It takes a while for Black Myth: Wukong's breakneck pacing and acrobatic combat to click. The start of my hands-on preview is decidedly graceless, as I repeatedly fumble dodge timings, struggle to retain my composure against its heavy-hitting enemies, and put in a performance comparable to my dismal first run of Demon's Souls way back in 2009. 15 years and dozens of soulslikes later, developer Game Science's debut arrives as a flashy and frenetic new contender, one that resembles combo-driven action games like Devil May Cry and the rebooted God of War series' epic fantasy yarns just as much as it does FromSoftware's modern classics.
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