Clock Tower - The First Fear Opening - PlayStation
0Clock Tower - The First Fear Opening - PlayStation
Clock Tower is a survival horror point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Human Entertainment for the Super Famicom in 1995.
It is the first installment in the Clock Tower series. The story follows orphan Jennifer Simpson soon after she is adopted by the Barrows family along with other orphaned girls. With the introduction of Scissorman, the game's antagonist, one of the other children is killed.
Jennifer must then explore the Barrows Mansion to find a way to escape while evading Scissorman, leading to one of the game's multiple endings. Clock Tower utlizes a point and click interface with the player controlling a cursor to direct Jennifer's actions.
The game sold "fairly well" upon release. An updated version, titled Clock Tower: The First Fear was ported to the PlayStation, WonderSwan, and Windows. Many years later, it was re-released again on the PlayStation Network, as well as Wii and Wii U Virtual Console.
The game has never been officially released outside Japan, although fan translations exist. In retrospective reviews, the puzzles and exploration were found to be tedious. However, Clock Tower has been praised for its haunting atmosphere and is considered a predecessor to other horror video games and the survival horror genre.