Clock Tower

aka: Clock Tower 2, Clock Tower Second
Moby ID: 3532
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Originally titled Clock Tower II, this game is a sequel to Clock Tower. You must stop a disfigured mass murderer named Scissorman who has been terrorising the citizens of Norway in this full 3D point and click adventure, but watch out: Scissorman will be after you!

The game is spread across three scenarios (including a prologue at the start). Through the course of the game, people are being killed one by one by the notorious Scissorman. Once Scissorman shows up, you will have to find a hiding place or something to knock the Scissorman out with. Between levels, there is also an intermission in which the player can take a look around the town before going onto the next level.

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  • クロックタワーセカンド - Japanese (alternate) spelling
  • クロックタワー2 - Japanese spelling

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Average score: 68% (based on 20 ratings)

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Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 25 ratings with 7 reviews)

If Scissorman was a band...He would be the best cover band of Michael Myers.

The Good
I love the movie Halloween... even the sequels. So, it was only natural that I made sweet love to this game. And I don't make love to a lot of games. It creeps me out how many times I made love to this game. I missed 3 weeks of school because I couldn't walk. That's a lot of sweet love making.

Why aren't there more games like this? Because. If there were, I'd be in a wheelchair. But seriously, there should be more games like this in the horror genre of video games.

I understand there are an excessive amount of point-and-click games out there, but I've never played one so perfectly designed as this. Usually, point-and-click games offer you a Action Menu which gives you plenty of options to experiment with. That works for games like the Monkey Island series, Maniac Mansion, Scooby Doo for Sega Genesis, etc. Clock Tower removes the shirt and bra and throws that Action Menu out the window. You won't have time for foreplay.

The Bad
This game is scary! You should be very careful if you have any medical conditions like E.D. that might affect your experience.

Some may say the graphics are ugly (even for the time), but I say she was beautiful.

As far as the actual gameplay... the only thing that I didn't enjoy was trying to skip past all the boring parts. I wish I could have controlled the main characters as they walked from place to place. This would have added more opportunity for Scissorman to bust out during nighttime segments in the streets, but I suppose "the attacks" work best when in claustrophobic environments.

Voice Acting was ok... When it was there. I think they just hired Voice Actors for a half-hour and decided it would be too expensive for them to read more than one page. Some of the acting is ridiculous, but it's a video game + horror genre so the dumber they sound, the harder we laugh and have a good time. Ex. I exploded on the carpet it was so good. That was hard to clean up.

The Bottom Line
This is a great horror game. All other horror games are stupid. I'm sick of fighting the usual monsters. Monsters play monster games. People play Clock Tower. Are you a Person? or a Monster? I guess you have to decide. But if I were you, I'd be a Person... because People are awesome.

PlayStation · by Theo Jones (9) · 2010

One of the scariest games I've played!

The Good
I love this game! I think this is one of the best survival horror games around! I freak out when Scissorman appears. He has a stupid limp,but he can scare the living daylights out of anyone. Now I won't spoil the game for you,but I will just say that you always have to be on the lookout for Scissorman. That freak is everywhere! This isn't like Resident Evil or Silent Hill(also 2 scary games)where you get a gun and just shoot stuff. In Clock Tower you move by a mouse and click around places. When Scissorman comes you have to be quick and find a hiding spot before he shoves his scissors through your stomach. This game is somewhat graphic. This game also has a great replay value. There are 10 endings. 5 for Jennifer and 5 for Helen. Honestly I think this game was meant to be played with Jennifer,because she was in the 1st Clock Tower for Super Nintendo. Scissorman has a very chilling chase song when he chases you. If you don't have the game go to youtube.com and type in Clock tower-Scissorman.

The Bad
I really don't have any problems with this game except for the long conversations in the game. There is a conversation in the game that takes 2 minutes! That's pretty much it.

The Bottom Line
If you are a gamer I would pick it up,If you are a video game collector this game is a MUST HAVE! I wouldn't pay more than 45 bucks for this game. Keep in mind this game is rare. I would definitely recommend this game for any gamer or collector. CAUTION:If you have anxiety problems you should be careful because there is sometimes where Scissorman pops out and a big boom is heard.

PlayStation · by TwoDividedByZero (114) · 2010

"The Giant scissors once again search for prey."

The Good
I recently got this game in hope to try to put in some excitement into my quite boring life. After I played for just 5 minutes, I really started to realise the electricity in this live wire of a horror game.

Where do I start? The atmosphere is amazing, the killings are also amazing and the fact that we are all treated to a horrific masterpiece with tons of originality and fear is not amazing, but BRILLIANT!

Lets move on to the gameplay and skip mission 1, because not much happens here except you being introduced to quite a few of the characters (if you are playing in Jennifer's scenario).

But what we will talk about is when this game suddenly springs into action allowing you to be chased by the Scissorman himself once again. When this happens, SM (Scissor Man) jumps out at you from anywhere, he can attack you from behind your back or lunge out of a University locker very unexpectedly.

As you can probably tell from this review, the action is intense in this game. The music is very creepy and sometimes, there are even moments in clock tower where you can hear your own heart beating rapidly!

The Bad
Every game does have at least one flaw, and that bares no exception to Clock tower. Sometimes the game can be very unfair to you, for example: when you try running away from SM and you enter a new room, he appears right in front of you!

Plus, why is he called the Scissor"man", isn't he supposed to a kid (spoiler)? Well, that's pretty much all of the "bad" of this game.

The Bottom Line
Despite the tiny flaws mentioned in the last paragraph, Clock tower is still one of my favourite survival horror games I own. If you own a playstation and if you enjoy classical scary games, get it. I guarantee that you'll be creeped out of your own mind when you see the Scissorman decapitate his victims.

PlayStation · by Arejarn (7353) · 2008

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Trivia

Plot

Ever think that the story in Clock Tower seems like a sequel? Well, Clock Tower as we know it is known as Clock Tower 2 in Japan. The original Clock Tower: The First Fear was released in Japan only on the SNES and featured Jennifer, the traumatized girl from this game, in a creepy mansion with other teenagers trying to escape the clutches of the evil Scissorman. It was later ported to other platforms, but only in Japan.

Scissorman

While there isn't any official statement from the developers of the game, the Scissorman murderer of the Clock Tower series seems very influenced by the Scissorman character from "Struwwelpeter", a collection of rather morbid cautionary tales for children written by Heinrich Hoffman, a Victorian-era asylum doctor from Frankfurt who wrote and illustrated this collection of stories to educate his three year old son. The title has been often linked to cases of child trauma. The Scissorman is in the book the person who punishes naughty little kids that continue to suck their thumbs... with a pair of giant scissors.

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Game added by Grant McLellan.

PS Vita, PlayStation 3, PSP added by Fred VT.

Additional contributors: MAT, Sycada, //dbz:, Patrick Bregger, Monsieur B..

Game added April 6, 2001. Last modified March 19, 2024.