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Developed & Published by: Atlus

Platforms: Ps3 & Xbox 360

Genre: lolli horror/adv

Release: late 2010 (jpn), EU/NA ??

 

It's hard to believe, but now four years after PlayStation 3's release, Atlus has yet to release an HD game. That's going to be changing shortly. In this week's Famitsu, the Persona publisher provides first details on its first HD project, Catherine.

 

In development as a multiplatform PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 release, Catherine comes our way from key members of the Persona team. Key staffers include Katsura Hashino as producer and game director, Shigenori Soejima as character designer, and Shouji Meguro as sound composer. Skip down below or some commentary from the three.

 

The main character in Catherine is Vincent (voiced by Koichi Yamadera), a 32-year-old single salarayman at that point in life between independence from one's parents and marriage. Vincent has no ambitions in terms of love and romance.

 

(This week's "Flying Get" column referred to Vincent as a "vegetarian." This terms is actually used figuratively to describe the character. He may or may not be a meat eater.)

 

Vincent's life changes when he meets the 22-year-old Catherine (voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro). Catherine has a charming face and a "well proportioned" body that makes anyone turn and take notice. She happens to be Vincent's type.

 

After meeting Catherine, Vincent ends up having nightmares. These serve as a central part of the game. In the nightmares, Vincent finds himself in a world of unending stairs. Unless he can climb to the top of the of the stairs, he will not be able to wake up.

 

Screenshots of the nightmare component do look nightmarish. In one shot, we see Vincent, stripped down to his polka dot briefs, leaning against a step of a giant flight of stairs. Another screen shows Vincent, again wearing only his briefs, being followed from behind by bipedal lambs. Another screen shows the subtitle of a "mysterious voice" saying to Vincent, "You lambs have been selected. You will soon die."

 

There may be more to the lamb connection than just a single dream passage. The magazine states that Vincent is not alone in his dream. In his dreams, he'll end up meeting a large number of lambs. The lambs, and apparently Vincent as well, are being chased by a pair of giant hands. In one screen, we see one of the hands holding a blood-covered fork. In another screen, a red-eyed lamb says, presumably to Vincent, that those who do not want to die have to climb the stairs.

 

It looks like you'll be entering and exiting Vincent's nightmare world repeatedly throughout the course of the game. One batch of screens shows Vincent safely waking up from his nightmare. Catherine is beside him, making the magazine speculate that perhaps the two spent the night together. A girl walks in on the two and appears to get angry at Vincent.

 

Incidentally, you may be thinking that Vincent is some sort of loser who's obsessed with Catherine. This may not be the case. Based strictly off the screenshots, it's actually difficult to say what exactly is the relationship between the two characters. Outside of the shot showing the two in bed, screens show them having drinks at a restaurant, Vincent's arm casually around Catherine as he smokes a cigarette. One shot shows Catherine appearing to seduce Vincent.

 

Famitsu speculates that there may be some connections between Vincent's nightmare world and the real world. Another set of screens show a sequence from the real world where a young man's gruesome death is reported on the news. There's a rumor going around that when you see a dream about falling, if you don't open your eyes you'll truly die.

 

So what exactly do you do in Catherine? That's the big mystery at this point. Famitsu lists the game as a single player action adventure. It also hints that the "action" part of the game may play out in the nightmare world. What those action components are is unclear at present.

 

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CM Sunny Newbie

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I mean wtf

I saw that 2 days ago and that was my reaction

I assumed that real time games go in the Devil Summoner series,high school RPGs go to Persona,and experimental games and non-school related RPGs go in the core series. Still,a horror-themed game with characters over the age of 15 with "adult" themes? I could dig that,but I still don't like this whole real-time action thing. "Action adventure" is a bastard genre given to games that don't fit properly into given genres and could mean anything.

 

how ero is it actually?

given sony's/MS love to pervism

will they actually allow it

 

also

Persona fans can be forgiven for wondering at the continuing refusal of Atlus to place this flagship RPG on a modern platform – the PS3 is not getting any younger, and if they approach a simple PS3/360 title with this much trepidation, just what they will do when the next generation comes around is a matter of some doubt.

 

:bash::sleep:

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so its got horror and sex.

 

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very interested in this, i read about it yesterday in some forums, did not think the art style would be this cheery :|

but anyway, japanese horror is the best when it comes to f**king with your mind. So many vivid interpretations that depends on the viewers' psyche.

 

I am so in this game :D

 

hope its not a japan only release.

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