Wonderful! Finally someone knows to introduce the story of The Journey To the West!!!!! It will definitely help to understand the background of this game!!!! Great job!!!!!
@SirHumphries4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! We thought it was needed
@tchong6254 жыл бұрын
@@SirHumphries I would say it's a must. For us Chinese it's really a dream to have such a game talking about The Journey To the West. Now ,the dream almost comes true XD
@papercat25994 жыл бұрын
Chinese mythology is a very complex system. I can explain the basic concept of the chinese mythology. First the structure of chinese pantheon. Chinese traditional mythology is called Taoism. But after Buddhism come to China, it got absorbed by Chinese pantheon. The supreme god king governing heaven in taoism is jade emperor. But the one who created the universe was the ancient titan pangu. Pangu died from exhaustion soon after he creates the universe. The jade emperor and three pure one control most of the universe after him. They assigned king Yama to govern the underworld. Four great dragon kings to govern the sea. But they all pledge loyalty to jade emperor. Great goddess Nuwa creates humanity after the creation of the world. Buddha is technically the most powerful entity after the death of pangu. Because Buddhism believe he is one with universe. Therefore both Buddhism god and taoism god show respect to each other, and often work together. Second is the power structure of chinese mythology. The biggest difference between Chinese mythology and western mythology. Is the fact that in Chinese mythology, mortal can become god by practicing taoism or Buddhism. Which many western mythology can’t. This gives people more hope and give them reason to study taoism and Buddhism. However this freedom also give birth to demon(yaoguai). In chinese the concept of demon is not the same as west. Chinese demon were once mortal creatures who practiced Taoism or Buddhism. They use the power in evil way and became corrupted. This goes for animal too. Both human and animals have possibilities of becoming demon. That’s why in journey of west there are tiger demon or fish demon. Due to the fact all demon Practice taoism or Buddhism. In chinese mythology demon are considered very intelligent beings. Also most demon aim to become god, because in chinese mythology gods are the final stage of evolution. Now we can talk about monkey king wukong and journey of the west. Monkey king is the hero in chinese mythology. He’s just like Thor in Norse mythology or Hercules in Greek. Monkey king was loved by chinese people. But monkey king wasn’t a righteous figure when he first appeared. Monkey king was a stone monkey who came from the magical stone of goddess nuwa. He was a trickster and a morally neutral existence. He soon became the king of monkeys and learn taoism under a great Taoist saint. During the process he learn immortality and become so powerful that almost no god can beat him. After he gain such strength, he went to the dragon king palace and acquired weapons and armor. Went to underworld and delete his name from book of death. He soon make alliance with demon kings in the mortal realm. Making him one of the greatest demon king in existence. When jade emperor discovered this, he give wukong a job in heaven. Which wukong gladly accept. But jade emperor still didn’t quite understand how strong wukong is. So he give him a position as stable boy for taming heavenly horses. Wukong feels extremely humiliated. So he quit the job and give him self the title of great sage equal to heaven in revenge. Heaven sees wukong’s refusal of the job as an insult. But after long discussion, they give wukong the title of great sage equal to heaven and invite him once more to live in heaven. As guardian of immortal peach garden. But monkey screw up his job again, because he end up eating all the peaches and even steal some pills of immortality. That finally angered the jade emperor. He dispatched the entire army of Heaven to arrest wukong. Monkey king was unrivaled in power even for gods. Only the great warrior god Erlang could fight him in equal strength. They eventually did capture the monkey through trap, but can’t find any way to kill him. Because he’s so bloody immortal, nothing can hurt him. He eventually break loss again and causing even greater havoc in heaven. Jade emperor finally calls the buddha himself to fix the problems. Buddha being the strongest beings in existence, easily subdue wukong, and trap him under a magical mountain. 500 years later Buddha send a chinese monk name Xuan Zang to retrieve the holy scripture from India. He choose wukong as one of monks body guards. Finally wukong was freed from the prison. But this time he humbly protect the monk in his journey to the west. During the process he starts to respect the monk. Also becoming a more humble and righteous person. He eventually was reworded by the Buddha and become a Buddha himself.
@dejuantha14 жыл бұрын
Error! Wukong did not come from Nuwa😁😁
@tony-81554 жыл бұрын
Yaoguai are mainly animal who practiced Taoism or Buddhism, and Yaoguai become human form (or semi-human form) by learning Taoism or Buddhism, cultivating to be human is the ultimate goal of Yaoguai. Hope this will help.
@lystic93924 жыл бұрын
Wow thank you for writing all this. It was fun to read.
@T7264 жыл бұрын
辛苦你了 了解关于(西游记)(xiyouji)尊重你 大哥!
@dejuantha14 жыл бұрын
@@T726 google? Did u really say google? U need to read the books and stay off damn google because Google is going off an adaption movie and not the revised books hence since most wukong wannabe fans don't read it the books and use Google everytime for answers smh. If you like I could bring some more real journey to the west fans along with a studier to prove these are facts 😁😁
@rayyoung21543 жыл бұрын
Monkey king only uses his legendary stick. That stick is the stability pole of the East Sea. It can be big as mountain, or be small as needle. It weighs 30k pounds. It would be weird if he uses secondary weapon, if the development team would like to honor the original novel.
@amgelmo4 жыл бұрын
Animated "Dragon Ball" is based on this story.
@baqikenny4 жыл бұрын
yeah, the first dragon ball in 1985 takes it very serious
@atagoy16333 жыл бұрын
@@baqikenny yeah, the first Journey to the West in 1592 takes it very serious.
@atagoy16333 жыл бұрын
and the first WuKong in 578bc
@锦衣夜行-o3g4 жыл бұрын
the weapon is in his ear, that is one of his ability
Glad you guys at least gave basic background about wukong, I feel like everyone should have watched this before they watched the gameplay. They would be much more impressed how much detail that game has.
@AkonsSpace4 жыл бұрын
Thanks you guys!Great video of introducing Wukong!Hope we can play it soon!
@bozhoujin59254 жыл бұрын
Three points: 1. Journey to The West the TV series is based on a Ming dynasty novel with the same name, written in roughly 16th century 2. Monkey King’s staff can be turned larger or smaller on command and he usually stores it in his ears. This feature was also reflected in other weapons he acquired in this game apparently. 3. It would be much better if you can read the Chinese subtitles. The werewolf mini boss actually said “ah another monkey” when he saw the character you play as, and the old guy from the ground (a local god that keeps track of what happens in this area) said “(you too) look very much alike”. Also the staff held by the better dressed monkey actually had the name of the actual Monkey King’s staff written on it. So a reasonable interpretation is that the second guy is the Monkey King, and our character and the old narrators are somehow related to him.
@ceci-oj2jx3 жыл бұрын
Nice comment
@ben520us4 жыл бұрын
The monkey king is based on the fiction "Journey to the west" which describes a famous and real monk in Tang dynasty traveling to India to get buddhism books back. Many researchers believe the book is to reflect the political situation in Ming Dynasty that the author was in. In the book, Monkey king was born out of a stone and then became the king of monkeys and then he left the monkeys to study to be a wizard, where he learned how to ride on moving cloud and create clones from his hairs, and then he reunite with monkeys to be the fiercest monster in his area, the emperor of heaven sent troops to arrest him but all being defeated by him and his clones, and then the emperor of the heaven granted him the name “Grand Saint of the Sky” and gave him a job in heaven but he then was punished for bad behaviors., After a long big fight, he literally defeated all gods in heaven except Buddha Ru-lai. He can't even escape from Buddha Ru-lai's hand. Ru-lai suppressed him on the ground and move a mountain on top of him. He was imprisoned to lie under a mountain for 500 years until he met the monk, who gave him the name wukong (meaning to realize the emptiness ), to protect him to the west. He got his stick, the weapon, from the dragon king of the east sea. The stick can change it's length and width by spell.
@yifengma60013 жыл бұрын
@13:08 如意金箍棒, the weapon of the real Monkey King, which can change to any shape and size following the Monkey King's idea
@Clay_Figurine_Legend_Audiobook4 жыл бұрын
The core plot of this game is based on "Journey to the West", one of the four classic Chinese classics. Without this understanding, you may not be able to understand some of the settings in the game.
@tonygan11323 жыл бұрын
I love you guys explaining the background story.
@ET-jo8nf4 жыл бұрын
Guys,watch on Ytube > Overly Sarcastic Production > Journey West > and get amused! 🤣
@Jyd123213 жыл бұрын
English sub: From another video (the monkey transforming into a cicada sneaks on monsters' camp…) 狼兵甲:居然有几个酒坛 The first werewolf: there were a few wine jars 狼兵甲:不知道里面还有没存酒 The first werewolf: I wonder if there is any wine in it 狼兵乙:别馋了 The second werewolf: being gluttonous is forbidden when working, damn it! 狼兵乙:误了事,小心咱们两个被灵虚真人拿去下酒 The second werewolf: We will be eaten by the super monster wolf Lingxuzi once making mistakes on our jobs 狼兵丙:大哥,山门口那边好像传来些响动 The third werewolf: bro? there may be any anomalies from the entry gate 狼兵丁:别疑神疑鬼的,有大哥在把守 The forth werewolf: take it easy man! our captain is guarding here 狼兵丁:哪个不识相会来找死啊 The forth werewolf: Nobody except those seeking death dare to come here (captain of monsters penetrates the cicada are transformed by the monkey, the battle begins…) 山匪头子:那些狼崽子看不见你 Captain of monsters: those men cannot see you, but I can 山匪头子:别以为就能过了老子这关 Captain of monsters: getting through me is just a delusion (captain of monsters is defeated, move on…) 狼斥候:不好啦,有毛脸和尚闯进来了 Werewolf scout: damn it! A monk with hairy face is breaking in (after defeating the werewolf archer, move on…) 刀狼教头:来者何人? Head coach of monsters: who is that coming? 刀狼教头:敢来此处扰我清修 Head coach of monsters: how dare you bother me during my exercise? 刀狼教头:唔?又是只猴子 Head coach of monsters: Uhhh? Another monkey 刀狼教头:施主不如放下棍棒 Head coach of monsters: you’d better put your stick down 刀狼教头:也同我学点佛法 Head coach of monsters: and learn Buddhist doctrine from me 刀狼教头:如何 Head coach of monsters: how about you? (start battle with the head coach, move on after defeating him…) 刀狼教头:你…莫非就是大王说的那个 Head coach of monsters: you… are you the man mentioned by our king? 刀狼教头:天…命…人 Head coach of monsters: the...man …owning…destiny (monkey takes head coach’s weapon, a fire stick named 赤潮(Chichao)…) (地下的声音)小猴子,你惊动了这儿的妖怪 Underground sound: hey monkey, you have alerted monsters here (地下的声音)再往前走可要万万小心 Underground sound: look out the around once moving on (地下的声音)小猴子,来这边 Underground sound: monkey, come here (地下的声音)这儿,看这儿 Underground sound: I am here, look here (the NPC Earth God appears…) 土地公:小神是黑风山的土地,在此处等候你多时了 Earth God: I am Earth God of the Heifeng Mountain, and wait you for a long time 土地公:像 Earth God: Oh… 土地公:真像啊 Earth God: you are really like him(maybe the true monkey Wukong) 土地公:再往前走,就是观音禅院 Earth God: you will see the Avalokitesvara Temple if go forward 土地公:当年也是香火鼎盛 Earth God: In those years, believers are in an endless stream here 土地公:只可惜那场大火 Earth God: till a fire burned out everything… 土地公:后来,禅院又被重建了 Earth God: Although the temple was rebuilt later 土地公:可人心若是烧没了 Earth God: belief was burned out… 土地公:修好一座破庙,又有什么用 Earth God: what does an empty temple matter? (a wolf whistling spreads out…) 土地公:小老儿先走一步 Earth God: let me walk the first step 土地公:等你过了前面的栈道,咱们自会再见 Earth God: we will meet again after passing through the plank road (keep moving util encounter a group of monsters, they are defeated after transforming into a giant monkey, then enter into the Avalokitesvara Temple…) 土地公:嘘…别出声 Earth God: keep silent please 土地公:小心惊动那条大狗 Earth God: don’t alert the big dog! it is in the yard now 土地公:后院那厮是黑风怪的道友 Earth God: he is the friend of the Black Wind Monster 土地公:自称灵虚子 Earth God: and name himself Lingxuzi 土地公:以你现在的道行 Earth God: you cannot defeat him with your strength (wolf whistling comes one again…) 土地公:糟了 Earth God: Damn it! 土地公:小猴子快逃,还来得及 Earth God: leave here, there is still time! (monkey moves forwards…) 土地公:你若进了这道门,便回不了头了 Earth God: there is no way back if you enter the door (the Boss battle with Lingxuzi begin. It is very interesting when the monkey release some magic skills, like 定身术(dingshenshu, i.e. the target will be frozen while the skill fails on fighting with the boss) 猴子猴孙(houzihousun, i.e. monkey make copies of himself from his hairs) and 七十二变(countless changes of tactics, i.e. monkey can transform into any materials including cicada, giant monkey even the head coach defeated before); finally monkey transforms into the head coach and end the boss Lingxuzi . Apparently, these skills are totally from the Ancient Chinese Literature-Journey to the West) Thanks for watching! 😊
@ghostexorcist4 жыл бұрын
Watching the first few minutes of this video is like watching a kid trying to give a report about a book that they clearly didn't read and are instead trying to read the Monkey King article off of Wikipedia without their teacher noticing.
@adventuresfromchina67984 жыл бұрын
ghostexorcist 😂😂😂
@raidenc98464 жыл бұрын
13:11 This is the real Sun Wukong has just appeared.The one playing in the trailer is not the real Sun Wukong, I believe it called "Six Eared Macaque" based on the Chinese story. It also is known as the fake Sun Wukong, which is a major antagonist in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West and its multiple adaptations.
@rxq67454 жыл бұрын
GOOD Game ! good vlog nice reaction !
@SirHumphries4 жыл бұрын
Thank you thank you!
@a9udn9u3 жыл бұрын
Really appreciate the intro. The 1986 Journey to the West TV show was like the Star Trek of China.
@rayyoung21543 жыл бұрын
So true.
@emyuan8hs4 жыл бұрын
很专业呀,还有悟空的简介
@bc77814 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the research that went into this lol; especially with the tv show xD. Mad respect
@SirHumphries4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! We really appreciate that :)
@klasyk15324 жыл бұрын
Wow...this summary of Journey To the West..LMAO 🤣 🤣, but I give ya an A for the effort! Good video!
@kenzooex3izzat1784 жыл бұрын
pls watch series and movie Journey to the West 1996-1998 OK and monkey king ( hE SO OP AND GOD HATE HIM ) BECAUSE HIS NOT GOD AND DEMON JUST MONKEY FROM A popular adaptation of the infamous Monkey King TALE!!! #$
@klasyk15324 жыл бұрын
@@kenzooex3izzat178 I've read Journey to the West, im familiar with the source material, but I'll check the shows if I can find them
@SirHumphries4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, a little history never hurt anyone :)
@crumpz4 жыл бұрын
Chinese: wow nice graphics, everything is just the way it should be. I'm buying. others: what is that? who is this, who is this guy? how? what the hell?
@wonkusbonkus4 жыл бұрын
Im not Chinese but i know who this is,I’m seriously surprised that there are people who don’t know who this is or what the journey of the west is.
@brianl84814 жыл бұрын
I'm not Chinese, but American. I'm impressed by the graphics, and looking forward to when I can play it. I don't really know the character, but I have at least heard of Journey to the West. I figure that when I can play that I will learn who the characters are. I don't need to know everything up front.
@Swnu2834 жыл бұрын
I’m Chinese but I’m still wondering a lot of What who and how
@CTR-0HA2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, a lot of places shown in this trailer is actually still existing in China. Some of them are ancient artifact, some of them are temples.
@themadalaozi4 жыл бұрын
ENGLISH subtitles version video found*** MUST watch! Hi guys and girls, if you want to understand the reference of this game and what they saying in Chinese in this gameplay trailer, please watch this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3-TqqBqrcSdhtk Everything will be explained in English and this video will give you some entry-level information and stories of Journey to the West mythology (a 16th-century Chinese novel, which also popular in Japan). PS: the Japanese manga and anime Dragon Ball was loosely based on Journey to the West, and many characters, magic weapons, spells and justus in Naruto (e.g. the shadow clone, kagebunsin no justus, the gold and silver brothers, the nine-tails fox Kurama.... ) they were all initially inspired by Journey to the West as well. So please stop judging these game developers and stop saying "Chinese copy everything". however many movies, shows, books, arts(I wouldn't say "copy" but*) were inspired by this novel and had references from the foundation of the world of Chinese traditional mythology.
@frozenstormlee47244 жыл бұрын
sadly there are lots of meaning of those character's name lost in translation, eg. the monkey king in the orignal Chinese version there is a Chinese charater means pretty before the monkey king term to discript he is beautiful and powerful monkey so the other monkeys see him as their king, it is one of many titles of WuKong, and the name WuKong there are also some philosophy meaning behide it, the closest simple term I can think of is "to figure out the way to empty your mind by yourself", but it only scratch the surface of mening behide the name WuKong.
@jadekyc3 жыл бұрын
美猴王mei hou wan,hope i spell correct
@danield20893 жыл бұрын
@@jadekyc good job~
@rayyoung21543 жыл бұрын
Could wu king be translated as knowing of nothingness?
@danield20893 жыл бұрын
@@rayyoung2154 it is a Buddhism term, meaning level beyond all secular troubles after acknowledging everything and then into a condition of desire nothing....
@menie48234 жыл бұрын
Those characters on the staff are also shown at 0:56 in the intro!
This incredible game adaptation of the legend of the monkey king is an extraordinary legend and metrology
@mogumoguokayu14183 жыл бұрын
The reason why they said that he was long dead on the journey was because there was another monkey called six eared macaque who looks exactly like him and has the exact same abilities because they couldn't tell each other apart they went up to heaven, The Buddha Tathagata notices that the cloth covering the six eared macaque's ears, Wukong then beats him to death with a stick the theory here is that Tathagata is the one who wraps the cloth around wu kong to punish him from the crimes he committed and the six eared macaque was the one who beat Wukong to death
@Bruce201474 жыл бұрын
The little old man is one of minor earth gods that the heaven assign to mortal world. They are like tour guides, usually provides local information to gods and immortals from other places.
@kaiyichen71613 жыл бұрын
度过西游记的人 看到这一幕泪目了
@tringuyen34134 жыл бұрын
There were 4 monkeys, 4 sacred stoned monkeys born from the power of the universe around them, each stone was place at 4 island facing 4 direction: North - South - East - West. Monkey King (or Sun Wukong) is the "Intelligent Stone monkey", you all have heard his story. The one who pretend to be Wukong in the arch story "The real and the fake Monkey King" in the original novel and tv series was the "Six-Eared Macaque" (Possibly the one who stop the main character from killing the Wofl Demon, if you follow the theory which the real Wukong was already dead on the journey to the West, replace by the Six-Eard Macaque). The third is "Red-Bottomed Horse Monkey", the very first monkey who received Buddhahood, way before Journey to the West, way before Wukong. And the last one is the "Long-Armed Ape Monkey", the one who has fallen into the evil path (or the FADED ONE, if you would), only later to be killed by Wukong. Their power are all on pair with each other. Let me tell you something about the Long-Armed Ape Monkey. He was born 1000 years before Journey to the West, at the time of the Investiture of the Gods, being one of the strongest of that time, only later to be killed by one of the gods, sealed him somewhere (Maybe the Abyss? And maybe that's why he was called the Faded One). Now, some of the power of the Long-Armed Ape Monkey included: Transform into a giant primal ape (Which every sacred monkey could also do, it's their primal power), and the second is absorb and transform into the power of whoever he killed (He did it a lot, once was transforming his legs into the legs of a giant elephant beast when fighting with Wukong in the 1998 TVB series). Now, this is my theory about the main character. Sometime after The Journey to the West (Maybe the final year of the 1000 years), the Long-Armed Ape Monkey was resurrected by some mystery power, either to help or to fight the Monkey King. Still a lot to debate, and because we just saw only 13 minutes of it so this is all I can scrap up right now. And one more thing, the old guy who tell the story in the game, he's either older, battle-tired Sun Wukong telling whatever happened in the past, or he is the Red-Bottomed Horse Monkey, the first mokey ever who receive the Buddhahood.
@伟大中国-z4m4 жыл бұрын
The Chinese characters,如意金箍棒, on the stick of the third monkey and he's equipment in the video, means he is wukong of the period of 'SMASH HAVEN' or 'HAVOC'. wukong who be called 'the Great Sage Equalling Heaven' 如意金箍棒:weighing 13,500 jin equalling 14,881 pound.
@伟大中国-z4m4 жыл бұрын
These three monkeys are all WuKong.
@SirHumphries4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation :)
@T7264 жыл бұрын
13:07 如意金箍棒
@cinnamomumcamphora894316 күн бұрын
Game of the decade!
@rayyoung21543 жыл бұрын
Metaphor of society. A dark and sad story, if you read the journey to the west. It doesn’t matter how talented you are, you will be beaten down by the world.
@Nothingisfinal3 жыл бұрын
Wukong went to hell and found that book of everyone that's going to die, and then he found his name and just inked his name out! That's how he became immortal. lol
Great stuff! finally someone gives a bit background of the story. so the monkey that we control in the trailer should be "六耳猕猴" (Six eared macaque), he has the same abilities and look exact the same as Sun Wukong, no one can tell the different even the buddha. that's also why the old man from the beginning tells another story of the real monkey king is dead during the journey. here is the episode of that TV series reference to the story: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4K5paCZfMaesNE
@伟大中国-z4m4 жыл бұрын
没有,三个应该都是大圣。
@SirHumphries4 жыл бұрын
Much appreciated!
@rockmanlau4 жыл бұрын
Soulwalker Young well, we have two monkeys in trailer and we know they can’t be both WuKong. Because WuKong’s staff is called “如意金箍棒” which is the one we saw at the end of the real-time footage. There’s also couple of hints we can learn that wolf leader saying “another monkey?” and also Tudigong saying “you do look alike” in the trailer, that’s also part of the reason I think one of them is WuKong and the other one is Six eared macaque.
@rockmanlau4 жыл бұрын
@Soulwalker Young I am happy to hear your opinions, why there's two WuKong? Any convincible source you can share? I am assuming you do agree my "common sense" but you think the story would be quite different than the oringal one. correct me if I am wrong. "It is required that all settings can be found in the original work, and strive to create a worldview of Journey to the West that is as "rightful" as possible", well, those are not my words, I am just quoting what the founder of Game Science says in an interview. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYW8oHeompeGbas So we know it probably an extended version, it's based on the original story, and the story has not such thing two WuKong, but himself and Six Eared Macaque.
the way this is read and explained feels like an anime adaptation of a manga or light novel with stuff cut out lol which is exactly what happened
@kenzooex3izzat1784 жыл бұрын
pls watch series and movie Journey to the West 1996-1998 OK and monkey king ( hE SO OP AND GOD HATE HIM ) BECAUSE HIS NOT GOD AND DEMON JUST MONKEY FROM A popular adaptation of the infamous Monkey King TALE!!! #$
@TheXuism4 жыл бұрын
I am Chinese and I will say that's authentic taste the monkey king game should be
@steffenoldenburg71684 жыл бұрын
i want to play this game.
@shaund343 жыл бұрын
Here is the background story. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3-TqqBqrcSdhtk
Pretty confident we’ll have multiple stories, they wouldn’t just add that Heavenly battle if it was the end of the game, chances are there are multiple Wukongs and we take control of the evil Monkey King’s journey into Heaven (being that cloud battle)
@vikenajohn914 Жыл бұрын
It's not a bug get your facts straight its a Cicada
@GOML11124 жыл бұрын
Would of been a great reaction if u had cut out the parts with the ginger virgin
@1lkira4183 жыл бұрын
这些人去看了西游记?
@ryanchen66453 жыл бұрын
这个做reaction的美女是谁啊
@birdyashiro12264 жыл бұрын
The first 2min is spoiler😟😟😟don't watch!!!
@SirHumphries4 жыл бұрын
Whoops! sorry haha
@blackgate-talion5463 жыл бұрын
Understand the original "Journey to the West" or adapt the drama series, you will know better than this gameplay!