First, it forces you to search very carefully and make sure you have found everything. If you want, you can finish the game in about an hour, but you will have missed more than half of the game. The game has a total of 10 different endings, depending what moves you make during the game. Every decision you make, from each of these points of view, will affect the outcome of the game. Each of the characters has different stories and can visit different places.Īnd that is one of the cool things about this game. Depending on your conversations, this will dictate who you will play the game as. From this point, you will meet Helen, another of the main characters. No one really wants to admit that they believe her about Scissorman, but they are not discounting her story either. The game begins with a doctor asking the woman questions about what happened on the night of the murders. One was a young boy and another was a woman. The game takes place immediately following a mass murder. Let's talk about the other characters in the game. This happened in a couple of different places, and I thought it was great because you had to be creative in your hiding.Įnough about Scissorman. Well, he started chasing me another time so I headed back to my trusty hiding space, only this time, he decided to gently ram his giant scissors through the box and kill me. Scissorman came into the room and looked around but did not look in the box. For example, I was being chased so I hid in an empty box.
Well, you can usually outsmart him the first time, but don't try the same trick twice. I will say that Scissorman is a smart fellow. There could be three doors next to each other, but Scissorman ALWAYS knows which door you went through. How the hell did he get ahead of you? I don't remember stopping to tie my shoe or anything, so how did he get there? Also, he always knows what path you have taken. I can deal with a certain amount of unrealistic action, but it is completely unfair when you run out of a room that Scissorman is in, only to find him in front of you in the next room. Scissorman breaks a major rule of evil villains. Sure, he is a bad guy and everyone knows that bad guys never die (just ask Jason), but there are rules you just have to follow even if you are a bad guy. On a more sobering note, I was a bit unhappy with the unfair nature of Scissorman. By the way, try playing late at night with the lights off. If they are overused, they would lose their effectiveness, but that was not the case. That tells me that I was really into the game and that they did a great job with timing and placement of the startling moments. I can think of at least five times that I jumped when something happened during this game.
It is rare that I get startled in movies and I can't think of a single video game (okay, maybe Resident Evil) that has made me jump because I was startled. This guy knows all the best hiding places and always seems to jump out at just the right/wrong times. The other thing that makes Scissorman so cool is his element of surprise. Any chance he gets, he would be more than happy to stick them straight through you. These scissors are not used for clipping coupons out of the Sunday paper, either. He is slow and not very strong, but he is armed with the largest pair of scissors you could imagine. Scissorman walks sort of hunched over and drags one of his legs along. This is one of the scariest bad guys in the history of evil bad guys. If the gameplay is nothing revolutionary, then what makes this game so good? Scissorman. And you must locate keys to unlock doors or other items to help you progress further into the game. You find objects that will be placed into an inventory that you can use at a later time. You guide your character through the screens by clicking on "hot" areas, which are usually areas of interest. The gameplay is nothing revolutionary, but it is the story and the suspense that make Clock Tower work.Īnyone who has ever played a point-and-click adventure game will feel right at home with the controls. It is one of the best point-and-click adventures of all time. This has all changed, thanks to Clock Tower. Usually point-and-click can be translated to slow-and-boring.
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