Clock Tower 3
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is a survival horror video game co-developed by Capcom Production Studio 3 and Sunsoft. The fourth installment in the Clock Tower series
, it was released in Japan on December 12, 2002, in North America on March 18, 2003 and in Europe on June 25, 2003. Clock Tower 3 is the first game in the series to incorporate direct control over the protagonist
, as opposed to the point-and-click mechanics in the previous games. Clock Tower 3 is also the first game in the series not to feature multiple endings. This was the first and only game to be directed by renowned movie director Kinji Fukasaku
. Just like Clock Tower Ghost Head
, this game has almost nothing to do with the original Clock Tower games in the series.
, receives a strange letter from her mother, Nancy. This letter tells Alyssa to hide until her fifteenth birthday passes. Alyssa is naturally worried, and so decides to go against her mother's wishes and return to her childhood home, a boarding house
. When she arrives, her mother is missing-in fact, the only other living person in the house is a mysterious stranger, known as the Dark Gentleman. He offers Alyssa cryptic warnings and clues as to her mother's fate.
Though frightened, Alyssa becomes determined to find her mother. She explores the house and finds a vial of holy water
, along with strange symbols on doors that only the sacred water can break. Eventually, her search leads her into her mother's room, where a piano
begins to play Chopin's "Fantaisie-Impromptu
" wildly. Terrified, Alyssa dashes from the room and is transported back in time
, to London
, circa World War II
. While there, she begins to explore the city, which is constantly bombarded
. Her search leads her to a tailor shop, where she witnesses the gruesome murder
of a young girl. The crime is perpetrated by a mysterious man wielding a sledgehammer
; he notices Alyssa, and begins an obsessed search for her. As Alyssa evades him, she runs into other angry ghosts; by returning particular items to each spirit, she is able to placate them and lay them to rest. Eventually, Alyssa pieces together the mystery: May Norton, a 12-year-old piano-playing prodigy, was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve
by a madman with a sledgehammer. While still exploring the tailor shop, Alyssa sees memories from the past; when May's father tells her that he is going to war, she gives a Pocket Watch
to her father, as a reminder of his wife and May. While in battle, he is hit by an explosion and lands on a row of barb wire, killing him. Alyssa then decides to free May, but on her way to do this, she is confronted by the Subordinate. Her vial of Holy Water becomes a longbow
, and she destroys the villain in a shower of golden light. Alyssa gives the pocket watch to May's spirit, who proceeds to play the piano once more, after a short while, May is reunited with her father, and the two thank Alyssa before ascending into Heaven
, at that moment, Alyssa faints. Alyssa also claims a small portion of a pendant
.
She then wakes up in her room, lying on the bed, believing it was a dream until her childhood friend, Dennis knocks on the window while hanging on to the windowsill. Alyssa then helps him up, in anger, wondering why he would try to enter her residence, and then, Dennis gives the key to the room of Dick Hamilton to Alyssa, handed from her mother.
While searching through her Grandfather's room, she learns about a surprising secret about her family. The girls in her lineage are known as "Rooders", young women with the supernatural
ability to communicate with the dead. She also learns of a ferocious dark power-called an "Entity"- that can infect certain humans and drive them to acts of crazed murder. The agony and despair of the souls of the murderer's victims feeds their dark power, and grants the villain-now known as a "Subordinate"-immortality. The Rooders are fated to find and free those tortured souls, breaking the Subordinate's magic and allowing them to be destroyed. These powers peak at the age of fifteen, and wane afterward; therefore, the women in Alyssa's family marry young and quickly bear a daughter.
Alyssa realizes that she is a Rooder, and that Sledgehammer was a Subordinate, feeding off of young May's soul. With new knowledge, she moves back in time again. She enters a house with a blind elderly woman and her son. After being blown away by a gust of wind in the house, maybe caused by the woman. Alyssa looks at the memory when the two people were being murdered by the Corroder, a frightening man, who murdered an elderly woman and her son by throwing them in a vat of sulfuric acid
, during the struggle, the shawl that the son made for his mother drops into a sewer. Files reveal that the Corroder was related to the two, the younger man being his cousin. Alyssa finds an old shawl that proves to be the key to freeing the mother and her son, and destroys the Corroder.
Upon returning home, though, Alyssa begins to wonder as to why her mother wanted her to stay away. Soon, she realizes that the mysterious "Dark Gentleman" hopes to gain immortality
by becoming an Entity using the Ritual of Engagement. That dark ritual requires the "heart of a Rooder". When the Clock tower begins to form, Alyssa is sent to the top of the tower, confronting her grandfather who throws her down the tower, sending her to the valve room. Regaining consciousness, she confronts the Chopper. After temporarily escaping from him, Alyssa looks back at the memory when she was just born, hearing a scream at the stair balcony, Alyssa runs to find her father struggling against Dick, and her father is thrown off the balcony onto an axe head, splitting his head vertically in half. Alyssa is in denial that her grandfather truly killed her father, and engages into a battle with the Chopper, but fails and is sent to a graveyard. When she finds her way into a graveyard, she meets the spirits of other Rooders who lost against the Subordinates. Alyssa fights the Chopper again, with the help from the Rooder spirits, is able to vanquish Chopper.
After completing this mission, Alyssa is warped back in time once more-to the home of the mysterious Lord Burroughs, who lived on the very land that the boarding house stands on in the present day. Now, though, it is the location of the titular clock tower
. Burroughs, obsessed with the secrets of the Entities and Subordinates, hires two to murder people for him-the homicidal twins, Scissorman and Scissorwoman. Burroughs plotted to become an Entity himself; however, his daughter died on the eve of her fifteenth birthday, ruining his plan and driving him insane. He dies crushed in the clock tower's gears, swearing revenge. With the help of Dennis, Alyssa overcomes the twins.
Once Alyssa returns to the present day, she discovers that the villain behind her mother's disappearance is her own grandfather, Dick Hamilton, who lived with the pair since Alyssa was a child, and performed extensive research on the Rooder powers. However, he was descended from Burroughs, and was eventually driven insane by the "connections" between his and his ancestor's situations and allowed Burrough's evil spirit to fuse with him. He destroys Alyssa's mother and plots to fulfill Burrough's plan with Alyssa's heart; however, Nancy transfers what is left of her own Rooder power into Alyssa, granting her the strength to destroy her grandfather and Burroughs. After she defeats him, she immediately reunites with her mother, then the tower collapses, and the evil spell of the Subordinates Alyssa destroyed is finally lifted forever. However, as Entities still exist, the Rooders' fight is far from over.
The final scenes shows Alyssa waking up in a field of flowers clutching her clover pendant, as she then runs over to hug Dennis nearby. Smiling, her voice says, "Mum...we did it. We did it, Mum."
This ending has been highly criticized for being not worth the effort.
Innocents slain by the Subordinates haunt each stage and will attack Alyssa if she approaches them, sending her into panic. In order to pacify these spirits, an item of sentimental value must be found and returned to the spirit's corpse, which always lies near the area being haunted.
Alyssa is given no weaponry (save holy water) until the boss battle at the end of each stage, instead she is required to do puzzle solving and locating necessary items in the environment. Every few moments the subordinate of the stage shows up and chases Alyssa attempting to kill her. It is at this point the player must evade, knock down, or hide from the subordinate. Knocking down the subordinate can only be done in very specific places, often only once, and it will not kill or damage the subordinate. Her holy water can stun a subordinate, but only for a very brief time and has limited use. There are various items that can aid her in escaping, but are uncommon and are kept in her inventory.
If Alyssa is too surprised by her stalker or is scared by a ghost too much, then her sanity will break and she will enter panic mode. The screen will begin flashing and Alyssa will be unable to use her inventory, holy water, or be capable of hiding. Instead, she will begin running in a panicked state and become unresponsive at times to the player, doing things such as stumbling, falling over, or stopping and covering her ears. If she is attacked in this state, she will die. The player is forced to flee the stalker until Alyssa calms down.
After each scenario, Alyssa must confront the subordinate who has been stalking her. At this point her holy water bottle transforms into a longbow
, allowing her to fight back. Each battle is confined to a single area, and the player must defeat the subordinate in order to progress. The health of both Alyssa and the subordinate is measured by two life bars which appear on-screen. Alyssa must dodge or duck attacks while firing arrows at her attacker. In order to inflict considerable damage, shots must be powered-up. These shots tether the subordinate to the ground. While powering-up the shot, Alyssa must stand still and cannot adjust her aim, leaving her vulnerable to attacks and making it possible for her enemy to move out of her line of sight. If the boss is transfixed with multiple powered-up shots, Alyssa performs a highly damaging attack with her next shot, killing or severely wounding the subordinate.
This enigmatic character is dressed in dark clothes and has an unusually deep voice. He seems to know a lot about Alyssa, and carries a strong love for her. Alyssa does not know who he is, but assumes that he is one of her mother's lodgers. He is later revealed to be Dick Hamilton in disguise. Voiced by Paul Humpoletz.
Sledgehammer is the first boss encountered in the game, found bludgeoning a twelve-year-old pianist
to death on Christmas Eve 1942. Prior to becoming Sledgehammer, he was known as Robert Morris ' onMouseout='HidePop("48308")' href="/topics/Modus_operandi">modus operandi
of killing his victims, is inspired by the real John Haigh
, who was known in Britain as the Acid Bath Murderer. He disguised himself as a distant relative of Dorothy and Albert Rand in order to gain entrance to their house, presumably to rob and murder them. Voiced by Francis Stone.
Chopper is the third boss and head of the Subordinates. Born in 1655 as Harold Powell ' onMouseout='HidePop("24251")' href="/topics/Mike_Hayley">Mike Hayley
.
and
Respectively known as Jemima ( and Ralph to do most of his dirty work. He was a strong believer in the Entities and tried to gain power by using his daughter in the Ritual of Engagement, but she died in an accident just before her 15th birthday. Her death sent Lord Burroughs into a deep rage, resulting in him killing many. However, he was eventually overcome by his people who forced him over the clock tower of his castle, where he fell into the gears. He's not exactly a Subordinate as he came back to life by Dick, not by an Entity. He's the final boss of the game. Voiced by Paul Humpoletz.
Clock Tower (series)
Clock Tower is a stealth-based survival horror adventure video game series, created by Human Entertainment and continued by Sunsoft. The series plays like a horror film and unlike some of the other survival horror games, the Clock Tower series does not focus on shooting creatures or using violence,...
, it was released in Japan on December 12, 2002, in North America on March 18, 2003 and in Europe on June 25, 2003. Clock Tower 3 is the first game in the series to incorporate direct control over the protagonist
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
, as opposed to the point-and-click mechanics in the previous games. Clock Tower 3 is also the first game in the series not to feature multiple endings. This was the first and only game to be directed by renowned movie director Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku
was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer...
. Just like Clock Tower Ghost Head
Clock Tower Ghost Head
Clock Tower Ghost Head, known in the US as Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within, is a survival horror created by Human Entertainment, published by Agetec, and released for the PlayStation in 1998...
, this game has almost nothing to do with the original Clock Tower games in the series.
Story
Alyssa Hamilton, a 14-year old girl living at a boarding schoolBoarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
, receives a strange letter from her mother, Nancy. This letter tells Alyssa to hide until her fifteenth birthday passes. Alyssa is naturally worried, and so decides to go against her mother's wishes and return to her childhood home, a boarding house
Boarding house
A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed...
. When she arrives, her mother is missing-in fact, the only other living person in the house is a mysterious stranger, known as the Dark Gentleman. He offers Alyssa cryptic warnings and clues as to her mother's fate.
Though frightened, Alyssa becomes determined to find her mother. She explores the house and finds a vial of holy water
Holy water
Holy water is water that, in Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Oriental Orthodoxy, and some other churches, has been sanctified by a priest for the purpose of baptism, the blessing of persons, places, and objects; or as a means of repelling evil.The use for baptism and...
, along with strange symbols on doors that only the sacred water can break. Eventually, her search leads her into her mother's room, where a piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
begins to play Chopin's "Fantaisie-Impromptu
Fantaisie-Impromptu
Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. 66, is a solo piano composition and one of his best-known pieces. It was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece in spite of Chopin's request not to do so....
" wildly. Terrified, Alyssa dashes from the room and is transported back in time
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
, to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, circa World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. While there, she begins to explore the city, which is constantly bombarded
The Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...
. Her search leads her to a tailor shop, where she witnesses the gruesome murder
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
of a young girl. The crime is perpetrated by a mysterious man wielding a sledgehammer
Sledgehammer
A sledgehammer is a tool consisting of a large, flat head attached to a lever . The head is typically made of metal. The sledgehammer can apply more impulse than other hammers, due to its large size. Along with the mallet, it shares the ability to distribute force over a wide area...
; he notices Alyssa, and begins an obsessed search for her. As Alyssa evades him, she runs into other angry ghosts; by returning particular items to each spirit, she is able to placate them and lay them to rest. Eventually, Alyssa pieces together the mystery: May Norton, a 12-year-old piano-playing prodigy, was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...
by a madman with a sledgehammer. While still exploring the tailor shop, Alyssa sees memories from the past; when May's father tells her that he is going to war, she gives a Pocket Watch
Pocket watch
A pocket watch is a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket, as opposed to a wristwatch, which is strapped to the wrist. They were the most common type of watch from their development in the 16th century until wristwatches became popular after World War I during which a transitional design,...
to her father, as a reminder of his wife and May. While in battle, he is hit by an explosion and lands on a row of barb wire, killing him. Alyssa then decides to free May, but on her way to do this, she is confronted by the Subordinate. Her vial of Holy Water becomes a longbow
Longbow
A longbow is a type of bow that is tall ; this will allow its user a fairly long draw, at least to the jaw....
, and she destroys the villain in a shower of golden light. Alyssa gives the pocket watch to May's spirit, who proceeds to play the piano once more, after a short while, May is reunited with her father, and the two thank Alyssa before ascending into Heaven
Heaven
Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit...
, at that moment, Alyssa faints. Alyssa also claims a small portion of a pendant
Pendant
A pendant is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, when the ensemble may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. In modern French "pendant" is the gerund form of “hanging”...
.
She then wakes up in her room, lying on the bed, believing it was a dream until her childhood friend, Dennis knocks on the window while hanging on to the windowsill. Alyssa then helps him up, in anger, wondering why he would try to enter her residence, and then, Dennis gives the key to the room of Dick Hamilton to Alyssa, handed from her mother.
While searching through her Grandfather's room, she learns about a surprising secret about her family. The girls in her lineage are known as "Rooders", young women with the supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...
ability to communicate with the dead. She also learns of a ferocious dark power-called an "Entity"- that can infect certain humans and drive them to acts of crazed murder. The agony and despair of the souls of the murderer's victims feeds their dark power, and grants the villain-now known as a "Subordinate"-immortality. The Rooders are fated to find and free those tortured souls, breaking the Subordinate's magic and allowing them to be destroyed. These powers peak at the age of fifteen, and wane afterward; therefore, the women in Alyssa's family marry young and quickly bear a daughter.
Alyssa realizes that she is a Rooder, and that Sledgehammer was a Subordinate, feeding off of young May's soul. With new knowledge, she moves back in time again. She enters a house with a blind elderly woman and her son. After being blown away by a gust of wind in the house, maybe caused by the woman. Alyssa looks at the memory when the two people were being murdered by the Corroder, a frightening man, who murdered an elderly woman and her son by throwing them in a vat of sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid is a strong mineral acid with the molecular formula . Its historical name is oil of vitriol. Pure sulfuric acid is a highly corrosive, colorless, viscous liquid. The salts of sulfuric acid are called sulfates...
, during the struggle, the shawl that the son made for his mother drops into a sewer. Files reveal that the Corroder was related to the two, the younger man being his cousin. Alyssa finds an old shawl that proves to be the key to freeing the mother and her son, and destroys the Corroder.
Upon returning home, though, Alyssa begins to wonder as to why her mother wanted her to stay away. Soon, she realizes that the mysterious "Dark Gentleman" hopes to gain immortality
Immortality
Immortality is the ability to live forever. It is unknown whether human physical immortality is an achievable condition. Biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering...
by becoming an Entity using the Ritual of Engagement. That dark ritual requires the "heart of a Rooder". When the Clock tower begins to form, Alyssa is sent to the top of the tower, confronting her grandfather who throws her down the tower, sending her to the valve room. Regaining consciousness, she confronts the Chopper. After temporarily escaping from him, Alyssa looks back at the memory when she was just born, hearing a scream at the stair balcony, Alyssa runs to find her father struggling against Dick, and her father is thrown off the balcony onto an axe head, splitting his head vertically in half. Alyssa is in denial that her grandfather truly killed her father, and engages into a battle with the Chopper, but fails and is sent to a graveyard. When she finds her way into a graveyard, she meets the spirits of other Rooders who lost against the Subordinates. Alyssa fights the Chopper again, with the help from the Rooder spirits, is able to vanquish Chopper.
After completing this mission, Alyssa is warped back in time once more-to the home of the mysterious Lord Burroughs, who lived on the very land that the boarding house stands on in the present day. Now, though, it is the location of the titular clock tower
Clock tower
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. Some clock towers are not true clock towers having had their clock faces added to an already existing building...
. Burroughs, obsessed with the secrets of the Entities and Subordinates, hires two to murder people for him-the homicidal twins, Scissorman and Scissorwoman. Burroughs plotted to become an Entity himself; however, his daughter died on the eve of her fifteenth birthday, ruining his plan and driving him insane. He dies crushed in the clock tower's gears, swearing revenge. With the help of Dennis, Alyssa overcomes the twins.
Once Alyssa returns to the present day, she discovers that the villain behind her mother's disappearance is her own grandfather, Dick Hamilton, who lived with the pair since Alyssa was a child, and performed extensive research on the Rooder powers. However, he was descended from Burroughs, and was eventually driven insane by the "connections" between his and his ancestor's situations and allowed Burrough's evil spirit to fuse with him. He destroys Alyssa's mother and plots to fulfill Burrough's plan with Alyssa's heart; however, Nancy transfers what is left of her own Rooder power into Alyssa, granting her the strength to destroy her grandfather and Burroughs. After she defeats him, she immediately reunites with her mother, then the tower collapses, and the evil spell of the Subordinates Alyssa destroyed is finally lifted forever. However, as Entities still exist, the Rooders' fight is far from over.
The final scenes shows Alyssa waking up in a field of flowers clutching her clover pendant, as she then runs over to hug Dennis nearby. Smiling, her voice says, "Mum...we did it. We did it, Mum."
This ending has been highly criticized for being not worth the effort.
Gameplay
Players assume the role of Alyssa, a schoolgirl approaching her 15th birthday, on her quest to find her mother and save herself from the Subordinates (the boss characters). Progress through the game entails finding items to unlock new areas, fleeing and hiding from Subordinates and eventually defeating each Subordinate in battle.Innocents slain by the Subordinates haunt each stage and will attack Alyssa if she approaches them, sending her into panic. In order to pacify these spirits, an item of sentimental value must be found and returned to the spirit's corpse, which always lies near the area being haunted.
Alyssa is given no weaponry (save holy water) until the boss battle at the end of each stage, instead she is required to do puzzle solving and locating necessary items in the environment. Every few moments the subordinate of the stage shows up and chases Alyssa attempting to kill her. It is at this point the player must evade, knock down, or hide from the subordinate. Knocking down the subordinate can only be done in very specific places, often only once, and it will not kill or damage the subordinate. Her holy water can stun a subordinate, but only for a very brief time and has limited use. There are various items that can aid her in escaping, but are uncommon and are kept in her inventory.
If Alyssa is too surprised by her stalker or is scared by a ghost too much, then her sanity will break and she will enter panic mode. The screen will begin flashing and Alyssa will be unable to use her inventory, holy water, or be capable of hiding. Instead, she will begin running in a panicked state and become unresponsive at times to the player, doing things such as stumbling, falling over, or stopping and covering her ears. If she is attacked in this state, she will die. The player is forced to flee the stalker until Alyssa calms down.
After each scenario, Alyssa must confront the subordinate who has been stalking her. At this point her holy water bottle transforms into a longbow
Longbow
A longbow is a type of bow that is tall ; this will allow its user a fairly long draw, at least to the jaw....
, allowing her to fight back. Each battle is confined to a single area, and the player must defeat the subordinate in order to progress. The health of both Alyssa and the subordinate is measured by two life bars which appear on-screen. Alyssa must dodge or duck attacks while firing arrows at her attacker. In order to inflict considerable damage, shots must be powered-up. These shots tether the subordinate to the ground. While powering-up the shot, Alyssa must stand still and cannot adjust her aim, leaving her vulnerable to attacks and making it possible for her enemy to move out of her line of sight. If the boss is transfixed with multiple powered-up shots, Alyssa performs a highly damaging attack with her next shot, killing or severely wounding the subordinate.
Main characters
- The game's protagonist. Voiced by Kirsty DillonKirsty DillonKirsty Dillon is an English actress who works in film, television and theatre. She is perhaps best known for her role as WPC Gail Stephens in the British television drama Midsomer MurdersKirsty Dillon was born and brought up in Portsmouth...
.
- Alyssa's mother. The two are very close, but Nancy appears to be hiding something from Alyssa. Voiced by Andrée BernardAndrée BernardAndrée Bernard is an English actress, best known for her major role as Liz Burton in the British soap opera Hollyoaks.Earlier in her career, Andrée starred as as Gordon Brittas's secretary Angie throughout the first series of The Brittas Empire, and as Nervous Nerys, barmaid in the Nag's Head, in...
.
- A boy that Alyssa knew in primary school three years prior to the game's events. Dennis appears unexpectedly at Alyssa's home near the start of the game. He appears to have a crush on Alyssa, and is obsessed with staying as close to her as possible. He is the one who kills Scissorman by impaling him with a pendulum. Voiced by Dan Johnston.
- Alyssa's grandfather, who took the task of raising Alyssa after her father died. He is revealed to secretly be incestuously obsessed with his daughter, and her daughter, his granddaughter, who looks like her mother. As a result, he hates his son-in-law out of jealousy and later secretly murders him. Three years before events of the game, Dick disappeared from the Hamilton household and has not been seen since. His disappearance depresses Alyssa, and she waits anxiously for his return. He is the main antagonist, along with his and Alyssa's ancestor, Lord Burroughs. Voiced by Paul Humpoletz.
Other characters
- May is a child dedicated to playing the piano. She entered a piano competition, hoping to win so that her music would be broadcast over the radio, and heard by her father, a soldier at war. May was bludgeoned to death by Sledgehammer after the competition, and it was revealed that her father died in battle.
- The father of May Norton, and a soldier at war. He cares a lot about his daughter, and is disappointed that he has to leave her alone at the tailor shop. Before Sledgehammer killed May, William was killed out at the battlefield, and May never knew he died because of her murder. Voiced by Nick Hutchison.
- Dorothy is a blind old woman, who is the mother of Albert. She is very caring, and is sick of people fussing over her health, and tries to give out the feeling that she is happy without sight, but she really isn't. She would give anything to be able to see again, and wonders what her son does all day in his shed making toys. Voiced by Richenda CareyRichenda CareyRichenda Carey is an English theatre, television and film actress, who is mostly known for her roles in Monarch of the Glen, Jeeves and Wooster, Crush and most recently, Separate Lies and Criminal Justice...
.
- Albert was also a victim of Corroder, and the son of Dorothy. He is very protective of his mother, and looks after her as much as he can. Dorothy believes he is too over protective of her. He is a man who gives and expects nothing in return by making children's toys for a living.
- Alyssa's real father. Alyssa knows nothing about him as he died shortly after she was born. But later, it is revealed that her dad was murdered by her grandfather when he threw Philip over a balcony, causing his head to fall onto an axe, splitting his head. If Alyssa opens a sealed door in the house, she will open a bathroom with a rotting corpse in the bathtub along with an angry spirit. Whether or not this is her father remains unknown.
- Linda is a missionary nurse, currently positioned in Africa. She is also Dennis's big sister, who has raised Dennis ever since his birth. She has told Dennis she will not be back for at least six months, but mysteriously appears again during Alyssa's journey. However, it is later revealed she is only Scissorwoman in disguise.
This enigmatic character is dressed in dark clothes and has an unusually deep voice. He seems to know a lot about Alyssa, and carries a strong love for her. Alyssa does not know who he is, but assumes that he is one of her mother's lodgers. He is later revealed to be Dick Hamilton in disguise. Voiced by Paul Humpoletz.
Subordinates
Clock Tower 3 features several boss enemies/antagonists known as 'Subordinates'.Sledgehammer is the first boss encountered in the game, found bludgeoning a twelve-year-old pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
to death on Christmas Eve 1942. Prior to becoming Sledgehammer, he was known as Robert Morris ' onMouseout='HidePop("48308")' href="/topics/Modus_operandi">modus operandi
Modus operandi
Modus operandi is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as "mode of operation". The term is used to describe someone's habits or manner of working, their method of operating or functioning...
of killing his victims, is inspired by the real John Haigh
John George Haigh
John George Haigh , commonly known as the "Acid Bath Murderer" , was an English serial killer during the 1940s. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine...
, who was known in Britain as the Acid Bath Murderer. He disguised himself as a distant relative of Dorothy and Albert Rand in order to gain entrance to their house, presumably to rob and murder them. Voiced by Francis Stone.
Chopper is the third boss and head of the Subordinates. Born in 1655 as Harold Powell ' onMouseout='HidePop("24251")' href="/topics/Mike_Hayley">Mike Hayley
Mike Hayley
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Respectively known as Jemima ( and Ralph to do most of his dirty work. He was a strong believer in the Entities and tried to gain power by using his daughter in the Ritual of Engagement, but she died in an accident just before her 15th birthday. Her death sent Lord Burroughs into a deep rage, resulting in him killing many. However, he was eventually overcome by his people who forced him over the clock tower of his castle, where he fell into the gears. He's not exactly a Subordinate as he came back to life by Dick, not by an Entity. He's the final boss of the game. Voiced by Paul Humpoletz.