NOTE: The annoying scream may have been caused by a disc scratch or something. I watched playthroughs online and it didn't happenin them. However, those playthroughs were emulated. So I can't say for certain whether it's just my copy, or if it's a glitch that was in the original physical release. If anyone knows, please tell me.
being very familiar with what disc scratch can do to the audio for PS1 games, it definitely seemed like an issue that would be cause by a scratched disc by the way it looped. i can't be 100% certain as i have no way to verify it myself but i think it's safe to assume that it was just a problem with your copy
Ey would you look at that, Jennifer Connolly playing a girl named Jennifer in a movie referenced in a video about a girl named jennifer that also shared the same name as jennifer in another game referenced for similarities! JeNnIfEr
About how your friend survives if you don't look, I've heard something similar about cave story and here's my explanation for both of them: Schrodinger's Cat. Basically, when the scream happened, your friend is in a state of being alive and dead at the same time. As general game/movie rules go, especially for horror, a character cannot be declared officially dead until a body with face or the moment of death is shown. You can say that they're dead, the characters can think they're dead, but there's always a chance for them to come back if neither case happens. Therefore, if you observe the window, you've "opened the box" and the duality of their state collapses back into one. You see your friend die, therefore their death is canonically confirmed. If you ignore the window, it is "implied" that they "might be" dead, but you cannot be sure because you didn't see it happen. You don't have proof. The state of being alive and dead at the same time is therefore maintained, opening the possibility that your friend survives and comes back later.
I was thinking about Schrodinger's Cat as well, but I don't think the theory applies as well when someone other than the writer has control over variables in the story. If the game only had one, unalterable storyline then there wouldn't be a problem. The issue here is that you can create different scenarios, experiments, if you will, where the exact same thing happens: you interact with the exact same objects, you find the exact same key items, the rooms are in the exact same locations (the latter two the game's RNG permitting), yet, when you get to the window and hear the scream, checking and not checking the window yield two wildly different outcomes. In the game's universe, nothing has happened between these two "scenarios" that would affect the outcome of your friend's battle with Scissorman, as they are both the exact same, and Jennifer can't do anything from the window in that instant to change the outcome either. The outcome of a different location's "scene" should not be different because you did something at this location's "scene" at the exact same time, there is no correlation at that moment.
You can trigger deaths of friends in various other rooms. To get the S rank, you need to not hit these death triggers 3 times so one of your friends is alive at the end. Such as not going into that bathroom and opening up the shower curtain.
One time, Schrodinger was pulled over by a cop for having a dead cat in his trunk. The cop asked, "Hey, did you know there's a dead cat in you car?" And Schrodinger said, "Now I do."
I played this game back in my college days. This was a really scary game and I commend the creators for it. Never have I ever been scared of a horror game on a SNES ever. I too own a repro cart of Clock Tower, and the PS1 title, and Clock Tower 3.
My first time playing the clock tower series was 2 when I was 8 years old and oh my god how foolish I was. I was playing my dad's old horror games from his ps1 stash and clock tower 2 was the first game I picked. I swear to god I have never screamed so much when I thought I got away from the scissorman when he appears right in front of me or one of those "surprise mother fucker" out of a hiding spot like out of an elevator or a display case.
This game is amazing and still holds up today!! The atmosphere and tension is amazing!! :D Too bad every time they try to remake it or spiritually sequel it, it turns out trash... (See Night Cry.)
I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the corpse in the taxidermy room. If you look in the cabinet on the SNES version, it doesn't do anything, but the PSX version actually had it get up and try to kill you (in one hit, no less)
It pops up in the snes version. Its a dead corpse with a yellowed out face. I checked the cabinet 2 times and then for some reason I checked a 3rd time and the dead body was in the cabinet but it doesn't get up and attack.
The most scared i felt in a non horror game was when i was running from bandits in pathologic 2. The game loop of getting vital loot from dangerous places and harsh punishment for dying meant that i was terrified of bandits even if i had a weapon that could one-shot them. Getting close enough to use it meant that if you ever miss, you will very easily get killed instead because you have the same amount of health as the enemies and can get one shotted instead. Even running away is stressful as all hell as backstabbing is a reliable one shot both for you and your enemies. I kind of wish this philosophy got adopted in some way in horror.
Fun fact: The fog isn't even using Mode 7. It's instead relying on moving scroll values at every scanline. That's how most distortion effects on the SEGA Mega Drive are done too.
@@MrMarinus18 It's both: color subtraction and it's moving each scanline (sine wave parallax). You can have 8 channels in what's known as "HDMA" or H-Blank Direct Memory Access, which allows for layered effects.
Jai: I can confirm that name is most likely pronounced Ba-rows. How do I know? My last name is Barrow. It's a common last name in barbabos which is where my dad is from.
Out of any horror series that’s been reviewed; this one actually got me really invested and to fall in love with a series that I’d never really care about beforehand. Good job Nitro.
@@NitroRad I apologize for the off-topic comment, but you know the screaming at 14:20? That isn't supposed to be in the game, so you seemed to have encountered an error. It can happen with improper loading. You know when files seem like they work properly, but then something happens during the transfer that messes it up? That might be why the scream is so unusual. I put this here so you can hopefully see it. Have a good day/evening/night, Nitro Rad!
Hitsu It basically dealt with these alien shrooms where their goal is to wipe out the Mushroom Kingdom in the past and present. One scene actually has them wipe out a town in the past, which you don’t find out until later in the game.
1-It starts with Peach getting kidnapped (of course)...but it's pretty scary. Peach is supposed to come back from an experimental time travel, Mario and Luigi go to the spot where she's supposed to arrive...and the time machine arrives half destroyed and with a ferocious alien inside it 2-The first location Mario and Luigi visit is a destroyed village where Toads are being abducted by UFOs. They manage to rescue a survivor...and he instantly gets abducted as well. 3-One of the dungeon is a fuel plant. How do the aliens get fuel? They SUCK IT OUT OF TOADS, who become lifeless shriveled purple mushrooms in the process. 4-You eventually visit another Toad town, which has been razed to the ground as well. 5-You find out in the end (spoiler ahead) that everything you did was going along the plan of the villain Peach defeated at the start of the game to come back to life.
14:19 That sounds it skipping, like when a game crash and the last sound skips. That had to be a error. You know when files seems like they worked probably, but then something happens during the transfer that messed it up. I think something along those lines happened.
I tried this game last Halloween, and I confidently knew that a 16 bit game could never creep me out lol even as a 30+ year when scissor man first appeared it genuinely startled me, I had no knowledge of him beforehand, I had the lights off, I was alone, the lack of music, the loud footsteps had built up some uneasiness without me being aware of it, when scissor man first dropped through the ceiling, it definitely got me, also when I was in the garage hiding up on the shelf and you think he's left, then he crashes through the roof right next to you! I was genuinely impressed with this aspect.
One of my favorite games ever. I even held a presentation about it during my game education, because I think it did so many things right for a horror game, especially such a early one.
I remember watching Retsupurae do commentary on that game. They did a bunch of old point and click horror games, like Darkseed. Harvester was my favourite of the bunch. That might be something I'd consider eventually, doing those games. But I want to get every major horror game on PS2 out of the way first.
Human Entertainment actually mostly split into two: Grasshopper following Suda 51 which was mostly new blood to the company, while the old guard reformed into Spike and inherited most of the IP, except for Clock Tower itself which ended up in Capcom's hands only to be immediately squandered. Spike then later merged with Chunsoft to become Spike Chunsoft!
I modded my SNES Classic at launch for this game. I haven't even triggered the courtyard reveal of Scissorman, thanks for showing the more obscure events!
Coming back to look at this after the news of the WayForward Clock Tower remake that was just announced, it'll be cool to actually have an official english release of this game!!
The Clock Tower games (at least the first ones, possibly not The Struggle Within or 3) seem to be heavily inspired by Argento and giallo movies in general. I noticed the Suspiria stained glass scene in one of the Clock Towers (I can't remember which one, lol, it's been awhile)
14:25 just to make fun of the sound lol *Game Director, "Cut! Cut! There is a fire alarm going off!" Scissor Man "Oh shit! I left the oven on while I was cooking before we did the bath scene. Let me get the fire extinguisher." Laura "What!?! Why now! I gotta go in one hour. I got work after this" :/
12:04 schrodinger’s cat. It could be a fake body shoved through a window with a tape recorder strapped to it until you decide to check it to confirm it for yourself. Also I never played Freddy fish but I know Pajama Sam and spy fox.
Or, Once You go to the Window to check it - the Girl Fighting Scissor-Man Looks at that same second to see you - Gets Distracted and Thrown Out the Window...
I was a bit weird when I was little. I had a huge crush on the girl, I was heartbroken someone was trying to kill her with big scissors. Even though I was super scared I braved it through just to get her to save at the end. I cried when she died from my mistakes and I felt incredibly guilty. I was like 7 at the time and beating this game was my biggest achievement as a kid I felt like a hero. I thought to myself "this is how Mario feels like", going through hell just to save the girl. When I found out there was a sequel I was like "oh man here we go again."
You do know you can't rely on the uh... run button, right? It's only for short bursts to escape, and if you run more than half a room length, or so, your character stumbles and falls to the ground, YES there is a run button, but adding in the delay from falling, it's not much better than walking.
Honestly NitroRad is an awesome reviewer! Every reviewer nowadays sound so damn fake with their fake happy cheerful, scared voice. Also Rad explains everything so well and adds more details in the explanations! This guy is a fantastic reviewer!
I'd love to see more of these fan-art scenarios, they add to the whole thought of imagination about different what-ifs on the game in quite humorous turns.
clock tower has problems, sure, which you pointed out very elegantly! but goddamn, that SOUNDTRACK. the music in the original clock tower is bone-chillingly scary, and it’s incredibly effective at setting up fear when the scissorman arrives. it’s so instantly iconic and i love it so much.
Clock Tower... Criminally underrated horror series in my opinion. There's just something about not being able to fight back just adds to the punch of the horror.
Wow, I’m so glad you reviewed this game! This was one of the first horror games I ever played, and I still have fond memories of it. Also, I had some of those graphical glitches on my rom, as well as some freaky flickering in the bathtub room.
I've been looking for the Freddie Fish Games for YEARS like you don't know how long I've been aimlessly searching!!! Thank you for referencing it I absolutely loved those games back when I was little! Fond memories follow me when it comes to that game 🎮
Nitro, please. My body can only take so much amazing horror game goodness at a time. I might perish before Halloween if you keep these sick retro horror game choices up.
Hey man, just wanted to say that you're series on Clock Tower is genuinely one of my favorite on all of TH-cam and I find myself returning to this video specifically on the regular. I am oddly fascinated by the first Clock Tower especially, one of the best Gothic Fiction kind of video games ever, in my opinion, and I feel like you did this game absolute justice by being generally sincere about it. Love that, great work.
So glad I accidentally found your channel in the suggested videos. Binge watching your videos starting from when you started the channel. A couple a dozen videos in, I'm hooked. Subscribed.
Good luck with Clocktower: Ghost Head If you plan on reviewing that one...it had absolutely nothing to do with the other games and it’s one of the most shameless Resident Evil ripoffs I’ve ever seen
I have a slight bit of affection for Ghost Head, due to having watched a stream of it by a TH-camr I liked that's no longer around. But yes, Ghost Head is objectively awful.
Ghost Head had an interesting setup with the twins and Bates was pretty good. Everything else was soooooo wasted. Including the dev team when they were making it.
I don't really see how it's a shameless RE ripoff just because of the zombies, they are so much more ridiculous and bizarre than Resident Evil, it is pretty bad but I do think it is so bad that it is good and also aware of that and trying to be absurd and surreal, though it is also a rushed game that ended up legitimately bad in ways that the previous Clock Tower games were not because of it, at least after the first section of the game which was good and creative.
Dude, your production quality has gone through the roof over the years. Good work, as always. I get excited whenever I see you uploaded something new. Also, Freddy Fish was my favorite game as a kid. It got me into the point and click adventure genre pretty much instantly.
oct has always been my favorite month for this channel and every year i binge watch all the halloween specials in addition to the new stuff. Nitro you kick ***. Keep it up and much love.
"What? you got MURDERED? Well I didn't see it Happen so Clearly your Alive" "That logic makes no sense" "Well I'm also...like talking to you right now so..." "...okay fair"
Maaaan, I remember going through the first few games years ago during a particularly cold and quiet winter. I'll tell ya, when the game is the only sound around, it really enhances the experience. Spot on review! On the topic of 2-D Point and Click horror games, have you ever checked out the Chzo Mythos series? The director's cut pack is free, and I think it's right up your alley. Thanks for the content!
Been waiting for you to talk about this series. Got into this series and Silent Hill my Junior year and I've been a huge fan of classic psychological survival horror games since. You should play the other playstation clock tower games. I think they are way better than the 1st.
Clock Tower is too scary for me to watch, but I left a like because I could tell how much effort you put into this video just by watching 20 seconds of it! Keep up the great work!
If I had a nickel for every time nitro rad reviewed a game starring a orphan girl named Jennifer I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
I just love these intros for the halloween video with Brady on it. I remember that the first video i watched from you was the Forbiden Sire one, you have come long way James... keep the excellent work here.
You're flexing on me so hard. The Peanuts collection. The Yetee shirt I passed up on last year. Gad. You're really making my Halloween spirit come out this year! I wasn't feeling it so much with life getting in the way a bit. Really grateful.
Makes me really interested in see you do a review of the Spiritual Successor game NightCry. Man that game is a complete train wreck. P.S. don't know if you ever seen me mention this, but I'm a solo indie developer who created an RE7 style survival-horror game called FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate and I'm currently working on my next horror game which will take more inspirations from the Silent Hill games (especially number 4). Anyway if you ever feel like giving my Frostbite game a play, it is completely Free on Steam.
Can people thumbs this up so Nitro sees this? Dude -- I really want you to review Shadow of the Colossus. I'd love to hear your opinions on something so esoteric and beautiful. Peace man, and congrats on the success - i still remember when you had just 10 thousand subscribers XD nice one
@@lunatic0verlord10 Its just eh... i just dont know if i am gonna buy it, if it cant get the art right, it would ruin my immersion to the game. The original game uses great art based on "Phenomena 1985" horror movie. Where the rerelease seems to use very bland manga art. I will see but i doubt i will buy it if thats how its gonna end up as. Will just stick to SNES classic!
NOTE: The annoying scream may have been caused by a disc scratch or something. I watched playthroughs online and it didn't happenin them. However, those playthroughs were emulated. So I can't say for certain whether it's just my copy, or if it's a glitch that was in the original physical release. If anyone knows, please tell me.
Either way, sounds less a terrifying shriek and more of a klaxon alarm.
Nitro Rad hey Nitro Rad. How would you feel if Studio Trigger did a Sonic anime.
Also what Nintendo IP would you trust Insomniac Games with?
Where did you get that shirt? I Want It! ✂
being very familiar with what disc scratch can do to the audio for PS1 games, it definitely seemed like an issue that would be cause by a scratched disc by the way it looped. i can't be 100% certain as i have no way to verify it myself but i think it's safe to assume that it was just a problem with your copy
wasn't sure if you were doing this series
You can beat scissor man with rock. Paper loses.
He IS the blue bomber.
You gotta use ham dude it's scissors man worst enemy
@@kivaHBRO_04 but, rock paper scissors
So in a "Scissor man vs Mega man" fight Megaman would win huh? Get it? Get it?
Blue Yoshi I understood that reference
9:20 Here's a "fun" fact: There are unused animations of Jennifer running up and down stairs. Yup. Wonder why they went unused?
Well that's a shame
Why
Because running on stairs is dangerous
@@juanokug4 it’s a video game who cares lol
@@dans5113 it's called a joke
Ey would you look at that, Jennifer Connolly playing a girl named Jennifer in a movie referenced in a video about a girl named jennifer that also shared the same name as jennifer in another game referenced for similarities! JeNnIfEr
She later reprised the role in Metal Gear Solid 2, where she wasn't Ames.
And even Remothered, a game heavily inspired by Clock Tower has a Jennifer!
my moms name is jennifer.
Wasn't Jennifer also the name of the main girl referenced in the game reviewed earlier, Rule of Rose? Huh, funny. :p
Wasn't Jennifer the name of a girl in another horror-themed game in Splatterhouse too?
Clock Towel? That's not very scary...
[CLOCK TOWER]
Oh God...!
Was that caddy? I can't remember. ;_;
EmberEarth I think it was JonTron
ThePreciseClimber my favorite moment from jontron
Ah, a man of culture I see.
But . . . the others.
*heart beat. Thinks but not too long*
FUCK IT!
*speeds away in car with explosions*
About how your friend survives if you don't look, I've heard something similar about cave story and here's my explanation for both of them: Schrodinger's Cat.
Basically, when the scream happened, your friend is in a state of being alive and dead at the same time. As general game/movie rules go, especially for horror, a character cannot be declared officially dead until a body with face or the moment of death is shown. You can say that they're dead, the characters can think they're dead, but there's always a chance for them to come back if neither case happens.
Therefore, if you observe the window, you've "opened the box" and the duality of their state collapses back into one. You see your friend die, therefore their death is canonically confirmed. If you ignore the window, it is "implied" that they "might be" dead, but you cannot be sure because you didn't see it happen. You don't have proof. The state of being alive and dead at the same time is therefore maintained, opening the possibility that your friend survives and comes back later.
I was thinking about Schrodinger's Cat as well, but I don't think the theory applies as well when someone other than the writer has control over variables in the story. If the game only had one, unalterable storyline then there wouldn't be a problem. The issue here is that you can create different scenarios, experiments, if you will, where the exact same thing happens: you interact with the exact same objects, you find the exact same key items, the rooms are in the exact same locations (the latter two the game's RNG permitting), yet, when you get to the window and hear the scream, checking and not checking the window yield two wildly different outcomes. In the game's universe, nothing has happened between these two "scenarios" that would affect the outcome of your friend's battle with Scissorman, as they are both the exact same, and Jennifer can't do anything from the window in that instant to change the outcome either. The outcome of a different location's "scene" should not be different because you did something at this location's "scene" at the exact same time, there is no correlation at that moment.
fucking booster how did he do that without the cure all
You can trigger deaths of friends in various other rooms. To get the S rank, you need to not hit these death triggers 3 times so one of your friends is alive at the end. Such as not going into that bathroom and opening up the shower curtain.
One time, Schrodinger was pulled over by a cop for having a dead cat in his trunk. The cop asked, "Hey, did you know there's a dead cat in you car?" And Schrodinger said, "Now I do."
Schrodinger's murderous rampage.
I played this game back in my college days. This was a really scary game and I commend the creators for it. Never have I ever been scared of a horror game on a SNES ever. I too own a repro cart of Clock Tower, and the PS1 title, and Clock Tower 3.
My first time playing the clock tower series was 2 when I was 8 years old and oh my god how foolish I was. I was playing my dad's old horror games from his ps1 stash and clock tower 2 was the first game I picked. I swear to god I have never screamed so much when I thought I got away from the scissorman when he appears right in front of me or one of those "surprise mother fucker" out of a hiding spot like out of an elevator or a display case.
This game is amazing and still holds up today!! The atmosphere and tension is amazing!! :D Too bad every time they try to remake it or spiritually sequel it, it turns out trash... (See Night Cry.)
What about Haunting Ground? It was basically Clock Tower 4, but renamed.
I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the corpse in the taxidermy room. If you look in the cabinet on the SNES version, it doesn't do anything, but the PSX version actually had it get up and try to kill you (in one hit, no less)
It pops up in the snes version. Its a dead corpse with a yellowed out face. I checked the cabinet 2 times and then for some reason I checked a 3rd time and the dead body was in the cabinet but it doesn't get up and attack.
Being defenseless can be scary, sure.
But being able to fight back, but knowing that it can very much be insufficient, has far more scare potential
And this doesn't only apply to horror, but also to general engagement levels of games! Thank you very much for writing this comment two years ago.
@@dumaass I am everpresent in all chronology
The most scared i felt in a non horror game was when i was running from bandits in pathologic 2. The game loop of getting vital loot from dangerous places and harsh punishment for dying meant that i was terrified of bandits even if i had a weapon that could one-shot them. Getting close enough to use it meant that if you ever miss, you will very easily get killed instead because you have the same amount of health as the enemies and can get one shotted instead. Even running away is stressful as all hell as backstabbing is a reliable one shot both for you and your enemies. I kind of wish this philosophy got adopted in some way in horror.
"Yes i would like buy those two like puppies in a kettle after all anything can be bought and sold for the right OOOYULL"
OMG THAT'S WHAT THE FISH GAME WAS CALLED?! THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME FOR YEARS! THANK YOU!
Fun fact: The fog isn't even using Mode 7. It's instead relying on moving scroll values at every scanline. That's how most distortion effects on the SEGA Mega Drive are done too.
It also causes emulators to freak out
Actually no. It uses color subtraction. This is one feature unique to the SNES that is very hard to emulate.
@@MrMarinus18 It's both: color subtraction and it's moving each scanline (sine wave parallax).
You can have 8 channels in what's known as "HDMA" or H-Blank Direct Memory Access, which allows for layered effects.
@@DaizoDeeVonOfficial You don't have to use "layered effects". You can just have different layers stacked on top of each other.
Jai: I can confirm that name is most likely pronounced Ba-rows. How do I know? My last name is Barrow. It's a common last name in barbabos which is where my dad is from.
Epic name, sounds pirate as hell
Out of any horror series that’s been reviewed; this one actually got me really invested and to fall in love with a series that I’d never really care about beforehand.
Good job Nitro.
Damn dude, when you said you were good a cinematography, you weren't lying!
Thank you!
@@NitroRad I apologize for the off-topic comment, but you know the screaming at 14:20? That isn't supposed to be in the game, so you seemed to have encountered an error. It can happen with improper loading. You know when files seem like they work properly, but then something happens during the transfer that messes it up? That might be why the scream is so unusual. I put this here so you can hopefully see it. Have a good day/evening/night, Nitro Rad!
"Im being strangled by the man in the mirror" AAAURGH!!
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time also had a great title screen with a clock theme
And it also has some of the darkest themes in the series yet.
ZorotheGallade Wait what?
Please, elaborate on that. I'm very curious.
Hitsu It basically dealt with these alien shrooms where their goal is to wipe out the Mushroom Kingdom in the past and present. One scene actually has them wipe out a town in the past, which you don’t find out until later in the game.
1-It starts with Peach getting kidnapped (of course)...but it's pretty scary. Peach is supposed to come back from an experimental time travel, Mario and Luigi go to the spot where she's supposed to arrive...and the time machine arrives half destroyed and with a ferocious alien inside it
2-The first location Mario and Luigi visit is a destroyed village where Toads are being abducted by UFOs. They manage to rescue a survivor...and he instantly gets abducted as well.
3-One of the dungeon is a fuel plant. How do the aliens get fuel? They SUCK IT OUT OF TOADS, who become lifeless shriveled purple mushrooms in the process.
4-You eventually visit another Toad town, which has been razed to the ground as well.
5-You find out in the end (spoiler ahead) that everything you did was going along the plan of the villain Peach defeated at the start of the game to come back to life.
14:19 That sounds it skipping, like when a game crash and the last sound skips. That had to be a error. You know when files seems like they worked probably, but then something happens during the transfer that messed it up. I think something along those lines happened.
I tried this game last Halloween, and I confidently knew that a 16 bit game could never creep me out lol even as a 30+ year when scissor man first appeared it genuinely startled me, I had no knowledge of him beforehand, I had the lights off, I was alone, the lack of music, the loud footsteps had built up some uneasiness without me being aware of it, when scissor man first dropped through the ceiling, it definitely got me, also when I was in the garage hiding up on the shelf and you think he's left, then he crashes through the roof right next to you! I was genuinely impressed with this aspect.
One of my favorite games ever. I even held a presentation about it during my game education, because I think it did so many things right for a horror game, especially such a early one.
this is my first nitro halloween, im so excited
Emily Walla you're in luck, Nitro has consistently great videos
Same.
i gotta go get some halloween candy at walmart before more videos come out lol
Mine too!
so many new fans! sweet! yeah nitro has great vids so stick around.
Could you please review the game I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream? Perfect for Halloween.
I second this
Athena F How awesome and incredibly twisted...
I remember watching Retsupurae do commentary on that game. They did a bunch of old point and click horror games, like Darkseed. Harvester was my favourite of the bunch. That might be something I'd consider eventually, doing those games. But I want to get every major horror game on PS2 out of the way first.
@@NitroRad how about Gregory horror show on the ps2?
@@NitroRad Hauntin Ground?
And six years later we got a remaster. That's cool because the game was never released in Europe.
Human Entertainment actually mostly split into two: Grasshopper following Suda 51 which was mostly new blood to the company, while the old guard reformed into Spike and inherited most of the IP, except for Clock Tower itself which ended up in Capcom's hands only to be immediately squandered. Spike then later merged with Chunsoft to become Spike Chunsoft!
I modded my SNES Classic at launch for this game. I haven't even triggered the courtyard reveal of Scissorman, thanks for showing the more obscure events!
Coming back to look at this after the news of the WayForward Clock Tower remake that was just announced, it'll be cool to actually have an official english release of this game!!
Phenomena is a really underrated Argento film imo, it's cool you threw that info about the game in there.
The Clock Tower games (at least the first ones, possibly not The Struggle Within or 3) seem to be heavily inspired by Argento and giallo movies in general. I noticed the Suspiria stained glass scene in one of the Clock Towers (I can't remember which one, lol, it's been awhile)
14:25 just to make fun of the sound lol
*Game Director, "Cut! Cut! There is a fire alarm going off!"
Scissor Man "Oh shit! I left the oven on while I was cooking before we did the bath scene. Let me get the fire extinguisher."
Laura "What!?! Why now! I gotta go in one hour. I got work after this" :/
12:04 schrodinger’s cat. It could be a fake body shoved through a window with a tape recorder strapped to it until you decide to check it to confirm it for yourself.
Also I never played Freddy fish but I know Pajama Sam and spy fox.
Or, Once You go to the Window to check it - the Girl Fighting Scissor-Man Looks at that same second to see you - Gets Distracted and Thrown Out the Window...
Good theory. It's actually the first time I see someone pulling out the schrödinger's cat thing right.
Burn Angel thanks, and I owe it all to that one achevement in portal 2 which led me to eventually learning what the concept of it is.
@@Burn_Angel makes sense that you agree since ur pfp is bernkastel 😆😆
@Bernkastel's Footstool Umineko's fanbase certainly will not die, and a miracle certainly will not occur.
I wanna see your reactions to the PS1 game. It's such a fun but cheesy experience :)
hi
I was a bit weird when I was little. I had a huge crush on the girl, I was heartbroken someone was trying to kill her with big scissors. Even though I was super scared I braved it through just to get her to save at the end. I cried when she died from my mistakes and I felt incredibly guilty. I was like 7 at the time and beating this game was my biggest achievement as a kid I felt like a hero. I thought to myself "this is how Mario feels like", going through hell just to save the girl. When I found out there was a sequel I was like "oh man here we go again."
Heroism in the making ^^
3:14 "Whizmical" Definition: One step up from whimsical, a situation involving so much whimsy you wiz yourself.
Clock Tower on SNES was mostly scary for the walk speed.
You uh, do know there's a run button right?
You do know you can't rely on the uh... run button, right? It's only for short bursts to escape, and if you run more than half a room length, or so, your character stumbles and falls to the ground, YES there is a run button, but adding in the delay from falling, it's not much better than walking.
Also, may be misremembering, but almost certain that's this game I'm thinking of with the frequent falling.
Honestly NitroRad is an awesome reviewer! Every reviewer nowadays sound so damn fake with their fake happy cheerful, scared voice. Also Rad explains everything so well and adds more details in the explanations! This guy is a fantastic reviewer!
I'd love to see more of these fan-art scenarios, they add to the whole thought of imagination about different what-ifs on the game in quite humorous turns.
clock tower has problems, sure, which you pointed out very elegantly! but goddamn, that SOUNDTRACK. the music in the original clock tower is bone-chillingly scary, and it’s incredibly effective at setting up fear when the scissorman arrives. it’s so instantly iconic and i love it so much.
_ooh that's a real nice shirt you got there nitro_
Where do I get that shirt my dude
ikr!
Your background in film college really shows. The on-camera bits looked pretty darn professional thanks to the good use of color and lighting ^^
Who's ready for the remastered version?
Clock Tower... Criminally underrated horror series in my opinion. There's just something about not being able to fight back just adds to the punch of the horror.
“Clock Towel? That’s not very scary”
Ooh that's the one
Beat me to it.
"it happened in November."
“I’ve got a bone to pick with you!!”
"Hush, child. We're here."
You're a monster with the content consistency and frequency lately dude! I'm loving it!
I thought this game was called Clock towel?
love the Jon Tron reference XD
Clock towel? That's not very scary...
CLOCK TOWER
Oh god!
Wow, I’m so glad you reviewed this game! This was one of the first horror games I ever played, and I still have fond memories of it. Also, I had some of those graphical glitches on my rom, as well as some freaky flickering in the bathtub room.
15:30 DUDE! The Complete Peanuts Collection!? MY MAN! I have those too!
Holy crap! Yes my favorite series! Rad love your videos and damn your channel is growing! I’ll be sticking for a long time!!
Prepare for overused and repetitive Jontron references!
cLoCk ToWeL d0eSn'T sEEm t00 BaD
SCISSORMAN
Ah, Mr.Udûn, fancy seeing you here.
I'm being strangled by the man in the mirror! Aahhhh!
I have SEVERAL questions...
I've been looking for the Freddie Fish Games for YEARS like you don't know how long I've been aimlessly searching!!! Thank you for referencing it I absolutely loved those games back when I was little! Fond memories follow me when it comes to that game 🎮
"I DID NOT FACTOR IN THE WARP ABILITY!"
"But...the others...!"
*grapples with the ethic ques--*
Fuck it!
*VRROOOM!*
Clock Tower was like Outlast of the 90s/early 2000s, can't defend yourself, only running and hiding from your foes.
"I'VE GOT A *BONE* TO PICK WITH YOU! NYAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!"
Sans get out
love your vids because I learn alot about classic horror games Ive never even heard of. keep doing you!
That detailed image of Laura tied up in the shower always unnerved me.
Good editing skills man. I also like that you don't force humour like some other reviewers
4:08 September bit of a miss Opportunity I mean the Scary month is just one over
*Changes to October*
*OH THAT'S THE ONE*
Nokio The Animator nice one
why
Nokio The Animator that part of the jontron ep
Nitro, please. My body can only take so much amazing horror game goodness at a time. I might perish before Halloween if you keep these sick retro horror game choices up.
I'm already afraid of scissors
Your profile pic is that of a shit game, can't remember which though.
Fortunately, you can kick back, relax, and remember that scissors don't actually exist.
@@edenbeats.8569 THE RING! TERRORS REALM (splat)
Hey man, just wanted to say that you're series on Clock Tower is genuinely one of my favorite on all of TH-cam and I find myself returning to this video specifically on the regular. I am oddly fascinated by the first Clock Tower especially, one of the best Gothic Fiction kind of video games ever, in my opinion, and I feel like you did this game absolute justice by being generally sincere about it. Love that, great work.
Ah yes, I really love some "whismical" sense of adventure lol
Your history with filmmaking really helps your intros stand out, great job.
I had no idea this game was ported to the PS1. That's pretty interesting. Wonder if there's like an English translated ISO of it?
I'm pretty sure there is!
And it does exist an english translation, just like the Windows port.
I'm surprised to see all the games that already have been translated
So glad I accidentally found your channel in the suggested videos. Binge watching your videos starting from when you started the channel.
A couple a dozen videos in, I'm hooked.
Subscribed.
Good luck with Clocktower: Ghost Head If you plan on reviewing that one...it had absolutely nothing to do with the other games and it’s one of the most shameless Resident Evil ripoffs I’ve ever seen
I have a slight bit of affection for Ghost Head, due to having watched a stream of it by a TH-camr I liked that's no longer around.
But yes, Ghost Head is objectively awful.
Reisdent evil Rip off? The hospital had a gun and a reallly bad hord shooting section,. but the whole house section is nothing like resident evil.
Neo Zetra Fine, the entire second and third acts are shameless ripoffs, better?
Ghost Head had an interesting setup with the twins and Bates was pretty good. Everything else was soooooo wasted. Including the dev team when they were making it.
I don't really see how it's a shameless RE ripoff just because of the zombies, they are so much more ridiculous and bizarre than Resident Evil, it is pretty bad but I do think it is so bad that it is good and also aware of that and trying to be absurd and surreal, though it is also a rushed game that ended up legitimately bad in ways that the previous Clock Tower games were not because of it, at least after the first section of the game which was good and creative.
Dude, your production quality has gone through the roof over the years. Good work, as always. I get excited whenever I see you uploaded something new.
Also, Freddy Fish was my favorite game as a kid. It got me into the point and click adventure genre pretty much instantly.
3:29 really like the use of the hotel dusk soundtrack. Planning on reviewing it in the future?
oct has always been my favorite month for this channel and every year i binge watch all the halloween specials in addition to the new stuff. Nitro you kick ***. Keep it up and much love.
I remember this game from Jontron. I actually watched a gameplay of it and I genuinely never understood why he considers this game to be bad.
Jon didnt say it was bad though
He never said it was good or bad. He's not a critic, he just makes jokes and comments about things he watches and or plays.
Holy shit that intro was really well done! Im proud of you James! It had really good CUTS!!! Another Great Video!
"What? you got MURDERED? Well I didn't see it Happen so Clearly your Alive"
"That logic makes no sense"
"Well I'm also...like talking to you right now so..."
"...okay fair"
Letting you know you are currently one of my favorite youtubers out there. Keep up the good work!!!
Maaaan, I remember going through the first few games years ago during a particularly cold and quiet winter. I'll tell ya, when the game is the only sound around, it really enhances the experience. Spot on review!
On the topic of 2-D Point and Click horror games, have you ever checked out the Chzo Mythos series? The director's cut pack is free, and I think it's right up your alley. Thanks for the content!
I thought the only point and click horror games were the Clock Tower series and Dinner With An Owl.
@@gothnerd887 Nope! There are plenty. The Chzo Mythos is just a favorite of mine.
Very excited you are tackling this series. Never played it myself, but have seen many reviews of it, yours being one of the better ones!
I hope you brought some ham nitro, cause your gonna need it.
pretty cool we actually got an international release of a classic like this in 2024. Neato!
Been waiting for you to talk about this series. Got into this series and Silent Hill my Junior year and I've been a huge fan of classic psychological survival horror games since. You should play the other playstation clock tower games. I think they are way better than the 1st.
Clock Tower is too scary for me to watch, but I left a like because I could tell how much effort you put into this video just by watching 20 seconds of it! Keep up the great work!
If I had a nickel for every time nitro rad reviewed a game starring a orphan girl named Jennifer I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
I just love these intros for the halloween video with Brady on it.
I remember that the first video i watched from you was the Forbiden Sire one, you have come long way James... keep the excellent work here.
To be a SNES games, I get jumpscare good, I good damn game dude
I love these little live action skits recently you do in the intros.
Please do deadly premonition next
You're flexing on me so hard. The Peanuts collection. The Yetee shirt I passed up on last year. Gad.
You're really making my Halloween spirit come out this year! I wasn't feeling it so much with life getting in the way a bit. Really grateful.
Why does the monster in the thumbnail look like the Iron Maiden mascot?
This channel keeps getting better and better. I always love your Halloween specials my dude.
Makes me really interested in see you do a review of the Spiritual Successor game NightCry. Man that game is a complete train wreck.
P.S. don't know if you ever seen me mention this, but I'm a solo indie developer who created an RE7 style survival-horror game called FROSTBITE: Deadly Climate and I'm currently working on my next horror game which will take more inspirations from the Silent Hill games (especially number 4). Anyway if you ever feel like giving my Frostbite game a play, it is completely Free on Steam.
Oh dude! I played your game, I thought it was very good! Funny seeing you here though...
Ooh, if you ever need voice work, I specialize in horror games.
OMG thank you for doing a video on this! As always, a well-made review. I binge your videos!
comments from 14 hours ago yet the video was only in my sub feed like 5 minutes ago?
How do you not have more subs??? Your reviews are so well researched and always on point!
Can people thumbs this up so Nitro sees this? Dude -- I really want you to review Shadow of the Colossus. I'd love to hear your opinions on something so esoteric and beautiful. Peace man, and congrats on the success - i still remember when you had just 10 thousand subscribers XD nice one
I'm pumped you're making videos again for this October! I've been looking forward to them :D
Try Desert Nightmare and Schlud you'll love them
Desert Nightmare? That RPG maker game?
This is my first video of yours, and my fav analysis of Clock Tower. If every video of yours is like that, oh boi. Im subscribed
So, what do you have to say about the upcoming western release?
Sceptical, the manga art is horrible. I want realism. But i am glad it gets a western release
@@Sparrows1121 That's exclusively for the intro. If RCG0 is to be trusted, the rest of the game should maintain it's classic graphics.
@@lunatic0verlord10 Its just eh... i just dont know if i am gonna buy it, if it cant get the art right, it would ruin my immersion to the game. The original game uses great art based on "Phenomena 1985" horror movie. Where the rerelease seems to use very bland manga art. I will see but i doubt i will buy it if thats how its gonna end up as. Will just stick to SNES classic!
@@Sparrows1121Like lunatic said, that’s exclusively for the intro. The developers made that crystal clear.
@@lalehiandeity1649 Even for a intro thats enough to ruin a game for me. But i will wait and see
The ultimate trio of video game characters
Scissor Man, Rockman and Paper Boy
EHHH SISSORMAN!!!
I love the Halloween outro you put in your Horror game reviews James.
For the next Clock Tower, why not call it "Another Clock Tower."
I know, I'm lazy.
Maaan you are so aces, Nitro! Just made my day off even better!
Now play Panzer Dragoon.
Just found one of my new favorite channels. Keep up the good work, man.