Black Myth Wukong - Opening Scene (Sun Wukong vs Erlang Shen)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Black Myth Wukong Opening Scene and Prologue Chapter 1 - Sun Wukong vs Erlang Shen PS5 Gameplay
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The people who made this game portrayed Sun Wukong perfectly. Cocky, mouthy, and genuinely enjoying a fight even when it’s about genuine revenge. Everything down to the way speaks. The cadence and everything.
If you can't understand the opening CG, you can think of it as:The Heavenly Court is like the CIA, and the monkey used to be a former mob boss. His mission to "go legit" involves delivering an important NPC to pick up some crucial items. After the job's done, they promise the monkey a spot in the system, but along the way, the monkey takes out quite a few of his old mob buddies. In the end, the monkey decides he doesn't want the spot anymore and just wants to retire to the mountains. The CIA, though, plans to kill him to tie up loose ends.
Perfect explanation.
Red Dead Redemption
@@fluffy21893x2actually almost, yeah 👍
DAMMIT JAMES WHAT DID WE SAY ABOUT OPSEC HUH?
🤌🤌 perfect
A 500 year old rematch between Sun WuKong and Erlang Shen? Epic, dare I say. This is the scene I have watched since I was a kid where the Monkey King challenged the heavens and almost won.
Mostly because of his rebellious acts and he never listen to the gods so easily. I learned Wukong is Immortal- 1) He learn and achieved the secrets of immortality via Daoist practices; 2) He travels to the underworld and wiping his name from the ledgers of life and death in hell; 3) He was tasked to guard the immortal peaches in heaven but ends up eating them; 4) He crashes into a god and drinking their immortal wine in heaven; 5) He is eating Laozi's immortal elixir or Sallowed the pills of immortality; 6) The Gods are sick of him and throw into a furnace but burns his mortality; and 7) He is eating Ginseng baby fruit.
@@marcusfrankvieiravieira1589Regarding the sixth point, in fact, Wukong's eyes can see through people and demons and even see through any object because of his burning.
@@marcusfrankvieiravieira1589
He was scared of death so he kept stealing sources of immortality right?
@@AngraMango As an expert of mythology...Yes.
@@AngraMangoyes and achieved many many times over making him nigh unkillable
For those of you complaining about the VA....It's supposed to sound like that. It is supposed to sound like an old translated chinese drama.
I think Chinese dub with eng sub is a way to go. The CH voice actor for wukong sounds like the original actor of 1986 journey to the west
fr they probably want the VA's to be all british 😂
I love the voice acting. Wukong sounds like a monkeyman.
@@madmarduk1936Yeah, what else is a monkey supposed to sound like?
I don't care the people complaninng the va but the graphic and quality of this game is exceptional 🔥
For someone who can go around the earth dozen of times with one flip, he sure takes his sweet time with flying nimbus.
You either ride with efficiency or with style...he chose style
He's intentionally going slow to piss off the gods.
@@tavernburner3066lmfao yep
@@tavernburner3066that’s not above him, dude is a spiteful monkey
@@tavernburner3066Most tame Wukong moment.
I still find it kinda ironic that Wukong who is talkative is reincarnated to the protagonist, The Destined One or The new Monkey who is quiet most of the time except when he's fighting, he keeps making monkey noises.
6:34 the Stone Guardians helped Erlang
7:10 Wukong calling out Erlang for cheating the duel
7:42 Buddha helped Erlang by chanting Buddhist's mantra which is Wukong's weakness
So Erlang cheated 2 times.
Still erlang is stronger
@@epicgamers8417he probably wouldve lost. How can you beat 5x immortality in a fight without cheating?
funnily enough, in almost every adaptions of journey to the west. Erlang Shen has always beaten Wukong with extra help but never won against him in a fair fight.
@@epicgamers8417 both time he win is not 1-1 and most movie/novel i read so far they nearly equal. so hard to say that erlang better.
@@epicgamers8417I thougt they were equal. Most fight I've read Erlang always had help. The first time Erlang manage to capture Wukong, he had his dog, Nezha, and Guanyin helping him.
4:10 From what I just heard, Shen's "deal" is a lose-lose for Sun Wukong. Win or lose, his beloved mountain is leveled to dust. It's just either he'll witness it from the Celestial Court, or from being on the Earth. No wonder he was pissed.
2:25 brings me "I bring the destruction of Olympus" vibes man, it's insane
Btw are they speaking in Chinese? I am certain that their mouths don't match their words
@@Idespisebronhaters the original language is in chinese of course since the game is made by chinese developer based on chinese mythology
Yeah same as kratos right
1:52 Wukongs dialogue reminds me of Buldur from God of war 2018 and Heath ledger's joker.
I see this comment make me to imagine god of war road to chinese god. 😂
I haven't paid full price for a game in 10 years but this game made me break that streak it's so worth it
well earned.
@letingrad indeed this is a game that makes you say "shut up and take my money"
Overrated game don't deserve it
Absolute peak game
Honestly this scene with sun wukong pullin up to heavens doorstep to run the fade is crazy!!! Wish I had that kind of power💪🏾
The world would be a very different place if that was the case lmao
@@Diablo510RIGHT😂😂😂
He's him the original Black Air Force
@@baronsamedi7659that’s hilarious lol
@@yomamahouse7725 he is one of the first that you would call HIM
5:22
No truer words have ever been spoken before.
The funny thing is that Sun Wukong started out wanting immortality
3:11 Calm down, Frieza
Exactly. Astarion v frieza
Ten Shinhan actually
@@dubyaw9511 You clearly don't get it.
Tien actually
@@ninshusensei412 hahaha cause he said monkey. But seriously dragonball was insoired by journey to the west and judging by the 3rd eye its safe to safe this character inspired tien shenhan
the most epic God vs God battle cinematic since GOW 3 opening lbs 💯💯💯
Asura’s wrath’s clears
@@mathieul4303 Asura's wrath has nothing on the gameplay here 🤓
Nah man gow 3 was different 😅 that first fight agianst posieden was way more destructive
As a Chinese who grew up watching the 1986 Journey to the west series, watching these characters talking in English sounds really weird to me😅
Chinese dub is 不错. Think if you're chinese you should play in mandarin, some nuances are lost in english dub.
I don't speak or understand mandarin and I still find the english dub odd or "out of place". Dunno, it feels more immersive if I play it in mandarin and just read the subtitles.
I'm African American and I actually watched the 1986 series, and I preferred it in Mandarin.
Do you mean “Monkey” with the “monkey magic” opening? Or the other one?
@madmarduk1936 nah this was a different more serious version of Journey to the west. Monkey is still one of my favourite shows though. Playing black myth made me start rewatching it 😅
If I remember correctly Erlang bested Wukong once already with the help of Buddha just before this scene and again Erlang gets help from uncle
Erlang has always had some help for Buddha because without their help he can't beat Wukong
They had their first fight in the first chapters of the novel Journey to the West, and yeah, Erlang had a ton of help, just not from Buddha
-He had Lao Tse mirror, which basically made Wukong transformations useless
-They were fighting while surrounded by a Cosmic Net which basically made any escape tactics useless
-Erlang also had the help of his brothers
-Guanyin, a Bodhisattva (somewhat close to the power of a Buddha) helped Erlang mid fight
-At the end Wukong didn't even straight up loose, just threw the fight after seeing how his army of monkeys got captured
@@frankylother2183 earlang literally outdone every transformation of wukong, wukong had to trick him to escape even transformed into earlang once ,they are equal and wukong acknowledges it , he needed earlang during journey to the west to fight a nine headed dragon which was overpowering him and baije
@@frankylother2183 lao had to step in to capture wukong or else the fight wouldn't have ended
@@tatankabir2652 They are equal in strength and morphing abilities, but Erlang could never defeat Wukong on his own. It's a recurrent fact in the novel that Wukong wins his battles by outclassing his opponent's stamina
Wukong started fleeing from Erlang after his army of monkeys got captured, he didn't flee bc he was being outclassed, but bc he became depressed. You must also take into account that Erlang had a lot of external help:
-Lao Tse's mirror to see through Wukong's transformation
-Boddhisattva Guanyin knocking Wukong down
-His brothers and dog holding Wukong down so he couldn't transform anymore
-The cosmic net which cut any escape routes
I'm not saying Wukong would absolutely stomp Erlang, if anything, he would end up winning only bc of his endurance and ridiculous stamina
Sun Wukong started his journey wishing to gain immortality. Now, after completing his journey, he sees that wishing for immortality will bring nothing but ruin to oneself
All the game trailers made it seem as if you're going to play as wukong but instead you play as another monkey.
Yeah you're a 'clone' of Wukong essentially, the destined one~
Bruh playing as Sun Wukong would be busted. They need to make the game balanced somehow.
You're essentially following in his footsteps.
You are Sun Wukong. He reincarnated after most likely 500 years (the sentence he was supposed to spend under the mountain that was commuted for helping Tang Monk) into the player character. The whole story is built on a spine of Taoism. So you really are Sun Wukong and I am betting if we attain immortality again in the game he gets his memory from his past life back.
No You play as Wukong reincarnated
He is Wukong
5:22 _Voldermort, take notes_
Can’t wait to see the numbers of bosses and mini bosses from this games. From the look of it, there are tons.
wukong’s English dub really reminds me of Raiden from MGS.
It’s the same voice actor
@@bryangarcia1150no it isnt.
@@bryangarcia1150 No it's not, Raiden is voiced by Quinton Flynn. While Wukong is voiced by Mark Takeshi Ota
Mee too, the eyes are kinda similar to raiden too
I like his aggressiveness. I didn’t expect that.
Chinese friends, this game has given us westerners a breath of fresh air, the story is magnificent, i dont care what people say, this is feature complete, you gave us a masterpiece, loved and enjoyed to the max. long time since we get this level. Game Science showed what a AAA game is and has been missing. I cant wait for the DLC, my 6 year old was watching next to me, i had to buy the books and star reading her the story (yes im acting the characters for her) this came before LOTR for her, i never read the books so doing this for her is an experience i cant wait every nigh for her!
Most badass thing I've seen in my entire life
The VAs actually are good.
But it is very hard to be accepted when you compare with the original chinese one...
Especially when it is so chinese ancient dialog... it sounds really weird when it converts to english..😂
I prefer Erlang's English VA (Andrew Koji, from Warrior on Netflix and Snake Eyes notably).
@@mirkoblaco812Fr I already loved Erlang english voice actor I knew he sounded familiar once I found out it was Andrew Koji I lost my shit.
He already completed his journey to the west in this game?
This game takes place after journey to the west
It's a sequel, he obtained Buddha hood but wanted to go back because he found it to be boring
yes, people think their fight here was staged I kind of support that. Also, you can see Wukong dropping his weapon when he transformed in 7:22.
@@eggxecutionit’s a fact that the fight was staged and wukong saw the only way he could get the headband off would by dying and being reincarnated agian
So, Wukong didn't learn anything from his journey...sad, because he was even promoted. But he has an evil side impossible to dominate.
The Great Sage's Broken Shell fought way better than they allowed us to in this duel.
_He's not any mexican, he's a mexican if merit_ 💪🏽🇲🇽
I think one of the best parts about this scene lies in the spoilers of it that might make it amazing
Basically, this was all pre planned by Sun Wukong, Erlang Shen, and Erlang's sworn brothers, along with others. The headband that gets Wukong defeated in this fight, and the defeat itself, was a key component. The plan was to have Wukong challenge the Heavens and the Celestial Court, and have Erlang Shen duel him. The end result would involve the axe Erlang Shen used destroying the mountain, which imprisoned his sister, though I forget the details of him imprisoning her plus why he'd want to free her. The other result would be Wukong's death; the headband could not be removed without effectively reincarnating, but because Wukong wiped his name from the ledgers of life and death, he was immortal, and thus could not reincarnate. So by Erlang Shen killing him in that battle, he'd split himself into the Six Senses, and everyone involved in the plan would wait for a "Destined One", who'd basically become Wukong but minus the headband, freeing him. The sworn brothers of Erlang would be encountered on the journey; the Whiteclad Noble, the Yellow-robed Squire, the Green-capped Martialist, the Venom Daoist, and the Pale-axe Stalwart.
It's a really cool interpretation someone had, and it fits, especially given Erlang Shen's disposition when encountered later on. It's all a super convoluted plan to get Wukong free, and Erlang agreed to it because of feeling remorse for killing all the monkeys on the mountain.
He also is tired of the corruption of the Celestial Court and maybe in a future game we will be fighting the Celestial Court God of war style and burn the Celestial palace to the ground
Plus they screwed over Erlang's parents in some way...
bro pulled up to the entire Chinese panteon and said "i want all the smoke"
Ngl, whoever designed his golden armor deserves high praise and recognition. It's so detailed and beautiful.
The opening battle is like a mixture of Devil May Cry and God of War!
When you’re wiping and your finger goes through the toilet paper: 7:56
This game was worth the wait
Wukong English VA sounded like a deeper Frieza for some reason.
Just imagine a anime series of this game
We literally have it, it's called Dragon Ball
I know that Erlang Shen and the 4 Heavenly Kings are here, so who’s that bigger guy?
That's the giant spirit god. I'm not sure whether the machine translation is accurate or not. In The Journey to the West's and people's cognition, he is considered as a fairy with a huge body.
Juling Shen
I dont know the name, but he is a worker of the celestial court and his job is to obey orders like moving mountains. The tale describe him as a nice guy.
@@TomyDayosWhy he look so mad tho
Juling Shen I think. In the first novel Wukong kicks his butt so easily another court official wants to have Juling's head cut off but is stopped. No relation to Erlang Shen as Shen is a title.
Grandad explaining to Huey and Riley about catcha freeman be like 😂
3:05 Eustace everytime he see courage
😂😂😂
Love this comment
Took me too long come up with this but I love coming back to this video😭💯”Heaven’s Equal Vs Heaven’s Greatest”
Is Erlang Shen is basically kinda like Wukong's vegeta? Well, i'm not really familiar with Journey To The West, so i think it's probably worth asking
no . that's not. Erlang more like Ten shin han
@@thinkerbell.8287 wait they'll become friends?
@@IAintGonnaDrawHeliohi they will. : )
@@thinkerbell.8287 tbh I didnt expected that
@@thinkerbell.8287he became friends with the destined one
Wait a minute. "Sun Wukong" here was voiced by the same voice actor who voiced "Rayden" of "Metal Gear Solid" game series?.. 😶
No
raiden* and no.
6:27 anyone know the ost when one of the kings falls down?!? Such an epic ost.
That's not one of the kings
@@nioname Why bother replying if you're not gonna answer his question?
COME at Me : ALL OF YOU 🔥
This is not soul Category Game!!! I Like it 👍🏻😃👍🏻
Everything is better than that
-Has a shrine
-Uses stamina
-Enemies and health potions reset when resting
-Difficult bosses meant to be fought by souls players
This is as much of a souls game as sekiro is 😂😂
GOW 2018/Ragnarok it's a perfect example of a game that is not a soul game
I don't feel like a Souls game from the beginning, it reminds me of the first 3 God of War games and also Asura's Wrath
@@benelmismisimo7594 Everything is Gonna be Okay 🙂
@@parkout95 This is Action Adventure Game 😌
See Erlang's expression? He feels no joy nor glory from striking down Wukong. He felt the plan has succeed to elude the celestial army so Wukong's death is confirmed.
As someome who enjoys Koei’s Warriors series this fight reminded of Sun Wukong and Yang Jian from Warriors Orochi 4
One of the best games I’ve ever played. Hard, but bloody brilliant
Big Bro literally has the Flying Nimbus 😆
The soundtrack of this battle evokes so much heroism
when i was kid, i really love journey of the west, i also know when wukong duel with erlang, but now after the remake, man its just GG
Ugh, gonna play this one subbed for sure.
God damn that first parry 5:10 and cinematography is beyond epic...did they bring Blizzard animators on board for this or wth?!
I absolutely had to rock with the OG chinese dialogue, sounds so reminiscent of the old series man. This opening was SICK. I knew they'd cook with this game.❤
0:38 la nube voladora de son goku me imagine el sonido de la nube voladora de dbz.
Wukong showing up to heavens doorstep and asking who gonna catch this fade first?
This game is gonna be outstanding aswell as space marine 2 and dbsparking zero will you also make vids on those?
Who would u think in your opinion will win game of the year?
don't forget about dragon age new game this year about gaming is gonna be insane 💀
Hope the new dragon age continues the story about Solas.
@@goatpiece2258 honestly couldn’t say
The legendary of changing destiny , a monkey made a hero a hero made a god.
Ain't going to lie, if I see the 4 heavenly kings if not one of them walking to me I'll be scared just by their presence.
Man they did very well with Erlang, he sounds so menacing
I wasn‘t expecting that bui it was nice tbh
I like Erlang Shen....he's cool!!!
cool at cheating 😂
@@cameo2211 there're behind motive of erlang shen iirc, his mother got screwed by the Jade emperor and he has to pretend to banish his own lil' sis to keep her alive so technically he hold the most grudge to the heaven kingdom. In the video he was just trying to help get rid of the headband of wukong and in order to do so wukong need to die and reincarnated
@@cameo2211 netorare is a trend now bruh, accept it , join the darkside !
Zhuge Liang
I wish he was the main character 😢
This is what i expected wukong to sound like the va cooked eveb though it doesn't match the lip movement its so good!
Holh shit the character design and drip is nuts
Sun wukong was granted buddha at the end of journey to the west. He should have spite stomped erlang shen
He did stomp that guy; it was the fact the Buddha placed that curse on him which was his one weakness that he lost.
The beef so deep they weapons was fighting mid air🤣🤣🤣
Reminds me of the original god of war games, such an epic and grand introduction
Also if you think about it these gods probably exist in the god of war universe
This shit is so fucking cool man
what i don’t understand is how all of a sudden he fell? (if it’s explained later on in the game don’t spoil)
Wukong has a Tightening Spell on his head, which was placed there long ago by the Buddha and cannot be removed. Only a few Bodhisattvas know the incantation for it. When the spell is activated, he experiences great pain
there's a huge stone figure on which erlang is standing on , we only defeat 4 heavenly kings what happened to the biggest one ?
So I am big fan of the mythologies, especially Sun Wukong. Th point of this game is for Wukong to break free of Buddah's golden headband. But help me understand one thing, can't Buddha just place a new golden headband on the destined one and same thing happens??
Theory. Is this wukong really the destined one who didn’t get the “true” ending? The dialogue watching it a second time, Chapter 5 vid makes me think that, and the headband.
Watching this scene i realized. Erlang Shen was not happy with how he won against wukong from the start. He takes no satisfaction as he plummets his spear into Wukong. The subtle details in this game are amazing!
Indifference. Just getting job done
Erlang hate the jade emperor because the emperor killed erlang father and mother and bothers.
The crime is that erlang mother was a god who had sons with a mortal man, which is forbidden by the jade emperor.
Wukong: He’s the good guy here, because he’s the only character in Heaven who’s not British
mount huaguo could've been translated to flower fruit mountain or mount flower fruit for the english dub
Sooo even tho the gods still had the headband on him in the event he went crazy AFTER being a Buddha, they still didn’t trust him to go free😭? How can’t you trust the man yall locked up for 500 years, released and put em on the path to enlightenment, he achieves it, and simply tells yall he wants to go home and yall said”nigga home? Oh nahh you got stay here”😭😭😭
What i dont understand is why would that head band activate, he didn't started it. He was bought into it.
At the beginning of black myth wukong. Who is that giant god behind the 4 heavenly kings? With the elephant belt
I'm loving this
6:34 This part never fails to impress me
Erlang taking away Wukong's golden headband to beat him is expected.
Erlang might be an all powerful deity in heaven but he is not as intelligent as Wukong.
Pretty sure he didn't take it away, he did the complete opposite. He made it appear and used it. The headband wasn't visible on wukong's head until that moment.
@@itsSmivhe didn’t have the ability/authority to make it appear again. That was directly from Buddha. Or maybe Tang Monk I guess? I am betting it was because he was about to selfishly bring a fight between immortals to the mortal realm where it would cause cataclysmic destruction. Looks like he then had to spend the previous 500 year sentence that was commuted for helping Tang Monk before being reincarnated.
@@madmarduk1936 some people theorized that the whole fight along with wukong's death was staged and his headband will forever be there so Erlang helped him. I kind of agree to this
Wukong llegando en su nube : les van a faltar manos para pelarme la banana 🤣
While I don’t think the Dub is bad necessarily I prefer the Chinese Va’s it just feels right
Ancient dialouge doesnt sound that great with modern dialect
@@stalebread9825 the Dub is actually great I guess I wasn’t a fan of it at first but I actually really enjoyed it to the point that I completely forgot I left this comment😅
Not gonna lie, english dub sounds way better than I imagined it to. They did a great job👍👍
Is that you frieza?
Tenshin Han actually，you can Erlang Shen and Tenshin han both have 3 eyes. Dragon Ball refers a lot from this ancient novel.
Star from 6:00 is the best fighting scene
I legit thought Quinton Flynn was voicing Wukong.
There's definitely something wrong with the coding on this game. I shouldn't be lagging hard throughout cutscenes and boss fights. Even higher end computers are picking up lag spikes.
Zilong and Sun and Balmond collector Skin
i switched to the original Chinese immediately after this. dubs are always so cringe.
Bro the game released on 20th august, how did you post this on the 19th??
Timezone man
You only realize how powerful his moveset is in chapter 3
n ch 6
All wukong wanted to do was return to monke.
He just wanna chill with his monkeling man😞
3:20 isn't his voice same as that of heisenberg in re8? Same voice actor?
The opening match of Wukong vs Erlang Shen made me very disappointed when I didn't get to see the scene of the heavenly army beating drums and blowing trumpets to show their strength, along with the cheers of the army cheering for their general when fighting, this created a very epic scene like in the feudal war movies or the Three Kingdoms movie that I have watched, in the game, the army just stood still and lifeless before being blown away by the power of Wukong and Yang Jian, they are not the main characters, but don't make them so bad and weak, it is an insult to the heavenly army, I am Vietnamese and like many Asians who watch other Chinese movies and myths, I feel that is a huge minus point, it makes me not feel completely innocent when playing the game, I am always on guard that I might be fooled by a certain part in the game. The game graphics of the forest scenes are excellent, in my opinion, real filmmakers should be invited to advise the game developers on the details of the game's story background, this is just a suggestion, for a first Chinese blockbuster game, you guys can definitely do better. Anyway, congratulations, there are many Asian myths waiting to be shown.
Frankly, i was reaally hoping for the Chinese opera like opening music
I know the four heavenly kings, but who is the big blue man in the back??? Have no idea who he is and I dunno if I just missed it or something
Hear me out,,,,,,erlang is Freiza
I like the va, resembles wukongs personality and monkey
PC? For that phrase, All gaming companies have ruined themselves