- Catherine or Katherine?
You play Vincent Brooks, 32 years and 'System Engineer' in a 'run of the mill technology company ". A low-paid job in the little prospect of a secure future. As Vincent but must act with neither customer nor wear suits, is that the ideal job for him Were. there is not his girlfriend Katherine. She has unlike Vincent, some plans in her life and wants her childish friend finally to move to take more responsibility for his own.
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Dear Catherine,
when I saw you a week ago for the first time in the 'Stray Sheep' I was blown away from you. Your blue eyes, your unique beauty, your way you've talked to me. Everything fascinated me about you. Your flawless skin. Painting, like an anime. Enchanted me. You are so Beautiful. Your youth will still radiate a number of years. I'm sure. To see you gave me pleasure to play with. You were there when I had big problems. It was not the alcohol that drove me in your arms.
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The word wedding so can not be long in coming, and Vincent is faced with unexpected problems are. What helps as more than a cold beer with his buddies in his local pub? Just stupid that a quick, four or five may be. And he had not been punished enough with the horrible hangover the next morning he wakes up in his apartment with the lovely Catherine in bed. Did he cheated on his girlfriend? What happened? How could only go so far? And why did Vincent night after night those nightmares? Many issues with which we have to deal with us, we want the next night to survive alive.
- Stray Sheep
"Catherine" is divided into two scenes of action. A bar her Vincent plays in reality. Post your conversations with your buddies but also perform with other visitors, take drinks to you, listen to music, or playing a video game (Rapunzel is a machine version of the main game). Especially the interaction with his fellow men is at this location in the foreground. As a player, you learn the concerns and needs of others, but also shares your problems. Every now and then you have the chance to ask a positive / negative response admit. Their effects are then clarified you in a display. Am I currently rather the nice guy or just a bad ass?
Vincent's cell phone is ostensibly communication medium to write with Katherine and Catherine. Again and again you will both get the SMS, and even the odd MMS is going to their answers can never have to. Again, you should proceed with caution. The each option has its pros and cons. And may affect the end of the game with.
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I was shocked in my bed but see you again the next morning happy. I must apologize Catherine. But along the mine eyes your body I wandered me but could never remember a night together. Even my relationship with Katherine, I concealed you. It was an accident. This has no future with us, I thought. But more with every passing day my doubts whether I came not yet want you. As much as I loved you. When my friends learned that I'm cheating ...
When I realized, I cheat. Worsened everything. And then this mysterious murders. Men who die in the slack. Men who behave towards women miserable. A bar louder sad figures. Am I one of them? Listening helped me understand their difficulties. Myself better understand.
And Katherien? You lie to hurt me. I did not even deal with this situation. I kept them at bay. But wrote only text messages was never sure whether it's right that I should write to her. Meeting with her always went hand in hand with the fear that she finds it. The Katherine Catherine learns. I could not have explained.
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- Nightmares at night
Should beer be all and Vincent, the last in the bar you can set you on the way to your apartment. The next nightmare is the logical consequence. The nightmares are the second Handlungsort the game. You will face the challenge to climb a tower of blocks. This sounds simple and easy, but it is not. Because from the beginning to engage you from the game to achieve everything at the saving destination. You have to move blocks, avoid enemies, escape traps and everything. Under the pressure of downward dissolving tower At the beginning only simple blocks, quickly joined by slippery ice blocks, exploding blocks and fragile blocks to meet the rise complicate a lot.
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Our relationship but drove me in nightmares where I was chased by zombie babies and brides decayed over blocks. Where my helpless three looking sheep and met me zermarternde questions were asked. The guide is me indeed always well done. But in the last days before I wrote you this letter. Rieben me towards the end and I lost myself in despair and anger. Also about what I've done with you. Did I really deserve this? I was a nice guy.
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- Anime, ohhhh Anime
You might say if you were in common: "Catherine" is a stupid puzzle with prepubescent erotic ajar cutscenes. Here, "Catherine" is aimed clearly at an adult audience. Last but not least also because by the USK has the game for 16 years. Or rather: In the game there are many beautiful anime sequences encoding a certain touch can sometimes have erotic. But most scenes are rather comical nature and play with the fear that the affair with Catherine could fly up. A greater advantage of the drawn scenes is the almost seamless transition to the game graphics the "Catherine" will probably be a few more years to look over across to date.
- Mainstream where are you?
Especially the nightmarish climbing levels make "Catherine" an amusing and refreshing game. The only as sheep to be identified inmates, the absurd symbolism with which Vincent's problems to be addressed or the terrible glorious opponents are indeed enough in order not to perish all together Strange as interchangeable decals. But never so which one panicky as a player in the escape of too much abstract madness is hunted.
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I think I've survived it. Defeated The nightmares and me is one realized. Catherine you were just a fleeting affair. This week with you has cost me a lot of strength. It was a mistake that with us. I got my first dazzled by your otherness. Longed for something new, away from all social chains. Please be not sad.
We're done. I do not want to see you again. I do not love you anymore. And I never ...
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The fine art of small productions is because with less money to create a product that caused by its otherness but still noticeable enough points of contact for a wider audience has. That's Atlus succeeded with the triangular relationship between Vincent and his K / Catherine's. With them you can be identified quickly. The "only" a simple climbing puzzel Speil hides behind the façade is the great weakness but its strength. For in them lies enough room for interpretation which can be used to deal away the actual game. There is probably no right or wrong. I found Catherine super and not again. But I tried it and it should make you well.
