CATHERINE FULL BODY LOGO FULL
CATHERINE FULL BODY LOGO PS3

As Vincent you have to push and pull blocks, climbing your way to the top of the tower and escaping certain death. Block puzzles might not be new, but Catherine asks you to truly think quickly and react so as not to fail. So while much of the playing is checking your phone, wandering the Stray Sheep, and watching story play out, the rest of the time is spent in your nightmares, puzzling away.

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Full cut-scenes, story moments, and even within the puzzle sections: again, Qatherine is introduced as though the story was always like this, which made me feel like I was almost playing Catherine again for the first time. The moments involving Qatherine, however, are done in a manner that my ageing mind couldn’t recall if they were entirely new, or there to begin with. I won’t spoil reveals and story moments, but this doesn’t feel like a lazy addition at all. A third Catherine has been bled into the story throughout the game. New to Full Body is Qatherine (with a Q), but better known as Rin. The writing is sharp and witty, and your feelings for all the characters move like a whirlwind, which is a great thing. Honestly, you can feel sorry for Vincent one moment and think him an utter asshole the next. Catherine is portrayed as the lustful version of Katherine, and the story constantly throws up heavy handed moments, as well as ones that make you think. He wakes up next to her, not remembering a thing. As usual, Vincent is sat at the Stray Sheep bar drowning his sorrows, his friends have long since left for home, and she just waltzes into his life. The titular Catherine, then, enters one night when he’s fretting over getting married and settling down. It’s a story about realising how good your life already is, I think, but there’s so much neurosis instilled throughout that you could take your own story away from it quite easily.

Vincent doesn’t necessarily not want to do that, but the story revolves around him really not knowing what he wants. His girlfriend (Katherine with a K) is a career-led person who wants to get married and move from the teenage romance stage, to the married with kids stage. Don’t get me wrong, Catherine is massively anime: we’re talking wide mouthed gasps and weirdness off the charts, but the game part is hugely addictive, compelling, and actually a really tricky puzzler.Īt the risk of retreading our original review, you play as Vincent, a guy who’s age is never entirely clear but appears to be around the atypical area where people get married and have kids.

I don’t mind reading in games, but I want some action. I love games based heavily on narrative, but I shy away from getting into the full-on visual novel genre. What Catherine is, to me, though is a perfect crossover. But sometimes we tell ourselves things to make us feel better about some niche entertainment product we loved that nobody talks about, because it’s sitting pretty around 80-82 on Metacritic, so it certainly wasn’t underrated.

CATHERINE FULL BODY LOGO PS3

In my mind’s eye, Catherine is a superb story driven puzzler that was criminally underrated around eight years ago when it hit PS3 and Xbox 360.

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