and was impressed by the care they took in describing their gameplay and especially the differences between Black Myth Wukong and From games which we are all comparing it too. I got the impression they really cared about their game. I'm counting the hours till it drops :)
Nice to see your channel growing. I would like to learn more about Chinese culture. Like how when you ask someone how old they are I know it is different if they are older, or the same generation, or younger. Or sometimes you address someone as older if they are your teacher or boss. And if a couple gets together they will address each other as Ge ge and mei mei, older brother and younger sister. And about how certain foods are hot or cold. Oh if it seems i know a lot. I have Chinese room mates. I studied seven star mantis style kung fu. My sister had a Chinese boy friend who studied wushu. I studied acupressure and reflexology and herbal medicine.
This is the first video ive seen from this girl. It felt like the steve buscemi meme where he is trying to act like he one of the young kids. But im aware a lot of it is probably due to the language barrier. But aside from that. As long as this girl is preaching these words to not jump to conclusions and attack those without having the full story. She gets my views. So keep it up and honestly i would love more videos about living in modern china
I'm glad to have stumbled across this video. The main problem is that a lot of game developers and journalists are baizuo. Us gamers just want good games, not social issues or politics. Wukong looks great. I'll have to wait because I'm playing Final Fantasy 16 now.
Chinese gamers need to stand up against the 白左 "gaming journalists" and their coordinated smear campaign. I personally can't wait to play this game, reminds me of the times when my grandma would tell me stories of the Monkey king and his squad's journey to the west.
@@federicocasali1565 there was a whole series of other articles that came out before the game was released, wake up. of course they can't absolutely tank a game that's actually good. it's not about the reviews, it's about how they tried to shame people into not buying it and turn it into a political contest.
I appreciate the effort to explain Western idiots that to add "diverse" characters or messages from the 21st century in a traditional Chinese story would be distorting it, maybe even degrade it. Japan was shocked when a black + gay Samurai became the central character of Assasin's saga in feudal Japan, so we need to police the modern gaming for absurd innovations.
@@maximedamour5192how ironic. Someone with a Ukraine flag as their pfp calling someone else naive 😅 Russia was correct to invade you. NATO shouldnt have their weapons on Russia’s border.
@@rc_1235 Russia was correct? They litterally gave a second life to NATO! 😂😂😂 Just expanded into Sweden and Norway! NATO kept expanding because Russia KEPT invading their neighbours! Zelensky just gave the Uno reverse card to Putin and is now liberating the people of Kursk. 🤣
It doesn't sound like sexism, it's just a sex joke. Not saying that it's okay to tell sex jokes just because it's not necessarily sexist... just saying that maybe someone doesn't know what sexist or sexism actually is.
I watched Asmon’s stream. The game is a masterpiece. It’s also a top seller on steam and has overwhelmingly positive reviews. Everyone’s saying it’s GOTY no competition. Meanwhile, IGN gave it an 8 and said it’s good but has room for improvement. Honestly, I wouldn’t even trust IGN to suck my d properly at this point.
Thank you for sharing this , you spoke clear and polite , that's a lot more I can say about the game critics here in the U.S. , they are nuts , we try to ignore them too. Please keep making great games , we can't seem to get them here anymore . Hypnotic on RUclips ran you're clip , he said hi lol . Have a great day😊
Your english is amazing. (Honestly i just think sweet baby is salty because they couldnt cram down what they wanted to the developers of black myth wukong)
Hi! You have done some very good work here and added some extra context for those people who do not understand the Chinese mentality. As someone who lives in Asia and has taught English to Chinese children, I can compliment you on your ability with our language. As for IGN, it is important that Chinese gamers begin to understand that IGN are just one part of a larger conspiracy to disrupt the harmony of gamers by accusing anything that respects the traditional male perspective of being sexist. But in fact it is all a scam, where journalists and consultancy companies like Sweet Baby work together to create accusations of sexism, so that developers will feel pressured to hire consultants, who then remove anything traditional, heterosexual or caucasian from the games. This causes the industry to lose money and developer jobs to be lost, but the scammers do not care, because they get to continue their mafia style tactics.
You are way more clear than most journalist that talk about games. Hope to hear about your opinions about the game, since it is quite a success. Keep the great work!!
wow... someone that is actually concerned about THE GAME and not the insane "politics" that others believe exist where they actually don't. Very much enjoyed this video and hope that you continue to provide your outlook in future games and the gaming industry.
Western games and film industry has become more diversive in recent times. We see this in their initial reaction to BG3 as well. I remember the articles and reactions to.thr sexual content in that game. Then it became game of the year and we hear nothing now. Westerners do not understand how important Wukong is to the chinese culture. It is equivalent to one of their most admired stories. A masterpiece within their culture. Much like the lliad and odyssey epic poems which mixes culture, religion and fiction together. We now know Wukong is a success at 10 million + sales. This shows that 1) chinese game industry can stand on its own. 2) chinese culture has a.mesage to say and can rival european and american culture.
Thanks for clarifying what the controversy was about. It really confused me why anyone had complained about Wukong. I think there are actually a few decent Chinese developed games that aren’t just Gatcha type games, Like the Sword And Fairy series and Yuan Yuan Sword 7. I’d been interested in Chinese mythology and culture for a long time, so Wukong is a real dream come true for people with a love of Chinese Myth’s etc.
Thanks for your video and your perspective as someone who lives in China. I absolutely agree with you and we should call out IGN for miss translating their statements (most likely on purpose). Was some of their statements a little bit edgy and meant as a joke? Yes, you don't need to find it funny or edgy but it was clearly not meant to be taken offensive. I am also very excited for the game. I live in Europe and I am a very big fan of all Asian culture my most favorite genre are JRPG's. I really want to dive deep into the Monkey King mythology myself and I have already played couple of games that were inspired by Journey to the West. Can't wait for the game and thanks for the enlightened video. 😊
Thank you for this video it helped me understand more about what really happened. As an avid gamer since the early 2000's who picked up on Asian titles earlier than most of my American counterparts I remember laughing at some of their "marketing tactics" throughout the years. I hope for Black Myth: Wukongs success, from what I've seen so far they have worked really hard & proven they are top contender thus far (only after release will we see for sure).
Native Chinese speaker here. Those comments by Game Science devs are somewhat vulgar, something I personally wouldn't say in public, particularly towards women. What I don't get is how sex jokes make them sexist or mysogynist?
Hey There. Hypnotic sent me! Thanks for the cultural explanation of those posts! We knew they have been poorly translated by IGN. But we still lacked the cultural elements behind the texts even with abetter translations!
Thank you for making this video. It has helped clear up a lot of the misconceptions that both sides of the debate have been peddling and I appreciate your own opinions as a female Chinese player. I think it is unfortunate that so much negative attention has been placed on Black Myth Wukong given how important the game is to many especially from China. But as a Chinese person, I feel a lot of the other people who are "defending" Black Myth Wukong and Game Science are also completely missing some of the valid concerns (especially regarding the strange specific requests on their email to influencers covering the game). I don't think Game Science or the publisher has handled the situation well, leading to many of the misconceptions so I really hope they'll be able to address them properly. Too many people are imposing their own agendas and viewpoints to this situation and its only causing more controversy and shooting down constructive discussions, exactly opposite of what is needed.
I'm not going to point the finger at Game Science when people are being paid to read Wukong slander pieces on Bilibili. It's always more important to deal with external enemies first.
That's why they want to vote Trump to clean up the swamp, but the whole left wing ideologue around the world are brainwashed into thinking that he is hitler.
And the anti-woke politicians are the ones who are the most anti-Chinese, even though China is now all of a sudden the hero of the anti-woke. The Politics in the U.S. are a big complicated, confusing mess.
Thank you so much for this. IGN and Sweet Baby are like small childs who cry if a game doesn't fit their ideology and create problems because they have none, instead of just choosing another game like normal people do. Games are meant to be fun.
Very insightful. The only Chinese game i have had any experience with came from Sony's China Hero Project. It was called F.I.S.T. and it was genuinely one of the best 2D metroidvanias i've ever played
thank you for sharing your opinions/perspective!! this is a very informative and well written video and i appreciate hearing the thoughts of someone close to this who really understands the situation as well as the background context
I really like China and her culture. I starting learning mandarin and that so different from what we have here in the west. China finally start to export herself more, she should be proud of what she make. And I'm so tired to see people trying to Americanize everything. Diversity is also having many different game, from different time, different type. The simple presence of Black Myth is a diversity in game industry because they are verry little type of game like him and about China mythology. I can't understand thoose people... Not all game can have World diversity, if all are like this, that not "diversity" anymore.
Growing up, I was told to be cautious of what to post on the internet, so bosses and HR wouldn't use it to bar me from being hired. Nowadays, it's regular nobodies that dig that stuff up to shame you.
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IGN should be cancelled for promoting and spreading lies and racism against a Chinese gaming company for making a game based on Chinese mythology.
when the ESG and DEI funding run dry, these woke based companies will fade away.
Agree, Saying lack of diversity when this is one of the few games that will give us high quality visuals of chinese culture and characters in the gaming industry haha. It seems chinese culture and characters are not considered as notable for these racist IGN journalists lol.
They also need to be called out for deliberately targeting Asian males for removal from media. They previous did the same for redheads.
IGN don't like us, asian people, they already showed it with their discourse about my country (japan), so now they attack chinese people, we should being united against all these woke idiots who try to bring their ideology inside our cultures, wokism should stay in the west and not come in the East
It only works if the racism is against brown people and not the other way around. So most likely not.
Let's be real, they go after Wukong because the devs refused to pay $7million for "consultation"
Good conspiracy bruh
I think that is in yuan, Chinese currency. 7mil USD is insane if its true.
This is probably a false information, but they made people think they would do such things.which is really satire
@@EvilSlothsTony Why would it be? If shooting a movie can cost up to 300 mil, why cant a game cost a shit tone as well? Where do you think the money goes.
@@federicocasali1565 what conspiracy? we have the video clip of this group threatening the game dev.
Activision Blizzard did things, legit things (which led to a suicide), and got virtually zero criticism after two months or so. A Chinese game dev says something crude and it's being treated as the absolute worst thing in human history that can never be forgotten. The way some parts of western twitter (and various forums) have spun this is steeped in Sinophobia. So just know that and try not to take too much of it seriously. Also, 99% of people do not care about this stuff. They just want good games and I'm happy that Chinese developers are really hitting a stride. I look forward to more great Chinese made games!
yes, I hope they won't let us down, the quality of the game will explain everything.
In fact, what they said about the game developer is a Photoshopped picture and it is a rumor.
It will be awesome
We already saw how a simple Olympic games already have alot of Sinophobic tripe towards Pan Zhanle who won fair and square (not to mention, Chinese athletes had to do "testing" 10 times more than other nations, that is downright discrimination), but there were already racism and jealously towards all Chinese athletes as they can't believe "An Asian who swim faster than a white guy". This is why we can't have nice thing.
Sound a bit racist to me ://
"You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know."
I don't know if this quote came from someone or if it really did originate on reddit, but I share it with my bilingual friends all the time
Please don't stress about your english. You're doing better than 80% of America.
You speak English because it's the only language you know, I speak English because it's the language you understand, we are not the same
@moisessanchez9253 Do you know where that came from? I can not find the source.
im using english because of that as well 🤔
I'm rooting for Wukong too. I feel like China has a lot of untapped potential outside of the gacha market and it will be exciting to see what they can bring to the table
yes~~~I want to play some wuxia (kongfu) games too ~~😄
@@FEI_fiii Where Winds Meet looks really good. I'm keeping an eye on that one. and Wuchang Fallen Feathers
Agree. I will definitely play this and already pre-ordered. Wukong was one of my favorite character growing up and to finally have a high quality game about him is something I have waited for sooo long. I was hoping for a more traditional turn based RPG based on wukong but action rpg will be good for now lol. Hopefully in the future we can get a party based and turn based rpg featuring wukong and chinese mythologies.
Also planning to gift this to tow of my nephews since they actually like action rpg unlike me who actually prefer turn based rpgs haha
@@FEI_fiii I want to see some Xanxia games.. imagine immortal cultivation games.. would be amazing, I think I saw a pill cauldron in one of the wu kong trailers.
China is on a roll, doing great
So basically the people were saying that historically, games like the ones from Blizzard were acting like club promoters at the time. You know... like advertising all the women going to their events, offering women free entry and free drinks just to populate their clubs and attract men to pay entrance fees. The Wukong developers were saying we don't need to do that, our game is good and can stand by itself we don't need to use women to attract players. Then IGN says they are sexist and mysogynists LOL.... the cognitive dissonance...
Hmm, I think that maybe is not just some cognitive dissonance but dishonesty with some intent for some other reason.
Thank you for clearing this up. IGN should be ashamed.
Love your content! Gamers are winning!
Far left fascists have no shame
IGN will just double down and attack it more or find something else normal to attack.
they should get sued
IGN should close completly. allways if you hear about them , they did something stupid
Thank you. I'm sorry the irrational and politics obsessed engage in racketeering so blatantly that you have to do this but I hope it brings you success :)
Keep up the great work.
It's cool to see the King of beta-testers even here in the comments...😁
hello beta testers
The legend himself! Looking forward to more videos, brother
@@benjamink.408Kirito is here?
Thank you. I saw you did a lot of videos about this matter 🤣🤣 Western players are really hate this too. I found it Strang before, I thought you like it 😅
As a Chinese speaking person living in the US, great job I have to say. Hopefully you won’t get too much hate because of this.
There won’t be any hate from anyone that actually matters. People with sense understand what’s going on.
@@jcsdmusic True!
@@jcsdmusic Yeah, the only backlash will be some weirdo at certain game journalist sites....
No hate for her, true gamers completely support her, only a few bitter 'journalists' are scared they are losing all power.
Don't let the Tide Pod eaters scare you. They're the trash we failed to take to the curb, but you're stronger.
I'm honestly lowkey happy that IGN wrote that terrible article because people often don't believe that Sinophobia is that big, and now the IGN writers have shown their asses and are receiving waves of criticism from literally everyone of all races which I'm happy to see 😭I'm glad people care more about the games than the drama!
they did this same shit with nier automata and stellar blade
They've also removed points for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 for a lack of diversity*, namely black people. The game is about Europe in the year 1403 🙂
* the game confirmed at least Czech, Germans, Polish and Cumans
* the first game even had a gay character and released a entire DLC dedicated to women
They complain about lack of diversity in Western games, and yet when a game that highlights a non-Western culture comes out, they then complain it isn't diverse and want to Westernise it.
The hit job is all because the developers didn't bow down and pay millions for a consultation they didn't want or need and that we all know would ultimately ruin the game.
I don't understand how a Western company thinks it has the right to tell an Eastern company how to depict Eastern Culture!!
Facts! Hit it nailed on the head. Another case of western media trying to enforce their will. They thinks asians are stupid bro
Do you believe everything you see on the internet?
Right??!! It goes to show IGN’s ignorance
@theobell2002 😅😅 far from it.
If I see people complaining, I see people complaining.
If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's usually a duck.
@popps33 it was more tbe screen rant review for me that made me comment what I did, to be perfectly honest.
just want to say that your english is good enough that a latino who doesnt fully knows english was able to understand almost all of what you say
thank you ~~I really happy to hear that~~~
Your English writing is good for someone who doesn't fully know English.
@@FEI_fiiione mistake at 4:05 u said sex women lol i think it should be sexy women cuz sex women it's totally different meaning 😅 otherwise your English is very good 😊
Thank you for explaining and showing the original posts that caused the issues
This is clearly a translation problem. This is the equivalent of putting Chinese charachters into Google Translate and you get a literal transatation on an expression/idiom that isn't meant to be interpreted on face value. A local translator would know this but a foreigner would not.
Having said that, I'm super excited for this and brings back a lot of nostalgia as the IP is one of my favourite as a Chinese kid growing up in a Western country. I can't believe it has taken so long for a game to be made in this setting!
It's just like how the lying media bastards translated Vladimir Putin's comment on Tucker Carlson "he's a dangerous man" and spun it as an insult or a threat based on the literal words. In reality in many Slavic cultures, the phrase "dangerous man" is a compliment and is akin to saying someone is cunning and mentally sharp. Even anti-Russian Ukrainians were blasting such a blatant mistranslation.
Hello I'm from Indonesia, I grew up watched probably 2 iterations of Wukong TV series (+ 1 Nezha, I believe it's title is God of Honor CMIIW). Because of that, I'm quite hyped with Black Myth because of the familiarity I got with the original reference. So your insight is quite helpful for everyone. People seems to forget the reason the want to buy the game is just to have fun when we play rather than to focus the representation in it. Keep up your good work!
thank you~~ and yesss. just enjoy the gameeeee~~~
´´People seems to forget the reason the want to buy the game is just to have fun when we play rather than to focus the representation in it. Keep up your good work!´´ .... the losted common sense.... it is really sad... Politics on entertaintment are cancer. I am from south america and really hyped like you to know more about this fascinating story.
I often read wuxia, xianxia and xuanhuan novels but having difficulty finding decent related games. Any breakthrough games from China is very much welcomed.
yeah...I want play wuxia games too~~~hope some one can make decent one after this ~~
How did you feel about 仙剑奇侠传7? The English localization isn't perfect but I still generally enjoyed it.
Wandering sword hd 2d game like octopath traveller, hero's adventure .
I read a lot of those novels as well and have been searching for good games that are in those genres. The best game I've found so far is Gujian3(古剑奇谭三). This game is really good and I definitely suggest checking it out if you haven't yet.
Ngl It's odd to me that people are admitting Wukong is a "breakthrough game" from China. Yet simultaneously attacking anyone who was skeptical about it to begin with and calling them "racist."
0:01 "Black Meth Wukong" Now THAT'S a Folklore i really interested in!
😂😂 her English is actually quite good but that was funny.
Bajie, we need to cook!
Weed mist?
Let her cook, takes it to another level
@@jkob8245 cooking black meth
It's always this weird Western thing to do this accusing thing and putting propagandas into reviews. Especially the US.
It's just another form of colonialism if u ask me... It's crazy how they think they're being progressive, yet they are extremely bigoted
This is why i f king hate america
they just need to bring others down to make themselves feel better for some reason, real bad hivemind a lot of Westerners have for this and thank lord I'm not one of them 😂
Exactly
Don't you know only woke Americans are correct /s
IGN are not journalist they are activist. Thank you for clearing up all the misconceptions
I do not use social media at all, pls everyone else who does pls share this video, this is the best perspective to clear up this whole mistranslation nonsense and also provide a female gamer perspective.
Sadly, the media IGN affiliated with ,like today article on PC Gamer, wont bother find the truth and context. They will be an echo chamber of IGN without clarification because truth is not their goal, but to spread certain agenda
I sincerely hope that more English/Chinese translators and content creators can join and create more videos on this subject. It is sad to see our language has been misread as problematic.
Yeah. It’s a pity to see so many misunderstandings between people. But it inevitable 🙂↕️
Yes, Black Myth: Wukong definitely carries the flag for whole Chinese game developing community. That's precisely why West wants to shoot it down. Luckily, no one takes Western gaming journalists seriously since they continue proving their utter incompetence again and again, and the game is massive success.
thanks for the video 😊 i'm also a young woman, i not only play games but i've worked in the games industry. i'm from scotland, but i lived in china for a year, (a few years ago), after i graduated from my degree and loved it. back then, i remember thinking "i wish there was a bigger games industry in china", so that i could work there in my industry haha (i don't work in the industry anymore as it doesn't pay well enough for the workload). so, even though i'm not chinese, i still feel very proud of this game from china that has had massive success on release. i know how western media is usually hysterical about anything about china, so of course i'm not brainwashed like a lot of other people in the UK.
the only thing is, i really dislike the debate/drama around it. i can actually understand why some women, even with context, would feel a bit sad about some of the game devs' views. i know i did, and i heard about it i think a year or just under two years ago. but that's all, it's not a big deal and i still am very happy to play the game and hope for it's success. they're a new, small game company that is mostly full of guys - it's obviously going to have like inappropriate views at work lol. i do think those recruitment ads were a bit creepy, and shouldn't have been done. but i'm sure that will improve with their success, and it really is not that big of a deal that it deserves this kind of drama from western media lol.
i also understand that the review of the game is a bit unfair. however, i think honestly after reading the IGN review that came up after i googled it, it still is a good rating. i honestly don't think many people care about what gaming news companies say about a game before they play it anymore. 8/10 is what IGN gave it. there are bugs in the game, and this will also impact the score. the off-hand comment about diversity, i think has been overblown by a certain far-right aspect of the gaming crowd in the west, to create drama around it.
so it gets so overblown, with people claiming ridiculous stuff like that the game is seen as bad because there's not lots of ethnicities of monkeys or whatever. but i've not seen anyone genuinely say that, only people claiming that's what's happening. so i think some of the drama from the other side is really overblown, and these people trying to blame it on "wokeness" is really silly. minorities who haven't criticised the game are getting caught in the crossfire because some other extremist gamers are getting too offended about a review that most people won't read anyway. i feel like if it wasn't overblown by that side, a lot of the devs' comments would have been swept under the rug, and most people would forget. now it's turning into some culture war lol. i mean, i think the devs did say some sexist comments. but it's not the end of the world that they said stuff like that, and it's not the end of the world that people criticised it. people are going to have their say on both sides, and there are valid points on both sides.
anyway, i've rambled a bit lol. i'm just going to hope the drama from both sides goes away quickly and just enjoy the game 😁 this was a good video! i also think even if the game was "perfect" to western media lol, they would find a way to criticise it unfairly just because it's from china, and they don't like feeling threatened 😂 so that's why i wouldn't care what games journalism thinks, the reviews on steam are very good (except people complain about bugs/disk space etc)
Thanks for your comment. When I saw the article I know it’s not only an article that towards the game but also the country, I already get used of it , 😅😅😅 I even got attacked just because I’m Chinese. And now I’m not sure if it’s right for me to do this video . Kinda scared now 😅😅😅
at the end of the day, a bunch of western commentators tried to impose their western political psychoses onto this game. of course, the game is actually good, so it didn't work. i would like to live in a world where these parasitic universalizing western chauvinists (both the right wingers and the "left" wingers) didn't exist so that we could actually enjoy things without some fucking lazy scumbags trying to commit moral extortion on us
you're totally right and I hope the creator of this video took your points on board and doesn't rile up the overblown conspiracy theory nonsense too much. hopefully they've just sourced ragebait unintentionally or misinterpreted some of the western discussion on this game.
Cheering for the CN game development industry, I would love to play more games that revolved around your culture which is fascinating!
Thank you so much for your insight. It is obvious there was a cultural misunderstanding in the translation and you helped clear that up. I do hope the game succeeds. It looks really good and so far most reviews based on gameplay and technology and design are extremely favorable.
Thank you for this perspective, I'm going to shout you out in my next video!
Wow. I just back from work and saw your new video, thank you 🤣
Fei, as a self-learner, your English is great. Articulate and well organise.
There are idioms like this in any language. In my mother tongue, also Asian in origin, when two people (independently of gender) engage in praising each other a bit too strongly, we say that they engage in "mutual d**k s****ing." Today, when someone says "I'm not interested in mutual d**k s****ing," it does not mean they are homophobic, it means they are not interested in having a conversation in an echo chamber, where their ideas would not be criticized. And obviously, it's a bit rude, you would not use this expression in a polite conversation.
What
This is so interesting, what is your mother tongue?
Many thanks Fei - enjoyed your video so much. And you are so very cute and smart! You are absolutely right this is ancient Chinese mythology but also based on Chinese Zen/Tao/Philosophy. To appreciate the deeper meanings hidden behind all those details in the game, one could check out the Chinese novel “A journey to the west” or the Chinese Zen Book “How to be Happy: the Wisdom to Attain Happiness and Success by Constructing an Invincible Mind”.
1980's Diversity: Lets celebrate games made by other races and cultures.
2020's Diversity: Lets only celebrate games about a very specific American demographic (and also Muslims for some reason).
That seems to be the general consensus about Chinese games in general. As a Chinese person myself, I long felt Chinese games even before mobile games were just not worth looking at. That is why Black Myth Wukong surprised me, and I am hoping that it will succeed. South Korea has shown they could step up and make something for consoles. So why not China?
And as for the sexism accusations, yeah, choice of words in a professional setting would be nice, but we get the meaning. And then there's this 'lack of diversity' over a game about one of the most famous Chinese stories ever written featuring animals and demons. Why take anyone seriously?
yeah, at last, we only care about the quality of the game. everything else is just nonsense.
The screen rant reviewer was disappointed at the removal of female characters or enemies in the game, despite the original novel having them
@@federicocasali1565 First, they barely did play part of the game.
Second, it's really quite hard to say whether a monster that has few human traits is male or female. If you look at a dog, can you tell whether it's male or female without looking at its bits? Of course not.
Third, while I know there are female characters in the novel, I also know that there were more and more prominent male characters. I also know there ARE female characters in Black Myth Wukong (there are at least few already shown, at least one of them prominent). How exactly can someone that has none of the above knowledge claim to be in a position to grade it?
@@kikixchannel uhm with monsters designs it's usually quite explicit if they are male or female coded, especially if they're humanoid like many that we see in the trailers, like in Nioh there's plenty of female yokai
@@federicocasali1565 I bet you didn't even read the novel and probably don't know anything about Chinese mythology or culture... I've read Journey to the West, watched the Wuxia and Xianxia films based on it, read graphic novels about it and researched the history behind the story...the female characters you claim serve very minimal roles in the story and the game indeed does have female characters judging by the many cutscenes and other gameplay I've seen online during its development and since it's release.... Screen Rant even admitted that they didn't even play passed the second chapter, how the f*ck do you make a claim about a video game if you haven't even played the full game?? And who the f*ck do you think you are coming to a Chinese person's channel and trying to dictate to everyone about THEIR MYTHOLOGY AND THEIR STORIES?? Smells like closeted racism if you ask me, and why are you defending Screen Rant so much? Are you on their payroll or something? Typical woketivist behavior.... You act all progressive and say things like "not enough diversity" while sh*tting all over Chinese mythology and Chinese culture revealing your hidden bigotry!
Thanks for some clarification, I was looking for a video made by a chinese about the subject, since i don't normally trust IGN after years of bad and misleading reviews
need to cancel ign from society
You are soo adorable! I looove the dolls behind you !!! Black Myth Wukong is NOT my usual type of game that I play but I pre-purchased the deluxed edition to support the dev team and the studio (and as middle finger to the racist journalists who kept harassing the devs)
yes, one of my hobbies. collect dolls.I play all kinds of games. and like to support small studios who are make good games too.
@@FEI_fiii I was in the BJD community 20 years go xD and I am moving back home soon and i want to get back into it, with more time at my disposition
Great work, your video has been seen and quoted by other youtubers, its time for us to fight back, and you just sound the horn! cool girl!
yeah, sometimes the wrong information makes me really frustrated, have to do something.🙃🙃 but my English is really bad.🤣🤣
@@FEI_fiii your english is cool girl, just keep going, proud of you!🙂
Pretty unsurprising IGN mistranslated, their terrible journalism is legendary. Amazing they are still around.
Love the video. It clarified do musch, thank you! ~From Brazil
This video should be more spread, it's really important to tell people about how IGN lies
As a native english speaker, it is obvious that you have put forth a significant amount of effort in teaching yourself the language. Its very impressive, good job!!!😊
Hypnotic sent me here. Hail! Thank you so much for doing this for all of us Chinese speakers, especially who live in North America!
They really ran away with that translation!
I'm so glad that there's a great deal of love for this game - I'm so excited to try it out once there's a physical edition! (PS5)
You’re awesome. Much love from America
Great video!
The game looks so cool! The original story is so important to the literary world and so popular. I'm surprised at the backlash from certain groups.
Sadly, my first public knowledge of the game came from a coworker saying(censored)"No, I won't play that Chinese game. They're stealing the market".
Great video Fei...
Very happy i found your channel.
*Subbed & LIKED*
Cheers from Denmark
✝
thank you!😁
Thank you for explaining this story, it was very insightful. I'm loving the game so far!
To all WEST journalist, Do you want to eat some grapes?? ( I forgot, you will never understand)
The west think grape are tasty before they are able to get one, but as soons they realize they couldn't get one, they will claim grape is sour to justify their failure, sounds familiar?
Aesopus? Is that you?
Is that the Chinese version of "let them eat cake?" Because IGN deserves the ignominy.
As someone from Europe, i would love to get some context.
I hope the Studio sues those game "journalists" to oblivion for misleading and defamation.
They won't because your claim is baseless.
@@maximedamour5192 you mean the baseless accusations from the IGN liars?
They just exposed themselves as racist yesterday.
Keep yourself informed, dude.
Have fun playing your dustburn. 😂
Hypnotic sent me. Thank you for your review on this!
Just wanted to say thank you and send my support because I'm sure that the bigger an audience you reach, the more likely you are to attract those insane people. If that happens please don't the hate the send your way get at you. You're doing the right thing by clarifying things and representing your country. Hope you'll have fun with the game.^^
Thanks so much, this whole sorry affair makes much more sense now. So IGN didn't totally make it up off a mis translation, just exaggerated the little that was there to tell their hateful story. I've seen interviews with the devs and was impressed by the care they took in describing their gameplay and especially the differences between Black Myth Wukong and From games which we are all comparing it too. I got the impression they really cared about their game. I'm counting the hours till it drops :)
One of the best videos I've seen explaining the situation!
Nice to see your channel growing. I would like to learn more about Chinese culture. Like how when you ask someone how old they are I know it is different if they are older, or the same generation, or younger. Or sometimes you address someone as older if they are your teacher or boss. And if a couple gets together they will address each other as Ge ge and mei mei, older brother and younger sister. And about how certain foods are hot or cold.
Oh if it seems i know a lot. I have Chinese room mates. I studied seven star mantis style kung fu. My sister had a Chinese boy friend who studied wushu. I studied acupressure and reflexology and herbal medicine.
This is the first video ive seen from this girl. It felt like the steve buscemi meme where he is trying to act like he one of the young kids. But im aware a lot of it is probably due to the language barrier. But aside from that. As long as this girl is preaching these words to not jump to conclusions and attack those without having the full story. She gets my views. So keep it up and honestly i would love more videos about living in modern china
I'm glad to have stumbled across this video. The main problem is that a lot of game developers and journalists are baizuo. Us gamers just want good games, not social issues or politics.
Wukong looks great. I'll have to wait because I'm playing Final Fantasy 16 now.
加油！您的英语以经算得上很厉害了. 虽然发音有些偏，但是问题不大，而且你有的是时间学的跟好.
谢谢！ 我自己觉得我的口音很奇怪，一旦开始说长一些的句子我就不能控制自己的发音🥹🥹🥹
Chinese gamers need to stand up against the 白左 "gaming journalists" and their coordinated smear campaign. I personally can't wait to play this game, reminds me of the times when my grandma would tell me stories of the Monkey king and his squad's journey to the west.
What smear campaign, only one review scored it 6/10 every other site was 8/10 or more, get a grip
Tine to stand up against the Baizuo global cultural imperialism.
@@federicocasali1565stop it already, no one is falling for your BS, your team lost... Go be woke somewhere else
@federicocasali1565 “only one” sure thing buddy
@@federicocasali1565 there was a whole series of other articles that came out before the game was released, wake up. of course they can't absolutely tank a game that's actually good. it's not about the reviews, it's about how they tried to shame people into not buying it and turn it into a political contest.
I appreciate the effort to explain Western idiots that to add "diverse" characters or messages from the 21st century in a traditional Chinese story would be distorting it, maybe even degrade it. Japan was shocked when a black + gay Samurai became the central character of Assasin's saga in feudal Japan, so we need to police the modern gaming for absurd innovations.
Maybe we will have a Mexican Mu lan someday 🤣🤣
Thank you for reporting the truth.
She literally lives in China. Do you think she's allowed to speak against her own country.
Man you're naive. 😏
@@maximedamour5192how ironic. Someone with a Ukraine flag as their pfp calling someone else naive 😅 Russia was correct to invade you. NATO shouldnt have their weapons on Russia’s border.
@@rc_1235 Russia was correct? They litterally gave a second life to NATO! 😂😂😂 Just expanded into Sweden and Norway! NATO kept expanding because Russia KEPT invading their neighbours!
Zelensky just gave the Uno reverse card to Putin and is now liberating the people of Kursk. 🤣
@@maximedamour5192 lefty softball
@@rc_1235 Was that suppose to be an ad hominem?
It doesn't sound like sexism, it's just a sex joke. Not saying that it's okay to tell sex jokes just because it's not necessarily sexist... just saying that maybe someone doesn't know what sexist or sexism actually is.
Yeah. That’s the point , and they knew it’s different level of problem, they just want this game disappear 🫠
Thank you very much for this clip ✌️😊
The people's hero. Thank you for calling out the misinterpretation of Black Myth Wukong devs. Happy gaming!
I watched Asmon’s stream. The game is a masterpiece. It’s also a top seller on steam and has overwhelmingly positive reviews. Everyone’s saying it’s GOTY no competition. Meanwhile, IGN gave it an 8 and said it’s good but has room for improvement. Honestly, I wouldn’t even trust IGN to suck my d properly at this point.
IGN is right. It’s not perfect, but I think 8 is still too low. 😅
The fact that saying a game is "good but has room for improvement" is now a controversial statement is wild. Also, ew.. Asmon.
Thank you for sharing this , you spoke clear and polite , that's a lot more I can say about the game critics here in the U.S. , they are nuts , we try to ignore them too. Please keep making great games , we can't seem to get them here anymore . Hypnotic on RUclips ran you're clip , he said hi lol . Have a great day😊
Thank you for making this video.
Your english is amazing. (Honestly i just think sweet baby is salty because they couldnt cram down what they wanted to the developers of black myth wukong)
Hi! You have done some very good work here and added some extra context for those people who do not understand the Chinese mentality. As someone who lives in Asia and has taught English to Chinese children, I can compliment you on your ability with our language.
As for IGN, it is important that Chinese gamers begin to understand that IGN are just one part of a larger conspiracy to disrupt the harmony of gamers by accusing anything that respects the traditional male perspective of being sexist. But in fact it is all a scam, where journalists and consultancy companies like Sweet Baby work together to create accusations of sexism, so that developers will feel pressured to hire consultants, who then remove anything traditional, heterosexual or caucasian from the games. This causes the industry to lose money and developer jobs to be lost, but the scammers do not care, because they get to continue their mafia style tactics.
You are way more clear than most journalist that talk about games. Hope to hear about your opinions about the game, since it is quite a success. Keep the great work!!
Hey nice video, keep up the good work. Hypnotic Channel sent this to his fans
Ty 4r making this video. Very informative😊
wow... someone that is actually concerned about THE GAME and not the insane "politics" that others believe exist where they actually don't. Very much enjoyed this video and hope that you continue to provide your outlook in future games and the gaming industry.
Western games and film industry has become more diversive in recent times.
We see this in their initial reaction to BG3 as well.
I remember the articles and reactions to.thr sexual content in that game.
Then it became game of the year and we hear nothing now.
Westerners do not understand how important Wukong is to the chinese culture.
It is equivalent to one of their most admired stories. A masterpiece within their culture.
Much like the lliad and odyssey epic poems which mixes culture, religion and fiction together.
We now know Wukong is a success at 10 million + sales.
This shows that 1) chinese game industry can stand on its own.
2) chinese culture has a.mesage to say and can rival european and american culture.
I think they knew, they knew that’s why they don’t want it to be success. Just because it’s from China 🙂🙂🙂
I'm here because of Hypnotic. I just subscribed with notifications on
Thanks for clarifying what the controversy was about. It really confused me why anyone had complained about Wukong. I think there are actually a few decent Chinese developed games that aren’t just Gatcha type games, Like the Sword And Fairy series and Yuan Yuan Sword 7. I’d been interested in Chinese mythology and culture for a long time, so Wukong is a real dream come true for people with a love of Chinese Myth’s etc.
Thanks for your video and your perspective as someone who lives in China. I absolutely agree with you and we should call out IGN for miss translating their statements (most likely on purpose).
Was some of their statements a little bit edgy and meant as a joke? Yes, you don't need to find it funny or edgy but it was clearly not meant to be taken offensive. I am also very excited for the game. I live in Europe and I am a very big fan of all Asian culture my most favorite genre are JRPG's. I really want to dive deep into the Monkey King mythology myself and I have already played couple of games that were inspired by Journey to the West.
Can't wait for the game and thanks for the enlightened video. 😊
Thank you for this video it helped me understand more about what really happened. As an avid gamer since the early 2000's who picked up on Asian titles earlier than most of my American counterparts I remember laughing at some of their "marketing tactics" throughout the years. I hope for Black Myth: Wukongs success, from what I've seen so far they have worked really hard & proven they are top contender thus far (only after release will we see for sure).
Great Video Fei Fiii, Super cute, Good English! Keep making more videos!
This was really informative. Thank you for sharing your perspective on this topic. Great video!
Native Chinese speaker here. Those comments by Game Science devs are somewhat vulgar, something I personally wouldn't say in public, particularly towards women. What I don't get is how sex jokes make them sexist or mysogynist?
IGN: We speak for everyone
Everyone: No you don't
They said that? Source?
@@maximedamour5192 just a joke
@@legendarygamer386 They always say that. 😏 Make nonsense claims thinking no one will question and then immidiately pivot to "its a joke."
@@maximedamour5192 but it's true don't tell me your defending ign
Hey There. Hypnotic sent me!
Thanks for the cultural explanation of those posts! We knew they have been poorly translated by IGN. But we still lacked the cultural elements behind the texts even with abetter translations!
Hypnotic Sent me your video is really good and Based
Thanks you for bringing humanity back to the conversation many seem to forget that❤❤❤
Thank you for making this video. It has helped clear up a lot of the misconceptions that both sides of the debate have been peddling and I appreciate your own opinions as a female Chinese player. I think it is unfortunate that so much negative attention has been placed on Black Myth Wukong given how important the game is to many especially from China.
But as a Chinese person, I feel a lot of the other people who are "defending" Black Myth Wukong and Game Science are also completely missing some of the valid concerns (especially regarding the strange specific requests on their email to influencers covering the game). I don't think Game Science or the publisher has handled the situation well, leading to many of the misconceptions so I really hope they'll be able to address them properly. Too many people are imposing their own agendas and viewpoints to this situation and its only causing more controversy and shooting down constructive discussions, exactly opposite of what is needed.
very much agree!
I'm not going to point the finger at Game Science when people are being paid to read Wukong slander pieces on Bilibili. It's always more important to deal with external enemies first.
Playing the game in Chinese with English subtitles and I'm having a blast. I'm learning a lot, and the game is amazing.
These woke people are also in the US government, God help them.
every time a journalist criticizes the devs for not being inclusive enough, I will create a new Steam account just to buy an extra copy of this game.
That's why they want to vote Trump to clean up the swamp, but the whole left wing ideologue around the world are brainwashed into thinking that he is hitler.
And the anti-woke politicians are the ones who are the most anti-Chinese. The politics in the U.S. are a big complicated, confusing mess.
And the anti-woke politicians are the ones who are the most anti-Chinese, even though China is now all of a sudden the hero of the anti-woke. The Politics in the U.S. are a big complicated, confusing mess.
@@vincentturnt6635 given the state of that kinda stuff now, you're gonna go bankrupt 😭
Thank you so much for this. IGN and Sweet Baby are like small childs who cry if a game doesn't fit their ideology and create problems because they have none, instead of just choosing another game like normal people do. Games are meant to be fun.
Very insightful. The only Chinese game i have had any experience with came from Sony's China Hero Project. It was called F.I.S.T. and it was genuinely one of the best 2D metroidvanias i've ever played
oh,i know that too.i have bought it for support~but haven't played it yet.🤣
Thank you for clarifying these issues. Its great to hear from a female chinese gamer and developer.
I’ve been waiting for this game for years.
These devs are not ruining this game for me.
This is my culture!
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西方政确主义真的是有够烦的。不只把他们自己的游戏和媒体都搞跨了，还想要把他们的垃圾理念搬到别人的文化去，说什么“这款游戏缺乏 diversity”... 干他娘里面的人物全都是妖怪好吗 😂。希望你的视频能够被推给Asmongold看，因为他是西方最大的游戏播主。有他对你的视频做反应的话，更加多人会领悟到这个政确是多么的脑残。
不过我真的被吓到了这次，没想到大陆人会这样站出来理智地澄清整件事。以前我都对大陆人有所偏见，因为从大陆人身上经历了许多不好的体验，但你的视频真的令我刮目相看了。加油加油！
人是复杂的多样的，何况中国有十四亿人口呢，这边节奏也不比西方少，稍微沾上都是一身💩🤣🤣🤣，好在目前来看游戏质量过硬，没有辜负大家的期待，这就够了。
Preach sister, preach. What a GOAT of an epic game, can't wait to play it
Fantastic. Thank you for sharing this info! Time to put the media on notice.
thank you for sharing your opinions/perspective!! this is a very informative and well written video and i appreciate hearing the thoughts of someone close to this who really understands the situation as well as the background context
You think you hate journalists enough, but you don't
Who ever sneezed at 8:56 bless you
谢谢你为IGN抹黑这件事站出来。我们大家应该以 黑神话 悟空 骄傲。为中国人游戏成就骄傲。👏👏👏
I really like China and her culture. I starting learning mandarin and that so different from what we have here in the west. China finally start to export herself more, she should be proud of what she make. And I'm so tired to see people trying to Americanize everything. Diversity is also having many different game, from different time, different type. The simple presence of Black Myth is a diversity in game industry because they are verry little type of game like him and about China mythology. I can't understand thoose people... Not all game can have World diversity, if all are like this, that not "diversity" anymore.
This is a great breakdown of the situation, thanks!
Growing up, I was told to be cautious of what to post on the internet, so bosses and HR wouldn't use it to bar me from being hired.
Nowadays, it's regular nobodies that dig that stuff up to shame you.
This is actually knowledgeable, good presentation 👍🏻
Most based comment on this topic from a female content creator.
老妹讲的不错，中国人都懂游科广告和微博的意思，不但不会生气，反而觉得他们公司的氛围很好，老板没架子，幽默诙谐，扁平化管理。IGN，SW之流要么是故意碰瓷，要么是愚蠢到用翻译软件来看他国的段子和网络用语。总之，你讲的很好，至少做个视频还是要花时间的，给老外们解释清楚了，打打IGN SW的脸
其实国内骂得更厉害呢，这边也都是利用了国内那些节奏🥹🥹但是也都是故意断章取义和歪曲人家意思，毕竟没素质嘴臭和仇女可不是一个等级的事情。就是不太喜欢这种什么都要往性别议题上靠的风气，而他们往这边靠，无非就是想让对方死而已😅😅我觉得这是很可怕的事情。在这样混乱的标签骂战下，真正需要帮助的弱势群体反而会被忽视，恶人也可以隐匿其中🥹🥹