As you progress to Chapter 6 of Black Myth Wukong, you’ll eventually reach the Water Curtain Cave, where Sun Wukong's iconic staff, the Ruyi Jingu Bang, stands tall like a pillar.

And of course there is his famous weapon, the staff Ruyi Jingu Bang, which he acquired from the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea. Goku is another character inspired by Sun Wukong. Credit: Bandai Namco.

Black Myth: Wukong is a new action role-playing game from Game Science. The players take on the role of a monkey called the Destined One to set on an adventure based on renowned Chinese mythology.

I’ll give you an example: The monkey’s powerful staff, a weapon called the Ruyi Jingu Bang, has, through the years, been referred to as the Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod and the As-You-Will-Gold ...

There were numerous faithful references to the novel, like how Wukong shrinks objects and stores them in his ear or how Wukong’s staff is spelled out as Ruyi Jingu Bang in Chinese characters ...

In his youth, Sun Wukong gained leadership of the monkey tribes, learned secret arts and spells from a Taoist monk, and acquired the legendary Ruyi Jingu Bang from Ao Kuang, a staff that could ...

When Eugenia “Genie” Lo, a 16-year-old Chinese-American overachiever, discovers that she’s the reincarnation of the Monkey King’s legendary weapon, the Ruyi Jingu Bang, it throws her ...

Alongside the Ruyi Jingu Bang staff, the Destined One also has access to an array of magical and physical abilities, many of which appear to be based on Sun Wukong's 72 heavenly powers.

In their respective stories, each also wields a distinctive magical polearm, the Ruyi Jingu Bang for Sun Wukong and the Power Pole for Goku. Some of his techniques even mirror that of Journey to ...