Currently have 57 hours saved still have yet to finish the game. In my personal opinion I absolutely love the game but understand that the game literally is a sequel to a existing story so without seeing the story you wont understand any of the references so its HIGHLY encouraged to go check out "Journey to the West" its in book form first obviously cuz its a ancient story of how Buddhism came to China. but the 1996 TV series not animated of the story is the best way to consume the material, or you can try the 1986 version but its a bit aged. this story has been something I knew of as a child and loved the TV series the most I lelarned a lot about the monkey king from that and it helps A LOT with understanding why these characters say the things they so etc. etc. etc. Now the thing with the developers being anti femanists, PLEASE dont let that stain your look on the game itself and the story because neither of those have anything to do with it. there is plenty of diversity in the game, the culture is alien to the western cultures so just bare with it and try to read up on it before indulging. The only gripe i have with the game is the environment is a bit more underdeveloped then usual dark souls like games you get caught on a lot of things. IMO 8.5/10 ...

Forget ALL the haters of this game, after 91 hours i finally finished it the way i wanted to and got the true ending. This game has a message for a specific audience and they told it with that. whoever plays this game HAS to check out "Journey to the West". there are so many 10/10 throwbacks in this game it would be silly and pointless not to. The voice actors in the game EVEN have the same mannerisms as the OG from the 1986 series. Please do yourself a service if you plan to play this look deep into the book or show series. itll be worth it.

Currently have 57 hours saved still have yet to finish the game. In my personal opinion I absolutely love the game but understand that the game literally is a sequel to a existing story so without seeing the story you wont understand any of the references so its HIGHLY encouraged to go check out "Journey to the West" its in book form first obviously cuz its a ancient story of how Buddhism came to China. but the 1996 TV series not animated of the story is the best way to consume the material, or you can try the 1986 version but its a bit aged. this story has been something I knew of as a child and loved the TV series the most I lelarned a lot about the monkey king from that and it helps A LOT with understanding why these characters say the things they so etc. etc. etc. Now the thing with the developers being anti femanists, PLEASE dont let that stain your look on the game itself and the story because neither of those have anything to do with it. there is plenty of diversity in the game, the culture is alien to the western cultures so just bare with it and try to read up on it before indulging. The only gripe i have with the game is the environment is a bit more underdeveloped then usual dark souls like games you get caught on a lot of things. IMO 8.5/10 ... Forget ALL the haters of this game, after 91 hours i finally finished it the way i wanted to and got the true ending. This game has a message for a specific audience and they told it with that. whoever plays this game HAS to check out "Journey to the West". there are so many 10/10 throwbacks in this game it would be silly and pointless not to. The voice actors in the game EVEN have the same mannerisms as the OG from the 1986 series. Please do yourself a service if you plan to play this look deep into the book or show series. itll be worth it.