Black Myth rising

The success and controversary of Black Myth: Wukong

As a Singaporean Chinese, I grew up on a diet of Western and Japanese video games. English was the language of video gaming. When voice acting in video games became more prevalent, I usually picked English or Japanese for the game audio.

It was not until last year’s Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty that I first played a video game with Mandarin voices. Wo Long w…