Video games have long looked to ancient tales for inspiration, though it's fair to say that they've historically been a bit loosey-goosey with the source material. From Age of Mythology's toybox scenario of 'who would win in a fight between the Ancient Greek, Norse, and Egyptian' pantheons?' to that time a fallen Greek God suddenly found himself embroiled in Midgardian family politics after single-handedly dismembering most of his own deities, games haven't exactly been known for their nuanced handling of mythological matters. 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West has also had its fair share of game adaptations, including the rather underrated action-adventure from Ninja Theory, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
But again, Ninja Theory's sci-fi romp through post-apocalyptic America was a pretty far-out take on the original story. Well now we have Game Science's Action-RPG adventure Black Myth: Wukong, which is sticking a little closer to the source material, but is still packed with mysteries that we're going to try and unpick here. Journey to the West To sum up the backstory.
The novel's hero, Sun Wukong, was an ambitious Monkey King born from stone and trained by a reclusive master to eventually gain powers of immortality. Inevitably, the power gets to his head, provoking the Heavenly Court to intervene. Wukong's journey is brought to an abrupt end when Buddha steps in and drops a mountain on his head.
After 500 years of gloomy subterranean soul-searching and presumab.