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678: Black Myth: Wukong
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Re: 678: Black Myth: Wukong
I don't really get it.
Initially I was very excited for this game. Did my best to ignore the developers' weird stance. Heard nothing but rave reviews and waited months for it do go on sale, but it clearly didn't seem interested in that and the podcast was coming up so I bit the bullet. Spoilers but it eventually it turned from I played to play to a game I wanted to get out the way so I could play Expedition 33.
To start, it's not really a soulslike, is it? I mean, it's a third-person action game with points to rest and respawn enemies and rolling but beyond that, leveling doesn't really work the same, stamina's almost a nonissue, you keep all your EXP upon death. Oh, I guess talking to NPCs multiple times for them to actually say something useful. I guess that's the same.
I wanted to make a joke about how this is set in a snowy mountaintop with a bunch of side areas sprinkled in to start, but I kinda have too much to say for that to make sense. But yeah, chapter 3's maybe one of the most painful slogs I'd have in a video game in a while. Way too long.
To comment on the plot... question mark? I'm going to trust that it's a good one and well made but having basically zero knowledge of Journey to the West beyond Goku, most of it felt like just non-sequiturs. The animations at the end of chapters look good but I have almost no idea what was happening in half of them.
To summarize, it's like, a good game for sure. Decent, cool moments. But there wasn't really anything in here that felt deserving of GOTY nominee, best selling Steam game, etc. Honestly I suspect half its praise is similar to Stellar Blade's, where "gamers" rally behind it for its apparent politics, rather than the content. Kinda like how anyone talking about how it's the best game ever online only would show the cutscenes and refused to share any actual gameplay.
Initially I was very excited for this game. Did my best to ignore the developers' weird stance. Heard nothing but rave reviews and waited months for it do go on sale, but it clearly didn't seem interested in that and the podcast was coming up so I bit the bullet. Spoilers but it eventually it turned from I played to play to a game I wanted to get out the way so I could play Expedition 33.
To start, it's not really a soulslike, is it? I mean, it's a third-person action game with points to rest and respawn enemies and rolling but beyond that, leveling doesn't really work the same, stamina's almost a nonissue, you keep all your EXP upon death. Oh, I guess talking to NPCs multiple times for them to actually say something useful. I guess that's the same.
I wanted to make a joke about how this is set in a snowy mountaintop with a bunch of side areas sprinkled in to start, but I kinda have too much to say for that to make sense. But yeah, chapter 3's maybe one of the most painful slogs I'd have in a video game in a while. Way too long.
To comment on the plot... question mark? I'm going to trust that it's a good one and well made but having basically zero knowledge of Journey to the West beyond Goku, most of it felt like just non-sequiturs. The animations at the end of chapters look good but I have almost no idea what was happening in half of them.
To summarize, it's like, a good game for sure. Decent, cool moments. But there wasn't really anything in here that felt deserving of GOTY nominee, best selling Steam game, etc. Honestly I suspect half its praise is similar to Stellar Blade's, where "gamers" rally behind it for its apparent politics, rather than the content. Kinda like how anyone talking about how it's the best game ever online only would show the cutscenes and refused to share any actual gameplay.