Monkey King: Hero Is Back
The curtain rises on yet another never-before-seen Chinese myth: a new saga in the Journey to the West! Based on the original CG movie that became an unprecedented box office smash in China, this unique…
Monkey King: Hero Is Back is an adventure developed by HexaDrive, released 17 October 2019 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Monkey King: Hero Is Back is
Monkey King: Hero Is Back is an adventure game developed by HexaDrive and released in 2019. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The curtain rises on yet another never-before-seen Chinese myth: a new saga in the Journey to the West! Based on the original CG movie that became an unprecedented box office smash in China, this unique episode will be playable in exciting kung-fu action adventure game!
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Monkey King: Hero Is Back holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Monkey King: Hero Is Back launched on 17 October 2019, within three weeks of The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal and Luigi's Mansion 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal, Luigi's Mansion 3.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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