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JBurroughs	Nov 25 2007, 03:48:14 PM
ALYSSA! I've become a Subordinate! Posts: 404 Group: Newspaper Reporter Member #28 Joined: 12/17/06 Gender: Female ♀	While I wasn't aware that was written in the Haunting Ground Wiki and have never seen anything that proves it, I've always held deep suspicions Haunting Ground started life as Clock Tower 4 and I just can't seem to shake them. There are so many similarities- not just in the mechanics, but in the characters, locations, and themes. On its own, that might just mean the designers of HG really, really liked Clock Tower (as I think the designers of Rule of Rose really, really liked Clock Tower)... but that it also just happened to have sprung up out of nowhere after a company with strong connections to CT had to scrap a good number of games for financial reasons? It makes me wonder. Now, if you'd asked whether I wanted Haunting Ground to be CT4... no, not really. I love Haunting Ground as Haunting Ground, but there are important aspects in which I think it clashes too badly with Clock Tower to be part of the series (Fiona, for instance. I like Fiona, but I think she is way too passive to be a CT heroine. Even though Alyssa and Jennifer don't whip uzis out of their skirts and pepper the bad guys with bullets, and even though they need help once in a while, they usually get themselves out of danger. There were too many times Fiona only survived beacuse of infighting between her attackers. If she were up against the cohesive Burroughs clan, she'd have been toast long before she found Hewie).


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