The UNBELIEVABLE Rise of Black Myth Wukong

[@OdinStarz]

Yo TBH, more content like this. I appreciate the background on the history of game development in China as I was not aware of a lot of it. Glad they are lifting restrictions because more game developers in this space, means we benefit, so I am all for it.

[@osyrisRae]

I've just come off watching the NBA streets and game informer videos. His writing is pretty dope.

[@AngryGrape1337]

The best part is that there are people in China confused as to why there are people calling the game racist when the original story is about overcoming the odds and going to India from China, there are also pigs, monkeys, bulls, dragons, even sand people.

[@drubailey9796]

Nah fr and the GI plug with Ethos’s prediction about the gaming market was straight gold. Love when all the content comes full circle like that.

[@BiasedNBATakes]

+1

[@auslei]

My friends, as someone who grew up in both China and the West, I'd like to follow up on your points: Point 1: You need to know that being a “party member” is like a qualification in China. Most people in China would like to get it so it is easier to obtain a government job. It's pretty immature for the “expert” to use this as a quantifier to assess if a company is aligned with a government entity. These “experts” have their own agendas. Also, it is mandatory to have a party office in a company even for the US companies. It's more of a formality than anything else. Point 2: There are so-called "patriotic" propaganda games/TV series pushed by the government, but most of them did not do well, not to mention internationally. Before Wukong, Chinese people preferred to play Western (non-woke) games, even after the trailer, a lot of Chinese people were skeptical and did not believe a Chinese company could pull this off. The success is mostly due to the popularity of the original book (1 of. 4 classics in China), and the 1980s TV series, coupled with the developers' sincere respect for the series. (music and references) Point 3: No China does not have 2 billion people. 1.4 billion is the last I checked. There are a lot of Chinese gamers, and China is the largest gaming market and growing. Point 4: A good game is a good game. I believe all average people should cast politics aside. The entertainment industry is so infested with people with political agendas. I hope this is a "wake-up call" for all people. As a Chinese I have never played any Chinese games (apart from some RPGs from Taiwan) before this, as someone who loves ARPG (Spiderman, Elden Ring, Dark Souls, etc), I believe this game is easily one of the best, especially if you understand the lore. Last point. I hope everyone especially young kids establishes critical thinking and looks at things with their own eyes and experiences. There is too much propaganda around, if there is something that you are passionate about, do not take the so-called "journalist" articles at their face value, do your own research.

[@shinchin384]

Agree. No political shit. Game is game.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

You left out that he keeps harping on communism even though nobody has been communist since 1979. As the grandson of a CCP mid level cadre, that’s the saddest part. China has most billionaires than the US but most people are just ignorant and believe the propaganda in the media. You can’t have state ownership of all property when you have family of senior ranking CCP members with private jets and Bugatti’s.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

@@shinchin384which is why his video is sad. He attempts to bring politics into it and structurally analyze it but falls flat on his face due to a lack of basic knowledge on the subject matter. His argument is crafted around a media narrative that is pure propaganda. You can’t tell someone like me who had CCP cadre as his grandfather that China is somehow communist. No one that’s intelligent and understand what the C word means would say China is communist. This fella literally doesn’t even comprehend the word. You can’t be communist when families of the ruling party are billionaires and said communist country has more billionaires than the US. As someone that immigrated to the U.S. as a child, whose family began opening private businesses in China in the 1980s it’s just so sad seeing people push propaganda.

[@shinchin384]

@@zeitgeistx5239 Yep, totally agree.

[@alexanderwoods2055]

Did y'all even watch the video or stop once you felt offended? Because it seems like you didn't watch the whole video. C-C-😮-Pe harder.

[@kenking2536]

Seeing dude stand in front of that tank was a powerful clip. I've seen the picture before but I never seen the video. That made me feel something

[@smkeybare]

Whats not taught is that the tanks were leaving the square. The tank man got on top of one of the tanks and had a conversation with the tank driver.

[@tenchichrono]

@@smkeybare Let's be honest and say that most media is dishonest without showing the whole picture of something. Showing a picture of the guy in front of the tank leads people to think that the evil military of the CCP had crushed this man with the tank. I thought this for a long time until I saw the whole clip where other people came in to usher him away. I didn't even know the tanks were leaving as well. A lot of people say this was a legitimate protest hijacked by the US/CIA to lead a color revolution to overthrow the government. Also, oddly the leaders of the protest managed to leave to the US prior to the protest ending where they got a full ride attending colleges in the US.

[@kanding3369]

Whats not taught is the tank never ran over him😂

[@lonewolfcub2417]

If you see the full clip, which the western media never shows, is that after a few minutes chatting to the Tank commander, some guy on a bicycle rides up to him and persuades him to come down in which they both leave. Western mainstream Media wants you to believe this guy had died which is not true. After seeing the full video, I really had my doubts about western news and what they are feeding us.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

Oh God Gen Z.

[@acedatninja23]

My nigga my friend my brother is the GOAT for this video Taking us to school today I got my pen and notebook continue Professor TBH

[@Lehto24]

Came for a game review got a history lesson and kingdom hearts diss, goat KZbinr ‼️

[@mobyStix]

Literally had an enemy Thanos fade and respawn behind me with full armor and health while I was fighting him 💀 still one of my favorite games I’ve played lately though

[@theblackhokage]

I would have thrown the controller lmao

[@shensahib]

dude ran out of the boss arena, and complains. dude need to git gud.

[@tcfilms8062]

@@shensahib you can't leave boss arenas. this issue happens very often when fighting mobs with an elite enemy.

[@akakingful]

I've had this happened in front of me 😂😂

[@The5MinuteGamer]

Man I thought that Ronnie2k video was gonna be the only video essay we got. LETS GOOOO!!!

[@shensahib]

20:26 this guy still thinks he's playing as Wukong instead of the Destined One. Says much about the credibility of this review.

[@WGD01]

He's still a super powerful monkey who CAN BARELY JUMP OR PLATFORM 😂

[@Coach_KayyVee]

Your comment makes no sense in the context of what he was saying though 😂

[@talenroberts2129]

This game has been amazing for me! I've experienced no bugs/glitches and the story is fye🔥 ps - TBH those flasks not healing right away is part of the game. There are upgrades that can speed that up for ya

[@kdnkits]

I usually don't comment on much but man you did your research on this video that no other reviewer has and I actually learned something new. For that my hats off to you tbh great review and great video!

[@Mr.RogersReview]

Bruh your video growth is insane I remember Modern War Negro lol keep growing man it’s inspiring for real

[@bokudenblade3554]

What about when he was Cornelius08?

[@BigZtheGoat]

Let’s goooo!!! Black man keep going with great kontent

[@Kinos141]

Who complains about the lip syncing? They never watched an anime?

[@RashawnDaDon]

Anime is completely different and you know it…..game is still good

[@ZelBellz]

This game is absolutely fantastic and the announcement of a Elden Ring SOTE style expansion recently is even better have 70 hours and am still having a blast

[@Threels2thahead]

Also, I’m on pc with 4070ti Super and Ryzen 7700x. Haven’t had any frame rate issues or crashes yet, almost done with chapter 3, lvl 53. I’m not sure what’s causing the problems your having but the new NVIDIA app optimized me 60/40 quality performance respectively and it does have ray tracing turned off. I manually turned it on and noticed a pretty constant stutter so turned it back off but other than that I can’t agree with any of your critiques about performance. The rest of it, 100%. Actually, 90%, there are some dope secrets I’ve found by literal accident. Entire areas hidden behind breakable walls that require moves , fences that look like boundaries, been a blast. Great video either way, appreciate ya!

[@mEztheviewer]

As a hardcore KH fan I will say the story is absolutely convoluted and confusing.

[@tylermarks1769]

Facts

[@kevintyson1947]

I remember you said you were switching to video essays to follow the algorithm and all I can say about this video is...wow! One of your longest and best videos yet. You really put your own creative spin to the format.

[@alexanderwoods2055]

Did a report on this in school back in like 6th grade. That was 2005. 1:22 Glad to see this topic brought attention again.

[@johntitor414]

Reason there’s more noticeable games coming out of China is simply because of money, nothing to do with government or “restrictions”. There aren’t such quality games back 20 years ago simply because China was poor, now China is getting rich, some big rich Chinese investors or game companies can just casually drop a million here a few million there into small game studios with good ideas.

[@fyss7349]

Chinese players had the same issues on PS5. Dev on Chinese twitter admitted performance on PS5 is plateaued. Meanwhile me had all ray tracing on and tanked the FPS drops on PC at first all the way till I met Yin tiger, the frame drops just had me killed 10+ times and I caved and turned ray tracing off and it was smooth as butter after.

[@henplay7399]

His frustrations are VERY FUCKING VALID I’ve had the game literally not let me heal when I’ve pressed the the heal button myself and I’ve had the game stutter mid boss fight bro so he’s spitting

[@adanos4]

What i love about this game is that you fight with quarterstaff.

[@MonkeydLogan-mh7oj]

Not gonna lie Black Myth Wukong is my game of the year right now

[@xiilogiciix4614]

TBH this content style is so great I really missed seeing commentary videos and I love that you make these kinda educational

[@jeffii9890]

You should learn the difference between communism and totalitarianism. Communism has had nothing to do with China's gaming sector.

[@yqisq6966]

lol respect for showing the full footage of the tank man.

[@morganrollins2036]

Man that sucks. I beat the game on PS5, got the secret ending, and almost through the 2nd playthrough. Definitely been my game of the year. But I haven't played rebirth. I did have performance issues and some of the exact same ones (screentearing on ch 2 boss), but I had a smooth experience 90% of the time. My main complaint on performance is that FSR isn't done well in the game on PS5. Camera, framerate, and screentearing were limited to specific areas and fights throughout my singular experience.

[@kloutgodd8585]

2 videos in one week?!??!!😪

[@SuhandiWijaya]

18 million copies and counting as of a few days ago.

[@YaBoiiSlim]

Got the game on release and recently finished it, theres definitely lots of things to be ironed out especially some side quest that can be either bugged or just no way of completing them. I will say though the secrets and the music videos of this game is what actually had me hooked and looking forward to finishing the game! Solid video really enjoyed the introduction before the review learned something new!!!

[@OutcastAkaParia]

I’m sensing a legendary run on the horizon for you TBH. You getting back in that bag. 💯

[@95V4L]

12:53 as soon as I heard "Dr Umar Johnson" I knew I was gonna be dying of laughter

[@maclion3714]

Yea man your attention to detail is on a high level. We appreciate the care you put intio your work. Love Hokage Highlights. My daily go to.

[@10FN0N3]

Bring back the “shit I don’t like” series.

[@Gideonblade]

18million copies upto now

[@kristianfrank9991]

You was in your bag for this one! We got every era of TBH. Trolling, exceptional game reviews and using your own content as a source(work smart not hard). Great video

[@kaahzvi5820]

Yo, I honestly clicked on this for a reaction vid -- was NOT expecting THAT (the historic background). Good stuff

[@eliek2014]

It's nothing like a Souls game, Souls games make you feel like you are inferior unless you are cheesing. Black Myth always makes you feel like you are in the fight without gimmicks.

[@AnthonyAlchemy100]

been a fan of TBH for like 8 years. my guy always brings us consistent quality content, and always makes me laugh while doing it. this was a really good educational vid man, I really enjoyed this kind of content. Keep it up triple OG

[@makaelnimrod5464]

Bro when you have to fight the camera fighting the boss fight when you have have to hit nothing but one damn foot😂😂

[@ColdFuego-]

Black myth wukong is a massive W. The performance of the game is not really a deterring factor from purchasing the game full price. It’s really not that bad on the ps5. I can name way more games that came out this year that performed way worst compared to wukong. Overall it’s not a perfect game but still worthy of a 9/10. Definitely 2024 goty

[@yehiaalshehri1006]

I don't have the glitching issues so far, thank God

[@iwantsaveu]

Before founding Game Science, the team previously worked at Tencent. They left to pursue creating the kind of games they were truly passionate about.

[@tinlunlau1]

They were also sick of making games with micro-transactions.

[@deathgifs]

Top tier overview for a game man, we gotta share this and make sure this man gets his flowers 💪

[@NexusJake97]

People arent gonna be happy to hear it but this game's performance might hold it back from being nominated in a few categories or seeing success in those categories

[@Divinityxm]

It is working amazing for me and many others so performance is not a issue, remember Games like Elden Ring became game of the year and that shit had MANY issues on release and still have mad glitches and problems to this day.

[@KonariVibez]

Yeah you've been COOKING with these videos man, keep up the great work bro🔥

[@j2raw4u1]

This some great content TBH. I'm loving the essay format!

[@HalcyonLux]

I have tried my hardest to explain to friends how I feel about this game- but this video explains quite a lot of my frustrations and love with the game. Because don’t get me wrong, this game is beautiful and if I knew what I knew now, I wouldn’t have bought this as day one off the hype ( I don’t regret the purchase , love the play ). But I will say I have seen that apparent budget constraints caused them to release the game a bit unfinished considering the game was meant to be longer than what was released. And it’s alleged and found through data mining that there’s additional content with dlc reported in the future. With optimization , the game would be perfect AS THE COMPANIES STARTING POINT. Because as much as I’d love to put it on pedestal , outside the technical issues- like you said the bosses and level designs and Wukong himself could use work. This last one is just my two cents but combos could be better. The varied combos are cool but , I wish the heavy attack could also have heavy attack combo strings-. Even if they aren’t as long as the light and for us to be be able to mix the heavy and lights to make more fluid fighting with the staff.

[@aerkaiik]

REALLY good video TBH. Thank you for ALWAYS adding a little education in your content.

[@HeroShotz]

GIVE THIS MAN A SHOW ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL NOW !!!

[@cmanrocket6]

Fortnite literally just dropped a wukong skin and undead unluck has a Chinese character who wields the power pole and rides the nimbus cloud

[@c0wboys4life]

I swear I haven’t come across a single glitch, crashes or frame drop on my PS5, it must be something with these KZbinrs when playing and streaming at the same time

[@CousinPreemo]

I’m thoroughly cleaning my p5 after finishing this game. Gotta give Patrica a little TLC after fighting through the hard times with me. My baby be stressing out bad 😂

[@Phillip_Viera]

It’s nice to hear you do your best to give both positives and reasonable negatives about the game. All things considered (coming from a PC wukong player) I feel like this new studio really did great putting something like this together for their first project.

[@N3wFoundRapp3r]

Also I’m playing on PC and I’m glad I did my ps5 would’ve never stood a chance

[@michaelagyepong1539]

"Genshin walked so Wukong could fly on a nimbus" Naruto and one piece fans gotta get mad at you bro😂😂

[@clayt.5823]

I knew i should've waited on your review. I trust you the most when it comes to games. I thought I was buggin on the input lag

[@TrevieTrev]

Always love how you reinvent your content TBH keep going💯

[@zakkory]

china's government is good. Like really REALLY good.

[@jg0cray]

My GOAT workin!! Love the content bro!🤞🏾

[@xtraloopy3799]

Legendary 13 minute intro 🔥🔥🔥

[@Twnty3]

Been watching since I was like 19 going on 31 still videos bring me back .

[@kalenwilliams5210]

I’m not gonna lie , a lot of what you said is true for the main path of the game , but there’s a lot of side areas in this game where there’s alot more enemies and the bosses are much harder .

[@antonioperalta1975]

Professor Hokage, from the pages hidden in the Books.

[@ramennnoodle]

I think it's worth mentioning that the English dub is absolutely ***not*** good, but I think it's neutered due to the fact that the English translation it's based off of is just bad. I had multiple moments when playing the game with Chinese dub and English sub where I got confused by the difference in what was being said and what was written on screen; and after watching clips and streams of the English dub, not only is the vibe off a lot of the time, oftentimes important meaning is lost and I think that's a shame.

[@amkenji]

Great video! A lot of information I was unaware on and you explained it well. I love this game, it’s unfortunate to see all the issue with the PS5 version because I’ve played for 50 hours and I’m on my second playthrough and I’ve only had one crash and that’s because I tabbed out to fix something on OBS, I know it got a patch recently idk if PS5 got it as well but hopefully they can improve it especially for the rumored DLC that’s in the works

[@HeroOfJusticeYT]

The quick bits of wordplay are 10/10

[@kingdoc5143]

This was a fantastic video 🎉🎉

[@micah459]

I actually learned something new about China. Appreciate the video

[@yqisq6966]

A very well informed analysis. Everything is spot on!

[@freespeech8520]

PS5 has been sold out in China since BMW came out. Don't think console's banned in China.

[@brown_ichiban7594]

Shoutout to Ethos calling that China is about to pop out on the gaming scene. GI always been the trendsetters and prophets in the gaming space

[@him-td4si]

This style of video is amazing. I'm learning from it AND you're getting ahead of the trolls by 1) making it too long for them to listen to 2) presenting context to how you've formed your opinions. The TikTok kids may not grasp it, but...do you really want them lol. Keep it up.

[@osyrisRae]

I don't know what it is but these style of videos are really popping.

[@wyphonema4024]

This game is absolutely fantastic

[@blvcktanner4540]

Been watchin since high school keep going with these videos 🔥

[@nicodemous52]

People bought it site unseen for a lot of reasons. And then they were elated to find it was actually a kind of flawed master piece. A master class in if you make the good parts good enough, we are willing to forgive many sins. Insofar as the West anyway. I can't explain why the Chinese went so hard for it. National pride I would suppose.

[@nicodemous52]

Insofar as performance, I've had very minor issues sporadically on PC. Once in a while it will stutter a bit or freeze for a moment on a boss. Outside of that, no real issues.

[@BlaxkSun]

“Unlikely” bruh, people been waiting on this game in anticipation for 4 years

[@markuiscartwright4581]

Capturing gaming/global history with this video. It’s awesome to learn about socioeconomic policies in gaming. 😂 this is a full circle moment. Great way to make those global connections in this format. Feels like something you would see in a class.

[@thankgod83]

come out of no where?😂 so many players have been hyped for it for literally FOUR FUCKING YEARS!

[@Rhino916.]

Wukong to east Asians is like superman, Hercules, deadpool and superman. There's no way game science would not treat this as a labor of love. The rise was very likely.

[@yqisq6966]

The core reason for Genshin's sucess is, undeniably, is anime waifus lol I'm serious. It's the first game where you can "live" with your anime waifus in an open fantasy world in 3D.

[@Des_Armoni]

Man the depth of this is remarkable but im not surprised 🔥

[@swordguy1243]

There is already more AAA coming soon from China that look really good like , Phantom Blade and others . As a souls-like enjoyer I don't mind China jumping on the hype train to be honest

[@nefariouscloud]

"Lore Accurate" is the Key....

[@jzhen001]

bruh props for keepin it 100

[@rydhwan]

There's actually 1.4 billion people in China, not 2 billion

[@Elsa-in2ec]

I'm playing on ps5, and my game haven't crushed once. I don't know why.....

[@Treyvondiggs22]

16:30 TBH GETTING STRUDY 🕺🏾

[@NerdSpecialist]

I really appreciate the warning. As soon as i was going to put the game in my cart 😅😂

[@abhayprabhu8951]

Dropped a like for the doggo. Pet him for me please!

[@sedlyholmes3722]

This is how i imagine FF16 gameplay and open world was like, such a let down

[@SimplyPlatano]

Loving this new type of content from tbh

[@dev9320]

As someone who went from KH1 to KH2 I completely understand 😂

[@kakaxifx4913]

the tank man show the true mercy of CPC. Acuttaly tank refuse to kill him. Tank man went away a few moment later.

[@adame7843]

Funny how subjective difficulty is. I can cake walk dark souls, but I hit a lot of walls in this one

[@icytangus6683]

Very informative, very detailed very gaming journalism. ❤it gang

[@moehasan7534]

Tbh everytime ppl complain about a game lagging or their p5 crashing, you GOTTA include a picture of it. Half you goofies never clean ya shit

[@无聊闲人-赵先生]

虽然腾讯投资了游戏科学，但是至少在名义上，它对游戏科学没有任何的决策权

[@Black_Panda95]

13:37 yooo that was a smoooth transition into the first impressions of the game! 🔥 Video TBH! Love the history lesson at the start into a in-depth look into how the chinese gaming market has changed. Chef's kiss 🤌🏾