The Clock Tower (and Haunting Ground) Series

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Clock Tower 3 is mashed together with IllBleed in my mind. I liked CT3 in a strange way, it was more interesting than fun to play. I picked it up in a Game store from their used section and towards the end of the PS2's life they started dumping the prices as people traded all their shit in for the new consoles, at that time I really started raiding them. Low prices and 3-for-2 deals, fantastic! Siren, Haunting Ground, Ghost Hunter, Dropship, Rule of Rose, Primal, Gregory Horror Show* and tons of other games that weren't highly regarded at the time and most of them I never even got around to playing, like Rule of Rose, only bought that one because it was survival horror and controversial. When new consoles arrived stores like that became something of a massive Steam sale of physical (used) games and just like with Steam sales those games went unplayed.

* just looked up Gregory Horror Show on ebay, I thought it would be worth more than 20 bucks.