History VideoGame / ClockTowerIITheStruggleWithin

* GuideDangIt: While the manual explains that a green target means the shot is ineffective and a Red Target is, Zombies act completely differently before/after you find out about the brains, before, they will "Die" when shot in a green zone (With the Red Zone being hidden as a green one due to not knowing about the brains yet.) and you'll flee the room like when incapciating Maxwell/Saido or Stephene/Chinatsu temporarilly, while a Red Zone shot will make them fade and you won't leave the room, however once the brains are discovered, Green shots will only make a zombie do a flinch animation (Regardless of how many rounds you put into them) and Red Zones will kill them, completely changing how they react to gun fire, while Maxwell in contrast, has every Target be a Red Zone and simply needs shot enough times to put him down. (3 Revolver Shots, 2 Shotgun Blasts, 1 Shotgun Blast and 1 Revolver shot or one SMG Burst.)

** First Aid Kits will never show up if you aren't already hurt, so you have to search every examine spot again to find them once you're hurt, especially since some of them are placed in the same interaction spots as Guns.

* LimitedLoadout: You can only carry one gun at a time and will have to use up your current gun in order to grab another one, with no option to discard the one currently in your inventory.
* Padding: The forced personality changes,(often for flimsy reasons, such as Alyssa/Bates becoming arbitarily defenseless in certain scenes),the last chapter only having one respawning medkit in one corner of the map and the insanely high amount of Zombies in the final chapter blatantly just exist to waste your time.

''Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within'' is a Playstation game released on March 12, 1998 in Japan and on October 1999 in the US and Canada by Human Entertainment (Japan) and Agetec (NA) with the game released again in Japan via the Playstation Network. It's the only ''VideoGame/ClockTower'' game known to be made without the involvement of Hifumi Kono, nor with any connections to the other games.

The game revolves around Yu Midoshima / Alyssa Hale, a 17-year old high school student with a SplitPersonality disorder who's come to Osaka / Monterey in Spring 1999 to see family friend Hajime Takano / Philip Tate as his family. However, when she arives, she finds that someone has Hajime and left him to die, someone who is still in the house and now stalking her as well. Given a strange statue by Hajime, Yu is tasked with burning it to put an end to what he calls the "Saidou / Maxwell curse."

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: There really is no way of knowing whether certain actions will get you killed; having Alyssa or Bates in charge can determine if certain conversations end in violence, usually resulting in a sudden bad ending. Not examining the samurai armor is probably the most infamous example. If you didn't examine the armor twice in part 1, it will crash through the ceiling and crush Alyssa in a cutscene later in the game. This counts as an ending, meaning the player has to start over. There is a hint in the game that the statue has some sort of signifigance, but good look finding a player who could predict ''that'' outcome, even with the correct personality, certain scenes will kill you if Alyssa still has the Amulet.

** Almost all Guns/First Aid Kits respawn, preventing the player getting trapped. (Though Guns often are downgraded a tier.)

* DiabolusExMachina: Almost every ending (save for A-C) involves Alyssa being abruptly killed with no forewarning, more akin to a NonStandardGameOver. Most cases are a result of the player talking to an NPC with the wrong personality

* SummoningArtifact: The Demon Statue is implied to be this. Possibly subverted by the Golden Statue, it may just be a cheap ornament. It was [[spoiler:Takashi's]] excuse to poison his colleague.

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: There really is no way of knowing whether certain actions will get you killed; having Alyssa or Bates in charge can determine if certain conversations end in violence, usually resulting in a sudden bad ending. Not examining the samurai armor is probably the most infamous example. If you didn't examine the armor twice in part 1, it will crash through the ceiling and crush Alyssa in a cutscene later in the game. This counts as an ending, meaning the player has to start over. There is a hint in the game that the statue has some sort of signifigance, but good look finding a player who could predict ''that'' outcome.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Chief Nurse Kishi/Nurse Cook has gotten suicidal during a zombie outbreak in the hospital. You will have to use Sho/Bates to talk to her in order to advance, only making her more depressed -- enough to want to commit suicide. Come back to the area as Yu/Alyssa after completing a certain event and she'll stop her from committing the act. The next time you see her (if you explore a bit in the next area), she will give you a shotgun for your troubles (not that it's necessary, since there is a spot where you will always get a shotgun either way).

** The timing for running is easier and Alyssa/Bates will keep running even if the player only taps once unless Alyssa/Bates stop moving so running away is less awkward.