It's just like, yeah. And I would do things where I take all the points out, max something up and then run around with it for a bit, just battering like the easy enemies to see how it felt, how it went. And if it didn't work, I was like, Oh, no, I preferred the other one. But sometimes it was like, Oh, T-Bone 254 says I had been looking forward to Black Myth Wukong's release since the initial teaser that was put out a couple of years prior. I'm a sucker for Chinese mythology stories. And I was familiar with the source. So this was right up my alley. But then I get to my one hang up.
... stuff properly. Whereas we were more like, you know, let's, let's use what works. I think some people are more than you. Yeah, we, me and Tony were less experimental or adventurous. You were It's just like, yeah. And I would do things where I take all the points out, max something up and then run around with it for a bit, just battering like the easy enemies to see how it felt, how it went. And if it didn't work, I was like, Oh, no, I preferred the other one. But sometimes it was like, Oh, T-Bone 254 says I had been looking forward to Black Myth Wukong's release since the initial teaser that was put out a couple of years prior. I'm a sucker for Chinese mythology stories. And I was familiar with the source. So this was right up my alley. But then I get to my one hang up. to the evolution of the combat because it seemed so well implemented. But by the end of the game, I was using the same light spam combos to build up focus to perform a heavy attack and occasionally ...
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... August, 2024, the 20th release day at two o'clock UTC, 2,223,179 folks were all playing or attempting to play Blacksmith Wukong at the same time, according to Moby Games. ...
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... Welcome to the Cana Rinse podcast, volume 14, issue 700. And today, finally, we are talking about Black Myth Wukong. Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Jay Taylor. ...
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... So as I say, it's sort of Journey to the West, but it's sort of Journey to the West too, Electric Boogaloo, if you will. The official blurb goes Black Myth Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. ...
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of that where it is something that, you know, can be kind of embellished upon. And there is another defensive option, which is the rock spell. Um, yeah, and I think, yeah, I mean the overall, uh, senses I get is that, um, while T-Bone said didn't want it to be Sekiro and it isn't trying to be Sekiro, I think that's right. But yeah, I think the, I think what depth there is with Black Myth is about the specs and the, the, the loadouts more than it is. Whereas Sekiro is about the, obviously the actual, uh, the, the…
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... Well, that's the key factor right there. Overall, yeah, I very much enjoyed my time at Black Mayfield Con. I just wish it could, I will then this is what I hope with the stuff that I think we've criticized and maybe the general media overall has criticized. I think there are development house that clearly is right on the cusp of kind of learning a lot from what they've designed here. And I'm, I'm, beta breath waiting to see what that second game looks like. Because I think really, I mean, it could be like, I'd…
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... Expansion news. So, CEO of Hero Games, Daniel Wu, an investor, said to Bloomberg that a Black Myth Wukong expansion will come. Director-producer Feng Ji said that many people were asking about DLC and that rumors about a Chinese New Year 2025 release were circulating, but clarified that the team intends to achieve higher quality standards for future content and needs time to explore new technologies and themes, so an expansion is not expected to be completed soon. According to-
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for it, which I also, you know, like a lot. So yeah, well, you know, everything that everybody said is valid, you know, it's a long game. But if you're if you're interested in this, if for some reason you've not noticed Black Myth Woo Kong until now, absolutely, like it would be worth checking out. It's one of those games where we haven't been able to say it's dirt cheap now, because they are stubbornly refusing to discount it at all. Well, it didn't come out at a what we think of as a full price. Yeah, it was…
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... But either way, whether we get DLC or not, Black Myth, John Quay is set to be released for PC and consoles at some point. It was announced August 2025 at Gamescom. So we're a long way away from that, I expect. What year would you plump for? 27 or 28? ...
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the area. So the game teaches you essentially that certain characters, but actually, there's only three characters in the entire game that are missable. Yeah. When you say missable, though, are you saying like because I went so when I got the first time I went through that level, I didn't kill him till just before I killed the end boss black bear quiet. And that's when I went down. But if you finish so yeah, so if you finish the level and then come back, that's what I find fun with this game actually is first…
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... - It's a big game, there's a lot of stuff, the engine. I mean, it's not just Blackpink, but UE5 has had, you know, technical issues up and down. ...
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... So Blacksmith Wu Kong, in summary, it's a big old game. I ended up enjoying it a lot more than I thought I was going to based on my initial experiences as pretty as it looked and as fun as the premise was. I found the early going to be sticky and stodgy and not, you know, I didn't hate it. It just wasn't really singing to me. I wanted to like it more than I did, because it obviously looked and sounded great and whatever else. And the presentation was lush. And
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