Game Graph | Black Myth Wukong Review

[@Goober6873]

this channel makes me mildly less pissed off at work

[@bredwright]

Same

[@anthony6929]

Love this game my complaint is if you use a spell but get hit before you cast it you spend the spell and mana and won't cast and gotta wait for cooldown

[@yoursom1onlineyoudontmattr819]

I hate games with interrupts

[@pixelstorm3957]

True feel like you gotta use a spell like immobilize just to get off another spell

[@anthony6929]

@@pixelstorm3957 yeah pluck of many takes a while and that one's bad about getting hit mid animation and losing it

[@d34thnote79]

Imo it's inconsistent AF too when it comes to immobilize Sometimes I would cast it a good half a second before getting hit and it would be straight up ignored (and then it wouldn't on another run, so no, the attack wasn't un-immobilizable), hell, SOMETIMES I WOULD GET A COOL DOWN REDUCTION FOR GETTING THE TIMING PERFECTLY RIGHT, BUT IT STILL WOULDN'T DO SHIT Other times it would count a "perfect cast" (which looks like a perfect dodge) when I'd swear I just got hit, except I guess I didn't

[@Happygg6]

The story and characters and their interactions are a lot easier and more fun to follow if you actually take the time to familiarize yourself with Journey to the West, at least a little bit

[@agirlwithnoname0]

No block button but there’s counter mechanics where if you time your skill correctly you’re invincible to an enemy attack during that skill (see through) animation

[@heathkish6901]

wtf does the “see through” enemies thing mean? I cannot for the life of me understand

[@gamjayeo]

@@heathkish6901 'See through' means eye framing, on smash and thrust stance you get eye frames when inputing a heavy attack while light attacking

[@agirlwithnoname0]

@@heathkish6901 While doing your basic attacks; if you time your heavy attack right as the enemy is about to attack you, you negate all dmg and instead you'll trigger a see through. Your staff will glow grey but do keep in mind you need at least 1 focus point to do this but that isn't too hard to do.

[@heathkish6901]

@@agirlwithnoname0 THANK YOU! I finally get it!

[@michaelrosado6093]

“I need that to happen to me except with a lopunny” 😂😭🤣☠️ that got me good af I spit my coffee out bursting laughing at 6 in the morning. My neighbors and family really love me rn 😅

[@PirateKingBoros]

Chapter 3’s prison level was ass but everything else has been great for me tbh.

[@nxvh9062]

that was my favourite level in the entire game. The tension, enemy design, level design were all so sick, even if it was hard

[@PirateKingBoros]

@@nxvh9062 Clearly you never had a Lantern Warden pick your ass up and then YEET you off the stage. 💀

[@Budd631]

Chapter 6 was also terrible. Chapter 3 is about 30% of the game length. Weird pacing

[@Jianichie]

​@@PirateKingBoros That was the only time I got tilted. 😂

[@getampt22]

Fuck chapter 4. The entirety of hollow cave where everything is a long range enemy that causes poison is probably my least favorite video game level of all time.

[@qinlongfei]

Haven't actually played this game myself yet since I'm playing another Chinese game. But based off Chinese community's reaction, I would say Black Myth's story is definitely written for us who are already pretty familiar with the original [Journey to the West]. Since most Chinese reviewers/videos highly praised its story and was actually more harshly criticing the game's mechanic and design details. The one guy who give a very harsh critic is more based on how he personally didn't like Son Wukong was portrayed in the story, as someone who is more willing to resort to underhanded and dispecable tactics to get his goal and not the more traditionally idealized Chinese vigilente. And said youtuber pretty much got immediately buried in comment section where everyone rebuked his opinion by saying either Wukong did start out as a rougish and selfish monkey at the start of the novel exactly like this game, and this portrayal makes him feel much more realistic as essentially a wanted rebel who is trying to topple an oppressive regime.

[@sourabhkandari80]

game peaked at ch2 to ch4 mid , after that it was tedious. I don't like the level design of most of the chapters. Also, some chapter 5 and 6 felt unfinished to me.

[@thegamewin100]

Decent game performance holds it back and the game doesn’t have as bosses as it would seem alot were fodder and the main ones were hit to miss I’d give it 8/10 honestly 9 if it ran properly

[@michaelgarner4423]

Watch it get best narrative

[@sejadlulic8377]

yeah sure story 3o because the reviewer didnt understand it at all nor cared enough to even try to do so. :D The story is incredibly deep and really well told. It would be a good start to listen to the voicelines of the characters and bosses when you fight them. Or even better read their tales in the ingame diary. It can be that simple. If you really wanna fully understand what the game wants to tell maybe at least watch a video about the journey to the west that kinda functions as prequel to this games story. But that would be effort. :) (100% this guy hasnt found the true ending and thinks erlang is the bad guy - if he even remembers who he is)

[@CU-Later]

Reading diary entries is NOT story in a game, its background information. If you have to read a book before playing a game to understand the story, you didn't do a good job of telling the story.

[@jameslough6329]

@@CU-Later But you don’t have to read a book prior to playing Wukong to understand the story. As the OC says, if you read the ingame diary or just pay attention to the boss cutscenes you can understand the lore pretty well

[@MrEffectfilms]

The only objectively bad thing in this game so far that I've seen is the prison realm in Chapter 3, aside from that this game is amazing. And yeah I'd recommend you play at least until Chapter 2 because that's when the game really starts to show what makes it so good, probably until you fight the First Prince. If you want to understand the story you NEED to do some research as this game is basically a sequel to Journey to the West so there's no getting around this, you gotta learn your shit.

[@kylerockwell9573]

music is nice but a smidge too loud imo

[@hotnessgaming1396]

You have to follow up jump attack with a heavy. Jump attack does little damage but gives you a shit ton of focus. Can’t really criticize the gameplay if you haven’t even figured out something as basic as that man

[@MarchionRo-yr1ft]

I like the game as a whole, but I’d never say it’s better than a FromSoft game

[@yoyodude662]

Wukong is better then any from soft game.

[@MarchionRo-yr1ft]

@@yoyodude662 you crazy bro. Have you played Elden Ring?

[@yoyodude662]

@@MarchionRo-yr1ft Yes I even completed DLC, it's so boring ass game, I'll never touch it again. Wukong have more soul then any souls game.

[@MarchionRo-yr1ft]

@gamerandy-k9o it’s a grind, sure, but I always had fun with it

[@joaoluizkfsantos8392]

I never stopped to grind and ended the dlc at lv 167... There's no need to ever stop and grind in ER (or in Wukong for that matter)

[@alanbruce480]

I 100% completed the game last week on PS5. Normally, as is the case with other similar games likes Sekiro and Lies of P, I would be starting a brand new run. Test my skills with what I have learned in my previous playthroughs… Not here. I cannot say I enjoyed my time with Wukong. I wish the developers had been honest and said it was a souls game- or release a free demo in advance for the consumer to reach their own conclusion. Since Sony doesn’t give refunds, I commited. Completed. And immediately shelved

[@HypnoBeams]

I enjoy this youtube channel

[@SkullKnightmare775]

I liked Wukong more than I thought I was going to, but I never fell in love with it like I have other Souls-like game and action games before it. Explortion annoyed me and was my biggest issue. I was constanly jumping into invisible walls because I couldn't always figure out where the level bounderies would end and Its hard to know what you can and can't jump off of or on to. Good game, but not GOTY material like everyone else thinks. Quick Note: I hope you get around the playing and doing a boss ranking of Nine Sol's this is literally my Indie GOTY so far. Sekiro style metroidvania.

[@bigsmall2842]

I’d say chapters 2-5 are great . Chapters 1 and 6 are very lacking imo. In terms of gameplay I really just hate bosses that hard counter a large amount of your kit and refuse to stagger. There’s not a lot of them thankfully but there’s a few that operate like that(great sage I’m looking at you). It just dumbs the game down. Overall the bosses were good, and there were some surprisingly great gimmick fights. In terms of levels I think chapters 2 and 4 had the strongest design.

[@pissant42]

Respect differing opinions but this is personally my biggest disappointment of the year. There's so many areas where Black Myth just falls flat, the level design, the overly simplistic combat, the basic RPG progression (you could barely even call it an RPG) and the incomprehensible storytelling. There's just so much that could have been done better, I even think I like Stellar Blade more at the end of the day and I thought Stellar Blade was pretty overrated

[@Conrock1296]

This is easily the biggest 7/10 game I've ever played

[@Budd631]

100% agree.

[@MohamednacerKhelifi]

The gank bosses in this game are garbage

[@khunneth3514]

6/10 Overrated af.

[@Kevin-bh3dl]

This game is long as shit and the bloat really hits in chapter 3, otherwise it’s a good time

[@soshalconstruct5463]

Currently getting through there. The arches seriously shouldn't stagger your character.

[@Kevin-bh3dl]

The pagoda level was horrendous

[@Budd631]

Chapter 3 is about 25-30% of the actual game length. Chapter 6 is the opposite and somehow just as bad. Press square to attack and see the SAME combo all game. My God. Decent game but so overrated. Invisible walls and crap level design as far as knowing where the hell i need to go. Bad “flow” in the maps

[@everittvisser1843]

This game is based on parts of God of war and Dark Souls even Elden ring so typical bullshit game 1st playthrough seems fun after that getting boring and boring then you know where everything is then game become less fun BORING