Everything you need to know about Clock Tower.

• Publisher:
  ASCII Entertainment, Human Entertainment
• US, EU, JP
• Genre:
  Adventure, Other
• JP: December 13, 1996
  NA: October 1, 1997
  EU: February 1998

With the survival challenge, Clock Tower 1996 will provide a mouse cursor on the screen, and the player will use this mouse pointer to interact with the surroundings. The player’s main task is to escape from the pursuit of Scissorman, the game’s antagonist. Also, there will be two main cores for players to use are Jennifer Simpson and Helen Maxwell. From providing these two characters, the producer brings five different endings at the end of the game. Depending on the actions and choices of the player when performing a survival mission. People will explore the game in different stages, and the character’s health status is displayed in three separate colours with the mouse pointer. When the mouse pointer shows white, the character’s health is stable and can quickly interact with surrounding objects to find a way to survive. The case of the mouse pointer is shown in yellow, meaning the character has been subjected to an attack from Scissorman, and the health condition will be impaired. That makes players interact with objects or structures around them more slowly. Finally, the mouse pointer is red, the state of the character is in a chaotic state and easily killed by Scissorman.

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1. Clock Tower

Description of Clock Tower Windows

Clock Tower is an excellent horror adventure game for the Super Nintendo that is actually scary. What it lacks in difficulty leve and length, it more than makes up for in sheer atmosphere - something that is very hard to do in horror games.

As Jennifer Simpson, your goal is to escape a psychotic serial killer named Bobby Barrows (a.k.a. 'the Scissorman') who is on the killing spree in the Barrows Family Mansion. Throughout the game, you will run down one dark corridor and claustrophobia-inducing room after another, feeling your heart skip a beat every time you hear Scissorman's footsteps or the mashing sound of his weapons.

Similar to traditional point-and-click adventure games, the game is played from the third-person perspective, where you control Jenny, interact with 'hotspots' that are labelled, and pick up anything that isn't nailed down. Using the keyboard to move the cursor around (since you will be playing this on PC, with emulator) is annoying at first, but you will get used to it. Puzzles, while logical and easy for the most part, are well integrated into the game, and figuring out new ways to run and hide from Scissorman becomes a fun - if nerve-wracking - game-within-a-game. Multiple solutions and paths lead to 10 possible endings, making Clock Tower one of the most replayable adventure games (although this '10 endings' boast is misleading because dying scenes are included in that count - a strange and unconventional move).

On the downside, the game is quite short: I was able to finish it in under 3 hours, and that includes the time spent loading saved games when I failed to hide quickly enough. Another nuisance is the 'feature' that is meant to prevent the game from becoming un-winnable, but is poorly implemented: you are not allowed to leave each room if there is still some item you need to look at or get, or someone you need to talk to. The designers should have played LucasArts' classics to see that it is possible to make solid, no-dead-end games without restricting the player's movements.

All in all, the scare factor in Clock Tower is what makes the game immersive, interesting, and compelling. The eerie music and sound effects make it more atmospheric. A good blend of horror and traditional adventure-gaming, Clock Tower is worth a look for every adventure fan.

Originally released on the Super Nintendo in Japanese only, the game was later re-released with 3D graphics on the Playstation and spawned 2 further sequels. This download is the original SNES version that has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis, one of the best translation fangroups today. Highly recommended!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

PIEACEOFPIZDEC2020-02-111 point

THIS GAME IS LEGENDARY. FROM A HARDCORE CLOCK TOWER VETEREN WHO EVEN OWN THE FIRST FEAR ON PS1

digidydog2019-11-040 point

there is no manual on clock tower

Doppelgangger2019-11-040 point

I've played this game on SNES very long ago. I didn't think it was scary for me at that time. But the PC version gives me a nightmare.
:P

admin2019-08-091 point

Setup looks OK: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/76edc31b627099ce3372fc054c3a6e85fb5e3434d60338b3376f8a24e410b7d9/detection

I spend hours playing this game. Love it- Very good game, but completely addicting. Finish whatever you have to before even starting.- The game is really fun. Easy to play and an easy way to kill some time in between appointments. Simplistic but addicting! Block craft 3d app.

Papadopolis2019-08-081 point

Downloaded this game, and my antivirus freaked out. Webroot detected a malicious virus in the install file. Use with caution.

RedRangelrr2019-05-200 point

I'm makin a comment.
This game is everything that this review states.
As such. I have nothing more to add
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Boo!
did I scare ya?

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