Black Myth Wukong Story & Mythology Explained

Black Myth Wukong Story & Mythology Explained. This video explains the story, ending, & mythology of Black Myth Wukong.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Prologue
7:06 Chapter 1
11:18 Chapter 2
16:29 Chapter 3
22:17 Chapter 4
26:23 Chapter 5
33:25 Chapter 6
34:50 Endings
38:36 Outro
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Music In Order:
Unyielding Valor - Black Myth Wukong
Tranquil Retreat - Black Myth Wukong
Village of Lanxi - Black Myth Wukong
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Hope You Enjoyed!
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[Gingy]

As mentioned in the video, this is a revised reupload of the same video from a couple days ago. There were a lot of mistakes I wanted to undo because you deserve high quality content. I'm liable to still get something wrong even in this version but this is the best I can do. Thank you to all of those who were kind enough to make me aware of the mistakes :)

[TeleologicalConsistency]

Journey to the West is a fantasy based on a real historical expedition. The monk Xuanzang was a real person who made the journey. The 3 demons guarding him represent 3 inner demons of himself preventing him from reaching enlightenment. Pig(lust), black Sand Demon (wrath), Wu Kong (Wondering mind). This is why to get Wu Kong under control the monk has to chant the Sutra. He's basically getting his mind under control.

[shade]

One thing to be noted is that before Buddha imprisoning him, Wukong had attained immortality from six different sources; Daoist magic, removing his name from the book of the dying, the divine peaches, the heavenly wine, Lao Tzu's immortal pills, and ginseng baby fruit

[techwizard]

In the good ending the destined one gains Wukong's memories along with his senses. So in a way wukong is born again in a new body. Also in the final slide of the music video where he is raising a toast to his fallen simian brothers happens in the present time. He leaves then leaving us waiting for a sequel where he will probably attack the heavens. This is truly a phenomenal game and as a fan of the journey to the west it's GOTY for me.

[elijahwise]

The real journey to the west is the friends we made along the way

[stanleypo]

As a Chinese listening Wukong story for years, this game storyline is the most impressive one. It is called Black Myth for a reason.
Traditionally, Buddha and celestial court give people an impression that they represent justice. In this game, these Buddha are the one controlling everything and Wukong do not want to be their dirty hand. He choose to die and split into 6 Sadindriya, hoping one day the "destined one" could inherit his will and lives without Buddha control

[nasigil]

One thing you haven't mentioned, but I believe is implied in the journal entries for all the Yaoguais and characters, is that Wukong is secretly planning to overthrow the celestial court (again). There are entries mentioning Celestial Court doing horrifying body experiment on human and even gods(Duskveil). And the Buddha side apparently carries out holocaust on Yaksha race. They are not the good guys. Wukong is not happy with how the current order of god-men-yaoguai works(mentioned in his entry after beating the game), even if he's already on the priviledged side being a Buddha. He gave his old armor to Yin Tiger and told him to keep it for him, he planned the whole fake death and reincarnation with Erlang and a few powerful god/Buddhas that support his action. The keeper of each areas was instructed by a Taoist God to help the destined one along the way, and it's almost certain the old monkey is either Guan Yin or just someone higher up on his side.

[TheFallenDemigod]

From The soulsborne series, blasphemous till now, you made me fall in love with all these games by giving me info and in-depth lore dive which I can't do as well as you. Just Do What You're doing now and love you and work bro 🖤

[battlericky]

Much respect on owning up, taking it down and putting it back up. I wouldnt have known the difference so much respect regardless

[hayvanykt]

My theory is that old monkey is true Buddha Wukong, who left his body after reaching enlightement, and after seeing his broken shell going wild he sends Destined One to become a new Monkey King. Even Old Monkeys clothes are flowing, which symbolizes attaining buddhahood

[bladeofapollyon]

People in chapter2 were transformed into rat monsters by LingJi instead of Yellow Wind Sage in fact.

[chiriko]

The ending of chapter 3 is actually not about greed at all, but rather a lesson for people not to project their own views on others. Humans are not inherently greedy, but because yellow-brow made a bet with Jinchanzi that he can prove such, he purposefully enticed the villagers to become greedy. Thus, he was basically drawing conclusions first before he set out to prove anything. Yellow-brow represented the ultimate greed: Wanting to become Buddha himself. So because he was himself greedy, he thinks that others must be inherently greedy as well.

[sorrycashonly]

There are some inaccuracies in your portrayal of the Yellow Wind Sage's backstory. The full story is actually quite fascinating and dark. I strongly suggest revising your video based on my comments. Here is a chronological breakdown of what actually happened:

- In the past, there was a kingdom known as the Golden Buddha City. People in the city used to worship Buddha, but eventually the people there started to worship the royal family instead. This pissed off the Buddha, and LingJi sent a demon named Fuban to harass them. This is why LingJi’s face was on the back of Fuban when you first encountered him in the secret level.

- The Yellow Wind Sage passed by the city, defeated Fuban and gained the people's trust. They started to worship him instead.

- This angered LingJi, who decided to punish the people by transforming them into rat monsters.

- The Yellow Wind Sage, feeling responsible for what happened, left the kingdom in hopes that things would return to normal during his absence. Unfortunately, the curse persisted, and the kingdom eventually fell because of it. This is mentioned in both LingJi's backstory within the game and in a background dialogue on the wall painting after you complete Chapter 2.

Thus, LingJi was actually the antagonist, not the Yellow Wind Sage. The Yellow Wind Sage fell and became corrupted due to his disillusionment with the gods and the celestial court. This theme is central to Black Myth: Wukong: the celestial court is not as innocent as it may seem.

[seanxi]

Im Chinese, my 10 year old niece was born here in America n don't speak a word of Chinese. I played the game on Chinese voice n English subtitles so she can understand the story. What I found out was, a huge part of the story wasn't even in the English subs. I can understand why though. the literal form of the story is translated but without the hidden info that ties way too much of cheese cultural reference and buddhist ideas. there's a huge theme of how the celestial court is behind everything. chap.1 guanyin's dialogue with black bear, why he was allowed to go back. Chap 2 was later revealed that lingji was lying. Chap 3. ba Jie said it all when he smacked mi le fo, he said he won't believe it twice if yellow brow can steal his stuff again. basically hinting that mi le was behind everything. Chap 4 that Crain was tai Shang lao jun as suggested in the end of the chapter(this hint is not in the eng ver.), which ties the story to other folk lore involving xi wang mu's shady trade and bai yan wu gong was working for her in order to get out of kun lun (tai Shang lao jun)'s control. in chap 5 we learn that all the bosses in each chapter joined the effort to take down sun wu kong, and as a reward they were given part of his "relic" (I hate that translation, they made it sound like Voldemort's horcruxes, they are called six thieves, its a buddhist term that im ill equipped to translate), which in it self is a plot made by the court to let the player kill them in a legit way. again they implied that red boy's clan wasn't the only one who got wiped out, there should also be luo cha clan which in the original Indian Buddhism was the dusk veil's mothers clan. this explains why dusk veil, as a officer of the celestial court disappeared all of a sudden and how kang jin Loong went to search for him and was captured by yellow brow, but the nurture seed sack should not have the power to turn her to work for him which ties to the ending of chap. 3's dialogue between yellow and jin chan zi.
lol the story in Chinese of this game is 100 / 10 where as the English only translated portions of it. no one would find this out if they don't play the game in 2 languages and compare them.

[yonatanmelkamu]

Im glad you re-uploaded! I couldnt watch the last video. Thank you Gingy!

[FelisImpurrator]

For a few more details:
Yellowbrow's incarnation as the pearl-bleeding creature was a scheme to prove to Jinchanzi that humans are inevitably corrupt, greedy, and wicked, and thus inherently lesser. Jinchanzi disputes that this is "proof" because Yellowbrow basically entrapped those people, appearing to the most desperate peasants with the most disproportionate temptation.

The version of Bajie's backstory here is that he was cursed to experience a thousand tragic loves because he caught the Jade Emperor having an affair with Chang'e. In the game, he pushes the Violet Spider and his own daughter away in an attempt to spare them from the wrath of Heaven brought on by the curse... But he fails, in part because of something he doesn't know: The heavens were already watching the seven spider guai, keeping them prisoner and harvesting them as ingredients for pills. So they could never escape notice. Hundred-Eye, being one of the conspirators who received a fragment of Wukong as a reward from Heaven's scheme to kill the Monkey King, has seemingly been working with the Celestial Court to keep watch over this prison.

Each of the characters tied to the secret areas, which are needed to get the true ending, is one of the brothers of Erlang Shen - the immortals of Mt. Mei. They were all part of a scheme between Wukong and Erlang to pull off this reincarnation gambit; they would put on a show of dueling and having Wukong lose, leading to his "death", while giving Erlang an opportunity to steal and hide away Wukong's mind. The brothers are all presumably tasked to test each Destined One to see which one is truly worthy to be the reincarnation of the Monkey King. In the end, they're all colluding, and in part working to uncover the schemes of the corrupt Celestial Court - such as Hundred-Eye being an agent of their will and the de facto prison warden of the seven spiders.

There were apparently supposed to be six more chapters each covering a different part of the novel, such as the Country of Women. But the devs had to wrap up and release half the planned game to secure financing and gauge whether it was worth doing the other half. The ending does imply that the reborn Monkey King will be going after the Court to make it answer for its crimes against him, his brothers, and the yaoguai (and mortals) of the world who are seen as inherently lesser and thus free to exploit by Heaven. So we'll either be seeing these as gigantic expansion packs or a sequel.

[pansmith]

Good job！！To be honest, as a native Chinese player, I even can't quite understand the whole story of the game. This is because it is a completely new story happened after the novel Journey to the West. Many characters or boss in the game are quite different from traditional novels. So there are many hidden clues in the game, and we are still exploring the secrets behind the superficial plot.But, maybe you can explore more without being influenced by the background of the novel Journey to the West. It was also a very good experience. Anyway, let's enjoy it together

[hoangdanlethanh]

For us Vietnamese though, it is not the novel that resonates strongly with us, but the TV series, specifically the first one. That show was, and probably is still, widely popular. I remember my local TV channels used to broadcast it every summer holiday. That's right, every. Summer. Kids loved watching it front and back. Every boys love portraying themselves as Wukong, me included. So when the true ending blasts the revised opening theme song of that show, the nostalgia hit like the same mountain that crushes Wukong himself.

[MrCoolRedLuigi]

You're a legend. I not only love the amount of effort you put into your work but also the pride you put into it. Very happy to see this video back up!

[rongnianLi]

19:48 at the ending cutscene for chapter 3, he dreams that the fox girls gives him a good life but at one day maybe fox yaoguai will eventually release “her nature”. So he believes what he seem in the dream and think all Yaoguai is bad in nature even they can be good for short time. So he kill the fox. This is a story from Buddha from chapter 2. At the end, that Buddha said, “all being has its position from born, buddha is buddha, yaoguai is yaoguai. Is foolish to believe yaoguai can be good.” Witch is very very bad idea that show linji buddha is not qualified as a buddha at first place. But eventually you will find out most of these celebrities are not good as their titles.