[PS4/PS Vita]Catherine Full Body - Enhanced Version Of Catherine
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Atlus revealed and opened a teaser website for the Catherine Full Body game for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on Tuesday. Atlus' Studio Zero division is developing the game, and the company will reveal more information about the game on a livestream on Friday.
Kadokawa's Famitsu.com website also revealed on Tuesday that this week's issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine will reveal more information about the game on Thursday. Persona 5 director and Studio Zero helmer Katsura Hashino will have an interview in the issue. The website revealed that the game will feature the new character "third Catherine" (seen in first image above).
Atlus teased in a livestream in September that Studio Zero is developing a new Catherine game. In the livestream, Trisha appeared as the "host" of the "Golden Employment Special," just as she hosts the "Golden Playhouse" television program in the game.
Atlus released its mature action-adventure/puzzle game Catherine for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011. Atlus USA released game in North America in 2011, and it also shipped in Europe and Australia in 2012. The game was a collaboration between Atlus and the Genius Party animators at Studio 4°C. The game shared notable staff with Atlus' Persona series, including director and producer Hashino, character designer Shigenori Soejima, and composer Shoji Meguro. Studio 4°C produced the animated sequences.
Hashino is heading Atlus' new Studio Zero division. The division is also developing a new fantasy role-playing game project codenamed Project Re Fantasy: A Fool's Journey Begins.
First details on the newly announced Catherine: Full Body for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita have come in via the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu.
Here are the tidbits:
Development is a collaborative effort between Atlus and Studio Zero.
The third “Catherine” is named Rin (voiced by Aya Hirano). She is a pianist at Vincent’s regular bar, and has an exceedingly honest and gentle personality. Rin’s involvement in the story will introduce new branches for the other two “Catherines.”
A large amount of new endings, episodes, anime movies, and sexy events are being added.
The subtitle “Full Body” was chosen from the wine term, and exemplifies an even richer and somehow more erotic new Catherine.
A wide range of difficulties and convenient systems are being prepared.
There is a new mechanic where you move blocks where multiple are connected. There is also a new mode.
There are online battles.
There is cross-save support.
The magazine also has a few tidbits on Studio Zero’s traditional fantasy RPG Project Re Fantasy:
The idea and direction of the Atlus-style traditional fantasy RPG has been solidified.
There is a feeling among the studio that “something interesting can certainly be made.”
While talented individuals have been recruited for the project, there still are not enough programmers and designers.
In the sense of fusing the creativity assembled by the resonance of Atlus and Studio Zero, it is important to create Catherine: Full Body together. The thought is that this will have a positive influence on Project Re Fantasy.
Catherine: Full Body and Project Re Fantasy are of different genres at first glance, but are connected by their developers.
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Update 6:25 a.m. Further details have come in.
The new “Catherine,” Rin, is described as a healing existence that assists the nightmare-ridden Vincent and shows him new values. While her speech and conduct give off an aura of considerably lacking in common, she is a very straightforward and gentle character.
The scenario is mainly being made by full-time staff.
The wide range of difficulties and convenient systems being prepared will enable people who are interested in the story to enjoy the game until the very end.
In puzzle action stages, there is a new mechanic where you have to think about not only how to move cube-shaped blocks, but also blocks in a state where multiple are connected.
You can switch between new and traditional modes during the story.
There was unexpected excitement for the competiive mode overseas, so online battles are being included.
There is more than one new ending.
Development is currently 50 percent complete.
A release date and price are still to be announced.
Well, it could still come to Xbox when the game is announced for localization. Japan stopped caring for Xbox years ago...That said, i'm really looking forward to playing this game again!
Not weird at all when Atlus don't support Xbox One same as NIS who recently bashed Microsoft about how they don't support Japanese games. NIS have been transitioning from Vita to Switch so it would be far more likely for Atlus to go Switch than Xbox. As a Vita fan between this and the Persona rhythm games I am happy to see Atlus are still in the Vita camp for at least a bit longer
PS Vita is very active in Japan. It's just outside of Japan it's not so much. Though Atlus USA still supports the Vita like the recent 2 Utawarerumono games and Dungeon Travelers 2. Japan's love for portable gaming systems definitely helps with so many games to choose from.
Xbox systems usually do pretty poorly there which kind of makes it the Vita for Japan saleswise.
PS Vita is very active in Japan. It's just outside of Japan it's not so much. Though Atlus USA still supports the Vita like the recent 2 Utawarerumono games and Dungeon Travelers 2. Japan's love for portable gaming systems definitely helps with so many games to choose from.
Xbox systems usually do pretty poorly there which kind of makes it the Vita for Japan saleswise.
My point is that this game originally came out on the Xbox, so the enhanced version coming to XB1 makes sense. This going to the Vita instead seems like an odd choice bc that system isnt typically getting remasters these day alongside the current gen consoles. I didnt realize that this announcement was specific to Japan, so theres still a chance
Yesterday, Atlus announced Catherine: Full Body, a remake/remaster of the 2011 classic Catherine for PS3 and Xbox 360, with a large amount of new content added.
Today the Japanese magazine Weekly Famitsu had a spread dedicated to the game, showing off the first screenshots and artwork, and providing the first information.
The biggest addition to the original title is a “new Catherine” who is named “Rin” and she is a pianist at the bar where protagonist Vincent hangs out. At times she feels a bit ditzy, giving the impression of lacking common sense. Yet she has a straightforward and gentle personality. Rin is actually just a nickname, and her real name and age are unknown. She attracts the attention of those around her thanks to her beauty and mysterious atmosphere, but normally she doesn’t appear to be conscious of that.
She is voiced by Aya Hirano. If you watch anime or play Japanese games you surely know her voice. She played, among many other roles, Haruhi Suzumiya, Misa Amane in Death Note, and Lucy Heartfilia in Fairy Tails.
The game will include a new ending song, and a lot of new events, anime cutscenes, sexy events, and even new endings. Despite the fact that there is only one new heroine, there is more than one new ending.
The title “Full Body” has a precise meaning, and indicates that the experience has become denser, and the term has been borrowed from wine. On top of that, it also indicates a certain level of erotism.
There will be extensive difficulty settings and quality-of-life tweaks. The game will be designed so that people who just want to enjoy the story will be able to finish it by selecting the appropriate settings.
Online features to support competitive gameplay will be added, and cross-save between PS4 and PS Vita will be supported.
Development, which is handled by Katsura Hashino’s Studio Zero, is said to be currently at 50%.
You can check out the screenshots below but keep in mind that 2they’re from magazine scans, so the quality isn’t perfect. If you’d like to learn more about the original game, you can check out our review.
Well technically it’s not really an “PS4 Exclusive Limited Edition”, it’s just that the PS Vita version will remain unlocalized and Steam is a download service. Very rarely does Steam users get these kind of things. You have to get the Heart’s Desire Premium Edition to get that.
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[PS4/PS Vita]Catherine Full Body - Enhanced Version Of Catherine
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