Hifumi Kono, the creator of the Clock Tower horror games and Takashi Shimizu, the director on The Grudge, want to scare you all over again. The duo have a new Kickstarter underway for Project Scissors: NightCry. They just released their first gameplay trailer today for the game.

We need your financial support to make this a reality, though. Kono-san and his team at Nude Maker are working from a humble office, trying to make it all come together. The creators involved, including Shimizu-san, are coming together for little to no money to make this game happen, just the way Kono-san imagined it. That is how passionate and devoted this team is.

However, unlike the past glory days of the Japanese game industry, point-and-click games are a genre no publisher likes to take a chance on nowadays. And it doesn't help that Japanese publishers believe that the idea of a horror game without guns or weapons of any kind doesn't have mass market appeal.

We did secure some funding for the mobile version, but it's simply not enough to give you, the fans, the big screen (PC) experience we heard you requesting. Titles with original ideas and innovative gameplay, which have been the creative bedrock of this industry, have been largely pushed to the side in Japan.