What Journey to the West characters do you want to learn more about?

I want a sequel where i play as MF TURTLE GENERAL & take the fight to the celestial court. 🐢 🔪 🗡 🐢

19:50 It was actually stated pretty clear in the in-game lore book. Wukong saw through the true nature of Buddhahood and grew uncomfortable with it. "The more offerings we took, the less for the ones who grow them on the fields." He just doesn't want to be a member of this blood-sucking group of deities anymore.

JTTW is a novel based on the Chinese Mythology system, but at the core it was a satirical political literature. Primarily written to show the corruption of the Ming Dynasty bureaucracy in a somewhat subtle way.

So for the modern audience, people are just not satisfied that acheiving Buddhahood is the ending of Wukong's story, for he represents the rebellious spirit and should not be so easily tamed by the power high above. So all kinds of adaptations were made about continuing his story against the ruling Celestial Court.

And so does BMW as well, it's about us freeing him from his circlet and giving him true freedom to fight against the corrupted Court once more. That's why if the player don't know enough about the corruptions and wrong-doings committed by the Court, the Destined One will be deceived into believing in Buddhahood and "enlightenment" once again and reincarnate as Wukong with the circlet still on.

There’s one tiny detail you missed I think. After sun wukong escaped the heavenly furnace, his eyes also became extremely sensitive to light and it became a mild weakness of his. This is referenced during the beginning scene of black myth where wukong complains about how blinding the light above the clouds is before running away.

Chapter 4 is not really correct. The matriarch is is still deeply in love with Ba Jie and will not consume him as they both had a daughter (the little spider girl); it is just a bitter love kind of banter. Ba Jie's refusal of her love is not because he don't love her, but because of his curse when he was banished from heaven after witnessing the affair of jade emperor with Taiyin Star Lord, whom in the Chapter's ending cinematic, is who Ba Jie was chasing after at the start.

Ba Jie knows if he acknowledges their relationship and love, the celestial court (eastern celestial heavens) will come for him, the matriarch and their daughter.

Which is why at the very end, the matriarch mentions that Ba Jie is still the same (Although she dies, she will be reincarnated to become a spider again, and the cycle repeats). In the cinematic, the last verse is:
Ba Jie: "Please don't look back" (He don't want her to be hurt in this 100 cycles of pain)
Matriarch: "Please remember to look back" (She hopes to see him again, and would not mind dying for the chance for their love to reunite one day)

31:19 that boy, is Yellowbrow,not Future Buddha. Yellowbrow was a disciple of the future Buddha, so he pretended to be him. The one wearing blue plain clothes is the future Buddha

One thing I feel like the game failed to explain to players unfamiliar with the story of Journey to the West is the importance of Tang Sanzang's Kasaya. It's not just a pretty looking robe; it is a heavenly artifact that was awarded to Tang Sanzang in recognition of his virtue and purity. It serves as a signal of his righteousness, compatibility to become Bodhisattva, and ability to attain Nirvana and because the goal of every monk is to attain Nirvana it is an object of immense admiration. The story of Elder Jinchi's kasaya theft then speaks to him valuing the perception of enlightenment (by owning the kasaya) over actually realizing enlightenment himself.

"Wukong complained and threatened the rulers of Hell" is such a wild sentence 😂

This is quite literally the easiest explanation I was able to find. Bravo!

Fun fact the dragon that becomes the groups horse actually is the 3rd son of the dragon king of the west seas who was banished for accidentally setting fire to a crazy ass pearl gifted by the jade emperor, he runs into the group while being banished and mistakingly eats the tang monks horse and then from then on transforms and becomes their steed for the rest of the story and goes on to become bohdisatva Babu Tianlong Guangli

one tiny correction, the Destine One has always been Wukong mind himself.  that is why the relics recgonized him and come to him voluntarily.  what Erlang keep was Wukong memories, as his potrait bio mention how after Wukong die, he also take a bit of Wukong remain without anyone noticed.  that remain he took must be Wukong memories.

Ah yes, "Evenly matched" 47:55 . Definitely didn't die 75 times lol

Good video. One thing that is incorrect: the binding circlet  on Wukong's head is fact a gift from Quanyin to the monk after Wukong posed a physical threat to him.  The circle is one of the three holy circlets given by Buddha to Quanyin to aid her in the recruitment quest. One circlet for Wukong, one circlets to the Black bear that eventually became her bamboo garden guardian (he's  in the game by the way), and one final circlet for Bull demon king's son which she tamed to become her apostle.  Each circlet has its own unique chants to shrink and bind the subjects into submission.  These circlets are not from the Jade emperor 's court. Source: the novel. I read it yearly since a child .

This has got to be the best explanation of what led up to the game and then the full game explained.  I played this game but could not fully understand the story especially since the endings of the chapter didn't have any dialogue to explain what was going on.

Both buddha maetria and yellowbrow were in ch3. In the intro to the chapter that is the real maetria, on the frozen lake it is yellow brow disguised as maetria who releases kang jin loong from the seed sack. Then in the pavillion and the 4 buddhas quest that is the real maetria, as well as in the treasure hunter/melon field secret quest. After that, in the final boss encounter it is revealed that yellowbrow was disguising himself as maetria, but one obvious detail is the yellow robe he wears. And if you go back, all instances of the real maetria were with a blue robe.

Wukong.
Has anyone thought about the meaning of the name?
Sun Wukong is a heart ape, what does he want to understand?
Is the truth of the world,
From the beginning of his debut, Sun Wukong is a red boy waiting to experience the primeval universe, and his ultimate destiny is to find the truth beyond all boundaries. This is the ultimate philosophical freedom.
He has been to heaven, he has been to hell, he has fought thousands of horses, he has walked through the streets.
Sun Wukong represents the human spirit of adventure ", the spirit of rebellion, is the pioneer of the universe.
He experienced the myriad faces of the world, such a brilliant life to return to peace, is not the ideal of human beings?

Fun fact: Li Shimin, the 2nd Tang Emperor of China, was known as one of the greatest and most enlightened Chinese Emperor in history, he was also the one who sent Tang Xuanzang to India. He was also the one who gifted Xuanzang his cossack, which is why Xuanzang held it in high regard.

Great video on the intro to JTTW. But like one of the other comment stated, JTTW was written to be a political satire, and the game is a reimagination focusing on that aspect, thus "black myth", or a dark story.
In this view, the story is about how the strong prey on the weak, and how the strong maintain their power. One needs to view the characters in their hierarchy to see the darkness beneath what meets the eye, to see the gods as the highborn with power and background, to see the yiaoguais as the lowborn everyman like you and I (including wukong). I can raise some questions about each chapter to support this claim:
1. Why does the black wind pled for a punishment to be going back to the budda?
2. Why did the people of the contry of gold turn into rats as soon as they started to worship a rat? Why did yellow wind, someone who genuinely wanted to help people made his own land hell that made people suffer, right after wirnessing Wukong's death?
3. Why did yellow brow who openly talks against the celestial court got away twice while Sanzan who talks the talk and walks the walk had to be punished to be reborn?
4. Bajien is not that dumb, why wouldn't he recognize his own daughter?
5. Why did Wukong tell the bull "To have a master, to do what the gods wishes, that's the only way left for us"?
6. Why was the destined one's journey to revive Wukong helped throughout the game by the gods who wanted to kill Wukong so badly? Why does the old monkey wear the clothes of the gods (the floaty bands around him)?
I strongly recommend people to read the stories through this lense. It makes all the small stories in game even more depth. One story that tellse that we should do this was one of the wolf leader's, where he got his leadership because he helped black wind with his nonsensical propaganda.
Sorry if I didn't use the right translations, I played in Chinese.

It's so cool wukong after his pre journey of the west self and imprisoned  for 500 years and did 81 trials during journey of the west and achieved godhood and realized the injustice the celestial  court committed and resent  sun wukong he made a plan with erlang shen to go against the jade emperor and buddha themslev to do a reverse reincarnation process 1. Erlang shen took wu Kong memories in planted in his third eye for 500 years later, 2. He sperated his six senses to the yaoguai kings for the  destined on to retrieve  them, 3. He put his golden  armor and his weapon in areas where no one would find them, 4. Having the destined his reincarnation  go through these trials and defeat erlang shen by sparing him but killing the 4 heavenly gods a thorn to wukong  path in heaven, 5. Defeating sun wukong corpse and obtaining  the six senses back and not having the golden band on his head he is free from the gods and the destined a powerful  and more skilled monkey than sun wukong obtained new upgraded power, skill, inmortality wukong developed thousands of years prior and on equal par to the gods themselves to help the people across the land from evil and fight the gods changing the natural order itself.

People hardly realize how much Sun Wukong from the Journey to the West has influenced modern literature (especially in Manga/Anime). The protagonist of the manga Dragon Ball, Son Goku, is directly influenced by Sun Wukong. And so is, One Piece's protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy. Both mangas are about the journey of their protagonist who desire nothing more than true and complete freedom, have monkey-like playful and carefree personalities, and also possess Wukong's indomitable will and genius in combat.