Black Myth: Wukong

To look at Black Myth: Wukong purely through the lens of market sizes and tastes is a disservice that obscures the most critical fact of all: it’s a fantastic game.

Statistically Black Myth: Wukon is a phenomenon of 2024. The game breaks online records and demonstrates the power of Chinese game development. The main thing is not to expect something brilliant from it and forgive the flaws - then you will have a great time.

Black Myth: Wukong uses the wonderful canvas of Chinese mythology to draw you into its world that is both beautiful and dangerous. Struggling at times to fully tell its story, its narrative mostly gives the game structure while leaving out a lot of detailed substance hoping for you to somehow make it make sense. Sure, the game’s emphasis is combat, but for a soulslike game that looks this beautiful and has so much lore attached to it, you would hope it also spent more time focusing on its story. Its combat offers you plenty of ways to experiment what works for you, but it also offers you enough difficulty to keep you on your toes and adapting to each new situation. These elements make for a game that rewards you with the thrill of a battle and doesn’t punish you too much for making mistakes. While its world is not the easiest to explore or to comprehend, Wukong’s rewards are worth it and make for a thrilling journey of discovery.

After a complicated first approach, Black Myth Wukong opened its doors to us (literally) and we have to say that we would have been disappointed to miss out on its adventure. Supported by one of the most exhilarating gameplays of recent years, Game Science's game offers us a skillfully measured challenge that makes us want to discover more each time. Not so linear after all, the journey of the Predestined would have gained from being more concise and erasing its most extensive portions to focus on the essentials. In any case, for this grand premiere, the game honors its promise in terms of immersion, game system and entertainment, even if we regret the lack of rhythm, the redundancy of the level design and a few slight flaws. The creators of Black Myth Wukong have made their science speak: the formula is not perfect but the alchemy works!

This is an action RPG whose focus is less on punishing, labyrinthine environments and more on delivering precise, melee-based combat encounters that put the Destined One’s agility to the test.

Black Myth: Wukong’s combat system doesn’t have anything that makes it truly unique. The variety in ways to tackle combat is often lacking, and it doesn’t feel all that good to play either. That said, the concept of creating openings for the enemy rather than exploiting them is interesting, and by rewarding players who take full advantage of the few chances the game gives you, it makes its boss encounters worthwhile despite its lacking combat system. Character customization and exploration is on the thin side too, and the story is hard to follow if you haven’t read Journey to the West. However, the impressive graphics make every moment of the game look like a painting. Experiencing this world based on classic Chinese literature through the game’s unique vision is still worth your time.

Black Myth: Wukong is a stunning game to look at, but the exploration is lacking, and the fighting is just sort of fine for the most part. It's just a bit uninspiring, and isn't a game that I'm expecting to stick with me for any length of time now that I'm done with it.

In essence its simplified more linear dark souls with a very nice flow to the combat, well though out areas and an insane amount of bosses. The chinese mythology stuff is very convoluted and even if you read up on stuff you wont understand most of it. Even nioh had more structure :D

C’est pas compliqué c’est le pire gameplay de tout les souls quand ont gagne c’est du au hasard quand ont perd pareil, il n’y a pas de parade dans un jeu qui est fait pour ça bref un vrai scandale ne vous faites pas avoir je l’ai payé 70€ et je serais prêt à accepter 10€ de remboursement car impossible d’y jouer 10m sans bailler

Overated game, it has interesting story elements and the characters are good but it mostly just boils down to a big long line of bosses and mini bosses like a boss rush. 70% of the bosses and enemies have annoying problem with instant attacks you can only dodge after you've been hit once, visuals that become blinding light shows, attacks that hit faster than you can dodge a second time, terrible hotboxes on the attacks, unresponsive controls dodges and drinking the gord won't work sometimes even when I'm not doing anything else, and some bosses and enemies moving faster than the camera can track. ...just lots of problems that hinder the experience it's still a solid game 7/10, but it never deserved to be nominated for game of the year.

An absolute dumbsterfire. Not only it has horrible performance problems, the gameplay is a slog, maps are empty, filled with STORE ASSETS and graphically uninspired and boring looking game. There's no redeeming qualities, an average at best story fused with unreal garbage graphics and ripetitive damage spunge bosses. An assetflip with a pricetag of a AAA game is a joke

The worst combat system of the decade. Animations are far too long and too often limit control of the character: you press Y but nothing happens because the dodge animation is still finishing; you press B to dodge but it doesn’t work because the character is still completing the get-up animation, and so on.Aside from the breathtaking, truly excellent graphics, there’s basically nothing left. The worst combat system ever — compared to this, Dark Souls 1’s combat system is pure gold.