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To anyone confused. This story takes place after Journey to the west. So it's a original story from Game Science after Sun Wukong achieved buddahood for completing his journey with Tripitaka.
They can cry all they want, I always played souls games for the fashion. If the boss have a blingy crown, IT'S MINE. No tricks will be cheap enough to stop me from robbing him.
Happens to all of them. Must be some sort of initiation ritual, or an obligation. Once you reach a certain amount of subscribers, you HAVE to message at least ONE minor. That's the rule.
Fun fact: Sun Wukong's crown is a Heaven-sent magic treasure designed to reign in the immortal’s unruly, rebellious nature (which is weird, because that was put on him during his Journey to the West arc, after he defeated the armies of Heaven). So it's basically like those anti-mutant collars from Deadpool 2
Was it not because he was tasked with guarding Tripitaka and *immediately* decided not to, so needed some encouragement to follow orders through the crown?
Yep the circlet was forced upon Wukong to prevent him from going astray. Similar to Inuyasha's beads of subjugation for anyone who's watched Inuyasha which shares a lot of similarities to Journey to the West.
The first guy is Erlang Shen, the Divine General of Heaven. He is the greatest warrior of heaven, and the nephew of the Jade Emperor. Born a demigod, he used an axe as a young child to split a mountain and save his mother who was trapped underneath. He has a third divine eye and a celestial hunting hound. He is one of the most revered gods in Chinese myth. In the original Journey to the West, he was Sun Wukong’s biggest obstacle in the fight against Heaven. Not only that, but the novel (technically it wasn’t a series back in the day) portrayed Erlang Shen as winning the fight against Wukong. Wukong studied under Subodhi, and taught Wukong the 72 transformations, cloud summersault, etc. but Erlang was portrayed to be slightly superior, such as having 73 transformations. In their fight, they didn’t merely Duke it out with hands and weapons, but had transformation battles as well (such as Wukong transforming into one animal, Erlang transforming into a predator, and Wukong would transform into the predator of that predator and so on). Though, from a powerscaling perspective, it is unclear if Wukong surpasses Erlang in strength by the end of the story. Though as the Buddha of Victory in Battle, I’d probably say Wukong at the end is stronger.
I always thought they are on par during the 1 on 1, wu kong might even had the upper hand few times. Erlang only won because he have the other gods as backup
bro I love Chinese stories "Shortly after being born as an infant, little Xian Xian (born and dubbed immortal under the supervision and 65536 blessings of supreme divines and who is a protagonist of this realm btw) used the fingertip of his pinky toe to split the 80km high mountain (smallest of the bunch back then) into 100 thousand (uncountable) pieces when his pet grasshopper got trapped underneath, the largest chunks of the mountain that crashed all over the land have formed the mountain ranges of modern China"
1:26 I didn’t tho, The Golden Headband Wukong wears is a precaution for when he goes bananas. When he does, it tightens around his head causing the wearer excruciating head pain.
not exactly. it crushes his head whenever the monk, whose name i forgot, recites a specific mantra. Its meant as a way for the monk to control wukong and make sure he actually helps him pilgrim to the west instead of just murdering the monk and running away
3:00 Fun fact, the 72 in that isn't how many things he can transform to, it's actually 72 different spells. The shapeshifting is the 43rd spell and it can transform him into whatever he imagines, even a stronger version of himself. The full list below: "1: Freely come and go between the Underworld and the Living World. 2: Illusion and trick against the gods. Only work on the divine. 3: Withstand and lift heavy weight. 4: Waterproof. 5: Control the wind. 6: Making cloud. 7: Call the sun. 8: Call the rain. 9: Withstand fire. 10: Freely move in the water. 11: Cover the sun, usually mean as eclipse. 12: Ride the wind and cloud. 13: Making medicine, pill and elixir. The divine kind. 14: Fire breathing. 15: Blade swallowing. 16: Change the size of objects. 17: Have the soul leave the body. 18: Walking on water. 19: Basically a substitute jutsu but you actually leaving behind your body and just escape with your soul. 20: Making clone of yourself. 21: Invisibility. 22: Live without a head. 23: Pressure point hitting. 24: Demon slaying. 25: Calling god. The one make people think he is weak, but it is actually a spell. 26: See and interact with soul. 27: Track and destroy soul. 28: Calling cloud. 29: Catch the moon. 30: Move thing with the mind. 31: Dream control. 32: Split the body part. 33: Pass the pain to someone else. A literal "Pain pain fly away". 34: Stop water flow. 35: Push away bad luck, bad fate. 36: Escape the bad luck,bad fate. 37: Alchemy. 38: Sword mastery. Saber class? 39: See-through eyes. 40: Moving underground. 41: Clairvoyance. 42: Territory Creation. 43: Shapeshift. 44: Shapeshift other. 45: Change object by point the finger at it. 46: A better version of spell 19 that just leave behind some clothes or equipment. 47: Making illusion. 48: Calling object to you. 49: Return the object back. 50: Beast dialogue and control. 51: Bird dialogue and control. 52: Live without breathing. 53: Monstrous strength. 54: Go through rock. 55: Eyes glowing. Can actually shoot strong light: Eyes Beam. 56: Making medicine, pill and elixir. Different kind of medicine compare to spell 13, but still the divine kind. 57: Know the way to go. The reason why he is always in front. Just relate to direction. 58: Eating anything without harm. 59: Walk through wall. 60: Super jump. 61: Grow another head since just spell 22 is inconvenient. 62: Steal. You know like Kazuma from Konosuba? 63: Unlimited stomach. 64: Withstand the snow and the cold. 65: Withstand the sun. 66: Medical skill. Doctor Wukong is here. 67: Magical skill. He can even be a magus, this monkey. Caster class? 68: Making medicine, pill and elixir. The normal kind. 69: Know the time. Like having a clock of the place. 70: Know the place. Like having a map of the place. 71: "Mist Eating", basically living by just eating energy in the air. 72: Mind/Psychic attack. He actually use this to speak to other's mind instead of learning some telepathy."
Your fun fact is incorrect and not fun. These details and expanded interpretations are from other sources, and are not part of the original Journey to the West text.
Fun Fact: Goku from DBZ is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Goku in Japan and Monkey King in the West). He even had a powerpole as a kid, that magically extends like Wukong's staff
I believe his name is written similarly to how sun wukong is written as well, which is why the tournament announcer got his name wrong, directly calling kid goku sun wukong
fun fact the staff, the jingu bang, is in fact not a staff but a pillar from the palace of the Dragon king of the sea, who's a total bro. Also the story is set after the journey to the west, I think
@@Apotheosis- the total bro who told on Wukong to Heaven. Jk tho, he actually does become a bro. I love how Wukong is the first Shounen protagonist to use the power of friendship and it’s all completely off screen. 500 years under a mountain and suddenly everyone you went to war against is your best friend.
@@Crippledsteel if you watched the full cutscene of the opening you will see Wu Kong himself mentioning that he already completed the journey (the scripture is safe). After some time he left the court (heavens) and Buddhism to retire / spend the rest of his life at his mountain with his clan. However for some reason this offended the court, maybe they are paranoid of him or maybe there's something evil controlling the gods, and they proceed to slaughter his clan. Then we came to this game's opening scene
@@Crippledsteel nope this is entirely after Journey to the West. Notice in the opening scene, Wukong talked about his master is safe and the scripture from the West was unharmed and he also achieved Buddhahood. The game changed the fact that he decided to abandon his duty to live with mortals and it pissed off Heaven
Another fun fact: Sun Wukong's staff, the Ryui Jingu Bang (or Grand Pillar), was actually a treasure of the Eastern Dragon King and basically used to keep the oceans calm iirc. So yeah, if you wanna blame anyone for choppy waves or tsunamis, blame that chaos gremlin of a stone monkey And, Zanny, to answer the question of "who is that guy" at 1:02 when fighting the three-eyed guy: that is Erlang Shen, a god who was called in by the Jade Emperor (the ruler of Heaven) to basically just deal with Wukong when he first fought the armies of Heaven since *literally no one else could match him in a fight*, and even then I'm pretty sure he had to cheat? Sources vary in that. If I'm right, he got help from the Four Heavenly Kings (the four giant guys posted up behind him) and Laozi, an alchemist turned deity (I think?) who used a literal diamond snare to trap the mad monkey and just get him to *stop* After that, since they wanted to kill Wukong for his assault on Heaven but can't since he's immortal, they had to throw him into Laozi's Brazier, a giant pot where they intended to cook Wukong for 49 DAYS to drain the immortality out of him... It just made him angrier, and it got so bad that fucking BUDDHA Himself had to step in and say "Bro. Chill." Journey to The West lore is wild is what I'm saying bro-
This game has a boss mechanic where bosses only change into second phase if players are able to defeat the boss within a certain time frame. So if you're good and the boss is too easy for you, the boss will get a second phase to make the fight more difficult. If you are struggling and is just barely able to beat the boss, it won't go into second phase and your boss fight ends there.
This makes some sense from a story perspective. Like the fight against the tiger - it’s not to the death, so if he gets beat up quickly then he tries harder and goes into phase 2. I have mixed feelings from a gameplay perspective. My initial thoughts are “just get good” and “might be nice since I’m so bad”
A fun fact: In the release date trailer, they play the same motif that occurs in the 1970/80’s(?) journey to the west tv show’s intro. One for the og asians that had their parents make them watch it as a kid (I remember it on a pirated vhs)
One really interesting thing. The Tiger Vanguard in the Flashback realm is the same dude as the one on the bridge, the blood pool tiger is one of his 2 sons and the other one you can fight after a hidden quest with an item dropped by the bridge version. If completed you fight the other son. Also it's very cool that even in the flashback and then later on the tiger family worked with the yellow wind guy. One got corrupted, so did the latter Vanguard. The game's writing is subtle but insanely well done. 10/10
No, it's not. The flashback tiger vanguard is the original tiger vanguard from Journey to the West killed by Wukong. His older son becomes the vanguard tiger we fight in the game, and the lesser one is the crazy tiger who dwells in the well. The dude you fight on the bridge is one person who was deceived by the crazy tiger that could cure his son's disease (which is caused by the yellow wind), in return he lures and kills people to feed the crazy tiger. His name ‘虎伥' means a person manipulated by the tiger as a lure to more human flesh. The villagers discovered the truth and killed his son due to anger. That's why you can see those zombies surrounding that house while doing this quest and the world turns grey because it's all spiritual left for that kid.
actually you're wrong, the tiger in the flashback died when the journey to the west happened, killed by Wukong, the man on the bridge's story is a little long so bear with me(or you can find the story in the journal about the mad tiger in the well/other son): The two sons of the original tiger vanguard survived and the older one began to manage the monsters on the mountain, resulting in the villagers worshipping him, and when the yellow wind sage came back, the two brothers united against him, when they lost, to protect the younger brother's life, the older brother surrendered and became the new vanguard, the younger brother however is not happy about it and ran off to hide in a well. later on, a swordsman appeared in the well, he told the tiger that he is seeking out Budha to cure his son, the tiger, seeing the man as a useful asset, lied and said he is the older brother(worshiped by the villagers) and can help. When the story checked out, the swordsman brought his son down the well, and the tiger fed the kid water from a special gourd which only temporarily solved the issue, and told the swordsman that he needs to eat humans to regain strength to defeat the yellow wind sage, which would get rid of the wind around town which is destabilizing the son's soul, causing the illness. The man reluctantly complied. As time went on, the tiger liked the kid, so he gave the gourd to the kid to keep, but then one day the man never came again, apparently the villagers found out the man was luring humans into the well for the tiger, so in revenge they beat the kid to death, and the swordsman murdered the whole village and left. so the tiger brought the coffin containing the son's body down to the well with him as a reminder that he needs to defeat the yellow wind sage.
A while ago I felt a weird disturbance in the force, now I realise it was because it was Zanny saying "message to all autobots, the gameplay is smooth" while he was recording this vid.
The game I'm having the most fun on this year is power wash simulator. It's just the dings that really are so satisfying, and it just shows you that patience really brings happiness to those who wait
@@josiahclarke3535 ah here another douchebag. Erlang Shen was born demigod, his father was a mortal, and his mother is sealed under a mountain by Jade Emperor (which is her brother) because of her wedding with a mortal. Erlang Shen, or actually Yang Jian was the first to defy the heaven because he splits the mountain where his mother sealed with an Axe (thus a mountain-splitting axe in the intro)
0:40 the music zanny used here is from the 1986 TV show Journey to the West. This version of the story is an absolute classic, the best even till this day, embedded the childhood of an entire generation
I feel like I'm the only one who immediately thought "oh sick we play as reincarnated Wukong"? Cause Wukong achieved Buddahood so he can be reincarnated.
Nah, the 72 transformations are actually 72 different magic spells, not extra lives. Wukong has 7 different forms of immortality so he cant die unless ypu bypass all of it.
Wukong being imprisoned is a pretty iconic trope for his character. In manga he is always depicted as being behind bars, but I think he was imprisoned inside of a mountain.
An improvement to the whole respawning and death system, would be to simply have the monkey lay unconscious and for a passage of time effect to play over his face, then his eyes open and you're back to full. Watching you fall off the bridge, comically fall into the sand and die, then have to run back over and over again was kinda painful, I suspect it was painful to play. VR taught me that when you fall in a videogame, you should always stay in the experience, and just have to climb up again. It's way more immersive, and doesn't waste so much time with archaic mechanics.
Fun Fact: Sun Wukong's 72 earthly transformations technique doesn't actually let him turn into 72 creatures. It actually lets him turn into INFINITE transformations, including: an even stronger version of himself, a weaker version of himself, a version of himself that is exactly as strong as whoever he's fighting, etc. He can transform into ANYTHING, only excluding omnipotent beings like Buddha or the Jade Emperor, and omnipotent versions of himself. The 72 in the technique's name actually refers to how it lets Sun Wukong have 72 lives. (All of which are 7 times immortal btw)
7 times immortal?? like he can get hit by made up children's playdate game "ultimate super duper godkiller beam ray (you cant dodge it)" and still be fine 7 TIMES??
@@aineshmishra4153 nah, that’s not how traditional Chinese mythology or religion would view him. Just like how an emperor is not omnipotent, neither is the Jade Emperor. Even in the JTTW novel, he begs for Guanyin and the Buddha’s help.
12:40 SECRET LEVEL REFERENCED LET'S GO RAAAAAAAAAA I can't tell if the monkey noises in the video are from the game or just Zanny being really excited.
The Monkey King has more than 72 forms. The 72 Earthly Transformations is kind of a misleading name, they're the 72 powers he gained from training with a daoist monk, one of which was shapeshifting, but he isn't limited to 72 forms.
If I’m remembering correctly, the crown in the books was given to him as a “gift”. He got tricked into wearing it because it same with new clothes or something, but when the monk he escorting says a specific mantra (?) it gives Wukong a migraine or something like that.
@@luckystarplays1837 correct. It’s a sutra that constricts the ring and it basically starts crushing Wukong’s head. Pigsy also has one. So does the other dude (idk his English name).
Just to let you know, people cannot post there IG or X in your comments for the giveaway 9:50 RU-vid will auto detect them as spam and delete the comment. i was wondering why no one was entering the give away. They proly are but the comments are getting deleted like my first comment was. Tryin to help.
Fun fact: My favorite monster-of-the-week enemy from Journey To The West is the white bone demon/spirit, which has a more baller name in Chinese (I promise guys trust) and what's interesting is that Tripitaka which is Wukong's master, who's all spiritual and passive and such is susceptible to the white bone demon because it transforms into a starving person, etc. And the entire arc is that Wukong needs to convince his master this isn't actually a person in need and keep Tripitaka not alone with the bone demon so the demon doesn't eat him, while also pleasing his master by doing what the demon in disguise wants, goated arc frfr
