Black Myth: Wukong is certainly one of the most successful titles of the year and has won several awards at the Game Awards, but game director Feng Ji is still not satisfied.
Actually, there is little reason for the developers of Black Myth: Wukong to be dissatisfied. The title has sold well with over 20 million copies (especially in China), caused fear and terror in the player number charts on Steam and picked up the prizes for Action Game and Player's Voice at the Game Awards.
However, it wasn't enough for Game of the Year, the title went to Astro Bot. And that's exactly what caused game director Feng Ji's frustration over the weekendon Weibo(translated as Deepl) let out.
"The four nominations for Black Myth: Wukong were all firsts in China. In the end we won in the Best Action Game and Player's Voice categories, and it was particularly gratifying to win the Player's Voice category. But I have to admit that it there is also disappointment, regret and, more importantly, letting go of illusions. The games shortlisted this year are all excellent, but I really understand the selection criteria for Game of the Year this year "I didn't come for free," said Feng Ji.
And further: "I can fully understand these feelings of resignation and share these feelings of discomfort, because I know that behind these emotions is not pain or malice, but self-respect and self-confidence. It is completely normal to be a bit short-tempered , when you are so confident but not recognized by others.
In fact, I'm more confident than all of you (see my first reply to Zhihu). I wrote the speech for the annual game launch two years ago, but it was never used."
What to think of this? You don't know, after all, the rest of the text is full of pride and self-confidence in what has been achieved: "Some people say that it is unlikely that a team that has never developed an independent game before can achieve such results with its first independent game , and that it will be difficult to repeat this in the future. I want to say that this is not a coincidence. This is the inevitable result of the collision between Chinese culture, Chinese talent, Chinese business environment, Chinese game industry and the large number of players around the world."
To whet the appetite for the launch of Black Myth: Wukong on August 20th, there is another gameplay trailer that is almost five minutes long.
