Black Myth: Wukong Review Round-Up

Apart from that, there’s a lot of fun to be had with Black Myth: Wukong, and it’s a must-play for anyone that enjoys a good soulslike. It’s also perfect for anyone with soulslike fatigue and weary of the brutal difficulty that usually comes with them . It’s beautiful, frantic, challenging, and a delight to p


However, this brings me onto to Black Myth: Wukong’s biggest problem - the level design. Instead of the branching corridors and winding shortcuts you usually associate with the genre, GameScience has opted for a more linear experience, broken up with large open areas that you can explore. Unfortunately, these are plagued with invisible walls and tricky terrain, making it difficult to gauge where you can and can’t go. In a genre that is typically associated with freedom of exploration and experimentation, it sucks to suddenly feel so isola

Black Myth: Wukong is not a demanding title without Ray Tracing beyond its storage requirements. However, for those who want the best possible visual experience, it can quickly move into demanding territory for its hardware with the GPU in particular focus.


To select or change your Soak, use the Keeper's Shrine and select 'Brew _ ,_ ' which will show you all the Soaks you have available. This Soak, as well as consumable items that negate Poison, is useful against many enemies in Chapter 2, allowing you to efficiently deal damage without concern about receiving too much Poison damage from certain atta

There is a nice variety of spells that can improve your evasiveness even further too. Cloud Step allows you to quickly dash through an opponent and vanish for as long as your decoy survives, giving you a brief moment of respite before you jump into the fray once again. You can also turn into stone right before an enemy strikes to deflect their blow. There’s a lot of spell variety, and the game constantly encourages you to experiment to overcome bosses that may otherwise make you want to tear your hair

This is only compounded by the fact that gaming laptops have stricter power limits and thermal headroom versus comparable desktops. This could mean that users might have to opt for higher-end hardware - at least in comparison to similarly named desktop products - to exact similar performance.

All in all, it still happens to be one of the cheapest gaming laptops that sport an RTX 4080 under the hood at the time of writing and one that is capable of playing Black Myth Wukong Walkthrough Myth: Wukong with Ray Tracing turned on at its native resolution.


You’ll travel through a mixture of villages, temples, and other locales that have been devastated by the actions of the people in charge. Black Myth: Wukong’s overarching story isn’t particularly complex, but every chapter has its own interesting tale to tell, usually focused on how the area you’re exploring became such a hostile hellhole to begin w


Black Myth: Wukong is a game that shies away from the Soulslike label, yet it is clearly gunning for the Soulslike audience. It is far from the best in the genre, but it's also not the worst game that has followed in Dark Souls ' footsteps. If you go into it expecting a mostly standard Soulslike experience with some blood-boiling boss encounters mixed in with basic level design, you will have a better time than if you were going into it expecting it to be like a traditional character action game. Black Myth: Wukong offers about 30 hours of gameplay for its first playthrough with a ton of side content to check out as well, but many will tire of the limited combat options long before they reach its dazzling yet equally aggravating final boss fi


As far as locations go, most of those that players can travel to in Black Myth: Wukong are mentioned in Journey to the West . Others, like Crouching Tiger Temple, Turtle Island, Mirrormere, and the Pagoda Realm, are not — although the novel does include various pagoda structures. This is just another way that Black Myth: Wukong sets itself apart from Journey to the West to give players an experience they wouldn't even be able to get from the 16th-century novel the game is based


One of my favorite parts of the experience was finishing each chapter, and not just because of the excellent, visually impressive boss fights that act as their finale. Upon completion, you’re given music videos which artistically tell various stories, each one unique in its animation style. There is a clear admiration for artistry even outside the core moment-to-moment gameplay that makes you care about this otherwise pedestrian t


Let's start off with TheGamer's review first , which comes from our lovely news editor Joshua Robertson. Josh gave Black Myth a 4/5 and called it a "beautiful, entertaining, and polished soulslike" that is slightly let down by some frustrating level design. That positive sentiment was shared by IGN's Mitchell Saltzman , who gave the game an 8/10 and praised its combat while critiquing how buggy it