Black Myth Wukong is Pretty Good, for a 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 Game

[@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus]

This game is diverse, it has a boss named Non-White lol

[@euric869]

And another one called Non-Able lol

[@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus]

@@euric869 i love bad english translations lol

[@linhtet9279]

Dont forget black long

[@Nero_PR]

Funny enough, I think a better translation is Negative-White and that was the one used for Spanish and Portuguese.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

You have some explaining to do, China, making us execute a Non-White! Listen, I know its 'all so tiresome', it really is... but... eh... ehhhhh.....

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

Lacking diversity in a Chinese gane about Chinese Mythology? What were they expecting Yasuke to show up?

[@matt.random8473]

Then it would be called "Black Myth Wuzkang"

[@wreagfe]

Woke NPCs don't expect anything, as humans do. Humanizing them makes no sense at all.

[@tortyreus2384]

Well, considering they expected basketball people in Norse Mythology GoW, and got it at that, we can understand the woke mob is confused that their btching and whining didn't get them their favorite kfc eaters in the game.

[@wep_vs]

@@matt.random8473 topkek

[@KratostheThird]

@@tortyreus2384GoW Ragnarok was utterly boring. A bunch of walking sections, a lame script involving a son and his father, and an overpowering female who seemed to gain control over Kratos every time they met.

[@MillywiggZ]

Kind of wish they’d had put a spin on the Souls Like genre. WuKong’s a monkey, you’d expect more gymnast movement like being able to use the terrain to wall-run, jumping off of cielings, grabbing in combat or some kind of buff from balancing on rooftops or poles. Or even taunts. From what I remember, WuKong himself wasn’t that serious so it’s kind of weird how the character and world is so dry. You could see a mechanic of stealing someone’s useable item in a fight or undoing armor, even just throwing things like an expensive vase to annoy a boss into a rage.

[@panzershreck8077]

Something the yakuza devs did that I really liked in their spinoff games (judgment and lost judgment). Is that their new protag has chinese/ japanese inspired martial arts techniques that branch away from the older yakuza games more boxing/wrestling inspired fighting styles. They incorporated wall jumping/wall running moves that make u feel fluid and lightweight compared to kiryu, and alot of the different styles have specific niches to them that are best used in specific situations such as Crane being for multi target since its weak damage but AOE and very fast attacks, tiger for DPS and individual fighting, snake for defensive stances and countering enemies when cornered and in tight spaces. And they all reflect their real life instances that they're best utilized quite well. The games are sadly way too easy if uve played any of the previous games at least once or twice and realised that u can stack up on stimapps and all that shit. But the core gameplay and experience are very well made, and if the devs could just add an extra difficulty modifier where health items and other crutch shit isn't available it would be great. We need more variety in terms of enemy design, innovative mechanics, and level design based encounters for games in the future. Games like elden ring and wukong feel so basic since the only real mechanic ur using in fights is the roll button... and I bet the devs are too scared of trying to make specific adjustments and mechanics for bosses in sh*t like elden ring cus they focus too much on giving u alot of different builds that play very differently from one another in termw or character movespeed, dmg, and movesets and some random dude might have a far worse time on the game if he were to go greatsword rather than a katana on a boss that attacks at 500 MPH... So all enemies end up feeling like homogenized mobs with very slight variations in look and movement, but at the ebd of the day only require you to do one thing which is roll and roll and rolll and.... roll again.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

Yeah the platforming in the game is abysmal, made even worse by all the invisible walls.

[@kaiboshvanhortonsnort359]

Synth mentioned this during his streams - it certainly is odd that a monkey has very pitiful jumping mechanics.

[@JacketVEVO]

You don't play as the real Wukong, you play a different monkey who is a very serious boi. Spoilers, but when you get further in the game and actually fight the real Wukong, he styles on you in funny ways that pokes fun at how serious your monkey is.

[@oodo2908]

I was hoping you could grip stuff with your feet hands. At least for animations. Like handstand, swinging the staff with your feet. Gripping on giant bosses and being flung around like in Shadow of the Colossus. Too much cool stuff you could do with four hands.

[@leon.benedict]

They truly wuz Wukangs

[@hodoupmer]

games like this and stellar blade would be completely niche titles if released in the ps3 era, the difference is that nowadays games are so terrible, that these AA games receive more recognition

[@euric869]

They would be those middleware games that were forgotten, and then game reviewers years later would use for content for those "Remember Blank game" type of videos.

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@euric869 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@panzershreck8077]

Its crazy seeing people call these fucking middleware games "masterpieces". I feel like i'm a goddamn crazy person. Did everyone get amnesia in less than 10 years and forget the games we were getting before 2014??? Hell even fucking 2016? The gameplay looks so... mid? It's not bad or incredibly generic, but it just looks like a button mush simulator on really tanky and health sponge bosses. I feel like I'd get bored after 5 hours.

[@Spearra]

Similar situation to anime and manga. Quite a few of them are low key mid. But mid is still better than absolute dog water.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

@@panzershreck8077 But compared to a lot of games today, it shines. Personally I don't mind middleware games because not everything can be high art, something's are just there for a good time.

[@Neosho-s2y]

As an African American, it is refreshing to be able to play a game where I can identify as the protagonist.

[@Vadim_Slastihin]

PREACH BRATHA! WE WUZ MONKEYS N SHIEEEEET!

[@el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri]

WE ...

[@KingOfhearts72]

I don’t remember the part tho where he leaves his children behind,to the care of someone else.

[@mrsnulch]

Jesus christ haha

[@shalindelta7]

Now that is humor for the sake of humor, i love it.

[@Primarch19th]

Dude. Your honesty is refreshing and needed. That is why other tubers, sometimes, trash your tube. Keep up the good work.

[@GameSenseGamer]

Reject Modernity, Embrace Monkey.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Monke...

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

Embrace the Chinese score.

[@TrashMannGuy]

🙈🙉🙊🐵

[@FromSoftwareStan]

The transformations, spirits, stances, and skill trees allow the combat to be a lot deeper than what you presented here. If you think I'm exaggerating just to watch game breaker god play the game. It's a completely different game once you have combat mastery and use what's their. The light attack combo does get tired of looking at but 30 hours in im not feeling combat fatigued I feel excited for new game plus runs to become even more broken and op. Furthermore let me just say stellar blade was a complete joke outside of the attractive main character the combat sucks has no impact to it at all. The boss fights are generic as well and the enemy layouts are a joke. Wukong feels like a game made by a veteran game studio like fromsoftware and that's the biggest compliment I can give it. The production in some of these actions scenes is pretty wild. Some of the bosses even changed the way I think about bosses and what it means to be a boss in a game. The rat you fight at the end of chapter 2 is a perfect example of this. Using the environment against the player and forcing you to be more aware of your surroundings was pretty fresh to see in the game and unique to the genre in the way it was done.

[@Extra_Onions]

we know how it is- Black panther where basically the whole cast is black? Diverse. a Chinese game set in chinese mythology has only chinese people? Not diverse. (keeping in mind that this game has one of the most diverse enemy cast i've seen in a long while - there are a ton of different enemy types, minibosses and bosses)

[@dreadboi1859]

the game’s devs are genii only sexist lmao what are you on about? and diversity isn’t referring to the enemy variants. No one is complaining about the lack of black people or people other than asian, they’re just angry that the game devs are as sexist as they are

[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

@@dreadboi1859 "they’re just angry that the game devs are as sexist as they are" Ahh so we have a wokeboi here that has drunk the coolaid. The sexisty BS is just a made up controversy to throw shade on the devs.

[@deepblue8143]

​@dreadboi1859 get over it, lol do you believe everything the mainstream news outlets tell you? This is fake outrage at its finest. Run along and go find something else to be outraged over. I hear resetera is looking for new members.

[@but_iWantedTo_speakGerman]

Diverse means one of two things: 1) White-erasure, or as the wickedness spreads it increasingly means globally: 2) Homogeneous-erasure.

[@KingOfKings__]

Haven’t seen one black person complain or care 😂

[@DeanTheLaughingMann]

"The hype around this game is clearly not organic" So would one say it's Synthetic...Man?

[@davidfall6255]

Good one!

[@hippopilot6750]

Bravo Nolan

[@icofu9016]

LMAO, this is classic 😂

[@gottagotag6980]

@@DeanTheLaughingMann holy cringe

[@PunishedBrak]

@@DeanTheLaughingMann **puts on glasses** YEAAAAAAAAHHHHH

[@gustGOW]

his chinese was flawless at the ending

[@lsxu149]

racist

[@but_iWantedTo_speakGerman]

@@lsxu149and?

[@winterlantern5695]

​@@lsxu149istaphobicnot-zi!! Reeeeeeeeee!!!

[@RoomofMima]

If there was more women in the game they would be slammed for misrepresenting .They will complain either way.

[@blues4509]

Hence why it's pointless to bow to their demands

[@zendariun101]

Your pfp remineds me of ps2 best era a former synthcel

[@hellatze]

cannot please the zoom zoom

[@deepblue8143]

Exactly, that's why we should never give in to their warped demands.

[@shifugamez.official]

There is a totally normal amount of women in the game what are u on about

[@Marako0524]

The chinese spy balloon already deployed to Synth's home.

[@kennethruskin2710]

They already got a backdoor open through his 15 terabyte futa collection, they can just look through his webcam as he goons.

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

it has the dev's shit in it lol

[@ClarkCan]

@@MGrey-qb5xz And mold.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

@@kennethruskin2710 B A S E D

[@KinouTrue12]

Not suprise if he will be part of N.E.D funding in future like the gravedigging " C-milk ". Shameless channel and title.

[@aldrixlevy228]

No woke nonsense, just gameplay. This is how i like it.

[@hr-g4640]

Synagogue Man going for those positive ESG points

[@HPLovecraft-lx6yz]

God please, stop giving me your hardest kvetching -But you are my oyest of veys

[@CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy]

what lol

[@mukane]

​@@HPLovecraft-lx6yz should spelled it G-d

[@LeonaRaida2468]

Oy vey

[@billjacobs521]

I know he's rolling in that Blackrock money.

[@ghostman303]

the attention to detail and the grate deep dive you spent on this review makes it one of the best so far.

[@MattiaCattaneo-tw1qn]

Insomniac is over. In Spider-Man 2 they made me use a deaf-mute black girl for inclusivity. Are you kidding me? In Spider-Man 3 they're going to make me use a fat guy in a wheelchair?

[@andrewthomas5801]

Don’t look at the new rainbow six agent Ubisoft put out 😅

[@shishkebabro]

needs more vitiligo and gay

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

Christopher Reeve's Superman?

[@Six_Gorillion]

You will have a mission where you retrieve a stolen dilator and use that on your superobese trans girlfriend. It's gonna be a fun minigame, like lockpicking in skyrim.

[@seanboglio3605]

Concord exists. They did it there.

[@don_shoti804]

Screaming no diversity when there’s a plethora of Chinese Folklore,legends,myths is crazy

[@but_iWantedTo_speakGerman]

So diverse just means White-erasure then?

[@latinaparfait]

Whens the star wars slop stream

[@Schizo2]

10/10 愚蠢的西方人的傑作，這是一個非常有機的帖子

[@tomchengshi44]

Very good google translate

[@shifugamez.official]

I agree

[@jonahhekmatyar]

Black myth is probably the most popular game ever made with a black protagonist.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

Probably the only one you can legally buy in China lmfao.

[@beautifulhistory5656]

Gta SA

[@deepblue8143]

​@@beautifulhistory5656first one I thought of too.

[@attilavarga3188]

Ooooooh, darkest comment of the year! 😂😂😂

[@dmwrobinson]

Savage bruh

[@ChronoStrife]

Please dude it's the current year! We call it Myth Wukong of Color. African Amerimyth Wukong is also acceptable..

[@albertdeluxe8966]

I can't wait for the sequel "Black Bat Wuhan"

[@brb1994]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Dmwntkp99]

You really want another dose ?😆

[@harakirifellatio-xu5ns]

The gaming industry has fallen so far that mid AA ripoffs of better games are seen as masterpieces. If Darksiders 1 or Dante's Inferno came out today they'd be heroded as a masterpieces.

[@InkyMuste]

If Dante’s Inferno would come out today, the cultists wouldn't know whether to be offended or cheer. The final boss being a pitch black skinned Lucifer with a huge swinging dong would fry their brains lmao.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Dante's Inferno was so fucking cool

[@YouMissedBro]

​@jonbaxter2254 great premise, but 2nd half of the game was a snooze fest and story died around the last few levels as well.

[@louniis]

Dante's inferno is too offensive to normies and journalists in these times

[@cyfreusz]

It's the same with movies. Very mid movies are becoming big hits just because there was nothing better for so long.

[@TERUMIBULLY]

The game has mistranslations, So many people dont realize that resolute strike is actually a parry that dramatically changes how combat flows because of the mistranslation. I posted a video showing how combat is supposed to flow

[@billjacobs521]

Thanks for repeating what's in the video.

[@shifugamez.official]

Literally everybody knows this 😂😂😂

[@TrashMannGuy]

These should make a great epic RPG, similar to Wukong, where you play as a Kotaku intern in the heart of China on a quest to find the diversity. The main goal is to find and interview the last black Chinaman in all of the land, who keeps claiming he holds a claim to the Mandate of Heaven because he and his people were once kings. Along the way, you could get interesting sidekicks, like a rice farmer with a funny hat, and a talking pig, who you will have to save many times through groundbreaking spine-tingling and ultra-difficult QTE segments, so that he does not become dinner for the rice farmer, or get captured by the CCP for defamation. Then they just have to make it an Epic-exclusive, add in a few pre-order editions with knock off Chunko-Pops, and it will be a guaranteed 10/10

[@panzershreck8077]

The "gameplay" should also be something akin to a sony movie game or even better a telltale game, where the player doesn't even have to do anything 90% of the time, and can instead take the time to really bask in the glorious dialogue of our diverse cast selection. We wouldn't want to make our modern audience feel left out if they were asked to actually play our games.

[@BlackMetalVengeance]

kek, that is unironically a better idea than most western games these days.

[@thespacedisland5746]

Make it so you can play one handed allowing us sissas to dilate and then goon as we play

[@sudha.r7333]

​@@panzershreck8077that would be dog shit if every game come like that it would be good it's had its own genre but everygame like is shit

[@don-andrezs]

If you want to know who controls you. Look to who you cannot criticize. -Voltaire Stay strong and clever, Synthetic Man!!

[@manoz6194]

Juice!

[@don-andrezs]

@@manoz6194 not just them

[@don-andrezs]

I don't give all the credit to the juice but to many many others as well.

[@manoz6194]

@@don-andrezs yes, their masonic lackeys too

[@Iron_Soil]

oy vey

[@Yayofangamer16]

Shadow the Hedgehog Edge Kino at the first 9 seconds.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Crazy he's gonna be in a movie too

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@jonbaxter2254 Not gonna watch that shyt

[@noodle1665]

@@Yayofangamer16 Yeah but you gotta admit that he looked cool af in the trailer, gave me vibes from the game.

[@Yayofangamer16]

​@@noodle1665Can't wait to how they add something subversive. /s

[@LG1ikLx]

It sucks they haven't made another Shadow game.

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

A simple non woke game with solid gameplay and visuals will always be better than the next western slop game of the week.

[@don-andrezs]

Absolutely

[@jonbaxter2254]

Wild how a simple game like this can be a diamond amongst the modern slop

[@don-andrezs]

@@jonbaxter2254 mhm! Tell me about it.

[@don-andrezs]

@@jonbaxter2254 we need people to play the old games

[@based-ys9um]

It's cringe to praise mediocre things just because they aren't woke 😂.

[@quintribute]

The 'em that saved the heavenly middle kingdom from foreign invaders.

[@kemosabe1313]

The ‘em that granted the mandate of heaven

[@GamerKnight-os1ot]

Synthetic Chud should play FNAC

[@GHL24845]

​@@GamerKnight-os1ot five nights at creddy's

[@cheeser9530]

I gotta say that for once I actually agree with every single critique in your review. You summed up all the thoughts I’m having playing this game so far.

[@nick2788]

Why am I getting Kamala Harris ads durning my based content ?!?

[@Joutube_is_trash]

Marxist candidate during ching chong game review. Checks out to me

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

Because you don't have u Bl oc k Or igin installed.

[@tomgu2285]

​@@Joutube_is_trash you never read a single marxist book in your entire live freak

[@gokigenyou9524]

Because she needs more white guys for Kamala

[@PunishedBrak]

Because KZbin is sheer negrotech powered by fent reactors and maintained by the misery of its userbase

[@TrashMannGuy]

A Chinese sage, Wu-Loong Schrong, or "The Drink" as he was sometimes called, once walked into my local bar to tell everybody about about Mao Zedong, then proceeded to drop his WuDong in the complimentary peanuts, before quoting Journey to the West and staring into my eyes, and then leaving without saying another word, never to be seen again. I don't know where I was going with this, and I don't know what happened to that man, but I think of that a lot, and certainly a lot more playing Wukong, and I can see where the inspiration came from. Also yeah good vid, would be better if there was a Puar mod

[@mystriddlery]

Puar is the cup

[@Esauofisaac]

Did you observe his liquidity

[@azurdetyvia2966]

What is this brainrot ? Are synthlers becoming a circlejerk community making private jokes by referencing very specific streams ?

[@kandrenai]

TRVKE

[@Shieftain]

@@azurdetyvia2966 Correct. It was from some brainrot video that synth played on one of his streams. It's called "The Drink (Cup)" and yes, it will disintegrate a fair amount of your brain cells, so watch at your own caution.

[@TurtleChad1]

Western developers need to take notes and make woke free games like Wukong.

[@Hero_Of_Old]

They need to, yes. But they won't. They know we hate it and thats why they do it.

[@Morfe02]

Or even better: make games about beating the shit out GODS instead of making therapy sessions with Thor and Odin like Santa Mónica The true ending is more Ragnarok than the actual Ragnarok Game LOL

[@Slavolko]

Bot.

[@wreagfe]

Why? There's like 3-4 decades backlog of non-woke games to play. Same with movies, books, music. Everything you need has already been made.

[@maiqtheliar3502]

@@wreagfethen what’s the point of technological advancement if we should just consume old media. Kind of a waste don’t you think?

[@Dadon93]

Fun review, dude. Other youtubers be hating on ya, but ya alright with me.

[@shacharmarsh9218]

Synthler hitting us with that based black wokang review

[@don-andrezs]

Don't risk it, bro. Ytb 1984 might ban him. Let's be more careful from now on.

[@don-andrezs]

Maybe I'm exaggerating. But I don't think that this synthler callsign helps.

[@shacharmarsh9218]

@@don-andrezs ban for what (I'm Literally a Jew that watched him since 2022)

[@shacharmarsh9218]

@@don-andrezs please don't ban me

[@don-andrezs]

@@shacharmarsh9218 ...erh. I was talking about synthetic man

[@lordsirmoist1594]

always love your reviews, thanks for this one

[@FlashGordonRox69]

We need more eastern developers getting into gaming, stellar blade and black myth wukong might not be perfect games but their thousands better then 90% the western slop we’re fed every year. As cringe as it is to say these games are a step in the right direction as long as they don’t sell their souls to ESG like most big Japanese companies, I would take 10 black myth wukongs and stellar blades over 1 dustborn or assassins creed any day.

[@Jose_Doe]

One problem though is tencent is ccp owned

[@Morfe02]

I agree People critic this games as every western Game is Elden ring and not DEI TRASH like the one of the guns, Concord, suicidesquad lmaooo they look the same : shooters about diverse characters 😂

[@smoothduck7151]

Just wait most countries are like a decade behind America socially it will definitely happen. This is like ps2 era for eastern games lol

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

@@FlashGordonRox69 Next up is Crimson Desert.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

Aren't most game developers East Asian?

[@RogueFox2185]

I heard somewhere that the second story is related to how the Celestial Court see Wukong, the man fears the fox turning on him so he skins her which is a contrast to the main story as the court tries it’s absolute hardest to keep Wukong and his friends under their leash as they fear what they cannot control. I may be wrong and if so feel free to correct me, but that’s the interpretation I know about it.

[@Six_Gorillion]

Why'd he fuck the fox though. And in the dream, the fox died. Killed by her own daughter. None of that makes any sense whatsoever.

[@smoothduck7151]

My interpretation is he fucked the Fox so hard it died and then wore it as a coat. Different strokes ya know

[@mikexhotmail]

I don't know why people who really love their ham or fried chicken feeling bad for that fox. I really don't understand them.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Yeah that is pretty much it. Wukong is the ultimate LOLcow unpredictable idiot, who has gotten immense powers and lacks any self control or responsibility. No wonder Buddha puts a mountain on him for 900 years. Even afterwards it takes a long journey for him to learn measure and self control.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

not necessarily, the budhists worship b4sts. read the description of non-void.

[@andywu5879]

Behind every tens of millions copies sold 3A game, you could easily find around 30% of those buyers are Chinese CP2077 has sold over 25 mil copies worldwide, 30% of them sold to Chinese. GTA V, 200 mil copies sold, 30% sold to Chinese. BG3 37%. We are not saying GOW is pretty good, but for the Greek, Roman, Norse or the West. We pay as long as the game is good.

[@sanji1259]

i did pay for ragnarok and game was horrible boring and bad story...and now i won´t pay for a GoW game anymore

[@ninjainnameonly-6902]

Hope Chinese, Korean, Japanese devs continue making games that's accessible(explain the cultural parts a bit) to kick the subverted AAA studios out. Everyone wants good entertainment and there's been and will be a golden opportunity for Asian countries to make bank. Korean action movies, weird Japanese movies, spectacle Chinese movies and crazy nuts Indian movies is what I watch.

[@shifugamez.official]

@@sanji1259GOW is an amazing game

[@hypno18s]

As a basketball American I give this review a 100/10

[@attilavarga3188]

“Basketball American” I’m crying 😂😂😂

[@eotikurac]

another masterpiece video review, synthetic man

[@Vynne96-jg7er]

Reject DEI, Embrace Monke, Know Zen.🐵🙏🏻☯️

[@HunnysPlaylists]

STOP!

[@HunnysPlaylists]

your curses are Consummately Returned.

[@residentidiot5998]

They probably should’ve made it an actual boss rush. Make it basically Furi on crack/at a AAA level.

[@koichitrump4147]

Wow, after that troon's hitpiece you'd think troon army would start flooding this place. But nah, I've only seen a comment or two from them every once in a while, how weak lol.

[@kennethruskin2710]

Puar keeps the troonspheres away.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

@@kennethruskin2710 Who?

[@TheTyTyXD]

We’re here, just have no compulsion to brigade the comments. It’s sort of just sad

[@HunnysPlaylists]

@@TheTyTyXD you mean you tried witht he zelda video and it didn't work out.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

@@TheTyTyXD also this would be the first time EVER that you didn't att4ck.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Must be doing something right for the audience for this and Stellar Blade to sell so well. What's Dustborn and Concord on now?

[@kaliefaul1905]

I can't speak for Dustborn, but Concord had 86 players when I last heard.

[@jonbaxter2254]

@@kaliefaul1905 Lmao, that is shameful.

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@jonbaxter2254 10 usera per year of development

[@kaliefaul1905]

​@@jonbaxter2254 I know, right? Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League did better than that! 😂

[@AysarAburrub]

its not rocket science just give your customers what they want. And gamers are really easy to please, all they want is fun games with badass men and hot chicks and nobody to lecture them on diversity and inclusion.

[@azazeln]

Gamers are so thirsty for a good game, with no politics or propaganda, that will worship any mediocrity that resembles the "good old games".

[@032_m.alfathcirrus5]

Funny thing is this game isn't mediocre, Stellar Blade was.

[@azazeln]

@@032_m.alfathcirrus5 I'm talking generally, I haven't played this.

[@sudha.r7333]

Then give a idea if you can t then don t criticise remember cyberpunk

[@horacevu]

​@@032_m.alfathcirrus5Yes it is mediocre on every metric. This game took how long to develop? And THIS is the end result?! No mini map, linear gameplay, extremely repetitive combat system, no story telling into Chinese myth or Wukong lore, it's just a straight up souls like garbage. Chinese developers can't make games, this is overhype marketing trash. Everything feels pointless and redundant. Just because you were given toilet water in a desert, doesn't make it "good" water.

[@032_m.alfathcirrus5]

@@horacevu Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that what Souls-like do? No mini-map? I think you just dislike the genre. Criticizing the wonky hitbox is one thing, at the very least Synth did that and it made so much fuckin sense but no mini-map? You nuts?

[@ryanbelanger4543]

Is it just me, or does it look like your basic attacks do almost no damage? Every video I see of this game, people are whaling on bosses, and it seems like your attacks do little damage.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

Yes, the fights are very long and tedious.

[@johnkalyvas4838]

The light attacks do little damage, but build up Focus, which is needed to mix heavy attacks with your light attack combo. And that's what does real damage and sometimes staggers the enemy.

[@axxessdenied]

you can get skills to boost your damage as you level up. you can boost the damage of your combos and get the stamina tree skill where dodges dont break combos and then you can use the attacks and dodge sequences to set yourself up. The final hit in the combo can cover a lot of distance so its a pretty effective way of closing the distance against really agile characters that dodge and move around fast.

[@sd5919]

I'm only 4 hours in but so far the central flow of combat is you build up focus with light attacks then unleah heavy attacks for more damage. Way it works is during bosses you hit quickly when you can do so safely then find moments to combo into a finisher that spends focus for big damage. It feels better to play than it might look in a video.

[@shifugamez.official]

I’m on ng+ and light attacks are doing most of my dmg

[@CritBolganone]

The absolute state of video games when derivative, solid yet not particularly remarkable games like this are the best we have to look forward to. And yes, the Chinese astroturf is very blatant so thank you for calling it out Edit: I was also flabbergasted at that fox story, what the hell was that

[@mikexhotmail]

If you aren't vegan the fox story is part of your life.

[@don-andrezs]

Lol I miss the days when we had hot actresses in videogames, and it wasn't controversial.

[@chainsawplayin]

It's not controversial. Chinese, Japanese and Korean games have hot girls. In those countries, making good games is the way to make money, instead of making every character ugly for DEI bucks.

[@Herb-o]

We have hot actresses for videogames but they make them ugly

[@lucascoval828]

Yeah but they're not as hot as Spyro for Synthetic Man.

[@don-andrezs]

@@lucascoval828 aouch

[@yurithebrave]

There I was thinking Synthetic Man was just a common woke outrage farmer but spicy due to lack of self-censorship brainwashing. Admittedly I haven't seen many videos yet. But God damn, this video is literally the ONLY one on this whole deranged site that has above room temp IQ takes about this game and provides a real, fleshed-out opinion instead of mindless hype or outrage. Thank you kindly my man 🙏🏻

[@wreagfe]

Most of his reviews are like that. If not all of them.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

I'm part of the anti-woke crowd and I don't even watch his stuff often. I get his points, but I wish he'd offer alternatives.

[@shishkebabro]

Synth has consistently had some of the best takes on games regardless of what you may think of his politics

[@Selrisitai]

All of his major reviews go into this kind of depth on the games. It just so happens that if the game is extremely woke then he'll talk about it more than if the game isn't woke at all. That stuff is cancer.

[@darken2417]

People just don't give his reviews a chance and listen to what he is actually saying. Or they don't know what woke means and don't notice when woke stuff is clearly getting sneaked in. Ex: Fallout tv show review where people somehow liked it and pretend that it wasn't woke.

[@MegaSneed88]

>amerimutt joke in the first 10 seconds Its grimstone...

[@GenghisGunt]

Mutts law is universal

[@stronensycharte64]

blackest coal in the deepest mines of Appalachia

[@darkslayer7001]

^^Vnbothered aryan

[@SCHIERKE_252]

thanks for the review synth

[@KingOfhearts72]

That yugioh music that sounds very Asian fits so well for talking about this game.

[@logiclunacy606]

Oh that's where I've heard that song. I was stuck on what that was for ages.

[@KingOfhearts72]

@@logiclunacy606 I think it’s used on the swordsoul map?

[@danielsurvivor1372]

Kudos on you for calling out China's AstroTurf around this game. Most anti woke channels refuse to call this out. Probably why you're one of the only reviewers I still watch

[@angelalcaraz0726]

Have you watched anyone else who talked about the china stuff most of the anti woke channels are being fanboys.

[@billjacobs521]

Or they just don't know. Just saying, not everyone knows eveything.

[@W_W-f8y]

Art direction is something else. Impressive stuff

[@toasty862]

That fox story is so f'n chinese. The way they are with animals, the way they think of them as soulless things. Makes perfect sense.

[@PunishedBrak]

Tools to be used, living or otherwise. To treat them like humans is to invite misfortune. It really is backwards, the way that mindset looks at the natural world.

[@slapthedirtylittlejap8217]

​@@PunishedBrak one could say it aligns well with the Christian understanding of man's steward role in the natural world, it's not that alien of a concept

[@HunnysPlaylists]

beasts do not have s0uls.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

@@PunishedBrak wait, what are you saying. beasts are not people and do not have s0uls.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

the fox is a demon.

[@youmenow7942]

I was just about to eat my dog without watching KZbin. Thank you for saving the day, Synth!

[@Pedro_Le_Chef]

The best comment under this video.

[@TyphonNeuron]

So this is like a boss rush game with high production values, great looking environments and great boss designs, right?

[@kaiboshvanhortonsnort359]

Synth undersells this fact, but it is literally nothing but a boss rush game. You quite often kill a boss and then walk for 30 seconds before fighting another boss. The paltry areas with trash enemies seem to be little more than a chance for the player to grind if they suck at the boss fights - like Synth (lol).

[@Gungrave123]

minus the great boss design, yeah

[@InkyMuste]

I mean that sounds pretty good to me. Most soulslikes have extremely boring level design anyways and nothing has topped og dark souls, so I'm glad these devs just sidestepped that shit altogether and focused on their own thing.

[@billjacobs521]

@@kaiboshvanhortonsnort359 I mean, that is basically what he said.

[@Skullbushi]

I absolutely loved Wukong, one of the best action games out there and harder than most Souls games, its linear and simple, no annoying collectibles or large expanses of meaningless encounters/camps, a ton of enemy and boss variety, story is better presented than any dark souls or elden ring. of course its no perfect game as it has some noticeable flaws, some really annoying hitboxes on larger enemies, I'm not sure about the stances being separate skill lines and requiring so many points, I think they could have really interwoven them better, kinda like how Nioh does it, theres a decent amount of skills and build variety but they could have added more core moves for Wukong, and some other stuff that can be nitpicked. But overall easy 9/10.

[@oodo2908]

Considering they're 1st AAA efforts, these releases from CH and KR are great. This Chinese company made one hell of a leap from silly cellphone games.

[@SyndicateOperative]

"silly" Goddamn, I hate how backhanded 'tards are.

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

In a sane world this game would be considered OK. The problem is that the bar so astronomically low that just being OK is basically a masterpiece now, or at least it is for normies who don't know any better. Honestly I don't much care about this game, I didn't care much about Stellar Blade either, the only recent trendy game like this I've played is Palworld. But whatever, I won't fault people for wanting to become monke and beat demons with a stick.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

And the worst part is that Palworld is an even more just ok game, but because of how low the bar has been lowered, it's also hailed as a masterpiece.

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

@@gimmeyourrights8292 I mean I quite like it, but I won't pretend it's a masterpiece. It just really plays into my personal tastes.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

@@AkuTenshiiZero I respect that, every yin has to have a yang. So to me, Palworld was the game I ignored while I want to support this one. That's kinda funny.

[@KratostheThird]

@@AkuTenshiiZeroJust look at the 2000’s. Lots of iconic games. Today we’re lucky to have one decent indie or a couple okayish AA games.

[@Rorschach1195]

Worth noting that there is only one light attack string, its the same across all 3 stances, it doesn't change, just the heavy attack in each stance changes. There is an unlockable spear that has different light attack animations, but there same thing applies there too, you will looking at that the the rest of the game and everything else has a cooldown and mana requirement.

[@shifugamez.official]

So what? 😂

[@Gameboynitro]

This review was more in depth than Griffin Gaming's noobish review

[@azurdetyvia2966]

griffin is a hack stop supporting this grifter

[@andreasl_fr2666]

I watch a lot of Chinese and Soviet movies and honestly that stuff is closer to normal Christian sensibilities than almost everything produced in the western world post 1950.

[@Mugoflighterfluid]

Christians are lame

[@HunnysPlaylists]

of course you watch that stuff.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

also you are missing that stuff is the "dustborn" of its day.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

this is like saying 10 feet down a cliff is better than 50ft down a cliff.

[@andreasl_fr2666]

@@HunnysPlaylists have you ever watched a movie made in the Soviet Union? Because you certainly seem to know what they are like.

[@mwapemusonda205]

let's go I've been waiting for this

[@callmecharlie0498]

>modern AAA game >is chinese >only £50 Total Commie Victory...

[@FynnRosenzweig]

China may be many things, but it's certainly not commie

[@Jarl_egbert]

@@FynnRosenzweigits almost as if communism is just capitalism in disguise. Once the revolution is done, the suits will just buy up the country thats been destroyed by the red mob (who got all their funding from bankers btw). Dont actually into any of this, that would be very bad!

[@DigitalApex]

It's over. Billions must buy.

[@billjacobs521]

@@FynnRosenzweig Depends how you define it. They certainly call it commie. Let's not get into the "No True Communist" fallacy.

[@Jupiter__001_]

​@@FynnRosenzweig They're communists who believe capitalism is the best way to build communism, just like how they believe a totalitarian mega-state is the best way to build a stateless society.

[@LionsinofStraight]

Thank you for keeping your bias out of famous games with large anti woke demographic. It shows how you always keep it fair and square of the game you review. And I’m glad to see you being less cynical but still enjoyable

[@BSJINTHEHOUSE420]

More like Black Myth: Wu-Tang.

[@PaulieMcCoy]

Ain't nothin to fuck with

[@apfelnudel]

There it is! Now i cant wait to see him Stream and Review Outlaws UbiSlop.

[@SyndicateOperative]

Thanks for the good review, I liked the fair/accurate wording. Honestly, if I would change anything about this game? I'd make it so the first level of every stance was unlocked from the beginning. It'd make the combat feel more natural, and players would be able to understand naturally which one they preferred and wanted to upgrade. It would also partially solve the general feeling that the move-set is too limited.

[@Serox1707]

I hear Asura's Wrath music, I'm immediately happy

[@evilashxero]

Good review, man. I feel the same way. I hope these new companies improve in their next games and give us more options to the West AAA (dead) or the Japanese AA-AAA scene. The West is lost, and is trying to take down Japan with it. It's a tough time to be a gamer.

[@KratostheThird]

The West really started dying around the 2000s. Now we’re just here to survive.

[@anthonylancer]

we love Synth Man!

[@Mantis-ti5ve]

I may never play this game because of my backlog but i am nevertheless happy for Chang and his 99 billion hive-brothers and sisters for finqlly getting a game that celebrates their nations history and mythology. I stand with the monke even if it is, like stellar blade, a 7/10 or a low 8

[@Saltymedpac8008]

Dude i dont know if the mold spread to me but ive started watching the dust born part of the streams :O

[@kennethruskin2710]

Dustporn is so ridiculous it becomes self-satire.

[@Saltymedpac8008]

@@kennethruskin2710 and its crazy how these devs arent even awake enough to realise it. SO much for woke heheheee

[@GORO911]

Finally some objective criticism instead of the unjustified over-hype. I am amazed by the game's world and i really enjoy walking around and exploring. But combat is indeed very basic, and the difficulty sometimes is really infuriating. Currently fighting Zhu Baije in Ch4 and i decided to stop playing and close the game, the idea of fighting him in mud while barely being sble to dodge is ridiculous.

[@bcsb]

Have you tried not being bad at the game?

[@SourRobo8364]

Space Marine 2 is my only hope for this year.

[@Grenetpr]

DD2, Shadow of the erdtree??

[@maxthall]

Bro snuck in Asura's Wrath OST and thought we wouldn't notice

[@BlainAGoddamnSxXxxlT-Rex]

I haven't had a very good night on Breakers in the end, at least I can watch this now with Puar.

[@ughneyko]

One thing I really dislike about the gaming community as a whole is that everyone is blinded by recency bias. It happened to Elden Ring and it's happening to Black Myth Wukong. Just because the game is new and a lot of people are having fun with it, they will call it an instant game of the year, 10/10, the best game ever created and if you do as much as give constructive criticism you get attacked by droves of bots. It's the part of the gaming community that I dislike the most. It's the npc hivemind where you have to glaze the same game everyone likes.

[@bailoch]

Yes you’re a much smarter and more sophisticated human when you just shit over every single new game and scoff at people enjoying something. Game has been out over a week already. There’s no gimmicks here. It’s game of the year and one of the best combat games ever made. Elden Ring was also game of the year so don’t understand that comparison either. These are great games. Doesn’t mean they’re perfect but if you don’t want to call them 10’s, they’re 9.5’s at worst

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

And in a few months people will start criticizing it as if they always did

[@ughneyko]

@@bailoch You're exactly the person I'm talking about.

[@billjacobs521]

@@bailoch All he said was that "I'd like to give some constructive criticism without some jerkoff freaking out about it" and here you are freaking out about it and claiming he was "shitting over every single new game."

[@fierceworrier9691]

Difference is that this game is genuinely the game of the year unless u count in shadow of the erdtree or spacemarine, the game is solid with really cool combat system with LOT of options, has a good story with really great animated cutscenes. Not saying it’s perfect, it has its catches, like the level design being less optional or diverse, less rewards for ng+ etc.But overall 10/10 game for a studios first try

[@josiahfitch4173]

I liked it a lot. 8/10 the characters were inspired, the story was fun and deep in lore.Also,the level design was very good. It feels like a game from yesteryear. I mean the amount of secrets was refreshing.

[@aa2513]

Pretty much the only game critic I can trust these days. Great review.

[@shifugamez.official]

His review was garbage

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

gotta say to point out both the negative and positive aspects of the game WHILE taking in to account the over all picture and experience is a skill that not many reviewers would had in this age of corporate shilling, good review

[@johnnyo9957]

Holy shit i cracked up at the end of this review! Thank you for that 😂

[@thurston_last]

I cant believe Synthetic actually reviewed Wukong over the true GOTY candidate Dustborn.

[@xcharlesbronsonx]

Dust born has too much GRIDS aka AYDS (it was originally GRIDS then renamed to AYDS because it wasn't nice to fanny bandits)

[@shifugamez.official]

Nobody knows dustborn😂, that shit is NOT getting goty

[@sl-zh8bi]

Here’s a simple explanation of the story of the fox. From the perspective of the second chapter, it satirizes the idea that humans and demons are inherently different. In reality, there is no distinction between humans and man-eating demons; "one thought can lead to enlightenment, and another to damnation." In the second chapter, both deities and demons commit the same mistakes. From the perspective of the third chapter, it reflects the core philosophy of Yellow Brow: reversing cause and effect. If you already knew the outcome of an event, would you still begin it?

[@HunnysPlaylists]

pure stnism.

[@HunnysPlaylists]

Also I don't think that is it, or at least not all of it. the monk joins yellow brow because yellow brow loves klling. non-void celebrates going to hll and klling in his lore entry, non-able challenges this and is ostracized. it's presenting the monks as wrong in their cruelty, becoming dmns in the process.

[@MillywiggZ]

14:22 Death Stranding? “He sure looks hungry. All you have to do is not get eaten. Sound like fun? ‘Course it does.”

[@Belmont1714]

Nice catch, I see the resemblance 👍

[@S3nCh4n]

In the pagoda realm, if you kill the lanternheads they wont respawn and your health wont get reduced after

[@PsychoRavager]

Unironically, one of your best reviews. Excited to play this! ❤ And, because of this, I know what to exact, both the great and the mid/bad aspects.

[@Nomad-bl4yw]

i like it when u can use special moves on bosses unlike elden ring where its only about dodging

[@Razkrk]

Really expected more of this, but good review, thank you

[@victorampo1137]

“Barely ever penalized for spamming square” dawg I watched you die enough times to call bullshit on that critique.😂

[@Saltymedpac8008]

Synthler raging durning this game made me feel like we finaly got over breakers for once.

[@melizarainstormz2588]

That Deus Ex Hong Kong backdrop theme tho 👌

[@MrZippyBlue]

Stellar blade was good regardless

[@budthecyborg4575]

I really do appreciate this game as a "Souls-Lite". To be frank I hate most of the boss fights in Dark Souls (DS3 is the only Fromsoft game I've finished), they may have grand spectacle but you'll also often find bosses that basically hard counter your chosen build. And let's not forget the trademark Dark Souls "sprint through a dozen enemies only to start the boss fight at half health". None of that here. You can retool your abilities as often as you like, unlimited experimentation, also a deep flaw of Dark Souls (and even Elden Ring). Wukong is a streamlined Dark Souls and I find it highly successful in that aim. Some people might call Wukong "easy" but actually fighting the bosses in Wukong is a heck of a lot more fun than Dark Souls, which is good because that's basically all Wukong is.

[@sd5919]

Wukong feels more like Nioh than Souls which is funny since Nioh is a Soulslike. I guess Souls-lite kind of works for that but it feels like it makes for an unfair comparison somehow. That said I'm in the minority of people who have grown tired of Soulslikes. Bosses in those games now have too many tedious delayed attacks in their combos and the genre is starting to feel samey. Almost every boss in Lies of P and Elden Ring's DLC were just obnoxious. People in this comment section are saing Wukong's mid but I honestly don't think so. It's an easy 8/10 for me.

[@budthecyborg4575]

@@sd5919 My opinion of Wukong is certainly helped by this only being my third entry into the genre (after DS3/Elden Ring). I do love the exploration in Elden Ring though, if we ever get a Wukong 2 with an open world it'll be one of the best games of all time.

[@thespacedisland5746]

DS2 is braindead easy what are you talking about about

[@budthecyborg4575]

@@thespacedisland5746 It took me 6 hours to beat the Abyssal Watch. I enjoy Dark Souls in premise but new players shouldn't hold back on reading guides.

[@Spr1ggan87]

There's a parry equivalent in the smash tree and the thrust tree, it's basically while in the middle of a light attack combo, hit heavy attack right before the enemy lands a hit, your weapon will glow red and you will negate almost all damage and counter the enemy. The thrust one is similar but you do the jump back and extend staff counter.

[@don-andrezs]

Never waste your time with the adversaries. They want you off Ytb and into the gulag. Stay strong, Synthetic Man!! Anyone who hates you is envious or sinful af. I can't wait for Ubisoft to release their new assassin's creed game 😂 It'll be hilarious

[@Shieftain]

> I can't wait for Ubisoft to release their new assassin's creed game Why bother, Wukong already provides the superior experience of playing as a monkey in an ancient Asian setting.

[@don-andrezs]

@@Shieftain 👏🤣😂

[@don-andrezs]

@@Shieftain comment of the day award goes to you!! Bravo ⚡️

[@rudolphantler6309]

I don't know what the critics are on about? The main protagonist is an african american! :D

[@harryhoudini714]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You made my day!

[@unknownuser5895]

I don't get it