Black Myth: Wukong - Hands-On With an Impressive First 2 Hours

We played two hours of Black Myth Wukong at Summer Games Fest Play Days 2024 and came away even more excited for this fast paced soulslike from the developers at Game Science. Check out Mitchell's impressions as he explains the combat mechanics of the game.
#BlackMythWukong #Preview #IGN

[@mehdeem4270]

Lol IGN resorting to deleting

[@JustapErson]

You sure? All the comments I'm seeing are negative. You'd think they'd just remove comments, not let the top comments be negative and critical.

[@fbwjjwbs]

@@JustapErson Of course you are this clueless. As the recent deleting brigade has just already happen way earlier ago, and people are not stopping commenting to spread the information continuously no matter what. Mayhaps there is some luck, coincidence or it is intentional, do you think we would know? So here we are now?

[@AEGIPAN101]

Oh boo hoo. Your "free speech" doesn't exist on the internet. Don't like it? Log off

[@ismaelkf]

what happened?

[@fbwjjwbs]

@@ismaelkfAn occurence where many of the comments regarding criticism of the company get removed and people keep pushing and commenting. Now its just some comments getting deleted and shadowbanned...

[@Gotoemole]

Still no apology for the intentional mistranslation?

[@ymm5138]

definitely they won't

[@ritzkola2302]

What was it

[@MorningLyfe411]

IGN needs to apologize for making false accusations

[@deliciouskromer4578]

@@ritzkola2302they falsely accuse the main dev for sexual harassment based on deliberately mistranslated posts, then demands the devs to apologize TO THEM for not including fem-coded characters in game

[@ritzkola2302]

@@deliciouskromer4578 thank you!

[@dcon1891]

Dang also here to point out a lot of comments got deleted

[@92_dumanggasamuelsitorus34]

Yeah including mine they really want to cover it up

[@davidyoung6825]

and mine

[@phoenixred2814]

MAD comments Lol

[@cthulhurage5598]

Wait till the report comes out about how ppl on the Internet are being mean to her the victim card will come out.

[@williams00]

That's just what youtube automatically does now. Especially if you say anything spicy

[@sterlingarcher5698]

"Lets just pretend like it never happened" Cos that akways works.

[@SyedAli-gl7jq]

Bro can you tell me which video was it where they slandered the developers?I can't find the video

[@sterlingarcher5698]

@@SyedAli-gl7jq just look up Black Wukong mistranslation. It appears to be a pretty blatant mistranslation mistaking a simple saying expressing frustration, for something sexual and offensive.

[@fradman7153]

@@SyedAli-gl7jq it's an article written by an ign reviewer

[@manakakisaragi9121]

Are you going to slander every high profile Asian launch now? First Stellar Blade and now Black Myth Wukong. What are you going to make up about Phantom Blade Zero, accuse them of tax fraud?

[@mooncr]

LoL

[@z-accountlogic8913]

They also used unnatural logic to attack morality in Elden Ring. In other words, they attacked Japan as well.

[@sy8480]

@@z-accountlogic8913 IGN is just a clown

[@BradLad56]

Actually it's libel, not slander since it was written.

[@schwarz8614]

They have slandered so many Japanese games before stellar blade and wukong. Almost any asian game gets some ridiculous article made about them.

[@DD-rs6mn]

IGN doesn’t even deserve to review this game.

[@Deformer23]

free speech exists, cry about it.

[@TeaTimeWithTommy]

Watch it feller. The IGN sensors are gonna take your comment away

[@scratchguitar]

​@@TeaTimeWithTommyFuck them

[@adamstevens3661]

Word and based

[@MrVenom973]

Shut up clown

[@lonewolfgames7779]

We know about the article. Your not fooling anyone IGN.

[@TheBf666]

keep crying more

[@abbasshachem3383]

@@TheBf666 butthurt? wipe your tears

[@user-kn4ri]

@@TheBf666 womp womp

[@TripodDetergent]

What happened?

[@Sssaid17]

Context?

[@DarthRevan260]

IGN is a joke, you were supposed to destroy the sith, not join them!

[@artakhalvati2880]

can you please tell me what happened

[@fbwjjwbs]

​@@artakhalvati2880 Basically IGN just tried to slander, humiliate and tries to name-call black myth wukong over a google mistranslated text, and even if said text is not that's not even sexist, just a s*xual joke. And many people including on reddit and twitter are using this to just bring down the games and devs..look up the asmongold clip video for more context, don't listen to the others trying to bring it down.

[@fbwjjwbs]

​@@artakhalvati2880 Basically IGN just tried to slander, and tries to name-call black myth wukong over a google mistranslated text, and even if said text is not that's not even sexist, just a s*xual joke. And many people including on reddit and twitter are using this to just bring down the games and devs..look up the asmongold clip video for more context, don't listen to the others trying to bring it down.

[@Levas-29]

Don't bother at this point. The ones who tries to provide context through comments are getting deleted anyways..Only way to view some of them is through sorting to new comments were most weren't filtered.

[@wingsoficarus1139]

@@artakhalvati2880 Wrote a false slam piece on the devs behind the game.

[@KenLinx]

The gall of IGN to upload this when they tried to extort millions of dollars out of Game Science, the developers of Black Myth Wukong, is wild.

[@adamlantos2319]

Didn’t know about this? Would you mind giving me some details?

[@文龙君-c2y]

Perfectly explains what it means to be thick-skinned

[@Duong-zv3pf]

​​​@@adamlantos2319 According to the dev, they had received a demand from a western publisher or some company. Basically want Game Science to give them 7mil and they will "guide" the dev on how to make the game more "correct" and for the "morden audience", aka a SweetBaby inc moment. On it own, you just think they got some no name company trying to scam them but Ign also drop a article falsely accused the dev of being sexist, etc base on a wrongly translated tweet of the dev. Ign got call out, double down, got even more backlash and basically wiped the board clean. This situation make people believe that there a Western company circle that basically fked over Eastern game studios so they can thrive, consider Stella Blade also got the semi same treatment.

[@dragonbane44]

@@adamlantos2319 IGN published a hit piece on the developer of Wukong that he is a sexist, based on a mistranslated comment. IGN, instead of apologizing, has resorted to deleting comments and hiding their a&*.

[@SyedAli-gl7jq]

​@@文龙君-c2ybro pls tell me which video was it where they slandered the developers?

[@Lex_Nocturna]

So im buying this game twice. One for me to play The other will be the collectors edition, its for that awfull article and extortion attempt.

[@PBart7]

Based

[@JustapErson]

Feels like just buying the expensive/collectors edition by itself should be enough but fair enough.

[@GanondorfsWife]

I'm buying the game for my friends with my own work money.

[@Lex_Nocturna]

@@JustapErson a fair point.

[@ni9274]

What extortion attempt ? Is there any evidence that it happened ?

[@wildguardian]

Dudes nowadays will call assassins creed a souls like and mario/megaman metroidvanias

[@fatboi3603]

Facts

[@johnleonard9102]

There are only three kinds of games that exist to these people: Fortnite-like Souls-like TLOU-like

[@jianghutong]

IGN needs to focus more on contends likes this video instead of those non sense articles, this is what a game journalism supposed to be

[@Cameron-fk5fk]

Glorified puff piece trailers only are not what journalism is supposed to be lol, that's would be marketing.

[@necrochasm5020]

@@Cameron-fk5fkYou’re not wrong but at this point to save their reputation they should just shift to more marketing and less of their political antics tbf

[@saran99945]

they try to destroy rockstar as well.

[@ahsank.]

Ign really thinks they didn't put out that hit piece like dawg I'll just take a screenshot of this comment before y'all delete it.

[@nd-xu4en]

ginko

[@ahsank.]

@@SyedAli-gl7jq it wasn't a video, it was an article. Just look it up

[@Reda.]

Yeah yeah but where's the public apology?

[@_._._._._._._._._._._._._.____]

from ign?

[@charlieprichard6844]

what did they do?

[@alessandrobarbosa7969]

ward

[@roberttong8877]

So, what happened to that not gonna report or review the game stuff? Or does it apply only to your French division?

[@darkchris66]

A journalist company making an apology will make their credibility go down. They rather ride the wave until it dies down.

[@ThePolyxyz]

They should have kept quiet and not brought this up again, but we saw that they actually published an additional article continuing to talk about it under the normal game commentary.

[@thepiratepeteshow2684]

People should just Boycott them. That will cause far more damage

[@ni9274]

Apology for telling the truth ?

[@andyhuang9132]

@@ni9274What? Did Game Science hurt ur girlish feeling as well? 😂😂😂 keep crying fool

[@Volknsarr]

@@ni9274 The truth about what? That they mistranslated the devs and called them s*xist?! Make some sense bro.

[@TageChe98]

Wasn’t interested in this game until all the stuff that’s been happening. Big round of applause for the developers for not bending the knee 👏

[@KeytarArgonian]

‘It’s rich in deep Chinese culture’ > mistranslates Idioms intentionally to attack devs they claim to ‘love’.

[@GorehowlBeardhead]

Honestly the audacity of that line

[@leomahammid2404]

Has the word souls-like just become interchangeable with 3rd person action? It's like calling every FPS out there a CoD-like.

[@fikrirahmatnurhidayat4988]

It's definitely souls-like game, it has born-fire system, and you lost your stuff upon dying. For sure, we need to invent the proper genre for this game, it's been a decade. Just like how FPS game on the 90s was called as Doom-clone, then First Person Shooter Terms become a thing. It doesn't even take a decade to do that.

[@SunGodJaren]

If u played a souls game u wouldn't say this. This is definitly a Souls-like game. U can tell just off the little we've seen. No one calls GoW, Marvel's Spider-Man or the Arkham games souls like, lmao.

[@mattc7420]

Were you alive before 2003?

[@Thanatos2k]

No no, every FPS is a Doom clone, remember?

[@RoxasNelson]

IGN review on Wukong about to be 6

[@YubYub-bn4ot]

IGN gonna take a massive shitstorm

[@Thanatos2k]

No, it's gonna be a 9, but half the review will be complaining about the devs and not the game.

[@ymm5138]

​@@Thanatos2k true man hehe

[@KusapaliSandeep-mt1cl]

4.5 didn’t quite match our expectations!

[@hanzoyamazaki2551]

they gonna call the game perfect but then bash it for not having any western influences

[@f0rb1t28]

You are not playing as Wukong; instead, you are "The Destined One." However, considering this is IGN, known for occasionally lacking thorough research, what can you expect?

[@thewhyzer]

How does "The Destined One" get a hold of Wukong's staff?

[@SuperHongTay]

@@thewhyzer the destined one is related to Wukong in some way. Maybe it is wukong, maybe its a clone…

[@cuzimtexo]

Scared, Potter?

[@zabrak999]

nobody is scared of chinese slop

[@TheMadBeardedArtist]

​​@@zabrak999uncultured

[@zeusolympya3918]

@@zabrak999keep liking your own cmt, lad

[@Unknown-kq9pv]

​@@zabrak999loser

[@sy8480]

@@zabrak999 You also joined IGN's clown army

[@T.O.Wallee]

How IGN still have 18m sub is beyond my understanding

[@WypukEST]

For now it's 18.2M

[@liutaurasbairunas7363]

What happened?

[@LeBron0262]

Because not everyone is terminally online

[@brachygobius_xanthozonus]

Shitheads... 7-14 y/o They only life experience is to paint dumpers brown. They have nothing to do with real players

[@bartphilips2222]

where is apology?

[@blackice8634]

"So after our attempt of extorting, we will review this fairly." Yeah ok.

[@vishalbharadwaj570]

Stop calling every arpg as soulslike ffs

[@GuyLogen]

Well it looks like a souls-like so what's the problem?

[@vishalbharadwaj570]

@@GuyLogen no it's not. Even devs themselves saying it

[@drinksmilo]

@@vishalbharadwaj570 it is a soulslike though dumbass

[@hosteggaming9081]

@@vishalbharadwaj570 its clearly soul game. giving HnS game with stamina are the most soul game ever

[@samwhite9894]

Ninja gaiden like ​@@GuyLogen

[@wilderickson]

posted new vids like nothing happened

[@yanzhuang3493]

For them, apologizing is die

[@artakhalvati2880]

@@yanzhuang3493 what did they do

[@torelloBank]

@@artakhalvati2880 extortion worth of 7 million dollar or else this game will be considered sexist! LOL

[@TheWizard1408]

@@artakhalvati2880 tried to extort millions of dollars and then put out hit pieces about how they’re all sexist with no proof

[@0rrchids]

Lmao.. IGN playing Black Myth Wukong now?

[@muhammadvandy6458]

Context for apologizing please...

[@Kummiwummis]

It was claimed to be 7 million dollars. However that hasn’t been backed up yet

[@fbwjjwbs]

Context: Basically IGN just tried to slander, and tries to name-call black myth wukong over a google mistranslated text, and even if said text is not that's not even sexist, just a s*xual joke. And many people including on reddit and twitter are using this to just bring down the games and devs..don't listen to the others trying to bring it down. Another information that is acclaimed but isn't proven yet: One of the many speculations as to why this is, is because the black myth wukong devs tried to refuse the 7 million dollar extortion by the *ehem* company that's why they resort to this.

[@nidhoggr4308]

Lies about the BM Wukong development team .

[@joesunday199]

Phantom Blade 0 isn't a Souls-like. That's what I've kept hearing. It's more like Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry.

[@doomguydemonkiller]

Facts

[@anonymousskunk]

Sincere question: What's the difference?

[@sarmento5332]

@@anonymousskunk Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry are hack and slash

[@parkout95]

Gameplay, yes. Difficulty? Lol it's going to have that souls difficulty just watch. No one likes easy games now, so better git gud

[@joesunday199]

@@anonymousskunk Certain mechanics and combat philosophy.

[@Moka_baka]

Lol IGN covering this gane

[@antonionetto3981]

IGN keep your filthy hands off this masterpiece, you are unworthy.

[@alejandroesp4872]

Apologize now!

[@Doge-bz3vj]

Fire the dumbasses who wrote the article and double down too

[@xcxmafai]

Can you explain to me

[@SyedAli-gl7jq]

​@@xcxmafaiIGN slandered the developers they made sexual accusations about them

[@altair7744]

Will my comment be deleted?

[@DmitryRomashov]

yes, in three, two, one...

[@XxDrJewxX]

You will be deleted

[@cabreram.4734]

Test test My comments are being censored and deleted test test

[@brankomaksimovicmax]

Oh so you did decide to review it, after all

[@Baytuh]

Not a review.

[@sundotjolangot9937]

Did you guys finally get your cut from that 7 million?

[@funtracy1805]

Tell a joke: IGN is an objective and fair gaming media😓

[@ShuToshio]

Don't mind me. Just here scrolling through the comments...

[@andrewl.9291]

As the famous Disney ride song goes... doobity doo da doobity dee day, my oh my what a wonderful day

[@Keyon_Wilson]

Went straight to the comments

[@jimmyramos1989]

thats depressing

[@dcb6113]

Please leave China and Japan alone the days of colonialism and slavery are over, make your own games.

[@mayipleasebaybee]

Lmaoooooo they tryna bring vack slavery

[@asddap]

Not just China and Japan, but the rest of the world. Don't bring west shitty propaganda outside of the west.

[@brachygobius_xanthozonus]

Jewish pedo colonialism never ends bro

[@z6nesensei]

even the devs said this isnt a soulslike game 😂

[@siewheilou399]

What is a soulslike game?

[@Otsuton-Senku]

​@@siewheilou399 Soulslike games typically have a high level of difficulty where repeated player character death is expected and incorporated as part of the gameplay and also losing all progress if certain checkpoints have not been reached

[@slicknick29]

Why do they keep saying Phantom Blade 0 is a Soul's like when the creators specifically stated that it wasn't?

[@nielsvermeulen7089]

Because IGN is braindead

[@Smollboii10]

All of em are smooth buttery brain

[@cyber_ortek]

They have social credit -99999 We have ESG -999999999

[@kirisl-p2b]

少数人强奸多数人的喜好，会让信用降到0，走在街上都会被人打。

[@mozax8118]

I'd like to see IGN address their hit piece on Game Science.

[@Drawfill]

This video needed to be a giant apology. It is not. Stop giving them a platform people, they don't deserve it.

[@rhk199]

This game deserves 7Million copies sold😂

[@linkurosawa1711]

Whoa what's this? IGN covering a game they tried to smear? Color me shocked.

[@pepsiman4418]

if you had a brain they'd probably talk about it on youtube or their podcasts if they wanted to "smear" the game. Perhaps you arent so intelligent tho

[@Updup]

@@pepsiman4418 Everybody here has a brain except you it appears. Because if you had a brain, you could've read the article yourself, found a way to translate the Chinese yourself, and realized, in typical IGN fashion, they cherry pick posts and intentional mistranslate phrases and slangs.

[@GorehowlBeardhead]

@@pepsiman4418 Ah yes, the ramblings of an angry NEET You continuously showcase your lack of intelligence. Do your own research. It's all literally right there If you have the brain to understand how to work google, of course.

[@_._._._._._._._._._._._._.____]

they must be desperate.

[@dragonbane44]

@@pepsiman4418 have you read the article? Seems not.

[@cadearcher2258]

IGN has no business talking about this game

[@KindaGothh-hd2ik]

This is a huge reason why IGN won’t be around for much longer.

[@karolperec6050]

Cannot wait to play this game and completely ignore AC Shadows

[@GameSteph]

IGN will be the new Kotaku

[@Become-Eggplant]

Theyre both the same

[@TactileTherapy]

Game Of The Year.

[@Squidward_000]

Blind consumer

[@TactileTherapy]

@@Squidward_000 sry, Game Of The Decade.

[@astronotics531]

It’s a average game. Nothing impressive about it.

[@TactileTherapy]

@@astronotics531 my bad. Game Of The Century.

[@Breazz-b5b]

@@TactileTherapycan’t agree more

[@tianrenzhao1680]

who hates wukong? Monsters

[@perkygotmesnail]

IGN doesn’t deserve to play this masterpiece. Apologize to the Devs!

[@musm3367]

We're finally getting the games we deserve for the current gen consoles

[@PhenomenalOne1000]

At the half end of the the p5 cycle

[@Squidward_000]

No we don’t!

[@willjohnboy]

​@PhenomenalOne1000 well the pandemic did a number on the release schedule and development along with the amount of active ps4 users the first few years.

[@2leafy788]

@@Squidward_000cry

[@Jimmm11]

@@PhenomenalOne1000 damn it's 4 years already

[@justinbuus7695]

The old Spider-Man ps1 game must be souls like for sure

[@avin9712]

APOLOGY!APOLOGY!APOLOGY!

[@xcxmafai]

Can you explain

[@martindominguez1518]

Wah wah get over it

[@MIOrko]

Yeah act like the hit piece doesnt exist and everyone will forget about it, right?

[@killbgizhou]

IGN, you guys just pretend nothing happened, don't ya?!

[@nyxblayne2980]

Is this the new lowest king of "Shitty youtube apologies" ??

[@avgjayevryday667]

IGN gave the Acolyte 10 out of 10 😳

[@charleslebi7297]

They gave it a 6...why are you guys lying???

[@Lord_Deimos]

Of course they did

[@allenzhu3478]

whereever money/PC flows

[@MrSilz-jb4ik]

​​@@charleslebi7297anything over a 0 is disgusting

[@dsn3001]

no they did not

[@zeph5800]

0:06 "list of Soulslike games" *proceeds to show Phantom Blade Zero which is NOT a soulslike game like stated from the developpers themself* 😐

[@mattc7420]

Gray, Swords, Asian. It's a Dark Souls clone.

[@Paeper_Shredder]

​@@mattc7420While the company may be Asian, their environments and worlds are not (minus Sekiro). Doesn't make it a Souls, just makes you a generalizing nincompoop.

[@Kingdombuda]

Any apology for the mistranslation?

[@ivann_pegzz2232]

IGN when will you stop criticizing every single games that releases in ASIA???

[@kborak]

Ever feel its time to just quietly walk away, IGN?

[@thankgod83]

it's too generous of Game Science letting IGN touch its game again

[@oukeith]

This game looks DOPE AF

[@NitroAimBot]

wanna hear a joke? IGN reviews

[@2500jokes-pokes]

Stocks in your company looking shaky?

[@_MrDrProfPatrick_]

IGN - I'm Gender Nervous

[@pljafki]

🤣

[@gondalasatvarsh5892]

What's up with all these rude articles recently?? Behave well IGN

[@alanak4850]

IGN ，where is the Apologize???????

[@udaymehra9810]

Just keep commenting until they lock the comment section

[@BradLad56]

Covering the game of a company your colleague tried to smear with that pathetic article. Have you no shame?

[@absurdlyawesome5101]

Another name for IGN is Bud Light...

[@Rudi-Ger]

😂

[@mattc7420]

Y'all ain't even trying anymore💀

[@naughtysmile4647]

just some tips: in Journey to the West novel (Black Myth Wukong game background), there is no female Yaoguai (monster) in the first scene Blackwind Mountain, but there are actually many female Yaoguai in the novel such as spider women. And one Women's Kingdom without men.

[@siewheilou399]

But all of them are villains, except a few deities who are female.

[@zfg7845]

@@siewheilou399 Women's Kingdom are not villains, they're just a bunch of nymphomaniacs who like handsome men and want to keep the Tang Monk as a little boyfriend, but the Tang Monk says work is more important.

[@vi_draws]

Also Lady Iron Fan, who only fought Wukong to avenge her son, ended up redeeming herself at the end of her arc.

[@siewheilou399]

@@vi_draws With her hubby and son taken away from her, and her source of income and worshippers disminished.

[@snowball9392]

The mistranslation?

[@skullkraken_resurrected9857]

You guys have no shame whatsoever.

[@maqknight]

IGN, Pretending like you weren't slandering this game company with false narrative is crazy

[@metro4noww]

ign still calling phantom blade 0 a souls like when the devs specifically said its noy

[@aznfattass]

Because of ign, I'm going to buy 3 copies of wukong. I'm not even interested, I'm just doing it cause of ign ❤

[@yvntingge4516]

Please apologize to Game Science😢😢😢

[@legizzle]

At long last, a game has emerged that is truly deserving of the current generation of consoles.

[@panderingalpaca]

Bashes Wukong yet doesn't hesitate to get a demo. Apologize and stop doing bad journalism.

[@yuchenyang1708]

Once you lost the credibility, you are not getting it back anytime soon.

[@Duality-Games]

Alright I'm sold. Take my money.

[@SumR4ndom]

Ahhh the comments in this chat are heart warming. Faith restored in people.. Lets go Wu-Kong show the rest of the world how to stand up to bullying.

[@yuhangwang4884]

looks like you wanna change what journey to the west writes 😂

[@JanPapiezGaming]

how IGN keeps surviving with those bad takes its beyond me

[@D8cleShell]

First of all, it's not a soulslike game. Wukong is an ARPG like GoW.

[@chrisrivers4560]

Is the footage of your 2 hr gameplay experience posted anywhere? I'd like to see the game in action some more. Also are there any friendly beings or some type of overall hub like sekiro had the shrine area where you can just rest?

[@davydenko19919]

IGN needs that sweetbaby Inc blackmail money

[@kartooncartoony]

Hope we get more souls-likes that are more distinctive and unique, like Lies of P and Another Crab's Treasure. Black Myth looks solid so far

[@ivann_pegzz2232]

IGN Apologize to the devs of Black Myth Wukong for hating the game based on your own ideals!

[@hosteggaming9081]

ignore the video and go to comment section immediately

[@Link117.]

Way ahead of you XD

[@SyedAli-gl7jq]

​@@Link117.IGN slandered the developers but which video was it?

[@ShawneeTabbatha]

ign，感谢你带来的热度，爱来自中国😂😂

[@ggbond223]

and one of their previous online game about journey to the west was widely praised by chinese players due to the depth of the plot.

[@BillyXX]

Damage control?

[@vansoncheung]

kinda double standard innit?

[@GorehowlBeardhead]

Fun fact - in the DAY since this has been posted, IGN's uploaded THIRTY EIGHT seperate videos of other games They really, really dont want you to see this comment section.