Health items can be collected but only used at certain points. There are documents to find all over the place, so lots of room ransacking is required. If you’re looking for an action game or a game that is light on story but heavy on game play, you probably want to look elsewhere.Ĭursed Mountain perpetuates other key traits of the traditional horror genre. This is not a knock on this game–the pace was clearly selected with care by the developers, and as long as you’re cool with the old-school horror style, it won’t bother you. There are sections that remind me of the bygone era that spawned games like Silent Hill, where nothing happens for minutes at a time as the player walks through some increasingly foreboding place.
The most obvious indicator of this orthodox pedigree is the pace things move along at absolute snail speeds by modern horror standards. The combat system borrows a lot from Resident Evil 4, and the graphics are nice and all, but this is a classic horror game through and through. Simmons must find his brother somewhere on Chomolonzo, figure out what happened, and avoid getting killed in the process.Īs I mentioned in my initial impressions of this game, Cursed Mountain is an old-school horror game. Making his way through a series of increasingly remote camps and Buddhist temples, he finds that the local population has been replaced by angry, hungry ghosts. By the time he arrives, however, he finds the villages practically deserted. The story in Cursed Mountain is a little hard to follow (more on that in a minute), but the basic premise is that Eric Simmons, a famous mountain climber, is called to a remote Himalayan village because his brother has gone missing on the slope of Chomolonzo, a fictional Himalayan mountain. As it is, it’s a great idea for a horror game, but the execution is so inconsistent that it only comes off as ok. Buddhism at high altitudes is a great premise for a horror game, but mundane problems mar the experience.Ĭursed Mountain would be a great horror game if the developer had spent another two months polishing it.
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