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Black Myth: Wukong is a retelling of the classical Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West .
Reviewers of the game have become the target of harassment, and the general tenor of conversation has reached a level of toxicity that would likely make any potentially curious player run screaming for the safety of Fortnite .
Despite its bombastic opening, the game did not come close to those initial heights — and combat is to blame.
Reviewers who don’t praise the game, or bring up its developers’ history of making sexist comments, have received Gamergate-levels of harassment.
Game Science’s refusal to speak on the sexist comments made by its employees has made Wukong a cause celebre within certain video game communities on social media.
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