You gamers (and “evil Buddhists”) might wanna check out this report on Shambhala SunSpace about “Cursed Mountain,” a new game for the Wii that, according to IGN.com:
repurposes Tibetan Buddhism to fuel its survival horror premise. …Cursed Mountain puts players at the control of Eric Simmons, an explorer who takes to the Himalayas in search of his younger brother Frank. Naturally, as Eric he ascends the mountain he’s pulled deeper and deeper into a supernatural world, haunted by the dispossessed as they perpetually linger in a state of Bardo, victims of a curse on the region and in limbo between this life and the next.
Sounds like fun. (And I’m only half-kidding.)
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June 18th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
That actually does sound really fun! Bet the actual gaame sucks, but the premise sounds interesting. And hey, they twisted up Buddhism and other Eastern mythologies for Jade Empire, so I guess they’re not the first or the worst.