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Fantastic game. Blast from the past in my childhood. I have logged so many hours with this game. Excited to pick it back up again.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Great use of sound and music (and silence) to enhance the tension throughout. The graphics are fine for the time, but the fully rendered polygonal 3d wasn't quite ready for prime time when this game was made. I recall the first Clock Tower was made when 16 bit graphics had reached full potential, and was much more effective at creating a creepy atmosphere out of seemingly ordinary places. The gameplay is about as fluid as the first game. The only drawback is how often your assailant, 'Scissorman', wanders in at random. It's great the first couple of times, but I found myself just rolling my eyes at having to go back to a hide/trap point to be rid of him so I can get back to where I was in the game. The first game did not have this issue, as Scissorboy tended to pop up only in scripted bits in certain rooms. The story, I haven't finished yet, so I won't comment on that, except to say it appears to be a decent continuation of where the first game left off, though the cast is a bit crowded here, and the urban sprawl aspect makes it less menacing. Keep it simple. The value, I gave it a 'no' on 'good value' simply because this game is downright EXPENSIVE now. I understand why, since it's kind of rare and the vintage game market is crazy right now. People are scavenging for physical copies, now realizing how fragile their games are in the hands of people who hate them. Overall, the game is worth playing, and if you have the liquid cash, snag it while you can, but don't risk utility bill money for it.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I'm a big fan of survival horrer and the PS1 Era so wanted to check out one of the genre's earliest hits. The concept and dynamic are well executed - the element of surprise and feeling of helplessness are really well done. My primary complaint is how slow and confusing the gameplay is. Most of the game is spent clicking randomly on things in a room trying to figure out what obscure thing you missed, abs you have to click through the text fields each time which is mind numbingly slow (and I was even using the PS1 mouse). True this is an older game, but this came out almost a year after Resident Evil so there really is no excuse to have such a dated style of play. I would recommend checking out only if you are a point and click fan, or die hard survival horrer fan. Love the idea though, and think the series would be amazing if they updated it for today.Read full review
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I was first introduced to Clock Tower back when it was released in the late nineties. I enjoyed it then and wanted to relive it again. It really isn't fair to judge this game by today’s standards. By today’s standards the graphics are terrible,the controls aren’t very well executed(the point and click interface turned a lot of people off this game even back then),the voice acting and dialog are poor(and completely unavoidable),and it’s so short you can beat it in well under an hour of gameplay(if you know what you‘re doing,otherwise you‘re going to be roaming hallways for hours and hours). While that is how it stacks up today,back then it was different.The graphics were par for the course,even looking considerably better than other games out there.The environments were well crafted,more than just freeze frame and could actually be interacted with in real time.The characters move fluidly and are somewhat animate during conversation scenes.The voice acting is pretty bad,but I remember being impressed it even had voiceovers when it does (it isn’t fully voiced). The biggest problem with this game is it’s designed to be played through multiple times but doesn’t make it easy to do so. Choices you make(usually in the uninspired manner of which items you have at the end)along the way influence your path and which of the ten different endings you’ll be seeing.This is made into a chore by being unable to skip any dialogue and the text is very slow moving on the screen.This makes heading into the same conversation you’ve sat through three or four times a real pain on the fifth and following times.Another oversight is while it’s very interesting and necessary to click every little spot on your first time through, you won’t really feel so inclined to explore on your following attempts through the game,and unfortunately you’re going to be forced to.Certain events and general progression won’t be allowed until you have clicked and read every certain item or person the required amount of times. While the impact of this oversight can be lessened with creative use of the save feature to pick up and do things differently at crucial points in the story to avoid having to start all the way over from the beginning, you’re going to have to start over a few times and it can become tedious. Technical issues aside, the game is designed to scare you and it does just that if you get into it. The protagonist (one of five) is typically trapped inside a building and is tasked with trying to find an escape while the murderous Scissorman appears at random times and chases you until you find a way to hide or otherwise thwart him for a short while.Your character is generally helpless and can only fight back when the environment allows (such as pushing a bookshelf onto Scissorman or grabbing an item to clobber him with).You can shove him down with repeated pressing of the Panic Button (Square, not X which you use for everything else) but this will not stop him from chasing you so you’ll have to hide before you can return to exploring. Don’t get too comfortable with a hiding spot as he will eventually catch on and find you. The only way this game holds up now is if you’re looking to relive the 90’s Playstation vibe or if you’re a huge fan of everything horror. I recommend it if any of what I mentioned before applies to you, otherwise the lacking interface and poorly handled conversations may require more patience than you may want to invest.Read full review
Clock Tower is an awesome game, period. The game consists of mostly detective work where investigating certain objects is your only way to make progress. Scissorman only makes it more enjoyable by jumping out of things at random - it's pretty frightening. You don't control the character like in Silent Hill or Fatal Frame; instead, Clock Tower is a point-and-click game that has you telling the character where to move or what to look at. You can play as one of two characters with ten different endings, which gives it a high replay value. The only downside to Clock Tower is the graphics. The characters are ugly compared to today's standards, and sometimes certain objects are hard to see. If you are looking for something different, enjoy solving puzzles, and don't care about graphics, you should definitely get this game.Read full review
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