HEY EVERYONE!! The support on this video has seriously been UNREAL! Thank you guys so much 😭 for those of you who are new, my channel is mainly live playthroughs, reactions to either trailers or moments in games and typically just other videos revolving around gaming! I LOVEEEE games with a good story. There’s a bunch of playthroughs on the channel and there will be plenty more in the future, so if you like what you see, make sure to subscribe! Also, thank you all so much for the helpful comments explaining Journey to the West. I read all of them :) this is so cool that Journey to the West is what inspired sooo much of what we have today, like Dragon Ball and Naruto (for example). And just to be clear, I don’t really consider myself a Dragon Ball fan (PLEASE DONT HATE ME). It’s not that I don’t like it, I actually think it’s awesome, but I never really got into it. I just know a handful of the characters and that’s it lol. Same goes for Naruto. I felt like I needed to clear that up because there’s a good amount of people in here who are wondering how I don’t know Journey to the West if I’m a Dragon Ball fan. Well, I’m not. Lol. But now I gotta do my research on Sun Wukong and dive deep into the mythology 👀 Once again thanks so much for the support on this video and I hope some of you decide to stick around!
I don't know how old u were back in 1978-80 (if at all) but maybe this'll remind u (or not). Either way it was one of my favourite shows as a kid. ruclips.net/video/J-SUoHmpRdM/видео.html
@@andybru: Haha. I expected as much. I'd just finished a long explanation of the Monkey King legend & just before posting I noticed ppl had already clued u up on it so no point adding to it. Great reaction vid. Good luck with the channel. 👍🏻
Chinese mythology is a very complex system. I can explain the basic concept of the chinese mythology. First the structure of chinese pantheon. Chinese traditional mythology is called Daoism. But after Buddhism come to China, it got absorbed by Chinese pantheon. The supreme god king governing heaven in daoism is jade emperor. But the one who created the universe was the ancient titan pangu. Pangu died from exhaustion soon after he creates the universe. The jade emperor and three pure one control most of the universe after him. They assigned king Yama to govern the underworld. Four great dragon kings to govern the sea. But they all pledge loyalty to jade emperor. Great goddess Nuwa creates humanity after the creation of the world. Buddha is technically the most powerful entity after the death of pangu. Because Buddhism believe he is one with universe. Therefore both Buddhism god and daoism god show respect to each other, and often work together. Second is the power structure of chinese mythology. The biggest difference between Chinese mythology and western mythology. Is the fact that in Chinese mythology, mortal can become god by practicing daoism or Buddhism. Which many western mythology can’t. This gives people more hope and give them reason to study daoism and Buddhism. However this freedom also give birth to demon(youkai). In chinese the concept of demon is not the same as west. Chinese demon were once mortal creatures who practiced daoism or Buddhism. They use the power in evil way and because corrupted. This goes for animal too. Both human and animals have possibilities of becoming demon. That’s why in journey of west there are tiger demon or fish demon. Due to the fact all youkai Practice daoism or Buddhism. In chinese mythology demon are considered very intelligent beings. Also most demon aim to become god, because in chinese mythology gods are the final stage of evolution. Now we can talk about monkey king wukong and journey of the west. Monkey king is the hero in chinese mythology. He’s just like Thor in Norse mythology or Hercules in Greek. Monkey king was loved by chinese people. But monkey king wasn’t a righteous figure when he first appeared. Monkey king was a stone monkey who came from the magical stone of goddess nuwa. He was a trickster and a morally neutral existence. He soon became the king of monkeys and learn daoism under a great daoist saint. During the process he learn immortality and become so powerful that almost no god can beat him. After he gain such strength, he went to the dragon king palace and acquired weapons and armor. Went to underworld and delete his name from book of death. He soon make alliance with demon kings in the mortal realm. Making him one of the greatest demon king in existence. When jade emperor discovered this, he give wukong a job in heaven. Which wukong gladly accept. But jade emperor still didn’t quite understand how strong wukong is. So he give him a position as stable boy for taming heavenly horses. Wukong feels extremely humiliated. So he quit the job and give him self the title of great sage equal to heaven in revenge. Heaven sees wukong’s refusal of the job as an insult. But after long discussion, they give wukong the title of great sage equal to heaven and invite him once more to live in heaven. As guardian of immortal peach garden. But monkey screw up his job again, because he end up eating all the peaches and even steal some pills of immortality. That finally angered the jade emperor. He dispatched the entire army of Heaven to arrest wukong. Monkey king was unrivaled in power even for gods. Only the great warrior god Erlang could fight him in equal strength. They eventually did capture the monkey through trap, but can’t find any way to kill him. Because he’s so bloody immortal, nothing can hurt him. He eventually break loss again and causing even greater havoc in heaven. Jade emperor finally calls the buddha himself to fix the problems. Buddha being the strongest beings in existence, easily subdue wukong, and trap him under a magical mountain. 500 years later Buddha send a chinese monk name Xiang Zang to retrieve the holy scripture from India. He choose wukong as one of monks body guards. Finally wukong was freed from the prison. But this time he humbly protect the monk in his journey to the west. During the process he starts to respect the monk. Also becoming a more humble and righteous person. He eventually was reworded by the Buddha and become a Buddha himself
worth mentioning that in the second paragraph, the term youkai is modern Japanese pronunciation system, whereas the modern mandarin version is 妖怪 yaoguai
also, worth mentioning, the strength of Wukong is over-exaggerated, which is hard to believe as even most of Chinese people believe in his strength, yet in the original fiction, Wukong was powerful indeed, yet didn’t even make his way through the front gate of the heaven palace before being captured. The publicly known overpowered Wukong is created by the epic episodes of The Journey To the West in the recent decades, which I believe the game will follow the version instead of the original.
Houston Houston ho yes I forget to use Chinese pronunciation. Although Japanese share the same kanji as Chinese for this word. So the difference isn’t big
For these that doesn't know, the writer from dragon ball was inspired by the book journey to the west (written in 16th century) Sun wun kong (which is the real name of son goku), has the ability which is with his own fur he makes clones of himself. Some of the Naruto story was also inspired by the book
Sun Wukong (孫悟空) (pinyin: sūnwùkōng) is the name given to this character by his teacher, Subhuti, the latter part of which means "Awakened to Emptiness" (in the Waley translation, Aware-of-Vacuity); he is called Monkey King. He is born on Flower Fruit Mountain from a stone egg that forms from an ancient rock created by the coupling of Heaven and Earth. He first distinguishes himself by bravely entering the Water Curtain Cave on the mountain; for this feat, his monkey tribe gives him the title of "Handsome Monkey King". After seeing a fellow monkey die because of old age, he decides to travel around the world to seek the Tao, and find a way to be able to live forever. He eventually found the " Grand Master of Bodhi (菩提祖师）", who taught him the 72 methods of transformation, "sumersault cloud", and thus got his supernatural abilities. After angering several gods and coming to the attention of the Jade Emperor, he is given a minor position in heaven as the Keeper of Horses (弼马温) so they can keep an eye on him. This job is a very low position, and when he realises that he was given a low position and not considered a full-fledged god, he becomes very angry. Upon returning to his mountain, he puts up a flag and declares himself the "Great Sage Equal to Heaven". Then the Jade Emperor dispatches celestial soldiers to arrest Sun Wukong, but no one succeeds. The Jade Emperor has no choice but to appoint him to be the guardian of the heavenly peach garden. The peach trees in the garden bear fruit every 3,000 years, and eating its flesh will bestow immortality, so Sun Wukong eats nearly all of the ripe peaches. Later, after fairies who come to collect peaches for Xi Wangmu's heavenly peach banquet inform Sun Wukong he is not invited and make fun of him, he starts causing trouble in Heaven and defeats an army of 100,000 celestial troops, led by the Four Heavenly Kings, Erlang Shen, and Nezha. Eventually, the Jade Emperor appeals to the Buddha, who seals Wukong under a mountain called Five Elements Mountain. Sun Wukong is kept under the mountain for 500 years, and cannot escape because of a seal that was placed on the mountain. He is later set free when Tang Sanzang comes upon him during his pilgrimage and accepts him as a disciple.
OMG atlist someone knows that thank you bro I can't believe I'm from the Caribbean and actual know that naruto and goku was based of this guy oh its killing me tgat this gamers don't even know
The legend of Monkey King has him riding on a cloud named Nimbus in English and his magical staff that can be summoned from the heavens and be as small as a toothpick or large enough to poke the gods in their butts from standing on Earth.
English sub: (the monkey transforming into a cicada sneaks on monsters' camp…) 狼兵甲：居然有几个酒坛 The first werewolf: there were a few wine jars 狼兵甲：不知道里面还有没存酒 The first werewolf: I wonder if there is any wine in it 狼兵乙：别馋了 The second werewolf: being gluttonous is forbidden when working, damn it! 狼兵乙：误了事，小心咱们两个被灵虚真人拿去下酒 The second werewolf: We will be eaten by the super monster wolf Lingxuzi once making mistakes on our jobs 狼兵丙：大哥，山门口那边好像传来些响动 The third werewolf: bro? there may be any anomalies from the entry gate 狼兵丁：别疑神疑鬼的，有大哥在把守 The forth werewolf: take it easy man! our captain is guarding here 狼兵丁：哪个不识相会来找死啊 The forth werewolf: Nobody except those seeking death dare to come here (captain of monsters penetrates the cicada are transformed by the monkey, the battle begins…) 山匪头子：那些狼崽子看不见你 Captain of monsters: those men cannot see you, but I can 山匪头子：别以为就能过了老子这关 Captain of monsters: getting through me is just a delusion (captain of monsters is defeated, move on…) 狼斥候：不好啦，有毛脸和尚闯进来了 Werewolf scout: damn it! A monk with hairy face is breaking in (after defeating the werewolf archer, move on…) 刀狼教头：来者何人？ Head coach of monsters: who is that coming? 刀狼教头：敢来此处扰我清修 Head coach of monsters: how dare you bother me during my exercise? 刀狼教头：唔？又是只猴子 Head coach of monsters: Uhhh? Another monkey 刀狼教头：施主不如放下棍棒 Head coach of monsters: you’d better put your stick down 刀狼教头：也同我学点佛法 Head coach of monsters: and learn Buddhist doctrine from me 刀狼教头：如何 Head coach of monsters: how about you? (start battle with the head coach, move on after defeating him…) 刀狼教头：你…莫非就是大王说的那个 Head coach of monsters: you… are you the man mentioned by our king? 刀狼教头：天…命…人 Head coach of monsters: the...man …owning…destiny (monkey takes head coach’s weapon, a fire stick named 赤潮(Chichao)…) （地下的声音）小猴子，你惊动了这儿的妖怪 Underground sound: hey monkey, you have alerted monsters here （地下的声音）再往前走可要万万小心 Underground sound: look out the around once moving on （地下的声音）小猴子，来这边 Underground sound: monkey, come here （地下的声音）这儿，看这儿 Underground sound: I am here, look here (the NPC Earth God appears…) 土地公：小神是黑风山的土地，在此处等候你多时了 Earth God: I am Earth God of the Heifeng Mountain, and wait you for a long time 土地公：像 Earth God: Oh… 土地公：真像啊 Earth God: you are really like him(maybe the true monkey Wukong) 土地公：再往前走，就是观音禅院 Earth God: you will see the Avalokitesvara Temple if go forward 土地公：当年也是香火鼎盛 Earth God: In those years, believers are in an endless stream here 土地公：只可惜那场大火 Earth God: till a fire burned out everything… 土地公：后来，禅院又被重建了 Earth God: Although the temple was rebuilt later 土地公：可人心若是烧没了 Earth God: belief was burned out… 土地公：修好一座破庙，又有什么用 Earth God: what does an empty temple matter? (a wolf whistling spreads out…) 土地公：小老儿先走一步 Earth God: let me walk the first step 土地公：等你过了前面的栈道，咱们自会再见 Earth God: we will meet again after passing through the plank road (keep moving util encounter a group of monsters, they are defeated after transforming into a giant monkey, then enter into the Avalokitesvara Temple…) 土地公：嘘…别出声 Earth God: keep silent please 土地公：小心惊动那条大狗 Earth God: don’t alert the big dog! it is in the yard now 土地公：后院那厮是黑风怪的道友 Earth God: he is the friend of the Black Wind Monster 土地公：自称灵虚子 Earth God: and name himself Lingxuzi 土地公：以你现在的道行 Earth God: you cannot defeat him with your strength (wolf whistling comes one again…) 土地公：糟了 Earth God: Damn it! 土地公：小猴子快逃，还来得及 Earth God: leave here, there is still time! (monkey moves forwards…) 土地公：你若进了这道门，便回不了头了 Earth God: there is no way back if you enter the door (the Boss battle with Lingxuzi begin. It is very interesting when the monkey release some magic skills, like 定身术(dingshenshu, i.e. the target will be frozen while the skill fails on fighting with the boss) 猴子猴孙(houzihousun, i.e. monkey make copies of himself from his hairs) and 七十二变(countless changes of tactics, i.e. monkey can transform into any materials including cicada, giant monkey even the head coach defeated before); finally monkey transforms into the head coach and end the boss Lingxuzi . Apparently, these skills are totally from the Ancient Chinese Literature-Journey to the West) Thanks for watching! 😊
Forwarded message: spoiler alert an over-simplified explain here: This game is a re-creation of "journey to the west", and in ancient china myth world which WUKONG lives in, humans can get supernature power to become a "god/神仙". Practicing Buddhism or Taoism is a way of becoming "god". Animals can also receive supernature power, and they become "monster/demon/妖怪", not "god". Here, monster/demon is not always evil, they are just different from humans. In many stories, the monster can live with humans or even have a marriage with a human. in those stories, humans are often more evil or stupid or greedy or coward... The rank or class of this world is roughly like this: god > monster > human > animal. This rank is a metaphor of ancient china society, but not enough room to explain it here, knowing the rank is ok. So monsters want to live in the form of a human, or at least act like a human because they are in the hope of becoming a "god". WUKONG is a monkey born from a stone who finally become a "god", he is not a "pure" god(human -> god), he remains some monster/demon characteristics. This contradiction is the source of many re-creations including this game. Back to this trailer: This trailer shows a monk tells a story that happens in a temple relic occupied by a group of monster gangsters. The giant wolf boss at 7:38 is their leader, he identifies himself as a Taoism priest, and get a Taoism name "灵虚子" or "灵虚真人" he has a friend who is a black bear. but not shown in this game. the minor boss at 2:53 is also a wolf. check his feet, you can see that he is a wolf wearing human cloth, not a human with a wolf head. the little potato-like guy at 4:49 is "土地公/local earth god", a kind of minor god. like a nymph in Greek myth, but not that pretty. you guys may be confused why there is another monkey king with better weapon and better armor stop us from finishing the boss. and spend several seconds showing shining gold characters on his stick. We Chinese guys are quite excited seeing this scene because it gets to the most suspenseful part of the story: whether the monkey king who finally becomes the god is the real monkey king who born from the stone? (Is the hero at the end of the journey the same person when he starts the journey?) (are we still us when we grow up/old ?) yes, there are multiple monkey kings and multiple explanations. you can even take them as the "ego", the "id", the "superego" of the monkey king. but it is best to let the game itself to explain it. if you look carefully enough, you will find that the storyteller(at the beginning and end of the trailer) himself is an old "monkey" too. the floating belt behind him indicating that he is a "god".
@@kwadwooyirifi8871 The game is still under development. It will be at least 2 years. The purpose of releasing this promoting video that looks like a real "game trailer" is to attract talented game techs to join the project. Obviously, it has achieved more than they expected. Since developing a 3A title is super risky. Not to mention most markets have shifted to mobile games. Especially in China where no one has done a well-known 3A title game. The CEO Ji Feng decided they have to build a playable chapter. They have to show what they have achieved to the investors and potential developers. Game science is a small team that only has 30-40 employees. According to Ji Feng, their aim to hire a bigger team of a minimum of 80. The leading game designers used to work under Tencent. You can check their earlier work "Asura" in Tencent which has the same theme of "Journey to the west". From this trailer, the team has shown they're passionate, they have ambition. There's a follow-up declaration from the CEO Ji Feng. He was humble and even criticized the flaws in the video and he said thank you all for the hype and the attention but the team will remain silent and focus on developing this game. Let's hope for the best.
You guys feel some Sekiro vibe, no strange because of the building styles, the temple, the ringing bell-----buddhism elements everywhere in both games. The spreading of Chinese Buddhism has influenced Japanese culture greatly since Tang Dynasty, 1400 years ago. No doubt Sekiro is a great game, and of course Sekiro vibe is a good word. However, it sounds a lil bit pathetic to Chinese gamers. Chinese historic culture is so deep and long and rich, but we never created even a single game to make the world know about such culture. As a comparison, Japan does this job so well. Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, etc., so many great games showing Japanese culture to the world. And that's why Black Myth: Wukong made so many Chinese people crazy. We have been expecting it so long.
yes, but do not try to read the original book, because even Chinese may not understand it totally, since it was written several hundred years before using the very old Chinese language system. Try to find new version of that book, which is translated to simple Chinese language, or if you can find English version?
China's been around so long, you could say they have an entire world's worth of history/culture and mythology lol Two thumbs up for listening to the end, the song at the end means a LOT to us who grew up with Journey to the West Live action and cartoon shows.
to some who don't know, Son WuKong is a character from a Chinese myth novel 400 years ago called Journey to the West. In the myth, some of his powers include riding clouds, transforming (72 forms), that magical staff he wields can lengthen and shorten, he also hides it in his ears when it's tiny. When he tears off strands of his hair, each strand can turn into a clone of himself. Oh, and let's not forget he can freeze people with words. that's all i remember for the moment. but he's pretty dope.
@arnold jayeola actually he's the weakest of the stine monkey's. His twin the Six Eared Macaque is equal to his strength. I believe that are playing as Six Ears in this game.
"That was an experience" You got that right man! This is easily one of the best trailers for games I've seen in my life. I haven't been this hyped since I was a kid watching the trailers for God of War 3!
@@andybru If that's your expression first time seeing something like that, imagine how more than a billion Chinese young and old who whole life were shaped and influenced by this mythology would feel 😋
@Rex Stu I think WuKong means more than that. Kratos is all about rage and vengeance while WuKong is about freedom, harmony, care (about his family and companions) and hope. They're both strong, but went completely different path
@Rex Stu I think Erlang Shen is more deserve the title god of war. Victory Fighting Buddha is more of a self battling victory in which he changed himself so much from who he was (ironically, some people included me feel sad that he changed that much, because his previous lively self was more likable 😟) than a Victory against actual enemies
@Rex Stu the ancient Chinese Mythology is an endless goldmine, should they harvest them correctly, but all I've seen all these years are shallow cash grap, rarely do I see any original or deep emotional story or flip side story like Ne Zha or Journey to the West Conquering Demons on big screen. Contract with the Chinese light novel, which I'm really passionate about. Even some successful novel and television came up shallow, like the Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms serie. If they'd put just a little bit more passion to it, those would've been legendary 😟
Wukong is a character in Chinese mythology. He has a lot of magical abilities, I said his three basic skills. His weapon is an iron that weighs more than 10,000 tons and can become bigger or smaller and put into his ears. His flying tool is a cloud, and a single somersault can fly 54,000km Wukong can be transformed into 72 different forms.
This is JOURNEY TO THE WEST: THE MONKEY KING a Chinese Mythology Dates Back The Year 1592 Novel Publication As Sun WuKong as The Protagonist_ Dragonball Was Inspired By Journey to the West & Goku In Chinese Translation is WuKong _ Japanese Anime Creator Akira Toriyama Stated Plenty Times He Created Dragonball & Goku Inspiration of That
If you really wanna enjoy the game you should watch journey to the west 1 and 2. And monkey king 1,2 and 3. They’re both good adaptations of the wu-Kong myth. Not to mention fun to watch. There’s a couple other movies about him, but those are the main ones.
That's him, who he was or the legend he will become. This is an inwards journey as much as it is an outward one. The mythology and lore of Wukong is an awesome and lengthy one that dates back hundreds of years.
Actually the game demo already sorta displays the game battle system. From the game's bottom left section, you will see 4 skill slots. Skills after used will become red indicating cooldown time Top skill when pressed = armored mode which sorta deflect or blocks any incoming attacks Right skill when pressed = Goes into cicada aka stealth mode. will sorta be disabled during boss fights left skill when pressed = Will freeze the enemy in front of you down skill when pressed = summons the monkey gang as seen during the boss fight So i guess you will sorta learn skills along the way then decide which skill to assign to which slot. If you also noticed the bottom right section you will see the ape character and icon so i guess it's sorta his special skill to transform into that giant ape after the super meter is filled. After you defeated the 1st mini boss wolf and get his weapon, you see another slot opening up which is the wolf character and icon which during the later boss fights he switches from the ape to the wolf icon and using the transformation into the miniboss earlier on. So my guess is maybe later you can just go hunt for special minibosses for their weapons and able to transform into various beast forms other than the ape and the wolf shown in the demo.
Translation of subtitles: 2:41 Wolf Soldier one: Unexpectedly, there are some wine jars! Can't assure if there is any wine left in them.（居然有几个酒坛，不知道里面有没有存酒） Wolf Soldier two: emmja!!(onomatopoeic) Don't be greedy! If something goes wrong, we both will be taken to drink by LingXu immortal!!（哎呀！别馋了！误了事，咱俩都得给灵虚真人拿去下酒！） Wolf Soldier three: Bro, sounds like some noise from the mountain gate!（大哥，山门口那边好像传来些响动） Wold Soldier four: No need to be suspicious. Here is guarded by our big brother. Who will be too ignorant to come back and find a death?（别疑神疑鬼的。有大哥在这把手，哪个不识相的会来找死啊？） 3:08 The Mountain Bandit Leader: Hmm!! Those wolf bastards can't see you. But do not think you can pass anymore!（哼！那些狼崽子看不见你，别以为就能过了老子这关！） Wolf Scout: Oh shit!! A “hairy-faced monk” broke in!!（不好了，有个毛脸和尚闯进来了！） 3:43 Knife-Wolf Coach: Who are you? How dare you disturb my secluded exercise?（来者何人？敢来此处扰我清修？） Knife-Wolf Coach: Emm? A monkey again?（嗯？又是只猴子？） Knife-Wolf Coach: Why not put down the stick, master? Learning the Buddism with me together, how about that?（施主不如放下棍棒？也同我学点佛法，如何？） After the battle Knife-Wolf Coach: You... Could you be the person the lord said... the person... of God's... will...（你...莫非就是大王说的那个...天...命...人...） (On the screen): Red Tidal, new magical weapon（赤潮，新法宝） 5:11 Unknown Wolf: Quick, quick,quick! Keep up!!（快快快，跟上！） 5:14 (Underground sound): Little monkey, you have alerted the monsters here.（小猴子，你惊动了这里的妖精！） (Underground sound): Be too careful when going ahead!!（再往前走可要万万小心！） (Underground sound): Hai! Little monkey! Comes here!（嘿！小猴子！来这边！） (Underground sound): Here, here. Look here!（这儿，这儿，看这儿） 5:43 Land God: I small god(call himself) is the Land God of this Black-wind Mountain. Wait for you here for long. （小神是黑风山的土地，在此处候你多时了） Land God: Alike, really alike. Ai~（像，真像啊，哎~） Land God: Go further on, and there is a GuanYin temple.(GuanYin is one of Bodhisattvas)（再往前走，就是观音禅院） Land God: In the past years, joss sticks(used for worshipping GuanYin Bodhisattva) were at their peak.（当年，也是香火鼎盛） Land God: Though, it was a pity of that fire...（只可惜那场大火） Note*: (In the chapter 16 of the novel "Journey To The West", in order to robber the cassock of Monk Tang who was the master of Monkey king, the Black-Wind Monster created a fire to burn the temple in order to create chaos and thus succeeded in robbery) 6:18 Land God: Later, the temple was rebuilt.（后来啊，禅院又被重建了） Land God: But if the will of people was burnt out, rebuilt a broken temple, equals to nothing.（可人心如果烧没了，修好一座破庙，又有什么用呢？） After the howling Land God: Little elderly(call himself) have to go first.（小老儿先走一步） Land God: After you passed the front plank road, we will meet again!（当你过了前面的栈道，咱们自会再见） 7:59 (On the right screen): GuanYin Temple（观音禅院） 8:07 Land God: Xu...Don't make noise! （嘘...别出声！） Land God: Be careful of alerting that big dog!（小心惊动了那条大狗！） Land God: The bastard in the backyard is the mate of Black-Wind Monster.（后院那厮是黑风怪的道友） Land God: Claim himself as "LingXu Zi"（自称灵虚子） Note*: 子(zǐ) in Chinese means: 1.son 2.children 3. honorific of a master(used in anicent time of China, such as Confucius) In this place, the monster who is a friend of Black-Wind Monster is claming himself as a status of Master. Dudes, you could understand how arrogant such a monster is. Land God: Based on your current strength...（以你现在的道行...） Land God: Oh no!!（糟了） Land God: Little monkey, run! Before it's too late!! (小猴子快逃！还来得及！！） 8:25 Land God: If you enter this door, you will never be able to turn back!!（你若进了这道门，便回不了头啦！） 8:33 (On the screen): Boss(Red), LingXu Zi 11:40 (On the screen when two monkeys appeared): The Golden-hoop Cudgel of the wishes（如意金箍棒, rú yì jīn gū bàng，如意 rú yì = wish，金箍 jīn gū = Golden hoop，棒 bàng = stick, cudgel. This cudgel is the weapon of the Monkey king in the novel, that was once the God-Needle of Stablizing Sea, was sent as a gift by the Eastern-Sea Dragon King, who dominated the Eastern Sea of China, to the Monkey king. This weapon weighed 6750 Kilograms and could elongate infinitely large or shrink infinitely small. The Monkey king usually shrink it into a needle and put it into his ear） 13:35 First Line: after the bones, return the Journey to the West Second Line: Join in to the team for Buddist scriptures. Visit the website right now: Third Line: www.heishenhua.com（黑 hēi 神 shén 话 huà = black myth, the meaning of the name of this website equals to www.blackmyth.com(←it doesn't appear)） 13:38 First line on the bottom: "Prelude of the Journey to the West" Genuine License Authorized by Xu Jingqing Note*: "Prelude of the Journey to the West"(The background music at the end of the vedio) is the theme song of the Chinese TV series "The Journey to the West 1986" which was extremely influential in China and created the memory of 3 generations of most Chinese. "Journey to the West" is one of the "Four Great Chinese Classical Novels", written by Writer Wu ChengEn in nearly 1550 B.C. in Ming dynasty. it is even influential in those countries surrounding China and the story of Sun Wukong(the Monkey king) to protect the Monk Tang and his team(another 3 members: Pig called "BaJie", Sand Monk, and White-Dragon Horse) to come from ChangAn(Xi 'an of China nowadays) to India to get the Buddist scriptures to finish their challenges and become immortal Buddha praised by Sakyamuni Buddha is praised and widely spreaded by the people surrounding the world As the theme song of that TV series, "Prelude of the Journey to the West" was made by the Musicain Xu Jingqing(1942-today). Due to the great influence of the TV series, this music was highly praised as "Classic" and enjoyed by Chinese for decades, and Xu Jingqing was praised as Master like Zhang Jinlai(actors of Monkey king in that TV series, stage-name called "Liu Xiao Lingtong", coming from the family of actoring Monkey king). That is why when the music at the end started, many Chinese will cry. Because it reminds people of the return of that "Unchained Monkey King."
For all the video game communities in the world, the observation for this game was made after several sharing on social networks: The wishlist for future games on Nextgen Ps5, PC and Xbox SX and other consoles has a few points to add to the 2020-21 games which are only negligible examples: 1 Texturize sewers, seabeds, rivers, and building interiors (the entire map with breakable parts) designed for use by all players in the game. 2 unlock weapons for all characters that we can choose with their own storymode and multiplayer sessions (heroes and villains) perhaps in the next episode of the game wukong2) 3 allow us to choose hero or villain in story mode and PvP sessions, online multiplayer co-op in crossplay . 5 Turn this world into an open world . 6 create online arenas sessions ,where we can fight like in soul calibur 5 in coop or 1 versus 1 player with training style we can unlock so we can finish the game with them to use theunlocked style of fighting in the storymode again to improve the characters skills imagine if we can unlock them to play with them in a arena in the game when we finish the game the arena just popup in the game so we can go and PvP or coop inside of the arena in the game!!WAOW!! it will be awesome
This is a mythical novel written by Wu Chengen 470 years ago. This monkey is called Monkey King. The goddess patching the sky from Lingshi, the Lingshi left the stone of the day when the Nu Wa was making up the sky, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon on the flower and fruit hill. It took ten thousand years for the birth of Monkey King. Later, Monkey King worshipped Bodhi as his teacher. The teacher taught him 72 changes, which can be changed into 72 kinds of things. He also learned how to do somersault clouds. A somersault cloud can travel a thousand miles. Later, Monkey King ate the elixir that he thought was an old immortal. The elixir not only increased his mana, but also could live forever, Later, the content is more wonderful. If you like, you can read this novel. It is one of the most famous and greatest four masterpieces in China's 5000 year civilization.
13:22 - That's the theme song to the old, old, *_old_* Journey to the West TV show. That's some old school fangirling, right there. ruclips.net/video/_KRl_pLl4vo/видео.html
As soon as I saw the Chinese characters lit up on the staff, I tried to say its name one syllable at the time : Ru... Yi... Jin... Gu... Bang. => And it fits !
They got inspiration from God of War, Sekiro, and Monster Hunter they said. I really hope the combat and difficulty are more in line with God of War though. Looks amazing.
According to the trailer and the "land god"s communication with that monkey I guess that we'll control the "Six Eared Macaque" which is one of 4 "God Monkeys" , they are brothers of Sun Wukong (Victorious Fighting Buddha).
What is worth mentioning is that the game is based on a Chinese novel Journey to The West written roughly in the late 16th century. The novel itself was a mythic version of the Tang Dynasty monk Xuan Zang’s journey to India seeking sacred Buddhist sutras, which took place during 627-645 A.D. In the modern days, there are many Japanese products including games and anime that are based on this novel and have great influences across the world. The Chinese, on the other hand, have less satisfying performance. This is definitely one great opportunity that the Chinese can represent their own culture internationally. The ending music is also a great piece and has important historical meanings. It is a remixed version of the theme music of the TV series Journey to The West released in 1986. It has great influence in the eastern and southern Asia, but was not so widely known worldwide. The original version of the music was essentially the first piece of Chinese electronic music. Overall, the introduction of this history and the culture in it itself is like a journey to the west. There are so many obstacles on the way to be conquered, and so many people have failed on the way. But some people with the faith in their heart will eventually make this great achievement.
Roflmao See. He doesn't know. Okay. This is east. Okay. So when you travel to west. Where is west? Ever heard of mayan aztecs. Those. Don't? You will find the confirmation in the epic of Lord Hanuman. He goes to West. To fetch the scriptures back to its place. Here. Okay. This is what Christians say the transfer of power from East to west. But they never mention in bible that it was taken back. See everybody lies. These are not myths. The scriptures are knowledge. Okay. Now you have great deal to research. Don't read those books as a play. It's real facts.
My theorie for the story: The monk said that "The real monkey king died before they reached the West" Maybe there was a really big fight, Sun Wukong actually lost. He did not die, but he was Not able to continue the journey. So he made a copy of himself. This copy finished the journy to and back from the budda monestary and achieved godhood/ the titel of Budda. Now the original is back in buisness, but the copy does not want to share the titel and the Power.
Sun WuKong is one of the greatest characters and deities in mythology, the world outside of Asia had NOOOO idea how powerful this guy is and he's a huuuge deal. He's like the thor or hercules of china but even more as far as his abilities go.
@@redapple1683 characters such as wukong and nezha are actually worshipped today as deities, and if you understand literature, this is stlil considered the 'mythology' or 'mythos' of the novel series. Not to mention WuKong as a character, is based on an actual Hindu deity.
According to chinese literature, this Monkey, namely Sunwukong or Son Goku in Japanese, took on the whole pantheon of Chinese Gods. That incident was called 大闹天宫, disrupting the heavenly palace.
Ok so, The Monkey King escorted the Monk to India to receive the holy scriptures of Buddha along with some other notable friends. Tale is upon returning, they all received Buddhahood. However, in this retelling Black Myth, there was the line that perhaps the real Monkey King died along the way and another took his place to receive Buddhahood. This comes from where Sun Wukong meets the Six Eared Macaque, who looks exactly like Wukong and has all the same abilities. Almost no one can tell the two apart. At one point in the novel the two fight to the death before continuing on the journey. This suggests that the doubt cast in the beginning of this trailer is that the story is complex. Was that the real Sun Wukong and we’re playing as the Six Eared Macaque? Or was Sun Wukong really defeated in that battle and Buddhahood was taken by Six Eared Macaque so now we’re playing as Wukong, perhaps recovering his power and/or his memories?
Very few first time or even second time reaction RUclipsrs can see when he suffering the head pain (from the enchanted head band) at 12:08 and you just went and calmed him?!? 🤗🤗🤗 Respect!
That's Sun Wukong (Monkey King) of the Chinese mythologies, and the basis of which many well-known Japanese animated protagonists abilities derive from. (God/Demon) Goku is basically a very entertaining breakaway from this guy. There have been plenty of Chinese films and tv series' based off of him. I'm a huge fan of this character, and when I first saw this exact preview 2 wks ago-ish, I was ecstatic AND STILL AM! Can't wait. The last film related to him that I had seen was in "The Immortal Demon Slayer/Tales of Sun Wukong". Still have yet to find time to watch the 2018 movie, but it's on my watch later list.
If u look deep into the chinese mythology six ear monkey and WuKong both origin from a alien stone from space. WuKong were the first to strike down and came to the earth near the “Monkey island” which the stone can manipulate by those monkey and change to its form to a monkey. And that’s how WuKong were created. In this game WuKong aka victorious Buddha showing Six Ear monkey his path how he fight till the celestial palace”God” getting a title before journey to the west. I believe we can play as wukong and 6Ear monkey in game. Can’t wait to get it!
it's based on a TV called 《西游记》,, almost all Chinese from age 10-90 have watched it. there are many different versions,but this one, 86 version is the most popular one. here is the link,the story starts here: ruclips.net/video/UBCwEV2_9SE/видео.html
i don't know anyone tell you, so i just give you a brief story of monkey king. its base on the story "journey to the west" monkey aka wukong is 1 of the crew that journey to the west with the monk. One of wukong skill set is he has 72 transformation, he can pull his fur and turn into himself like shadow clone. and journey to the west is like greek mythology, where a lot of weird stuff. the old man was actually giving him tips n direction where to go n where not to go.. the last boss he old man did mention u enter at ur own risk. you may not live to tell ur tale. if u know the original wukong skills then u will be impress how this game brought it to life. enjoy!
So this game is based on the book journey to the west that was released in the 15th century and the the main character in the game is called the monkey King who is known as the post powerful god goku was based off the character sun wukong the monkey King... And goku is rediculously overpowered because the monkey King is ridiculously overpowered. And that "alpha monkey" is his future self
Most of the comments had mentioned about the origins of the story. There are quite a number of tv shows and movies are based on this story. If you can find the movie, u can watch it to know a more about the powers of the Wukong which is what you see on the game trailer. Here are the youtube links to the 2 movies (2014/16) trailer: 1. Monkey King: ruclips.net/video/MwrCsYsNGcU/видео.html - The actor for Wukong is Donnie Yen (Star Wars: Rogue One). This movie talks about the birth of Wukong, how he got his powers and his downfall. 2. Monkey King 2: ruclips.net/video/ygTmV3K57_8/видео.html - They change the actor for Wukong - Aaron Kwok, Hong Kong singer/actor. The story continues why Wukong needs to travel with a monk and became his disciple. And hence the famous title: Journey to the West.
Let me tell your guys something, Sun Wu Kong, his so-called 72 kinds of transformation are described in Chinese. In the original novel, especially in Chinese, the 72 kinds of transformation do not mean that he can become 72 kinds of creatures or become Things, and Wu Kong has 72 skills, and transformation is just one of these 72 skills. Just want to let you all know. And Wu Kong, he is not just a monkey, he was not born naturally from monkey reproduction, he was conceived from a stone, and this stone is from another Chinese mythological character "Nu Wa". At that time, "Nu wa" used the sacred stone to mend the sky. In the end, one of the five-colored sacred stone was being left. For thousands of years, the five-colored sacred stone absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon and gave birth to the Monkey King - 孙 悟空 Many people are confused when they see another Wu Kong. In Journey to the West, there are a total of four sacred monkeys. They are called the "Four Monkeys", and Wu Kong is one of them. In the novel story, there is a chapter called . The real Monkey King(Wu Kong) is being called "Lingming Stone Monkey". The other fake Monkey King is the "Six-eared Macaque". The abilities of the "Six-eared Macaque" are the same as those of Monkey King(Wu Kong). And he look the same as Monkey King(Wu Kong). And The "Six-eared macaque" robbed Tang Seng and took their luggage. Afterwards, Wu Kong fought a battle with the "Six-eared Macaque". Because of the same strength, it was impossible to tell the winner. So they went to the gods to identify who is the real Monkey King. But none of the gods can recognize who the real Monkey King is, because they have the same abilities and the same looks. In the end, Buddha Tathagata recognized the "six-eared macaque", covered it with a golden bowl, and was beaten to death by Monkey King with a stick. There has always been a lot of controversy in this place. Some people think that the Buddha who covered the golden bowl with the golden bowl was WuKong, not the "six-eared macaque", so the one who was killed may be WuKong. Why is there controversy? Because WuKong’s master is Taoism. The mission of protecting the monk Tang from going to the west to learn the scriptures was Buddhism. After WuKong learned the power of Taoism, he making havoc in heaven, and all the gods could not stop him. In the end, the Buddha trapped him with the "Five Elements Mountain" until Guanyin Bodhisattva gave him a mission to help Tang Seng go to the West to learn the sutras. But WuKong did not obey the discipline, so Guanyin Bodhisattva gave Tang Seng a golden hoop and let him wear it on WuKong's head. When WuKong did not obey the discipline, he would use the "Tighten the hoop spell". WuKong would have a splitting headache and be forced to obey discipline. But WuKong has always been rebellious. So many people think that the Buddha might take this opportunity to kill the real Monkey King(WuKong). Let the fake Monkey King "six-eared macaque" take over the position of Monkey King. Then explain their weapons. WuKong's weapon is called "如(Ru)意 (Yi)金(Jin)箍(Gu)棒(Bang)". The weapon of the "Six-eared Macaque" is called "随(Sui)心(Xin)铁(Tie)杆(Gan)兵(Bing)". Although the names of their weapons are different, the meanings they express are basically the same. All are "whatever you want." "如(Ru)意(Yi)" - "As I wish." "随(Sui)心(Xin)" - "Follow my heart." They are all sticks They can all be bigger and smaller. In theory, it can be infinitely large or infinitely small. WuKong usually Shrink his weapon to the size of an embroidery needle and put it in his ear. By the way, WuKong's weapon weight is 6750KG
Glad to know u like this game. Chinese are thrilled about it. Not only because it's based on a hero we like, but more about how it looks, the action, scenes, and story, we all are guessing how will they producer tell the story without burning their own ass up. Looking forward to it.
This is based on the chinese mythical story of Journey to to West. Sun Wukong (aka Son Goku in japanese) is a monkey demon that ascended to buddhahood after assisting Tangzeng's journey to the west to obtain ancient buddha scriptures. Along the way, they run into many challenges because there's many demons that obtained a higher form (eg. A snake becomes a humanoid demon snake form) and are looking to ascend to a even higher form by eating Tangzeng (the chosen monk). It is said, his flesh will give one unimaginable strength, so demons saw him as a prize. Anyways, the stories has 2 more disciple, 3 including wukong. They all committed some type taboo/crime in heaven or against heaven and it laws, and this journey was for redemption, and to test if their hearts to see if theyve truly repent.
Btw, wukong has trained with the saints while he was young, hes considered a prodigy because he can do 72 transformations, and he can make crazy things happen by blowing pieces of his fur. He was also born out of a boulder, this boulder was said to consume the life force of the nature over millenias and finally one day, this crazy fucker exploded and that birth him. Dude has an ego and challenged the heavens, where he wrecked havoc. The great buddha punished him by having him under a mountain where he is constrained for hundreds of year, until he waits for Tangzeng to get him out, and have him accompany him on this journey as a disciple and guardian.
worth mentioning, the strength of Wukong is over-exaggerated, which is hard to believe as even most of Chinese people believe in his strength, yet in the original fiction, Wukong was powerful indeed, yet didn’t even make his way through the front gate of the heaven palace before being captured by. The publicly known overpowered version of Wukong was created by the epic Tv program episodes of The Journey To the West in the recent decades, which I believe the game will follow this version instead of the original.
To be fair the over-powered version is far more entertaining in general and would make a far better game to build up to that power during... so I think you are right they are clearly going for the whole "equal of heaven" version.
I like how his like this is original! but what he doesn't know is that this is the original inspiration for multiple monga, anime and games that a lot of us are already familiar with...
Saw the trailer when the trailer was launched. Skills almost matches with Wukong Monkey King from Dota 2. Finally a full fledged game on the Monkey King storyline. Gonna buy it the day it gonna launch
Dude: it's Sun Wu Kong aka "The Monkey King", the main character in the Chinese "Journey To The West" saga. Also, the primary inspiration for "Goku" in the Dragonball series. See the Jackie Chan film "The Forbidden Kingdom" for some of Sun Wu Kong's many abilities. Sun Wu Kong can become anything he defeats in battle.
AFter beating the wolf, the "new" monkey-ninja in the fancy outfit that blocked the death blow is the real Wukong. The other was an impostor. The real guy has a staff with magic words on it.
Actually I think the whole fight character is a FAKE Wukong, the real Wukong is the one you see at 15:00, the FAKE Wukong call six-ears monkey, who has the similar power as real Monkey King, that is what I guess
The Monkey King he has 72 magical skill in shape shifting. His staff is original from the sea to keep the sea calm. The dragon of the 4 seas can not find him a suitable weapon so he took the staff. The ability of the staff is grow big or small when ever you like and I think only he can wield this staff. The one you call Roshi is the local earth lord of that land but he was took over by the monster. In journey of the west when ever Wu Kong need information he will summon the earth lord of that area to ask. This game has so much details in it. The gods call the Monkey King is Great Saint cause no one in the heaven kingdom can defeat him only and only Buddha can tame the Monkey King and put him in the right path along with his teacher.
The problem with getting most people hyped about the oldest serialised story ever written (to the point they ain't even sure who wrote it) is that at some point everyone has copied it so it isn't new any more in the eyes of many. I just wish that this story gets retold correctly and not half assed like most times. Journey to the West is a Classic. Monkey King is a character within that story.
You hit the nail on the head. Original stories have been copied over and re-adapted by so many over time that the original that started it all, lost its uniqueness and gravitas. And is no longer a novelty even if they're being introduced to it for the first time. That goes for everything from religion to academia and so on.
05:43 that man is The God in that land , governing everything on that , but the Devil was coming , and pushed him away. 11:52 and that's the Wukong. 13:18 Maybe , He's the Vajradhara.
Wukong actually took on the entire heaven before starting the journey to the West, he lost doe but only due to Buddha stopping him. Even without Buddha, he couldn't win anyway since there are great fighters on Heaven like Ne Zha or the 3 eyes god (forgot his Chinese name, only know his Vietnamese name) and some very powerful figures also including the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor isn't that weak like the TV series, he's actually one of the most powerful beings (in term of power) in Chinese mythology, could stand side by side with Buddha in power tbh. The reason why Wukong could take on the entire Heaven is that he is immortal, he can't die and the Heaven couldn't find a way to actually stop him since he just...doesn't die...that's why they asked Buddha to come and help.
One of Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.......Ever heard of " Journey To the West"? That's the Monkey King..- Sun Wukong..... Wow they even played the theme of Journey of the West at the end.....
The monk intro is wukong himself impersonating his master who is a monk too. Telling back his story as 3rd person of how he travel back in time using Pandora box or something (one of their gigs) trying to amend things right to his younger version....that's my thought of this story plot.
No, the plot involves the six eared macaque - the 六耳獼猴, who impersonates Sun Wukong to the point where Wukong cannot beat him, although the macaque cannot beat Wukong as well. In the Journey to the West, the story goes that the macaque impersonates Wukong so well that no one can tell who's real and who's fake. Only Guanyin was able to trap the fake Wukong. You can tell that the monkey who starts off fighting in the trailer is the macaque (the fake Wukong), as the real Wukong comes in to stop him from executing the giant wolf boss (evident by the golden Ruyijingubang, the gold pole) and his armor. The story also should take place after Sanzang (Wukong's master) drives Wukong out after Wukong kills the white bone demon. There is no time travel in Journey to the west.
trust me people, the story it self, it’s actually even better than the game...like much better. It was written in Yuan dynasty, and that’s few hundred years ago. And the story Is base on true historical events which happened during Tang Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago. The one who stopped the player monkey from killing, was the Monkey King WuKong( yes gokon in dragon ball was inspired by this). The four giants at the end represent four divine gods South North East and West. Monkey king took on the entire heavenly army, and fucked the heaven like upside down all by himself alone. And the Monkey king was eventually stopped by the Buddha and was trapped under the five elements mountain for 500 years. Until his master Tang Seng( also known by golden cicada) met him and get him out. Then the journey to the west begins.
The Monkey King. Sun Wukong is his name. The other monkey that stop him from killing the giant wolf might be his future self, all wise and more powerful, judging from his more advanced armor, come back to teach him a valuable lesson of not to kill or something? Lol. Yes the legend of the Monkey King has some time traveling going on.
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Also, thank you all so much for the helpful comments explaining Journey to the West. I read all of them :) this is so cool that Journey to the West is what inspired sooo much of what we have today, like Dragon Ball and Naruto (for example).
And just to be clear, I don’t really consider myself a Dragon Ball fan (PLEASE DONT HATE ME). It’s not that I don’t like it, I actually think it’s awesome, but I never really got into it. I just know a handful of the characters and that’s it lol. Same goes for Naruto. I felt like I needed to clear that up because there’s a good amount of people in here who are wondering how I don’t know Journey to the West if I’m a Dragon Ball fan. Well, I’m not. Lol. But now I gotta do my research on Sun Wukong and dive deep into the mythology 👀
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I don't know how old u were back in 1978-80 (if at all) but maybe this'll remind u (or not). Either way it was one of my favourite shows as a kid.
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@@jaydee6414 I wasn’t even born yet LOL 😂 I was born in ‘96. But this was awesome lol
@@andybru: Haha. I expected as much. I'd just finished a long explanation of the Monkey King legend & just before posting I noticed ppl had already clued u up on it so no point adding to it. Great reaction vid. Good luck with the channel. 👍🏻
@@jaydee6414 thank you!
Actually first look the movie wu Kong the monkey king
Chinese mythology is a very complex system. I can explain the basic concept of the chinese mythology.
First the structure of chinese pantheon. Chinese traditional mythology is called Daoism. But after Buddhism come to China, it got absorbed by Chinese pantheon. The supreme god king governing heaven in daoism is jade emperor. But the one who created the universe was the ancient titan pangu. Pangu died from exhaustion soon after he creates the universe. The jade emperor and three pure one control most of the universe after him. They assigned king Yama to govern the underworld. Four great dragon kings to govern the sea. But they all pledge loyalty to jade emperor. Great goddess Nuwa creates humanity after the creation of the world. Buddha is technically the most powerful entity after the death of pangu. Because Buddhism believe he is one with universe. Therefore both Buddhism god and daoism god show respect to each other, and often work together.
Second is the power structure of chinese mythology. The biggest difference between Chinese mythology and western mythology. Is the fact that in Chinese mythology, mortal can become god by practicing daoism or Buddhism. Which many western mythology can’t. This gives people more hope and give them reason to study daoism and Buddhism. However this freedom also give birth to demon(youkai). In chinese the concept of demon is not the same as west. Chinese demon were once mortal creatures who practiced daoism or Buddhism. They use the power in evil way and because corrupted. This goes for animal too. Both human and animals have possibilities of becoming demon. That’s why in journey of west there are tiger demon or fish demon. Due to the fact all youkai Practice daoism or Buddhism. In chinese mythology demon are considered very intelligent beings. Also most demon aim to become god, because in chinese mythology gods are the final stage of evolution.
Now we can talk about monkey king wukong and journey of the west. Monkey king is the hero in chinese mythology. He’s just like Thor in Norse mythology or Hercules in Greek. Monkey king was loved by chinese people. But monkey king wasn’t a righteous figure when he first appeared. Monkey king was a stone monkey who came from the magical stone of goddess nuwa. He was a trickster and a morally neutral existence. He soon became the king of monkeys and learn daoism under a great daoist saint. During the process he learn immortality and become so powerful that almost no god can beat him. After he gain such strength, he went to the dragon king palace and acquired weapons and armor. Went to underworld and delete his name from book of death. He soon make alliance with demon kings in the mortal realm. Making him one of the greatest demon king in existence. When jade emperor discovered this, he give wukong a job in heaven. Which wukong gladly accept. But jade emperor still didn’t quite understand how strong wukong is. So he give him a position as stable boy for taming heavenly horses. Wukong feels extremely humiliated. So he quit the job and give him self the title of great sage equal to heaven in revenge. Heaven sees wukong’s refusal of the job as an insult. But after long discussion, they give wukong the title of great sage equal to heaven and invite him once more to live in heaven. As guardian of immortal peach garden. But monkey screw up his job again, because he end up eating all the peaches and even steal some pills of immortality. That finally angered the jade emperor. He dispatched the entire army of Heaven to arrest wukong. Monkey king was unrivaled in power even for gods. Only the great warrior god Erlang could fight him in equal strength. They eventually did capture the monkey through trap, but can’t find any way to kill him. Because he’s so bloody immortal, nothing can hurt him. He eventually break loss again and causing even greater havoc in heaven. Jade emperor finally calls the buddha himself to fix the problems. Buddha being the strongest beings in existence, easily subdue wukong, and trap him under a magical mountain. 500 years later Buddha send a chinese monk name Xiang Zang to retrieve the holy scripture from India. He choose wukong as one of monks body guards. Finally wukong was freed from the prison. But this time he humbly protect the monk in his journey to the west. During the process he starts to respect the monk. Also becoming a more humble and righteous person. He eventually was reworded by the Buddha and become a Buddha himself
worth mentioning that in the second paragraph, the term youkai is modern Japanese pronunciation system, whereas the modern mandarin version is 妖怪 yaoguai
also, worth mentioning, the strength of Wukong is over-exaggerated, which is hard to believe as even most of Chinese people believe in his strength, yet in the original fiction, Wukong was powerful indeed, yet didn’t even make his way through the front gate of the heaven palace before being captured. The publicly known overpowered Wukong is created by the epic episodes of The Journey To the West in the recent decades, which I believe the game will follow the version instead of the original.
Buddha treat as "immigrant" GOD, he had sit in Jade Emper, no more. Jade welcome him but he not in charge of any "offical" duty.
Houston Houston ho yes I forget to use Chinese pronunciation. Although Japanese share the same kanji as Chinese for this word. So the difference isn’t big
Houston Houston he did fought some very strong god. So i don’t where he was fighting matters that much. It depends on how you see it
For these that doesn't know, the writer from dragon ball was inspired by the book journey to the west (written in 16th century)
Sun wun kong (which is the real name of son goku), has the ability which is with his own fur he makes clones of himself.
Some of the Naruto story was also inspired by the book
Sun Wukong (孫悟空) (pinyin: sūnwùkōng) is the name given to this character by his teacher, Subhuti, the latter part of which means "Awakened to Emptiness" (in the Waley translation, Aware-of-Vacuity); he is called Monkey King. He is born on Flower Fruit Mountain from a stone egg that forms from an ancient rock created by the coupling of Heaven and Earth. He first distinguishes himself by bravely entering the Water Curtain Cave on the mountain; for this feat, his monkey tribe gives him the title of "Handsome Monkey King". After seeing a fellow monkey die because of old age, he decides to travel around the world to seek the Tao, and find a way to be able to live forever. He eventually found the " Grand Master of Bodhi (菩提祖师）", who taught him the 72 methods of transformation, "sumersault cloud", and thus got his supernatural abilities. After angering several gods and coming to the attention of the Jade Emperor, he is given a minor position in heaven as the Keeper of Horses (弼马温) so they can keep an eye on him. This job is a very low position, and when he realises that he was given a low position and not considered a full-fledged god, he becomes very angry. Upon returning to his mountain, he puts up a flag and declares himself the "Great Sage Equal to Heaven". Then the Jade Emperor dispatches celestial soldiers to arrest Sun Wukong, but no one succeeds. The Jade Emperor has no choice but to appoint him to be the guardian of the heavenly peach garden. The peach trees in the garden bear fruit every 3,000 years, and eating its flesh will bestow immortality, so Sun Wukong eats nearly all of the ripe peaches. Later, after fairies who come to collect peaches for Xi Wangmu's heavenly peach banquet inform Sun Wukong he is not invited and make fun of him, he starts causing trouble in Heaven and defeats an army of 100,000 celestial troops, led by the Four Heavenly Kings, Erlang Shen, and Nezha. Eventually, the Jade Emperor appeals to the Buddha, who seals Wukong under a mountain called Five Elements Mountain. Sun Wukong is kept under the mountain for 500 years, and cannot escape because of a seal that was placed on the mountain. He is later set free when Tang Sanzang comes upon him during his pilgrimage and accepts him as a disciple.
兄弟爱了
悟空是出生后才去的花果山
OMG atlist someone knows that thank you bro I can't believe I'm from the Caribbean and actual know that naruto and goku was based of this guy oh its killing me tgat this gamers don't even know
@@minchunyang5845 石头就长在花果山上，书上第一回写的
So thrilled to see him riding the cloud in the clip at the end. Dragonball took its inspiration from this story
even the character name are same in Chinese (WuKong) In English as Goku
and rmb when Goku was a kid, he also has a stick?
Lol monkey King movie bro🙄
@Jamal Gan Nope Goku was based off him, he isn't the same character tho
The legend of Monkey King has him riding on a cloud named Nimbus in English and his magical staff that can be summoned from the heavens and be as small as a toothpick or large enough to poke the gods in their butts from standing on Earth.
English sub:
(the monkey transforming into a cicada sneaks on monsters' camp…)
狼兵甲：居然有几个酒坛
The first werewolf: there were a few wine jars
狼兵甲：不知道里面还有没存酒
The first werewolf: I wonder if there is any wine in it
狼兵乙：别馋了
The second werewolf: being gluttonous is forbidden when working, damn it!
狼兵乙：误了事，小心咱们两个被灵虚真人拿去下酒
The second werewolf: We will be eaten by the super monster wolf Lingxuzi once making mistakes on our jobs
狼兵丙：大哥，山门口那边好像传来些响动
The third werewolf: bro? there may be any anomalies from the entry gate
狼兵丁：别疑神疑鬼的，有大哥在把守
The forth werewolf: take it easy man! our captain is guarding here
狼兵丁：哪个不识相会来找死啊
The forth werewolf: Nobody except those seeking death dare to come here
(captain of monsters penetrates the cicada are transformed by the monkey, the battle begins…)
山匪头子：那些狼崽子看不见你
Captain of monsters: those men cannot see you, but I can
山匪头子：别以为就能过了老子这关
Captain of monsters: getting through me is just a delusion
(captain of monsters is defeated, move on…)
狼斥候：不好啦，有毛脸和尚闯进来了
Werewolf scout: damn it! A monk with hairy face is breaking in
(after defeating the werewolf archer, move on…)
刀狼教头：来者何人？
Head coach of monsters: who is that coming?
刀狼教头：敢来此处扰我清修
Head coach of monsters: how dare you bother me during my exercise?
刀狼教头：唔？又是只猴子
Head coach of monsters: Uhhh? Another monkey
刀狼教头：施主不如放下棍棒
Head coach of monsters: you’d better put your stick down
刀狼教头：也同我学点佛法
Head coach of monsters: and learn Buddhist doctrine from me
刀狼教头：如何
Head coach of monsters: how about you?
(start battle with the head coach, move on after defeating him…)
刀狼教头：你…莫非就是大王说的那个
Head coach of monsters: you… are you the man mentioned by our king?
刀狼教头：天…命…人
Head coach of monsters: the...man …owning…destiny
(monkey takes head coach’s weapon, a fire stick named 赤潮(Chichao)…)
（地下的声音）小猴子，你惊动了这儿的妖怪
Underground sound: hey monkey, you have alerted monsters here
（地下的声音）再往前走可要万万小心
Underground sound: look out the around once moving on
（地下的声音）小猴子，来这边
Underground sound: monkey, come here
（地下的声音）这儿，看这儿
Underground sound: I am here, look here
(the NPC Earth God appears…)
土地公：小神是黑风山的土地，在此处等候你多时了
Earth God: I am Earth God of the Heifeng Mountain, and wait you for a long time
土地公：像
Earth God: Oh…
土地公：真像啊
Earth God: you are really like him(maybe the true monkey Wukong)
土地公：再往前走，就是观音禅院
Earth God: you will see the Avalokitesvara Temple if go forward
土地公：当年也是香火鼎盛
Earth God: In those years, believers are in an endless stream here
土地公：只可惜那场大火
Earth God: till a fire burned out everything…
土地公：后来，禅院又被重建了
Earth God: Although the temple was rebuilt later
土地公：可人心若是烧没了
Earth God: belief was burned out…
土地公：修好一座破庙，又有什么用
Earth God: what does an empty temple matter?
(a wolf whistling spreads out…)
土地公：小老儿先走一步
Earth God: let me walk the first step
土地公：等你过了前面的栈道，咱们自会再见
Earth God: we will meet again after passing through the plank road
(keep moving util encounter a group of monsters, they are defeated after transforming into a giant monkey, then enter into the Avalokitesvara Temple…)
土地公：嘘…别出声
Earth God: keep silent please
土地公：小心惊动那条大狗
Earth God: don’t alert the big dog! it is in the yard now
土地公：后院那厮是黑风怪的道友
Earth God: he is the friend of the Black Wind Monster
土地公：自称灵虚子
Earth God: and name himself Lingxuzi
土地公：以你现在的道行
Earth God: you cannot defeat him with your strength
(wolf whistling comes one again…)
土地公：糟了
Earth God: Damn it!
土地公：小猴子快逃，还来得及
Earth God: leave here, there is still time!
(monkey moves forwards…)
土地公：你若进了这道门，便回不了头了
Earth God: there is no way back if you enter the door
(the Boss battle with Lingxuzi begin. It is very interesting when the monkey release some magic skills, like 定身术(dingshenshu, i.e. the target will be frozen while the skill fails on fighting with the boss) 猴子猴孙(houzihousun, i.e. monkey make copies of himself from his hairs) and 七十二变(countless changes of tactics, i.e. monkey can transform into any materials including cicada, giant monkey even the head coach defeated before); finally monkey transforms into the head coach and end the boss Lingxuzi . Apparently, these skills are totally from the Ancient Chinese Literature-Journey to the West)
Thanks for watching! 😊
you are a hero of this world
一直想说官方应该给游戏内独白配英文字幕。
Thanks a lot bro! 👍
And now that we are playing it, the developers stood to the test and kept their promise, not to mention, overwhelmingly
Forwarded message: spoiler alert
an over-simplified explain here:
This game is a re-creation of "journey to the west",
and in ancient china myth world which WUKONG lives in, humans can get supernature power to become a "god/神仙".
Practicing Buddhism or Taoism is a way of becoming "god".
Animals can also receive supernature power, and they become "monster/demon/妖怪", not "god".
Here, monster/demon is not always evil, they are just different from humans.
In many stories, the monster can live with humans or even have a marriage with a human.
in those stories, humans are often more evil or stupid or greedy or coward...
The rank or class of this world is roughly like this:
god > monster > human > animal.
This rank is a metaphor of ancient china society, but not enough room to explain it here, knowing the rank is ok.
So monsters want to live in the form of a human, or at least act like a human because they are in the hope of becoming a "god".
WUKONG is a monkey born from a stone who finally become a "god",
he is not a "pure" god(human -> god), he remains some monster/demon characteristics.
This contradiction is the source of many re-creations including this game.
Back to this trailer:
This trailer shows a monk tells a story that happens in a temple relic occupied by a group of monster gangsters.
The giant wolf boss at 7:38 is their leader, he identifies himself as a Taoism priest,
and get a Taoism name "灵虚子" or "灵虚真人"
he has a friend who is a black bear. but not shown in this game.
the minor boss at 2:53 is also a wolf. check his feet, you can see that he is a wolf wearing human cloth,
not a human with a wolf head.
the little potato-like guy at 4:49 is "土地公/local earth god", a kind of minor god.
like a nymph in Greek myth, but not that pretty.
you guys may be confused why there is another monkey king with better weapon and better armor stop us from finishing the boss.
and spend several seconds showing shining gold characters on his stick.
We Chinese guys are quite excited seeing this scene because it gets to the most suspenseful part of the story:
whether the monkey king who finally becomes the god is the real monkey king who born from the stone?
(Is the hero at the end of the journey the same person when he starts the journey?)
(are we still us when we grow up/old ?)
yes, there are multiple monkey kings and multiple explanations.
you can even take them as the "ego", the "id", the "superego" of the monkey king.
but it is best to let the game itself to explain it.
if you look carefully enough,
you will find that the storyteller(at the beginning and end of the trailer) himself is an old "monkey" too.
the floating belt behind him indicating that he is a "god".
Amazing!
Yao mou ran
Do you know when the game is out?
@@kwadwooyirifi8871 The game is still under development. It will be at least 2 years. The purpose of releasing this promoting video that looks like a real "game trailer" is to attract talented game techs to join the project. Obviously, it has achieved more than they expected. Since developing a 3A title is super risky. Not to mention most markets have shifted to mobile games. Especially in China where no one has done a well-known 3A title game. The CEO Ji Feng decided they have to build a playable chapter. They have to show what they have achieved to the investors and potential developers. Game science is a small team that only has 30-40 employees. According to Ji Feng, their aim to hire a bigger team of a minimum of 80. The leading game designers used to work under Tencent. You can check their earlier work "Asura" in Tencent which has the same theme of "Journey to the west". From this trailer, the team has shown they're passionate, they have ambition. There's a follow-up declaration from the CEO Ji Feng. He was humble and even criticized the flaws in the video and he said thank you all for the hype and the attention but the team will remain silent and focus on developing this game. Let's hope for the best.
You guys feel some Sekiro vibe, no strange because of the building styles, the temple, the ringing bell-----buddhism elements everywhere in both games. The spreading of Chinese Buddhism has influenced Japanese culture greatly since Tang Dynasty, 1400 years ago.
No doubt Sekiro is a great game, and of course Sekiro vibe is a good word. However, it sounds a lil bit pathetic to Chinese gamers. Chinese historic culture is so deep and long and rich, but we never created even a single game to make the world know about such culture. As a comparison, Japan does this job so well. Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, etc., so many great games showing Japanese culture to the world.
And that's why Black Myth: Wukong made so many Chinese people crazy. We have been expecting it so long.
Highly recommend to read the book "The journey to the west" before playing this game that helps you to know the story and all the characters.
Thank you for the info!
Let me give you a hand, here the whole series of The journey to the west, with english subtitles
ruclips.net/video/Vp_Mt9Zfsqg/видео.html
yes, but do not try to read the original book, because even Chinese may not understand it totally, since it was written
several hundred years before using the very old Chinese language system. Try to find new version of that book, which is translated to simple Chinese language, or if you can find English version?
China's been around so long, you could say they have an entire world's worth of history/culture and mythology lol
Two thumbs up for listening to the end, the song at the end means a LOT to us who grew up with Journey to the West Live action and cartoon shows.
to some who don't know, Son WuKong is a character from a Chinese myth novel 400 years ago called Journey to the West. In the myth, some of his powers include riding clouds, transforming (72 forms), that magical staff he wields can lengthen and shorten, he also hides it in his ears when it's tiny. When he tears off strands of his hair, each strand can turn into a clone of himself. Oh, and let's not forget he can freeze people with words. that's all i remember for the moment. but he's pretty dope.
Here's my version when Wukong arrives, check it out u might like it.
ruclips.net/video/TGKdGrYhe4U/видео.html
Also known as "The Great Sage Equal of Heaven" and "Victorious Fighting Buddha."
Hot Sauce haha
Here a better version when Wukong arrives, check it out u might like it.
ruclips.net/video/TGKdGrYhe4U/видео.html
@@vitaboost don't forget protector of the Heavenly Peaches as well. Lol
@arnold jayeola actually he's the weakest of the stine monkey's. His twin the Six Eared Macaque is equal to his strength. I believe that are playing as Six Ears in this game.
Also known as Son goku!
"That was an experience" You got that right man! This is easily one of the best trailers for games I've seen in my life. I haven't been this hyped since I was a kid watching the trailers for God of War 3!
cloudtx I’m so pumped for it!!!
@@andybru If that's your expression first time seeing something like that, imagine how more than a billion Chinese young and old who whole life were shaped and influenced by this mythology would feel 😋
@Rex Stu I think WuKong means more than that. Kratos is all about rage and vengeance while WuKong is about freedom, harmony, care (about his family and companions) and hope. They're both strong, but went completely different path
@Rex Stu I think Erlang Shen is more deserve the title god of war. Victory Fighting Buddha is more of a self battling victory in which he changed himself so much from who he was (ironically, some people included me feel sad that he changed that much, because his previous lively self was more likable 😟) than a Victory against actual enemies
@Rex Stu the ancient Chinese Mythology is an endless goldmine, should they harvest them correctly, but all I've seen all these years are shallow cash grap, rarely do I see any original or deep emotional story or flip side story like Ne Zha or Journey to the West Conquering Demons on big screen. Contract with the Chinese light novel, which I'm really passionate about. Even some successful novel and television came up shallow, like the Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms serie. If they'd put just a little bit more passion to it, those would've been legendary 😟
Wukong is a character in Chinese mythology. He has a lot of magical abilities, I said his three basic skills.
His weapon is an iron that weighs more than 10,000 tons and can become bigger or smaller and put into his ears.
His flying tool is a cloud, and a single somersault can fly 54,000km
Wukong can be transformed into 72 different forms.
This is JOURNEY TO THE WEST: THE MONKEY KING a Chinese Mythology Dates Back The Year 1592 Novel Publication As Sun WuKong as The Protagonist_ Dragonball Was Inspired By Journey to the West & Goku In Chinese Translation is WuKong _ Japanese Anime Creator Akira Toriyama Stated Plenty Times He Created Dragonball & Goku Inspiration of That
"He taking on a whole army"
yup buddy that wu kong for ya
If you really wanna enjoy the game you should watch journey to the west 1 and 2. And monkey king 1,2 and 3. They’re both good adaptations of the wu-Kong myth. Not to mention fun to watch. There’s a couple other movies about him, but those are the main ones.
That's him, who he was or the legend he will become. This is an inwards journey as much as it is an outward one. The mythology and lore of Wukong is an awesome and lengthy one that dates back hundreds of years.
Actually the game demo already sorta displays the game battle system.
From the game's bottom left section, you will see 4 skill slots. Skills after used will become red indicating cooldown time
Top skill when pressed = armored mode which sorta deflect or blocks any incoming attacks
Right skill when pressed = Goes into cicada aka stealth mode. will sorta be disabled during boss fights
left skill when pressed = Will freeze the enemy in front of you
down skill when pressed = summons the monkey gang as seen during the boss fight
So i guess you will sorta learn skills along the way then decide which skill to assign to which slot.
If you also noticed the bottom right section you will see the ape character and icon so i guess it's sorta his special skill to transform into that giant ape after the super meter is filled. After you defeated the 1st mini boss wolf and get his weapon, you see another slot opening up which is the wolf character and icon which during the later boss fights he switches from the ape to the wolf icon and using the transformation into the miniboss earlier on. So my guess is maybe later you can just go hunt for special minibosses for their weapons and able to transform into various beast forms other than the ape and the wolf shown in the demo.
I'm too hyped about this game I went and watch every reactions there are. So far, this is the best reaction 👍👍👍
Finally watching my childhood hero being more recognized by the world 😍❤️
Translation of subtitles:
2:41
Wolf Soldier one: Unexpectedly, there are some wine jars! Can't assure if there is any wine left in them.（居然有几个酒坛，不知道里面有没有存酒）
Wolf Soldier two: emmja!!(onomatopoeic) Don't be greedy! If something goes wrong, we both will be taken to drink by LingXu immortal!!（哎呀！别馋了！误了事，咱俩都得给灵虚真人拿去下酒！）
Wolf Soldier three: Bro, sounds like some noise from the mountain gate!（大哥，山门口那边好像传来些响动）
Wold Soldier four: No need to be suspicious. Here is guarded by our big brother. Who will be too ignorant to come back and find a death?（别疑神疑鬼的。有大哥在这把手，哪个不识相的会来找死啊？）
3:08
The Mountain Bandit Leader: Hmm!! Those wolf bastards can't see you. But do not think you can pass anymore!（哼！那些狼崽子看不见你，别以为就能过了老子这关！）
Wolf Scout: Oh shit!! A “hairy-faced monk” broke in!!（不好了，有个毛脸和尚闯进来了！）
3:43
Knife-Wolf Coach: Who are you? How dare you disturb my secluded exercise?（来者何人？敢来此处扰我清修？）
Knife-Wolf Coach: Emm? A monkey again?（嗯？又是只猴子？）
Knife-Wolf Coach: Why not put down the stick, master? Learning the Buddism with me together, how about that?（施主不如放下棍棒？也同我学点佛法，如何？）
After the battle
Knife-Wolf Coach: You... Could you be the person the lord said... the person... of God's... will...（你...莫非就是大王说的那个...天...命...人...）
(On the screen): Red Tidal, new magical weapon（赤潮，新法宝）
5:11
Unknown Wolf: Quick, quick,quick! Keep up!!（快快快，跟上！）
5:14
(Underground sound): Little monkey, you have alerted the monsters here.（小猴子，你惊动了这里的妖精！）
(Underground sound): Be too careful when going ahead!!（再往前走可要万万小心！）
(Underground sound): Hai! Little monkey! Comes here!（嘿！小猴子！来这边！）
(Underground sound): Here, here. Look here!（这儿，这儿，看这儿）
5:43
Land God: I small god(call himself) is the Land God of this Black-wind Mountain. Wait for you here for long. （小神是黑风山的土地，在此处候你多时了）
Land God: Alike, really alike. Ai~（像，真像啊，哎~）
Land God: Go further on, and there is a GuanYin temple.(GuanYin is one of Bodhisattvas)（再往前走，就是观音禅院）
Land God: In the past years, joss sticks(used for worshipping GuanYin Bodhisattva) were at their peak.（当年，也是香火鼎盛）
Land God: Though, it was a pity of that fire...（只可惜那场大火）
Note*: (In the chapter 16 of the novel "Journey To The West", in order to robber the cassock of Monk Tang who was the master of Monkey king, the Black-Wind Monster created a fire to burn the temple in order to create chaos and thus succeeded in robbery)
6:18
Land God: Later, the temple was rebuilt.（后来啊，禅院又被重建了）
Land God: But if the will of people was burnt out, rebuilt a broken temple, equals to nothing.（可人心如果烧没了，修好一座破庙，又有什么用呢？）
After the howling
Land God: Little elderly(call himself) have to go first.（小老儿先走一步）
Land God: After you passed the front plank road, we will meet again!（当你过了前面的栈道，咱们自会再见）
7:59
(On the right screen): GuanYin Temple（观音禅院）
8:07
Land God: Xu...Don't make noise! （嘘...别出声！）
Land God: Be careful of alerting that big dog!（小心惊动了那条大狗！）
Land God: The bastard in the backyard is the mate of Black-Wind Monster.（后院那厮是黑风怪的道友）
Land God: Claim himself as "LingXu Zi"（自称灵虚子）
Note*: 子(zǐ) in Chinese means: 1.son 2.children 3. honorific of a master(used in anicent time of China, such as Confucius)
In this place, the monster who is a friend of Black-Wind Monster is claming himself as a status of Master. Dudes, you could understand how arrogant such a monster is.
Land God: Based on your current strength...（以你现在的道行...）
Land God: Oh no!!（糟了）
Land God: Little monkey, run! Before it's too late!! (小猴子快逃！还来得及！！）
8:25
Land God: If you enter this door, you will never be able to turn back!!（你若进了这道门，便回不了头啦！）
8:33
(On the screen): Boss(Red), LingXu Zi
11:40
(On the screen when two monkeys appeared): The Golden-hoop Cudgel of the wishes（如意金箍棒, rú yì jīn gū bàng，如意 rú yì = wish，金箍 jīn gū = Golden hoop，棒 bàng = stick, cudgel. This cudgel is the weapon of the Monkey king in the novel, that was once the God-Needle of Stablizing Sea, was sent as a gift by the Eastern-Sea Dragon King, who dominated the Eastern Sea of China, to the Monkey king. This weapon weighed 6750 Kilograms and could elongate infinitely large or shrink infinitely small. The Monkey king usually shrink it into a needle and put it into his ear）
13:35
First Line: after the bones, return the Journey to the West
Second Line: Join in to the team for Buddist scriptures. Visit the website right now:
Third Line: www.heishenhua.com（黑 hēi 神 shén 话 huà = black myth, the meaning of the name of this website equals to www.blackmyth.com(←it doesn't appear)）
13:38
First line on the bottom: "Prelude of the Journey to the West" Genuine License Authorized by Xu Jingqing
Note*: "Prelude of the Journey to the West"(The background music at the end of the vedio) is the theme song of the Chinese TV series "The Journey to the West 1986" which was extremely influential in China and created the memory of 3 generations of most Chinese.
"Journey to the West" is one of the "Four Great Chinese Classical Novels", written by Writer Wu ChengEn in nearly 1550 B.C. in Ming dynasty. it is even influential in those countries surrounding China and the story of Sun Wukong(the Monkey king) to protect the Monk Tang and his team(another 3 members: Pig called "BaJie", Sand Monk, and White-Dragon Horse) to come from ChangAn(Xi 'an of China nowadays) to India to get the Buddist scriptures to finish their challenges and become immortal Buddha praised by Sakyamuni Buddha is praised and widely spreaded by the people surrounding the world
As the theme song of that TV series, "Prelude of the Journey to the West" was made by the Musicain Xu Jingqing(1942-today). Due to the great influence of the TV series, this music was highly praised as "Classic" and enjoyed by Chinese for decades, and Xu Jingqing was praised as Master like Zhang Jinlai(actors of Monkey king in that TV series, stage-name called "Liu Xiao Lingtong", coming from the family of actoring Monkey king). That is why when the music at the end started, many Chinese will cry. Because it reminds people of the return of that "Unchained Monkey King."
For all the video game communities in the world, the observation for this game was made after several sharing on social networks: The wishlist for future games on Nextgen Ps5, PC and Xbox SX and other consoles has a few points to add to the 2020-21 games which are only negligible examples:
1 Texturize sewers, seabeds, rivers, and building interiors (the entire map with breakable parts) designed for use by all players in the game.
2 unlock weapons for all characters that we can choose with their own storymode and multiplayer sessions (heroes and villains) perhaps in the next episode of the game wukong2)
3 allow us to choose hero or villain in story mode and PvP sessions, online multiplayer co-op in crossplay .
5 Turn this world into an open world .
6 create online arenas sessions ,where we can fight like in soul calibur 5 in coop or 1 versus 1 player with training style we can unlock so we can finish the game with them to use theunlocked style of fighting in the storymode again to improve the characters skills
imagine if we can unlock them to play with them in a arena in the game when we finish the game the arena just popup in the game so we can go and PvP or coop inside of the arena in the game!!WAOW!! it will be awesome
This is a mythical novel written by Wu Chengen 470 years ago. This monkey is called Monkey King. The goddess patching the sky from Lingshi, the Lingshi left the stone of the day when the Nu Wa was making up the sky, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon on the flower and fruit hill. It took ten thousand years for the birth of Monkey King. Later, Monkey King worshipped Bodhi as his teacher. The teacher taught him 72 changes, which can be changed into 72 kinds of things. He also learned how to do somersault clouds. A somersault cloud can travel a thousand miles. Later, Monkey King ate the elixir that he thought was an old immortal. The elixir not only increased his mana, but also could live forever, Later, the content is more wonderful. If you like, you can read this novel. It is one of the most famous and greatest four masterpieces in China's 5000 year civilization.
13:22 - That's the theme song to the old, old, *_old_* Journey to the West TV show.
That's some old school fangirling, right there. ruclips.net/video/_KRl_pLl4vo/видео.html
remix here ruclips.net/video/R0Am9vpEWZ8/видео.html
As soon as I saw the Chinese characters lit up on the staff, I tried to say its name one syllable at the time :
Ru... Yi... Jin... Gu... Bang.
=> And it fits !
They got inspiration from God of War, Sekiro, and Monster Hunter they said. I really hope the combat and difficulty are more in line with God of War though. Looks amazing.
According to the trailer and the "land god"s communication with that monkey I guess that we'll control the "Six Eared Macaque" which is one of 4 "God Monkeys" , they are brothers of Sun Wukong (Victorious Fighting Buddha).
What is worth mentioning is that the game is based on a Chinese novel Journey to The West written roughly in the late 16th century. The novel itself was a mythic version of the Tang Dynasty monk Xuan Zang’s journey to India seeking sacred Buddhist sutras, which took place during 627-645 A.D.
In the modern days, there are many Japanese products including games and anime that are based on this novel and have great influences across the world. The Chinese, on the other hand, have less satisfying performance. This is definitely one great opportunity that the Chinese can represent their own culture internationally.
The ending music is also a great piece and has important historical meanings. It is a remixed version of the theme music of the TV series Journey to The West released in 1986. It has great influence in the eastern and southern Asia, but was not so widely known worldwide. The original version of the music was essentially the first piece of Chinese electronic music.
Overall, the introduction of this history and the culture in it itself is like a journey to the west. There are so many obstacles on the way to be conquered, and so many people have failed on the way. But some people with the faith in their heart will eventually make this great achievement.
Roflmao
See. He doesn't know.
Okay. This is east. Okay. So when you travel to west. Where is west? Ever heard of mayan aztecs. Those. Don't? You will find the confirmation in the epic of Lord Hanuman. He goes to West. To fetch the scriptures back to its place. Here. Okay. This is what Christians say the transfer of power from East to west. But they never mention in bible that it was taken back.
See everybody lies. These are not myths. The scriptures are knowledge. Okay. Now you have great deal to research. Don't read those books as a play. It's real facts.
My theorie for the story:
The monk said that "The real monkey king died before they reached the West"
Maybe there was a really big fight, Sun Wukong actually lost. He did not die, but he was Not able to continue the journey. So he made a copy of himself.
This copy finished the journy to and back from the budda monestary and achieved godhood/ the titel of Budda.
Now the original is back in buisness, but the copy does not want to share the titel and the Power.
It's been a while since i've felt this hyped about a game
Sun WuKong is one of the greatest characters and deities in mythology, the world outside of Asia had NOOOO idea how powerful this guy is and he's a huuuge deal. He's like the thor or hercules of china but even more as far as his abilities go.
He was from a novel not a mythology. Lol
@@redapple1683 characters such as wukong and nezha are actually worshipped today as deities, and if you understand literature, this is stlil considered the 'mythology' or 'mythos' of the novel series.
Not to mention WuKong as a character, is based on an actual Hindu deity.
@@drakke125Channel nope, even my chinese friend don't think so. wukong is just a character from a well known ancient literature
I think the old Monkey King at the end was the Monkey King fighting when he was younger. And he told the story about it
I'm.hyped for this because i always love the monkey king story and myth
I was actually searching Wukong from Smite and this game came up. Wow didn't even know it exists. Nice reaction bro.
100% buy it!
Your "OOOOH"s are priceless. LMAO
According to chinese literature, this Monkey, namely Sunwukong or Son Goku in Japanese, took on the whole pantheon of Chinese Gods. That incident was called 大闹天宫, disrupting the heavenly palace.
Ok so, The Monkey King escorted the Monk to India to receive the holy scriptures of Buddha along with some other notable friends. Tale is upon returning, they all received Buddhahood. However, in this retelling Black Myth, there was the line that perhaps the real Monkey King died along the way and another took his place to receive Buddhahood. This comes from where Sun Wukong meets the Six Eared Macaque, who looks exactly like Wukong and has all the same abilities. Almost no one can tell the two apart. At one point in the novel the two fight to the death before continuing on the journey. This suggests that the doubt cast in the beginning of this trailer is that the story is complex. Was that the real Sun Wukong and we’re playing as the Six Eared Macaque? Or was Sun Wukong really defeated in that battle and Buddhahood was taken by Six Eared Macaque so now we’re playing as Wukong, perhaps recovering his power and/or his memories?
Very few first time or even second time reaction RUclipsrs can see when he suffering the head pain (from the enchanted head band) at 12:08 and you just went and calmed him?!? 🤗🤗🤗 Respect!
That's Sun Wukong (Monkey King) of the Chinese mythologies, and the basis of which many well-known Japanese animated protagonists abilities derive from. (God/Demon) Goku is basically a very entertaining breakaway from this guy. There have been plenty of Chinese films and tv series' based off of him. I'm a huge fan of this character, and when I first saw this exact preview 2 wks ago-ish, I was ecstatic AND STILL AM! Can't wait. The last film related to him that I had seen was in "The Immortal Demon Slayer/Tales of Sun Wukong". Still have yet to find time to watch the 2018 movie, but it's on my watch later list.
I like that u let the ending music finished.
It’s called 云宫迅音
If u look deep into the chinese mythology six ear monkey and WuKong both origin from a alien stone from space. WuKong were the first to strike down and came to the earth near the “Monkey island” which the stone can manipulate by those monkey and change to its form to a monkey. And that’s how WuKong were created. In this game WuKong aka victorious Buddha showing Six Ear monkey his path how he fight till the celestial palace”God” getting a title before journey to the west. I believe we can play as wukong and 6Ear monkey in game. Can’t wait to get it!
JET LI made Wu Kong now Super famous. FANTASTIC graphics.
This game looks better than the movie
This dude don't even know who sun wukong is, I bet he know sun goku.
it's based on a TV called 《西游记》,, almost all Chinese from age 10-90 have watched it. there are many different versions,but this one,
86 version is the most popular one. here is the link,the story starts here: ruclips.net/video/UBCwEV2_9SE/видео.html
i don't know anyone tell you, so i just give you a brief story of monkey king. its base on the story "journey to the west" monkey aka wukong is 1 of the crew that journey to the west with the monk. One of wukong skill set is he has 72 transformation, he can pull his fur and turn into himself like shadow clone. and journey to the west is like greek mythology, where a lot of weird stuff.
the old man was actually giving him tips n direction where to go n where not to go.. the last boss he old man did mention u enter at ur own risk. you may not live to tell ur tale. if u know the original wukong skills then u will be impress how this game brought it to life. enjoy!
So this game is based on the book journey to the west that was released in the 15th century and the the main character in the game is called the monkey King who is known as the post powerful god goku was based off the character sun wukong the monkey King... And goku is rediculously overpowered because the monkey King is ridiculously overpowered. And that "alpha monkey" is his future self
There's a fantastic breakdown of this by a Chinese lady that includes translations and points out the lore
Most of the comments had mentioned about the origins of the story. There are quite a number of tv shows and movies are based on this story.
If you can find the movie, u can watch it to know a more about the powers of the Wukong which is what you see on the game trailer. Here are the youtube links to the 2 movies (2014/16) trailer:
1. Monkey King: ruclips.net/video/MwrCsYsNGcU/видео.html - The actor for Wukong is Donnie Yen (Star Wars: Rogue One). This movie talks about the birth of Wukong, how he got his powers and his downfall.
2. Monkey King 2: ruclips.net/video/ygTmV3K57_8/видео.html - They change the actor for Wukong - Aaron Kwok, Hong Kong singer/actor. The story continues why Wukong needs to travel with a monk and became his disciple. And hence the famous title: Journey to the West.
The monkey that was fighting is a hair from the original monkey Kings head , that is how powerful he is , that was just his hair fighting
He just met himself in the end
Yes Andy, he can transform into 72 different kinds of creatures and objects.
Let me tell your guys something, Sun Wu Kong, his so-called 72 kinds of transformation are described in Chinese. In the original novel, especially in Chinese, the 72 kinds of transformation do not mean that he can become 72 kinds of creatures or become Things, and Wu Kong has 72 skills, and transformation is just one of these 72 skills. Just want to let you all know.
And Wu Kong, he is not just a monkey, he was not born naturally from monkey reproduction, he was conceived from a stone, and this stone is from another Chinese mythological character "Nu Wa". At that time, "Nu wa" used the sacred stone to mend the sky. In the end, one of the five-colored sacred stone was being left. For thousands of years, the five-colored sacred stone absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon and gave birth to the Monkey King - 孙 悟空
Many people are confused when they see another Wu Kong.
In Journey to the West, there are a total of four sacred monkeys. They are called the "Four Monkeys", and Wu Kong is one of them.
In the novel story, there is a chapter called .
The real Monkey King(Wu Kong) is being called "Lingming Stone Monkey". The other fake Monkey King is the "Six-eared Macaque".
The abilities of the "Six-eared Macaque" are the same as those of Monkey King(Wu Kong). And he look the same as Monkey King(Wu Kong).
And The "Six-eared macaque" robbed Tang Seng and took their luggage.
Afterwards, Wu Kong fought a battle with the "Six-eared Macaque". Because of the same strength, it was impossible to tell the winner.
So they went to the gods to identify who is the real Monkey King.
But none of the gods can recognize who the real Monkey King is, because they have the same abilities and the same looks.
In the end, Buddha Tathagata recognized the "six-eared macaque", covered it with a golden bowl, and was beaten to death by Monkey King with a stick.
There has always been a lot of controversy in this place. Some people think that the Buddha who covered the golden bowl with the golden bowl was WuKong, not the "six-eared macaque", so the one who was killed may be WuKong.
Why is there controversy?
Because WuKong’s master is Taoism.
The mission of protecting the monk Tang from going to the west to learn the scriptures was Buddhism.
After WuKong learned the power of Taoism, he making havoc in heaven, and all the gods could not stop him.
In the end, the Buddha trapped him with the "Five Elements Mountain" until Guanyin Bodhisattva gave him a mission to help Tang Seng go to the West to learn the sutras.
But WuKong did not obey the discipline, so Guanyin Bodhisattva gave Tang Seng a golden hoop and let him wear it on WuKong's head. When WuKong did not obey the discipline, he would use the "Tighten the hoop spell".
WuKong would have a splitting headache and be forced to obey discipline.
But WuKong has always been rebellious.
So many people think that the Buddha might take this opportunity to kill the real Monkey King(WuKong). Let the fake Monkey King "six-eared macaque" take over the position of Monkey King.
Then explain their weapons.
WuKong's weapon is called "如(Ru)意 (Yi)金(Jin)箍(Gu)棒(Bang)".
The weapon of the "Six-eared Macaque" is called "随(Sui)心(Xin)铁(Tie)杆(Gan)兵(Bing)".
Although the names of their weapons are different, the meanings they express are basically the same.
All are "whatever you want."
"如(Ru)意(Yi)" - "As I wish."
"随(Sui)心(Xin)" - "Follow my heart."
They are all sticks
They can all be bigger and smaller.
In theory, it can be infinitely large or infinitely small.
WuKong usually Shrink his weapon to the size of an embroidery needle and put it in his ear.
By the way, WuKong's weapon weight is 6750KG
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HAHAHAHA the moment when you squatted on your chair & freaking out at the same time. i did the same thing LMAO
laceylingerie 😂😂
me too but on my bed :) i just screamed and jumped like a crazy bi*ch🥺... oh god 👁👄👁
yo! a game about sun wukong? that's cool!
Yo this is the insanity its like the best of arpg all in one
Glad to know u like this game. Chinese are thrilled about it. Not only because it's based on a hero we like, but more about how it looks, the action, scenes, and story, we all are guessing how will they producer tell the story without burning their own ass up. Looking forward to it.
Sun wukong the great sage in chinese mythology, i love his extendable staff...
this is amazing never see until these day human can draw a stunning graphics as gameplay as real
This is based on the chinese mythical story of Journey to to West.
Sun Wukong (aka Son Goku in japanese) is a monkey demon that ascended to buddhahood after assisting Tangzeng's journey to the west to obtain ancient buddha scriptures.
Along the way, they run into many challenges because there's many demons that obtained a higher form (eg. A snake becomes a humanoid demon snake form) and are looking to ascend to a even higher form by eating Tangzeng (the chosen monk). It is said, his flesh will give one unimaginable strength, so demons saw him as a prize.
Anyways, the stories has 2 more disciple, 3 including wukong. They all committed some type taboo/crime in heaven or against heaven and it laws, and this journey was for redemption, and to test if their hearts to see if theyve truly repent.
Btw, wukong has trained with the saints while he was young, hes considered a prodigy because he can do 72 transformations, and he can make crazy things happen by blowing pieces of his fur.
He was also born out of a boulder, this boulder was said to consume the life force of the nature over millenias and finally one day, this crazy fucker exploded and that birth him. Dude has an ego and challenged the heavens, where he wrecked havoc. The great buddha punished him by having him under a mountain where he is constrained for hundreds of year, until he waits for Tangzeng to get him out, and have him accompany him on this journey as a disciple and guardian.
If anyone is really into this mythos, theres very old 90's to 2000's TVB shows/dramas (tvb is an hong kong film company)
New objective for the entire gaming community: stay alive until this game comes out
worth mentioning, the strength of Wukong is over-exaggerated, which is hard to believe as even most of Chinese people believe in his strength, yet in the original fiction, Wukong was powerful indeed, yet didn’t even make his way through the front gate of the heaven palace before being captured by. The publicly known overpowered version of Wukong was created by the epic Tv program episodes of The Journey To the West in the recent decades, which I believe the game will follow this version instead of the original.
To be fair the over-powered version is far more entertaining in general and would make a far better game to build up to that power during... so I think you are right they are clearly going for the whole "equal of heaven" version.
I like how his like this is original! but what he doesn't know is that this is the original inspiration for multiple monga, anime and games that a lot of us are already familiar with...
Well I know it now cause y’all are going crazy about it in the comments LOL
the craziest thing about this was that it was in pre alpha
It looks like a nioh dark souls cross and I’m here for it!!
Black Myth: Wukong
Take my money
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Saw the trailer when the trailer was launched. Skills almost matches with Wukong Monkey King from Dota 2.
Finally a full fledged game on the Monkey King storyline. Gonna buy it the day it gonna launch
Highly attractive game
Dude: it's Sun Wu Kong aka "The Monkey King", the main character in the Chinese "Journey To The West" saga. Also, the primary inspiration for "Goku" in the Dragonball series.
See the Jackie Chan film "The Forbidden Kingdom" for some of Sun Wu Kong's many abilities.
Sun Wu Kong can become anything he defeats in battle.
It Comes From One Of The Oldest Novels In China, Goku Was Literally Made After This Guy!!!
AFter beating the wolf, the "new" monkey-ninja in the fancy outfit that blocked the death blow is the real Wukong. The other was an impostor. The real guy has a staff with magic words on it.
next year the #1 Devil's Battles Grounds Games will be released 2024. Black Myth Wukong
The Monkey Fights for The Kingdom .
Actually I think the whole fight character is a FAKE Wukong, the real Wukong is the one you see at 15:00, the FAKE Wukong call six-ears monkey, who has the similar power as real Monkey King, that is what I guess
Man ,he has 72 to 100 transformation...crazy
The Monkey King he has 72 magical skill in shape shifting. His staff is original from the sea to keep the sea calm. The dragon of the 4 seas can not find him a suitable weapon so he took the staff. The ability of the staff is grow big or small when ever you like and I think only he can wield this staff. The one you call Roshi is the local earth lord of that land but he was took over by the monster. In journey of the west when ever Wu Kong need information he will summon the earth lord of that area to ask. This game has so much details in it. The gods call the Monkey King is Great Saint cause no one in the heaven kingdom can defeat him only and only Buddha can tame the Monkey King and put him in the right path along with his teacher.
The spell of the hair soilders is call body beyond the body
Look like That old man is Wu Kong himself
I like your reaction, you look so surprise and so excited at the same time, like “ohhh” and “helloo” lol
the four giants shown at the last few minutes are Lokapala (संस्कृतम्). this is the real shit.
i love ur reactions, gonna stay a bit. see what u got to offer
Endrju Komon I appreciate you!!
The problem with getting most people hyped about the oldest serialised story ever written (to the point they ain't even sure who wrote it) is that at some point everyone has copied it so it isn't new any more in the eyes of many. I just wish that this story gets retold correctly and not half assed like most times. Journey to the West is a Classic. Monkey King is a character within that story.
You hit the nail on the head. Original stories have been copied over and re-adapted by so many over time that the original that started it all, lost its uniqueness and gravitas. And is no longer a novelty even if they're being introduced to it for the first time. That goes for everything from religion to academia and so on.
05:43 that man is The God in that land , governing everything on that , but the Devil was coming , and pushed him away.
11:52 and that's the Wukong.
13:18 Maybe , He's the Vajradhara.
Wukong actually took on the entire heaven before starting the journey to the West, he lost doe but only due to Buddha stopping him.
Even without Buddha, he couldn't win anyway since there are great fighters on Heaven like Ne Zha or the 3 eyes god (forgot his Chinese name, only know his Vietnamese name) and some very powerful figures also including the Jade Emperor.
The Jade Emperor isn't that weak like the TV series, he's actually one of the most powerful beings (in term of power) in Chinese mythology, could stand side by side with Buddha in power tbh.
The reason why Wukong could take on the entire Heaven is that he is immortal, he can't die and the Heaven couldn't find a way to actually stop him since he just...doesn't die...that's why they asked Buddha to come and help.
monkey king aka sun wukong has 72 transformations a lot fear him especially his power and everything else his staff is strong as hell
Nice! A game about the monkey king which is a mythology story across Asia.
Just like in the monkey king lore, Wukong will have 72 abilities for you to use.
One of Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.......Ever heard of " Journey To the West"?
That's the Monkey King..- Sun Wukong..... Wow they even played the theme of Journey of the West at the end.....
it based of a tv show years ago called Monkey Magic
Played the first one based on the Movie. Wu Kong Monkey King Returns. It was pretty good. But this one is like 10X better.
If anyone who isn't aware the monkey that blocked him from killing the white wolf monster is himself from the myth.
Hope the game had actual official release. Would be awesome for next gen
The monk intro is wukong himself impersonating his master who is a monk too. Telling back his story as 3rd person of how he travel back in time using Pandora box or something (one of their gigs) trying to amend things right to his younger version....that's my thought of this story plot.
No, the plot involves the six eared macaque - the 六耳獼猴, who impersonates Sun Wukong to the point where Wukong cannot beat him, although the macaque cannot beat Wukong as well. In the Journey to the West, the story goes that the macaque impersonates Wukong so well that no one can tell who's real and who's fake. Only Guanyin was able to trap the fake Wukong.
You can tell that the monkey who starts off fighting in the trailer is the macaque (the fake Wukong), as the real Wukong comes in to stop him from executing the giant wolf boss (evident by the golden Ruyijingubang, the gold pole) and his armor. The story also should take place after Sanzang (Wukong's master) drives Wukong out after Wukong kills the white bone demon. There is no time travel in Journey to the west.
trust me people, the story it self, it’s actually even better than the game...like much better. It was written in Yuan dynasty, and that’s few hundred years ago. And the story Is base on true historical events which happened during Tang Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago. The one who stopped the player monkey from killing, was the Monkey King WuKong( yes gokon in dragon ball was inspired by this). The four giants at the end represent four divine gods South North East and West. Monkey king took on the entire heavenly army, and fucked the heaven like upside down all by himself alone. And the Monkey king was eventually stopped by the Buddha and was trapped under the five elements mountain for 500 years. Until his master Tang Seng( also known by golden cicada) met him and get him out. Then the journey to the west begins.
To those who wish to buy this game, I encourage everyone to learn more about Journey to the West. Read the novel and watch the 1986 TV series.
This game on fire . cant waittttttt
this game is based on One of the four great Classical Novels of China, Journey to the West
So this is the guy who challenged heaven
Badaas
The Monkey King. Sun Wukong is his name. The other monkey that stop him from killing the giant wolf might be his future self, all wise and more powerful, judging from his more advanced armor, come back to teach him a valuable lesson of not to kill or something? Lol. Yes the legend of the Monkey King has some time traveling going on.
12:56 You know you REALLY want it especially when your voice crack lol