March 6, 2020

In case you can’t tell from the abundance of video game novelizations I release, I’m a big gaming nerd. I play a lot of different stuff, but horror games tend to be my favorite. So it would come as no surprise that I listen to Zero Brightness, a podcast about horror games. If you have a love for horror games as well, I highly recommend checking it out.

While binging their backlog of episodes, I learned about some game novelizations I was previously unaware of. You see, Japanese game novelizations seem to be pretty poorly documented online (at least, not in a language I understand). As such, I was quite excited to learn that not only do these books exist, but a few have been fan translated!

The Silent Hill series has gotten novelizations for the first four games. While the first game’s novelization is only partially translated, Silent Hill 2 has a full translation and is available for download in a variety of formats.

I also learned of the Clock Tower 2 novels. They were a pair of adventure novels, detailing the perspectives of Jennifer and Helen, the two main playable characters in the game (which was released outside of Japan as Clock Tower). While only a summary of the Jennifer’s Part novel exists, I was very pleased to learn that Helen’s Part had a full translation, but no ebook.

Special thanks to the translator, Rebecca Capowski of SceneryRecalled.com, for giving me permission to compile her work into an ebook and release it here.

This book, being an adventure novel, has multiple branching points with four possible endings, making it the first Choose Your Own Adventure style book I have made and released. So without further ado, Retro Reading Time is very proud to present Clock Tower 2: Helen’s Part for your enjoyment!