Black Myth Wukong New Game Plus mode, explained

Like many RPGs, Black Myth: Wukong sports a New Game Plus mode that lets players restart their journey with some advantages and disadvantages. While the mode is similar to your standard New Game Plus mode in other games, it has a few features that differentiate it from the rest. 

Here’s what you need to know about Black Myth: Wukong‘s New Game Plus mode.

Black Myth Wukong New Game Plus mode, explained

After you complete Black Myth: Wukong and all its six chapters, you can restart the game with a different experience through New Game Plus. The mode lets you find items and places you missed in your first playthrough and use new methods and builds to fight enemies.

To do this, select the ‘Enter a New Cycle’ in the game’s main menu. Doing this instantly starts a new game where you’ll play the game from the start. Unlike starting a standard new game, New Game Plus allows you to retain several of your stuff from your previous playthrough. This includes all your unlocked Skills, your maximum Character Level, and all your armor and weapons with every current upgrade on them. You’ll also carry over your unlocked Relics with selected abilities, Curios, Vessels, and spells alongside their upgrades. 

However, every other item, such as any unused upgrade items you’ve picked up and consumable items like restorative and enhancement pills and potions, will be lost. You also lose access to all Keeper’s Shrines you’ve found, and you have to find many NPCs you met in your previous playthrough again. However, because you’ll encounter many items once more, you will be able to get duplicate items, such as curios, some of which have effects that stack.

Other than that, the New Game Plus mode also makes the game more challenging, as enemies and all bosses are now beefier and hit a lot harder. However, the difficulty spike, while notable, isn’t too overwhelming because enemy movesets, strengths, and weaknesses are all still identical, so the strategies for fighting them stay the same.

What’s more, the mode also adds a few new features. This includes the ability to upgrade armor at shrines, new craftable weapons, and new upgrade branches under weapons. The mode also adds the new Freed Mind Relic which makes your duplicates use your finishing moves when you use them.

Playing through the New Game Plus mode is unnecessary to get all the endings, as you can do that from your first playthrough by reloading before the final boss. Additionally, starting a New Game Plus playthrough overwrites the save of your completed playthrough, so make sure you’re absolutely certain before starting one. Making a copy of the save file before starting a New Game Plus playthrough is also advised to prevent any accidents.