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.
The Japanese original covers:
The American Edition:
However, Catherine fans can probably relax, as Atlus claims they merely provide the massacred covers for crazy puritan outlets, retaining the originals for normal people:
“In addition to the existing North American covers for Catherine on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, there will also be modified designs that appear in select markets.
The vast majority of copies available at launch will feature the cover we originally unveiled, essentially the Japanese cover of the game.
A small percentage of copies, however, will feature a cover that is more considerate of certain retailers’ broader customer demographic. Fans need not worry; Catherine’s cover art is NOT being altered for North America. There is just an extra option being made available for more sensitive shoppers.”
Amazon actually stocks both the proper version and the All American edition, bearing out this explanation.
The actual content for all its vaunted sexiness is far tamer than the sort of thing mature western gamers now take for granted, and so should escape any cuts without difficulty.
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I've seen sexier stuff at the underwear aisle at stores >.>"
America.
Yes yes but quit your bitching, I hate those types of people in the good and fair ole US of A much as you would.
At least the game is coming out. I don't really mind covers.
Until you find after dropping something close to SEVENTY bucks on a heavily CENSORED game! You truly think the content with be excluded here?
~~~~~~~obama & unicorns over the candy rainbow governmente for you then!!!
Yeah, much like any situation, it's always a couple idiots who ruin it for the rest of us, and then a larger swath of people is blamed for it.
Thank god Atlus has management who isn't, for lack of a better description, full of pussies...
i agree with niwa
True the wrappers on them new lingerie are more awkward then anything else. Little boys could fap to those
But of Pete's sake why would they have the covers have to be edited? Their own movie CD covers usually have more suggestive(some don't even suggest anything) then this cover could ever be.
Can't believe the No.1 porn producers of our Solar System are that afraid of the Japanese H market
hypocritical isn't it?
This cover looks 500 times better than the original anyways. More focus, more detail and less clutter.
It's not like you would be able to fap to the original cover anyways unless you were REALLY desperate.
phew! that was a close one. Cleavage almost made it onto the racks in stores.
If only her boobs were guns...
"Cleavage... made it onto the racks."
Ha. I see what you did there.
ahur ahur ahur
This will be my quote of the day!
:)
I'm guessing these guys did some edits not just to the cover but also to the game itself.
If you had read article above and the siliconera article, you would know thats not true.
Well excuse me for not knowing.
No excuses. You have brought shame upon the entire world. You need to commit seppuku immediately.
"...provide the massacred covers for crazy puritan outlets"
I loled for truth.
"crazy puritan outlets"
That's a nice way of saying Walmart. =P
http://japangeek.es/wp-content/gallery/catherine/catherine-360.jpg
...the japan's xbox360 cover.
Thank you good sir...
Hardly a big deal considering the original covers are still intact at most retailers. Seems like much ado about nothing.
I'm surprised it took Sankaku this long to run this story. Normally Kotaku copies from you rather than the other way around...
this only gives rise to more collectable versions.
Those who've ordered the game did it for that "sexiness" in the first place. Now you're providing them a crap cover alter?
They'd better not change anything major in the gameplay. Dubs are fine to a certain point, but anything beyond that, I'd rather get the JP ver. and hear my Sawashiro forking me to death.
Those who ordered the game from FATLUS will get the normal unaltered version anyway. Walmart, the Red Cross and the Christian Catholic Church will put the altered version on their shelves.
There are other reasons to be scared by Catherine.
yeah, like the horrible english voice cast and no option to chance the audio
I'd usually agree with you but the cast they announced is pure gold , so fuck off fanboys!
You don't know your subject .
import the japanese version if you want japanese voice this time , you understand japanese right ? >.>
I'm very disappointed, The cover art wasn't that bad...
I know right, it seems like this kind of thing is getting worse & worse...
where's the troll here i don't even ...
I think its cool the guys at atlus made the extra work to make a more polite versions only for those especially picky stores and the normal version for the rest, that way they can please everyone and screw no-one, nice.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA RETARDED AMERICANS!!!!!
Typical
At first I thought it was for all, then I read the article, in any case, there is nothing a Custom Cover can't fix.
What? Sankaku actually gives proper information?
What!? American's can handle porn
but can't handle sexy games from Japan?
"A small percentage of copies, however, will feature a cover that is more considerate of certain retailers’ broader customer demographic. Fans need not worry; Catherine’s cover art is NOT being altered for North America. There is just an extra option being made available for more sensitive shoppers."
SENSITIVE SHOPPERS
typical idiots are typical.
are these sensitive shoppers that worried about a cover that even shows no nudity.....
hell
I actually see this as a good business move for the US market. *Shrugs* It's fine as long as the game is the same.
I don't mind I still grateful its coming here, anyway I get to see her pretty face close-up :3
I'm guessing these guys have never heard of obscure american stuff like playboy,lol
Americans can handle something being sexy....we just can't handle some of the wierd/perverted s*** that the japanese do
I knew this was gonna happen
Americans want glistening hairy man-chest.
Now if only more publishers would do this. I hate it when I buy a US release of a Japanese game and they fuck up the cover.
Deadliest and most dreaded weapon to combat America:
2D Boobs, Ass, and DSYG.
yeah, seems they can't handle this sexiness
An extra $2 for the cover on amazon what a ripoff, what am i just made of money. :p
lol America can't handle it huh? :P
though it would be cool if they had combined Catherine and Katherine :P
I dunno about the 360 version, but I doubt anyone will be playing the playstation version
(spoilers: sony's fucked and shit out of luck"
Sure little buddy. Unicorns for you as well, then~