Clock Tower 3 is primarily an adventure game, Capcom will naturally assume that adventure games on console don’t sell and will never consider placing the blame where it actually belongs, with their marketing department. Yes, Capcom placed advertisements in the console gaming magazines, the same magazines that decry any game that is slowed down by puzzles and of course the reviews held true to form. No, Capcom did not make any attempt to reach out to the adventure community and ask what they would like in an adventure game. Instead, they attempted to appeal to the twitch crowd by adding end-level bosses to what is otherwise a pure adventure game. It goes without saying that the twitch crowd was put-off by the puzzles and the cerebral crowd was put-off by the challenging end bosses and the end result is that nobody wins.
If you are willing to buy into it, Clock Tower 3 has a wonderfully eerie storyline. Much like the previous two installments, the protagonist is Alyssa, a teenage girl who inexplicitly finds her tranquil life disrupted by supernatural events. After her mother mysteriously disappears, Alyssa is sucked into a world where spirits of pure evil commit unspeakable acts of violence (often depicted in cut-scenes as gruesomely as possible) and only Alyssa can free the tortured souls who have been captured by these Evil Servants. The entire story plays out in London, but jumps between the years 1942, 1963, 1982 and 2002.
Being a huge fan of survival-horror games, Clock Tower 3 was high on my wish list after purchasing a PS2 last Spring. I had read mixed reviews on the game but was very eager to give it a try. GAMEPLAY - Unfortunately t... Read Full Review
This game borrows ideas from the past clock tower games and puts them together to make an excellent survival horror game. This game plays in the solve puzzles / hide from your enemy in survival mode like in the previous... Read Full Review
