#jttw game

[the-monkey-ruler]

Monkey Hero (1999)

Date: February 28, 1999 Platform: PlayStation Developer: Blam! Publisher: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Genre: Action / Adventure / Role-Playing / Action-Adventure Type: Reimanging

Summary:

Monkey Hero is a game based on a Chinese legend. It follows the adventures of one little Monkey and his quest to restore order to the dream world and defeat the Nightmare King.

Source: https://www.giantbomb.com/monkey-hero/3030-17658/

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r9Z2HL_rWI

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

Theyre playing Journey to the west. Kyle’s salty cause he wanted to be Tripitaka

[nicolekart]

Little WIP of game design for my graduation project. I wasn't sure, but it turns out I can show a little...

So I'm working on the concept and animated intro of a mobile game based on "Journey to the West" by Wu Cheng. There's still a lot of work ahead of me, but I'm optimistic because I'm doing something I really enjoy!

Would you be interested in seeing more concepts and animated pieces?

[kitofawriter]

Hey Lego Monkie Kid fandom I think you might be interested in this thing: @jttwaudiodrama

Have you ever wanted to experience Journey to the West but you don’t like any currently available English translation? Or maybe your attention span doesn’t like reading books that are that long? Or maybe you don’t get all the cultural references and want them explained so you can fully understand what’s going on?

Well now’s your chance!

It’s a group of people dedicated to translating JTTW as accurately as possible while providing a really nice audio version! And if you become a patron (a very worth it deal if you ask me) you get access to their production notes which discuss the translation choices they made and the cultural significance of characters/places/themes and so much more!

I want to be clear I’m not affiliated with them in any way but I really like this podcast and want to spread the word about it! I’ve been a fan of JTTW for a long time now but have never found a translation I liked or that provided the context I needed to fully enjoy the story until I found The Fifth Monky version. I’m aiming this specifically at the LMK fandom because I’ve been watching it for the first time and getting the references to the original story has been a blast that I basically owe to this podcast!

TLDR: there’s a really cool new translation of JTTW currently being produced in podcast form from The Fifth Monkey.

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

Thinking about that Zhihu AU where Tang Seng's disciples were Erlang Shen, Sun Wukong, and Bull Demon King instead.....

[ID: 1. An illustration of Erlang Shen, Sun Wukong, and Bull Demon King from the waist-up. Erlang Shen is wearing a weimao and a purple yuanlingpao archer-style with the left lapel flipped out. His two inner robe layers are checkered blue and purple-ish off-white. He has a snow leopard pelt at his waist. Sun Wukong is in his typical pilgrimage outfit, chewing on a piece of willow with his arms crossed. Bull Demon King has his arm around SWK's shoulder, leaning against him. He has a leopard pelt across his chest and a dark red scarf around his shoulders, with a red banbi and off-white inner robe. His other hand is on his mixed-iron rod, which is placed on his shoulder. 2. A translated screenshot from the aforementioned Zhihu thread. It reads "西天路走的太顺利畅，我反而无聊 This path to the Western Heaven is too smooth. I'm actually bored." End ID]

[journeytothewestresearch]

Yuebei Xing Video Game Character

I was looking for something regarding Yuebei xing (月孛星, “Moon Comet Star”), daughter of the Monkey King from Chinese vernacular fiction, when I came upon a video game character based on her.

“Sun Yuebei” (孫月孛) appears in the Japanese video game Touhou Monjusen ~ Bubbling Imaginary Treasures (東方門殊銭 ～ Bubbling Imaginary Treasures, 2021). She looks like a young, pink-haired human girl wearing red, femine clothing with a bright green bow and light, red armor. And like her old man, she wears the golden headband and tiger skin and wields the iron staff, along with her trademark magic skull.

Here is an example of the game play. Sun Yuebei appears around min. 3:34 as an opponent of the player character.

FLASHING LIGHT WARNING!!! (I'm 100% positive that the developers hate people with epilepsy...)

[blackchrysalys]

POV: You're one of the demons who want to kidnap Tripitaka to gain immortality in the journey to the west

But, he is protected by two Celestial turned Demons Pigsy (Zhu bajie) and Sandy (Sha Wujing), a dragon turned horse Ao lie and the great sage to heaven himself, Sun Wukong.

What would you do to succeed?

[tickledpink31]

You’ve heard of Vegeta’s “Goku button,” now get ready for Sun Wukong’s “wife button.”

And yeah the last drawing was a slight reference to this screenshot from the OSP Journey to the West retelling

[centuryberry]

Im guessing that sequel Yue’s friend is working on involves the journey that involves Macaque being made a pilgrim along with Wukong.

(I imagine it would be more of a choose your ending kind of game than an otome game)

With the story involving Macaque having to fend off enemies (who (more often than not) happen to get too handsy with Wukong) to protect Tripitaka and the other pilgrims.

With Macaque also having to make allies (by persuasion or by force) in order to help the journey along (with the allie(s) chosen changing the route).

I could even imagine at one point in the story Macaque becomes jealous of Ao Lie for his growing bond with Wukong, and being a little fearful of another Azure situation with Ao Lie, but eventually growing to adore the young dragon prince as much as Wukong.

(Macaque would also be resentful of Tripitaka whenever the circlets are used but usually views him as a naïve baby, annoyed by Bajie’s antics towards Wukong especially when Bajie is being lustful and/or lazy, and indifferent but otherwise respectful of Wujing)

I like your predictions about the Sequel Game! I always enjoyed the AUs where Macaque joins the pilgrims. Their dynamics are always fun and the Jttw gang gets front-row seats to Shadowpeach pining.

I can't confirm or deny that the sequel game will go as you predict since it features heavily in Act II of the fic but I can say that you're definitely going somewhere with the prediction that the sequel won't keep to the otome game genre.

[the-monkey-ruler]

Westward Journey Online II (2002) 大话西游2经典版

Date: August 15, 2002 / August 07, 2015 Uncoded test Platform: PC Developer: NetEase Publisher: NetEase Genre: Turn-Based Theme: Fantasy Franchises: Westward Journey Online Aliases: New Westward Journey 2 / Westward Journey 2 Classic Edition Type: Reimanging

Summary:

Since Pangu opened up the world, the heavens are divided into three realms, and the earth is divided into four continents. All ethnic groups coexist in Dongsheng Shenzhou, Xiniu Hezhou, Nanzhanbuzhou, and Beijuluzhou, thus determining the pattern of heaven and earth. All species originally coexisted peacefully: The immortal clan ruled and dominated everything from above, the human race admired the brilliance of the gods and reproduced endlessly, the demon clan was always sealed in the darkness and lived stubbornly but arrogantly, the ghost clan continued the cycle of yin and yang, and lived freely in the underworld... all things in the cycle of reincarnated endlessly, and tens of thousands of years of time flow like water.

However, an accident 13,000 years ago caused the Demon Race to invade the Immortal Race, disrupting the order of the entire world, and the Ghost Race gradually became stronger. According to the historical records of the Heavenly Court: On the day when the demons slaughtered the immortals, the sky and the earth changed color, the sun and the moon were dimmed, the terrain of the invasion was like a broken bamboo, and the guards of the Heavenly Court were like fallen leaves in a strong wind... It can be seen that the degree of tragedy is extraordinary. After this battle, the dominance of the fairy clan was also shaken, and the sealed demon clan began to wait for an opportunity to come out. Wrathful ghosts and wild ghosts were everywhere in the land of Shenzhou, monsters are reborn, and it is even more difficult for mortals to resist the demons in their hearts as hate and killing fill the world. In the human world and the underworld, ghosts gathered for a while, and the ghost clan gradually awakened in the chaos of war and came to the Three Realms.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Tang Dynasty. It is said that one day, the Tathagata Buddha summoned all the Buddhas, Arrows, Jiedi, Bodhisattvas, arhats, monks, and nuns in the Daleiyin Temple of Lingshan to give lectures on the Dharma. He talked about the great numbers of the world and the good and evil of all living beings. Immediately, his compassion arose, so he summoned Guanshiyin Bodhisattva from the South China Sea, saying that there is a Tripitaka of Mahayana Buddhism, which can transcend the souls of the dead, free them from suffering, and make life and body invincible. However, those who have a predestined relationship with Buddha need to pray sincerely and overcome ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties. Only by getting rid of the shackles of the physical body can he retrieve it; then he uses this scripture to pass on to the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and it can relieve the calamity between heaven and earth. So Guanyin enlightened the Buddhist monks to go west to learn Buddhist scriptures. Helplessly, the world has been determined, and the path to learn from the scriptures is doomed to be full of hardships.

At this time when the world is full of numbers, when immortals, humans, demons, and ghosts coexist in the world, you were born in a fishing village on the shore of the East China Sea that gathers the essence of heaven and earth, the aura of mountains and rivers, and talented people come forth in large numbers. People in the village say those who are born here are the people of destiny who shoulder the important task of resolving the great numbers in the world. So, you are on your way.

Source: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A7%E8%AF%9D%E8%A5%BF%E6%B8%B82%E7%BB%8F%E5%85%B8%E7%89%88?fromModule=lemma_search-box

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNeQlXej8YE&ab_channel=thitramy https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1aN4y177F5/ https://xy2.163.com/

[sketching-shark]

Hi could you do zhuhou 58 + 96?

AUGH this made for some sadtimes on the journey to the west, but I hope you enjoy what I wrote anon! So here's some version of zhuhou (Zhu Bajie x Sun Wukong) with a combination of "Scars" and "Accidental Eavesdropping" (also warning for monkey torture and the consequences thereof).

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It was no secret that every pilgrim received a fair share of scars on their journey to the west, but it was another thing to see them being made.

In his heavenly life, Marshal Tianpeng had scars aplenty. It came with the territory of being one of heaven's most high-ranking marshals, and he had worn them all with pride, pleased at the way each scar spoke of a battle that helped him climb the ranks.

After he was forced into the body of a yaoguai pig, Zhu Bajie had gained each new scar with a sense of disgust, feeling that this earthly, ugly flesh was something that he simply had to endure, even though he was unsure if his punishment was something that would ever end.

In his most secret thoughts, he felt certain he would never be forgiven. He knew all about what punishment had been inflicted on Sun Wukong's entire mountain range for his audacity in ruining one banquet. He had seen the mess of scars all over Sha Wujing's back, each one speaking to a stab he received for breaking a glass. Their punishments, and the scars they received from them, were in many senses far worse than his. Yet they both marched forward tirelessly, leaving Zhu Bajie to be the lazy loser of their group, always sleepy, always complaining, always...always voicing the discomforts of necessity that all earthly life must suffer to sustain itself and which Zhu Bajie was convinced neither one of his fellow tudi ever would, no matter how hungry or exhausted they actually were.

Zhu Bajie might be the idiot of the group, but even he could recognize that Tang Sanzang favored him to the point of often listening only to his words. Zhu Bajie could never understand why, but he suspected that it had to do with whatever had first brought out that look of fear and rage that the monk so frequently wore when dealing with the Monkey King, why he so often flinched away in terror and then confusion whenever Sha Wujing moved near him. It didn't seem to even matter how many times Zhu Bajie was wrong about a situation or gave the monk "advice" out of spite. He could be wrong again and again, Sun Wukong could be proven honest a thousand times over, and still Tang Sanzang treated the monkey with hateful suspicion while regarding the pig almost fondly.

It was a dynamic that Zhu Bajie had at first thoroughly enjoyed, using it to take a few (okay, fine, a lot) more rest beaks than perhaps strictly necessary, and getting back at Sun Wukong whenever the monkey teased him. And how delightful it had been to watch the so-called Great Sage, the same bimawen that had destroyed Zhu Bajie's marriage and forced him into a life of cold and hunger on the road, leap about screeching in agony while Tang Sanzang recited the headband tightening spell! But as time grew on, as the camaraderie between the pilgrims grew, as Zhu Bajie found himself warming up to Sun Wukong and then becoming his genuine friend...as the lively Monkey King grew more quiet and more emaciated, Zhu Bajie's guilt over his role of stoking the fires of Tang Sanzang's hatred began to grow.

It was perhaps for that reason that Zhu Bajie found himself paralyzed with horror when the monk responded to Sun Wukong begging for forgiveness for taking the lives of murderous bandits by reciting the headband-tightening spell so many times that it had sunk deep into the monkey's head.

It had to be Sha Wujing to break Zhu Bajie out of his wide-eyed immobility. The blue giant dropped the luggage he had been toting and crouched almost protectively over the small, prostrate monkey, offering his hands up beseechingly, begging their shifu to be merciful. But Tang Sanzang's anger only grew and he recited the spell all the faster, Sun Wukong frothing at the mouth and convulsing erratically with each spoken word. Zhu Bajie pulled himself together and finally raced over, cursing himself for his slowness, before he dared to grab onto Tang Sanzang's shoulders so that he could gently shake the monk and remind him of his vows not to kill, no matter how much he may want to.

That seemed to get through to Tang Sanzang. He stopped the recital, but still regarded Sun Wukong with fury and contempt as the simian got up, first with Sha Wujing's assistance, and then on his own volition. The monkey stood there swaying, dark blood running down his face from where the headband had cut into his head, his expression so confused that Zhu Bajie feared that the headband had reached the monkey's brain.

But Sun Wukong's powers of healing were just as strong if not stronger than Tang Sanzang's conviction of his righteousness in all things. It wasn't long before that confused expression was replaced not with more tears, but with a terrible resigned stoicism. Sun Wukong stood their silent as Tang Sanzang further berated him as a creature so evil he had upturned the very concept of peace, then left without a word after the monk screamed at him to get out of his holy sight.

It hadn't then seemed surprising to Zhu Bajie than the next encounter with "Sun Wukong" ended with Tang Sanzang being beaten black and blue into unconsciousness, or the Monkey King stealing their possessions so that he could embark on his own journey to the west. As "Sun Wukong" proudly, sneeringly proclaimed, this way only the one true hero of the group would get the love and fame the journey would bring, and he would be able to achieve it all without having to suffer the constant pain and humiliation that came with being Tang Sanzang's senior disciple. It was only later that Zhu Bajie, following two Sun Wukongs through heaven, earth, and hell, realized that the monkey which had done those things hadn't been Sun Wukong at all. He tried not to feel so guilty for assuming the worst about the Monkey King. As it was, the other simian had so thoroughly thrown away his original identity to be "Sun Wukong" that even in his true form there were barely any differences. The only way to tell one monkey from the other was that one had three ears on each side of his head instead of one. Or at least Zhu Bajie assumed so, given that when he finally caught up to the conclusion of the two monkeys' battle to the death, the six-eared simian was clearly dead, one glassy eye staring upward, the other side of his skull smashed into a bloody smear.

Sun Wukong stood over the corpse, once again looking more resigned than triumphant. He didn't give Zhu Bajie a chance to speak.

"It doesn't matter. He wasn't a human. Just a bad monkey."

A short time after, Tang Sanzang, his face still horribly bruised, grudgingly accepted Sun Wukong back as his senior disciple on the order of the goddess of mercy Guanyin. He gave no indication he had missed the monkey. Sun Wukong silently took his usual place at the front of their line, and they set off again.

That night, Zhu Bajie awoke with a start and realized that Sun Wukong was nowhere around the ashes of their campfire. Sha Wujing had first watch that night, and he was happy to point out the Monkey King's trail, the gleam in his fishy eyes speaking of a hope that Zhu Bajie might be able to offer some words of comfort to their fellow tudi. Zhu Bajie gave a careless shrug, but he set off to find Sun Wukong anyway. He hoped beyond hope, given his track record, that he wouldn't make the situation worse.

Yet that night Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie would never talk. For when he spotted the Monkey King, the pig felt himself paralyzed once again, but this time by the sight of Sun Wukong's muscled chest as he bathed in a stream.

Zhu Bajie blushed and cursed himself as a pervert, but before he could announce his presence the simian suddenly pulled back the fur around his head that had been hiding a substantial scar, a good portion of it still hidden underneath the headband.

Sun Wukong spent a few minutes carefully tracing the scar. And then he slowly lowered his head into his hands, and proceeded to sob his eyes out.

Zhu Bajie never told the monkey that he knew of his inner pain. Sun Wukong never gave any indication that he knew his cries had been heard, nor that he had even an inkling of what the pig had come to feel for him. Millennia later they had even less reason to speak. Sun Wukong was now a genuine buddha and protector of children, while a humbled and proactive Zhu Bajie spent his days on Earth doing what he could to protect the ladies of the night, who many another god would not even recognize. He had traveled with, laughed with, and had even come to truly love the monkey. But Zhu Bajie knew that Sun Wukong was even now unable to forgive him completely for his role in goading Tang Sanzang's fury. It was fitting for the pig to never give voice to his affections. As it was, if this was the worst romantic tragedy that Zhu Bajie had to suffer in this life, he considered himself very lucky indeed.

A sudden gust of wind at his side and a familiar, laughing, chattering voice let Zhu Bajie know that even if complete forgiveness and any sort of romance was off the table, Sun Wukong liked him enough to have sought his company again. Zhu Bajie greeted the monkey with his usual exaggerated snort of surprise before he pulled the simian into what would be a crushing hug, but which only prompted another laugh out of Sun Wukong. As was becoming their usual pattern, Sun Wukong hopped up on Zhu Bajie's shoulders and imperiously ordered Zhu Bajie to make due course to their favorite restaurant, as he had much to complain about and wanted to do so in the company of a champion whiner. Zhu Bajie gave his body a few shakes in a playful effort to throw Sun Wukong off before charging off on all fours, causing the monkey to shriek in delight as he held on fast.

Compared to all that Sun Wukong had suffered and given up for the sake of others, it wasn't much for Zhu Bajie to offer the simian some friendship. But low as he now was in heaven's regard, the former Marshal Tianpeng could at least give the monkey that.

[digitalagepulao]

I’ll bite 💭 🪔

👀 I wanna become more knowledgeable.

heya hc, glad to see ya on my inbox!! :D

💭 Random headcanon?

Oh boy I have.. so many. But snagging the first that comes to mind is, the Celestial Monkeys are all divergent paths from Sun Wukong's lifetime towards Enlightenment. They can't exist without him, and neither can he be where he is without them.

The Red-Buttocks Monkey is described with knowledge of human affairs and can prolong his life, which sounds very much like Wukong's two decades traveling the world seeking immortality. The Long-Armed Monkey is described as being able to manipulate planets and stars and discern auspicious from inauspicious, and I like to interpret that as Wukong if he bent down to Heaven's ways and became a more powerful deity as he climbed the bureocracy.

And of course, the Six-Eared Macaque, with knowledge of all things and great discernment, while also being a metaphor for those who learn wisdom without true understanding or deserving. That's Wukong during his fight against Heaven, so full of anger and impudence he dared to dethrone the Jade Emperor, if he never took Buddha's bet. An embodiment of his avarice and misplaced egotism, seeking to supplant him from his chosen path and take it for himself.

🪔 Random JTTW thing you find interesting?

So far, it has to be just how interesting some arcs that get swept aside on abridged versions are!!

Admittedly I've only put a dent in the books, but the Sacred Mass arc with the whole Emperor being haunted by a wronged Dragon King and now owing absurd amounts of money to a poor elderly couple from the afterlife, all because said Dragon King was offended by some scarily accurate soothsayer helping out a local fisherman??

I ate that RIGHT UP cus it's so concise and fills up all immediate plot holes, and it all started with a chapter of a woodsman and fisherman just, trading poems! It was the most fun I've had with leisure read in A While :D

jttw emoji ask game!!

[whothehecktookmyname]

LMK characters playing Phasmophobia:

Sun Wukong and MK

MK: Wukong, there is lights flickering, you should hide

SW: ??? No it's not, it's fin- OMG THE LIGHTS IS FLICKERING, THERE IS A HUNT, WHY NOBODY TELL ME

MK: ...i hope ghost find you

SW: *SOUNDS OF BRUTAL MONKEY WHO DIED CUS OF HIS SUCCESSOR*

Sun Wukong and Macaque:

SW: THERE IS A HUNT

MC: *hiding for almost 10 minutes*

SW: *returning to house and uses monkey paw, immediately triggering the hunt and hides*

MC: okay that wasn't fun- *dies when he walks out of the closet* ..

SW: told ya there is a hunt

MK, Red Son and Mei:

RS: Okay, so I was examining this game and the best way to-

MK: AM DEAD

RS: WHA- IT'S BEEN FIVE SECOND AFTER WE STARTED, MK

M: ..um, too bad... I'm dead too

RS: ..I'm quitting and never ever playing with you two again, how do you even manage TO BE MORE DUMB THAN YOU ACTUALLY ARE

MK and Mei: we love you too

RS: I'M GOING TO TURN Y'ALL INTO A GHOSTS IRL

Macaque and MK:

MC: how do you play

MK: you go in the house with flashlight and these things to identify the ghost, write in journal all the evidences and-

MC: why do lights go off

MK: -try to survive...

MC: why there is a random undead thing

MK: ...

MC: *dies* kk, now you on your own, kid

Tang and Pigsy:

P: UHM, YOU MAYBE GET OUT OF THE VAN AND HELP ME?

T: ohhh ummm I'm checking cameras

P: we didn't even place them

T: so go and place them for me to check

P: ...why do I even bother GO IN THE HOUSE

T: I'M NOT GOING THERE

P: I'M NOT PLAYING WITH YOU EVEN IF MK INSIST NOW

To be continued... Maybe

[timewontwait]

better late than never, eh?

characters shown:

sonic (sonic & the black knight) mainly for favorite characterization reasons

sun wukong of LMK

benson of kipo & the age of wonderbeasts

spideyman

steven universe

snufkin of moomin valley

[i-am-a-fan]

It’s time for how is Wukong going to defeat this demon! Is it..

A. Shape Shift into an insect of some kind

B. Cry to Guanyin/other celestials about it

C. Get eaten and brawl his way out

or

D. Smack it so hard it becomes goo

[dxonutz]

NOBODY TOUCH ME