Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010)
The pilgrimage as post-apocalyptic science fiction, with Andy Serkis as Monkey.
Strip the myth to its mechanism — one powerful, unwilling creature bound to protect one fragile, clever person — and it works in any century.
You want the myth's skeleton in a completely different body, and you like a ten-hour game that ends.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the binding. The headband becomes a slave collar, and the relationship it forces is the entire game.
Changes: everything else: no China, no Buddhism, no hundred chapters. A ruined America, two survivors, and a road west.
Whose story is it?
both of theirs, and the game is smart about how unequal that partnership starts out.
How much time does it ask?
The Premium Edition has been on PC since 24 October 2013.
Ninja Theory, published by Bandai Namco — a cult game people still argue was under-appreciated.
Where to find it
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More ways west: Black Myth: Wukong (2024)