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Catherine: Full Body
Released On: Sep 3, 2019
81
8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
48 Reviews
48 Reviews
20% Mixed
12 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 Critic Reviews
81
79% Positive
48 Reviews
48 Reviews
20% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Catherine: Full Body is a remake that adds an enormous amount of value and gives audiences who missed out another opportunity to enjoy this title. It’s accessible to all players regardless of skill level and has a story which is riveting and poignant. For players who have played the original release, now you have an opportunity to take a new branch as well as take on the world to show your climbing skills. One would say this title has definitely aged well and can be considered a fine vintage.
Catherine: Full Body has aged like the finest of wines. For fans of the story, the new characters and plot threads fold in fantastically after an awkward start, and they're coupled with a wealth of new dialogue and beautifully animated cutscenes. For fans of the gameplay, new remixed levels and difficulty options add brand new challenges for even the most hardcore Catherine enthusiasts, and with support for the game's niche competitive scene to boot. And if you've never played the game before, all of these additions make an already classic video game even more of a must-play experience.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 265 User Ratings
8.1
80% Positive
213 Ratings
213 Ratings
9% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
10% Negative
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 265 User Ratings
8.1
80% Positive
213 Ratings
213 Ratings
9% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
10% Negative
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
this game is something else, i dont want to spoil anything, but the sheer japaneseness of this game made me confused. love rin btw.
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PlayStation 4
Gosh dang they did it! Not only did they make this game less transphobic, but they also were able to add Rin in such a great way that makes it for an excellent addition to the original Catherine game. What effectively is a 1.5 game, this is the optimal version of Catherine that you should play. Also Vincent is a BIcon!
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PlayStation 4
Its gender depictions might not have aged like fine wine, but there’s still nothing quite like Catherine: Full Body. Whether you play it as an anime visual novel, a nightmarish puzzle or bizarre fighting game, it’s a richer experience all-round.
Catherine is certainly a fun and challenging game, both in its gameplay and story and character elements. In some of these moments it succeeds, in others, it fumbles, and falls flat on its face. But that doesn't mean it's unimportant, as it is good to learn from mistakes made previously in order to improve at a later point in time.
Rin's presence still brings an intriguing new edge to Vincent's crisis, and Full Body still tells a fascinating, personal tale. The nightmarish block puzzles are still weirdly intense and satisfying to surmount, and the Stray Sheep is still a wonderful bar to spend your nights in. Full Body does a great job in refining and refreshing the Persona studio's fascinating foray into the social lives of adults, and Catherine continues to stand out as a game that feels both incredibly bizarre and authentically intimate.
Still one of the few video games to deal with love and relationships in anything like a realistic manner, but the attempts to shoehorn in an extra new character fall flat.
Catherine: Full Body didn't really change my opinion on Catherine all that much. I'm still as conflicted as I was in 2011 with a love for the art style and weirdness of the game. The uninspired puzzles that make up the rest of it wear out their welcome too quickly though.
A unique game that I would describe as mixture of a puzzle game and adventure game in form of social life simulation. The mixture actually works really well. It was the story with a lot of branches, characters and intense puzzles that won me over. As warning the game might not be for everyone but not in the sense it is garbage masquerading as great game (This phrase is sadly used today for exactly this circumstances). One part of the game are the nightmares. The protagonist Vincent Brooks is trapped each night in them. He has to climb a tower of blocks while it collapses under him. If he dies here he dies in real life too. You can climb only the height of 1 block but can push and pull to make stairs or move around cliffhanger style. Of cause there are special blocks, usable items and other techniques to use. The puzzles are nice and get intense on higher difficulties (No problems on easy, harder on medium and struggles on hard). It never got boring and I looked forward to the challenges. I must point out he cant remember the nightmares in his wake state but an uneasy feeling of dread remains. The other aspect is the life simulation I wanted to describe as Telltale game alike first. Vincent Brooks is a bit drifting aimlessly in his established life. He panicked when his girlfriend Katherine McBride he is together with for approx 5 years wants to get married. Additionally there is the attractive Catherine who he encounters by accident and the cute Rin with amnesia he saved from a stalker. I stop here to avoid spoilers. This part happens in the Stray Sheep bar where Vincent meets his friends after work. You can interact, react to SMS / phone calls and do other thinks. Beware that your actions will have impacts, will be judged and there are other side characters you influence. Beware as time passes after a number of actions and not everyone is available all the time. I like the story, characters and writing. The story is well written and the twists are amazingly good. It is enjoyable and entertaining from start to finish. Of cause there are a lot of outcomes aka endings and the story can get enjoyable crazy. The characters are also well written. All feel alive and relatable as everyone has his/her own baggage, problems and worldviews. I want to praise the voice actors here too as they deliver those characters amazingly well. The cast is near perfect for me. Graphically the game looks good and I had not a single bug, freeze or crash. Overall I see this as hidden gem and recommend it if you like puzzle games and good stories with well written characters.
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PlayStation 4
Good game. Interesting connection logic game with story subject. I had a lot of fun and I was hooked by the plot, but it's hard to recommend that game. If you like logical games, original thought-provoking stories, it's probably a game for you. If you not, you would probably bounce off that game because the story unfolds very slowly and have a very specific atmosphere.
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PlayStation 4
Loved the original and that is all still there, did not feel the new character added enough variation in the story, I also felt the re-release could have done more to allow for a branching story early on. Still a great game but not really a required re-buy like P5 Golden.
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PlayStation 4
Awful. A dumpster fire of misogyny and transphobia. Considering the gameplay only serves to prop up the story, there's nothing of value here.
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PlayStation 4
base Catherine is great, if this just was a graphical upgrade and a few more cut-scenes but the ending for this is so bad it is almost entirely incomprehensible, just buy the base game so you don't waste extra money on a downgrade, its so **** bad
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PlayStation 4
Summary Our indecisive protagonist, Vincent, has been with his long-time girlfriend, Katherine, for five years. But instead of taking the next step into marriage, Vincent finds himself in an affair with the provocative blonde bombshell, Catherine! Thrown into discord by his own infidelity, he finds solace in the innocent Rin – further complicati...
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- PlayStation Vita
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Sep 3, 2019
Developer:
- Studio Zero
Publisher: Atlus
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