Rewind’s enhanced, scare-packed new gameplay mode – PlayStation.Weblog

Hello! I’m Mariel Kinuko Cartwright, inventive lead on Clock Tower: Rewind, and immediately I’m excited to share some new particulars concerning the recreation with you. Headed to PS5 and PS4, Clock Tower: Rewind is an up to date launch of the basic 16-bit survival-horror recreation 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 worldwide 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 brand new particulars of Rewind Mode, let’s unpack a number of the chilling recreation’s historical past.

My very own journey with Clock Tower began in my early teenagers, the place I discovered the sport utterly accidentally. 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 buddies. 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 most important villain: the terrifying Scissorman, who’s relentless in his pursuit of Jennifer! 

I’ve personally at all times liked horror, at the same time as a baby, however I discovered Clock Tower so scary that I may solely play it for a couple of minutes at a time. It stays one of many scariest video games I’ve ever performed even immediately, 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 bundle, with just one enemy pursuing you for your complete recreation, it’s a extremely 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 nicely. 

It’s an enormous honor to be part of Clock Tower: Rewind, the place we’re lastly getting the chance to share this particular recreation worldwide for the primary time! With this new launch, we’ve included the unique 16-bit recreation, because it was in 1995, but additionally added a ton of enjoyable extras to make Clock Tower: Rewind a brand new bundle for each new and present followers alike. 

Unique Mode and Rewind Mode

Clock Tower: Rewind will function two most important 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 now we have Rewind mode, which is an enhanced model of the unique recreation. 

At the moment, we’d like to reveal extra particulars about what Rewind mode entails.

The unique Clock Tower truly had two releases — the 1995 16-bit model, and an up to date model referred to as Clock Tower: The First Worry, launched on the unique PlayStation in 1997. Clock Tower: The First Worry added new content material, akin to new scares, extra story, and even extra enemies. Do you know there was a room you couldn’t entry within the 16-bit recreation? Now you’ll discover one other bed room that gives one other place to cover from Scissorman. A brand new cutscene at a pivotal second within the recreation will arrange occasions in later Clock Tower video games, too. And be sure to maintain an eye fixed out, as a sure corpse or haunted doll would possibly come to life.

For Rewind mode, we’ve taken that new content material from The First Worry and added it to the unique model, permitting gamers to expertise the whole lot Clock Tower needed to provide.  

We didn’t cease there, although. With Rewind mode, we’ve additionally included utterly new options, akin to an up to date chase system, during which Scissorman can comply with 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 number of weapons. Add in a number 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 get pleasure from.

None of this is able to be doable with out the Clock Tower fan neighborhood, 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 extra new content material exterior of the sport, akin to new unique music by Dale North (with two completely 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. Ensure that to seize your copy to expertise a basic, genre-defining survival horror title.