Chinese developer Game Science today released a six-minute Lunar New Year live-action short for its highly anticipated game Black Myth: Zhong Kui. The video, themed around ancient-style cooking, depicts a woman preparing dishes with fantastical monster ingredients such as monster fish spirits and monster tree spirits. The short features detailed lighting, realistic ingredient physics, and lively monster animations. On video platform Bilibili, it approached four million views within five hours, while on Weibo it reached one million views.
Producer Feng Ji described the short as a Zhong Kui experiment on the tip of the tongue, hinting that future gameplay may combine monster hunting with cooking. While unrelated to the main storyline, the high-quality in-engine short continues the series’ signature dark aesthetic. [TechNode Reporting]
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