The game belongs to Tecmo Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series, as well as the larger Romance of the Three Kingdoms meta series, which is based on the Great Classical Novel of the same name.
The story itself however is originally based on Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, where two characters of the same name; Monkey and Tripitaka must travel across a landscape with Monkey also at command, the novel being used more as a basis on the plot rather than a straight adaptation.
While most attribute the novel to Shi Nai'an, there were some who believe that the novel, or portions of it, was written by others, such as Luo Guanzhong (the author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms), Shi Hui (施惠) and Guo Xun (郭勛).
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Tianzhu (天竺), situated in Buddhist cosmology at the "Western Heaven", has traditionally been regarded by Buddhists as an idealized holy land where their faith originated from, and subsequently served as a pilgrimage site for many who sought to receive Buddhist scriptures, as romanticized in the classical Chinese tale of Journey to the West.
The story is a parody on the legendary story of Wu Song from the Chinese classical novel Water Margin (水滸傳) and also the 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film Infernal Affairs (無間道).
Ruan Xiaowu, fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature