Released in the west as "Clock Tower" on Playstation, Clock Tower 2 takes the point and click horror game into the third dimension. SOCIAL MEDIA: / nitrorad / nitroradofficial / nitrorad
According to the Devs, the giant mutant body Dan had in the first game was a cocoon of flesh created by previous victims while he grew the perfect, none deformed body inside. When you burned him at the end of the first game, you merely burned off the cocoon of rotten flesh, freeing Dan inside.
To address Edward being Dan Barrows: In the PSX version of Clock Tower (The classic one), there is an extra scene after Jennifer escapes from Dan. The camera pans to Dan's destroyed body and a small baby with red eyes and dark skin (similar to Dan) emerged. The massive body Dan had before was fake, used as some sort of incubator for the real Dan Burrows, who was awakened after the outer body got burned. Dan somehow escaped the estate, and changed his name to Edward. As for his new body, I have no idea.
SPOILER In PS1 port of Clock Tower 1 there's some extra scene that weren't in the original SNES version and one of extra scene is after Jennifer burned Dan there's a scene that you can see a small baby rise up from the corpse which turn out to be Edward in this game.
I guessed as much, because it's a Japanese game and Shinto/Buddist teachings would have reincarnation as a thing. Although, it would have worked as a curse or Edward...
Shea Agnew The creators of the game said it was basically a cocoon made of the flesh of dead kids that had been brought to the manor over the years since the twins where originally born. Dan was born incomplete and needed a new "womb" essentially.
Wiki said that this giant form was made out of corpses and blood of sacrifices barrows family made and was like a womb for him to mature. Sounds gross af.
@@justafox5356 The daemonculaba is what your thinking of. Two women sown together to make one giant womb to create new heretic astartes; created by an iron warriors warsmith named hansou.
I can help decipher story elements. Dan the gian baby was like an amniotic sack made from the blood of murder victims in order to make him look normal. Dan has a weird psychic power which enabled him to move objects and teleport them in the first game which is why Bobby was able to get around the mansion easily and why the mansion was haunted. When Jennifer burned Dan with the kerosene she destroyed the giant baby pod it's better shown in first fear because after the burning theres a small shape with eyes that turns out to be the true Dan. In 2 his powers help him psychologically manipulate people which is what he did to convince the two fakes and he also influenced his caretaker into doing stuff because she had a latent desire for him. This game is pretty dark.
@@1slayer959 If it's supplementary material (developer interviews in this case) you can't fault people for not knowing those answers existed in the first place.
@@1slayer959Its easy to look up sure but how was he or anyone playing the game normally suppose to know? None of that was even explained in the original snes game
dude the fax scene is one of the scariest parts of any game ive ever played, and im a survival horror junkie. i guess it's in the eye of the beholder. but i found it really creepy how you can hide in that room, feel youre safe, then the fax machine noise randomly happens to break the silence, then you go over and read it and you're like "oh crap" then after you read it you can hear the scissors and the music. its genius actually.
i remember when i was like 12 and my oldest sibling was 20, and they had their friends and me over for a gaming night. we watched horror movies and then they took turn playing this game, and i was SO SCARED! and everyone hyped each other up so much that everytime scissorman appeared we just screamed out and panicked and then laughed - it was so much fun!
OH MY GOD SCISSORMAN SENDS YOU A FAX!? THIS IS INCREDIBLE! Honestly, this game doesn’t look scary at all, but I’m sure as hell buying and playing this because oh my god that’s amazing. And the monitor scene too! Wow!
ugh i dont like that point and click game. Its really messed up. Like literally. I love point and click games though. Like Broken Sword 1 and 2 on PC is amazing.
15:30 This was also a big issue in The Hanged Man (by the maker of The Crooked Man). There were a lot of puzzles with fairly obvious solutions but you can't complete them until the character comments on it.
I'm a new fan of your channel, but since discovering it, I've been binging through SO much of your content! So I got excited when I got my first notification as a subscriber. Finally I ain't late to the party! Keep creating, because I could watch (and have been watching) your work all day!
Used to rent this a lot from my local Chartbusters but could never finish the bastard. That endless running around the Barrows' Castle in circles still scars me to this day!
I remember playing this game with my girlfriend a few months back after I introduced the First Fear to her and she enjoyed it. We didn’t enjoy this game as much as First Fear but we laughed our butts off at more than a few moments in the game- the fax machine scene has been referenced quite a bit in conversation
I have a feeling that the written message from the fax and the words on the monitors were likely a lot more intimidating in their original Japanese script and that the English team just decided to tone them down for whatever reason. The fax probably read something akin to,"Your mangled corpse shall make a fine trophy!" And the screens probably said something like, "Death!" or "Damn you!"
Nitro Rad! Don't forget the other Clock Tower games! The one where you're on a party boat, and the one where you get a bow and arrow to fight bosses! Please, cover those games too! And if anyone here knows the names of those games I mentioned please let me know.
As a follow up from yours and Jontron's Clock Tower, this sequel is INSANE. Mouse functionality, levels of polish, continuity without detriment to the big bad, AND DISCOURAGING METAGAMING? And that suspense music. I fell asleep on the train, overshot my stop and woke up at the first encounter in the review. SUCH A CHILLING WAKE UP, made me have to shake off the uneasy feeling getting a bus back.
Dude, with all this Persona soundtrack in the video, you should review the series so other time. Nice review and I can't stop laughing with the fax and computers.
I had an extreme obsession with this game as a kid....I ended up getting every single possible ending with both characters. I still have a Lets play of this game on my channel that I uploaded way back in 2008 lol
I remember when I was 12 I had reconstruction surgery on my ear after being attacked by a dog I was in the hospital and my mom brought me my ps1 into the room and she said I bought you a new game. I know how much you love horror games. I didn't know wtf this game was at the time but it scared the shit out of me. at the time but I managed to get half way though the game before I got released from the hospital from my surgery and I managed to finally finish the game months later but this game has a special place in my heart because I was in my hospital bed playing this game for hours.
Thank you so much for posting another new video! I've been binge watching your other videos to cheer myself up. You don't know how good your timing is! Keep up the good work, keep enjoying what you do, and thank you for another great video! ;D
Great vid! I still remember learning about the series due to JonTron’s old video on the first game, and I’m glad to learn about the rest of the series, didn’t know there was a 3D title. Also, that shirt your wearing is rad NitroRad.
Oh wow, they actually used a real location from Norway where I live. Though there’s a bit of a spelling error, it’s actually Romsdalen and not Romsdaaren, but that’s still pretty cool!
15:51 To be 100% fair, Silent Hill pulled that same crap with the Dog House Key, but I digress. Still loved the video though, as always. Also, are you going to look at Luigi's Mansion 1 3DS sometime?
I was lucky enough to have this back in the day, and my uncle and I had a blast with it! I remember the tension was so high and we didn't even figure out we could defend ourselves with the button tapping thing until we got like halfway through the game lol Great video, man, so glad I found your channel!
You explained the difference in titles well. I've seen people say it's confusing then not explain because they assume you already know everything. Also "I can't cross my arms" while holding the giant scissors gangster style xD
According to the Devs, the giant mutant body Dan had in the first game was a cocoon of flesh created by previous victims while he grew the perfect, none deformed body inside.
When you burned him at the end of the first game, you merely burned off the cocoon of rotten flesh, freeing Dan inside.
To address Edward being Dan Barrows:
In the PSX version of Clock Tower (The classic one), there is an extra scene after Jennifer escapes from Dan. The camera pans to Dan's destroyed body and a small baby with red eyes and dark skin (similar to Dan) emerged. The massive body Dan had before was fake, used as some sort of incubator for the real Dan Burrows, who was awakened after the outer body got burned. Dan somehow escaped the estate, and changed his name to Edward. As for his new body, I have no idea.
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WOW! Totally right! You can check it out right here: ua-cam.com/video/lYP7DISJeT8/v-deo.html Thanks!
ohhh that's super interesting. I didn't get to that point when playing the PS1 version for footage, so I had no idea.That's cool!
SPOILER
In PS1 port of Clock Tower 1 there's some extra scene that weren't in the original SNES version and one of extra scene is after Jennifer burned Dan there's a scene that you can see a small baby rise up from the corpse which turn out to be Edward in this game.
so basicly once the big body burtn and died a new one was made to get revenge
Nah Dan was actually put inside a giant flesh body.
Yeah it was weird.
Yeah. Basically a cocoon-like effect.
I guessed as much, because it's a Japanese game and Shinto/Buddist teachings would have reincarnation as a thing. Although, it would have worked as a curse or Edward...
Shea Agnew The creators of the game said it was basically a cocoon made of the flesh of dead kids that had been brought to the manor over the years since the twins where originally born.
Dan was born incomplete and needed a new "womb" essentially.
These cold opens are so good!! Excited for you to get to Clock Tower 3 aka magical ROOD grrls
SSFF and Nitro Rad colab when?
Seriously I need that in my life
It sometimes feels like Nitro Rad is the younger equivalent to SSFF
before that is ghost head
Hi dad
Ah, but did Clock Tower 3 get a surprisingly good 3D GBA port thanks to two genius developers?
Wiki said that this giant form was made out of corpses and blood of sacrifices barrows family made and was like a womb for him to mature. Sounds gross af.
My Russian tutor from Belarus was also named Yermakova. I miss her.
Sounds like something from Warhammer 40K.
@@justafox5356 The daemonculaba is what your thinking of. Two women sown together to make one giant womb to create new heretic astartes; created by an iron warriors warsmith named hansou.
@@Grayfox251 ....i dont know if I ever want to get into 40k
@@righteouself9928 It was one of those things the whole community didn’t like there are other aspects of the lore that are actually cool.
“Comes out of closet” I’VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU! “evil laughter with machine pistol fire”
YES
Ugh
Mmmm Scissorman!
“I haven’t had a visitor in several years…that was the last one and he’s dead now….”
Ah, college textbooks.
The most expensive of mouse pads
I can help decipher story elements. Dan the gian baby was like an amniotic sack made from the blood of murder victims in order to make him look normal. Dan has a weird psychic power which enabled him to move objects and teleport them in the first game which is why Bobby was able to get around the mansion easily and why the mansion was haunted.
When Jennifer burned Dan with the kerosene she destroyed the giant baby pod it's better shown in first fear because after the burning theres a small shape with eyes that turns out to be the true Dan. In 2 his powers help him psychologically manipulate people which is what he did to convince the two fakes and he also influenced his caretaker into doing stuff because she had a latent desire for him. This game is pretty dark.
Most of this is pretty easy to find.
Kinda disapointed in how poorly he followed the story
@@1slayer959 If it's supplementary material (developer interviews in this case) you can't fault people for not knowing those answers existed in the first place.
@@1slayer959Its easy to look up sure but how was he or anyone playing the game normally suppose to know? None of that was even explained in the original snes game
[INCOMING FAX]
I ‘ M C O M I N G
T O G E T Y A !
Love him or hate him, he spittin' straight fax.
12:32 I like how the Chris Hansen impression kinda just came out. It didn't even look scripted, it just...happened. XD
Every Canadian Man has the latent ability to draw upon Chris Hansen lmao
Nitrorad: the channel that never sleeps it seems
Seriously, James deserves a freaking medal for his consistency of release
Its motivating and fun to watch! Seems like cool gang to chat with!
The way Scissorman walks reminds me of Phillip from Space Funeral. BLOOD.
So we're doing to whole Clock Tower franchise? Great!
like the silent hill
and probably Bubsy
maybe also haunting ground
@@lmaosomeone7895 truly two of the most dread inducing franchises.
NightCry when?
Can't wait to the Mahou Shoujo (and best) entry
Love how you used the scissors to hide the cuts to close-ups in the opening skit. Great job!
It was shots were so clean
If Nolan isn't careful, his little obsession with Jennifer will land him squarely on the FBI watchlist.
dude the fax scene is one of the scariest parts of any game ive ever played, and im a survival horror junkie.
i guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
but i found it really creepy how you can hide in that room, feel youre safe, then the fax machine noise randomly happens to break the silence, then you go over and read it and you're like "oh crap" then after you read it you can hear the scissors and the music. its genius actually.
我是台灣的觀眾，很高興您可以製作這麼用心的影片，很喜歡您彙整的內容！
The fact that Nitro has a very random pair of giant cartoony-looking scissors around makes it better every time I re-watch the video.
i remember when i was like 12 and my oldest sibling was 20, and they had their friends and me over for a gaming night. we watched horror movies and then they took turn playing this game, and i was SO SCARED! and everyone hyped each other up so much that everytime scissorman appeared we just screamed out and panicked and then laughed - it was so much fun!
I'm glad Jennifer got in shape so running didn't hurt her.
I’ve always found the whole Jennifer+ Nolan relationship really bizarre. And a lot of fanfiction goes into even more creepy territory regarding it.
Jennifer looks much older. And her reaction isn’t unusual for a teenage girl.
It's normal in Japanese culture for 15 year old girls to date 20+ year old guys. Look at Sailor moon and other anime.
You uploaded this 20 minutes before I go to college thank you.
I like your name because thick thighs do in fact save lives.
Yeah it sucks it won't be here when you're done. Oh wait ...
What??? My college a month ago
18:45 so...Being a forensic psychologist is like being a Jedi? You’re always drawn to the dark side of the psych?
OH MY GOD SCISSORMAN SENDS YOU A FAX!? THIS IS INCREDIBLE!
Honestly, this game doesn’t look scary at all, but I’m sure as hell buying and playing this because oh my god that’s amazing. And the monitor scene too! Wow!
Please do I have No mouth and I must scream that game is so interesting
Yes!!!!!!!!!!
Yes!!! That would be so good!
Dark Seed was wierd as fuck too.
TEEEEED!!!
ugh i dont like that point and click game. Its really messed up. Like literally. I love point and click games though. Like Broken Sword 1 and 2 on PC is amazing.
15:30
This was also a big issue in The Hanged Man (by the maker of The Crooked Man). There were a lot of puzzles with fairly obvious solutions but you can't complete them until the character comments on it.
I'm a new fan of your channel, but since discovering it, I've been binging through SO much of your content! So I got excited when I got my first notification as a subscriber. Finally I ain't late to the party! Keep creating, because I could watch (and have been watching) your work all day!
Haha likewise! Love his review style, delivery and really well put together! I've binged on the entire silent hill series of reviews as a mad fan
YES, I have been waiting for this!! The intro cinematography was so good.
Used to rent this a lot from my local Chartbusters but could never finish the bastard. That endless running around the Barrows' Castle in circles still scars me to this day!
I always love listening to people's opinions about my favorite horror game series
can i marry your film skills
Nice Okuyasu pfp
My apprentice...
Kakyoin the milf hunter Master, i have studied long and hard the way of the milf hunter
No
18:15 best line reading ever.
I like how in the intro the sound of the scissors slightly change with every opening and closing. Makes it so much more vivid
I was waiting for this
Did you see that Shinji?!
I remember playing this game with my girlfriend a few months back after I introduced the First Fear to her and she enjoyed it. We didn’t enjoy this game as much as First Fear but we laughed our butts off at more than a few moments in the game- the fax machine scene has been referenced quite a bit in conversation
I have a feeling that the written message from the fax and the words on the monitors were likely a lot more intimidating in their original Japanese script and that the English team just decided to tone them down for whatever reason. The fax probably read something akin to,"Your mangled corpse shall make a fine trophy!" And the screens probably said something like, "Death!" or "Damn you!"
Scissorman is one of the terrifying enemy i ever seen
I'm only at the intro and I already know this gon be gud
Fun fact: The scissor sound effects in the introduction are a slowed down version of the knife unholster sound in CS:S and CS:GO.
@@rastas_4221
i did not know that was a stock sound effect
The animation for when the scissor man gets a bucket on his head is spooky as hell! They did a great job on this I kinda wish I rented it as a kid.
Bobby? I hadn't even finished my first cup of coffee and that boy ain't right.
You should probably do the old nightmare creature games on the ps1 after u finish the clock tower games
I second this ^
Yeah, they were really freaking awesome.
19:07 so he turned out to be Edward scissor man? LMAO
Your cinematography skills show a lot in the little skits you do for an episode. love it
Nitro Rad! Don't forget the other Clock Tower games! The one where you're on a party boat, and the one where you get a bow and arrow to fight bosses! Please, cover those games too! And if anyone here knows the names of those games I mentioned please let me know.
party boat sounds like the spiritual successor game, nightcry, which is frankly a shit game lol. clock tower 3 is the other one.
As a follow up from yours and Jontron's Clock Tower, this sequel is INSANE. Mouse functionality, levels of polish, continuity without detriment to the big bad, AND DISCOURAGING METAGAMING?
And that suspense music. I fell asleep on the train, overshot my stop and woke up at the first encounter in the review. SUCH A CHILLING WAKE UP, made me have to shake off the uneasy feeling getting a bus back.
Can’t wait to get out of class to watch this, I think you’re a very cool gentleman
VERY cool camera shot/edit between the scissor blades in the intro
Dude, with all this Persona soundtrack in the video, you should review the series so other time. Nice review and I can't stop laughing with the fax and computers.
I had an extreme obsession with this game as a kid....I ended up getting every single possible ending with both characters. I still have a Lets play of this game on my channel that I uploaded way back in 2008 lol
Wait..
IS THAT PERSONA 4 GOLDEN MUSIC AND PERSONA 5 MUSIC I HEAR IN THE BACKGROUND?!
Cool.
I remember when I was 12 I had reconstruction surgery on my ear after being attacked by a dog I was in the hospital and my mom brought me my ps1 into the room and she said I bought you a new game. I know how much you love horror games. I didn't know wtf this game was at the time but it scared the shit out of me. at the time but I managed to get half way though the game before I got released from the hospital from my surgery and I managed to finally finish the game months later but this game has a special place in my heart because I was in my hospital bed playing this game for hours.
I’m a simple man, I see Kitty, I pets it, I see new Nitro Rad video. I clicks it.
Ay man I love rubbing pussy too!
Jeffrid A. Not what I was going for, but sure, you do you man.
@@dru4111 it's okay man I don't judge, I completely understand if you like choking chickens instead.👌
Jeffrid A. 👏👏👏👏👏👏, who doesn’t?
@@Substantial-hf1rm stop
MY MAN. Just spotted those Higurashi books under your TV. Excellent taste, my dude.
Helen shooting Scissorman is the most MLG thing ever.
you have become my favorite youtuber.... can't wait for Clock Tower 3
Thank you so much for posting another new video! I've been binge watching your other videos to cheer myself up. You don't know how good your timing is! Keep up the good work, keep enjoying what you do, and thank you for another great video! ;D
Man, Persona 4 AND 5 music? Love it.
Can’t wait for more vids on this series.
8:50 You sound like the AVGN here. Love it lol
12:31 gotta love how you went Chris Hansen mode on Nolan
Just discovered this channel and I love it! Reminds me of James Rolfe mixed with Swankybox and Antdude! Good work man!
Dan: *gets burned alive*
also Dan: "I got better......"
prof Barton : If you cant marry your waifu, be the waifu
4:20 I love how you're always editing with some Hotel Dusk/Last Window soundtrack xD
Great vid! I still remember learning about the series due to JonTron’s old video on the first game, and I’m glad to learn about the rest of the series, didn’t know there was a 3D title. Also, that shirt your wearing is rad NitroRad.
guess you could say it put the the “rad” in nitrorad =}
He makes a good point about Dan bobbing up and down. It actually is pretty funny.
looking forward to clocktower 3: sailor moon
Nothing like waking up and seeing a new nitrorad epiaode. Happy day :) Thanks James.
Oh boy let's watch this, I saw the intro and I'm so prepared for an amazing review
Update: it was an amazing review
you seem so absolutely natural in this video - i love it.
Beenwhile, good to see u still among the living.
i love the bomberman 64 music you've been using these past videos❤ yay halloween specials!
The fax machine gag always got me.
I guess it's era sensitive.
18:20 Why did I have a happy mini-heart attack when I heard that Persona 5 soundtrack kick in? 😂
perfect upload for my day off
Oh wow, they actually used a real location from Norway where I live. Though there’s a bit of a spelling error, it’s actually Romsdalen and not Romsdaaren, but that’s still pretty cool!
15:51 To be 100% fair, Silent Hill pulled that same crap with the Dog House Key, but I digress. Still loved the video though, as always. Also, are you going to look at Luigi's Mansion 1 3DS sometime?
I was lucky enough to have this back in the day, and my uncle and I had a blast with it! I remember the tension was so high and we didn't even figure out we could defend ourselves with the button tapping thing until we got like halfway through the game lol Great video, man, so glad I found your channel!
👏NO👏ONE👏CARES👏 HOW👏EARLY👏YOU👏ARE👏
GOD I LOVE IT WHEN YOU DO THOSE INTRO SKITS I STG IT GETS ME ROCK HARD
Clock tower 2? I didn't know it was a real thing
Big thanks for Investigation team theme playing in the background.
12:32
Jimmy Stewart impression?
The camera cut in synch with the scissor at the beginning is fucking genius !
Yee yee love your videos! I gotta do halloween fan art!!!!
I couldn't help but notice the cinematography within the intro. Cool shit there, my man.
Really hope you'll also cover Clock Tower 3 and Haunting Ground! (:
That intro was top notch, I really liked the first person point of view from shorty
Where can i get that shirt ... It looks awesome
"How old is she" hahaha I burst out laughing I love your impression. Fantastic video as usual.
Cool, a morning upload
You explained the difference in titles well. I've seen people say it's confusing then not explain because they assume you already know everything.
Also "I can't cross my arms" while holding the giant scissors gangster style xD
happy halloween for sure now guys
That transition at the start, between the blades was brilliant. Nice touch.
6:30 i see those higarashi manga good taste.
0:00 seconds in, I see that lighting, I hit like! Your rock, Nitro Rad!
can't wait for Haunting ground and 3
Nitro Rad is such a talented crititc and filmmaker. Great job as always!
Nice video.
I’m so excited for Clock Tower 3, it’s my absolute favorite!