Black Myth: Wukong: New trailer reveals bosses, enemies, area and spells

Black Myth: Wukong: New trailer reveals bosses, enemies, area and spells

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Black Myth: Wukong – the Chinese indie action RPG that gained a lot of attention with the announcement last year – won a new game trailer, showing a number of new elements. Launched to celebrate the Chinese New Year, ushering in the Year of the Ox, developer Game Science makes it clear that the trailer does not show a section of the game’s planned story. However, it shows unprecedented gameplay, including a new area, full of types of enemies, bosses and spells that we haven’t seen before. Check out the new gameplay belowSet in a desert-like area covered with dead plants and dotted with temple-like buildings, we see fast-paced battles against wolves-like acrobatic humanoids, a mouse wielding a spear and shield, which appears to be a lightning magician and a swarm of miniature red-eyed attackers. We also see a series of more boss-like enemies, from a giant, fleshy creature, similar to a rat, to a rat-like creature with two heads and a fire-eater, to an imposing humanoid ox.

We also see the player’s character (who may or may not be the real Wukong of Chinese folk tales) using a set of new spells to fight them: turning into a walking rock full of skulls to dodge ranged attacks, freezing one enemy in place and taking them down (a little reminiscent of Breath of the Wild’s Stasis ability), parrying against multiple enemies and transforming into three lightning creatures for an air attack.

A caption makes it clear that “This video was produced especially to commemorate the Year of the Ox, it does not represent the real plot.” However, it seems unlikely that any of the above elements were designed simply for the trailer, meaning that they will likely be implemented in the final game in different ways.

Black Myth: Wukong – 11 screenshots

This marks Black Myth’s first new gameplay since the 13-minute announcement video, which enjoyed incredible popularity across the Internet last year. In September, Game Science told IGN that it planned to be silent “for a long time” to work on the game – this launch seems to be just to celebrate Chinese New Year with fans, rather than signaling that we will be learning a lot more about the game.

To learn more about Black Myth: Wukong, check out everything we know about him and read our exclusive story about the studio that made it.

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