VGChartz's Evan Norris: "How you enjoy Clock Tower: Rewind will depend largely on your needs. If you're looking for a modern remaster that improves upon the original template with new audiovisual assets and gameplay refinements, you'll be disappointed. If you're looking for the real McCoy — Clock Tower as it existed in 1995 — with restored content, brand new localization, and save states, then you should be mostly satisfied. Despite some faults, including simple puzzles, a clunky control scheme, and tedious exploration, Hifumi Kono's seminal survival-horror game is worth playing, at least once."
Huzzah, the Scissorman is back!
Richard Bailey of The Koalition writes: Halloween season is finally upon us, and with that comes a slew of scary movies, TV shows, and video games. Thanks to several notable titles, 2024 has been an interesting year for horror games. Here’s our list of 10 horror games worth playing this Halloween season.
I played through Alien Isolation, Silent Hill 4, and the original Outlast throughout the week. Not big on Halloween, itself, but I do make a point to still keep it horror month.
I don’t care about Halloween at all beyond it’s fun to take my kids out trick or treating to see their happy faces with massive bags of candy. But it just feels right playing horror games in October/November
Travis Bruno of Capsule Computers writes:
"For many, the Clock Tower series is one that they have either never heard of or have only the faintest knowledge of as the horror franchise hasn’t received a new release in over two decades outside of two spiritual successors, one of which some may recognize since it’s often thought that a certain “that dog” from Capcom happened to reference a main ally in one of these successors, Haunting Ground. Even then, the original Clock Tower was left untouched for nearly thirty years as it was only ever released in Japan for the SNES but that has all changed thanks to WayForward. Often thought as one of the influences on creating the survival horror genre, now that this point and click horror game has arrived in the West after nearly thirty years with some updates as Clock Tower: Rewind, is it worth checking out?"
