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Black Myth: Wukong's PR Strategy Of Silence Has Failed
2026.02.28 04:08
It’s clear that Game Science is very aware of the discourse around its game; it’s just actively choosing not to say anything. That isn’t really a problem in itself – while it’s a clear effort to wait the allegations out and hope they’re simply forgotten, I can understand a smaller studio choosing to just shut up and let the game speak for itself instead of creating a politicised firestorm around a decidedly unpolitical game with a statement. It’s not great optics-wise, but there’s logic behind
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As expected, the sales for Hogwarts Legacy were through the roof , with some sources indicating that the game has sold over 34 million copies to date (although this number hasn't been officially confirmed by Warner Bros.). With Hogwarts Legacy already confirmed for release on the Switch 2, its sales will only continue to grow in the coming years. The only head-scratching thing about Hogwarts Legacy so far has been the apparent cancellation of planned DLC , despite the game's massive sa
Other reviews for Black Myth are largely positive as well. Hardcore Gamer's Adam Beck scored the game a 4.5/5 , praising its presentation values, world and quest design, and bosses, while being slightly less positive about the localization issues and somewhat repetitive combat by the end of the g
The implication of all these monologues, perhaps, is that players of Black Myth: Wukong can't just beat this games by defeating enemies in boss fights; they'll need to be able to defeat them ideologically as well, demonstrating how reaching enlightenment and becoming a better, happier person is hard, yet possi
Going by their imperious command to the player and the eerie-looking temple they inhabit, odds are good this mysterious antagonist/boss is the "Yellow Brows Great King" mentioned above, a spirit-turned-demon presiding over their own twisted version of the Buddhist faith. They may even be same narrator who recites the " Thou Shalt Kill " monologue earlier in the Black Myth: Wukong trailer, cementing themselves as an actual ideological enemy of Buddhism in-game, rather than just another of Wukong's demonic souls who wants to become immortal by devouring the flesh of a holy m
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With this document, the studio has sabotaged its own strategy. Staying silent provided plausible deniability – it doesn’t have to deny misogyny or sexism if it’s not making statements at all. But the phrase "feminist propaganda" makes that plausible deniability moot by declaring exactly what Game Science – or, at least, Hero Games – thinks about the criticism leveled against it, though it’s hard to imagine Hero Games came up with these guidelines on its own. Even with so much positive hype coming out about the game, Game Science has still managed to give players pa
This rhetoric of this narrator, plus the giant golden cymbal wedged between mountains in the trailer's final shot, suggests, that one of the antagonists in Black Myth: Wukong will be the Yellow Brows Great King (黃眉大王) from the Journey To The West novel , a spirit and musical attendant to a Buddhist saint who steals a set of golden cymbals from his master, becomes a powerful demon lord, creates a false Temple, and disguises himself as the Buddha in order to trick Sun Wukong and company into thinking their journey has en
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