Black Fantasy: Wukong, the extremely anticipated recreation from Chinese language developer and writer Sport Science, made an look at yesterday’s Summer time Sport Fest, displaying off one other beautiful trailer earlier than revealing that the sport is open for pre-orders.
It wasn’t all excellent news although, as a result of the corporate additionally out out a press release saying that the Xbox model of the sport has been delayed. No new launch date was introduced.
“We’re at present optimizing the Xbox Collection X|S model to fulfill our high quality requirements, so it received’t launch concurrently with the opposite platforms,” the corporate mentioned.
“We apologize for the delay and intention to attenuate the look ahead to Xbox customers. We are going to announce the discharge date as quickly because it meets our high quality requirements.”
The PS5 and PC variations of the sport stay unaffected and can launch on August 20, 2024. No much less 4 variations can be found to pre-order, ranging in worth from the usual $59.99 all the best way as much as a $399 Collector’s Version which features a metal, necklace and statue.
It’s additionally price noting that the usual and deluxe editions are digital solely, so if you need a bodily copy of the sport you’ll must pay out a minimal of $169 for the Deluxe Version.
Whereas Sport Science’s assertion doesn’t present a particular purpose for the delay, studying between the traces strongly means that it’s the Xbox Collection S possible posing the issue. A part of launching a recreation on Xbox is that mentioned recreation have to be accessible on each the weaker Collection S and the rather more highly effective Collection X with characteristic parity between them. This has confirmed difficult for builders previously, most notably for Larian Studios and their recreation Baldur’s Gate 3. In Larian’s case, they couldn’t get split-screen co-op to work on the Collection S, delaying the Xbox model of the sport. Ultimately, Larian persuaded Microsoft to make an exception and permit them to chop out the split-screen mode from the Collection S model.
As for Black Fantasy: Wukong, which is loosely based mostly on the traditional sixteenth century Chinese language nove Journey to the West, it has been a considerably controversial recreation. It debuted in 2020 with a visually gorgeous trailer that instantly catapulted it into the general public consideration, drawing hundreds of thousands of views. Nevertheless, individuals additionally started to marvel if it was too good to be true, because the developer had beforehand solely labored on cellular video games and the standard leap between these and Black Fantasy was huge. As of late, after all, it’s surprisingly simple to create an incredible trailer and even bullshit your strategy to a recreation turning into massively standard forward of its launch, as proven by the Day Earlier than saga.
However fortunately, we have now seen an excellent quantity of gameplay over the previous few years that appears to point its an actual, playable recreation. It nonetheless seems to be unbelievably good, so some a part of me will possible be suspicious proper up till I’m really enjoying it on August 20. However not on Xbox.
