Hello! I’m Mariel Kinuko Cartwright, inventive lead on Clock Tower: Rewind, and at present I’m excited to share some new particulars concerning the sport with you. Headed to PS5 and PS4, Clock Tower: Rewind is an up to date launch of the basic 16-bit survival-horror sport Clock Tower, which was initially launched in Japan in 1995. WayForward and Restricted Run have partnered with Sunsoft and Capcom to lastly carry the sport to a world viewers, the place it’s had a devoted fan following however by no means had an official launch exterior of Japan.
The delivery of a 16-bit horror basic
Earlier than we get into the new particulars of Rewind Mode, let’s unpack among the chilling sport’s historical past.
My very own journey with Clock Tower began in my early teenagers, the place I discovered the sport utterly by chance. I instantly discovered the graphics and setting compelling; the sport follows Jennifer Simpson, a teenage orphan who has simply been adopted together with three of her pals. Little does she know that her new house, a mysterious mansion owned by the Barrows household, holds many disturbing secrets and techniques. It wasn’t too lengthy earlier than I met our fundamental villain: the terrifying Scissorman, who’s relentless in his pursuit of Jennifer!
I’ve personally all the time liked horror, whilst a toddler, however I discovered Clock Tower so scary that I might solely play it for a couple of minutes at a time. It stays one of many scariest video games I’ve ever performed even at present, and the story, characters, and setting have made a big impact on the best way I take into consideration video games and storytelling. Wrapped up in a point-and-click package deal, with just one enemy pursuing you for the complete sport, it’s a very poignant story of discovery and tragedy, with many alternative ways in which the story can play out. It’s been one in every of my favourite video games since I first performed it, and I do know it’s held a particular place within the hearts of followers all around the world as effectively.
It’s an enormous honor to be part of Clock Tower: Rewind, the place we’re lastly getting the chance to share this particular sport worldwide for the primary time! With this new launch, we’ve included the unique 16-bit sport, because it was in 1995, but additionally added a ton of enjoyable extras to make Clock Tower: Rewind a new package deal for each new and present followers alike.
Unique Mode and Rewind Mode
Clock Tower: Rewind will function two fundamental modes — Unique and Rewind. Unique mode is simply what it feels like: that is Clock Tower, ported straight from the 1995 model, with new translations in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Conventional Chinese language, and Simplified Chinese language. After which we’ve Rewind mode, which is an enhanced model of the unique sport.
Immediately, we’d like to reveal extra particulars about what Rewind mode entails.
The unique Clock Tower really had two releases — the 1995 16-bit model, and an up to date model referred to as Clock Tower: The First Concern, launched on the unique PlayStation in 1997. Clock Tower: The First Concern added new content material, resembling new scares, extra story, and even further enemies. Do you know there was a room you couldn’t entry within the 16-bit sport? Now you’ll discover one other bed room that gives one other place to cover from Scissorman. A new cutscene at a pivotal second within the sport will arrange occasions in later Clock Tower video games, too. And ensure you hold a watch out, as a sure corpse or haunted doll may come to life.
For Rewind mode, we’ve taken that new content material from The First Concern and added it to the unique model, permitting gamers to expertise the whole lot Clock Tower needed to supply.
We didn’t cease there, although. With Rewind mode, we’ve additionally included utterly new options, resembling an up to date chase system, during which Scissorman can observe you into extra rooms and conceal in additional locations, dialing up the scares much more than earlier than. Complementing that’s higher controls for Jennifer, permitting her to run on stairs, discover new hiding locations, and even use a couple of weapons. Add in a couple of bug fixes and quality-of-life changes, and we’ve made what we imagine to be the last word model of Clock Tower for gamers to take pleasure in.
None of this might be potential with out the Clock Tower fan group, who we collaborated with to carry Rewind mode to life. A lot of what we achieved with Rewind mode was constructed upon their work, and it was a pleasure to work with followers who know the sport in and out.
Clock Tower: Rewind additionally consists of further new content material exterior of the sport, resembling new unique music by Dale North (with two totally different vocal songs, one that includes Mary Elizabeth McGlynn of Silent Hill fame and the opposite that includes Emi Evans of Nier), fantastically animated movement comics with model new VO, an animated intro directed by yours really, and extra.
Clock Tower: Rewind lands worldwide this fall on PS5 and PS4. Make sure that to seize your copy to expertise a basic, genre-defining survival horror title.