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Catherine
Topic Started: Jan 6 2011, 03:54 AM (1,208 Views)
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Who is it by? Atlus (Japan)
What is it? Action/puzzle game(?) for the 360 and PS3.
Genre: Horror

Tell me more? You play Vincent, a very uncool-looking guy (seems to make a change) with some serious troubles, I guess.

There have been a number of mysterious deaths recently and rumours have been going around saying that people have been having nightmares and if you die in one of these nightmares, then you die in the real world. Vincent, who seems to spend most of his time with his friends in the bar gets approached by a "sexy" (*cough*slutty*cough*) young woman called Catherine and it's around this time that he starts to have horrible nightmares. He also already happens to have a girlfriend whom is also called Catherine. Who he's been with for a long time. Yeah. Maybe he deserves those nightmares, bastard. :lol:

Gameplay trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_Y-KL-QgI

One of the fun little things about the game is that at the end of puzzles you get asked questions like do you wanna be somebody, or would you just prefer to fit in? And then it shows you (if you play online) what other people have answered. I was surprised that most people said that they'd rather just blend in.
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Despite Atlus (trolling the crap out of us) saying just a few days ago that there were no plans to release Catherine outside of Japan at this time..

ATLUS HAVE SAID TODAY THAT CATHERINE IS COMING TO THE US IN SUMMER THIS YEAR (July 26?).

Hit by the hype hammer *boom* baby. :D

Dat ass is so getting imported by me. pre-ordered! Hellz yeah. <3

Hours of block-scrambling fun and pissing your pants (should you be that sort of person) soon to come!

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Platforms: PS3 / X360
Publisher: Atlus
Developer: Atlus
# Players: 1-2
Genre: Action Adventure / Adult Horror
ESRB: RP (“M” expected)


Features

* The Horrors of Love
Vincent's waking fears, doubts, pressures, and growing guilt about commitment and fidelity now gleefully follow him into his dreams, manifesting as horribly disfigured monsters and a ticking clock.

* Between a Rock and a Soft Place
The player must navigate Vincent through heavy moral decisions. As in real life, hardly anything is black and white. What is the value of honesty? What is the right thing to do? Either way, someone's going to get hurt. Worse yet, someone could die.

* The Nightmare of Your Dreams
Famed character artist Shigenori Soejima and master composer Shoji Meguro create sights and sounds unlike anything else. As unforgettable and original as the game's narrative, Catherine's visual direction and musical score define and perfectly complement Vincent's terrifying ascent into the dizzying perils of love.

* Escape With or From a Friend
Local competitive and cooperative multiplayer modes, in addition to leaderboards, ensure that the many thrills and horrors of racing through twisted stages can be enjoyed by more than one player and add hours of extra gameplay to the overall experience.

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YESSS, I'M A CHICKEN, BUT I REALLY WANT THIS! 8D
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I can't imagine you playing this if Bioshock scared you. x3 Heee, nice to have you joining in on my excitement! I hope they give us the same pre-order bonus as Japan (soundtrack and art book).

Official site: http://www.catherinethegame.com/kat.html
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I can do it! D:
Bioshock only scared me because there were noises everywhere and I couldn't detect from where they came! D:
Besides, I can last through this, Katherine looks like Mugurine Luka, but with glasses and pink eyes .3.
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Atlus America, don't you like girls?

http://kotaku.com/#!5797715/catherines-special-edition-stuffs-your-underwear-in-a-pizza-box/gallery/1

I kinda want this just becuase it's a special edition, but the shirt is a large guys and I don't feel like wearing boxers..I guess I don't want a slutty pillowcase either. At least I'll save some money, but I like the idea behind the box
So glad the site I import from is offering the pre-order bonuses (CD and art book). <3
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This game comes out soon, I'm so excited! I'll find a way to pool some cash together to buy it. It looks so good 8D

July 26 is the release date.

A sountrack and artbook come with a pre-ordered game. I NEED TO PRE-ORDER NOW ;A;
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I would love it if we got it on the same day, but good luck getting cash in time to pre-order it. :>

Estimate it'll arrive on my doorstep August 2nd.

So excited for it with you, Pads!

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Totally not a trap. :3
Can't wait for this. I'm not into raunchy stuff, but the gameplay and design just keeps me from saying no.
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Eeeheee, I guess I'll have to make an American PSN account. On the 12th there will be a demo up on the PS Store.

Me can't wait to try. :>


And the English voices are sounding good.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARACjcANX0
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Oh, yeah, the voices sound amazing c:

AND DEMOOOOOOOOOOoo
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I'm not gonna enjoy explaining this game to my dad's side of the family. Since that's the only place with a 7-gen console I can get to regularly. But it's in the living room where everyone can see it. -_-

But, the voices are indeed sounding good. :3
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:lol:

As amazing as a baked potatah.

Good luck with that, Nemo.
Edited by Gumdrop, Jul 10 2011, 10:39 PM.
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Them taters be awesome c:

AND I HAS PREORDERED EET 8D
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Wow! That was one of the best demos we have ever played! The graphics are even better than we had realized, heck, the MENU screen had us putting our face right up to the television to better-inspect them.

Unlike with most horrors, if does not restrict itself to dark and dull colours, but it isn't overly bright either. It seems as though the perfect balance has been achieved, and we certainly appreciate a horror that isn't an attack of the browns and greys.

You can see straight away that a lot of love and care has gone into the creation of this thing.

The soundtrack is amazing, but we already knew that. Plenty of classical stuff given new versions by the games composer. The original pieces really stand out too.

The voice English voice acting has been extremely well handled, but it would have been nice to hear more of in the demo (which appears to be much shorter than the Japanese version release a while back).

We really felt the urgency of it all. You might think it sounds like things will be boring because this is a block puzzle game when it gets to the action, but that just isn't the case. Your ass is being chased down for being the son-of-a-bitch that you are, and you really fear for your life.

If you don't solve the puzzles in time then you're dead-meant, and you sure don't get a whole lotta time.

Kinda sucked you're only able to play the demo in 'easy' mode, but I guess they were worried people would be scared off by the harder modes since this game is supposed to be supah-dupah hard.

It simply wasn't the case in the demo. The demo is just not hard. Makes us worry that the full game will be a nasty shock since we fully intend to play it on 'normal' right off the bat.


Our cripes from the demo were extremely minor ones.;


1) There's this logo in the top left which tells you what mode you're playing in. Both unnecessary and distracts away from the games top-quality visuals.

2) Vincent (meaning you) gets texts on his mobile phone which you can reply to, the reply system seems like it could have been implemented better than it was. To cycle through the pre-made replies you have to keep pressing confirm and cancel. Kinda tedious.

3) The pacing felt a bit 'off' since even the slower scenes felt a little hurried somehow. Maybe we couldn't settle because our fear of some impending doom right around the corner.

4) Didn't seem very creepy so far, certainly not as creepy as, say, the Persona games.


If you want to do well you simply cannot hesitate, not even for a moment, we hesitated for literally a few seconds on the first stage when we were getting used to things and we were lumped with a silver trophy.

It may sound like we're being silly, but our lingering was extremely minor! But this could be considered a good thing. We see plenty of replay value for the sorts of folk like myself who like to be show-off pants and achieve top scores all-over the shop.

We did suffer one death, it was sort of expected since everybody speaks of how difficult the game is. But we liked the reason we died. The reason? We were actually pretty scared!

Suddenly our peruser closed in on us whilst screaming, and it was one freakish peruser, so we had just a pure panic, a panic that cost us our lives at the end of a bloody and gigantic fork.


Over all we were deeply impressed. Well worth the one gig of disc space the demo takes up on the PS3 (no idea how much space the 360 version takes up).

Replay value is high, we already find ourselves wanting to go back and give it another whirl. And you know something has to be darned good if you find yourself wanting to replay the demo of it.

Also, you seriously have little to fear about the difficulty if it worried you. Easy mode is indeed easy.

Now if only it had been as long as the Japanese demo....Atlus have truly created something wonderful.



From what we've seen so far, we expect this to be a solid 8/10 game easy.



Oh, and one other thing, just for Nemo ~ wouldn't worry about parents in the room. Yes, the demo does show 'disturbing' things, but the 'emabressing' sex stuff is mostly removed.




Man, this game did not disappoint thus far. In two words? HELLZ YEAH! XD
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It sounds like a terrific party game with the puzzles and time slot. It's supposed to be multiplayer too, right? Maybe my family might enjoy playing it.
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Uh, party game? Not so much....it is supposed to have one, but demo doesn't give you a chance to try it out.


Tried the demo again this morning. Think the pacing seemed off because scenes were cut for the demo? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I'm sure the Japanese demo was different.


They put what looks like a trailer on the end, and the trailer seems to have better sound quality than the rest of the demo which seemed odd.
Edited by Gumdrop, Jul 13 2011, 07:23 PM.
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The demo is free, right? I'm away from a PS3 atm, and I haven't downloaded a demo for anything in months.
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Jah. :>

Don't forget it's also on the 360, the videos have been squished down some and it's generally less impressive graphically (apparently) but that will probably be easier for you to get at.



Oh, apparently the US and Japanese demos are the same (appart from language wise, obviously) so something were a bit funny in my memory.
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Boooo, 24 hours after I get a mail saying no cancellations on my pre-order allowed now, they announced Catherine for Europe. I'd like to support that kind of thing coming here, but oh well.

Now it's two days off release and they still didn't ship it, guess I won't get it this week. >.> Pretty disappointing, most English sites would have posted it by now.


(end of whine)


Paddy, we will have to arrange to play it together soon! <3 I'm suspecting it'll arrive next Monday now.



Who else is getting it? :>
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*doesn't understand what all the hype is about*

=P
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I can think of a few reasons as to why there is a hype for it.

1) There aren't enough adult games.
2) People are sick of easy games.
3) It's clearly something a bit 'different.'
4) Persona fans want something to tide them over to the next Persona game, they got it!
5) It looks as thought it might actually be pretty creepy/lack of good horror games.

It's also very stylish, not many games have so much style. :D


For a more personal view; I'm probably just about the only one that 'digs' the whole block puzzle thing, but I'm finding myself attracted to the gameplay that so many hate, too.

It's pretty much everything I've been wanting in a new game for a while. Difficulty, but nothing unfair, more mature topics/themes, something a bit different and not terribly long, but with plenty of end-game challenges/replay value. And also, a little fear is just the icing on the yummy cake. <3




On that note, I wants this game so bad it's untrue. Must. Not. Go. Crazy. In. Last. Week. Before. Arrival.



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I'm hyped because it's one of the only games to get the Anime-ish design right for once. The Naruto games did okay, but this was stunning!

And also for some of the reasons that GumGum listed. :3
Edited by Aigis, Jul 25 2011, 10:59 AM.
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I'm hyped because it's one of the only games to get the Anime-ish design right for once. The Naruto games did okay, but this was stunning!

And also for some of the reasons that GumGum listed. :3
You have obviously never played the Tales nor the Persona games.

Yesh, those reasons Gums listed are magnificent c:
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Haha, thanks. Magnificent. <3


Grr, it still didn't ship? That's bad. Don't think I'll pre-order something I really want from VGP again. :|

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