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The racists in IGN must be crying buckets :)

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I liked Journey to the West, it was really funny for a thousand-plus-year-old book, but didn't they all die at the end? Or rather, ascend to Buddhahood?

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The games opening cut scene addresses this, was pretty good

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah. The game's incipit is (spoilers ??? Literally the first five minutes of the game) >!Wukong just wants to chill on his mountains, but the other gods fear him and kick his ass. Decades, centuries or maybe millennia has passed, and now you, a monke from his village (arguably his reincarnation), are tasked with finding a way to reawaken him!<

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Ah yeah I remember he came from a monkey tree, like the song! Or perhaps it was a mountain