Cursed Mountain looms over Wii
by JC Fletcher 
{ Jul 31st 2008 at 10:30AM }
With its emphasis on ghosts (dead people in limbo) rather than corporeal monsters, Cursed Mountain promises a different kind of violence than the bloody, visceral experience of other survival horror games, according to Deep Silver's Hannes Seifert. "It's violent in the sense of ever present danger and very aggressive environments and enemies. But you can't be violent against ghosts and mountains. So Cursed Mountain is violent, yes, but in a very unorthodox way."
How unorthodox? You enter a shadow world, sense enemies with the pointer, and then fight with motions, including a praying gesture.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ben @ Jul 31st 2008 10:57AM
The game sounds interesting. In my mind I totally heard Casey Kasem when I read the "zoinks! Like ghosts!" line. Classic.
z3r0w1n9 @ Jul 31st 2008 11:48AM
Casey Kasem?? *I* heard Shaggy from Scooby-Doo! ;)
samfish @ Jul 31st 2008 12:22PM
Isn't it sad that we're a the point where every time a new game is announced for the Wii by anyone other than Nintendo that my reaction is, "Well, I hope it doesn't fucking suck like all the others."
Why can't I see a game from a 3rd party and be excited? :\
SoshiKitai @ Jul 31st 2008 3:15PM
Actually everytime I hear of an interesting game coming out, I always think "Nope, I don't think it'll come out... or if it does, it won't come out anytime soon."
TWOO DEE @ Jul 31st 2008 12:34PM
i read 'prayer gesture' and immediately could only think of Funny Games...:(
phenylketonurics @ Jul 31st 2008 2:45PM
Hah, wow. This actually sounds interesting to me. I'm so sick of games that feed off of the shock value of =gasp!= blood and gore.
cmdrpwn @ Jul 31st 2008 4:26PM
Interesting concept and art. Kind of reminds me of another elusively vapid Wii survivor horror game....what was it called again?
Oh right, Sadness.
Seriously, I've suspended my disbelief with these conceptual Wii third-party games. Untill I see some actual real-time footage of any of these things running, "Cursed Mountain" (great title there guys) can join the long line of Wii vaporware, right alongside Disaster, Crystal Bearers, Fragile, Kid Icarus, and god knows what else.
(I don't mean to sound cynical, but I still haven't recovered from Nintendo's extravagantly mediocre e3 showing, and their consequent clear pronunciation of their betrayal of the core fanbase.)
Errol @ Jul 31st 2008 4:36PM
A climber, you say? Sweet! So you would have to, like, make "climbing-a-mountain" motions with the Wii Remote and nunchuck? Oh my god, this sounds awesome!
And the story sounds alright too (not eniterely original, but decent). I can't wait to see a trailer for this!!
I can't be cynical, i just can't. I'm way too optimistic about things :p
zchry @ Aug 17th 2008 7:34PM
I am actually looking forward to this. If I buy a horror game in the nearish future, I think it'd be this one.
I just don't like gore. I don't like it at all. It's fine in small increments, but the horror genre (movies, too) is just gore, gore, and more gore these days.
And please don't chastise me for my optimism in this game's development. Who knows what it'd end up like? I don't care. I like the idea.