Black Myth: Wukong fans should check out this overlooked Xbox 360 gem

Black Myth: Wukong is 1 of the biggest games of 2024 but if you’re aft much Journey To The West inspired games, determination is different option.

With its Soulslike combat and stunning graphics, Black Myth: Wukong has go 1 of the astonishment hits of the year, selling implicit 20 cardinal copies worldwide successful its archetypal month.

Created by Chinese developer Game Science, the enactment role-player is inspired by the classical Chinese caller Journey To The West, with the game’s pb quality based connected Sun Wukong from the book. (Older readers mightiness cognize the communicative champion from the Monkey TV amusement from the 70s.)

The game’s portrayal of Chinese mythology is simply a cardinal crushed wherefore the crippled has been so palmy successful China, with the awesome visuals and elaborate brag battles attracting plentifulness of different players.

What should you play aft Black Myth: Wukong?

If you’re craving much enactment games (loosely) based connected the aforesaid root material, Enslaved: Odyssey To The West is an absorbing choice. Originally released successful 2010 connected PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the enactment escapade gives the novel’s events a post-apocalyptic aboriginal spin, led by different Sun Wukong-inspired quality named… Monkey.

Unlike Black Myth: Wukong, Enslaved is person to an Uncharted benignant escapade game, wherever the combat is punctuated with melodramatic acceptable pieces and puzzles. It’s little intensive but, connected a cinematic level, it was beauteous precocious for the time.

Enslaved is an oddity, led by immoderate astonishing prima power. Andy Serkis plays the lead, portion writer-director Alex Garland, who is champion known contiguous for films similar Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Civil War, helped co-write the game’s script.

Despite receiving affirmative reviews, Enslaved was a fiscal flop for developer Ninja Theory. The Cambridge-based workplace was known for Heavenly Sword astatine the time, but it has since gone onto marque DmC: Devil May Cry and the Hellblade series.

Where tin I play Enslaved: Odyssey To The West?

If you don’t fancy digging retired your PlayStation 3 oregon Xbox 360, Enslaved: Odyssey To The West is disposable to buy connected Steam for £14.99.

It’s not disposable connected the PlayStation Store but the Xbox 360 mentation is backwards compatible connected Xbox Series X/S, and disposable to bargain from the Xbox store for £11.99.

Many different games person been inspired by Journey To The West too, betwixt the Dragon Ball series, Saiyuki: Journey West for the archetypal PlayStation, and deck-building roguelike Journey To The West.

There’s besides a large brag conflict successful Bayonetta 3 based connected it, with galore Japanese games besides featuring akin nods and references, adjacent if they’re not adaptations of the communicative itself.

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