re: Anyone picking up Black Myth Wukong? Haven’t seen any chatter here for it

Yes that’s it

Made a lot of progress. Cleaned up 99% of chapter and about 6 fights deep with Yellow Wind Sage. Holy shite.

game is enjoyable. quit playing half way through on new game plus. i never play a game twice so its good.

Finally got around to getting this a few weeks ago, completed my first play through yesterday.

For a first outing Game Science did an overall good job. I'll def. be interested in anything else they produce. There were a lot of small issues that I'll chalk up to being inexperienced.

A few thoughts, as for the good

1. I like the skill trees and customization options, the ability to customize which skills and spells you want to specialize in, the way the flask is customizable, etc. Good stuff. Felt like I had a lot of real options.

2. I like how it encourages you to use all your spells and consumables. Most Souls-like games if you want your spells to be worthwhile you gotta spec into them and consumables are either useless or limited, but they did a good job of incorporation spells and consumables into the intended combat.

As for the stuff that I didn't like. None of it makes the game bad. Just irritations for an otherwise good game.

1. The map design is very awkward. It's really not well defined where you can go and where you can't. You'll spend a ton of time trying to go places you def think you can and hitting invisible walls or trying jumping on things you can't. The in-game map helps but it takes you out of it looking at the map constantly. Most of levels are pretty linear and but they wanted to make the world look more realistic and open but it creates a very weird dynamic. There's a subtle art to communicating to the player where they can actually go and where they can't without making it too heavy handed. Some levels are worse than others. Chapters 1 and 2 you notice it a little bit, but chapter 3 you notice it A LOT. The presentation of chapter 6 is just bizarre as hell too.

2. The default movement speed of the character was way too slow. The default walking speed is like you are wearing weights. Running is better but it's just weird how slow your character is without running. Probably a design decision on their part but I didn't like it.

3. The music was extremely uninspired, you barely even notice the game has music and when there is, it's very bland.

4. The game was way too easy. It's not strictly a souls-like but close enough. Games like this aren't really anything special without challenging boss fights. After the first 2 chapters I basically stopped dying.

It should be noted I am a very experienced "Souls" players though. Average Joe gamers will def find challenge.

I first tried just about every boss in the game from chapter 3 onward, including the major end-chapter bosses. For the few bosses I did die on, I got them all on the 2nd try. The player power scales up much faster than the enemies, so you quickly become OP, especially if you use your whole arsenal.

The trash mobs needed a lot of work. They were way too easy and way too low density. Too many of the levels are just big sections of empty space and then you see 1 trash mob in the distance you can charge up and basically kill him without him getting an attack off. They needed tougher trash mobs and more of them.

5. Stamina feels pointless. No matter how much you dodge or attack you always have stamina. It recharges so quickly you effectively have infinite stamina.

Sequel incoming?

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as I read there may be a DLC this fall?

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Maybe they'll announce something at Gamescom?