Clock Tower 3 (PlayStation 2, 2003)

The only enjoyable part of this game is the very cool opening video. I played this game for a grand total of three hours and then had to turn it off before I threw my PS2 out the window!

Puzzles are impossible to figure out if you spend all your time running away from the bad guy! The only thing you can do to fight back is throw holy water on him, which just stuns him for a few seconds after which he is right there on your butt again because he runs at the same rate you do (and apparently, throwing holy water on someone is a time-consuming event). This means that no matter how many screens you run accross you won't outrun him and if you make it to a hiding place (which are few and far between) you have to sit there and wait for him to go away before you can come out. Don't know about you, but my idea of digital fun is not hanging out in a phone booth. Even if you do manage to hide, when the bad guy gets close the "panic meter" rises and if it tops out you run from your hiding place, falling all over the place until you just stop to shake uncontrollably, giving the large man with the sledgehammer ample time to squish you against the pavement like a grape.

You run from the bad guy in real life, not in video games! That's why they're fun, you get to kick butt when, logically, you should run away. Yes, the story and puzzles that I did get to were good, and the graphics were impressive, but I just can't get past the sheer frustration of spending most of your time running away.