Black Fantasy: Wukong is, as our evaluation stated, each confounding and spectacular. It’s an motion RPG soulslike that has lots of the style’s common beats — XP and talent tree, checkpoints that save your progress whereas additionally respawning enemies — whereas additionally placing its personal distinctive spin on them.
Our Black Fantasy: Wukong newbie’s information will allow you to begin your journey (to the West) because the Destined One with ideas from our first 15 hours with the sport. We’ve received hints and recommendation on degree layouts, the (complicated) crafting mechanic, quick journey, and your tools.
There’s not likely a gameplay loop in Black Fantasy: Wukong. You’ll journey from shrine checkpoint to shrine checkpoint, dispatching enemy yaoguais (demons) alongside the way in which, however there’s not a lot of a grind. As a substitute, you’ll be extra targeted on getting from one boss struggle to the following — there are a lot of bosses and boss-like enemies.
That linearity exhibits up in your armor and weapons as effectively. You don’t a lot unlock them as you simply attain a sure shrine and the crafting recipes for brand spanking new tools shall be robotically unlocked (extra on this under). The identical goes for spells — they’re simply given to you after beating sure bosses.
That stated, you don’t need to simply dash from one shrine to the following as a result of…
You must look ahead to facet paths
Whereas your general progress is kind of linear, the routes between the shrine checkpoints do have branching paths which can be virtually all the time value exploring. You’ll normally discover at the least a chest and even an non-compulsory boss struggle.
These boss fights will even provide you with loads of XP and normally some uncommon improve supplies as effectively. If nothing else, you’ll discover some components. Which shall be helpful… ultimately.
You’ll be able to’t make drugs till chapter 2
As you play by means of the start of the sport, you’ll discover lots of components like crops and mushrooms. Their descriptions will even say they “can be utilized to make medicines,” however you received’t be capable to do something with them.
And that’s as a result of that’s a mechanic that doesn’t unlock till chapter 2, a number of hours into the sport.
Very early in Black Fantasy: Wukong, you’ll run into an enemy referred to as a Wandering Wight. The primary time you meet it, you possibly can’t beat it. (Nicely, it’s attainable, nevertheless it’s not going to occur.) The trick with that struggle, although, is that the way in which ahead is previous that enemy. You simply need to run previous it.
That’s not going to work for many fights, nevertheless it’s an essential lesson about how the sport works — you’ll get much more highly effective and have extra expertise to attract from as you progress (linearly).
In case you hit a tough enemy or boss, you possibly can all the time come again later when you’re a bit stronger. Which brings us to…
Quick journey is bizarre with no map
You’ll be able to (quick) journey from any shrine to every other shrine you’ve beforehand visited. However there’s no map, so it’s a bit awkward at first.
While you select to journey, you’ll simply get a listing of the names of shrines and their area. The names are descriptive sufficient, although, so it’s not too exhausting to determine the place you’re going.
As you progress by means of Black Fantasy: Wukong and defeat bosses, you’ll unlock new tools to craft at shrines. You’ll solely ever struggle with one weapon — varied variations of a workers — so these are straightforward sufficient to grasp. The garments — gear on your head, physique, legs, and arms — are a bit extra attention-grabbing.
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Garments have distinctive results that you simply acquire whereas sporting them. These embody issues like injury bonuses or velocity will increase. Some tools has a quantity subsequent to the distinctive impact — that signifies what number of items of that set of drugs you might want to be sporting to activate the distinctive impact.
There are secrets and techniques (that grant rewards)
Whereas Black Fantasy: Wukong is generally linear, you’ll discover varied secrets and techniques off the overwhelmed path. A few of these reward Vessels — equipment that grant useful perks. For assist in monitoring down a few of these early-game secrets and techniques, see our guides on the place to search out all hidden bell places, learn how to assist the Yellow-Robed Squire, and the place to search out and ship all Buddha’s Eyes.
