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| The cover. You see a girl who looks at you with those eyes... with visible bra-straps, her red cheeks... what would you think of? 'Oh, yeah, this is the psychological horror adventure game I heard about' |
I've been waited for this videogame for years. I still remember the first time I read the news about: "a new erotic game, where a boy cheats up her girlfriend, where there will be sexy pictures, sexy story, sexy..." and so on.
Come on, I though, would it possible a videogame with a sexy plot?
Now, it's arrived. I played it. I finished it.
There's no sexy stuff. Nothing.
In description you can read: "psychological horror adventure game".
It's not psychological.
It's not horror.
It's even not adventure.
Maybe, it could be a game. Could be, but in 'Tetris' idea of game.
The story is: a lunatic boy, Vincent, one of those who prefer to drink beer with his friend dreaming about fantastic girls, motos or other. One of those who live in a bar.
This boy has a girlfriend who's completely different, squared, workaholic, with her head on her shoulders. Her name is Katherine.
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| I'm Katherine, you're fiancée. Ok, I'm beautiful, charmed, I'm successfull, I'm smart, I'm the best but, anybody knows why, I stay with you, such a failure guy, without a future, without an idea about what the life is. Or better, what the life is outside the bar where you spend the 99% of your time. |
One day he meets another girl, Catherine, who's completely different than Katherine. She's funny, she's sexy (I mean, she has hair, eyes, look and behaviours a bit sexy).
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| Don't be excited. This is the maximum you'll see on the videogame. If it's enough for you, well, maybe you have a problem with your sexuality. |
One morning he finds out he had sex with Catherine.
The same day Katherine finds out to be pregnant and announces it to him.
Stop. This is the plot. And here the story finishes. Cause, ok, put this story in a child hand and he will write exactly the followed story of the game. Evertyhing is easily comprehensible. No shocks, no coup de theatre, nothing.
And this is the story that we can see it watching a manga. Interactive manga? No. A normal manga.
The gameplay.
There is a mountain of blocks, a lot of blocks. You're at the basement and you must arrive at the top just using the block to climb. A block after another, one after one, you must avoide some obstacles to arrive at the top.
There are a lot of these block mountains. At least 30 but maybe they're more.
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| At first it's funny to find the right way to climb up. At first. Maybe the second. Even the third. At the fourth you start to doubt it. The fifth you look at yourself in a mirror and you see a strange face. At sixth you ask yourself: 'where is the game?'. Be quiet. This is the game. For a lot of times. |
This is the game. You must find the way to go from the base to the top climbing these mountains.
Stop.
So. The game is: a manga for 5 minutes. A mountain. A manga for 5 minutes. A mountain. A manga for 5 minutes. A mountain. And so on. For at least 10 hours. Ah, yes, the game lasts 10 hours. Somebody from the web complaints about the duration but, you know, 10 hours of manga plus mountain.
Ah, there are few curiosities. Nothing important. Just some curiosities like:
- when you play with the block you're dreaming and you're a sheep. Yes, a sheep, with the horns and others. And all the others people you see in this phase are sheep. This should mean that people who cheat on their wives are like sheeps.
- at the end of each stage the computer will ask you a big moral question like, 'would you habg out with the fiancée of a friend of you?'.
Has it any importance for the game? No. It's just for the online. Ahahhah no no there's no playing online. There is a statistic: you can see how people all over the world has answered to that question. Only this. Or better, your answers will charge your karma: depends on it you will have a different final. There are 8 different ones.
- When you're in the bar you can drink and every drink gives you an information about that. For example: what is the difference between Cognac and Brandy?
Just curiosities.
Do you like Tetris? You like it. Do you like manga as Lamù? You like it.
Do you like every other kind of videogames? You don't like it.
CATHERINE
Atlus Persona Team
Rate: 25%
Genre: Puzzle - Adventure
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