Official Wii Thread

**Shin Johnpv** · 05 Jun 2009, 07:37 PM

Cursed Mountain footage http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3...mountain/51083

**Finch** · 05 Jun 2009, 07:38 PM

Augh, i am not clicking that because i know that it is the mountain you can see from your back yard. Why do i want to see that? It is not a game.

**Yoshi** · 05 Jun 2009, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv

Cursed Mountain footage http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3...mountain/51083

Jesus Christ. Did you listen to the part about having no weapons because you could "attack" with gestures during Buddhist prayers? Interest -10,000,000

**StriderKyo** · 05 Jun 2009, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

Jesus Christ. Did you listen to the part about having no weapons because you could "attack" with gestures during Buddhist prayers? Interest -10,000,000

The guy in the interview mangles the term but they're called mudras, and they make sense as a way to battle ghosts.

They're kind of badass, imo:

I think the game looks pretty decent.

**Finch** · 05 Jun 2009, 08:13 PM

Oh Yoshi, you are on a journey to Silius!

**NeoZeedeater** · 05 Jun 2009, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by epmode

Four Swords was rad, STUFU.

Truth, at least for the GC one (I haven't played the GBA one). And Cursed Mountain's pretty nice looking for a Wii game.

**Yoshi** · 05 Jun 2009, 08:58 PM

I watched the whole video and never heard mudras mentioned. I will hold my cynicism until I see more gameplay I guess.

**StriderKyo** · 05 Jun 2009, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

I watched the whole video and never heard mudras mentioned. I will hold my cynicism until I see more gameplay I guess.

Watch the hands, man! There are much better examples but I can't find anything relevant on youtube, unless you'd just like to see them in regular everyday prayer use rather than fighting anything mystical.

The moral of the story being, you need to watch more kung fu movies.

EDIT: just had a thought - ninjas and shugenja do them, if you've ever played DOA3, Ryu Hayabusa does the kuji-no-in mudra sequence with his hands as a win pose saying the name of each one, "rin pyo to sha kai jin retsu zai zen".

Can't find the clip from the game, but this is the sequence:

They all have different symbolic meanings, the practitioner is supposed to hold the image in their mind summoning up the power of that image - a sheathed sword, a mountain etc. In some forms of mysticism, different sequences result in different spells. In Buddhism they're generally used to generate a specific energy or state of mind.