A stone-cold banger: Black Myth – Wukong reviewed

Remember the mad 1970s TV series Monkey? Here, excitingly, is the closest you’ll get to it in videogame form. In a pre-credit sequence, you are the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, and you not only fly about on a little cloud but suffer from that headache-inducing circlet on your bonce. The main game is set much later. Sun Wukong is locked in a stone egg and you take command of a monkey warrior – the Destined One – in search of the magic objects which will revive him.  

Black Myth: Wukong is the first AAA blockbuster game to come out of China, and it’s what I believe the young people call a stone-cold banger. The graphics are immaculate and the gameplay – which has you pilot your fighty monkey through a series of landscapes, giving random demons what-for with your staff – is extremely moreish. Its combination of fluid combo-building combat, snap spell-casting and character customisation reminded me of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which I consider high praise.