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 [Thanks to my good friend AbstractCactus for the banner image!] Clock Tower 3 is a third-person survival horror game developed by Capcom and Sunsoft and released for the PlayStation 2 in 2002. The game bares little resemblance to the previous Clock Tower games, eschewing their point-and-click interface that had defined those games for a more standard third-person control scheme. It also has nothing to do with the overarching plot of Clock Tower or its sequel, despite its numbering indicating a follow-up to those stories. Clock Tower 3 is notable for being the only video game directed by Kinji Fukasaku, best known for his directorial work on the Battle Royale film, as well as Fukasaku’s final complete product before he died of prostate cancer in 2003. The story focuses on Alyssa Hamilton, a 14-year old girl who comes home from her boarding school after her mother leaves her an ominous letter. When she approaches the house, it becomes evident that nothing is quite as she remembers it... While Clock Tower 3 is very different from its predecessors, the core of the game is kept mostly intact. The focus is on a horror experience where the main character cannot fight back against the entities that haunt them, forcing players to evade enemies until they can find another way to confront them, while also solving puzzles and piecing together a mystery. Clock Tower 3 is mostly the same, but does provide some combat sequences that are built into the overarching story. The game also features a Panic Meter, which increases when confronted by enemies. If it gets too high, Alyssa becomes harder to control, and some actions are rendered inaccessible until the player can escape their pursuant. Some may see this as frustrating from a gameplay perspective, but it causes me massive anxiety so it totally works. Ultimately, Clock Tower 3 was a commercial failure, failing to reach Capcom’s projected sales number of 450,000 even after a full year. Reviews cited strong presentation, including graphics, script and cinematography, but criticized the game’s short length and weak gameplay mechanics. Many fans of the Clock Tower series see 3 as a betrayal of the original games, particularly in the way that iconic characters are handled. Personally, I love the game, despite being a baby when it comes to horror. I think it captures its tone remarkably well and does a lot with what little it has, making for a game that is worth experiencing, though not necessarily worth playing. But hey, that’s why I’m here!  I’m the Rooder duder ChorpSaway, and my accompanying Subordinates are TheJayOfSpade, FutureFriend and Taoc. Together, we’ll be exploring Clock Tower’s lush world of murderers and seeing if we can’t help Alyssa out in her quest to solve her family’s mysteries. While there isn’t much to do outside of completing the main story, I will be saving all of the Spirits haunting the game, as well as showing off the bonus content you get from completing the game.  While I know that Clock Tower 3 has a bit of a reputation amongst video game circles, I would appreciate if you would hold off talking about events in the game until they come up in a video. I feel it’s a story best experienced blind, and I want to preserve that for the unknowing audience.                      
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 SUPER LET'S GET STARTED! Welcome to a world of horror like you've never seen before! In this new adventure, a young girl named Alyssa Hamilton returns home from boarding school after her mother tells her explicitly not to, in classic horror fashion. However, once she opens the door, she'll come to realize that a lot has changed in two years... The LP will traditionally update on Sundays, including this upcoming Sunday, Nov. 4th, but it only felt appropriate to start it on Halloween. Spooky~ WOW, A PODCAST!  YouTube MP3 Download Another treat for Halloween: it's a horror anime podcast! This time, we're talking about the 2000 cult classic Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust! As one of the first anime movies brought to the West in order to try and market animation to adults, full of dark action and a haunting story, how does Bloodlust hold up after 18 years?
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Oct 31, 2018 19:01
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I miss that little advisory that capcom games had at the start. Or do they still do that? I never played any REs past 5 and I'm sure they didn't make any clock tower or onimusha games after the ps2.
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Oct 31, 2018 19:41
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Also one warning for upcoming videos: be prepaired, not just of acting but for ACTING you will not believe that they got someone with 41 years of experience directing films involved with the project.
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Oct 31, 2018 19:47
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What a horrible night to clock a tower...
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Oct 31, 2018 21:06
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Loving this poo poo already
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Nov 1, 2018 00:34
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i think i have this game but i never got around to playing it? i guess this is a good excuse to get to that and play along i had no idea this was the last thing the battle royale dude directed before he died either!! praying this horror video game is on like, goya's black paintings level
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Nov 2, 2018 19:35
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UPDATE TIME! Today, Alyssa finds herself lost and confused! After a strange happenstance in her mum's room, Alyssa stumbles into an unfamiliar part of the house, and things only get stranger from there. She finds herself in the streets of an English town, in a time unknown to her. Alyssa will need to keep her wits about her to find a way back home, and also to deal with the rude gentleman mucking up the place!
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Nov 4, 2018 18:00
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Okay, but stop. Hammer time.
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Nov 4, 2018 20:39
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you didn't follow up the peach's castle joke with "and now we're in bob-omb battlefield", LP ruined
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Nov 5, 2018 04:09
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UPDATE TIME! Today, Alyssa enters the concert hall to find a lost soul stuck on Earth! Of course, Alyssa can't leave someone in need, and so it's up to her to help the soul find its way to the afterlife! Unfortunately, that hammer-wielding killer is still hot on Alyssa's trail, and it'll take all her wits to be able to escape 1942 with her life! It's time to close out the first level of Clock Tower 3!
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Nov 11, 2018 18:00
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This game is pretty 103.
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Nov 11, 2018 18:21
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You're hardly a proper magical girl if your clothes don't change. I know memory was tight on the PS2, but there are some corners you just can't cut.
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Nov 11, 2018 19:04
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Waffleman_ posted:This game is pretty 103. Log off troll, this is a Clock Tower 3 appreciation zone. FractalSandwich posted:You're hardly a proper magical girl if your clothes don't change. I know memory was tight on the PS2, but there are some corners you just can't cut. Transformations come in stages. We just received our powers, the costume will come in time.
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Nov 13, 2018 20:46
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I mean she's already in schoolgirl outfit, what more is needed to be a magic anime girl?
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Nov 13, 2018 21:06
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It took another six months for people to perfect Horror Magical Girl technology on the PS2 in Silent Hill 3 instead.
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Nov 13, 2018 21:38
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Oh man I forgot about the Silent Hill 3 magical girl game mode! Wow, it turns out that every horror game with a 3 in its name is the best in its series.
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Nov 13, 2018 22:55
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Leal posted:I mean she's already in schoolgirl outfit, what more is needed to be a magic anime girl?
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Nov 14, 2018 04:29
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I've watched Slowbeef and KillerEmcee stream Clock Tower 1 and 2, and I can safely say that Clock Tower 3 is just following along the series' footsteps in terms of how silly the villains are. I don't know what the fans of the series were thinking when they shat on this game for being a betrayal of the original series, or how it handled iconic characters. You can defeat Scissorman in 2 by covering him with a loving blanket.David D. Davidson posted:Also one warning for upcoming videos: be prepaired, not just of acting but for ACTING you will not believe that they got someone with 41 years of experience directing films involved with the project. I firmly believe that the director absolutely knew what kind of game he'd be working on. He knew right away he'd be dealing with a B-movie schlock and fully embraced it.
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Nov 14, 2018 09:01
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There's also the fact that a lot of the cutscenes are mocapped, and it's very clear the English voice actors were not able to watch them.
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Nov 14, 2018 18:09
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Yeah but you saw some of it already but the mocap acting is still something. We'll see more next episode if I remember correctly.
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Nov 14, 2018 19:08
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UPDATE TIME! Today, Alyssa returns home after a hard day of killing a demonic murderer from World War II, but it's not time to relax just yet! She has to figure out what's going on with her life, where her mum ended up, and even worse, how she's going to deal with her neighborhood friend breaking in to her room to help her out!
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Nov 18, 2018 19:03
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Can we bring back the child killing Hammerman? He was less scary.
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Nov 18, 2018 21:11
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I really wish FutureFriend would stop with his "heh heh heh" fake laugh, it's really annoying. Even moreso since when he's fake-laughing he's not commentating. Btw everyone should read Dark Id's LP simultaneously for maximum synergy. E: ChorpSaway posted:Oh man I forgot about the Silent Hill 3 magical girl game mode! Wow, it turns out that every horror game with a 3 in its name is the best in its series. A moment of silence for all the games that couldn't make it to 3. Lacedaemonius fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Nov 18, 2018 |
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Nov 18, 2018 21:23
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Lacedaemonius posted:I really wish FutureFriend would stop with his "heh heh heh" fake laugh, it's really annoying. Even moreso since when he's fake-laughing he's not commentating. its not fake dude, i just laugh like a goblin
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Nov 18, 2018 21:24
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Let's Play! > Clock Tower 3: Mum's the Word
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Nov 18, 2018 22:14
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UPDATE TIME! Today, it's time to continue our trek through the 60's! While collecting film and learning more about why we were brought to this particular area, Alyssa finds herself on the wrong end of a British invasion, and not the one you're thinking of! It's time once again for Alyssa to show off her Rooder powers and send another murderer into the depths of hell! But meanwhile, the Blobby Man has been doing some renovations on Alyssa's home, and I don't think they're to help the property value of the place...
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Nov 25, 2018 18:00
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Haigh is just the jolliest homicidal maniac and it's adorable
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Nov 25, 2018 19:21
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Was I supposed to find witnessing a man murdering an elderly woman and her son anything other then hilarious?
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Nov 26, 2018 00:22
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God I love this game so much. I've been listening to Clock Tower tracks recently so seeing this pop up was a delight, let me tell you. edit: link removed. Sorry, I only remember it being the Dennis Scene. LoseHound fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Nov 27, 2018 |
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Nov 26, 2018 05:26
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That's "hexagonal spanner", thank you. What is this half-baked Commonwealth English script? This is just cultural appropriation, this is.
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Nov 26, 2018 05:38
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LoseHound posted:God I love this game so much. I've been listening to Clock Tower tracks recently so seeing this pop up was a delight, let me tell you. As much as I love that video and seeing how the mo-cap comes to life, could you please remove the link for now, or at least note that it has spoilers in it? It contains a scene much later in the game and wouldn't rather have these sorts of things saved until it's covered in the LP. Also the Japanese VA does definitely fit the animation better than the English, so I dunno if it's a more SERIOUS game, but it does seem more tonally appropriate. In other news, apparently John Haigh aka Corroder was based on a real murderer! I didn't know this until after we recorded, but he killed people by putting them in acid baths assuming that because there was no body to be found, he couldn't be convicted of murder. That might actually be a goofier end than he got in the game, honestly.
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Nov 27, 2018 16:57
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ChorpSaway posted:but he killed people by putting them in acid baths assuming that because there was no body to be found, he couldn't be convicted of murder. That might actually be a goofier end than he got in the game, honestly. This is like the bank robber who committed his crimes without bothering to cover his face because he thought putting lemon juice on his face made him invisible to the bank's cameras.
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Nov 27, 2018 23:23
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UPDATE TIME! Today, we're forced to check out all of the Blobby Man's home renovations, starting with the basement! Unfortunately it's not just bad aesthetic choice that's waiting for us, because he left a little surprise for us, and surprise I mean another Subordinate! Chopper is our toughest opponent yet, but it seems like amidst this puzzle basement lies an important secret for the Hamilton family... Leal posted:This is like the bank robber who committed his crimes without bothering to cover his face because he thought putting lemon juice on his face made him invisible to the bank's cameras. Wow, I hadn't heard about this before, and that owns. Shout-outs to all the goofy criminals out there.
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Dec 2, 2018 18:00
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At last! I've been F5ing for the better part of a week. Chorps, you owe me a keyboard. E: Leal posted:This is like the bank robber who committed his crimes without bothering to cover his face because he thought putting lemon juice on his face made him invisible to the bank's cameras. Wait a tick, wasn't that a big part of a heist movie? Like Mission Impossible, National Treasure, Gone In 60 Seconds, or one of those other summer flicks you forget a week after seeing? Lacedaemonius fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Dec 2, 2018 19:57
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Leal posted:This is like the bank robber who committed his crimes without bothering to cover his face because he thought putting lemon juice on his face made him invisible to the bank's cameras. dont doxx me
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Dec 2, 2018 20:30
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Wow, Alyssa's really ramping up how quickly she goes from encountering a Subordinate to killing them. Pretty soon we're going to have the bow and arrow appear and the new one's gonna be running in still trying to button up its shirt, late.
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Dec 3, 2018 02:56
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I have 100% time for any new Chorpsaway LP. The Chulip run was frequently funny as gently caress.
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Dec 3, 2018 04:59
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RareAcumen posted:Wow, Alyssa's really ramping up how quickly she goes from encountering a Subordinate to killing them. Pretty soon we're going to have the bow and arrow appear and the new one's gonna be running in still trying to button up its shirt, late. And it's all your fault.
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I can't believe Alyssa is loving dead.
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