The voice acting across Full Body-note, I played with English voice over, though there is now a Japanese VO track too-helps elevate the long cutscenes, at least. Something to keep in mind when you share your Catherine moments on Twitter!) | Caty McCarthy/USG, Studio Zero/Atlus (Side note: All native screenshot captures have an obnoxiously large trademark, which tends to overlap with most subtitles. Catherine still has lots of style, and a great Shoji Meguro soundtrack to boot. Thankfully Catherine: Full Body's localization fixes some of the frustrating ways Erica's character is handled from the original game. If anything, it's an excuse to have more screentime with Erica, the sassy waitress at the spot Vincent and his buddies regular, who was among the most endearing and least developed characters of the 2011 version. It's a mostly inelegant solution to slide in Rin's plot, which takes place separate from everything else aside from a few instances. Full Body features new endings for both Catherine and Katherine-the latter of which I saw in one of my playthroughs is a real treat.Īs a result of the extra character, there are way more cutscenes than the original game. (The second time I skipped the puzzles, which you can do after clearing, to focus on the other story direction.) Like the base game, there are many different levels of endings. Rin's the trickiest to romance of the three, so much so that even though I purposefully flirted with Rin over text to see the new route, I had to play through Catherine a second time to see that romance through as my first journey pivoted toward Katherine. The romances with any of the characters progress in much the same way as it did in the original, with a helpful good or bad meter depending on your dialogue and text choices. (You bet your ass I had Persona 3's "Burn My Dread" playing on loop.) The Stray Sheep has a nifty jukebox too, where you can play a number of tracks from Catherine, Persona 5, Persona 4, and more's respective soundtracks. Vincent texts Katherine, Catherine, and Rin during these segments, swapping photos and choosing text messages very carefully. There you talk to its customers and learn about their own issues, catch up with your friends, drink, play the in-game puzzle arcade cabinet Rapunzel, and even talk to Rin, who Erica and the Boss of the bar have taken in as an employee. The story's choice-based progression evolves in the same way as the original: in the decisions you make while hanging out at the Stray Sheep bar. Their relationship feels much more big brother and little sister-esque than romantic. While Rin is endearing as a character in the world of Catherine, as a romantic pursuit, it felt off.
Rin's a kind-hearted person who appears way younger than both Katherine and Catherine in style, personality, and emotional maturity. You're never told where or why it went wrong with Katherine you're only shown when it was at its best, and it's up to you to assume what slipped along the way.īut there's another route now too, with the new romantic interest Rin. When Catherine enters the picture, the guilt of allegedly sleeping with her is far more palpable than it was in the original game as a result. New animated cutscenes flesh out Katherine and Vincent's relationship better, showing how they kindled their romance in the first place.
The remaster, now twisted in specific ways, still has the campy tone of the original-the intro still bills itself as a romance horror-but it has a less pessimistic spin to it. Life has come a long way since I had that "Catherine eating pizza" key art pinned to a corkboard all through college, and Catherine: Full Body seems to know that too. Yet, the focus was always on Catherine, from the marketing to the twisty narrative itself. Pining for Katherine is the honorable thing to do, while Catherine represents one's darker tendencies. The two women, Catherine and Katherine, represent two sides of Vincent. Sure, you played as Vincent Brooks, a non-committal dude caught between two women-his girlfriend of five years and the younger woman he's cheating on her with-but the blonde, pigtailed Catherine was always the catalyst. Catherine was always a game about Catherine.
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