Black Myth: Wukong, an action role-playing game from Chinese developer Game Science, will launch on PC and PS5 on August 20. Just a few days ago, developers did an awesome, consumer-friendly thing by launching a PC benchmarking tool. Now, they’ve pulled off a second consumer-friendly trick, allowing reviews to be posted a full four days before the game’s release.
Before we dive into the review, I’d like to briefly outline the reviewer’s perspective: The game takes around 30+ hours to play, and like Game Science, it emphasizes that it’s an action RPG rather than an action role-playing game Pretend game. Despite this, many critics still consider it to be more like the Souls series than an ARPG.
It’s so big that Eurogamer had to publish an article stating that they needed more time to develop it: “It’s a big game and we haven’t played it long enough, which means we don’t have enough Time to do something important enough.
UK store Push Square has also yet to comment, saying it has only provided PC codes, so it’s understandable that they want to wait until they have some PS5 hands-on time.
Now let’s dive into the review. On Metacritic, the game currently has a score of 82, based on 52 reviews at the time of writing.
Godisa Geek In a review written by Mick Fraser, Black Myth: Wukong received an astonishing 10/10 rating: “You might say GameScience is just adding new gems to old ones, but that’s not at all. Important. When the quality level is always this high, no one needs to ask for more. With a series of exciting combat, intuitive level building and expert boss design, Black Myth: Wukong is undoubtedly one of the best action games of the year. one.
game store “Black Myth: Wukong” also left a deep impression on me. In Rashid Sayed’s review, the author gave it a 10/10 rating: “Black Myth: Wukong offers stunning combat, top-notch production quality, and memorable boss fights. It’s not deterred by a few quirks It became one of the best games in the genre in recent years.
On the other hand, we have commentary from GameRant, handled by Dalton Cooper. Dalton gave it a 3/5, writing: “Black Myth: Wukong This is a game that eschews the Souls-like label, but it’s clearly aimed at Souls-like players. It’s far from the best game in the genre, but it’s not the worst either dark souls‘Footsteps. If you go into this game expecting a basically standard Souls experience with some heart-pounding boss encounters thrown into the base level design, you’re going to be better off than you expecting it to play like a traditional character action game. Better.
Jason Coles Sixth axis It didn’t leave too deep an impression either, giving the game a high score of 6/10. He wrote: “Black Myth: Wukong is an amazing game, but it lacks exploration, and the combat is mostly okay. It’s just a little bland, and now that I’ve finished it, I don’t want to play it again. Keep playing this game.
Venturing into the middle ground, we find Mitchell Saltzman IGN. In his review, he mentioned the technical issues the game encountered, saying “if GameScience could iron out these bugs, the game could become even greater.” But that didn’t stop him from giving the game an 8/10, saying: “Despite some frustrating technical issues, Black Myth: Wukong is an excellent action game with great combat, exciting gameplay Exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets and a beautiful world.
Gamer magazine gave it a 4/5 in a review by Joshua Robertson, who also seems to be leaning heavily toward Black Myth being a Souls-like game. Here’s what he had to say: “Over the past few years, it’s become clear that we don’t need to rely solely on FromSoftware for competent and entertaining Souls games. Lies of P, Starblade, Rise of Ronin, and Another Crab’s Treasure both launched in the past 12 months and impressed, but Black Myth: Wukong goes even further and is the most polished game I’ve ever played outside of FromSoftware’s masterpiece. , the most complex and interesting Souls game.
In a review posted by Brendan Lowry, Windows Central gave it a 3.5/5 rating, and he specifically mentioned some performance issues. Here’s how he described the game: “Ultimately, Black Myth: Wukong is a very solid action RPG with exciting, cinematic boss battles, diverse, gorgeously rendered scenes, and a world full of building options. A rich combat system and a great story, however, it’s hampered by bland level design and disappointing enemy variety, a redundant gear system, and some notable performance issues.
In the end, PC Gamer’s Tyler Colp gave it a score of 87/100, saying, “Black Myth: Wukong blooms with a quirky cast of characters and expressive combat, all of which Wrapped in a rich world of source material.
