Someone Tried a Brain-Computer Interface on Black Myth: Wukong

There's bad at a game, and then there's 'I need to reroute signals directly from my brain' bad. A PC Gamer writer found themselves so consistently punished by Black Myth: Wukong that neither a controller nor mouse and keyboard felt like a workable solution, so they did what any reasonable person would do: strapped on a brain-computer interface and tried to think their way through one of the most demanding action games of the past few years. The idea being that if sluggish physical inputs are the problem, cutting out the middleman entirely might be the fix.

Spoiler: it is a deeply cursed experiment, and honestly one of the more entertaining things you can read about a game right now. What makes it interesting beyond the gimmick is what it quietly says about how demanding Wukong's combat actually is. The game's timing windows are tight enough that even small input delays stack up into a death spiral, which is exactly why shaving off any latency sounds appealing in theory. In practice, BCI tech in 2026 is not quite ready to make you a kungfu god, but the attempt is genuinely fascinating and worth your time if you've ever blamed your controller for a rough boss run.