It feels like interactive anime, with many scenes that wouldn't look out of place in a movie or TV show. Surprisingly, CATHERINE: FULL BODY - which has received only minor enhancements to graphics quality - still looks quite good for a game originally released in 2011. Some games don't age as gracefully as others. The rerelease adds several new features to the original experience, including new story content and endings, online competitive puzzle play, and a safety mode that automatically completes puzzles if players become stuck. Players must cleverly rearrange the blocks in order to find a path to the top, and do it quickly enough to avoid being killed - because if Vincent dies in his dreams, he will also die in the real world. These towers are the game's puzzles, serving as metaphors for Vincent's deep desire to simply outrun and escape his problems. Meanwhile, Vincent is also having nightmares every time he goes to sleep: about climbing a tower of sliding blocks while being chased by demons that are clearly inspired by things going on in his life, including a monstrous baby and Catherine as an angry bride. He lies to both his girlfriend and the new woman, promising that he's faithful to them.
One morning he wakes up with another woman in his bed and no memory of how she got there. Unwilling to commit to her, Vincent goes out drinking and smoking with his friends every night, talking mostly about women, sex, and relationships. It tells the story of Vincent, a 30-year-old man in a long-term relationship with a woman named Katherine, who we find out early on is pregnant. He and his friends smoke and drink to intoxication while engaging in profanity-laden conversations.ĬATHERINE: FULL BODY is an upgraded rerelease of a PlayStation 3 game that grew a surprising cult following when it launched in 2011. Characters text each other suggestive images, and the hero can don a pair of glasses that lets him see everyone around him in their underwear. Several female characters are stereotypes, including a seductress, a nagging girlfriend, and a young woman depicted with child-like innocence. Dialogue includes frank discussions of sex and sexuality, and several scenes show a man and woman in bed together, cuddling and kissing, half-covered by sheets, sex sometimes implied. He spends his days lying to his girlfriend and hanging out at a bar with friends, and at night he has guilt-ridden dreams in which he must climb towers of blocks while being chased by huge demons such as an angry bride or a monstrous baby who gruesomely kill him if he's too slow. He gets drunk every night, and then often wakes up the next morning with a strange girl in his bed with whom he has apparently slept. The game is about a man who's cheating on his pregnant girlfriend. Parents need to know that Catherine: Full Body is a story-driven puzzle game for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.
Player is encouraged to make the hero drink more in order to move faster during puzzles in his dreams.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Main character (and his friends) regularly smokes and drinks at a bar, stumbles around due to intoxication.