True Left

Recently I have been getting all these ads for the 3D game Black Myth: Wukong. This is how inferior it is:



Instead, I will recommend some incomparably superior Counterculture-era 2D games based on Joruney to the West. The earliest of these is:





This was one of the first arcade games I ever played. There was also a sequel for the PC Engine:



SonSon also later appeared in MvC2:



Next we have the one that I spent most coins on back in the day:





And finally, these deserved to be the last Journey to the West games ever:





What need was there for more after these?