Mountain Review

"You're the Mountain, Mountain is God"

Campaign

In one of the more cryptic or well just generally random game I've ever played you become a mountain. To elaborate you watch this mountain that's seemingly floating within a galaxy rotate about as various aspects of it transform over time. It really is just a glorified screensaver that's a game to some degree in terms of how you interact with it. This isn't a negative comment as the whole goal is just to let this mountain run over various amounts of time to see what happens, there's a choice of playing with it though. From the start you draw pictures for various meanings and then your mountain generates. Once created it starts living allowing you to fly around it while it does mountain stuff. Overtime you will also see various objects appear like perhaps an anvil, a bed and other things. Now we get onto the actual game aspects where you can play your keyboard to enchant or I like to say sing to your mountain. The various keys play musical notes and you can create events that inflict change to the area. Whether that be a snowglobe effect, blood rain and a number of other events triggered by chains of notes. It also seems to change pace with this musical effect. I've watched this thing spin for awhile intently and have just left it while working to see various effects. Time to time music may change or cause some crazy effect and I'll check on it. No matter what it just keeps going with an odd text message every so often.

Gameplay

There really isn't any gameplay as the mountain lives by itself. The only element of player control is manipulating what's happening to your mountain. The key input system is really neat and an interesting element. The whole area and cosmos of the mountain is enchanting with the graphics being quite beautiful. Other than that the mountain just lives.

The Conclusion

You're the mountain, for I am the mountain in this enchantinly strange journey. Watch as it rotates and lives in this open area of cosmic space. Manipulate the mount and change it's world. Quite honestly it's really cheap and a weird mystic thing to have running in the background ocasionally so you may like it for what it's. Just try to appreciate the concept of the game in general with the neat take on what we think gaming really is. My mountain itself has run for a many hours in writing this review.

Mountain for PC
Review code provided by David OReilly

Rating Overall: 7.0