If you read Chinese, you'll notice even more details that makes the execution of this game insane. Many of the locations are digital scans of actual places that you can still visit in China. The developers said they didn't access to any existing digital assets of such Chinese elements so everything had to be tirelessly researched and built from the ground up. For every created you kill, there are bios and legit Chinese poems written for them. This is just bonus details totally unrelated to the actual game play. I can just imagine the devs killed themselves making this game. It is a true work of love and passion for the source material.
the mad tiger backstory was fire asf, the writing for that was actual top tier, the wild thing is that it all makes sense, without that video i wouldnt know what the f was point in that quest, respect
Well Lingji, that headless Scottish was kinda hypocritical. He believed all beings are meant to be in some hierarchy though the buddha claims all born equal. Yellow Wind initially a hero-like yaoguai dicovered his master Lingji’s true color by all the punishment on the innocent. He became faithless and struggled to seize the real power, Wukong’s power
Adding to this, Wukong's death likely strengthened his fear that Yaoguais like him are all going to meet a miserable end regardless of their nature or qualities, even for someone that was given a Buddha title like Wukong. Thus fueled his rage against Lingji and by extension the whole system created by Buddha/the gods. His attempt to obtain Wukong's power was his last struggle against the system.
Some more details you might missed. 1. Wukong killed himself to get rid of the headband, Erlang knows his plan and decided to play along to help him. Erlang can actually feel for Wukong, so they were making a show at the opening of the game. When Erlang giving out Wukong’s relics, he kept the 6th relic to himself, the most important one (Wukong’s Spirit and memory). Some celestial soldiers saw him secretly stashing something, Erlang made sure they stay silent forever. (in Erlang’s portraits). 2. The old monkey that guide us to gather all relics and revive Wukong is likely a Celestial God, they think Wukong’s spirit was lost, they want to find a young monkey to inherit Wukong’s powers, and also under their control, he said you are the 6th relic, more like he want you to be the mind of Wukong’s body. That’s why in the normal ending the old monkey would put Wukong’s golden lock on our head. But if we defeat Erlang first, Erlang would give us the real 6th relic (Wukong’s Spirit and memory) stashed in his third eye, so after defeating Wukong’s shell, just before the old monkey put the lock on our head, Wukong’s memory and rebellion spirit flashes back, we opened our eyes. 3. The Chapter 6 ending animation is highlights of the main JTTW story,but playing backwards. JTTW is a story of how a free monkey got tamed to obey to the Celestial Court. playing it backwards is us remembering back how he was the Great Sage, how he fights against the authorities. We now not only inherited Wukong’s powers, but also his rebellion spirit before the JTTW taken place. 4. When Fighting Erlang, he said he’s been testing us all along. The first two-phased boss in chapter 1, and the pig in chapter 2, the fire ring guy that lead us to the cave in chapter 3, and the bull champion in chapter 5 all mentioned they are under a task given by a ‘brother’. These characters are all leading or hinting us to secret areas in each chapter. 5. The monkey who led you to a Skandha in each chapter, she is the early teacher of Wukong and the general of Wukong’s monkey army. Wukong is born from a stone, and the Skandhas are essence of stones, she had a dream that if he collect all 5 Skandhas, he can bring back Wukong, that’s why whenever you see him, you can find a Skandha in different chapter. 6. The music of the ending animation is adapted from the opening song of 1986 Chinese TV series JTTW. Listening to the song brings so much nostalgia, I believe most Asians would break manly sweat from their eyes sockets like I do. What a great adaptation. PS: Sun is his last name, and Wukong is a concept in Buddhism meaning ”understand emptiness”(a very superficial translation)
in my own understanding...Erlang only kept and hid Wukong's memories..the Mind Relic was left on Mount Huaguo...The memories that we saw in the relic was incomplete because Erlang had Wukong's actual memories of his journey...This is what i think tho.....Basically what im saying is that Erlang didn't keep the 6th relic but only the contents of it which was wukong's memories
Based on this i hope the old monkey is the very first boss of the DLC. Somene also pointed out that the old monkey had the same garb style, the big circle thing, as the biggest guy during the intro fight.
To be honest I would like to see afro react to the lore in chapter 5 especially with Red Boy because in the novel that guy is crazy insane even beating Wukong in a battle lol. That whole story about the Bull Demon king and the Fan is so insane it escalated to a whole ass war.
As much as I want to see the final battle against Erlang & the final boss. Honestly Afro, I love this kind of video where you are reacting & learning the lore of every chapter. I don't mind to see the next chapter
the reason erlang transforms when you do in the fight, is because in lore wukong and him had a battle of transformations. Wukong turned into a bird and erlang into its predator followed by wukong turning into the preadator of that animal and so on.
44:40 - 46:00 😄I knew *@AfroSenju* would love, or at least be impressed by the Mad-Tiger & co.'s sub-plot. I personally wished I could hear some sense of grief/tiredness/brokenness in Mad Tiger's English-dub (🙂no disrespect to George Weightman's voice-work).
the yellow wind sage was actually trying to help the people, he helped the people of the kingdom of the flowing sand, as well as the rock spirits of the yellow wind mountain. Buddha lingqi is the one that sent the beetle and turned the people into rat. He drove the yellow wind sage mad by telling him that yaoguai can never ascend no matter how much good they do.
The end of Mad Tiger's story said "Tiger brother carried the coffin back to the bottom of well. He decided to wait until he was strong enough. One day he would stop that curse wind and sand." He finally started to become the "Tiger God", even just a little bit.
Im so sorry dude but I can't watch anything past your "Yellow Looooooong" fight because I had got the game after and don't wanna spoil more for myself! I always love watching your videos after I beat a chapter to see if I missed anything or how you handled certain bosses. So far I'm on chapter 4 and used no summons on bosses to give it a more Elden Ring vibe. I wish you nothing but success! P.S make sure you have your IG Live off 😂
29:12 the other shigandang he's talking about is the giant shigandang from chapter 6. I'm pretty sure he made the video before progressing in the game, or maybe he just didn't discover all the secrets
Absolutely in favor of seeing you explore the backstory before resuming with the game. I don't mind waiting, JTTW is fascinating and I'm super intrigued to see everything the devs did with the story. I'm already subbed to bandit and will watch his vids on my own but I really wanna see what you take out of them (plus everyone's comments here giving further hindsight will be interesting to read)
man said "lets see if u can make me care about that dog" to "ive only had earth dog for a minute and a half but if anything happens to him i will peel everyone in this room and then myself" (same)
After the fight with the Mad Tiger, you get the gourd in the coffin where the remains of the boy are, since the journal says that the he was wearing it around his neck.
i don't think stone vanguard or shigandang are the father and son of stone. These 2 are separate entities that we meet later on. Everything else was explained really well. I hope Afro continues this series instead of just ending it here. Yellowbrow is such a deep and interesting character.
fr dude had me thinking i was gonna watch him fight erlang then there's just this filler like brother you best believe my ass is going to sleep if im not getting any laughs outta this
One more detail. The reward treasure chest for defeating the Mad Tiger was a coffin. This coffin contains the body of a young boy. You can see him in photo mode.
48:48 *@AfroSenju* Bro, I would love to see your reaction to all Chapters. At most, there is some stuff about Yellow-brow, Full-context of Ch-3's ending-animation, How Zhu Bajie(Pigsy) got trapped, Chapter-2's animation with the Fox, Macaque-Chief, Non-Able, etc. 😁At the least, some info should just be amusing.
I really did not struggle that much against wukong and earlang honestly it didn’t feel that hard tho. You just gotta adapt and also change whatever it’s not working.
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Erlang beat him so bad he needed to see the backstory
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Father-of-barcawomp womp
@@Father-of-barca you deserve getting unliked for this begging
@@Father-of-barcathis is sad bruh..
@@THEEperfectbeing womp womp in September 🙏😭
If you read Chinese, you'll notice even more details that makes the execution of this game insane. Many of the locations are digital scans of actual places that you can still visit in China. The developers said they didn't access to any existing digital assets of such Chinese elements so everything had to be tirelessly researched and built from the ground up. For every created you kill, there are bios and legit Chinese poems written for them. This is just bonus details totally unrelated to the actual game play. I can just imagine the devs killed themselves making this game. It is a true work of love and passion for the source material.
I also heard that the Chinese government even let people who 100% completed the game visit these locations
@@errahd4129no god… please no…
@@errahd4129waiting on my ticket to China from the Chinese government then. I’ve been 100% since the second week 😂
@@errahd4129 Some places require 100% completion, but others, like the Lingyan Temple, only require you to finish Chapter 3 to get a free ticket.
@@notadaytrader They don't send tickets; you just need to bring your ID and a screenshot of your Steam completion at the tourist spot.
I'm not even glazing, I'd pay another $70 for a DLC expansion. I enjoy this game just that much.
Only thing I dislike about this game is how many missable trophies are they kinda wish there was an autosave
@@Fusion-chromeYou mean manual save
Facts, same here
Actually there will be a dlc for the game we just have to wait awhile
Man im excited for anything from this studio. DLC, sequel, prequel, anime. Whatever man just bring it on
That Tiger Acolite Story and the way it tied into Wukong's path down to the well was ELITE writing. Absolutely incredible.
Day 3 of being blueballed by afro. (Cant wait to see you fight the last boss)
TYPE SHIT
IT'S GON AN ANIME
AFRO, keep watching this stuff because true understanding will make ending the game so much more satisfying. WE FW YOU FR
the mad tiger backstory was fire asf, the writing for that was actual top tier, the wild thing is that it all makes sense, without that video i wouldnt know what the f was point in that quest, respect
Well Lingji, that headless Scottish was kinda hypocritical. He believed all beings are meant to be in some hierarchy though the buddha claims all born equal. Yellow Wind initially a hero-like yaoguai dicovered his master Lingji’s true color by all the punishment on the innocent. He became faithless and struggled to seize the real power, Wukong’s power
Adding to this, Wukong's death likely strengthened his fear that Yaoguais like him are all going to meet a miserable end regardless of their nature or qualities, even for someone that was given a Buddha title like Wukong. Thus fueled his rage against Lingji and by extension the whole system created by Buddha/the gods. His attempt to obtain Wukong's power was his last struggle against the system.
nah this is so fire. watching the lore videos with you and learning more about this amazing story. you’re awesome gang
GGs bro, just finished the game and loved every second of it
Some more details you might missed.
1. Wukong killed himself to get rid of the headband, Erlang knows his plan and decided to play along to help him. Erlang can actually feel for Wukong, so they were making a show at the opening of the game. When Erlang giving out Wukong’s relics, he kept the 6th relic to himself, the most important one (Wukong’s Spirit and memory). Some celestial soldiers saw him secretly stashing something, Erlang made sure they stay silent forever. (in Erlang’s portraits).
2. The old monkey that guide us to gather all relics and revive Wukong is likely a Celestial God, they think Wukong’s spirit was lost, they want to find a young monkey to inherit Wukong’s powers, and also under their control, he said you are the 6th relic, more like he want you to be the mind of Wukong’s body. That’s why in the normal ending the old monkey would put Wukong’s golden lock on our head. But if we defeat Erlang first, Erlang would give us the real 6th relic (Wukong’s Spirit and memory) stashed in his third eye, so after defeating Wukong’s shell, just before the old monkey put the lock on our head, Wukong’s memory and rebellion spirit flashes back, we opened our eyes.
3. The Chapter 6 ending animation is highlights of the main JTTW story,but playing backwards. JTTW is a story of how a free monkey got tamed to obey to the Celestial Court. playing it backwards is us remembering back how he was the Great Sage, how he fights against the authorities. We now not only inherited Wukong’s powers, but also his rebellion spirit before the JTTW taken place.
4. When Fighting Erlang, he said he’s been testing us all along. The first two-phased boss in chapter 1, and the pig in chapter 2, the fire ring guy that lead us to the cave in chapter 3, and the bull champion in chapter 5 all mentioned they are under a task given by a ‘brother’. These characters are all leading or hinting us to secret areas in each chapter.
5. The monkey who led you to a Skandha in each chapter, she is the early teacher of Wukong and the general of Wukong’s monkey army. Wukong is born from a stone, and the Skandhas are essence of stones, she had a dream that if he collect all 5 Skandhas, he can bring back Wukong, that’s why whenever you see him, you can find a Skandha in different chapter.
6. The music of the ending animation is adapted from the opening song of 1986 Chinese TV series JTTW. Listening to the song brings so much nostalgia, I believe most Asians would break manly sweat from their eyes sockets like I do. What a great adaptation.
PS: Sun is his last name, and Wukong is a concept in Buddhism meaning ”understand emptiness”(a very superficial translation)
in my own understanding...Erlang only kept and hid Wukong's memories..the Mind Relic was left on Mount Huaguo...The memories that we saw in the relic was incomplete because Erlang had Wukong's actual memories of his journey...This is what i think tho.....Basically what im saying is that Erlang didn't keep the 6th relic but only the contents of it which was wukong's memories
Can you explain to me the lore behind chapter 5's cutscene? With the Bull king and Wukong Thanks
Mmm… monkey
at 4. you forgot the venom daoist from chapter 4..
Based on this i hope the old monkey is the very first boss of the DLC. Somene also pointed out that the old monkey had the same garb style, the big circle thing, as the biggest guy during the intro fight.
I'm Soo excited for the amount of disrespect afro is gonna face in the final boss
Yeeeessss! I can’t wait for him to see all that AURA Wukong exudes!
Shhhh no spoilingggg
Address him by senju Barca
Pillar stance OP for final boss, right?
@@sunwukong1279aura in the big September 🙏😭
Man i love this Knowledge Arc 😂
Afro trust me i knew you hate Spider so much but trust me the Story of Chapter 4 is the Best Ones
To be honest I would like to see afro react to the lore in chapter 5 especially with Red Boy because in the novel that guy is crazy insane even beating Wukong in a battle lol. That whole story about the Bull Demon king and the Fan is so insane it escalated to a whole ass war.
As much as I want to see the final battle against Erlang & the final boss. Honestly Afro, I love this kind of video where you are reacting & learning the lore of every chapter. I don't mind to see the next chapter
the reason erlang transforms when you do in the fight, is because in lore wukong and him had a battle of transformations. Wukong turned into a bird and erlang into its predator followed by wukong turning into the preadator of that animal and so on.
44:40 - 46:00
😄I knew *@AfroSenju* would love, or at least be impressed by the Mad-Tiger & co.'s sub-plot. I personally wished I could hear some sense of grief/tiredness/brokenness in Mad Tiger's English-dub (🙂no disrespect to George Weightman's voice-work).
8:18 Well I wasn't planning on getting sad over a fictional rock monster ghost dog,but here we go
Afro playing into the "calm before the storm" arc is peak. Cannot wait for that final boss
Here we go Again
Manga of the year
huh?
@@Balljiggler_9000he’s talking about Afro’s adventure
@@godly_potatoe69xd19 oh ok
@@godly_potatoe69xd19 yeah that
Playthrough has been a blast so far
the yellow wind sage was actually trying to help the people, he helped the people of the kingdom of the flowing sand, as well as the rock spirits of the yellow wind mountain. Buddha lingqi is the one that sent the beetle and turned the people into rat. He drove the yellow wind sage mad by telling him that yaoguai can never ascend no matter how much good they do.
This has to be one of if not the best series you've put out afro love it man keep it up 😁
I also recommend AvenueX, another channel that explains the lore of the game and the Journey to the West novel
Afro. I said it last time you did this. I’ll say it again. Do this for all the chapters! It’s so fun watching you react to it.
waited for monke yet again
Which monke?
@@mikyah49 you know which one 😏
i love that BanditGames is getting the love he deserves after he branched out from things outside of the Legend of Zelda Series
The end of Mad Tiger's story said "Tiger brother carried the coffin back to the bottom of well. He decided to wait until he was strong enough. One day he would stop that curse wind and sand." He finally started to become the "Tiger God", even just a little bit.
Im so sorry dude but I can't watch anything past your "Yellow Looooooong" fight because I had got the game after and don't wanna spoil more for myself! I always love watching your videos after I beat a chapter to see if I missed anything or how you handled certain bosses. So far I'm on chapter 4 and used no summons on bosses to give it a more Elden Ring vibe. I wish you nothing but success!
P.S make sure you have your IG Live off 😂
29:12 the other shigandang he's talking about is the giant shigandang from chapter 6. I'm pretty sure he made the video before progressing in the game, or maybe he just didn't discover all the secrets
Afro we cool with these videos, love to see you learning more about this game and you're still helping content creators by giving them a shoutout!
Absolutely in favor of seeing you explore the backstory before resuming with the game. I don't mind waiting, JTTW is fascinating and I'm super intrigued to see everything the devs did with the story. I'm already subbed to bandit and will watch his vids on my own but I really wanna see what you take out of them (plus everyone's comments here giving further hindsight will be interesting to read)
Afro going back and learning about the lore is just gonna make the finale THAT much more satisfying. I’m tuned IN. 👀
I recommend listening through the music library in the game. Top OST for me
Lets go baby, u mean best chapter
This isn’t chapter 4 or 5?
Chapter 2 and 4 where the best for me. Hundred eyes and Yellow Rat where my favourite characters.
15 seconds ago is crazy
I like this reaction type videos. Good shit afro.
Goated video my guy
Knowledge Arc Episode 2 🔥
Yes! I would love to watch a whole series of you reacting to Black Myth Wukong lore! Please continue this fire! 🔥🔥🔥
Honestly I would love if you did this for every chapter he comes out with honestly, i would love to see what you think
Yooo, Afro doing this type of vid for Elden Ring would be Fire🔥
The Lore in that Game is Nutty😎👌👍
man said "lets see if u can make me care about that dog" to "ive only had earth dog for a minute and a half but if anything happens to him i will peel everyone in this room and then myself" (same)
The cut is making Afro feel himself. Good ish my guy i see you
This series is a masterpiece, you have truly COOKED
After the fight with the Mad Tiger, you get the gourd in the coffin where the remains of the boy are, since the journal says that the he was wearing it around his neck.
By using the photo mode, you can see the child's body in the coffin
This is definitely one to keep an eye on for fans of action and mythology.
the mad tiger story ate🔥🔥
Hell yeah bro! I love bandit happy you love him! told you he had the sauce 🔥
I like you reacting to the video
These explanation vids are great ngl
45:42 the levels of mind blown was crazy
Good luck Afro. When you get back, you're gonna need it bro.
i'd be very surprised if he beats the game in 1 more video. good luck afro lmaoo
Knowing the back stories of these Charakter and then fighting them its absolutely amazing. Thats why I'm playing NG+
Which boss is strongest?
DLC Radahn that make him quit and switch many games, or Yangjian that make him quit and watch the lore video?
Definitely do more videos like this!!
i finished the game yesterday, i loved it got great screenshots
Please keep these videos up Afro❤🙏🏾🙏🏾
Man I'm so happy to see this my boy banded getting more eyes because of this
i don't think stone vanguard or shigandang are the father and son of stone. These 2 are separate entities that we meet later on. Everything else was explained really well. I hope Afro continues this series instead of just ending it here. Yellowbrow is such a deep and interesting character.
I’m pretty sure Shigandang is the evil rock monster that Tiger and Stone vanguard fought too.
Dudes wrong on a few things
@@wr5488 at least it wasn't very interesting content to me, the whole stone part
the creator of the video acknowledges this mistake in the pinned comments of that video
Ngl 😂😂😂 Erlang made me pawn my ps5 so this video help me sleep better for tonight
That tiger one was really gas
I actually can't wait for him to go over Chapter 4 (the Spider arc) ngl bro I'm a sucker for the love stories man and I wanna know everything about it
AFRO IM AT WORK. WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING 😂😂😂😂. lmao couldn't have been any better
Wukong lore>Elden Ring lore
Do this for all the chapters!
Nah Afro, why are you edging the final boss😭
fr dude had me thinking i was gonna watch him fight erlang then there's just this filler like brother you best believe my ass is going to sleep if im not getting any laughs outta this
It’s prerecorded, he had to go on a trip
I clicked so fast! I don’t want this series to end man! But hey, it’s been a hell of a journey. Get it? 😂
I’m both excited and depressed for the series to end.
Afro that one friend that talk through a whole movie
Chapter 2 was my favorite chapter. That whole thing could be a game in itself. Chapter 4 was also good but mostly cuz of the centipede.
Again I love this type of vids where we all just learn about lore n stuff...yes I am a nerd
The final fight is one of my favorite bosses bro. This game is so gas 🔥
afro reacting to elden lore would be fye
i found your videos through bandit!
I see the fresh cut my boy. Tell your barber I need him.
Congrats on 2m subs 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
25:14 it was what bro?
Thx for the vid bro🍷🗿
Hope there will be a second game it was so good
Would love to see you're reaction of more lore videos. It is interesting to see what you think and hear you're comparison with other animes❤
Recap episode is crazy
One more detail. The reward treasure chest for defeating the Mad Tiger was a coffin. This coffin contains the body of a young boy. You can see him in photo mode.
Just here to give you your likes, I had to stop watching your videos because it was starting to spoil things 😂😂, I’ll see y’all again when I catch up.
Nah yall gotta run these likes and views up dude when tho hell to get here no matter how you feel about him he for sure deserves the Elden ring views
I’ve been waiting for this
Didn’t want to wait till Monday and am glad I didn’t have to
Afro! You the man!
48:48
*@AfroSenju* Bro, I would love to see your reaction to all Chapters. At most, there is some stuff about Yellow-brow, Full-context of Ch-3's ending-animation, How Zhu Bajie(Pigsy) got trapped, Chapter-2's animation with the Fox, Macaque-Chief, Non-Able, etc. 😁At the least, some info should just be amusing.
never been this early in my life..😂
DLC has already been confirmed im so excited for it
Afro's Wukong anime got One Piece pacing 😂
MORE LORE YES PLEASE❤❤❤
The secret ending was beautiful NG+ is even more beautiful I need the DLC to be LONG
I really did not struggle that much against wukong and earlang honestly it didn’t feel that hard tho. You just gotta adapt and also change whatever it’s not working.
Even if you just react to lorr videos about the game Afro, we love seeing you and your reactions
If bro made it to his flight I’ll be impressed 😂😂😂
Erlang was fun as hell to fight