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# Creator of Clock Tower announces "the ultimate J-horror experience"
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/creator-clock-tower-announces-ultimate-j-horror-experience/
- Published: 2014-09-23T16:05:19.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:03:52.000Z
- Description: “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” – Alfred Hitchcock Hifumi Kouno, creator of the classic 1995 Japanese horror franchise Clock Tower, announced an upcoming spiritual successor to the series, to be developed by a small studio with some very big names, called Nude Maker
- Author: Jess Joho
- Tags: News, clock tower, Horror, j-horror, Japan, project scissors, silent hill, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

> “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” – Alfred Hitchcock

Hifumi Kouno, creator of the classic 1995 Japanese horror franchise *Clock Tower*, announced an upcoming spiritual successor to the series, to be developed by a small studio with some very big names, called Nude Maker.

The game’s working title, *Project Scissors*, is a clear reference to the franchise’s original villain: a psychopathic nine-year-old boy wielding an enormous pair of scissors that appears to be a deformed attic child of sorts. The series was praised for its emphasis on more subtle psychological scares, relying on the fear of a vulnerable avatar constantly stalked like prey, rather than a gun-toting bad ass a la *Dead Space*. Kuono says that, moving forward, development of *Project Scissors* will remain “focused on staying true to the essence of what I created in *Clock Tower,”* which he defines as “edge-of-the-seat suspense and fear of an unknown.”

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Aside from Kuono, several other Japanese Fathers of Frights are signed up to develop *Project Scissors*. *Silent Hill 1-3* monster designer Masahiro Ito will lend his delightfully grotesque talents. Film director Takashi Shimizu, the man responsible for *Ju-On* and its American remake *The Grudge*, is serving as not only a story collaborator, but also directing an upcoming live-action trailer for the game. (Which: ugh, live-action trailers.)

The middle-of-the-ocean setting certainly seems ripe for inescapable suspense.

The story takes place on a luxury cruise ship, where a series of gruesome murders attacking both passengers and crew members leads you into a mystery-solving adventure to find the culprit. The middle-of-the-ocean setting certainly seems ripe for the inescapable suspense that the original game excelled at. If it mimics its predecessor, players should expect object puzzles that trigger unpredictable encounters with a blood-thirsty villain.

*Project Scissors* is slated to release on Vita, iOS, and Android. It hopes to deliver the “ultimate J-horror experience” to players, while in the process proving “that the Japanese game industry and its indie spirit is still very much alive and kicking.”