*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!
While studying mythology, I personally watch Chinese, Japanese, German and depending on the country and language I would watch a video explaining the Lore. Listening to the pronunciation of how they say it and repeating it myself.
The tone of how you pronounce words are pretty important in Chinese, might feel awkward at first but onces you get used to it makes a huge difference. its not that easy tho imo, my mum still laugh at me when i say chinese word in the wrong tone .-.
Find the Chinese names on the BMW wiki, copy the original name into google translate and see how Google pronounces the word and try to mimic it, it works for most languages for me lol
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.
@@Kodiakhunter the wording of this game in general is somewhat different from daily spoken mandarin, nor is it pure ancient chinese, but somewhere in between. Accent wise Lingi speaks in mandarin but sings in dialect. It would be too hard for average chinese to understand the semi-ancient script spoken in a dialect without any subtitles. I think that's why they let Lingi speaks in mandarin eventually.
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.
That's what I like about writing characters. Make them actually deep understanding individual rather than "one dimensional 80s cartoon villains" or "modern day broken woobie" They feel like actual people, have their own way of thinking and not just cannon fodder
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.
Sadly not so much, the child, in death, was an almost perfect description of a "tiger's acolyte". He intentionally, or unintentionally, led you down the well, where the mad tiger could claim another life.
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.
@@thug4lyfe I get what you meant, but it never was about Buddhism. Think of it as something like a fan made fiction of Lord of the rings - all the characters have the original names but represent totally different things. For both blackmyth wukong and Journey to the West, all the gods in the celestial court or buddhas represented the political structure of the Ming/Qing dynasty in China. They are much more human like and relevant to our ordinary life. The main theme of both titles NOT about telling the reader to believe in buddhalism, Taoism, or any religions, it's about revealing how ruling class oppresses ordinary people, and encourage people to resist against it.
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.
and the destined one was taken it back as well. the coffin opening animation is the same for all coffin chests, expect for that one. there was a clear shock and pause when the coffin first opened. he took some time to dust off the coffin before opening it as well, hinting he might know whats in it already.
This chapter has the best story imo. You can never see the whole picture. Who is the villain? What really happened? Every piece of information we get is subjective, but fragments of the past told from a dozen fixed perspectives. Yet nothing can be considered a proof except the results, and thus we never get a definitive explaination of the full picture, of what really happened all those years ago. And funnily, while the popular explaination is that Lingji is the bad guy, we can also cook up a theory where Yellow Wind is less righteous than he seemed, Lingji not as much as a villain, and this theory would also not contradict anything given in the lore. We can only believe what we are led to believe- or rather, what we want to believe. And this theme corresponds perfectly with the 2nd relic. Absolutely amazing story here.
是的，第二章获得的遗器在中文里叫作【耳听怒】，这个词的意思是“对双耳听说的事情愤怒”，简单的三个汉字表达的就是人们在听信流言之后不假思索的愤怒，从而做出冲动的行为，这与第二章中部分角色以及玩家在看到这个故事之后的反应也是对应的，玩家只是看到了这个版本的故事，说不定事实其实灵吉是个好人而黄风大圣并非我们看到的如此善良与正义 Yes, the relic obtained in the second chapter is called "Ear Hears Fury" in Chinese. The meaning of this phrase is "anger at what is heard through both ears." These simple three characters convey the idea of people becoming enraged upon hearing rumors without careful thought, leading to impulsive actions. This mirrors the behavior of certain characters in the second chapter, as well as the reactions of players after seeing the story. Players are only presented with this version of the narrative, but in reality, it’s possible that Lingji is actually a good person, while the Yellow Wind sage may not be as kind and just as he appears.
He does in the sense of it quelling his vengeance. He's imagining himself eating the sage every time he eats a rat guai. Basically the Black Myth Wukong equivalent of stress eating lol.
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.
It is also worth mentioning that the child and the Mad Tiger actually formed quite a strong and positive emotional bond. The Mad Tiger boss went completely mad and became the Mad Tiger we see in-game after realizing the child was dead. It is presumed that this is the exact reason for the recovered mad tiger to continue to trap itself in the well: after losing the only friend it made, the Mad Tiger lost all expectation for the outside world.
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!
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.
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
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)
I find this deeper story so fascinating. This gives a great depth to such a fantastic game. I love your video it gives such a deep respect to the creators of this masterpiece piece
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!
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.
Just finished this chapter and had zero clue the secret area was in the past! It didn’t make sense to me that you had to help the sage!! Great videos, can’t wait for more!!
and besides, I want to correct the story about Guangmou in Chapter 1. In fact, Guangmou had resented Elden Jinchi for a long time, so after hearing about Guangzhi's plan, he took advantage of the fire to let Sun Wukong get rid of Elden Jinchi. the portraits described："Guangmou glimpsed an untamed malice in the monkey's eyes--a hunger for vengeance.Building on Guangzhi's gambit,Guangmou goaed and prodded, weaving a merciless plot that left no room for escape." and"the world harbors such petty souls,capable of ensnaring the lofty and vanquishing them with cunning plots.Perhaps this is what is meant by'slaying with a borrowed blade'." this guy is just lived up to his name--wise strategy，but after all, it's just some little tricks，lead the fire to himself one day in the future.
The fighting styles of Guangzhi and Guangmou also correspond to a Chinese idiom, "fanning the flames（煽风点火）," which literally means fanning the wind and lighting a fire, and metaphorically refers to inciting others to do evil.
Thank ypu for this series,. I'm learning a lot already, and if you missed a point, it's OK. you give it your best shot so far and thanks to all the people who comment and add extra information or correction.
New subscriber. But wanted to say, really appreciate you correcting your mistakes right off the bat. Takes a lot of honesty and integrity to blatantly admit mistakes and at the beginning! Cheers!
Duuude. I never knew the back story behind all of these bosses and encounters. I grew a new respect for this game. I wish I had known or understood it while playing but nevertheless thanks to internet and you, I now understand the game even more. Subscribed!
Theres also a question where if the sun sets and causing kid killing shockwave natural? Since the country must exist before that event as people will not settle at a place which their kid are risk every sunset. Seeing what the celestials does in this n every chapter, its likely that it is the celestial creating disaster and show up as saviour so people worship them, when the people stops worshipping, disaster strikes until its corrected. And the yellow rat guai also stated that he wanted to create a place where his kind can live like normal and not persecuted thus the "rat revering edict". From lingi words, he believed guai should be guai since they are born lower, disrupting the social class and disaster will follow, while its ironic as disaster is caused by him(the upper/governing class, celestials) to enforce this ideology. The fun part of rhis chapter is u feel like a hero of justice defeating monster here n there , then u read the lore n u realise u r the Empire's hero killing rebel alliance.
think about doaism, everything in balance and in its place. In other words humans shouldnt live with guai and humans should worship celestials, Even though it was just, the yellow sage actions went agaisnt the order of things hence was considered evil.
Another amazing video! I love your narration of the story so much! Your voice is relaxing and the storytelling is so detailed! I love how you even give context to what’s happening by briefly explaining events from the Journey To The West novel! This is some true compassion and dedication you put into these lore videos! Please continue to make more!
Been able to play Black Myth Wukong until second chapter. I’ve watched your first video and this one. Needless to say I am very excited to finish Chapter 3, knowing that youre making these series of videos. I wont spoil myself for the next Chapters but Im glad I stumbled upon your channel!
Black Myth Wukong's lore is INSANE ! I love knowing about these characters that I just defeated, makes the game more enjoyable AFTER I have beaten the chapter.
Coming from chapter 1, just want to say that video was awesome! I’m only in chapter 3 of wukong and am loving the game. There was so much reading about the youguis so I didn’t really do it, the last video was great and I appreciate all the effort you put into making these! Just subscribed!
25:56 this means the fight with the sage against the beetlr happens AFTER meeting Sun Wukong because Luigi still had the wind tamer orb thingy. And after the fight, the destined one claims it.
This is incorrect because Tiger Vangard (the original) was still alive when the Yellow Wind Sage bested Fuban. In JTTW, Tiger Vangard was killed by Wukong and Bajie before they fought the Yellow Rat
Nah Buddhas and co have many wind taming orbs, Lingji just happened to have one and known for it as well as the golden dragon staff. Sanzang's kasaya (yes, that one that Jinchi tried to steal) has multiple wind taming orbs (plus other artifacts that add up to give protection against all elements) sewn into it for example and that came from Siddhartha.
After beating the game and now watching this makes me appreciate the lore amd story being told even more i cant wait for the breakdown of ch 3 and 4 since those were my favorite chapters in the game
Correction: "Shigandang" is not " Father of Stone". He's the one that got budda heads planted onto him and turned him berserk. The actual "Father of Stone" will appear in Chapter 5.
indeed the giant one is this rock guai. In the Journey to the west its spoken that on the end of wukongs journey he met a giant foe that had prevailed compared to the others.
Nice one, thank you for the deep dive on this, it was very confusing when i played it. Also, on min 35:00 you can kill the younger rat son only and leave the rat king. That way you will get a bit of a gruesome scene later when you meet the imprisoned big son.
Highkey love his break down , I’ve watched a lot of other ones and a lot of them don’t cover the minor boss or side characters and not even by section so w mans
I just want to say I knew very little about journey to the west and sun wukong until playing this game but I thoroughly enjoy the depth and level of detail you explain each character and the lore surrounding them. I am eagerly waiti g for the following chapters
Great video explaining the lore of these amazing and saddening characters from this legendary game! I will definitely check out your other videos. Subscribed.
Man you are awesome, Your videos are really great and so in depth, I was very confused by who the boy is who leads destined one to mad tiger... Now it all makes sense i had no idea the boy akd tiger acolyte were father and son... Thanks for this videos i loved the Chapter 1 video as well.. No one has explained the story of each bosses in such depth....Please keep this videos coming
I think the Scottish accent was meant to make him sound more "country bumpkin" compared to the formal sounding british accents of the celestial court because he's missing his head
I love watching these right after I finish a chapter because I find it hard to understand the lore, however I’m so impressed and surprised by the story of chapter 2, to me it didn’t seem like it had lots of depth especially with the tiger family. Amazing research and video
*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!
While studying mythology, I personally watch Chinese, Japanese, German and depending on the country and language I would watch a video explaining the Lore. Listening to the pronunciation of how they say it and repeating it myself.
Yeah, I use websites/apps that teach you how to speak a language. Videos with people who naturally speak the language is also a good idea.
The tone of how you pronounce words are pretty important in Chinese, might feel awkward at first but onces you get used to it makes a huge difference. its not that easy tho imo, my mum still laugh at me when i say chinese word in the wrong tone .-.
Work on pronunciations of consonant sounds; zh's, j's, and z' are pronounced different than they look!
Find the Chinese names on the BMW wiki, copy the original name into google translate and see how Google pronounces the word and try to mimic it, it works for most languages for me lol
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.
Ooooh that’s a cool touch I was curious why they chose that accent
Yep, Shaanxi region in China is equivalent to Scotland in UK
Reminds me of what they did for the character Osaka from Azumanga Daioh
Since that character turns out to be a Buddhisatva, do you know if the Chinese translation gives him more traditional accent?
@@Kodiakhunter the wording of this game in general is somewhat different from daily spoken mandarin, nor is it pure ancient chinese, but somewhere in between.
Accent wise Lingi speaks in mandarin but sings in dialect.
It would be too hard for average chinese to understand the semi-ancient script spoken in a dialect without any subtitles. I think that's why they let Lingi speaks in mandarin eventually.
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.
Yes they're well written characters
That's what I like about writing characters.
Make them actually deep understanding individual rather than "one dimensional 80s cartoon villains" or "modern day broken woobie"
They feel like actual people, have their own way of thinking and not just cannon fodder
i think The younger tiger brother and yellow wind sage did all that for their own selfish gains
@@tatarchan5212 thats cuz these characters were written in the 16th century
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.
被他骗去喂虎的命也是命，为虎作伥，死了也不值得同情
Sadly not so much, the child, in death, was an almost perfect description of a "tiger's acolyte". He intentionally, or unintentionally, led you down the well, where the mad tiger could claim another life.
he still sacrificed innocent villagers to the tiger. the point here is that every character in this chapter have both evil and good characteristics
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.
Sadly, this is a very wrong and slanderous presentation of Buddhism
@@thug4lyfe I get what you meant, but it never was about Buddhism. Think of it as something like a fan made fiction of Lord of the rings - all the characters have the original names but represent totally different things.
For both blackmyth wukong and Journey to the West, all the gods in the celestial court or buddhas represented the political structure of the Ming/Qing dynasty in China. They are much more human like and relevant to our ordinary life. The main theme of both titles NOT about telling the reader to believe in buddhalism, Taoism, or any religions, it's about revealing how ruling class oppresses ordinary people, and encourage people to resist against it.
Whoa, I did not expect the Tiger Acolytes story to hit so hard...
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.
Another little tidbit, the coffin you get the plaguebane gourd from is the child’s coffin. The mad tiger really cared about the kid
and the destined one was taken it back as well. the coffin opening animation is the same for all coffin chests, expect for that one. there was a clear shock and pause when the coffin first opened. he took some time to dust off the coffin before opening it as well, hinting he might know whats in it already.
@@acrazydurianthis game is insane. The detail is insane you can still find stuff on your third, even fourth playthrough. Game science cooked
I got a hint of that too when I opened the chest(coffin) if you pan the camera upwards you can see the kids skeleton head which is crazy
By the way, you can see the body of the little boy in the coffin through the photo mode
This chapter has the best story imo. You can never see the whole picture. Who is the villain? What really happened? Every piece of information we get is subjective, but fragments of the past told from a dozen fixed perspectives. Yet nothing can be considered a proof except the results, and thus we never get a definitive explaination of the full picture, of what really happened all those years ago. And funnily, while the popular explaination is that Lingji is the bad guy, we can also cook up a theory where Yellow Wind is less righteous than he seemed, Lingji not as much as a villain, and this theory would also not contradict anything given in the lore. We can only believe what we are led to believe- or rather, what we want to believe. And this theme corresponds perfectly with the 2nd relic. Absolutely amazing story here.
是的，第二章获得的遗器在中文里叫作【耳听怒】，这个词的意思是“对双耳听说的事情愤怒”，简单的三个汉字表达的就是人们在听信流言之后不假思索的愤怒，从而做出冲动的行为，这与第二章中部分角色以及玩家在看到这个故事之后的反应也是对应的，玩家只是看到了这个版本的故事，说不定事实其实灵吉是个好人而黄风大圣并非我们看到的如此善良与正义
Yes, the relic obtained in the second chapter is called "Ear Hears Fury" in Chinese. The meaning of this phrase is "anger at what is heard through both ears." These simple three characters convey the idea of people becoming enraged upon hearing rumors without careful thought, leading to impulsive actions. This mirrors the behavior of certain characters in the second chapter, as well as the reactions of players after seeing the story. Players are only presented with this version of the narrative, but in reality, it’s possible that Lingji is actually a good person, while the Yellow Wind sage may not be as kind and just as he appears.
Idk but the tiger vanguard intro give me the impression that he was psychotic and enjoyed eating the rats in his kingdom.
He does in the sense of it quelling his vengeance. He's imagining himself eating the sage every time he eats a rat guai. Basically the Black Myth Wukong equivalent of stress eating lol.
His eyes were just pure bloodlust
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.
It is also worth mentioning that the child and the Mad Tiger actually formed quite a strong and positive emotional bond. The Mad Tiger boss went completely mad and became the Mad Tiger we see in-game after realizing the child was dead.
It is presumed that this is the exact reason for the recovered mad tiger to continue to trap itself in the well: after losing the only friend it made, the Mad Tiger lost all expectation for the outside world.
In Chapter 2, the people of the Golden Kingdom were turned into rats by the Buddha Lingji, for the same reason
and only the third prince survived,just exactly because he ran out of the kindom
@@h16n21 does he appear in later chapter
@@Fictional_semaIn chapter 3 prison you can find him
@@hayescao7402his corpse.. lol
@@manu4ever249nope he dies after you complete his quest. You messed up talking with rat captain in chapter 2 too early thats why 3rd rat Prince died
Been eagerly waiting for new lore from this game!! This is incredible, great work :D
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!
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.
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
Sure ，Each character is not simply good or evil，They're all complicated
honestly i can relate to the yellow wind sage
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)
I find this deeper story so fascinating. This gives a great depth to such a fantastic game. I love your video it gives such a deep respect to the creators of this masterpiece piece
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.
son of stone is in chapter 6 also
Afrosenju sent me here and I would like to thank you for educating us about the bosses in this masterpiece of a game❤
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!
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.
Just finished this chapter and had zero clue the secret area was in the past! It didn’t make sense to me that you had to help the sage!!
Great videos, can’t wait for more!!
and besides, I want to correct the story about Guangmou in Chapter 1. In fact, Guangmou had resented Elden Jinchi for a long time, so after hearing about Guangzhi's plan, he took advantage of the fire to let Sun Wukong get rid of Elden Jinchi.
the portraits described："Guangmou glimpsed an untamed malice in the monkey's eyes--a hunger for vengeance.Building on Guangzhi's gambit,Guangmou goaed and prodded, weaving a merciless plot that left no room for escape." and"the world harbors such petty souls,capable of ensnaring the lofty and vanquishing them with cunning plots.Perhaps this is what is meant by'slaying with a borrowed blade'."
this guy is just lived up to his name--wise strategy，but after all, it's just some little tricks，lead the fire to himself one day in the future.
The fighting styles of Guangzhi and Guangmou also correspond to a Chinese idiom, "fanning the flames（煽风点火）," which literally means fanning the wind and lighting a fire, and metaphorically refers to inciting others to do evil.
Thank ypu for this series,. I'm learning a lot already, and if you missed a point, it's OK. you give it your best shot so far
and thanks to all the people who comment and add extra information or correction.
Finally, I've been waiting for the next chapter. Grateful for the explanation
I’m so hyped I been waiting for this video to drop after I saw chapter 1 video last week, can’t for chapter 3 lore.
New subscriber. But wanted to say, really appreciate you correcting your mistakes right off the bat. Takes a lot of honesty and integrity to blatantly admit mistakes and at the beginning! Cheers!
I was waiting for this ; it might be most look forward series for me on UA-cam
These videos are everything I’ve been hoping for since the game dropped
Duuude. I never knew the back story behind all of these bosses and encounters. I grew a new respect for this game. I wish I had known or understood it while playing but nevertheless thanks to internet and you, I now understand the game even more. Subscribed!
Thanks for the New lore dump my man!
Theres also a question where if the sun sets and causing kid killing shockwave natural? Since the country must exist before that event as people will not settle at a place which their kid are risk every sunset. Seeing what the celestials does in this n every chapter, its likely that it is the celestial creating disaster and show up as saviour so people worship them, when the people stops worshipping, disaster strikes until its corrected. And the yellow rat guai also stated that he wanted to create a place where his kind can live like normal and not persecuted thus the "rat revering edict". From lingi words, he believed guai should be guai since they are born lower, disrupting the social class and disaster will follow, while its ironic as disaster is caused by him(the upper/governing class, celestials) to enforce this ideology. The fun part of rhis chapter is u feel like a hero of justice defeating monster here n there , then u read the lore n u realise u r the Empire's hero killing rebel alliance.
think about doaism, everything in balance and in its place. In other words humans shouldnt live with guai and humans should worship celestials, Even though it was just, the yellow sage actions went agaisnt the order of things hence was considered evil.
exactly what i'm here for
Nice
Another amazing video! I love your narration of the story so much! Your voice is relaxing and the storytelling is so detailed! I love how you even give context to what’s happening by briefly explaining events from the Journey To The West novel! This is some true compassion and dedication you put into these lore videos! Please continue to make more!
Great video! The way you explain the story makes me wanna read journey to the west myself to get all the juicy details.
Been able to play Black Myth Wukong until second chapter. I’ve watched your first video and this one. Needless to say I am very excited to finish Chapter 3, knowing that youre making these series of videos. I wont spoil myself for the next Chapters but Im glad I stumbled upon your channel!
Honestly here just to say I am a huge fan of your work. Keep this up man.
Black Myth Wukong's lore is INSANE ! I love knowing about these characters that I just defeated, makes the game more enjoyable AFTER I have beaten the chapter.
Liking this video to show love from Afro's recommendation ❤
you know how loooong I've been waiting for thisss
Coming from chapter 1, just want to say that video was awesome! I’m only in chapter 3 of wukong and am loving the game. There was so much reading about the youguis so I didn’t really do it, the last video was great and I appreciate all the effort you put into making these! Just subscribed!
It’s crazy how you managed to piece everything together and retell to us here. So much effort! Thank you.
25:56 this means the fight with the sage against the beetlr happens AFTER meeting Sun Wukong because Luigi still had the wind tamer orb thingy. And after the fight, the destined one claims it.
This is incorrect because Tiger Vangard (the original) was still alive when the Yellow Wind Sage bested Fuban. In JTTW, Tiger Vangard was killed by Wukong and Bajie before they fought the Yellow Rat
Nah Buddhas and co have many wind taming orbs, Lingji just happened to have one and known for it as well as the golden dragon staff. Sanzang's kasaya (yes, that one that Jinchi tried to steal) has multiple wind taming orbs (plus other artifacts that add up to give protection against all elements) sewn into it for example and that came from Siddhartha.
After beating the game and now watching this makes me appreciate the lore amd story being told even more i cant wait for the breakdown of ch 3 and 4 since those were my favorite chapters in the game
Yes!!! Chapter 2 LET'S GO!!! Thank you, Bandit. Keep the Wukon videos coming!!
The only series on youtube worh the wait for
You smashed this again bandit, thank you
Need the lore for chapter 4 the whole hollow thing was cool asf
Im only subbing for the rest of the parts- this was wildly informative and entertaining.
This Wukong stuff is gonna send this channel to 500k subs easy and well deserved.
Correction: "Shigandang" is not " Father of Stone". He's the one that got budda heads planted onto him and turned him berserk. The actual "Father of Stone" will appear in Chapter 5.
Here from AfroSenju's video. Amazing video and series. Looking forward to what comes next.
F for the dog 🙏
Chap 2 and 4 are probably my fave chapters. A lot of tragic and dark lore in those chapters
Glad you finally pronounced Sun - Wukong correctly as Soon instead Sun as The Sun/Son.
21:13 we do meet and fight the gigantic rock gui in chapter 6. I believe that's the one rock gui in question here
indeed the giant one is this rock guai. In the Journey to the west its spoken that on the end of wukongs journey he met a giant foe that had prevailed compared to the others.
Yeah that was the mini mini mini version
Nice one, thank you for the deep dive on this, it was very confusing when i played it.
Also, on min 35:00
you can kill the younger rat son only and leave the rat king. That way you will get a bit of a gruesome scene later when you meet the imprisoned big son.
This is not a boss lore this is a masterpiece
Here to spread some love from AfroSenju. Love your vids, keep it up man
Thoroughly enjoying these videos and the effort you're putting into them. Thank you! I absolutely love this story, glad they made this game.
Highkey love his break down , I’ve watched a lot of other ones and a lot of them don’t cover the minor boss or side characters and not even by section so w mans
Always looking forward to more. I really appreciate the depth in which you go of the previous stories and the current
Such high quality vid! Cant wait for chapter 3!
sent here by Afro, and wasn't disappointed. nice intro too
Just finished the game, learning more about what I just went through helps a lot, well put together, good video.
Insane lore tbh. Good storytelling as well man, keep it up.
Ah man can't wait for the next video for chap3!!
My god these videos are so good. Actual S-tier content my guy! Keep it up
Can totally tell that you put your heart and great effort in making this video, appreciate it
You get a like and a subscribe no one is doing such quality explanations like you please finish them all
Ngl man I been waiting all week for this
Love this series keep up the amazing work!
I will definitly be watching all videos in this series 🙌
Afro sent me, Amazing content and channel.
I watch these explanations after every chapter I run through! Tyvm ! I hope the other chapters come out soon cause I am running through the game
Dude this was great I can't wait for the chapter 3
I just want to say I knew very little about journey to the west and sun wukong until playing this game but I thoroughly enjoy the depth and level of detail you explain each character and the lore surrounding them. I am eagerly waiti g for the following chapters
Destined one seeing the lore drop after he kills another hapless yaoguai:
“Zhu Badjie, are we the baddies?”
Please keep making these I love them
Keep it up! this is way better than the ones who just do an AI Voiceover to a script. it feels so low effort.
This whole world is just so interesting! I’m really enjoying this game and your videos!! Keep it up please! I wanna see more for other chapters
Here from Afro senjus channel showing some love. Awesome video bro!
Definitely subscribing, these videos are very helpful to put the lore together. Thank you.
Been waiting for this to drop yessir
Love from AfroSenju's channel ❤
Been waiting for this, thanks
Jumping the beetle with the yellow rat was one of the highlights in this game for me. I love his character
Great video explaining the lore of these amazing and saddening characters from this legendary game! I will definitely check out your other videos. Subscribed.
I really appreciate these lore videos. I’m looking forward to the chapter 3 videos and beyond. Thank you for this!
These videos have helped me understand and enjoy the game more. Thank you 😊 waiting on chapter 3 soon
this is my new favorite series. awesome video! thanks
Bro i love those Videos. Cant wait for the next parts
These are some great stories. Thank you for this and look forward to the next ones.
Man you are awesome, Your videos are really great and so in depth, I was very confused by who the boy is who leads destined one to mad tiger... Now it all makes sense i had no idea the boy akd tiger acolyte were father and son... Thanks for this videos i loved the Chapter 1 video as well.. No one has explained the story of each bosses in such depth....Please keep this videos coming
Amazing video! Thanks for the great explanation. It’s so interesting to learn about this fascinating tale! 😊
This is well explained. Can't wait to get to chapter 5 to know where did red boy come from
I think the Scottish accent was meant to make him sound more "country bumpkin" compared to the formal sounding british accents of the celestial court because he's missing his head
I love watching these right after I finish a chapter because I find it hard to understand the lore, however I’m so impressed and surprised by the story of chapter 2, to me it didn’t seem like it had lots of depth especially with the tiger family. Amazing research and video
I JUST finished chapter 2 and here's your video! Impressive 😍
I love these so much