Enslaved: Journey to The West

Hello and welcome to another post today. Today we are moving away from artsy stuff for the moment to focus on a topic I've gone over once maybe and it is one I do enjoy and that is the realm of video games. Today we are going to look over a fairly old but highly under appreciated game called, Enslaved: Journey to the West by a developer called Ninja Theory.

As many could imply from the Title this game has many similarities to novel written by Wu Cheng'enCheng'en. The main difference between book and game however is the book takes place in ancient China the game takes place in a post apocalyptic New York. The game was first released on October 5, 2007 for the X-Box 360 and Playstation 3 in America. The game is a third person action game in which the main character is a man who is called "Monkey " who posses great physical strength and several tools he uses to travel and fight. The other playable character is a young women called " Trip" is very capable with technology.

The gameplay consists on lots of parkour similar platforming in order to reach further areas and in certain areas you'll have to fight the enemies of the game which take the form of combat ready robots. 

Monkey is the only character that is able to destroy these robots using his special staff that has three different attacks that amount to melee, range and stun. The other playable character of the game, Trip, is able to use her tech and abilities to do stuff like unlock doors, shut down stuff and even stun robots but is not able to fight them herself. 

As it is seen here the graphics of the game are pretty good for their time and the environment of overgrown New York can and is very beautiful. All in all I think this game is really worth a shot and you should definite try it all yourself sometime. Till next post I'll see ya'll later.