Cursed Mountain set to scare Wii gamers
September 19, 2009 by Dave Taylor
Filed under Nintendo Wii Games
Looking for something a bit less cute to play on your Wii? Cursed Mountain is a survival horror game that plays to its strengths of story and atmosphere.
The game sets you off climbing a mountain in search of Frank, your sibling who got himself lost earlier while looking for Terma, some sort of Buddhist treasure. Eastern philosophy and Buddhism combine in Cursed Mountain to create a believable and compelling back story.
As the game is on the Wii, you might assume that the lack of graphic gore is because the platform isn't great at graphics, but actually Cursed Mountain has some of the bets visuals the Wii has yet seen.
Graphics aside, the control system has also benefited from being developed solely for the Wii, with careful consideration as to how to make the most of the controller for each bit of gameplay, rather than trying to force things onto it as happens often with games ported from other platforms.
The way up the mountain isn't predefined. You can choose how you try and make it to the top, and as you move forwards, Cursed Mountain throws new challenges at you, such as the thinning of the air as you climb, making you race around trying to find discarded oxygen bottles from unfortunate climbers.
Combining new gameplay and puzzles as it goes, together with finally some decent graphics on the Wii, and a control system that makes sense for the controller, Cursed Mountain is worth consideration of any grown-up gamer.
Cursed Mountain is out 4th September 2009 and is only available for the Wii.
David Taylor is the Publishing Director for the online games magazine portal, GamerZines.com. You can find out more in the exclusive Cursed Mountain magazine, and in their free Wii magazine, PlayZine, which is a free, every month magazine available by instant download..
