Black Fantasy: Wukong is, as our evaluate mentioned, each confounding and spectacular. It’s an motion RPG soulslike that has loads of the style’s normal beats — XP and ability 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 enable you to begin your journey (to the West) because the Destined One with ideas from our first 15 hours with the sport. We’ve acquired 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 best way, however there’s not a lot of a grind. As a substitute, you’ll be extra centered on getting from one boss struggle to the following — there are loads of bosses and boss-like enemies.
That linearity exhibits up in your armor and weapons as nicely. You don’t a lot unlock them as you simply attain a sure shrine and the crafting recipes for brand new tools will probably be routinely unlocked (extra on this beneath). The identical goes for spells — they’re simply given to you after beating sure bosses.
That mentioned, you don’t wish to simply dash from one shrine to the following as a result of…
It’s best to look ahead to facet paths
Whereas your general progress is kind of linear, the routes between the shrine checkpoints do have branching paths which are nearly all the time price exploring. You’ll normally discover at the very least a chest and even an elective boss struggle.
These boss fights may even offer you loads of XP and normally some uncommon improve supplies as nicely. If nothing else, you’ll discover some elements. Which will probably be helpful… ultimately.
You possibly can’t make drugs till chapter 2
As you play by the start of the sport, you’ll discover loads of elements like vegetation and mushrooms. Their descriptions will even say they “can be utilized to make medicines,” however you gained’t have the ability 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 known as a Wandering Wight. The primary time you meet it, you may’t beat it. (Nicely, it’s attainable, but it surely’s not going to occur.) The trick with that struggle, although, is that the best way ahead is previous that enemy. You simply need to run previous it.
That’s not going to work for many fights, but it surely’s an vital lesson about how the sport works — you’ll get much more highly effective and have extra abilities to attract from as you progress (linearly).
If you happen to hit a tough enemy or boss, you may all the time come again later when you’re a bit stronger. Which brings us to…
Quick journey is bizarre with no map
You possibly can (quick) journey from any shrine to another shrine you’ve beforehand visited. However there’s no map, so it’s a bit awkward at first.
If you select to journey, you’ll simply get an inventory of the names of shrines and their area. The names are descriptive sufficient, although, so it’s not too laborious to determine the place you’re going.
As you progress by 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 simple sufficient to know. The garments — gear in your head, physique, legs, and arms — are a bit extra attention-grabbing.
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Garments have distinctive results that you just achieve whereas sporting them. These embrace issues like harm bonuses or pace will increase. Some tools has a quantity subsequent to the distinctive impact — that signifies what number of items of that set of drugs you should 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 areas, assist the Yellow-Robed Squire, and the place to search out and ship all Buddha’s Eyes.
