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The game is inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West and follows an anthropomorphic monkey based on Sun Wukong from the novel. Black Myth: Wukong was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on August 20, 2024, with an Xbox Series X/S version to be released at a later date. The game received generally favorable reviews from ...
The Black Myth project's development team moved from Shenzhen to Hangzhou due to "slower pace and lower living costs". [3] In August 2020, Game Science released the first trailer of Black Myth: Wukong as a way to recruit more talent for the company. [1] At the time, the game's development team had 30 members. [1]
The single-player game puts gamers in the role of the Monkey King, or Sun Wukong, a key character from “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century Chinese novel that has been retold in literally ...
"Black Myth: Wukong", based on a mythical monkey king from a Chinese literary classic who can shape-shift into humans, animals and inanimate objects, was being played on Wednesday by 2.2 million ...
Sun Wukong (孫悟空), better known as the Monkey King in translations, is a monkey born from a stone on Mount Huaguo who acquires magic powers by learning from Master Bodhi. After starting a rebellion against Heaven, he is subdued and imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha for 500 years.
The Six-Eared Macaque—and not to be mistaken for the Macaque King (獼猴王), one of the same Seven Sages (七聖) Fraternity of Sworn Brothers, that Sun Wukong is a member of—is, according to the Buddha, one of the four spiritual primates that do not belong to any of the ten categories that all beings in the universe are classified under.
Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese adventure/role playing video game developed by Game Science which depicts Sun Wukong's story, exploits and battles. Before Black Myth, the developers, also made Asura Online, an MMORPG. Both games were inspired by an online novel that was a dark retelling of Journey to the West.
The Taiwanese black metal band Chthonic has a drummer who wears a metal mask of a black demon mouth. The video game Black Myth: Wukong rooted in Journey to the West shows a wide variety of yaoguai inspired by Chinese traditional mythology.