Players must guide Jennifer Simpson through a secluded mansion, known as the 'Clock Tower,' while being hunted by the mysterious Scissorman. These factors influenced some critics to recommend Clock Tower purely for point-and-click adventure fans.Clock Tower is a survival horror point-and-click adventure game developed by Human Entertainment for the Super Famicom that was released in Japan on September 24, 1995. Most of the negative critique was directed towards the game's slow pace, which was compared unfavorably to other PlayStation games of the era, particularly the more action-oriented and fast-paced Resident Evil. The game's horror atmosphere and storyline were praised, although most other aspects were found to be mediocre. Critical reviews of Clock Tower were mixed. Kono attributed some of this success to Resident Evil generating interest in horror games and the success of the PlayStation. The team felt challenged to create high-quality graphics after being impressed by the visuals of Resident Evil (1996), which was announced during development.Ĭlock Tower was commercially successful, selling close to half a million copies. Clock Tower was one of the first games developed by Human Entertainment to utilize a 3D graphics engine. Kono had difficulty in choosing the platform to develop on, but eventually settled for the PlayStation despite its uncertain future. Point-and-click adventure, survival horrorĭirector Hifumi Kono was not interested in developing a sequel to the original Clock Tower at first, but was swayed after seeing the technical possibilities of the next-generation consoles.

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