Black Myth: Wukong, the new action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology that stars a diverse cast of memorable characters based on classic 16th century novel Journey to the West, including the Monkey King himself—Sun Wukong—is set to launch worldwide today for PS5 and PC, but there are several topics that developer Game Science doesn’t want any reviewers to be talking about, including politics, feminist propaganda, COVID-19, and even China’s own game industry policies, according to a list of restrictions that has been shared online by those who have received review codes for the action game. The new title, which features several ray-tracing features, including ray-traced particle reflections, shadows, and caustics, can run at up to 98.9 FPS at 4K with full ray tracing enabled at max settings on a GeForce RTX 4090 with the help of DLSS 3, NVIDIA says.
The guidelines include:
- “Do NOT insult other influencers or players.”
- “Do NOT use any offensive language/humor.”
- “Do NOT include politics, violence, nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishization, and Other content that instigates negative discourse.”
- “Do NOT use trigger words such as ‘quarantine’ or ‘isolation’ or ‘COVID-19i.”
- “Do NOT discuss content related to China’s game industry policies, opinions, news, etc.”
The original word from @envinyon:
even if you were some weird right winger that was like "yeah fuck woke" I'm pretty sure you'd still get got cuz these are the most insane guidelines I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/GvCUzG8cyM
— Jason (@envinyon) August 17, 2024
A look at the full ray tracing in Black Myth: Wukong:
Game description:
Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. The story is based on Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.