
Shigenori Soejima, the artist in no small part responsible for the success of recent Persona games thanks to his distinctive character designs, is receiving an English language artbook covering his fine character designs, and also including an interview and various other details of interest to Persona fans.
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Hit ero-puzzler heroine Catherine gets her first figure, in the form of this sexy Max Factory creation, set to be released in January 2012.
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The perverse reluctance of the shade of Atlus to make a new Persona title for the PS3 is now reaching farcical levels – the latest addition to the series is to be a 2D fighting game spin-off, accompanied by yet another portable remake.
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Atlus has announced what everyone probably already knew – that Americans love Catherine, having made it the best selling US launch in Atlus’s history.
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Catherine’s creepy anime graphics and extreme difficulty are apparently not too much for American gamers after all – the game has received a series of ringing endorsements from US gaming rags, some as high as 100%.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Apr 29, 2011 12:11 JST
- Tags: Atlus, Catherine, Censorship, Comparison, Marketing, Oppai, PS3, USA, Xbox 360

Hardcore ero-puzzler Catherine has been judged too sexy for mere Americans, and as a result the game’s saucy covers have been given Bowdlerised editions bereft of cleavage climbing.
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Atlus will be releasing an international version of “HD adult horror title” Catherine (which certainly sounds a lot better than “puzzle game with sex”) after all, with its US release dated for summer 2011.
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Catherine’s sexiness now extends into the 3D realm thanks to the efforts of a depressingly small but undeniably sexy retinue of cosplayers:
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Hardcore puzzle game Catherine may be selling like hot cakes in Japan, but the marketing geniuses at Atlus have still declared the title to be a “Japan-only game,” saying they have “no plans” for a US release.
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Despite crushing weakling gamers with its “impossible” difficulty, ero-block pushing game Catherine has sold quite respectably across both platforms, managing 166,027 sales in its first week.
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Complaints about Catherine being “too hardcore” have not fallen on deaf ears – Atlus promises a patch to make the game easier for the mewling weaklings they are saddled with as customers.
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Sexy puzzle game Catherine is being almost universally lambasted for being of the “sadistically difficult” school of game design, to the extent where many players report not even being able to clear it on easy, let alone normal.
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