According to steam this is one of the greatest games ever made?

[Scott Dark]

I don't know why but I'm looking at the gameplay on twitch and I just can't see it. Surely, I'd probably agree with them if I bought it and played it no?

Some of my favourite experiences are from God of War, Sekiro, Dark souls, Elden Ring, and Ghosts of Tsushima. How does this game compare to those games? Is it as good or better than those games? I'm not sure how I can love those games but looking at this game is making me go "meh".

Don't get me wrong the game looks okay but I'm just not seeing what makes this game as good as the steam reviews suggests.

What am I missing that makes this game as good as the steam reviews say it is?

[KuroiRaku]

This is more like 7.5-8/10 not bad, is good. Not masterpiece.

[Jackson]

I'd recommend trying it with the understanding you can always refund before 2 hours elapses. I can try to answer questions for you specifically from my 4 hours of play through, but in short, I see potential in it and I want to support the developer in their efforts. I wouldn't say it feels like any of the above games you've mentioned, and I have played them all, particularly, Sekiro and Dark Souls extensively.

[TooHigh2Die]

It's very unique, their is no puzzles, no platforming, just straight boss battles with semi open areas with some secrets (and good loot). The Boss battles themselves are varied, thrilling, engaging, and usually incredibly fun/challenging/fair.

Combat is some of the most fluid and fast I have ever seen and I have been playing these types of games since the OG God of War/Devil May Cry on Ps2. It has a very in depth upgrade system and no penalty for changing skills encourages EXPERIMENTATION. Something Action games lack these days with the straight to meta DPS/tank builds.

Magic spells here are very satisfying and useful, and the perfect dodge system is one of the best ever invented.

[Cryemore]

They publicly rejected wokeness. This level of success is a direct response.

[TooHigh2Die]

Originally posted by Cryemore:

They publicly rejected wokeness. This level of success is a direct response.

Apparently according to steam reviews 88% of the playerbase is in China for this game. This is basically their Superman/Mike Tyson/Babe Ruth combined into video game form. And they are showing up in mass to celebrate.

[JimJimi]

God of War, Sekiro, Dark souls, Elden Ring, and Ghosts of Tsushima >>I played all these. From the gameplay perspective Wukong is similar to the 2018 God of War and the latest. It not groundbreaking or anything, but I havent progress far into the game yet, but I like god of war,so, its very easy for me to like Wukong.

[masii07]

Originally posted by TooHigh2Die:

Originally posted by Cryemore:

They publicly rejected wokeness. This level of success is a direct response.

Apparently according to steam reviews 88% of the playerbase is in China for this game. This is basically their Superman/Mike Tyson/Babe Ruth combined into video game form. And they are showing up in mass to celebrate.

Very interesting info. Nice context that will be largely lost.

But antiwokers will use it as antiwoke win, culture war victory against wokeness..

[NewYears1978]

One of the best games I have ever played. Not perfect, but still. Must play for me unless you struggle with bosses in Souls games (although IMO these are much easier if you use the tools and combat properly)

Originally posted by masii07:

Originally posted by TooHigh2Die:

Apparently according to steam reviews 88% of the playerbase is in China for this game. This is basically their Superman/Mike Tyson/Babe Ruth combined into video game form. And they are showing up in mass to celebrate.

Very interesting info. Nice context that will be largely lost.

But antiwokers will use it as antiwoke win, culture war victory against wokeness..

Even if you remove the Chinese players (btw, Chinese people are people too so not sure why people keep trying to discredit this game because Chinese people are playing it?) there are still a ton of players and good reviews.

Also, it is a win for anti-woke garbage as well, at least in my opinion.

[CheeseSnowLeopardDZ]

I‘d say that its already not easy for a Chinese devs to gives us this game, most players are smart enough to know that GameScience (devs) can't compete with FromSoftware or Sony, but Its already satisfying for Chinese players to know that Chinese devs has the potential to do that

[Cryemore]

Originally posted by masii07:

Very interesting info. Nice context that will be largely lost.

But antiwokers will use it as antiwoke win, culture war victory against wokeness..

Because it is. Name a single woke game that would not have been a better product without the wokeness. It kills games, franchises and entire studios at this point.

Whether or not the majority of people playing Wukong are Chinese has no consequence. The part that matters, that developers, studios, board members and investors will notice is that a no name studio rejected woke ideology very publicly right before their game became the second most concurrently played game in the history of steam. Very much a win in the defense of normalcy.