Black Delusion: Wukong is, as our overview stated, each confounding and spectacular. It’s an motion RPG soulslike that has lots of the style’s standard beats — XP and talent tree, checkpoints that save your progress whereas additionally respawning enemies — whereas additionally placing its personal distinctive spin on them.
Our Black Delusion: Wukong newbie’s information will enable you to begin your journey (to the West) because the Destined One with suggestions from our first 15 hours with the sport. We’ve bought hints and recommendation on degree layouts, the (complicated) crafting mechanic, quick journey, and your gear.
There’s not likely a gameplay loop in Black Delusion: Wukong. You’ll journey from shrine checkpoint to shrine checkpoint, dispatching enemy yaoguais (demons) alongside the best way, however there’s not a lot of a grind. As an alternative, you’ll be extra centered on getting from one boss battle to the subsequent — there are a lot of bosses and boss-like enemies.
That linearity reveals up in your armor and weapons as properly. You don’t a lot unlock them as you simply attain a sure shrine and the crafting recipes for brand new gear will probably be mechanically unlocked (extra on this under). The identical goes for spells — they’re simply given to you after beating sure bosses.
That stated, you don’t need to simply dash from one shrine to the subsequent as a result of…
You must look ahead to facet paths
Whereas your general progress is sort of linear, the routes between the shrine checkpoints do have branching paths which can be virtually all the time value exploring. You’ll normally discover no less than a chest and even an non-obligatory boss battle.
These boss fights may even offer you loads of XP and normally some uncommon improve supplies as properly. If nothing else, you’ll discover some components. Which will probably be helpful… finally.
You possibly can’t make medication till chapter 2
As you play by means of the start of the sport, you’ll discover lots of components like crops and mushrooms. Their descriptions will even say they “can be utilized to make medicines,” however you gained’t have the ability to do something with them.
And that’s as a result of that’s a mechanic that doesn’t unlock till chapter 2, a number of hours into the sport.
Very early in Black Delusion: Wukong, you’ll run into an enemy referred to as a Wandering Wight. The primary time you meet it, you may’t beat it. (Nicely, it’s doable, nevertheless it’s not going to occur.) The trick with that battle, although, is that the best way ahead is previous that enemy. You simply must run previous it.
That’s not going to work for many fights, nevertheless it’s an necessary lesson about how the sport works — you’ll get much more highly effective and have extra expertise to attract from as you progress (linearly).
For those who hit a tough enemy or boss, you may all the time come again later when you’re a bit stronger. Which brings us to…
Quick journey is bizarre with no map
You possibly can (quick) journey from any shrine to another shrine you’ve beforehand visited. However there’s no map, so it’s a bit awkward at first.
If you select to journey, you’ll simply get a listing of the names of shrines and their area. The names are descriptive sufficient, although, so it’s not too arduous to determine the place you’re going.
As you progress by means of Black Delusion: Wukong and defeat bosses, you’ll unlock new gear to craft at shrines. You’ll solely ever battle with one weapon — numerous variations of a workers — so these are straightforward sufficient to grasp. The garments — gear to your head, physique, legs, and arms — are a bit extra fascinating.
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Garments have distinctive results that you simply achieve whereas sporting them. These embody issues like injury bonuses or pace will increase. Some gear has a quantity subsequent to the distinctive impact — that signifies what number of items of that set of drugs it’s worthwhile to be sporting to activate the distinctive impact.
There are secrets and techniques (that grant rewards)
Whereas Black Delusion: Wukong is usually linear, you’ll discover numerous secrets and techniques off the crushed path. A few of these reward Vessels — equipment that grant useful perks. For assist in monitoring down a few of these early-game secrets and techniques, see our guides on the place to search out all hidden bell areas, learn how to assist the Yellow-Robed Squire, and the place to search out and ship all Buddha’s Eyes.