WTMG's Leo Faria: "Reviewing Clock Tower: Rewind was a mixed bag because, on one hand, I get it. I understand the importance of Clock Tower, and the impact that game had on survival horror as a whole. As a piece of gaming history, finally archived and widely available on the West, this is a fantastic release. The added interviews, cartoon animations and soundtrack are a neat bonus. But as a game, this has aged incredibly poorly. Considering how the developers have decided to keep the gameplay basically intact, this is still a clunky point-and-click game with obtuse puzzles, poor controls, and an annoying amount of cheap deaths. It’s more of a novelty than anything else nowadays, sadly."
The Outerhaven writes: For the first time in the west, Clock Tower has arrived in the form of a new port. Find out what we thought of it in our Clock Tower Rewind review.
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."
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