This is an absolutely brilliant piece to introduce you to and discuss the upcoming Atlus game Catherine. There’s basic introduction to it and its general themes, as well as some symbolism stuff that I had no idea about. Really a great read. Even better, the game has since been licensed for release in Europe - which is a pretty strong indicator that it’ll get a North American release. Even if it doesn’t, you can just import it.
Even better than THAT, is that it’s being released for 360 AND PS3, meaning pretty much everyone will be able to play it. Spring 2011 for the European release. Look forward to it.
I don’t even have anything to add to this, really, so just go ahead and read it. I would say this is a must-read if you like video games, sex, Japan, or… anything. So yeah, read it.
I was expecting a long article on male sexual psychology, but I got more of how Catherine will be tying it into the game.
Catherine seems like Welcome To The NHK in videogame form, which means it is incredibly important to introverts. Just watching NHK made me feel a lot better, perhaps if I were to play Catherine in my time of sexual “herbivorism” (vegetarianism) I would feel a lot better about it… which would probably not be the best thing for my happiness as a human.
I have never really thought of the sexual fancies of the characters I play in games, probably because it’s quite unimportant. I design games, write fiction when I feel like it, compose music when I can, and speak insight whenever possible. Why would my sexual fancies matter? I guess they’d be interesting to know, but beyond that, I don’t think it’s particularly pertinent to life.
Sexuality does seem to be what Catherine is all about, however, so in that case it seems it will be covering its ground well, and would be pertinent.
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9:43 PM - Yo_D: are you still 13
9:43 PM - Fred: Yeah man
9:43 PM - Yo_D: cool
9:43 PM - Yo_D: want some porn of beautiful woman your age?
9:44 PM - Fred: I’m done here