Catherine Intro (2011, Atlus/Index)
1Catherine (キャサリン Kyasarin) is a puzzle platformer adventure video game developed and published by Atlus for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released in Japan on February 17, 2011, and in North America on July 26, 2011, and in Europe and Australia in February 2012. Catherine was later released as a full downloadable game for the PlayStation Store in February 2012, and was also released on the Games on Demand service for Xbox 360 in April 2012. It was Atlus' first internally developed game for the seventh-generation of consoles, and was described as an "adult-oriented" title by the game's character designer, Shigenori Soejima.
Catherine was met with a mostly positive critical reception upon release, with critics praising the cutscenes, story, varied and distinctive gameplay, and puzzles, but criticizing the difficulty.
Catherine is a puzzle platformer adventure game in which players control Vincent Brooks, who begins having strange nightmares after his girlfriend, Katherine, begins to talk about marriage and commitment. This matter becomes more complicated for him when he meets a girl named Catherine, and begins an affair with her, and the nightmares get more and more intense. The main story mode, Golden Playhouse, follows the story between Daytime and Nightmare scenarios. During the daytime, Vincent will converse with his friends as well as try to handle his relationships with Catherine and Katherine. Most of this time takes place in the Stray Sheep bar where Vincent can save and send text messages from his mobile phone, talk to customers, order drinks, play a minigame titled Rapunzel or listen to a jukebox containing tracks from other Atlus games such as the Persona series.