Clock Tower 3 Preview – Welcome to Just Adventure +

Not much is yet known about the new adventure sequel Clock Tower 3 and Capcom seems reluctant to deal with a yucky adventure site (maybe we need to wear our caps sideways and end all our words with a ‘z’), but not only did I managez to score these rad screenshotz for my homies, but I also found some nice trailerz. The trailerz are in Japaneze, but the graphics and sound effects are all in English (my email address is [email protected]). Now, I can’t read Japanese, but I did come up with my own game blurb, “Young girl receives mysterious letter and must then visit mysterious mansion where she is chased by mysterious ghosts that she then blows-away with mysterious Resident Evil style weaponry.”

Since this really isn’t much of a preview and is really nothing more than a lot of screen shots, I thought I should also include some quotable lines that could be included in the Clock Tower 3 marketing campaign. I know that I for one am sick of reading quotes on console adventure games from dweebs whose idea of adventure is successfully cutting the cellophane off their new PS2 game.

“This is the best adventure game I have never played!”
“ Wow! This game looks so spooky that my white underoos are now brown.”
“ Cutting-edge graphics. Cutting-edge plot. Cutting-edge decapitations.”
“ This game out Resident Evils, Resident Evil!”

Clock Tower and Clock Tower 2 have both been featured – by my favorite reviewer -on Just Adventure and come highly recommended. In the meantime, here’s to the day when the console publishers & developers have that dim bulb go off in their heads and realize that adventure gamers don’t care if a game is on console or pc, they just care that it’s an adventure game. Peace out. (Btw, past experience has proven that most public relations people for the console companies must not have had ‘sense of humor’ listed in their job descriptions so don’t expect us to have any exclusives on Clock Tower 3 soon!)

News Flash! This just in – in the few days since this preview was written, Capcom has opened a new Clock Tower 3 website. We now have this official description of the game:

Behind every shadow lie your darkest fears…
Alyssa Hamilton is an ordinary girl with ordinary dreams who is about to discover a side of herself that she never knew she possessed. Only she has the power to destroy the evil that threatens to plunge the world into darkness. Her destiny is to end the brutal crusade of the Evil Servants, foul spirits who thrive on the trapped life force of their murdered victim’s souls. To save herself and these tortured innocents, Alyssa must unlock the mysteries surrounding the death of each soul. However, the legions of the dark world won’t succumb easily. Alyssa must summon the sacred weapons necessary to banish these demonic creatures to the nightmare realms that spawned them before the clock tower strikes midnight.

Hmmm…I think my description made more sense.