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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 ...
Erlang Shen, or simply Erlang, is a god in Chinese folk religion and Daoism, associated with water (flood control), justice, warriorhood, hunting, and demon subdual. He is commonly depicted as a young man with a third, truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead, wielding a three-pronged spear, and being accompanied by his loyal hunting dog, Xiaotian Quan.
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 ...
Juling Shen (巨靈神) leads the vanguard to attack Sun Wukong. Erlang Shen (二郎神) is a maternal nephew of the Jade Emperor and a warrior deity. Among all the warrior deities in the Taoist pantheon, he is the only one who manages to defeat and capture Sun Wukong when the latter rebels against Heaven.
"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 ...
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.
In the novel Journey to the West, Xiaotian Quan helps Erlang fight Sun Wukong, preventing him from escaping by biting him in the leg. Later in Chapter 63, Sun Wukong, Erlang, and their companions battle against the Nine-Headed Beast (九頭蟲) or the Nine-Headed Prince Consort (九頭駙馬) when the dog defeats the enemy by biting off one of ...