An Extensive Review of Black Myth: Wukong

What did you think of Black Myth Wukong? What are your favourite and least favourite bosses? Let me know!

You're not supposed to dodge the black balls from the fish, or indeed any other boss. You're supposed to deflect them with staff spin.

You're not supposed to dodge the black balls from the fish, you're supposed to deflect them with staff spin.

Wow, that’s a long video! You missed a ton of contents: the most beautiful area in the whole game, purple cloud mountain; the epic fight against Erlang.

wow, a review with such detail

Very detailed review, appreciate it!

I don't think it qualifies as a soulslike because I'm having fun with it and soulslike games are where fun goes to die. Also, running and dodging are two separate buttons and Fromsoft will never do that because y'know difficulty inflation and whatnot.

OMG, we share such similar experience of Black Myth Wukong. I had also died to similar bosses as you, and found other bosses relatively easy.

I found Captain Wise-Voice camera issues was bothering as-well, but not too hard to defeat after five death to him. I came to realize if hitting his leg the HP drop was way too slow, it must not be the correct way to attack. And camera issue didn't bother me since I knew I need only to watch my step. By understanding the core mechanics are save all bursts abilities till phase two, when he went down, I used light attack combos and immobilized him "right after" to extend his weakened phase (if hit with heavy attack he will rise much faster) . I finally defeat him within two rotations, and felt so good about myself of figuring it out.

The frustrating thing / awesome parts of this game is the dev's team really puts you in the position to think alike Wukong ( who is extremely smart and always figure out solutions in novel < journey to the west >.

This game is actually not a soulslike

Considering that you said you have no knowledge of JTTW, I can understand why you don't understand the point of the vessels and the cheat code they are. In the Novel, when they came up to facing certain enemies, they didn't succeed without these vessels. The Chinese would have known or even expected these items to be in the game, and understood why you need them. An example is the black wind bear. In the novel, the fire mantle is what saved the Tang monk and his party from the fire caused by Elder Jinchi because he wanted to steal the monk's kasaya.

The weavers needle is similar, as was the wind tamer, and even the fan in chapter 5. They were essential to the original story and the only way for Wukong to topple these challenges. So its not necessarily a balancing issue, as its a take of the original story. This may help you understand why these items/secret areas are tied to the secret boss that leads to the good ending, and why only those who explore the games content, or have foreknowledge of the original novel, will succeed in getting that secret ending.

Pillar stance is underrated 🔥

A tip I’m sure a lot of you know but if you go back and play through parts where there are what I call honey holes of (guys you can beat to collect xp you can make your future play through a lot easier. I know it’s boring but it definitely has helped me plus you might get something you might have missed. This being said though fuck the tiger van guard!!!!

Hundred eye “he said when you die and you will die”! 😂😂💀 facts better get that needle!

never experienced input delay. also this game has a lot more interesting details that you missed. the vessel from chapter 1 can prevent you from fire damage while on that cricket.

Scorpion lord was the 3rd hardest boss in the game for me. 1st is secret boss 2nd was end game broken shell.

U missed alot of stuff wow

Good video! You deserve every sub you get

If it was a soulslike yes. But its not.

a short review 1 hour and 40 min

every chapter has secret map and boss,there are 2 endings,if you don't defeat erlang,you'll get the bad ending

missed the erlang battle，what a pity😢

not a souls like game 🙏🏾

You missed Yellow Loong, one of the best boss.

misleading thumbnail. i was expecting a 60 hour review 1/10

Dude you perfectly described my experience with this game. I didn’t like the gameplay and thought I wasted my money on this hard game but I’m finishing up chapter 3 and I love it

each chapter have a toad boss

It’s the best game ever

Soo this is something I discussed with my friends that plays the game. The game is really forgiving and the difficulty is basically how hard you want the game to be. You can choose to use spell binder which makes it so that u can only auto atk and smash atk, no spells no nothing but you get a huge atk buff.

You can use the vessels to nerf the final boss of the chapter or try to face them at everything they have to offer. You can skip optional bosses or kill them for all the content. I seen people skipping optional boss and face them in NG+.

Personally I like this approach to difficulty since for the hardcore soul players, they can just do spellbinder only runs, and they don't get punished for doing so.

For the love of god Why do peeps keep calling it a soulslike?

u didnt knock the 3 bells (leading to hidden boss and secret weapon for chapter boss) fire proof kasaya, this one is also a must for chapter 5.

You should go back to fight Erlang. He's harder than Great Sage Broken shell.

He missed so many things 😭

Wukong decided to “retire” because he found out what celestial court gods and budha’s do to keep their immortality - turn normal human to “yaoguai” then kill them to get mindcore, then from mindcore they get medicine to live longer life. Wukong did the journey to west, thought he could make all yaoguai have a normal life, away from getting killed for no reasons. But he found out the ugly truth and he will not join those …

So true… i died so many times with the snake guy

I believe there is an AI behind certain bosses, like erlang is the most obvious example! He learns ur move and give the most difficult attacks to u personally!

Wukong is an amazing game!❤. Good video dude!❤

Awesome Review! I didn't quite like the mechanics at first either... but as I acquire more talents like you said, it grows on you. And when I finished the game... I felt empty .... WHAT A JOURNEY!

a SHORT review??