Black Myth: Wu Kong is an Action RPG, Announced for Consoles and PC - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 September 2020 / 2,430 Views
Developer Game Science has announced Journey to the West-themed single-player action RPG Black Myth: Wu Kong for "all mainstream consoles and PC."
View the 13-minute long gameplay trailer below:
Read an FAQ on the game below:
Q. How long is the game and will there will be more heroes or an online mode?
A. Game Science: “Currently no comment on this. What weighs on our minds the most is that [studio head and game director] Yocar really loves playing console action games full of tangible and solid stories, variations of jobs / weapons experience, and support for an online co-op mode…”
Q. When will the game release?
A. Game Science: “While we will not necessarily need 500 years finish (Editor’s Note: This is a reference to Journey to the West, in which the Monkey King was imprisoned beneath Wu Zhi Shan mountain for 500 years), we will ship it only when we feel satisfied as players. But we will also consider performance and cost ratio, as well as marginal effect. After all, more works in the Black Myth series are in serious planning (in our dreams).”
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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This looks insane!
Oh my god, what the hell is this! It looks fantastic.. I need it now :O
Lots of potential; the montage at the end really impressed. Hope it delivers.
Wait ALL mainstream consoles? This game is coming to Nintendo Switch?! How would they even do that?!
Supposedly it's still at least a couple years out, so maybe Switch 2.
Low res textures and 720p
I don't know what that was but it looked amazing.
FUCKING GORGEOUS! This will push the limits of the 3090 for sure! Look at those reflection effects! Look at the Wolf Boss' hair! Look at the fire staff!
this looks incredible gaht DAMN and only further reminds me that I really should get around to reading Journey to the West
When I first saw this, I new it must have been a Chinese developer, since Japanese rarely do something with Chinese culture. I'm thinking there is still tension between Japanese and Chinese.
There's a lot of Japanese media based on the classic Chinese novels, especially Journey to the West. Dragon Ball is one example. Son Goku is the Japanese name for Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King. Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dynasty Warriors games are based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was another of the big Chinese classics.
Yeah but in gaming it's limited. i hope that the medium gets explored further and China eases it's /aming restrictions.
There have been 14 Rot3K games and 9 mainline DW games and counting. There have been a lot of video game adaptations of Journey to the West from Japan and a lot of references to it as well. There was a SRPG called Saiyuki, an arcade game from Capcom, and several Pokemon are based on Sun Wukong and Zhu Baije, not to mention all the Dragon Ball games. These Chinese novels are a massive cultural influence on Japan and the rest of East Asia in the same way that Shakespeare, Dickens, and Tolkien are influential in the English-speaking world. There was even a Western adaptation of Journey to the West made by Ninja Theory called Enslaved that came out ten years ago on PS3 and 360. I think it's on Steam now. And perhaps this will do for China what Witcher 2 and 3 did for Poland.
Oh, and the Suikoden series is based loosely on another of the Four Great Chinese Novels, Water Margin, which is about 108 outlaws being recruited by the Emperor to protect China from foreign invaders. Looking at what I wrote above, I think a better way to describe how these novels are ingrained in Asian culture is to think of the long influence that the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and the Eddas have had on Western adventure and fantasy.
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