Black Myth: Zhong Kui

For quite a long time after the release of "Black Myth: Wukong," I lived in a daze.

Something I had been thinking about for nearly twenty years finally had a result. And this result far exceeded my initial expectations.

By all rights, I should have been rolling on the floor with joy, humming happily every day.

Unfortunately, human nature isn't wired that way. Intense positive emotions seem to last particularly short periods, and happiness always passes in the blink of an eye.

What truly lingered in my mind during that time was mainly confusion, emptiness, and anxiety (I know this sounds pretentious, please don't shoot). No matter how ashamed I felt for not being able to "be happy," these emotions still came uncontrollably and overwhelmingly—especially when drowning in "Is the DLC being made? Who's making the DLC? When will the DLC be released?"

As a professional adult, I was also good at hiding these negatives, convincing myself to cheer up and honestly start working on the DLC.

Because I knew very clearly that friends asking for DLC were undoubtedly people who loved Black Myth, who liked Game Science, who had carried us all the way up the mountain.

So, for most of the half-year after release, I determined some directions, wrote some settings, held some meetings, and the team seriously started running according to the "DLC first" plan.

This continued until one day this year when Yang Qi left me a message in the morning saying he had "something important to consult about."

I happened to be busy that day and wasn't at the company during the day, so we agreed to talk when I returned in the evening.

When I saw him after returning, the first thing I asked was, "You don't want to make DLC, do you? You want to make something new?"

With relief, joy, and naturally, we hit it off immediately.

Then, we began to gradually convince other colleagues.

And then, there was "Black Myth: Zhong Kui" that you see today.

DLC is certainly not a bad choice, but at this moment, we want to make a new Black Myth work first—

New heroes, new gameplay, new visuals, new technology, new stories.

Let loose, try boldly, break conventions, start from scratch.

Perhaps many people think DLC is stable, DLC is safe, DLC is clear, DLC would be faster.

But many fan-created works I've seen are already more imaginative and unrestrained than our previous DLC ideas 🐶

Like all of you, I deeply love the world of demons, gods, and Buddhas in Journey to the West, so Wukong's legend will return in a more complete and solid way in the future, after proper preparation.

In the book "Ask Iwata," Nintendo's former president said: "There is no future on the extension of what already exists."

With the unknown comes surprise; with challenges comes fun.

Game Science will continue to earnestly deliver each new answer with everyone's love and wishes.