*SPOILER Ahead + BACKGROUND Story: The developer has told that they are gonna change the original story to create another version of Journey to the West (that happens after the ending of novel). This particular clip is telling us the story between 2 important characters in the novel: Zhu Bajie (Male) who is one of the 3 companions like Wukong for their monk teacher to protect him along the journey to west, while the 2nd important character here is ChangEr, which is the old lady presented in this video. *Original Background Story: In the original story, Zhu Bajie was originally a god in heaven but broke the rules by falling in love with a fairy goddess, ChangEr. Not only falling in love with her, he even accidentally caused a chaos in heaven while persuing his love and to get attention from ChangEr. Sadly, he only found that ChangEr has no interest with him and because of the mess he created, he is being punished to the Earth to experience unlimited torturing life reincarnations that caused by his love for others, which is one of the most suffering causes - Betrayed by Love. In one of his reincarnations, he became a half Pig half Man who falls in love with a girl. Of course you would see the ending of this one-way-love isn't gonna end well but he is eventually saved by his Monk Teacher and promise to help the Monk Teacher by joining him to the journey to the west, while helping and learning the way of life in the journey. *Game Story: The developer rethinks how the story may goes with the original story. What if.... ChangEr is actually in love with him as well, while breaking the rules of heaven together back then? Of course they made some adjustments in the original legend as well. In this story, ChangEr is also punished by the Gods of Heaven, and she is turned into a Spider Demon. Why a spider demon you may ask...For those who are well versed with Ancient Chinese Legends, there was a group of fairies which we normally call The Seven Fairies who are the Goddess of Weaving (An interesting fact why the Spider Demon sisters are normally came with 7 person even in the original story). There was a saying that one of the Seven Fairies is actually ChangEr. Note that this is a punishment for the love that is prohibited in Heaven among gods, the punishment by heaven usually comes in an irony way. Previously, ChangEr was one of the Goddess of Weaving in the form of Silk Moth (A bug that produces silk by sacrifing itself) with the spirit of scarificing herself to help people, but now, she has became a Spider Demon who weaves only to kill, not for love. How sad and irony is this punishment... Not only that, remember that Female Spider will eat the Male after the intercourse...Along the reincarnation of Zhu Bajie, both of them met in this life, but became enemies, since one is protecting his Monk Teacher while the other side is trying to eat the Monk Teacher. Because of their positions in this life, it looks like the god is still punishing both of them in this life in the crueliest way possible... But in this particular clip, the developer is showing the idea that when the Journey to West ends, ChangEr is still waiting for him despite after so many years...Is the groom here Zhu Bajie? Not exactly. It's actually Wukong changes its form into Zhu Bajie, and pretends to get caught by the daughters of ChangEr to have a chance to slip in this place as he has something important to get from here (no more spoiler for you). Of course, if you watch this clip again, you would see that the Elder Daughter and 2nd Daughter actually knew it's Wukong while the others not, but they still let him continues as they know how suffering is their mother all these years, and hope to give their mother a chance to marry the guy she loves along these years... Well.. sad to say that in this game story dimension, it's very likely that both Zhu Bajie and especially ChangEr, would still undergo the suffering again by not being together. There are actually a lot messages and easter eggs inside this clip, but the English translation here is so bad, it's like totally a different script with the original Mandarin one. If you know how many ancient stories reference as well as real life structures the developer is using in this clip, you would be amazed. Also for the song that being played in this video, some of the lyrics are actually written with the ancient chinese books reference that is hinting us this is a story between Zhu Bajie & ChangEr instead of Wukong. And if you look closely in the Spider Monster in the end, you can see there's a Moth at the back of Spider. Why? It's because this is a hint for audience as Moth in Mandarin is the "Er" in "ChangEr". This is why I wanted to write this comment so bad so all people from anywhere in the world could understand that it's so much more than just a good graphic game. Rewatch this video after reading this, you would have a whole new experience! Peace!
I'm so excited to learn about Chinese mythology and folklore. I'm Greek so I've known about Greek mythology, but I loved learning about Norse mythology in God of war and about japanese folklore in sekiro. Chinese is the only culture that I know is suuuper rich and know absolutely nothing about.
how much time do you have lol.. china is the oldest and longest surviving civilisation.. different kings different eras different cultures.. ... different myths legends and inspiration.... china was the hub of the world where east met west and vice versa....... the silk road etc.. 3 kingdoms? im alluding to stories and legends travelling around asia lol
Marshal Canopy (Groom) and Chang'e (Bride) seems to be the most popular conjecture here. Story goes like this: They were gods in heaven, madly in love with each other. Chang'e, the beautiful godess on the moon, was harrased by the Jade Emporer. Marshal Canopy defended her, and therefore offended the Emporer. They were punished and reincarnated to the mortal world. Their reincarnations are very, very cruel punishments... Marshal Canopy was reincarnated into a pig, very ugly. Chang'e was reincarnated into a spider, who cannot help but devours her mate every time...
the giant spider is that old lady. if you check her first scene, you can find her right feet is a spider feet without shoes. According to the lyrics of the song and their conversation. the groom may be the marshal canopy transformed by the monkey, and the lady is 'chang e', a fairy on the moon
In Chinese mythology, everything, and I mean literally everything can turn into human, which is considered to be the final form of all beings. So spiders, lampposts, even a random rock can do so if they have come in contact with LingQi(灵气, which can be translated into a combination of consciousness, the ability to understand and learn, and finally magic power) and wish to train hard for thousands of years. The cutscene showed spiders that have gone through this process, and they are now able to transform into humans. That's why if you pay attention to the youngest daughter (the one carrying the lantern), she still walks like a spider. Wukong has probably shapeshifted into the one they wanted to capture so that he can easily get to the boss. Also a lot was lost in translation, so basically when demons and monsters consume each other or a human, they will gain the LingQi(灵气) of the victim, which is a way to enhance their own spiritual training, so they can become more powerful faster. That's why a lot of demons eat human babies, because babies are considered to be pure. Btw. the real monkey king is one of the few with the ability to see the original form of any creatures, monsters and demons, no matter what they shapeshift into. But these spider don't have that ability, the big spider you saw at the end was probably the mum. In Chinese mythology, being a demon or non human being isn't necessarily evil or bad by default, it all depends on what you choose to do. Wukong for example is a monkey demon, but he chose to be good instead of evil. Hope that helps clear things out a bit.
whom is also know as pigsy that was the title given to him when he was in heaven to lead the army to fight monkey and before he got caught doing something that he shouldn't have done to a fairy or goddess and was tossed out of heaven and was re-incarnated into that of a pig for punishment until he can overcome that urge and then he will be able to return to heaven.
@@DeanBarryStuff do not worry, it will be a different story, "black myth" indeed.... So maybe it's better read the story first and understand the references
The story is original , it kinda like a forbidden after story of the west journal, read the original novel will surely greater help you more understand the game
I don’t want to really spoiler you , (anyway this not a really spoiler coz it hint in the novel and the song lyric and fully reveal who he is in song name ) the groom is not the monkey…
That cutscene was beautiful the graphics the music wow I cannot wait to play and out of respect for people please do not spoil the game or anything because that's a dick move and really unnecessary
*SPOILER Ahead + BACKGROUND Story:
The developer has told that they are gonna change the original story to create another version of Journey to the West (that happens after the ending of novel). This particular clip is telling us the story between 2 important characters in the novel: Zhu Bajie (Male) who is one of the 3 companions like Wukong for their monk teacher to protect him along the journey to west, while the 2nd important character here is ChangEr, which is the old lady presented in this video.
*Original Background Story:
In the original story, Zhu Bajie was originally a god in heaven but broke the rules by falling in love with a fairy goddess, ChangEr. Not only falling in love with her, he even accidentally caused a chaos in heaven while persuing his love and to get attention from ChangEr. Sadly, he only found that ChangEr has no interest with him and because of the mess he created, he is being punished to the Earth to experience unlimited torturing life reincarnations that caused by his love for others, which is one of the most suffering causes - Betrayed by Love. In one of his reincarnations, he became a half Pig half Man who falls in love with a girl. Of course you would see the ending of this one-way-love isn't gonna end well but he is eventually saved by his Monk Teacher and promise to help the Monk Teacher by joining him to the journey to the west, while helping and learning the way of life in the journey.
*Game Story:
The developer rethinks how the story may goes with the original story. What if.... ChangEr is actually in love with him as well, while breaking the rules of heaven together back then? Of course they made some adjustments in the original legend as well.
In this story, ChangEr is also punished by the Gods of Heaven, and she is turned into a Spider Demon. Why a spider demon you may ask...For those who are well versed with Ancient Chinese Legends, there was a group of fairies which we normally call The Seven Fairies who are the Goddess of Weaving (An interesting fact why the Spider Demon sisters are normally came with 7 person even in the original story). There was a saying that one of the Seven Fairies is actually ChangEr. Note that this is a punishment for the love that is prohibited in Heaven among gods, the punishment by heaven usually comes in an irony way. Previously, ChangEr was one of the Goddess of Weaving in the form of Silk Moth (A bug that produces silk by sacrifing itself) with the spirit of scarificing herself to help people, but now, she has became a Spider Demon who weaves only to kill, not for love. How sad and irony is this punishment... Not only that, remember that Female Spider will eat the Male after the intercourse...Along the reincarnation of Zhu Bajie, both of them met in this life, but became enemies, since one is protecting his Monk Teacher while the other side is trying to eat the Monk Teacher. Because of their positions in this life, it looks like the god is still punishing both of them in this life in the crueliest way possible...
But in this particular clip, the developer is showing the idea that when the Journey to West ends, ChangEr is still waiting for him despite after so many years...Is the groom here Zhu Bajie? Not exactly. It's actually Wukong changes its form into Zhu Bajie, and pretends to get caught by the daughters of ChangEr to have a chance to slip in this place as he has something important to get from here (no more spoiler for you). Of course, if you watch this clip again, you would see that the Elder Daughter and 2nd Daughter actually knew it's Wukong while the others not, but they still let him continues as they know how suffering is their mother all these years, and hope to give their mother a chance to marry the guy she loves along these years... Well.. sad to say that in this game story dimension, it's very likely that both Zhu Bajie and especially ChangEr, would still undergo the suffering again by not being together.
There are actually a lot messages and easter eggs inside this clip, but the English translation here is so bad, it's like totally a different script with the original Mandarin one. If you know how many ancient stories reference as well as real life structures the developer is using in this clip, you would be amazed. Also for the song that being played in this video, some of the lyrics are actually written with the ancient chinese books reference that is hinting us this is a story between Zhu Bajie & ChangEr instead of Wukong. And if you look closely in the Spider Monster in the end, you can see there's a Moth at the back of Spider. Why? It's because this is a hint for audience as Moth in Mandarin is the "Er" in "ChangEr". This is why I wanted to write this comment so bad so all people from anywhere in the world could understand that it's so much more than just a good graphic game. Rewatch this video after reading this, you would have a whole new experience! Peace!
I'm so excited to learn about Chinese mythology and folklore. I'm Greek so I've known about Greek mythology, but I loved learning about Norse mythology in God of war and about japanese folklore in sekiro. Chinese is the only culture that I know is suuuper rich and know absolutely nothing about.
how much time do you have lol.. china is the oldest and longest surviving civilisation.. different kings different eras different cultures.. ... different myths legends and inspiration.... china was the hub of the world where east met west and vice versa....... the silk road etc.. 3 kingdoms? im alluding to stories and legends travelling around asia lol
Marshal Canopy (Groom) and Chang'e (Bride) seems to be the most popular conjecture here.
Story goes like this:
They were gods in heaven, madly in love with each other.
Chang'e, the beautiful godess on the moon, was harrased by the Jade Emporer.
Marshal Canopy defended her, and therefore offended the Emporer.
They were punished and reincarnated to the mortal world.
Their reincarnations are very, very cruel punishments...
Marshal Canopy was reincarnated into a pig, very ugly.
Chang'e was reincarnated into a spider, who cannot help but devours her mate every time...
Pig Bajie invaded Chang'e. then, Chang'e told the jade emperor that the Jade Emperor changed pig Bajie into a pig
The jade emperor ain't zeus lil bro
I am a machine translation may be wrong
the giant spider is that old lady. if you check her first scene, you can find her right feet is a spider feet without shoes. According to the lyrics of the song and their conversation. the groom may be the marshal canopy transformed by the monkey, and the lady is 'chang e', a fairy on the moon
The groom is not the monkey ,hint in the song name and some little background in the original novel
Not the monkey but the pig
the game will be release to the public on august 20th, 2024
That 8 Minutes game trailer is also amazing! U can't miss it, old daddy!😆
In Chinese mythology, everything, and I mean literally everything can turn into human, which is considered to be the final form of all beings. So spiders, lampposts, even a random rock can do so if they have come in contact with LingQi(灵气, which can be translated into a combination of consciousness, the ability to understand and learn, and finally magic power) and wish to train hard for thousands of years.
The cutscene showed spiders that have gone through this process, and they are now able to transform into humans. That's why if you pay attention to the youngest daughter (the one carrying the lantern), she still walks like a spider. Wukong has probably shapeshifted into the one they wanted to capture so that he can easily get to the boss.
Also a lot was lost in translation, so basically when demons and monsters consume each other or a human, they will gain the LingQi(灵气) of the victim, which is a way to enhance their own spiritual training, so they can become more powerful faster. That's why a lot of demons eat human babies, because babies are considered to be pure. Btw. the real monkey king is one of the few with the ability to see the original form of any creatures, monsters and demons, no matter what they shapeshift into. But these spider don't have that ability, the big spider you saw at the end was probably the mum.
In Chinese mythology, being a demon or non human being isn't necessarily evil or bad by default, it all depends on what you choose to do. Wukong for example is a monkey demon, but he chose to be good instead of evil.
Hope that helps clear things out a bit.
Can't wait to fight these spider demons in the game.
There is also a real machine demonstration that is also newly released.
You are the groom
Sadly, wukong killed all of them I believed
The groom is the marshal canopy.
whom is also know as pigsy that was the title given to him when he was in heaven to lead the army to fight monkey and before he got caught doing something that he shouldn't have done to a fairy or goddess and was tossed out of heaven and was re-incarnated into that of a pig for punishment until he can overcome that urge and then he will be able to return to heaven.
Spoiler to some people, they are all spiders. I prefer read Journey to the West before playing this game.
Well that’s a spoiler for me that I would have rather found out in the game.
Why spoil the game that's really messed up
@@DeanBarryStuff do not worry, it will be a different story, "black myth" indeed.... So maybe it's better read the story first and understand the references
The story is original , it kinda like a forbidden after story of the west journal, read the original novel will surely greater help you more understand the game
I don’t want to really spoiler you , (anyway this not a really spoiler coz it hint in the novel and the song lyric and fully reveal who he is in song name ) the groom is not the monkey…
That cutscene was beautiful the graphics the music wow I cannot wait to play and out of respect for people please do not spoil the game or anything because that's a dick move and really unnecessary
Eh sure it’s all great gameplay wise but the developer is a misogynistic pig