Catherine

Okay, i have to admit the demo sold me more on the game than I thought it would.

It was alright.

Although, having said that I need to elaborate a bit more.

The game perplexes me. The gameplay is simple and nice but I feel that I could find something else with similar gameplay for a much cheaper price than 60 bucks if I look hard enough. The story interests me a lot, I wanna know about how it all turns out... however, I cannot fucking stand how the karma system basically boils down to "Do you want Vincent to be a complete asshole or do you want him to do the right thing and act like a respectable human being?" It's also neat how they incorporated the texting into the game as a part of the karma system but when I saw the choices for not going with Katherine, they were just downright assholish and stupid.

The music and menu were great though. They're really selling me on the game with the symbolism and nice feel of the music but I cannot buy a game because of symbolism and music, especially when I'm still iffy on the game as a whole. The voice acting is great too but the script is weird and stale that so it doesn't mean much.

Ugh, I wish I had fucking opinion on this game because I hate being neutral about games.

It would be better if the cutscenes didn't arbitrarily switch between 2D and 3 animation.

That too, I hate the fucking 2D because the animation of it so bad and the 3D animation is so much more fluid and nicer looking.

By far the best game I have ever played

Ellis wrote:

By far the best game I have ever played

How are you going to break this news to Final Fantasy? She won't be pleased.

Final Fantasy is the best RPG by far. This is the best interactive porn I've ever played. I've whacked it twice during the beta and I was being conservative.

I have to assume you whacked it to Vincent as you only got to see a naked girl once.

They don't call me Quick Draw for nothing.

When is there ever a naked girl in the demo?

Catherine's body under covers, she's naked but it's not like you can see anything other than her legs and part of her upper body.

This is crap.

I quite liked climbing blocks. It would be better if there was some real-world gameplay as well though. If it gets an EU release I might pick it up at some point.

There apparently is real world gameplay from the trailer but it seems to be just dealing with Vincent's daily life.

This is like stupidly easy simple puzzle game with dating mechanics. When the texting mechanic is the most interesting thing the game is bad.

For some reason only the easy mode was available in the demo.

Actually the gameplay gets more complex and the puzzles change in every difficulty and the gameplay is also affected by your choices in the real world. I would understand your frustration with it being a dating sim if that part had nothing to do whatsoever with the actual game, but it is a big part of the gameplay.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

For some reason only the easy mode was available in the demo.

Yeah, for what was a pretty good demo, it was stupid of Atlus to not include at least normal mode to show how the puzzles between both of them differ.

Yea even though it was easy, getting all the coins and stuff on the last climbing part took me a couple tries. This wont be a first day buy for me but if the revies come in looking good I'll probably get it.

Baal wrote:

Actually the gameplay gets more complex and the puzzles change in every difficulty and the gameplay is also affected by your choices in the real world. I would understand your frustration with it being a dating sim if that part had nothing to do whatsoever with the actual game, but it is a big part of the gameplay.

I play this game and see tartarus and relationship meters.

Anyway as the dating is two extremes, I don't really see it being deep or interesting.

There's 8 different endings depending on your actions from what I hear.

Buu it can't be as awful as tartarus. It just can't be.

There's 8 different endings.

Bad/Normal/Best - Katherine
Bad/Normal/Best - Catherine
Normal/Best - Freedom

I love how Freedom is the only one without a bad ending, that says so much about the game.

Ellis wrote:

Buu it can't be as awful as tartarus. It just can't be.

It's not, the levels actually change and you're not in the levels for 3 hours climbing up 30 floors.