STARTING UP___

Guide Sheep: "Enjoy the story"

New game [start a new story]

Easy [Comfortably enjoy the story. Stages at the lowest difficulty, you can redo actions]

[OK, please enjoy this trial version of Catherine!]

_Control Scheme_

D-pad/ Left stick: Movement / Move block.
O: "Decide" (select object?) / Grab block.
X: Cancel / Let go.
[]: Use tool.
START: Bring up pause menu. (Action segments)
SELECT: Undo one action.
Right stick: Control camera
R1: Call up menu (Event segments)


" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his own experience"
- John Locke

_CINEMATIC: Clouds! Godzilla! Waves! Dragons! Gunshot! Rocket... Well, you can see._

[GOLDEN Game Theater]



_Stage 1 - Underground Cemetery [Underground Cemetary]_

Vincent: "..!"
Vincent: "Aah!"
Vincent: "What... is this?.."
Vincent: "Aah!"
Vincent: "What?!"

Vincent: "H... Help me! Is there anyone here?!"
???: "Quickly, climb up here!"
Vincent: "Who's there?! What on earth is this place?!"
???: "Climb while you're shouting! If you don't hurry you'll fall and die!"
Vincent: "Fall and... Die?! Are you serious?"
Guide Sheep: "Your foothold (i.e. cubes you can stand on) is collapsing from the bottom!"
Guide Sheep: "With the directional keys, hurry up and climb up!"

_Vincent climbing and grunting until the next "!"_

???: "Move the blocks and make them into scaffolding! As long as it's one step at a time, you can climb it, right?!"
Vincent: "Move them... How am I s'posed to do that?!"
Guide Sheep: "You can grab blocks with the O-button!"
Guide Sheep: "Try pushing and pulling the block while you are grabbing it!"
Guide Sheep: "Also, in EASY-mode, you can return to one move ago with the SELECT-button!"
Guide Sheep: "Use it whenever you want to redo an move!"
Guide Sheep: "When obtain mysterious "Pillows", the number of times you can retry a stage increases!"
Guide Sheep: "If you find them, try to take them if possible!"

Vincent: "All right, got it!" _(as in "Item Get!", not as in "Understood")_

???: "Don't push the blocks inward recklessly! If higher parts collapse, climbing becomes more difficult!"
Vincent: "Collapses?"
Guide Sheep: "If you haphazardly push blocks, higher ground will fall down and make climbing difficult!"
Guide Sheep: "First, "pull out" and make a foothold!"
(Vincent: "All right, got it!") _taking money_

???: "Next, I'll teach you an important thing. You'd better remember this, at least."
Vincent: "An important thing?"
???: "These blocks work in a weird way. They are only connected to the blocks below by the edges!"
Vincent: "...only the "edges"? "Connect"? What's the meaning of all this?!"
Guide Sheep: "Even if there is nothing directly beneath a block, it is connected to the "step below" merely by the edge, and will not fall."
Guide Sheep: "The edge will shine blue-white the instant it connects, try it out and see for yourself!"

(Vincent: "All right, got it!") _taking money_

???: "Have you understood how they are connected by the edges?"
Vincent: "I don't know! Your point is that it isn't exactly normal?"
???: "It means that if it is touching with just one edge, it will not fall down, and you can easily create foothold in the shape of a staircase!"
???: "Oh well, you'll have to get used to it as you keep moving."
Guide Sheep: "To quickly create stairs with blocks is fundamental to all Action segments!"
Guide Sheep: "Put the edge-connection to good use, form stairs and go!"

Vincent: "Where is this?! And this... What's this noise!?!"
Guide Sheep: "As you near the goal you will start to hear a bell tolling. The exit is right ahead! Hurry and get away!"
???: "Anyway, well done."
???: "If we both survive, let's meet again afterwards."
Vincent: "H-Hey! Please wait!"

_Vincent GETting a lot of money_

Vincent: "S-so, this means I can leave?!"

Monster: *moaning*
Vincent: "Aah!"
Vincent: "Shit!?"

GREAT ESCAPE - You survived.
Safety bonus

Voice: "Congratulations! That was perfect, wasn't it?"

Gold Prize

Voice: "With this, the Underground Graveyard is finished."
Voice: "Well, we'll meet again tomorrow evening..."


1ST-DAY "CHRONO RABBIT"

Katherine: "Hey, are you listening?"
Katherine: "Hey!!"
Katherine: "Can't you listen to me?"
Vincent: "...Ah, yeah."
Katherine: "You do seem kind of tired, are you OK?"
Katherine: "You're spacing out a lot..."
Vincent: "Ah, sorry. I've been working all day, so..."

_I'm quite unsure about this segment, but this is as close as I'm going to get tonight methinks_
{
Katherine: "More importantly, what about the compensation? Did you get it?"
Vincent: "What compensation?"
Katherine: "Your paid vacation, obviously?"
Vincent: "Naah, not especially"
Katherine: "'especially'? Will you have it?"
Vincent: "No, not really."
Katherine: "No, is it?.."
{

Katherine: "Here you go; Two lumps."
Vincent: "Hey, Katherine?"
Vincent: "Have you ever had a 'death dream', or something like that?"
Katherine: "A 'death dream'? Like if I was about to die?"
Vincent: "No, a dream where you died? Where you were murdered, or whatever."
Katherine: "Don't think so. I have dreams where _I_ kill though..."
Vincent: "What?! Hehe, that sounds like you."
Katherine: "What's that supposed to mean..."
Katherine: "Hey, how many years have we been together?"
Vincent: [Damn, how many years has it been? I've kind of lost track, it's been so long...]
Vincent: "Uh, yeah, how long has it been?.."
Katherine: "I'm the one asking here!"
Katherine: "My parents have been calling me a lot recently, asking how I'm doing."
Vincent: "Huh..."
Katherine: "The years are flying past, it feels like they worry. I know that work is stressful, but..."
Vincent: "Mmm"
Katherine: "It might not be comfortable right now, but..."
Vincent: "What do you mean? When it comes to comfort I'm number one, right?"
Vincent: "You mean you're not sure about the thing earlier?"
Katherine: "Something like that..."

NEWS FOOTAGE

Newsreader: "A young man living alone, was discovered and appear to have died in solitude, in a condition like an elderly man. Yet to determine any particular specifics, the police is investigating the event [..] accident [can't make out everything, sorry]"

Patron: "[...]! It's/I'm about to begin!"
Patron: "Hey! Two beers over here!"
Erika: "Coming up!"

Vincent: "Katherine... Said that her parents have been calling alot recently..."
Vincent: "She doesn't seem to mind though..."
{
Tobias : "It's a normal phase, right senpai?"
Vincent: "So what?"
Tobias : "How do you say, Why don't you hit that again?"
{ I hate Tobias dialect by the way...

Vincent: "I've told you, it's disgusting, saying it like that."
Jonathan : "So, that basically means she wants to get married, no?"
Vincent: "You really think so?"
Jonathan: "What else could it be?"
Jonathan: "So that's how it is, marriage huh. You've been in for a long time, since you were kids..."
Vincent: "Calm down Johnnie, nothing is decided yet."
Jonathan: "So you don't want to marry her?"
Vincent: "It's not like that..."
Vincent: "She's important to me, I want to live with her, but I'm saying that marriage isn't right, yet."
Vincent: "You know what I mean, right now we're both, how should I put it, comfortable together."
Jonathan: "Both of you?"
Vincent: "That's what I said."
vincent: "Right now work comes first, I'm the kind that always does what I want by nature, you know."
Jonathan: "You can't be like that forever, right?"
Vincent: "That's certainly not what I'm saying"
Vincent: "And I don't want to hear that from a bachelor like you."
Jonathan: "No, when it comes to marriage, I've decided on only a partner I'm destined to be with. You're different."
Jonathan: "I've told my current girl that I don't feel like marrying her"
Vincent: "And if you don't find your 'destined partner'?"
Jonathan: "If not, I wont feel like getting married, naturally."
Tobias: "Wow" _basically_

Jonathan: "Regardless, have you heard? About Paul? The guy who died?"
Vincent: "What? Died? Paul... That Paul?"
Jonathan: "Yeah. I heard he got divorced, but he seemed to be doing well. I was surprised..."
Vincent: "Why did he die? Was there an accident?"
Jonathan: "No, it appears that his mother found him dead in the morning."
Vincent: "Morning?"
Vincent: "So..."
Jonathan: "Yeah, they're saying it's from an unknown cause. It made the news."
Tobias: "Creepy! For real?"
Jonathan: "Tomorrow morning, we may be dead..."
Vincent: "You idiot, cut that out..."
Tobias: "But you're just making that up to spread panick, right? The news thing is a coincidence or something."
Jonathan: "Tobias is being rash, right..."
Vincent: "About the morning-thing..."
Vincent: "To be frank, since I was a kid, I've been wetting my bed"
Jonathan: "Haha, what?"
Vincent: "I had super-scary dreams". Well, I can't really remember what they were about though..."
Jonathan: "Damn, how old are you?!"
Vincent: "32"
Jonathan: "I know..."
Tobias: "I don't really want to hear about stuff like that..."
Vincent: "Shut up. They were really scary."

Vincent: "Huh? Hey, let's stay! Somehow I don't really feel like going home today."
Jonathan: "In that case, why don't you bring Katherine."
Vincent: "I just met with her today. And with this kind of talk she'd get worried again..."
Jonathan: "Really... Is there a place for this guy" _(?)_
Jonathan: "But sorry, I have an early morning tomorrow. Well, don't drink too much, OK?"
Tobias: "Sorry, but I'm off!"

Guide Sheep: "If you open your cellphone you can check your text messages and save."
Guide Sheep: "It is possible to reply to some messages as well. Check it out."

** WARNING **
You cannot save in the Trial Version!

*Three messages, I'm too tired to tackle them tonight*

Guide Sheep: "Whenever Vincent makes a remark or an action, the Meter of mystery appears, and the needle moves."
Guide Sheep: "The meaning of this is still a secret, but what Vincent says and does will affect the conclusion (of the game). Remember this."

** WARNING **
There are no consequences in the trial version. Please look forward to the retail version!

Katherine: "Hey... How long have we been together?"

Vincent: "Marriage, huh. 'Later' was what I thought, but..."
Vincent: "Work, changes everywhere. I don't want to cause trouble..."

_Mail response and a womanly sigh_

Vincent: "Suddenly with the parent-talk, it's not like her..."
Vincent: "This late already?"

 ???: "...But it's become surprisingly popular, hasn't it?"
???: "But, it's a kinda murky place..."
???: "Excuse me, miss..."
???: "Right... Please enjoy"
Catherine: "'Scuse me, is it ok if I/we take a seat here?"

NightMare 2ND-DAY

Voice: "Oh, it's you?"
Voice: "What are you coming back for?"
Voice: "Hurry up and enter the gate"
Voice: "...Or you won't be able to go back (to life?)"
Voice: "This is the prison of despair..."
Voice: "Sheep that lose their way [something] until death/they die"
Voice: "Well then, shall we begin?"

Stage 2 - Prison of Despair

Monster: "There is... No... Escape..."
Vincent: "Huh?!"
Vincent: "That... Voice. Where is..."
Monster: "No escape!"
Vincent: "What the hell is this?!"
Vincent: "Kathe...rine?"

Fist of Grudge [the arms of a woman]

*Vincent grunting and Get!-ing*

Monster: "I'll never let you get away!" x2

Vincent: *while using a power-up (throwing a block)* "How about this?!"

Vincent: "Made it!"

*Vincent panting as he opens the door*

Monster: "Don't run awaaaay!"
Vincent: "Waaa!"
Monster: "I won't let you get away!"
Vincent: "Please, let me go!"
Monster: "No escape!!"
Vincent: "Ah, hey, wait, stop!"

*Big flash*

Vincent: "I-it's gone.."
Vincent: "That... Means I made it, right!"
Vincent: "Sweet!"

Great Escape!! You survived.

Voice: "Congratulations"
Voice: "This was your second race, the Prison of Despair is completed."
Voice: "Looks like you made it through tonight's scuffle [?]."
Voice: "I'm looking forward to meeting you again tomorrow night."

2ND-DAY "Vincent's Room"

*sighing, grunting*
*Vincent-face*


Pull Down
[If you realized you had been cheated on, what would you do?]

[Leave your sweetheart] / [Make her leave her lover]

*Vincent & Catherine scuffling about"
Vincent: "W-w-wai..."

Demon Baby: "DaAaadDYyyy!"
Vincent: "Keep awaay!"

Katherine: "What's going on?"
Catherine: "It's because of you that Vincent's in this state [?]"
Katherine: [can't hear]

Vincent: "C/Katherine! urghh..."

Catherine: "Hehee, stop it!"


Can't wait to see you!