All Bosses EXPLAINED in Black Myth: Wukong - The Final Chapter (Six)

[@BanditGames]

Thank you all for this journey... I've enjoyed it so, so much. Onward to more LORE!

[@therealwhoever]

LOREEEEEEE

[@isaacjamelbrown]

Thank you for making amazing and lore full videos.🙏🤩🔥

[@matthewwendt7315]

There are no other lore videos on KZbin worth watching/listening too. None come close to the detail and research you do. You slayed these series and its been a pleasure THANK YOU!!!

[@gethk.gelior4214]

This is the exact moment Bandit Journeyed to the West

[@sam-s6o]

do a world of warcraft video

[@jameslough6329]

Erlang Shen has earned his place as one of my favourite bosses in all of gaming. He’s got great lore/story significance, insane visual spectacle (especially in the part of the fight where you take on the Four Kings), and an extremely well developed AI that perfectly reacts to the player’s behaviour and forces them to use their abilities in smart ways.

[@alexanderayotte8867]

Reminds me of the Aries fight in God of war

[@jameslough6329]

@@alexanderayotte8867 Except WAY harder and more complex

[@HavocHounds1988]

The second phase is so epic, and such a spectacle. The developers outside themselves with that fight for sure.

[@HUMAN-fq5ff]

Bandit, if it ever feels like these videos aren’t getting enough love or appreciation, I just want you to know that I have an exam in 3 hours but I’m sitting here watching this. These videos are legitimately so well written. There’s other explanations on KZbin but none go into this much detail and make it so much fun.

[@Temstar04]

The reason why the whole immortality thing is such a big deal in JttW is it's specifically mentioned immortality is against the proper functioning of the cosmos and achieving it is in itself a crime against existence, you are literately stealing energy from the sky and earth, from the sun and moon to do so. To achieve it you need to: 1. Cultivate yourself, which allows you to overcome the limit of your natural lifespan. Wukong is a stone monkey and may not have a natural life span as such to start with, but just in case he did him crossing out his and his fellow monkey's name in the ledgers of life and death would allow them to exceed their normal lifespan. Su Wukong was 342 years of age when he wiped his name off the ledger. 2. Once you are past dying due to normal aging, at 500 year of age you experience the First Calamity - lightning bolt from the heaven will seek you out. Magics like 72 transformations and cloud riding can be used to dodge this calamity. 3. At 1000 year of age, you experience the Second Calamity - ethereal fire emerges from your feet and seek to burn your organs to ash. 4. At 1500 years of age, you experience the Third Calamity - ethereal wind from back of your head seeks to blow and disburse your senses 5. If you are still alive at 2000 years of age, First Calamity happens again and so on. The Jade Emperor is mentioned in the book to have already experienced 1750 calamities so far. Second and Third Calamity cannot be avoided with any normal means, they have to be endured with the aid of special immortality granting items, such as the immortality peaches, the golden pills, the human baby shaped ginseng fruit and as the rumours go, Sanzang's flesh. It's not stated in the book but later works (including BMW) assumes from Sansang's flesh connection that all such methods of cheating death involves stealing life from someone else. Hence the game implies the golden pills are actually made from yaoguai. This assumption of immortality being only achievable by taking life of others and all the members of the celestial court are actually part taking in these dark rituals are one of the origins of people having a "black myth" read of JttW.

[@Temstar04]

The once every 500 year peach party is the most important event in the celestial court since that's when all the members receive the peach that allows them to continue to enjoy immortality. It's kind of like a pay day for all the immortals. They honour the Jade Emperor and let him boss them around and the peach is their pay in exchange.

[@chrisgamer9099]

These videos were a journey in themselves, you did an outstanding job, all the research of the story and game is great. You've earned your rest many times over. Thank you for these lore break downs.

[@HavocHounds1988]

I agree completely. You could have just gone with what it says about them in game, but you actually did research on them outside of the game and learned their significance in Journey to the West as well. You have done a phenomenal job on this series.

[@insanemakaioshin]

The actual translation is 72 terrestrial killers, based on the 72 malevolent constellation deities. Most members of the heavenly court, like Zhu Baije, practice the 36 heavenly spirits, based on the 36 benevolent constellation deities that are at war with the 72 terrestrial killers. This is referencing the Buddhist holy number of 108.

[@alexanderayotte8867]

As a fellow who was pretty ignorant of the journey to the west before playing this game your videos have really provided some great context as to why Wukong is view with fear by those you encounter in the game. I also find it entertaining that your not having a health bar at the beginning of the game is actually lord accurate since he literally can’t die. The most you can do is reset his cycle it seems

[@MatchaCupcakes-x7p]

21:30 Interesting fact: you may be wondering why the four heavenly kings of Buddhism obey the celestial court's commands of Daoism. Because in ancient China, Buddhism and Taoism, in order to assert their legitimacy and gain acceptance among more people, they will claim that rival god originally belongs to their religion, but with a lower status. For example, the four heavenly kings of Buddhism, in Taoism their main work is just a security guard of The Celestial Court‘s gate. After a few hundred years, most people have accepted these assumptions. So you can see that many Chinese gods belong to both Buddhism and Daoism.

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

This was THE BEST series to help anyone understand what has happened on this amazing and now the Wukong is for all essential reasons free, he’s about to go full God of War on the Celestial Court. Also, is the Jade Emperor NOT the Buddha, since you said he shows up to stop Wukong? He just commands the Court but isn’t basically God?

[@therealwhoever]

That entire dive into sun wukong was the best I've seen especially when applying the lore of the game itself. Wrapping up the story with a beginning i know me and many others are eager to see is just so HYPE. I hope we one day do learn what happens after black myth wukong. 🙏

[@pieswimmer1]

Yessss bro I love these videos. Thank you. Gonna carry me through my cardio.

[@pieswimmer1]

Oh please do war craft

[@icenugget6193]

Man I was so conflicted on killing the son of stones because he’s just chilling there not bothering anyone. But wanting to complete all of my journal entries I ended up taking the poor guy out. At least he’s with his family now, but I’ll be leaving him alone for sure on my NG+

[@maxchen9185]

22:40 Actually the weapon Wang Lingguan wields is indeed referred to as "whip鞭" in Chinese. Apparently ancient chinese people use a solid metal rod to whip horses, and the name stuck. Now in the modern days the word "whip鞭" is more often used to refer to, well, the soft rope-like whip. But when in the context of talking about traditional chinese weapons, that solid metal rod is the "whip".

[@BanditGames]

Ohh that makes so much sense!

[@patrickw474]

Let’s goooo!! So glad to be apart of this journey

[@adawg3032]

I can’t even begin to imagine how much blood sweat and tears game science poured into this game while making it. It’s truly one in a decade release imo.

[@HavocHounds1988]

They actually did mocap of real cats for the Tiger Vanguard fight. They put multiple cats in mocap gear and just recorded them being cats. Instead of trying to get a single cat to do what they wanted. That was a really smart move.

[@azazelgaming773]

Ughhhh I’ve been anticipating this video for weeks I’m hyped

[@kraniumskull357]

You are killing my language with your pronunciation. Keep up the good work 👍 (its not sarcasm)

[@imnate9439]

I’ve been waiting for this video for soooo long it’s not even funny. You’re the goat at these lore breakdowns and I’m glad you took the time out of your day to continue providing us with this information. You my good sir deserve this 👑

[@mertmunson1417]

Bravo sir!!! Not only did you make me a fan of the game even more than I was, but you earned a subscribed fam as well!!! Awesome job man!!! Can't wait for more!!!

[@bobsimon8547]

so this is telling me like a guy, sun Wukong and all the monkeys are the only true immortals, the gods just live a Reeeeeeaaaaallllyyyyyyyyyyy long time.

[@paulrivas8743]

I love your series. Followed you since zelda. And monstermaze, and Zeltik. I love your videos. But I gotta admit, heaven did my boy dirty with the circlet. At least in the true ending he is free.

[@DarkLight544]

RETURN OF THE KING 👑

[@gethk.gelior4214]

Ah, I feel like the Mandrill chief story line is kinda underrated, a lone monkey on a journey to revive what is essentially her adoptive son, if an extremely overpowered one. She's the one that taught the monkey king to monkey, after all. And for her to laugh it all up like that when she sees her "son" already reincarnated right before her eyes, or maybe when she saw the destined one and realized the absurdity of it all, maybe both? Kind of a "learn to let go" story mixed in there as well.

[@therranolleo468]

she's probably proud beyond belief that her "son" had orchestrated his own reincarnation

[@gwaynebrouwn844]

First Kendrick randomly drops a whole ass album and now we finally getting our long awated part 6. We eating good this week

[@JimBeau83]

Thank you so much for this series, brother. Looking forward to whatmcomes next!

[@gabrielchacon7897]

A DLC where we fight through heaven and get layers of immortality would go pretty hard

[@HavocHounds1988]

I didn't know you were a Warcraft fan dude. That is awesome. I would love if you did videos diving into it's lore. The way you have explained the lore of Black Myth Wukong, the Zelda games and Elden Ring, I know you would make some great WoW lore videos.

[@sombrashadow0013]

"Honey, a new BanditGames Wukong video just dropped!" (I live alone)

[@dembeku346]

Amazing work as always. Thank you.

[@vibangigan5336]

Only killed son of stones once cause I saw a reddit post explaining how he's literally just a chill guy. So many things try to kill you that when I come across a nice npc I remember that im just a chill guy too.

[@RooMoo_DooMoo]

it's a good day when Bandit uploads

[@gethk.gelior4214]

I believe patriarch Bohdi made a secret appearance in the journals. There's a saying, "a Bohdi tree in a single leave", and I think he appeared to the Black Wind Mountain Keeper, and hinted to his own name by leaving a single leave.

[@horanghaeapologist]

finally, been waiting for this

[@tarakii__4535]

Beautifully done my boy

[@vizzzyy190]

happy to see it, sad because that means its (almost) over excellent work bandit!

[@Koichivaa]

I loved this entire series, thank you so much for all the love you put into explaining the ties to all the bosses! I did have a few questions if bandit or anyone else could clarify I'd much appreciate it! 1. So we know The destined one gains the circlet after the ending of the game, is this more of a game symbolic thing? Because it'd seem like a waste if the Destined One were to just don the Circlet again after all that work, or does the circlet not have that binding power anymore? 2. The Destined one has all of Wukong's relics, and his Ryu Jingu Bang and armor and skills, but does he have all those layers of immortality as well? I feel like he'd at least have his name written out of the book of death, unless that was just the immediate monkeys that were under the rule of Wukong when he struck their names from the book...

[@therranolleo468]

The destined one only gets the circlet IF we don't do the secret fight with Erlang; without Erlang, we're missing Wukong's memories; hence, we don't know the true purpose of our journey , and the old monkey simply puts the circlet back on our heads, thus rendering us (and by extension, the reincarnation of Wukong) to once again be Heaven's slave. this can be considered the bad end if we complete the Erlang fight we get Wukong's memories, and we don't get the circlet put back on our head, hence truly freeing Wukong from Heaven's command

[@easonzhang1326]

Its a very very good series, thank you

[@jennluu1635]

YEAAAAH! NEW VID TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT!

[@manupontheprecipice6254]

R.I.P. Family of Stones.

[@jennyzhon8059]

Loong and frog bosses next? FINALLLYYYY

[@DeadAccountdotdotdot]

WE LOVE YOU BANDIT

[@Neobarnabas]

YES I love these videos

[@Zayrexz]

Love your videos

[@vsalontro4243]

been waiting for this shit for time havent even watched yet and im hype

[@Amir522]

Finally, IT'S HERE!

[@parkermaisterra8532]

It’s finally arrived!

[@Bulldog6915]

Damn, I’m gonna go that fucking stone monkey was a pain in the ass

[@SebastianLoh-cm9hk]

22:50 in Chinese the word for whip which is 鞭 could also translated to cane, not the walking kind of cane, but more like a whipping cane

[@adawg3032]

Erlang AI code gotta be some of the best souls boss ai ever made

[@WymondTheWerewolf]

If I had Wukong’s agility, I’d be the star of every game of tag… and avoid all adulting

[@deworldzlastpunk666]

the great sage's ending really broke my heart

[@bsthemo8340]

Best video ever

[@arakakishinigamich.8859]

LETTTS GOOO

[@therranolleo468]

I'm 100% waiting for the DLC of this amazing game; it's not over until we get inside the Jade palace and beat the ever-living shit out of the Emperor

[@9LivesDeepDives]

We’re so back baby

[@shroey20]

Watching these lore videos makes me understand that the destined one is actually a villain.

[@easonzhang1326]

Can't really be defined, that's why game science keep calling the players destined ones

[@shroey20]

@easonzhang1326 What do you mean? He harrases and murders random creatures that just want to be left alone.

[@adora_burst8143]

I really do think that the dlc would be Wukong getting back at heaven and fighting Nezha, the Jade Emperor, freeing the 4th Sister, and maybe even Guanyin.

[@touremuhammad5983]

I’m pretty sure the Feng-tail General is a giant cricket, not a locust. I believe it’s because, and I may be wrong here, but crickets were seen as a sign of good fortune in ancient China.

[@bvilceisvilceus]

I for one would love to see you cover world of Warcraft lore.

[@Ilikejjk12321]

Omg finallly

[@jameslough6329]

I thought Guanyin respected Wukong. I guess she too looked down on him as a monster just like all the other beings in heaven despite her normally merciful nature

[@agxryt]

17:32 tale as old as time. "The will of God" is always cruel and ignorant. Never did I think video games could have a capacity for teaching people ethics but here we are

[@NeerujSethi]

finally!!!

[@hiddenscorpiusXI]

43:00 Dude, for shame. That's an Algorithm Generated Image: Look at the tail, the buildings's roofs on the right-side of the picture, how the tip of the scarf blends into the tip of the mountain.

[@hiddenscorpiusXI]

@@WinterLeafyYT I am an artist struggling to get a foothold on the virtual scene. Turnabout is fair play: Why are you defensive?

[@WinterLeafyYT]

@@hiddenscorpiusXI Sorry

[@BowPlayKay]

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[@Highlights-Real]

UNDER 10 MINUTES

[@AnthonyFrangione-hj9xt]

Safe to say he is about 2,000 times immortal

[@brainnn]

big day big day big day big day big day

[@DuoMonkey]

That’s a lot of sworders

[@zech2702]

22:49 ayo?

[@HUMAN-fq5ff]

18:08

[@malikcook6101]

Just beat ng+ the first time been waiting for this like the second coming 🥲