Clock Tower Rewind Review

Clock Tower Rewind

Developed by: Wayforward/LRG

Published by: Wayforward/Sunsoft/Capcom

Date of Release: October 29, 2024

Price: $19.99

Oh how I was excited for this remaster, and OH how heartbroken I am with the results. Clock Tower Rewind is a remaster of the classic Super Famicom survival horror game, and it's first official release in the western world, but boy is it terrifying in all the ways it shouldn't have been. Wayforward worked with LRG games to remaster the game on the Carbon Engine, and despite having over a year for development, it's clear it needed MUCH more time in the oven.

All the promised quality of life updates are present and accounted for, with some lovely cinematics, the motion comic, and other goodies. However the game is pretty much unplayable with rampant input lag, an EXTREMELY unintuitive control scheme, and to top it all off the game engine just randomly slows down to a crawl, and crashes frequently resulting in corrupted saves. I've completely given up on trying to get through this title, it's fought me at every step. Therefore my suggestion is to play a fan translated version of the original, and wait and see if the devs manage to fix this broken mess.