Black Myth: Wukong

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Press Score

58%

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Player Score

58%

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Steam All-Time

94%

all-time review rating

Very Positive

🗞️ “Its dramatic and spectacular boss fights just about keep Black Myth: Wukong afloat”

🗞️ “dramatic boss battles with glistening dragons that rage across icy lakes and rippling pools, muscular tigers that sup in temples of blood”

🗞️ “baggy world design, an uneven difficulty curve and disjointed storytelling”

🗞️ “One dusty ravine looks much like another when you traipse down dead-end after dead-end with invisible walls and poorly defined edges”

🗞️ “a boorish companion whose constant spew of belittling and snide remarks about you will only make you want to take his rake and run it across his eyeballs”

👥 “But yes I may be good at the game. Like I am able to learn bosses and take them down but, that doesn't really mean I enjoy doing it. It feels like a chore to do.”

🗞️ “you'll finish one chapter fighting a flaming bear one minute, then immediately start the next lying half-dead in a desert with zero context on how you got there”

🗞️ “I find Black Myth's Soulsy story delivery quite difficult to follow. Those familiar with the source material may find it a lot easier, but I struggle”

🗞️ “a level of technical mastery and visual pizzazz we hadn't quite seen before”

🗞️ “Like seriously, I am unsure whether I've ever been wowed quite like I have with Black Myth. I can't recall the amount of times I've stopped dead in my tracks”

🗞️ “behind all its glitz and glamour is a frustratingly hollow and rudderless action game”

🗞️ “Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG that leans a bit into the Souls camp and a bit into the adventure camp. And either way, it's a spectacular journey that works for mostly everyone”

🗞️ “It's a generous Soulslike, to the point where it straddles the line between hard and 'let's crack on with the journey, shall we?', making it a Souls-venture hybrid”

👥 “why is immobilize the only good spell? Like what's up with devs doing this thing where the 1st cool thing a character gets is the best thing”

🗞️ “Our experience on PC was mostly free from any technical problems”

👥 “games like this that have ugly hair & water physics while requiring NASA computers to properly run.”

🗞️ “immediately slams the brakes on any kind of catharsis or elation you might be feeling after finally sweating your way through the preceding boss battle”

🗞️ “You aren't challenged by careful enemy placement and hidden pathways and well-paced 'breathers' between boss battles”

🗞️ “how can a game based on a work called 'Journey to the West' feel so utterly directionless?”

👥 “the best spirit in the game, especially since he gives you a passive bonus of better defense. And that is most definitely needed”

🗞️ “You're to witness the most lavish, cinematic worlds and its creatures. And you're to enjoy battering everything with your staff as a highly athletic monkey with copious spells”

👥 “It's a relatively long game with a crazy amount of enemy types that, for me, did not feel like reskins of the same thing.”

🗞️ “The equally good mouse and keyboard controls work well in this Souls school action RPG”

👥 “the window for it needs to be increased. Like I know we were made in God's image but that does not mean we are Him, alright? And on top of that, we got freaking input lag”

🗞️ “I've stopped dead in my tracks and panned the camera over frescoes on rock, or idols carved into wooden panels, or the intricacy of the Chinese mythological architecture”

👥 “Visually STUNNING and with such an attention to detail. Even the menus are a work of art.”

🗞️ “You rarely move forward in Black Myth because you feel motivated by the story, or because you got sidetracked by something interesting”

👥 “we can't freaking have preferences now? Like y'all wanna punish us for wanting to use a certain staff & armor?”

🗞️ “Foregoing a map and compass, Wukong's biggest sin is letting its pursuit of realism run away with itself, resulting in beautiful, but frequently frustrating sprawls”

👥 “Even the pause button failed to work sometimes during fights!”

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👥 “I've never played a sould type game before, just gave this game a try and I love it alread also the story is amazing. Highly recommended by someone like me”

👥 “Secondary missions have no markers or way to know where they are, or at which progression point you are, or what you have to do with the items they give you.”

🗞️ “The general rhythm of exploration is spot on. And that's down to each realm's linear structure, opting for more compact zones stitched together by Shrines”

👥 “Each boss is unique and the world is a great foray into animistic Chinese/Eastern lore.”

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👥 “Total lack of weight in combat. No controller vibration.”

👥 “super fun and hard at the same time music goes crazy with the headless guy”

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👥 “Even at full price, it feels like a no-brainer purchase.”

👥 “finally saved up enough for this and it was worth every penny.”

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👥 “the problem is, in order to increase your attack & defense, you need to craft a brand new weapon & armor and equip them. Even if you don't like their bonus stats.”

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👥 “Already thinking about NG+ runs.”

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👥 “To avoid getting bored if you die a lot, play with someone and pass the controller back and forth.”

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👥 “Really looking forward to any dlc or part 2”