Black Myth Wukong Explained By Native Chinese : The Opening Scene, Knowing Your Enemies

[@method8591]

This was very informative thank you so much, I hope Black Myth Wukong has made Chinese audiences proud.

[@bingtalksofficial]

@@method8591 thanks, it certainly has😁

[@DBT1007]

of course it is. they gonna be more than just proud. but overproud. but it's normal since this is the first Chinese culture in the pop culture form(music, game, novel, comic, animation, in this case this is in game form) that get so popular

[@OnosakaKoike]

im very proud

[@swap3813]

@@DBT1007Genshin impact too

[@t4ngo_kilo]

This is a beautiful game made by a Chinese company.

[@titan133760]

I have a feeling that this game will single-handedly renew interest in the Journey to the West story

[@SiriusV23]

its far much better than any Journey to the west movies or tv series I've seen.

[@titan133760]

@@SiriusV23 It helps that it isn't a mere adaptation of the original story, but rather, it is an original sequel to the story

[@MaschMa]

i hope they bring a new movie

[@MaiElizabeth]

A lot already but mostly are poorly depicted.

[@nocturne.nocturnal]

Not only that but chinese fantasy and literature as a whole

[@antonironstag5085]

Chinese mythology is very underrated in the West, glad it is getting the attention it deserves

[@soku330]

Glad it made its journey to the west

[@mikedaniels470]

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[@Jonathan-fn5dq]

It does have a decent amount of attention but most people just don't know it. Japanese Mangeka have created some of the best hero's journey narratives of all time that are directly inspired by JTTW. Dragon Ball and One Piece are two of the biggest. Almost every single successful Shonen uses the same formula that is found in JTTW. It is still disappointing knowing that millions upon millions of people in the West love JTTW but don't even know the source material.

[@Tommy9834]

To be fair, it's not like specifically that Chinese mythology isn't that popular in the West. It's just that only Greek mythology is mainly popular, with Norse mythology beginning to rise.

[@TalonOfDragon]

Live in America and when I first heard of this game, got super excited. We got a ton of greek and nord mythology, which is nice in its own means but its everywhere. Having something with Chinese mythology was a breathe of fresh air for me. Plus, it pushes me to learn more! Appreciate this vid and hope you do more.

[@boshwa20]

You say that is if Journey to the West hasn't been beaten into the ground

[@sonni.walkman]

fun detailed, in black myth, 我记得看见孙猴子管二郎神叫了一声，“杨侄儿”，这个很有意思，因为二郎神，原名杨戬，在封神演义里面被李静的三个孩子（哪吒，木吒，金吒）看做是自己的张兄，而在西游里面木吒对悟空以长辈而称呼。所以对于悟空来说，二郎神（杨戬）论起来还真得叫悟空叔叔。 这个细节限制游戏制作师很细心。 For yall english speakere, in the fight between wukong and the three eyed mf, wukong calls himself "uncle wu" And also refers to him as "little yang" This stems from the lore where yang jian is the three eye'd dude's born name, before he was investitured to become a god, and him being called wukong's nephew, is actually lore accurate, cuz his three younger brothers, greet wu kong as a elder (when that happens in the literature) so basically wukong is mocking him extra hard, by telling him he knows his background,

[@中泰竹木制品]

二郎神其实不完全等同于杨戬。杨戬是二郎神衍生的神话与文学形象。有不叫杨戬的二郎神也有叫杨戬的二郎神。西游记中从未提及，二郎神的原名。《封神演义》的成书时间晚于《西游释厄传》。孙悟空叫二郎神侄儿，因为二郎神是玉帝的侄儿。

[@zsarimaxim692]

就是在卡玉帝的油😂

[@connorconstantine]

@@中泰竹木制品 西游记第六回，孙悟空见到二郞神说了这句：“我记得玉帝妹子思凡下界，配合杨君，生一男子，曾使斧劈桃山的，是你么？”。所以就算不是叫杨戬，那至少也得是杨二郞。

[@中泰竹木制品]

@@connorconstantine 嗯嗯，受教了😁

[@connorconstantine]

@@中泰竹木制品 哈哈，你谦虚了。其实你说的也没错，二郞神确实不止杨二郞一个，而且西游记里面确实没有提到二郞神的全名。封神演义里虽然有杨戬这个人物，但它只是借鉴了一些西游记中的人物设定，但却从来没提到杨戬是二郞神。然后，估计是这两本书的传播度太高，人们把西游记和封神演义两个小说结合了，认为二郞神的名字叫杨戬，从此传播开来了。

[@f1930]

Honestly, I'm more impressed by the size of his fan in the corner of the room than Sun Wukong's abilities.

[@ReedoTV]

When your fan is bigger than you, you've made it in life

[@FirstSynapse]

That's Sun Wukong's magic staff, hiding in plain sight.

[@Spyduck]

That fan doesn't change speeds. It changes size to match the blowing strength

[@panda5996]

He is secretly the yellow wind sage. The yellow marten/rat zodiac sign demon that has the ability to create samardhi wind with his FAN which he stole.

[@wallace6730]

That's just a living room air conditioner in China. The smaller ones, mounted close to the ceiling are usually only used in bedrooms here.

[@jerseys89finest]

the fact that he can jump fr and use that cloud is pat of the reason i would love to see an open world game for the Journey to the west story

[@user-wy1et9dk9w]

Not open world but a game would be cool.

[@jerseys89finest]

​@@user-wy1et9dk9w we already have "a game" lol. Open world would be dope more freedom to enjoy bein wukong vs the constant battles. I like the games.

[@user-wy1et9dk9w]

@@jerseys89finest this isn’t really journey to the west though. You’re taking what I said very literally. I meant a game narratively driven by the actual story of journey to the west.

[@rarepepecombos8743]

@@user-wy1et9dk9w Following the script would limit gameplay choices. Maybe they could do it but I doubt it.

[@tsubasateacher]

read Heavens Devourer novel, that novel is based on Monkey King, but with a bigger world, you will like it.

[@236Doodad]

Great job explaining this stuff for us muggles out here. Absolutely loving the game!

[@bingtalksofficial]

thanks 😊

[@reticulizeta7351]

i am in the chapter 3. i’m loving the game too

[@mrpotch]

Im so glad i found this channel that explains black myth wukong accurately. All the other non chinese channels couldnt explain it as well as someone whos chinese and knows all about journey to the west

[@lnguyen-1290]

Thank you so much for this. 👍 We Vietnamese have our own way to pronounce/call the terms featured in the novel, but this is truly fascinating to dive deeper into the world of the Chinese novel that we grew up with and love so much.

[@Jqmmm]

Interesting! How does your way of saying the terms work?

[@khoivinh3402]

Nghe dau thang 3 mat khong phai la Thien Loi. Khong biet co dung ko.

[@SirMcAwesome]

Very interesting video - thank you! I was actually wondering about all the various characters in the opening and tried googling some but this is a much better and detailed explanation. It was also nice to hear how the names are pronounced properly by a native speaker. Chinese culture is awesome.

[@ankparptheinsane]

Interesting video, I hope you keep continuing this for each chapter in Black Myth Wukong. I watch multiple adaptation of journey of the west, but it was a long time ago during childhood, so a bit of refresher can help especially from someone who from where the lore originates because there is a lot of hidden nuances that probably people outside culture didn't know. I think you don't have to worry about spoiler. There is a market for in depth explanation of game lore for people that already finished the game. And treating viewer as they know nothing about the story also better in my opinion. Because there is a lot of creative adaptation of journey of the west that probably didn't contain element from the story or even add new element that not found in the story.

[@user-wy1et9dk9w]

As long he warns there are spoilers. It has only been like a week. For the opening it doesn’t matter so much.

[@rustyfox5261]

This has become one of my favorite games. Wukong is one of if not the coolest mythology character.

[@Moses10]

This was super useful! I remember watching Xi You Ji (1986) and the cartoon but there's still a lot I don't know or forgot

[@bingtalksofficial]

yeah the tv drama is quite dated haha. for the game i watched it one more time

[@Bunny11344]

@@bingtalksofficialthe show might be dated but it’s the best one ever made imo. The actor who played wukong carried the whole show and I love it just cause of him

[@TC_Personal]

I literally got the translated Journey To The West with the notes on the cultural details missed in translation to listen to before I played the game. It really makes it more engaging imo. Sharing culture is one of the many superpowers of videogames and literature. Thank You!

[@cameronfolkestad6351]

Very cool to know all the big boys in the background of that fight!

[@mattbourke4734]

Thanks for putting this together, I am really loving the game and wish I knew a lot of the characters as they popped up. Also, that video footage of Xiaotianquan is hilarious, the actor is just wrestling with an actual dog LOL

[@gunk3092]

The opening was really cool. Noticing all the little references to the book and realizing that the game takes place afterwards was quite neat. This video was a great refresher for the things I forgot/missed, thanks!

[@markblancher6801]

Thank you for explaining the opening scene! I hope you do a breakdown of all the rest of the characters and monsters in the game!

[@Delmworks]

Reading journey to the west in high school: trust me, there is nothing I don’t understand! Playing Black Myth: Wukong’s opening: there is nothing about this I understand! Thanks for this video!

[@alistairwhittall3369]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[@bingtalksofficial]

Glad you like it😀

[@CodeineKakashi]

please do all of the animation scenes too!!! love this!

[@leonardomafrareina7634]

The game is awesome, and the mythology behind it is even better. Thanks for explaining it for us, mate.

[@theonegoro6466]

What A great video. Can't wait for your explanation in chapter two!! 😁🙏

[@shibuya3937]

now i know who is giant behind four heavenly kings in the opening scene. Thank you, i was curious about it!

[@troysmith6929]

Thanks for the explanation! Nice to start seeing the themes between the origin and each game character jiving in 🙂

[@kisohinoki2704]

Best video from a guy with less than 1k subs. Amazing job mate, thx for your effort.

[@BloodElfB]

Thank you for these explanations! Very appreciated 🙏🏽😊.

[@abhishekkumarsingh9071]

Thank you so much for sharing this information as I was very curious about the story and even after watching the ending scenes a number of times, I couldn't understand it until I watched your video. Really grateful to you. Thanks.

[@Zisguided]

Saaaarrrr, I am thanks saaaaaaarrrrrr

[@abhishekkumarsingh9071]

@@Zisguided Bro, what's the point of mocking Kerala people? And, by the way, I am not South Indian but still, I don't get why you people are so pathetic towards South Indians. Get a decent life.

[@6ixohone]

Was waiting for this exact video

[@mischa1981]

Wow, thank you so much for the video. Indeed I have no clue of Chinese mythology and only learned through the game about "Journey to the West". I also thought the game features the journey itself. I didn't know the story of the game takes place AFTER the novel. Very informative video, thank you very much.

[@Dennis-ur4zu]

Thank you for the upload. Not understanding any of what was going on in the prologue didn't give me much incentive to keep playing lol

[@abam9787]

2:56 It's the opposite, like going back to stay at home chilling with the homies when your company who hired you expected you to fulfill your work duty in the office, as one of The Court.

[@BlueVoltageBlader]

lol spoiler, he said to not making a spoiler

[@abam9787]

@@BlueVoltageBlader even the intro scene considered as spoiler?

[@bosmith6992]

@@BlueVoltageBladeryou learn this 2 min into the game. Saying the court betrayed wukong is just as much of a spoiler, it’s just incorrect

[@X-SPONGED]

He got promoted to basically a board member and said "yeah nah, I'mma just go home. This company sucks ass" The sheer amount of disrespect alone is probably reason enough for the Jade Emperor to call in the heavenly army😂 Imagine the very second this noisy janitor got promoted to basically just below CEO, he said "yeah this is boring, I'mma retire to the countryside, see ya!" that's what Wukong did

[@blackhawk15897]

@@X-SPONGED There was also the small detail that they were also "Killing his Kind"(Whether that meant Yaoguai or monkeys, I'm not sure). Which is what really pissed him off. The bit about them coming down to drag him back to the celestial court was merely an understandable annoyance to him. It was the wanton slaughter he couldn't stand.

[@von8119]

It'll be cool if you can do the same thing for the bosses in the game. If they are based on a character from the novel or if the boss gives you an important item that's also given in the novel. Really liked this video, it was great learning all this background information.

[@ElErranteVapeador]

Thank you so much, that was very interesting and now I know a little bit more about it. Thanks for your efforts! Good video! 😁☺️👍

[@GhibliHeroine]

Your explanation was very clear, thanks...

[@workrase1]

Thank you sir! Appreciate the video greatly.

[@1rotzy]

Thank you for explaining the opening. There were a lot of things that I could guess from context clues, but you really helped clear a lot up. I wouldn't mind more videos about the story explaining things Westerners may not know. After this game came out, we have been taking a journey to the East to learn more.

[@brookspn]

Great video. Learning the lore was cool. Learning just how badly I'm pronouncing these names was cool, too.

[@Jaguarsclaw]

This is a great Video 🙏🏽

[@realgambadogaming]

I love the cut ins from the Journey to the West TV show for context of the topics covered, informative and great video!

[@FEARPHYSIC]

This game has turned my attention to Chinese mythos and I’m loving every bit of it.

[@hollowgetsuga425]

Great video brother. I will be staying tuned for more explanations on the characters and their stories.

[@GHOSTY457]

Thank you, glad this popped up in my feed!

[@rehitzu7877]

Great video, thank you very much. Please make more, it would be great to be enlightened like this for each chapter

[@bruhmomento_2197]

Love the references to the 1986 series. It’s much easy to identify the people from the game

[@kiekeyz]

bro got a BIG ASS FAN round back. That thing could cool my whole house.

[@jakoreyaj]

Man i hope you explain that true ending at some point. Thanks for the informative videos.

[@arghyadeepchatterjee6100]

Erlang Shen and his third eye-d depiction is inspired from the Sogdian deity Weshparkar who is the Sogdian counterpart of the Indo-Iranian and Vedic wind god Vayu and Rudra who later became associated with the current Shiva. The four heavenly kings are the Chaturmaharajas . They are Vaishravana (Hindu god of wealth Kuber, i,e, the son of sage Vishrav and the brother of Ravana), Dhritarashtra (not to be confused with Dhritarashtra of Mahabharat), Viruddhaka (a form of Shiva) and Virupaksha (another form of Shiva). The name Virupaksha literally means deformed eye/third eye which Shiva has. Just wanted to share these with you as well as as someone who has studied Hindu and Buddhist mythology along with many central asian cultures.

[@来去-y7l]

二郎神的眼睛最早叫天眼，出自中国本土的佛教经典《二郎宝卷》，但二郎神最早出现是北宋。

[@cartuxo999]

Just watch 1 documentary and 2 movies about wukong before playing the game and the story is freakin awesome! Loving the game! 👌

[@servalkorion686]

I hope we get more games that explore different mythos of other cultures. I loved this

[@Malugako]

Jade Myth: Aztec Kingdom - or something like that would be absolutely epic !!! They should continue by changing color and fitting culture / myth

[@halnicholas3791]

Great video! I think a lot of westerners will get interested in 西游记 now, and even in learning 中文.

[@CaptainBadNews]

Love the movie clip of monkey king “battling” the “vicious dog” lol!

[@tiktaco4391]

Thank you so much for this!

[@ProLaytonxPhoenix]

Amazing story, Amazing game, and an amazing video! Thank you!

[@iblank13]

Appreciate the work that you do and love how informative it is. Thank you for educating us.

[@ZEHAHAHA9697]

This is a great video, man.

[@FigureUnboxing]

I'm glad this game becomes such a hit among the western audience. Because all these times, they only know DRAGON BALL. The legend of Wukong is also famous in Indonesia, better known as Sun Gokong. Which is interesting because most people here are Moslems. But many of them seem to be able to enjoy Chinese/Buddhist legend adventure tales.

[@Inquisitor_Jeff]

I’m a simple man. I see battle with gargantuan demi-god figures, I like it. Lol but, thank you for informing us that don’t know very much about the mythology and story this is based off of.

[@basxhor]

Thank you for this cool lore to this fantastic journey 😊

[@driyagon]

thank you so much for explaining!

[@boardlife27]

Really good video!! would love to hear more about the lore of Sun Wukong. Subscribed!!

[@RafCole]

Thx for this. Very interesting and I'll have to check out "journey to the West|" it seems. Idea for future videos is maybe go over other media that you would recommend about this mythology. I see you used an old Journey To the West TV series in this one for instance?

[@incapablecookie8021]

3:25 Xiaotianquan is so cute in the TV series lol ❤❤❤

[@traversdow4453]

Very cool - fascinating how much they have used of the original source. Such a gorgeous game too

[@beermustard]

Thank you Sir.

[@thecapitalone1996]

A worthy video to watch while I sit down at Panera bread 🙂‍↕️thank you

[@jamiedavies6773]

Thank you for this mate :) great video been watching more videos on Sun Wukong as I’m loving the game 👌🔥

[@karnarax]

Thank you for the video! I love mythologies, but know nothing about Chinese one! After watching this video, however, I know a little bit of it now.

[@SKINNY_HUMAN]

Gaming companies from the EAST are my favourite game developers now. Absolutely fantastic games. Thank you #Gamescience ❤ Thank you #Bing for your the explanation 🔥🔥🔥

[@Flubuska]

awesome video, thanks friend

[@UniverseGd]

Congratulations you won the algorithm!

[@HamsterXFiles]

Why does no one acknowledge the 1996 TVB series, that one was really good.

[@Bunny11344]

It’s the best one

[@gothorn2758]

I grew up watching that version. Because I'm too young to understand anything when 1986 series aired 😂. I always laughing watching Pat Kai literally drolling whenever he see hot chick 😁

[@Kill_Moves197]

Very helpful thank you . I now know who the Ops are

[@FIRSTCLASSGAMER]

This is verify informative and I learned a lot from this video. Definitely subbed 😎

[@Towkeeyoh]

Excellent! To the point yet informative! Looking forward to more!

[@lanzer22]

With your outfit I feel like a restaurant waiter is explaining WuKong lore to me while I am ordering dinner. :)

[@marcodragneel8035]

Sir this is ancient china not an arby's

[@reyanthereptileguy]

Just subscribed to your channel!!! Love your content man🙏really informative and fun !

[@shigeokageyama0]

Thank you so much for your video

[@vgamedude12]

Thank you for some clarification. This story is very interesting and the lore and characters are very cool but I feel VERY confusing if you aren't Chinese and are not familiar with Chinese tales and the story of Journey to the West.

[@gangryongma8485]

I thought they place there at random but this is very cool thanks

[@icyclestick178]

very informative video! commenting for the algorithm

[@andrewchavez4053]

Thank you for the video! Subscribed 👍

[@OMGGITSDAVID]

A Chinese odyssey starring Stephen chow is a must watch! A classic

[@sidneyhartmann9786]

Great explanation!!! 🙏 thank you

[@DanielHomeImprovement]

amazing, thanks a lot for the great explanation!

[@GabrielMoreira-lp8jj]

Great video!

[@Dazulolwarrior]

Nostalgia has prepared me for everything inside the game

[@umirimu8755]

The black dog erlang has is actually the 'sky hound' in chinese mythology. People in ancient times rationalised solar or lunar eclipses thinking the Erlang accidentally let his dog out and it had swallowed the sun/moon.

[@eneseusm459]

Black myth wukong is for champions

[@yurimessias11]

Hey, great video! That was very didatic.

[@bingtalksofficial]

@@yurimessias11 yeah i agree. i'm trying to make my videos more fun

[@youtubeenjoyer1350]

would love to see an explanation of each chapter cutscene animation! thank you for the explanations. I always wondered who the giant dude in the middle was.

[@来去-y7l]

巨灵神

[@thenotoriousziz]

Just bought the deluxe edition of the game because of you haha

[@ReedoTV]

There's an old game called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West that tells the original story. I have fond memories of that game

[@FrankFreezy_]

Great video. Thank you

[@wagonet]

this is great for western audience, i'm not familiar with these stories but LOVE the game, learning the lore is great.

[@IchbinX]

Thank you, so much. I know nothing of Chinese Mythology.

[@ReformMsia]

Thank You for sharing about Juling Shen… was wondering who is the blue dude

[@badred3ZZ]

Amazing. Thank you bro

[@Supreme0757]

I definitely have a lot more respect for the Chinese mythology since this game came out. I’m going to read journey to the west

[@gothorn2758]

Yes reading is always good. But I should warn you since it's classical chinese there's always something lost in translation. Translating modern Chinese already hard, it's more difficult for ancient chinese. It's like non native English speakers try to read Shakespeare 😁. If it's too hard, there's always TV show from 1986, or 1996 series.