All Bosses EXPLAINED in Black Myth: Wukong - Chapter Two

Welcome back to the explanation behind every boss in Black Myth: Wukong. Please enjoy my breakdown of the lore, which includes related information from the original Journey to the West novel! (This was my first attempt at a professional sounding description. How'd I do??)

P.S. I'm very grateful for you. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you next time.

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00:00 - Intro and Correction!
02:30 - Minor Bosses!
10:05 - Major Bosses!

[BanditGames]

*EDIT: The part about the father and son of stones being Shigandang and the Stone Vanguard is incorrect*, they appear to be the evil guai and a strong guard. I’ll correct this in the next video!
Ok real question: I want to improve how I pronounce Chinese names and the language in general... Anyone have any tips?
Also thank you so much for watching! See you in Chapter 3!

[thankgod]

10:06 Chinese here. The headless guy is not singing in standard mandarin, but with a strong northern accent of that region. Though this is obvious to all chinese audiences, it may not be the case for westerners. So I think that's why Game Science deliberately chose a scottish accent which is also a "northern accent" for the english version, to give a similar vibe.

[Alan-ybkx]

The swordman's story is heartbreaking. He just wanted to save his boy. We know his boy was a very cheerful kid. As a spirit, he only speaks all the nice memories he had at the village.

[jasonadams]

A lot of these enemies don’t seem like bad guys. Sure a lot of them do horrible things, but a lot of them also do very good things, like the yellow wind sage saving the villagers from the massive beetle and sparing a lot of his enemies after they attacked him. The tiger brothers too, the eldest brother had a moral code to protect and not hurt the innocent, and the younger one helped cure a sick child. Very cool how complicated and deep their individual stories are.

[lanzer]

So many great tales from chapter 2, I found the story of the father swordsman and his son very touching. At first I just assumed that the child was consumed by the tiger, little did I know that there was quite a twist. The author also knew what the audience would think when the tiger gave the gourd to the child. Classic mis-direct in storytelling from 400 years ago.

[JustJeff]

Whoa, I did not expect the Tiger Acolytes story to hit so hard...

[johnk]

The father of stone is in chapter 5 and it explains in his entry why he left the mountain. He's pretty early in the chapter and you can't miss him.

[danysonzheng]

Idk but the tiger vanguard intro give me the impression that he was psychotic and enjoyed eating the rats in his kingdom.

[goldsilvervscrisiscollapse]

Interesting that every character in this chapter displays both good and evil characteristics.

The yellow wind sage being forgiving and seemed to actually care enough to help the people but scheming and his help often meant he gained more power somehow

The bodhisattva being kind but vengeful

The elder tiger bro being a good leader, turned to eating rat people out of spite

The younger bro having compassion for the child but needing flesh to live, consumes the tricked villagers

[colorgreen]

Another little tidbit, the coffin you get the plaguebane gourd from is the child’s coffin. The mad tiger really cared about the kid

[puertea]

Hi, Chinese here, fist of all thank you so much for doing the heavy lifting, I appreciate that you let many people recognize how good the plot is in BMW.
Also, I’d like to share some of my thoughts and insights on what went through the Yellow Sage’s mind from start to finish.

1. When he was caught stealing lamp oil from Lingshan, the Sage had no choice but to obey Buddha LingJi. From the start, he didn't like Buddha LingJi.

2. The Sage believed that by doing good deeds for humanity, he could gain recognition or even a position in the Celestial Court. However, after helping people during the Yellow Wind incident, LingJi punished those who trusted the Sage. Disheartened by this, the Sage left, feeling deeply disappointed.

3. After being defeated by Wukong and LingJi during the Journey to the West, the Sage once again found himself with no choice but to obey Buddha LingJi. At this point, he pretty much lost hope and probably accepted his fate.

3. Later, during a battle that killed Wukong, the Sage obtained a piece of relic. Seeing an opportunity to gain power, the Sage, fueled by anger, decapitated LingJi and fled with both the relic and the head. He believed that, with LingJi's head, he could've consumed the relic and became as powerful as Wukong—so powerful that even the Celestial Court would have to grant him a position.

4. The head of LingJi, in my opinion, had a strange effect on the Sage and everyone who is gaining it. Once the Sage obtained it, he no longer cared about those who worshipped him. He ordered Tiger Vanguard and Stone Vanguard to guard the entrance to his valley, locked himself away, and began practicing with the intent of consuming the relic. This led to environmental destruction, and Tiger Vanguard even started eating many rats, but the Sage didn't care. Notably, when LingJi became the headless monk, he actually did a lot of good for the villagers. But after reattaching his head, he never opened his eyes again and reverted to his previous behavior, embodying the idea that becoming a Buddha or something exalted often leads to neglecting ordinary people's life/needs.

5. In many ways, the Sage was very similar to Wukong. Both possessed tremendous power and sought recognition from the Celestial Court. Wukong was fortunate enough to achieve that, although he was eventually restrained and attempted to break free. The Sage, however, was unlucky and became the kind of person he despised. This explains his dialogues during repeated battles with the Destined One—the Sage knew he was in the wrong thing and wished for the Destined One to end his suffering.

[frozenfog]

Why Scottish accent:
The original Chienese is sung with northern Chinese dialect, and the style is also northern. So it should pick a well-known and well-historical-feeded English accent, then Scottish is choosen.

[hn]

In Chapter 2, the people of the Golden Kingdom were turned into rats by the Buddha Lingji, for the same reason

[EricXu]

I hope to add a little bit of detail/ information about the Tiger Acolytes. The child of the "Tiger Acolytes" boss is actually also a tiger acolyte.

The name Tiger Acolytes, or "虎伥, ” actually originates from ancient Chinese mythology. In mythology, the tiger would trap the ghosts of humans it eaten and turn those ghosts into its paws-- "伥鬼“(in some versions of the mythology, threaten them to become its paws or otherwise their souls would be trapped by the tiger forever.) The tiger acolytes(虎伥) would show up in the evening and trick those passers-by into the territory of the tiger so that the tiger could eat them. They would also disarm traps for the tiger so that the tiger could avoid hunters. The mythology later developed into a Chinese idiom--"为虎作伥“ （usually translated as "play the jackal to the tiger"), the idiom is used to scold those scumbags that were hurt by evil but would turn their ways to help evil and harm the innocent.
One thing that is worth noting is that in the original mythology, the tiger acolytes (虎伥）are ghosts, but the Tiger Acolyte boss we fought in game is alive.
If you finished the Mad Tiger secret mission, you might notice something rather interesting. At the last step of the mission, the ghost of the child would trick the destined one into jumping into the well where the Mad Tiger hides so that the Mad Tiger could devour the destined one, just like what his father did with the villagers. The child actually became a more lore-accurate tiger acolyte than his father after becoming a ghost, thus making both the father and son tiger acolytes.

[itzkilas]

Afrosenju sent me here and I would like to thank you for educating us about the bosses in this masterpiece of a game❤

[SatoriK]

I grown up watching journey to the west, the 86 version, even consider myself well versed in it, but your deep knowledge in both story and culture amazed me, your explanation of Yauguai is better than anything I could came up with for years!

[vizzzyy]

i think it would be a great idea to do a wrap up video at the end with minor corrections, or reexamining previous bosses with the knowledge of later ones.

great vid!

[Rishith]

Been eagerly waiting for new lore from this game!! This is incredible, great work :D

[jacqueline]

Wonderful video! Clearly you've put A LOT of love and effort into it, and the quality no doubt speaks to that!! Can't wait for part 3!!

One small correction:
The Father of Stone left not because he wanted to follow the evil Stone Guai, but because he wanted to bring a helpless and abused human girl back to life. You will meet him in Chapter 5, the Flaming Mountain. You can read his portrait after defeating him. It's quite sad. The Son of Stone set out to find his father at his mother's request, as she, being a mountain deity, is forbidden from leaving the mountain. However, instead of heading west to the Flaming Mountain, the son went east and ended up at Mt. Huaguo (Chapter 6). There, he became so mesmerized by the giant cricket that he just sat there and chilled, which is why when you light attach him, he merely swipes you away.

And this is just my personal take: I think the Yellow Wind Sage was aspired to do good. Otherwise, he would have had no reason to help the king tame Fuban while merely passing by. But when he saw what Bodhisattva Lingji did to the entire nation—reducing everyone to rats out of spite, in mockery of their admiration for him, a yaoguai— he was shaken to the core, changed, and left Kingdom of Sahali in doubt of everything he believed before. Bodhisattva Lingji is a hypocrite. He was still lying to us, the destined one, even in the final cut scence.

[PlumWisp]

I absolutely loved BMW. My one issue was never understanding anything going on. this video solves that problem, and makes what i already enjoyed more fun to revise after learning all this. is also shows how great the developers were to be so lore accurate. W vid
(also why tf is this chapter so dark bro)