"Black Myth: Wukong" IGN 8 points, insufficient optimization but excellent combat

Despite some frustrating technical issues with Black Myth: Goku, it is still an excellent action game with an engaging combat system, thrilling boss battles, alluring secrets, and a beautiful world.

Dark Myth: Goku was given an eight-point rating by IGN, which called it "excellent". Despite IGN reviewers' use of a top GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, the game still crashes frequently, and there are problems such as random language switching in character dialogue and the disappearance of important plot voices. Overall, however, these problems are worth overcoming because the game's strengths far outweigh its weaknesses.

"Dark Myth: Goku" is a sequel to "Journey to the West," but the interpretation of characters and events is full of citations from the original book, but does not provide a good introduction to Sun Wukong and "Journey to the West". Therefore, players may need to search the Internet for some background information.

As the first action game of Game Science, despite its technical flaws, Black Myth: Goku has been a great success with its combat system, which balances resource management and reactive gameplay, tests players' skills, and is more traditional than Elden Ring's style. There are also plenty of exciting boss battles and a huge variety of enemies in the game, and the visual and auditory effects are excellent.

The story of Black Myth: Goku is also good, but it relies too much on prior knowledge of the events of Journey to the West. In addition, the game lacks a map, which can cause some inconvenience for players to explore. However, the game's strengths, including an excellent combat system and engaging world, make it an action game not to be missed. If game science can solve the bugs in the game, Black Myth: Goku may become an even better work.