Black Myth Wukong Complete Story & Endings Explained | Summary & Recap of Black Myth Wukong's Lore

In this video, we explore the world of Black Myth: Wukong, the highly anticipated action RPG inspired by Journey to the West. Discover the Destined One's origins, abilities, and connection to the legendary Monkey King. Learn about the game's setting, combat system, and multiple endings. This video breaks down the known facts about the game's protagonist, world, lore and storyline. Perfect for fans of Chinese mythology, action RPGs, and those curious about this unique take on a classic tale. Get ready for an epic adventure through a reimagined mythological landscape.

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00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Journey to the West Explained
05:12 - Story Explained
39:20 - Endings Explained

[storieswithcookie]

What do you think of Black Myth Wukong's story?

[leodelonix]

I think your interpretation is right on. We Chinese who knew all of the lores, have similar understanding of the plot. A little suggestions would be, the thing that was put on Wukong's head, or in the bad ending onto the destined one's head, cannot be interpreted as a crown. Since it is the very key of the entire story, the meaning of it has to be understood. The crown like hoop is called 紧箍(the tightening band). The band was created to control Wukong in case he does not obey his master in the journey to the west. The band cannot be removed and there was a spell 紧箍咒 （the spell to tighten the bend）to activate the band. After it's activated, it will tighten the head of Wukong and create unbearable pain. The whole story of Black Myth Wukong is that Wukong realized that the only way to relieve himself from the restriction of this band, is to destroy his body. That's why he sacrificed his immortality, and make a bet with Erlang god, that one day there will be a destined one who can beat all of the challenges and prove he is the right one, and to inherent all of his lagacy and memory, and become the reborn of himself.

[tanithryudo]

The cutscene at the end of chapter 5 is the memories of the bull king that the chosen one received through the relic. It not only showed memories of their conflict during Journey to the West, but it also showed his memories of what happened during Wukong's fight at the beginning of the game.

It showed that the demon kings were involved in that fight on the side against Wukong, and were there for his death. As well, they were given Wukong's senses by Erlang, rather than them finding the scattered senses on their own. Additionally, Erlang himself took the sixth sense, and he also held some of Wukong's memories in his third eye, which he released to the Chosen One upon defeat.

In other words, the fight as experienced in the tutorial segment is not actually the truth of what happened, but rather a leading and incomplete story told by the old monkey.

[aries]

I really wished you delved deeper into the story between Erlang Shen and Wukong. Erlang was the son born between the Jade Emperor's sister and a mortal, a sin that caused his mother to be locked up by the heavens until rescued by Erlang himself. His rebellious nature shares many similarities with Wukong, and in the original JTTW only his skills in transformations were a match for Wukong, a worthy rival who he might've looked up to.

During the bossfight with Erlang we can hear Erlang say something along the lines of "Do you think this meeting of ours was planned by Wukong?" implying that this was all a plan by Wukong to get rid of the headband, and Erlang humours us. He even acknowledges that he understands Wukong's thoughts the most, "His mind is an ordeal, I know". The reason why Erlang is so eager to fight us and help Wukong slowly get accustomed to his former power might be because he secretly wishes for us to break free from heaven's will.

This is just my interpretation, but I personally really enjoyed the similarities and differences between Erlang and Wukong, showing both who are bound by heaven's will, but Wukong representing the defiance against it.

[coreymulvaney]

Never have I seen such effort go into a video game, the animated little movies after each chapter are just heavenly. Such an amazing and special game.

[RiceballRox]

You’ve done such a wonderful job to explain the story line! However, the story with the fox was not meant to warn others about the appearance of the “fox”, or to reject the supernatural, but to ask people to think which is the real monster here, the fox yaoguai who was born a monster, or the guy who killed her because of his fear? In Chinese mythology, and in this novel, monsters are ranked lower than humans, and humans of surely lower than the gods and the Buddha, however, this story asks the viewer to reflect on whether that is really true. =)

[yuey]

sometimes its hard for non Chinese speakers to understand some nuances in Chinese literature, because we Chinese names actually have meanings, not only a sound or symbolic to call someone, like Zhu Bajie literally means Pig with 8 Precepts, Sun Wukong means Monkey who enlightened the Emptiness.
and in China, you can call someone many names, similar concept to nickname but with some nuanced differences. for we Chinese, its easy to understand, but for most westerners, you may easily misunderstand those are different characters in the story.

[khoinguyen]

The second chapter story, the fox, can be interpreted as followed:
Trust your heart. The fox was ready to fully repay the scholar, but his fear and paranoia made him killed her. We can see this ingame when we saw a corpse with a fox for a coat. She asked the monke to avenge her, because in reality she has never meant any harm towards the man.

[noobartist]

Im personally disappointed they didn't lean into the comedic aspects of his personality. The entire story is built on his hubris. Wukong is not a noble figure and that's the point of his arc in the book.

[yumayums]

copy paste from somewhere:

For those wondering, yes he is wukong. Wukong split himself into 6 relics to prevent himself from being fully sealed. The character we play as is the embodiment of the 6th relic. In the end you absorb the other 5 and become the real wukong AGAIN. In the bad ending the destined one reject his past self and doesnt fully revive and chooses to become a pawn for the gods while the old wukong remains trapped in the stone. The original wukong couldn't get rid of that headband that weakened him so he came up with a plan with erlang to die and be reborn without the headband weakening him. His reincarnation is the destined one aka the mc for this game. He let erlang kill him and erlang kept his memori3s inside his 3rd eye and waited for him to be reincarnated. Erlang himself admitted in the game when u meet him again that no one could e killed wukong besides himself confirming wukong let erlang kill him. This reincarnation was born stronger because he didn't have the headband. My guess is they're gonna release a bug dlc continuing the story with wukong fighting heaven. I think the continuation will be a dlc because the creator said the next black myth game will be based on a different mythological story from Chinese novels. This is suppose to be the start of a series of different black myth games set in different chinese mythology stories. As to why erlang would help wukong eventhough they were rival. I have no idea and the game doesn't explain it

[conanguo]

As a Chinse who finished playing this game, I'll do a deeper explaination about second chapter. Through the description of the little boy in the well.And traveling through time and space to help the yellow wind sage to defeat that big bug.This is actually because the Great Sage Huang Sheng came back here to protect the people long time ago.Then the people loved the Yellow wind Sage very much and began to support mice Yaoguai instead of bodhisattvas, So you can see a lot of Buddha heads that have been taken off in the map.Including some buildings in the village is mice yaoguai instead of Buddha.Coming up, bodhisattva lingji made many people in the village turned into mice to frame up Yellow wind sage. There are many details in the game, including the last short film.A lot of times we are more inclined to believe what you want to believe.Who come to you first with kind.Who is the good one 😂

[Fluff-glyr]

Perhaps the most long awaited sequel of all time lol

[BobZOMG]

I kinda glad the developer make our uncle Bajie small but tenacious...

[chaoranhuang]

Nice video, just want to point out that chapter2's side quest shows that the Yellow Wind Sage might have actually been the hero to the village, and Lingji was responsible for ruining the place because the people there didn't want to believe in buddhist. It's in fact an ironic story.

[KhanhGia-mx]

Extremely good story summary, I have never been more concentrated on a YouTube gaming video like this before.

[kev]

The original story on Jinchi is that the Tangseng (Tang xuanzang) and Wukong who visits the Guanyin temple showed him the kasaya. Jinchi was so obsessed with the kasaya he and his disciples (Guangzhi and Guangmou) tried to get rid of both Tangseng and Wukong to seize the kasaya. Eventually, Guangzhi suggested to burn the temple where Tangseng resides, but the plan was overheard by Wukong. So Wukong borrowed a magic tool (防火罩）that keeps Tangseng away from fire, while Wukong redirects the fire and burned down the whole temple. Jinchi and the bear were good friends where they studied Buddhist teachings together and Jinchi lived very long till 270 years due to the bear's powers. When the bear saw the fire, it went to the temple and intended to put out the fire but the kasaya caught its attention away. The bear was attracted with the kasaya and stole it, forgot its intention to save the temple from fire. Jinchi with his temple and kasaya gone, chose to kill himself.

Since the kasaya is gone in Guanyin temple, Wukong decided to find Goddess Guanyin to solve this problem and soon wukong found the bear that stole the kasaya. The bear wanted to have a celebration with his friends and show the kasaya to them. So Guanyin was transformed to one of his friends who will be attending the party and give the bear a pill. Wukong trnasformed into the pill and managed to get inside the bear, making a fuss which leads to great pain and discomfort to the bear. This forced the bear to return the kasaya, and become Guanyin's disciples and as the guard of Guanyin.

[süssertodv]

Wukong trashing speedrunner behavior is funny

[alexwon]

Erlang was holding onto Wukong’s 6th relic (the mind) in his third eye; reason why you need to beat him to become complete with all six relics.

[mechannel]

This is such a good summary of the Wukong story. Can't imagine how many hours you spent making this video

[avnidvyi]

excellent video for explaining the background, but the truth requires a deeper dive.