Catherine (Puzzle-Platformer from Atlus)

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#1

The one game I’m really looking forward to (PS3 or 360) :smiley: . Official english site

Summary: In the neighbourhood in which Vincent lives, 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 in reality. As dreams and reality begin to blend together, Vincent must not only fight to survive, but he must choose between Katherine and Catherine.

Gameplay: the puzzle in the demo
Also has a choice system. choices you make effect the ending.

Limited edition: Atlus USA has a limited edition for 79.99

Anybody else looking forward to this game?

#2

Already have the regular edition on Preorder…

#3

Ditto

#4

My eroge purchases are gonna be put behind schedule b/c of my preorder of Catherine Love is Over edition. Lol.

#5

You don’t know how frustrating it is that Europe still doesn’t have a release date for this game :frowning:

#6

Yes… I love release date shipping. Order is on its way.

#7

Demo was good. I’ll be picking this up tomorrow.

#8

I hate you Doom’s Bride, I hate you. Took me 40 minutes to clear the last stage of the Nightmare on Day 5 =/
Figure I’ll finish up my 1st playthrough tomorrow after work, since I guess I could power through the rest of it tonight, but jeez that boss stage pissed me off.

#9

Got my copy, to bad I’m to damn busy to play it right now. Though gamestop sent me 2 limited edition copies and I only paid for one…

#10

Yeah Gamestop sent me 2 copies of the regular and only paid for one.

Anyway the “Butt Monster” on lvl 3 really sucked. I like how the game gives you the responses of everyone on the questions.

#11

I know that one took me forever. Hardest boss so far!

#12

Played the demo and it looks awesome, but the puzzle seems to get really hard after awhile and I’m worried I’ll get stuck at some point and not be able to finish the game.

#13

Ugh. That stage was so evil. Took me almost the same amount of time to get past, and I’m playing the game on Easy!

#14

Just got to the Doom Bride level, playing on easy and still getting my butt kicked.

#15

The only way I found to get by that level at all was to move from one side to the other. If you try to stay on just one side of the level, you die. Repeatedly.

Of course, then you die repeatedly finding a good place to switch from one side to the other. But eventually you get past that difficulty.

#16

Had to wait til I had a day off to finish up my first playthrough. I got Katherine’s true lover ending, which is nice, though I know there are 3 endings with each girl and 2 “Freedom” endings. The hardest stage for me though was Nightmare 6, Stage 2… not even a boss stage, I had some serious issues figuring it out, and to tell you the truth I don’t know how I beat it. Not to say the other stages were easy or anything, but I had to sink like an hour and a half into that one.

I saw a few of the hooks coming story wise, but there are were some that had me totally surprised. Now I just have to get the other 7 endings and hope that Atlus realizes that Persona 5 should be the next title they need to work on. All in all though, Catherine is amazing, and I’m totally happy with my Love is Over edition… guy from Game Informer giving this a 7/10 is out of his mind.

#17

Actually just finished my Katherine True Lovers run yesterday. Great game all around, though some of the later levels can be a bit annoying due to the monster blocks moving into bad positions. The hardest level for me ended up being the last one…mainly because the boss of that stage managed to kill me three times right as I reached the final stairway. I do find it odd how much harder the Rapunzel mini-game seems compared to the main game, but maybe that’s just me.

#18

I betcha that’s what they’re doing. Catherine was the Megaten team’s first current-gen game. It always takes a considerable amount of time to figure out how to get good performance out of a console. Once they’ve got that under their belt, it should be much easier for them to make more. I think the same pattern happened in the PS2 era; it took a long time for Nocturne to come out, but once that came out, a whole lot more MegaTen games for consoles got made.

I want P5 too, goddammit! Like, yesterday :slight_smile:

#19

I still haven’t played any Persona game even though I love MT. I guess it was because my reaction to the first Persona was ‘MT game without demon summoning? what’s the point?’ and that sort of stuck =P

#20

Try out Persona 3 (FES or PSP) or 4, has a much better system than the first game.