What the actual f4ck do all these things mean?

[Skree]

I feel like i landed on a different planet where everyone speaks some incomprehensible language that SEEMS human but isn't.

Who's the headless guy with the guitar? What do all the story thing mean? I can't even remember them for how little sense they made. They talk of... bloody hell i don't know, it's just background whitenoise at this point, not a sliver speck of the story is even somewhat clear.

I managed to piece together that the rat king betrayed his own people to the tiger chap in the blood pool and just breeds to have more food to give him but everyone lives in misery.

At least i think so.

Regarding to this game story i have some questions.

Why? How? Who? WHY? When? HOW AND WHY?!?

Really, seriously, the gameplay is nice, but everyhing else is more hermetic than a batisphere.

[Giganx]

lol, yea they didn't do much to clean up the english dub; most of it is heavy chinglish. They use the wrong words and don't structure their speech properly.

It's an action game, though; so I'm not too hung up on the story. Think of it like Nioh or the old Ninja Gaidens; the story is just a flimsy setup for you to smack people around.

[Noop]

Maybe worth to read the book if you are interested? This isn't the first soulslike I play so I expected to understand like 10% of the story at best, so I don't even try to understand it and I just listened to the nice song instead of looking at the subtitles.

[Skree]

Originally posted by Giganx:

lol, yea they didn't do much to clean up the english dub; most of it is heavy chinglish. They use the wrong words and don't structure their speech properly.

It's an action game, though; so I'm not too hung up on the story. Think of it like Nioh or the old Ninja Gaidens; the story is just a flimsy setup for you to smack people around.

Yeah, but if i could follow the story at least i would be a bit more invested. In Ninja Gaiden when Ryu goes all badass and the military base in the second game goes completely frigid with terror is nice.

Here i go around bashing heads with a stick and i don't even know why and what i am trying to do. litterally, i DON'T KNOW why i am going around killing stuff, and i would love to know, to understand, to... bloody hell i have an headache.

[Skree]

Originally posted by Noop:

Maybe worth to read the book if you are interested? This isn't the first soulslike I play so I expected to understand like 10% of the story at best, so I don't even try to understand it and I just listened to the nice song instead of looking at the subtitles.

The Dark Souls / Elden Ring storyline is plain text compared to this.

[Apples]

Originally posted by Skree:

I feel like i landed on a different planet where everyone speaks some incomprehensible language that SEEMS human but isn't...

I've felt like that since the day I was born. Consider yourself lucky that you only experience it with a random video game.

[Getherer]

Originally posted by Noop:

This isn't the first soulslike I play

IF you really played souls-like games then you would know that this game has literally nothing in common with souls like games, apart of being an action fighting game, its more of a hack and slash....

[REhorror]

Don't think too hard about this.

I'm knowledgeable about Journey to the West but this story is needlessly obtuse to me.

Know some facts:
- you do not play Sun Wukong, the OG monkey king in this game.
- the OG Monkey king got struck down by Er Lang Shen (a Heaven general) and his heavenly host early in the game
- you play as the monkey who would gather all the relics (basically parts left by the original Wukong) in order to become THE Wukong
- all the enemies you face are enemies that the Wukong used to face during the 81 trials during Journey to the West (not all of course) and some new monsters.
- basically the games goes against JttW canon and plays Wukong/his monkeys as the Rebel even after completing the original JttW while the Heaven (and even Buddha) are the bad guys

There is some animation that explain the origin of some of the youkai/yaogoai you face in the game, but they are just that, explaination, they don't affect the overall plot.

Of course stuff like Zhu Baijie (the little boar guy) romance with the Spider, and the White skeleton Lady romance with Wukong are pure fan fiction.

[Skree]

Originally posted by REhorror:

Don't think too hard about this.

I'm knowledgeable about Journey to the West but this story is needlessly obtuse to me.

Know some facts:
- you do not play Sun Wukong, the OG monkey king in this game.
- the OG Monkey king got struck down by Er Lang Shen (a Heaven general) and his heavenly host early in the game
- you play as the monkey who would gather all the relics (basically parts left by the original Wukong) in order to become THE Wukong
- all the enemies you face are enemies that the Wukong used to face during the 81 trials during Journey to the West (not all of course) and some new monsters.
- basically the games goes against JttW canon and plays Wukong/his monkeys as the Rebel even after completing the original JttW while the Heaven (and even Buddha) are the bad guys

There is some animation that explain the origin of some of the youkai/yaogoai you face in the game, but they are just that, explaination, they don't affect the overall plot.

Of course stuff like Zhu Baijie (the little boar guy) romance with the Spider, and the White skeleton Lady romance with Wukong are pure fan fiction.

Thanks.

Gah. At least there is a ray of light. Thank you.

[Giganx]

From what I gather is you were the Monkey King, but got shattered into different relics in that prologue cinematic. Now I guess you're still alive but have to go on a journey to get the relics back to restore your godhood, or something.

Along the way you meet a lot of characters and monsters who speak in broken english. Understanding them might add some layers to the story, but end of the day it doesn't seem all that deep. Probably not missing much.

[Noop]

Originally posted by Getherer:

Originally posted by Noop:

This isn't the first soulslike I play

IF you really played souls-like games then you would know that this game has literally nothing in common with souls like games, apart of being an action fighting game, its more of a hack and slash....

You know, maybe google what soulslike means FIRST befor you look stupid in a public forum. Just saying.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Skree:

Originally posted by REhorror:

Don't think too hard about this.

I'm knowledgeable about Journey to the West but this story is needlessly obtuse to me.

Know some facts:
- you do not play Sun Wukong, the OG monkey king in this game.
- the OG Monkey king got struck down by Er Lang Shen (a Heaven general) and his heavenly host early in the game
- you play as the monkey who would gather all the relics (basically parts left by the original Wukong) in order to become THE Wukong
- all the enemies you face are enemies that the Wukong used to face during the 81 trials during Journey to the West (not all of course) and some new monsters.
- basically the games goes against JttW canon and plays Wukong/his monkeys as the Rebel even after completing the original JttW while the Heaven (and even Buddha) are the bad guys

There is some animation that explain the origin of some of the youkai/yaogoai you face in the game, but they are just that, explaination, they don't affect the overall plot.

Of course stuff like Zhu Baijie (the little boar guy) romance with the Spider, and the White skeleton Lady romance with Wukong are pure fan fiction.

Thanks.

Gah. At least there is a ray of light. Thank you.

Do not worry because while the game advertises itself as JttW, the games takes place AFTER the JttW and basically just re-uses some familiar elements to make its own plot.

But the storytelling can be needlessly confusing.

[Skree]

Originally posted by FeetsaPace:

Originally posted by Skree:

I feel like i landed on a different planet where everyone speaks some incomprehensible language that SEEMS human but isn't...

I've felt like that since the day I was born. Consider yourself lucky that you only experience it with a random video game.

Uh. For what's worth i am sorry.

[REhorror]

This game assumes that Sun Wukong does not like his post being Victorious Fighting Buddha (his prize after finishing the titular Journey to the West) but wants to go back to being the Monkey King in the Flower Fruit Mountain instead (his original land before he's forced to do the Journey) or he doesn't want to be controlled at all by Buddha or Heaven.

The devs probably have the same interpretation of Sun Wukong as Chairman Mao Zedong who felt that Sun Wukong symbolises the chinese peasant who got tricked and controlled by the authority (Buddha and Heaven).

[酱油•ａｉｄ]

The English translations are rough. The Npcs are already speaking in poems, in an archaic way. And then they went to do literal translations of each word, instead of translating the meaning behind it...

[GroovyHobo]

Originally posted by Skree:

I managed to piece together that the rat king betrayed his own people to the tiger chap in the blood pool and just breeds to have more food to give him but everyone lives in misery.

Why are you acting like this is some sort of mysterious thing? This is like extremely obvious and you figure it out when you get to the tiger like immediately. It also makes you feel bad for the rats.

One of the worst things about recent post 2010s consumerism is we feel like everything has to be explained right away. Back then in the day people just accepted they couldn't know everything right away but now everything has to be explained in detail which wrecks natural story telling.