Catherine

[NeXodus]

[b]WARINING: This game includes content that may not be suitable for children.
It is described as an "adult" game as it includes romantic adult situations.
The game case also may be offensive or inappopriate. (No Nudity)

I never really saw any topics for this game...

I was just wondering if anyone was intrested in this new game.
There is no release date yet, but I think it seems pretty underrated.
So I'll just kick in some info.[/b]

[center][size="5"][u][b]Catherine[/b][/u][/size]

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[i]Release Date: TBA (JPN; February 17, 2011)
Platforms: XBox 360, PlayStation 3
Genre: Adventure, Survival Horror, Role-Playing, Puzzle

Publisher: Atlus
Developer: Atlus
Rating: TBA (JPN; CERO: C)
Modes: Single-player, Multiplayer

Description:
Catherine is a adventure, survival horror, puzzle RPG created by Atlus. (It is developed by the Persona Team.)
It is depicted as an "adult game" by the character designer, Shigenori Soejima.


[u][b]PLOT: (Directly from Wikipedia)[/b][/u]
In the neighbourhood 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

[u][b]Gameplay: (Also directly from Wikipedia)[/b][/u]
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. During certain sections, Vincent can save and send text messages from his mobile phone, explore the Stray Sheep bar, 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 and escape from various horrors trying to kill him in his sleep. To accomplish this, Vincent must push, pull and climb blocks as quickly as possible while avoiding various traps such as spikes and lightning. 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. At the end of these levels, an award is given based on the player's performance. Vincent will die if he's caught by a trap, killed by one of his nightmarish apparitions or falls off the bottom of the level, with the game ending if Vincent runs out of retry pillows. Vincent is also able to interact with the other sheep outside of the action stages. 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 certain actions he takes during the Nightmare stages. The game will feature multiple endings, giving it over twenty hours of gameplay. Any action stages cleared in Golden Theater can be replayed in Babel or Colloseum Mode, both of which are playable with two players[/i][/center]

[Spoon]

I don't know what to think of the game.
When I first saw the trailer, I was like: Damn, me want!

But now... I don't really know what to expect from a "Puzzle RPG", and those daytime sequences sure look and feel like (what a coincidence) Persona... which I hated, hated to death (flame me for it if you want). Sure, the atmosphere looks really intense and the design seems interesting, but I wish I could play a demo to see how this rolls out

Hope they'll release one in the west as well (or the game itself, for that matter)... for now, I have to wait and drink some [s]beer[/s] tea.