Reactions to First Fear

[bloodymarionette]

Besides already hearing various reviews of Clock Tower: First Fear (SNES) from users on this board, I am actually curious as to what people thought of First Fear, in a much wider scope that is, the first time you played the game and how you feel about it now.

I'll start off as an example...

When I first and accidentally came across Clock Tower: First Fear, I had mixed feelings; mainly because it was an SNES game and the reputation for the SNES with horror games was fairly poor. But this was before I played the game... the first time I played it... I must admit I was scared. I thought it was a little slow paced as I explored the mansion, checking various things along the way until I encountered the mirror in the bedroom. The death scene made me fall off my chair. Being as I found the atmosphere of this game so potent, I knew I had to play it again....and then came the first encounter with Scissorman...and the first deaths of other characters. The game simply drew me in to such depths that I was afraid to walk into my own bathroom that night when I finished playing around 1AM and everyone was asleep.

With the lack of good horror films in recent times, this is just what I needed, an instant horror classic. The atmosphere it what sells this game, the mansion environment particularly....and the fact that Scissorman could be absoutely...ANYWHERE The paranoia begins to set in after a while...

This game, being my second experience in the Clock Tower franchise (Clock Tower 3 being the first) was truly and completely enjoyable and still is very much so these days...with the draught of good horror continuing. I only wish though that I would have time these days to play it every so often.

[ObscureNightmares]

I liked it a lot, but is was a tad too short and no real pics for most of the endings. There was not enough screen time for most of the characters either.

[leon101]

Well, I played this one first, but I found out about the one for psx first from screenshots. I was dying to get my hands on it to play. While looking for info on the clock tower series, I got brought to a rom site that had this snes rom of clock tower...I was surprised, clock tower on the snes...no chance in hell, the snes can't do horror games that's just crazy. So I downloaded it, I couldn't understand it to save my life thanks to the fact that it was in a japanese. Needless to say, my friend was coming over that night to spend the night and I had to wait for him before I could continue to check in the bathroom where Laura is found dead hanging, because i could not bring myself to check I was so scared. I was hooked ever since. My favorite snes game by far.

What I want to know is, what was human entertainment thinking when they were going to pull off an actual horror game on the snes...I really wonder. Well, whatever they were thinking, they did it fantastically.

If you haven't already, look at the nice reviews for it on gamefaqs.com

[ObscureNightmares]

Actually, I was excited when I first heard of it, as I was a big fan of the other games and never knew it existed, but was sad because I thought I would never get to play it.

[leon101]

Alright I got to see something new! It's a up close view I have been wanting to see every since I heard of it. I didn't see laura die in the shower, instead I just went about do other things, well I came back to the bathroom and deicided to go ahead and check the bathroom, nothing. So I went and wash her hands, and I got a neat and gory upclose view of her hand covered in blood with blood running out of the faucet. I have to say I enjoyed that surprise. Anyone else seen this yet?

I got ending F, so I got to see blood trickle underneath the elevator door...poor Jennifer.

[ObscureNightmares]

I've always wondered where that scene was from-there's a picture of it on the back of the box.

[crazymanfein]

I first downloaded it thinking that it was an RPG. I opened up the rom and was confused when I saw a girl in blue and white and well detailed graphics (for snes that is). I was also baffled by this cursor, but I played along to see what the hell this was leading to.

I let the girl walk left as far as I could until I entered a room showing the view of the sky window. I saw something bust through the window and touch down. It lifted its scissors up and looked right in my direction. What...the...hell? Ohhhhhhh Sh!t!

That game gave me nightmares. I still have nightmares about scissorman today.

[mrbates]

I liked all 4 versions of it.

[sc1ss0rt0w3r]

When I first read about Clock Tower The First Fear, I saw potential, so I figured I'd check it out. I was obviously lost when I first played it, but I never doubted that it's fantastic...if only it were released in the USA.

[ObscureNightmares]

At least we have English ROMs.

[bigfattyplus]

Ah yes, those beautiful ROMs... that allow us to also hack them to make new games with the same set up!