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Posted: Mar 01 2011 02:38 pm

http://www.catherinethegame.com/

YES YES YES!

Posted: Mar 01 2011 02:41 pm

Haha, I /bet/ your super stoked on this.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 02:52 pm

kitsch meets david lynch. can't wait to play this.

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I bet you get a version where all the best bits are removed, such as with Indigo Prophecy. Smile

I hope not, though. Atlus kicks ass and I want that thing to Europe as well.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 04:13 pm

Persona 4 was as sexual as a game could be without raising mass media controversy. You honestly expect them to cut corners here?

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Who's Catherine?

Posted: Mar 01 2011 05:05 pm

Is that link safe? I have no idea what this game is about and am curious.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 05:07 pm

FNJ wrote:

Who's Catherine?

Quote:

Gameplay

Players control a man named Vincent who, after meeting a strange girl named Catherine, begins having strange nightmares, during which he might be killed. The main story mode, Golden Theater, follows the story between Daytime and Nightmare scenarios. During the daytime, Vincent will converse with his friends as well as try to handle his relationship with the two women, Catherine and Katherine. Most of this time takes place in the Stray Sheep bar where Vincent can save and send text messages from his mobile phone, talk to customers, order drinks, play a minigame titled Rapunzel or listen to a jukebox containing tracks from other Atlus games such as the Persona series.

The Nightmare stages are where the main gameplay takes place. In a nightmarish dreamworld inhabited by other men, who are represented as sheep, Vincent must climb up giant staircases that are slowly collapsing underneath him and safely reach the top. To accomplish this, Vincent must push, pull and climb blocks as quickly as possible while avoiding various traps such as spikes and ice. Climbing up steps in quick succession increases a score multiplier. Some stages feature 'boss' characters in the form of nightmarish apparitions that also try to kill Vincent. Items found throughout the levels include coins which can be spent in shops, pillows which give extra lives and block items that can be placed anywhere in the level. There are also certain attributes Vincent can get depending on what he drinks during the day.[8] At the end of these levels, an award is given based on the player's performance. Vincent will die if he falls off the bottom of the level, gets caught by a trap or is killed by a boss, with the game ending if Vincent runs out of retry pillows. In between action stages, Vincent can interact with the other sheep, save his game, learn techniques or spend coins on special items. Whilst playing in easy difficulty, players can push the Select/Back button to correct a single block move.

Throughout the game, the choices the player makes during these sequences will affect the development of Vincent's character and the route the story takes place. These can occur in several ways, such as how Vincent types out a text message to one of the girls, or how he responds to certain questions. The game will feature multiple endings, giving it over twenty hours of gameplay. Babel Mode features four large stages playable with up to two players, whilst Vs Colosseum features two players simultaneously playing a stage in order to reach the top first.

Plot

In the neighborhood Vincent lives in, there have recently been a number of bizarre incidents in which people die in their sleep, with a look of anguish upon their faces. Strangely enough, all of the victims are young men. The story quickly spreads throughout the media, attracting widespread attention and theories as to the cause of death. A strange rumour begins to spread that if a person dreams of falling, if they don't wake up they will soon become unable to wake at all, and die.

Vincent is at a bar contemplating marriage to Katherine, his lover of five years, who is pressuring him to get married, when he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman named Catherine. Although there are many vacant seats she sits next to Vincent and, well-proportioned and pretty, she is exactly his type. The two end up spending the night together at Vincent's house.

After meeting the woman, Vincent begins to have nightmares every single night, which he believes may be related to the rumours. In these dreams, he, and several other men who appear to him as sheep, must escape from various horrors trying to kill him, for if he dies in his dream, he will die for real. As dreams and reality begin to blend together, Vincent must not only fight to survive, but he must choose between Katherine and Catherine.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 05:13 pm

Blackout wrote:

Is that link safe? I have no idea what this game is about and am curious.

Probably not. The titular character is indeed quite titular and is featured prominently on the site depending on how you answer the question you're asked after you input your birthday. The trailer, also on the site, contains sexual/horror content.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 05:56 pm

I'd be more excited if I could actually play it.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 06:44 pm

Sooner or later you'll have to get a 360 or PS3.

And aren't you the one who posted the Arcana Heart 3 story?

Posted: Mar 01 2011 06:46 pm

This looks like something I would enjoy. Very Happy

Posted: Mar 01 2011 06:48 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Sooner or later you'll have to get a 360 or PS3.

And aren't you the one who posted the Arcana Heart 3 story?

I was just thinking about picking up a 360 at a pawn shop. And I only posted about AH3 to show how nuts it is.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 06:54 pm

Ah.

Speaking of AH3, you want to talk about unfair, that's a game that got released on PS3 and the 360, and Aksys is only localizing it for PS3 due to "circumstances beyond their control". Whatever.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 07:37 pm

It sounds like a really cool concept and I'm interested in playing it. I'm not too sure about the game play, sounds like a puzzle game. When I watched the trailer I thought it was more along the lines of survival horror. I'll have to keep an eye on it.

Syd Lexia wrote:

Speaking of AH3, you want to talk about unfair, that's a game that got released on PS3 and the 360, and Aksys is only localizing it for PS3 due to "circumstances beyond their control". Whatever.

I know how that feels. There's a game called Deadly Premonition I wanted to play. Even though it's on PS3 and 360 in Japan, it's only on 360 in the US. I don't understand why they have to do shit like that.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 07:44 pm

The nightmare sequences are definitely action-based, possibly with puzzle elements. According to Wikipedia, Japanese gamers have complained some of the sequences are too hard.

Posted: Mar 01 2011 08:02 pm

I'm sure there's some irritation for the Japanese since there's no difference between a C and a K in that language, Here's a playthrough of the Japanese demo:

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/02/catherine-demo-lets-play/

Posted: Mar 01 2011 08:06 pm

Atlus is my second favorite Japanese game developer and this just is awesome. Atlus does psychological thriller games right and this looks to be another stunning addition!

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So it's columns with tits?

Posted: Mar 02 2011 04:03 am

FNJ wrote:

So it's columns with tits?

Like this?

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looks a lot like super puzzle fighter

Posted: Jul 26 2011 06:43 pm

So my copy of Catherine came today and I've been playing it for a little over three hours. It's pretty awesome. The third set of Nightmare Stages are kicking my ass.

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The-Excel wrote:

Persona 4 was as sexual as a game could be without raising mass media controversy. You honestly expect them to cut corners here?

From what I've heard, they had to back off quite a bit with certain aspects when it was released in the US, especially when it came to Kanji's homosexuality.

Posted: Jul 26 2011 11:10 pm

That's gay. And here I thought they were braver than that.

Posted: Jul 27 2011 01:02 am

Less talking about Persona 4, more talking about Catherine!