Show Me the Monkey!

Arguably the most influential folk hero of Chinese literature, the Monkey King Sun Wukong is protagonist of 16th-century adventure novel Journey to the West, which features an unlikely group of demons, miscreants and a lone holy monk on a journey to — surprise! — the West.

Now archived with the closure of Kotaku UK. This is an in-depth look at Sun Wukong and his surrounding legends as they appear in video games.

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Kotaku
September 2018