The character sprites look fairly decent with some annoying inconsistences (such as Jennifer being the only one who has eyes while the others are either faceless or have a “line” of darker tone of their skin) but are well animated, especially the Scissorman. There are portraits for each of the characters during dialogue, many of which seem to be based on digitized photos. Sometimes paintings will cry blood, glowing eyes will be seen through a window, or curtains will be randomly blow in the wind, all scaring the hell out of Jennifer, who will react accordingly. Additionally, all of the rooms can have random or fixed events. There are in-game cutscenes, and some of them are even animated. Every piece of pseudo-Victorian furniture, particle of glass, smoke and even the most mundane stacks of hay are faithful pixel renditions of their real counterparts. Akiyoshi Iijima’s crew creates the Barrows estate as gracefully as possible given the limits of the Super Famicom. While not all hazards require you to mash buttons (others will have you equipping items, clicking hotspots at key times, and even using perfume to fool a guard dog’s nose), it will make you feel that your life is on the edge.Ĭlock Tower had to have convincing visuals and sound in order to achieve the necessary mood, and the game does a pretty good job of it. When faced with immediate death, Jennifer’s portrait will flash (indicating the “Panic Mode”), prompting you to mash one of the controller’s buttons in order to avoid danger. This is where the game highlights another clever mechanic – the Panic button. With this said, sometimes your cover will be blown (with horrible consequences) and extreme measures will force you to fight back. This proves to be one of the cleverest ways of inflicting panic into the player, by making Jennifer unable to defend herself from the armed killer (which is fairly realistic given the circumstances), and forcing you to find sanctuary within the backgrounds.īut be warned: not every place is safe.
Thanks to the point and click interface and some imagination, you should be able to find objects or hiding spots within any of the manor’s rooms to trap the killer or otherwise allow you to escape. Setting an unlikely effective tone for horror, “Bobby”, as is technically his name, cannot be killed by any means (at least, until the end) and must be avoided. Barrows’ son and main executioner through the whole adventure. This 10 year-old garden shears-wielding incarnation of horror is Ms. Left on your own, you’re to check every corner of the mansion to find clues, solve puzzles, obtain items to advance the plot, and avoid the game’s main stalker, the Scissorman.
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