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The Besties

Black Myth Wukong puts the book in video game book club

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Black Myth Wukong is a sequel to the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. It’s also a AAA action game with a spectacular opening that channel’s the scale of Asura’s Wrath. You remember Asura’s Wrath, right? In this episode, the crew discusses the game, the book, and many adaptations.

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0:00.0

Here's a thing, man.

0:03.0

I'm glad that the Gallagher brothers worked it out.

0:06.0

Yes.

0:08.0

But I didn't know that that was an option

0:12.0

if you do the thing with your brother that you're allowed to just like break up for a little while

0:17.1

stop like I didn't know that was I didn't think that was okay because you're like I didn't know that was

0:22.8

when they were I didn't think that was okay because you're like I didn't know that was

0:27.5

when they were split up how did they decide who got the hammer?

0:34.0

That's a great question. So Liam needs to smash fruit. Yeah, yeah.

0:35.0

Noel likes to smash fruit with the big hammer.

0:39.0

But doesn't need it.

0:40.0

He doesn't need it.

0:41.0

But Liam's whole process is based around squishing a big watermelon to write Wonderwall 2 when he got back.

0:49.0

And it's sort of a meolier situation. Sometimes one brother ain't worthy of picking up the hammer.

0:54.0

Sure, yeah.

0:55.0

There are two sets of Gallagher brothers and that's amazing.

1:00.0

I've only now just realized it because your great Gallagher joke is also great because there was a Gallagher

1:05.0

too that was his brother and it would do shows that Gallagher didn't have time to do.

1:10.4

You're opening around when you didn't know this.

1:12.0

Did you know?

1:13.0

Like Tom Hanks's brother.

1:14.0

Yeah.

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