Liam Croft: "Monkey King: Hero Is Back is a love letter to simpler times. Mechanically, it wouldn’t feel out of place on the PlayStation 2, and graphically, it’s barely just a generation ahead of that. This is a simple experience at heart, but it’s one you’re bound to find some enjoyment in should you take to its rather repetitive tasks and charming yet annoying band of characters."
From the writer; ‘I spent a solid 9ish hours playing Monkey King and that is important to note because I’m not one to put myself through complete hell. It was enjoyable to a point. If you are a child, have a child, are a Monkey King mega fan or only like to play games about 15 minutes at a time you’ll LOVE this.
However, if you want something more complex and less annoying then you can play literally anything else.’
Monkey King: Hero Is Back is an action/adventure game based on the successful CGI movie made in conjunction with the movie's producers.
Since childhood, the fabled Chinese classical novel of the mythical but mischievous Monkey King aka Journey To The West has been told and retold so many times that it has been an important part of my memories growing up. The writer finds himself drawn into watching each series, movies or even animated adaptations each and every time there is a new one, (sorry Bruce Lee, you come second).
I saw the movie, so that made me not care about this game since its the same story but with lower quality graphics.
Looking at the reviews, this seems to be a 5-6 kind of game. Not surprised really. I mean, the movie was just as average so I think the game nailed it with the quality being on par with its adaptation.
The problem is that people treated this as China's next big thing, and from the looks of the reviews, it's yet another average chinese game. Not a terrible one at least (I'd compare it to the likes of Unearthing Mars 2 and Hidden Dragon Legend in terms of being unoffensively average) but it could have been better.
The best we can do is either hope Oasis Games offer patches to improve the game (like what they did with Hidden Dragon) or hope that the DLCs will offer a better punch.
Also, it would be pretty ironic if most of the people here that were defending the game will act like these reviews never existed.
Well atleast it's not terrible. I expected the worst but this was better than expected I guess.
Kinda disappointed but seeing how the game is, it was to be expected.
Oh well. I'm still planning on getting the deluxe edition which has the season pass anyway. I want to see what stuff will the game offer post launch. Also, I have just read DualShocker's review on the game and it was very passive-aggressive. Like how he said that the game is a bad movie tie in game but to be fair, this looks better than some of the crappy ones I have played/saw. I personally prefer this review over DualShockers'.