Black Myth: Wu Kong is a game set in Buddhist mythology, released on 19 August 2024. Sun Wu Kong is the monkey king who was a god incarnate, even upon learning the ways of Buddhism from his master, he tends to be erratic, brave, and nonchalant. He is the smartest of all monkeys but he still finds difficulty in understanding the line between him being a part god part monkey and sometimes even part demon. Well the game itself has a very detailed backstory and lore to be understood hence this blog will give you the watch list so that you can enjoy the game to the fullest.
1. The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven's Palace (2014)
The movie is set in Buddhist mythology, where there is a constant war between demons and gods especially between the Bull demon and the Jade Emperor, heaven gets destroyed to pieces and the protector sacrifices herself to recreate heaven, while doing so one of her crystals falls onto the human world inside the crystal a monkey was born with its life energy, who is none other than Sun Wukong, a priest takes him under his wing to teach him everything he knows. Sun after learning everything goes back to his friends the monkeys and becomes the king of the monkeys for his prowess.
Sun Wukong learning from the priest. "The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven's Palace (2014)". IMDb,https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1717715/mediaindex/
This movie shows the origin story of Sun Wukong, it also shows how he obtains all his abilities, his weapon the special staff, and also his armor. This movie also has very horrible VFX and graphics, the movie is quite wholesome as it touches upon, Sun's love life, even though he is very erratic in nature, he too finds solace in someone. The movie also depicts Sun's true form by the end of the movie which ties everything related to understanding Sun's origin story clearly depicted, which makes this a must watch before playing the movie, to understand the characters and the lore better, which gives an overall better gaming experience.
2. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)
This movie is set after the monkey king is trapped by Buddha to atone for his sins for 500 years, a young man who aspires to be a demon hunter by not using violence finds himself facing 2 demons a fish demon and a pig demon. Unable to defeat both, his master tells him to seek Buddha through the Monkey King. Sun in this movie is shown as a full-blown demon who even after 500 years of isolation is still unable to atone for his sins and continues to be a demon.
This young man comes to Monkey King in order to find a way to tame the demon pig, in the process he frees the Monkey King without realizing, Sun tests his resolve for Buddha, and the young man starts to chant the Sutra and even after witnessing soo many deaths, he remains unmoved by anything Sun has to throw at him. Sun in his true form of the devil, turns into a giant gorilla, when he faces Buddha himself he realizes how much smaller than Buddha he is, physically and morally. Eventually, he joins the good side and follows the path of Buddhism, spreading and preaching the teachings.
3. Black Myth: Wu Kong - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer (2020)
The trailer itself shows the amazing gameplay of Wu Kong as he traverses a land of demons, although the overall story is still unclear, it shows that there is a way to transform into others, as well as transform into any other animal, it shows some of the most important features of Wu Kong including the staff which can change its size as he wields, there is also his ability to walk on clouds. The opponents as shown here are the four heavenly gods.
Apart from this they also have some fighting gameplay that looks very clean, the boss battles look very fierce and a little bit on the difficult end, the game developers at GameScience have honestly done an incredible job in bringing Wu Kong to the video games, where every gamer out there can experience all these cool abilities that he has in order face the troubles he has to face to reach Buddha.
Alright, there is the list of everything to watch before you play the game, hope you guys have enjoyed the read, if you did make sure to spread the word about this blog to others interested as well, cause I am only going to be bringing you guys more of what you guys just read, hopefully I have at least motivated you to give one of these movies mentioned a watch. Well, I only wish to improve your experience in entertainment.