Catherine for PS3

Catherine for PS3

Manufacture Description:
Players will enter the life of Vincent Brooks, a 32-year-old man who finds himself caught by the irresistible attraction of the game's titular diversion. Vincent wakes up, hungover, next to a stunningly beautiful woman who isn't his girlfriend. This lands him in a predicament that occupies most men's dreams and nightmares. Did anything happen?  Does he tell his longtime girlfriend, who's pressuring him to commit to her? Can he get away with stringing both women along?
  What will you choose to have Vincent do?  Who will you choose to hurt?  In life, cheating can ruin everything, but in the world of Catherine, it can also kill you.

Game Detail:
Game Name: Catherine
Platform: Playstation 3
Rated: Mature
by: Altus

Overview:
Vincent really likes his girlfriend. Katherine's pretty, smart, and successful. Trouble is, now she's sat Vincent down for "the talk," and Vincent's spent his entire life trying to avoid long-term commitment.  Since romantic complications are the last thing he wants to deal with, Vincent meets his friends for their regular night of drinks.  Little does he know that he's about to be blindsided by a drop-dead sexy freight train named Catherine.  When the morning comes, he's hungover in bed next to the most beautiful woman he's ever seen, unable to recall the previous night's events.  Was it just harmless fooling around, he wonders, or did something more serious happen between them?  Should he tell Katherine?  Will he ever see Catherine again?  Vincent's about to discover that stumbling on the stairway of love can turn into a horrific, fatal plummet, and ?

Short Preview:
The majority of the story is instructed via engaging anime cutscenes that do a wonderful job of conveying Vincent's anxiety. Not solely should he keep these two women from meeting one another, but he should additionally make sense of his personal conflicting desires. In probably the most tense moments, the digicam zooms in shut, exhibiting his flustered expression and globules of sweat dripping down his face. Later within the recreation, Vincent's rising exhaustion comes by way of loud and clear when he rests his head on the table whereas his shut buddies specific their concern. A scene through which Katherine unexpectedly knocks at his condo door erupts with more depth than most video games deliver with 10 minutes' worth of large explosions and high-velocity automobile chases. The proficient voice cast makes these characters believable. The supply is sometimes stilted when the voice actor has to sync his or her strains to lip movements created for the unique Japanese voice-over. But actor Troy Baker effortlessly expresses Vincent's temper swings between fatigue and fright with out making such extremes appear jarring. Catherine is a character study, however it's more absorbing than most recreation stories: Vincent is likeable and human, and also you care about his path. You want him to find direction.

Value by Customer
Graphics: I do not like Anime. Let me repeat. I am DO NOT LIKE ANIME. I don't hate it, i simply don't take care of it. But this game appears beautiful. It really makes me sorta like Anime more. However overall, the graphics look beautiful.

Music: When you've played Persona 3 then you'll know among the songs here. The music works very well. Within the nightmare phases the music suits when the stage has a foe chasing you and when it's extra a stage to get you used to the brand new stage parts which have been introduced.

Story: Here is the place the game shines the most. You play Vincent who's having nightmares every night. On the same time, he's being pressured by his very long time girlfriend, Katherine, to take their relationship to the subsequent step. And on high of this, one other girl, Catherine, is seducing him and attempting to take him for her own. Now he is caught in a web of lies, secrets and techniques and guilt. Each time you move a nightmare sequence you get up to extra drama in his real life. It's totally engaging.

Gameplay: I really hate to name the nightmare sequences "puzzles" cause it sorta makes it lower than what it is. These are Vincents nightmares. He has to climb to the top of those evil towers to flee in order to not die in real life. So the tower begins to fall down as you begin climb, or there some huge monster chasing you. All the pieces within the dreams is connected to his actual life in some way. There may be more I want to say to make sense of the sheep you see on the quilt, but I don't wish to spoil anything.

You're given inquiries to answer here and there all through the sport that determine the route the story will go for you. The game has a number of endings and difficulties and medals you may get depending on how fast you climb the towers. So you can get loads of sport play out of it.

Overall, I like this game. I believe it's pure genius. The problems that it addresses are very relate-able and actually suck you into the story.