Fancy A Passionate Tryst On Switch? Get Involved With Catherine: Full Body This July

What, no flying panties??

I’m baffled that catherine on ps3 kept it’s worth even after it got a gen 8 rerelease with more stock.
It’s still going for like €30+ used.

This is a great game, and since the best way to convince people to play a great game is to tell them who hates it, here goes:

Catherine handles transgender themes poorly and is the target of SJWs everywhere.

Great that it’s getting a physical release!

Awesome. Now bring Persona 5 as well

It feels like Atlus brings all their games to switch, except Persona 5

@PanurgeJr It’s a great game despite those truly misguided and mishandled characters. It’s rather annoying considering how nuanced the rest of the story actually is.

@mariomaster96 Really? I felt like this and Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE ARE the only games Atlus is bringing and has brought to the Switch.

@SpiderSquid Well there's also Persona 5 Scramble, which is basically Persona 5 2, so that is weird
also SMT5 is coming sometime

I didn't really care for the game when I played it on PS4. The puzzle sections are enjoyable and innovative but they're sandwiched between REALLY long cutscenes, so most of the time it feels like you're just watching a movie. And it's one of those games where one or two decisions can affect whether you get a good or bad ending, which I'm not a fan of.

Also felt the traditionally-animated cutscenes were a missed opportunity- most of the cutscenes are rendered in the game's engine instead.

@nessisonett It's such a pain too, because I really love Katsura Hashino's games. Unfortunately he seems to deliberately portray LGBT people as predators, so I have a hard time bringing myself to play his games anymore. Thankfully he's not involved with P5R or the Persona studio at Sega anymore.

I have this game on PS4 and I'm not sure what everyone is so worked up about. Now I can't speak to the original Japanese game or what changed when it got localized to the west, but... I did not see anything offensive when I played it. Of course it's got branching story lines so it's possible that I missed all the bad parts. But I didn't see the other characters abuse the transgender character and I didn't see any indication that said character was a predator. Everyone just calm down and enjoy the game. Or don't and play something else.

@kenyowa Even that beach scene in P5 felt a bit out of place and cringey. Kanji’s arc was pretty great in 4 despite the obvious jokes and it was stupid to go backwards in a later game.

We're so close to getting P5 on the Switch. With this game coming, we at least know that P5's engine is compatible with the Switch.

I think I'm going to pre-order this one. Never played it before.

@nessisonett Kanji's arc was typical enough to the way gay people were portrayed in anime around that time that I didn't really mind as much (it probably helped that I hadn't realized I was gay yet), but Naoto's whole storyline was an absolute trainwreck. The fact that Hashino kept putting emphasis on how much he dislikes LGBT people even after the Sega buyout is especially confusing to me, considering Sega's phenomenal track record when it comes to LGBT characters.

Just in time for my birthday.

But probably means that Persona 5S won’t be a summer release then.

@kenyowa O wow, I didn't know that, I'm diffently not buying his games, that's sad.

Guess won't be buying this game either if it treats Trangenders so poorly. Not my kind of game.

Nintendo isn't foreign to romantically themed delicious weirdness - NDS had the glorious Feel the Magic/Rub Rabbits dilogy, - but this announcement is still immense. With the Vita port staying in Japan and barring possible laptop/GPD use of the PC one (which apparently doesn't come with the new stuff), this is the first profoundly portable way to play Catherine, once one of the numerous G7-chained classics.

Wow, this is great. Atlus actually porting their games?

Kind if still hoping for a PC release though.

I liked it on the PS3, I actually went and replayed it around the time when the PS4 version of this was announced. It's a fine game with a kickass soundtrack but I'm not really looking to repurchase it even with the added content. C'mon Atlus give me my SMT5 already and bring over your DS/3DS stuff to the Switch while you're at it.

I triple dipped on this game. I had the 360 version but sold it then bought the steam version but it is the same as the 360/PS3 version. I bought it again on ps4 but got the collectors edition cause I wanted that Vincent sheep plush.

Please play this game, it's vastly underrated and features perhaps my favorite story and some of my favorite dialogue and character interactions in an Atlus game.

It's a great first step for getting Atlus' larger library of games on Switch. I sense that they're beginning to test the waters with the console's install base to see if they have as much of an audience to make money off of as on PlayStation so please support this game. I'm totally double dipping on this and pre orderring physically.

I enjoyed Catherine on the PS3 and PC, imported Full Body for the Vita.

...will I buy this? Maybe. Getting the DLC that I missed and supporting Atlus on Switch isn't a bad deal.

I'm really looking forward to this!

YES! can't wait

Easily the most interesting game in the direct!
I have heard the PS4 remake has a bit funky translation in some places, atleast one ending. Hopefully not too bad if they keep it in the Switch version.

A little bizarre, but hey It's Atlas. Loved playing this in the PS3 days. May pick it up since I never played the Full Body version. Clever mashup of a dating sim and platform puzzler that tackles themes regarding sex and religion. Not for everyone, but if it's for you, you'll love it.

I'm all for this. Keep porting your games to the Switch Atlus.

Atlus is like Capcom on the Wii making all these “tests” instead of giving people what they want.

ok, so instead of P5, we get this, thank you Atlus, a bit disapointed, but still good :v

Didn’t give this game a second thought until I saw it in the direct. I’m interested, but Nintendo needs to hide all games on the home screen over the rating chosen in the parental controls. I shouldn’t have to field questions from my kids like “What is Catherine Full Body”.

I played in original Catherine on PS3 and in Full Body version on PS4. It is great game, but I not gonna buy it again on Switch. I still disappointed a bit, that a PS VIta version was relased only in Japan.

Aside from a block climbing puzzle game and pretty engaging cutscenes/narrative choices, what do you actually do? (“What would you say... ya do here?”)

Like is there some other gameplay elements? Do you ever just control the main character in a 3D environment?

@BlubberWhale

"(“What would you say... ya do here?”)" LOL @ the reference.

"Do you ever just control the main character in a 3D environment?" Yes, but it's limited to the bar, you can walk around the bar and talk to people but once you leave it's back to the cutscenes.

@speedyboris I’m glad the reference didn’t go to waste ha. 😁

And thanks for your answer. I remember being in a game store maybe around middle or late Wii U era and seeing Catherine (PS3) on the shelf and wishing Nintendo got those kind of games. Well... now we got it, but at this point I’m not exactly chomping at the bit. (Still mildly interested.)