was one of the Games that has shown a lot, that you cant trust those self-proclaimed Game-Journalists and lead to a lot of Controversy in the Year 2024, but it came out fine and also garnered a large Playerbase right away on its Launch-Day and even after that, gathering Record-Numbers.

As Player you take control of the Protagonist, only known as “the Monkey” to venture out into the World of Chinese Folklore and Mythology to reclaim the relics of the Legend “Wukong”.
On your Journey you are equipped with your trusty combat staff and unlock a lot of different Skills and Spells that can be switched at any shrine, resting place, to boost the abilities that suit you best.
In Third-Person Dynamic-Action-Combat Style you will be lead through a lot of Chinese Mythology influenced Areas with various Monsters, Enemies and Bosses you will have to fight against.

The Games best Part is the way how it portray Chinese Mythology and how it brings Creatures of said Mythology into the digital Space of Gaming.
The Story Elements are also nice and well made, but a bit confusing when People are missing out on Key-Elements like specific Items and Characters.

The major Part of the Game is, exploring different Areas that get unlocked after defeating the Major-Boss in said Areas, and can still be explored later on with fast Travel to uncover even more Secrets and Challenges.
Also the different Abilities are nice to use and combine and recombine over and over to try different strategies and tactics against different Bosses.

But sadly there are also some negative Aspects in this Game, having a lot to do with World-Building (technical). There are a lot of ways and places that just invite Players to be explored until… Player gets stopped by an invisible Wall that will then lead to either not letting the Player jump up or down or go further out. And this happens a lot in each Map.
It would have been nice if the Developers would have payed a bit more attention to that detail and covered the ways that Players should not take with more logical blockages.

Still I recommend this Game to every Person that likes Games with challenging Bossfights and tactical and strategic usage of Skills instead of to many Weapons in Inventory.
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8 / 10 Grafics (Very good graphics in Design of Environment and Creatures)
7,8 / 10 Art-Style (The portrayal of Chinese Mythology is well implementet and reflected in this Game)
6 / 10 Atmosphere (The Environments are sometimes more confusing than immersive)
7,2 / 10 Gameplay (Its easy to go into the Game with the simple combat, and also allows a variety of Skills to use)
6,2 / 10 Main-Story (Interesting Story, but mostly to just push the Player forward rather then taking the player with it)
5,8 / 10 Side-Story (There are some Characters in the Game with their own Questline, but they are easy to miss)
6 / 10 Soundtrack (There are some, but none of them are really memorable)
7 / 10 Performance (There where a few stuttering here and there and one Cutscene froze for a few seconds where the Audio then was unsynch for the rest of the Cutscene, but overall it was running fine and smooth)
9 / 10 Content (The Areas are huge and give the Players a lot to explore)
8 / 10 Enemies (Lots of different Enemies and unique to each Area in the Game)
10 / 10 Bossfights (So many Bossfights, really enjoyable for People who like Bossfights in Games.)

is a very interesting made Sci-Fi Game with lots of Planets, Questlines and Characters to visit. Players are not just able to jump from one System to the next, they are also given the chance to build and fly their own Space-Ship and assign recruited Crew-Members to it and take one of them as companion to all of the adventures and combats that are ahead.
And if that is not enough it also offers an Outpost-System for those who want to make their own little Intergalactic Material-gathering empire with automatic supply lines via Transportships.

The Game’s strength is clearly its high variety of Quests that it offers and that it does not force the Player to do them in specific Order. Like in previous Bethesda-Games its up to the Player in which direction the adventure will go and which Parts of the Universe to be explored. It also offers different Play-Styles and Weapons to accomplish different outcomes in some of the Adventures.
And it also has implemented interesting Encounters that can happen randomly while flying through space.

The weak Part of the Game tho is its instability, where the Developers have delivered lots of Patches but sadly still not entirely fixed the sometimes occurring Game-Crashes. Safing a lot is highly recommended. Also the limits it sets for Ship-Building can be frustrating, cause it does not show them at first and thus are very surprising when trying to build larger Ships but then get interrupted by the pop-up message “Element-Limit reached!”.

I recommend this Game to everyone who likes Space-Ships and Sci-Fi Themed RPGs with lots of Questlines to discover.
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7,4 / 10 Graphic (Solid graphics on lots of the Characters and Environment, but a little lacking when it comes to larger Surfaces)
6 / 10 Art-Style (Some Plants and Creatures have a unique Design, but it gets very repetitive after a while, would have been nice to see larger varieties for Flora and Fauna)
8 / 10 Atmosphere (Great Sci-Fi Atmosphere and very entertaining in Space-Combat, as specially in some Questlines)
7,8 / 10 Gameplay (Easy to go into type of Gameplay. But the Lock-Picking is not ok and annoying after just a few locks.)
6,2 / 10 Main-Story (Typical for Bethesda-Games, the Main-Story is not so well as it could have been and some Elements in that Story dont make much sense.)
8,2 / 10 Side-Story (The Side-Stories are really well implemented and offer much more unique Elements for the Game as a whole. As specially the unique Characters that can be met in those Side-Stories feel special compared to regular NPCs.)
6,8 / 10 Characters (Lots of Characters to met in that Universe, but sometimes a little over the Top Biography-like Dialogues with them. And annoying when they always talk more about their Love-Life rather than what they expect to be done in the Quest.)
7,5 / 10 Soundtracks (The Soundtracks are good, but sadly the variety for such a large Universe is not enough and thus some Tracks get repetitive after a few combats)
3 / 10 Major-Bugs (Random crashes that can occur at any moment in the Game. Sometimes Patches made it less frequent and then new patches made it more frequent again. Safing a lot is highly recommended)