

Typically, these actions involve simply moving both in one direction or the next. If you do enough damage, the symbols will appear more prominently onscreen, and each symbol indicates a gesture to perform with your Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Once a ghost is stunned, you target the ghost with the Wii Remote and then hit the A button, at which point symbols will temporarily appear on the ghost's body.
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The best way to kill these ghosts is to dispel them with a series of Buddhist gestures that you'll pick up as you go. You'll also have projectile weapons that Eric will find during his adventures they're not guns exactly, but they can fire spirit-stunning projectiles. It's not the only way to dispel the baddies, anyway. Now, in all our years of fighting evil spirits, we've never once managed to kill one with a pickax-and this is not for want of trying-but we'll roll with it. This was the most combat-intensive section of the demo, with our hero Eric battling it out against spirits with what appeared to be a pickax. The first was a camp setting, much like you'd see at the base of a mountain expedition. Three levels were shown off in the demo version on-hand. Nevertheless, despite the occasional fight with an angered spirit, this looks like a pretty straight-ahead adventure game, with occasional combat, puzzle-solving, and action sequences. Sure, there's plenty of creepy atmosphere as you make your way through the Himalayan setting, trekking up a mountain and making your way through spooky Buddhist villages as you search for your lost brother. It's billed as "survival horror," but despite its title, Cursed Mountain seems more like an action game to us. At a 2009 Game Developers Conference press event in San Francisco tonight, we had a chance to check out the game again, our first look at it since November of last year. SAN FRANCISCO-Climbing mountains is hard enough work, but what if, in between forging a path up a mountainous range in the Himalayas, you were beset upon by evil spirits intent on doing you all sorts of bodily harm? That's the compelling question that's poised in Deep Silver's upcoming survival horror game Cursed Mountain for the Nintendo Wii.
