Persona director introduces us to Catherine, on Xbox 360 and PS3

**Master X** · 08-18-2010 01:33 PM

Who is Catherine? She appears to be the subject of a newly announced game from Atlus. Revealed in this week's Famitsu, Catherine is the first HD project from the Persona team, and it's going to both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The tale follows Vincent, a troubled insomniac plagued by nightmares involving a never-ending staircase. According to Siliconera, this action/adventure horror tale is "intended for adults."

Katsura Hashino, the director of Persona 4, is helming the project, which is currently scheduled for a Winter 2010 release in Japan.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/18/pe...x-360-and-ps3/

**Shoeless** · 08-18-2010 01:37 PM

I'm expecting that we probably won't see this in the West until summer, spring at the earliest. Atlus just doesn't have the kind of manpower that other devs and publishers do for a simultaneous global release.

All in good time though, at least they finally got on board with the current generation of consoles.

**Master X** · 08-18-2010 01:40 PM

**RedRedSuit** · 08-18-2010 02:14 PM

Awesome.

I'm closing to finishing Persona 4 now. Have been playing it for the last couple of months.

**craigolopolis** · 08-18-2010 02:31 PM

Never played the Persona titles myself, but this Catherine one sounds interesting. The premise intrigues me, and who doesn't like cute and busty anime chicks?

**KTA** · 08-18-2010 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by craigolopolis

Never played the Persona titles myself, but this Catherine one sounds interesting. The premise intrigues me, and who doesn't like cute and busty anime chicks?

From the looks & sound of it they could of just called this Persona 5 if they wanted.

Regardless, day 1 buy.

**Master X** · 08-18-2010 03:03 PM

Im happy its not a PS2 game or only on PS3

**weasl** · 08-18-2010 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by KTA

From the looks & sound of it they could of just called this Persona 5 if they wanted.

Regardless, day 1 buy.

It's set in the same universe it seems, but the gameplay is supposed to be more action and no RPG so I'd imagine calling it Persona 5 would piss a lot of people off. That said day 1 buy for me.

**BStroms** · 08-18-2010 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by weasl

It's set in the same universe it seems, but the gameplay is supposed to be more action and no RPG so I'd imagine calling it Persona 5 would piss a lot of people off. That said day 1 buy for me.

I'm not a big fan of it switching to an Action RPG style. However, as long as they keep the gameplay aspects of balancing dungeon crawling and social life that made me love Persona 3 + 4 so much and produce another quality story, I'll readily forgive them almost any battle system.

**Shoeless** · 08-18-2010 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by weasl

It's set in the same universe it seems, but the gameplay is supposed to be more action and no RPG so I'd imagine calling it Persona 5 would piss a lot of people off. That said day 1 buy for me.

Wait, whhaaa? No RPG? I've been out for the afternoon, when was this confirmed?

**Godstar** · 08-18-2010 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by RedRedSuit

Awesome.

I'm closing to finishing Persona 4 now. Have been playing it for the last couple of months.

Congradulations. It's about time slow poke! The ending is over the top, just make sure you talk to everyone you possibly can before you do the last boss so you get the best ending.

**Godstar** · 08-18-2010 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Shoeless

Wait, whhaaa? No RPG? I've been out for the afternoon, when was this confirmed?

I don't know what it means either, but I would be happy if there is only a little, and they had the same monster merging as P3-4. Imagine Shoeless, Persona meets Demon Souls - how awesome would that be!

**RedRedSuit** · 08-18-2010 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Godstar

Congradulations. It's about time slow poke! The ending is over the top, just make sure you talk to everyone you possibly can before you do the last boss so you get the best ending.

Right, I've heard I need to do some stuff to get the real real real ending, so I will be careful. I did manage to avoid the super-crap ending by myself, though.

**Godstar** · 08-18-2010 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by RedRedSuit

Right, I've heard I need to do some stuff to get the real real real ending, so I will be careful. I did manage to avoid the super-crap ending by myself, though.

Yeah it was really wierd like that. Even the boss you think is the last boss isn't really the last boss. That was kind of cool I thought. I was tricked!

**maley** · 08-18-2010 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by KTA

From the looks & sound of it they could of just called this Persona 5 if they wanted.

Regardless, day 1 buy.

But it's not an jrpg? It's an action/adventure horror.

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