Monday, October 30, 2017

Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within

 

Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within, released in Japan as Clock Tower: Ghost Head, is a survival horror point-and-click adventure game developed by Human Entertainment and released for the PlayStation in 1998. It is the third game in the Clock Tower series, and is considered a spin-off in its home country of Japan where it was not a numbered release. The story follows 17-year-old Alyssa Hale who suffers from multiple personality disorder with an alter ego named Mr. Bates. The player must guide Alyssa through various environments, altering between her normal and twisted personality, to uncover the secrets of her and her family's past.

Plot

Clock Tower II moves away from the story and setting in the two previous Clock Tower titles, and therefore was not a numbered title in Japan and is considered a spin-off. In the Japanese release, the game is set in Osaka. This was changed to California for the North American release.

Alyssa Hale is a 17-year-old high school girl who is traveling to visit her father's friend, Phillip Tate, during the spring of 1999. Alyssa suffers from a multiple personality disorder shared with a soul inside her named Mr. Bates. She holds an amulet to keep Mr. Bates from taking over her mind. When Alyssa arrives at the Tate's residence she discovers her cousin Stephanie who attacks her with a knife and stalks her around the house. Alyssa finds Philip, who gives her a statue and tells her to burn it because of the "Maxwell Curse". Alyssa manages to throw the statue into a burning fireplace but loses consciousness. She later wakes up in a zombie-infested hospital and meets a detective named Alex Corey, who saved Alyssa from the house. She explores the hospital, only to become overrun by zombies and faint again.

When Alyssa comes to, she finds that Alex took her to a pharmaceutical lab. As she explores the lab, a man armed with a hatchet and wearing an oni mask begins to stalk her about. She later finds her father, Allen, speaking with the stalker. Allen explains that Alyssa is not his daughter, but rather, the daughter of the man in the oni mask, George Maxwell. He continues, saying how every few generations there are cursed twins born into the Maxwell family; the family must immediately bury the twin babies alive and leave them to die to protect their family. Allen, jealous of George's wealth, dug up the children with Philip to spite him. Alyssa was one of these twins and the other twin suffocated to death. Alyssa realizes that her twin was Mr. Bates, who transplanted his soul into her body. Allen shoots George and demands Alyssa escape before the building explodes. Alyssa escapes and watches the building burn from the hillside.

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