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%.
The game’s Metacritic scores so far:
Even masochistic Japanese players complained of extreme difficulty in the initial version, but Atlus obligingly patched it to playable levels and it is this foreigner-friendly easy version which Americans get – a decision which seems to have paid off
For those wondering, the actual game easily escaped censorship (Japanese game censorship is rather more draconian than western standards, save where it comes to crazed child pornography laws), and the Bowdlerised cover is only in restricted circulation.
In other news, Catherine has also secured a European publisher and will at some point be reaching the barbarous wastes of Europe – happily Catherine is, as 2ch would have it, “an old hag” so further interference seems unlikely.
The English version ships in a few days, with a saucy artbook for pre-orderers.
I played it without the patch, as I have bought the original japanese version for Xbox360.
First of all – it wasn’t that hard. Yeah, I did kick my bookshelf when I couldn’t solve a level, but I have still been able to make it to the one of the Catherine endings after about 2 weeks.
Well, I played it on hard, and never complained. The game is good, when it’s hard as hell. Especially if it’s a puzzle game.
I do advise to buy japanese version, cause Atlus makes nearly the worst dubs in the world.
The worst are russian anime fandubs, by the way.
Is marriage the beginning of your life or the end of your life?
I just played the demo, don’t understand what the hype is about because the demo was complete s♥♥t…..what did I really expect…you weaboo faggots on here love anything the japanese s♥♥t out.
U mad, Game Informer?
Anime art or not, if it’s a good game, it’ll get good reviews!