
Gloomy and ominous, Clock Tower is a wonderful experience for any fan of interactive horror, and well worth playing through whether as a longtime fan of the series or a wide-eyed newcomer -Tachibana Ukyo. Clock Tower is just cool that way -Amai Yuuwaku Compounding off this, my first playthrough of the game was at a small party I held for six or seven close friends, and with the exception of one (she’s oddly impervious to that sort of shock value), we were all scared out of our wits. Clock Tower doesn’t pull any punches, and the horrifyingly realatmosphere of the Barrows’ mansion had me paranoid for at least a week! In fact, one of my friends who I first played the game with noted that the scariest part of the game was that almost everything in it can easily be connected to real life. Clock Tower creates an underlying wave of fear throughout the game’s course, and there are certain scenes in the game that may act as a proverbial moon to bring in this terrifying tide. The following haunting stories come from various gamers who have encountered Scissorman’s wrath over the years…
But with Clock Tower being a special fan translated repo, I’ll cite some fan comments instead. Normally this is where I’ll put the game’s scores according to the “Super Three” (EGM, GameFan and Super Play Magazine - if applicable).