From now on, I want all my video game news in dessert form.

@Trejik said:

I'm recently finding out that I really enjoy the way Alex writes. Really unique style of crazy. That Rage preview is excellent, and even this little bit of info is awesome to read.  What I'm trying to say is that I love Alex.  Call me...

This, but with a little less creepiness.

i'm so happy about this. GO ATLUS!!

You guys care far more about this then I ever will. I'm just giving you all shit because everybody gets so worked up over this game. If you want my actual feelings, look at Jeff's review topic. I'm pretty neutral on this game. I will say, people already saying things like how it's the, "best game ever," is a really weird thing to be saying this early in its life.

nice, getting mainstream and all...

You guys care far more about this then I ever will.

the cake is a lie.

it needed to be said.

Good to see a quirky Japanese game sell well in the US.

The cake is a liar.

@blacklabeldomm said:

nice, getting mainstream and all...

hipster?

people already saying things like how it's the, "best game ever," is a really weird thing to be saying this early in its life.

@Trejik said:

I'm recently finding out that I really enjoy the way Alex writes. Really unique style of crazy. That Rage preview is excellent, and even this little bit of info is awesome to read. What I'm trying to say is that I love Alex. Call me...

The articles are fantastically written with ease and are informative but the headlines sometimes makes me wanna gouge my eyes out.

lol @ Catherine haters.

@Omega said:

@Mesoian said:

@Ygg said:

@Axelhander said:

Bothers me when games like this do well.

Name one game that is anything like Catherine. Good luck with that.

Q-bert.

If I remember correctly Q-bert was about changing the colour of the all the blocks on the field, Catherine's gameplay is about getting to the top of a tower while moving blocks around to create paths. I'm pretty sure it isn't the same. You might as well have said Catherine was like Super Mario World because they both have square blocks.

Your forgetting what happens after the block color happens. And the collection of money piles and pillows pretty much resonates the same way as getting score ups in q-bert. Plotting your own course is pretty much the same as what happens once time runs low. But if you really need another example, Snake Rattle'n'Roll is very similar to Catherine.

You seem to be upset that this game doesn't necessarily resemble the unique snow flake you sought it to be.

Man, Valve's given cake a bad name.  Curse You! :)

@Video_Game_King said:

Cue the Portal jokes in 3, 2, 1, GO!

@Landon said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

According to Nich Maragos over at Atlus, the game actually didn't sell 200k copies in retail but shipped 200k copies.

Are you saying THE CAKE IS A LIE?!?!?!?!?!?.....I'm sorry...

@shinluis said:

So basically Alex is saying the cake might be a lie then.

@Juicebox said:

grrr someone is gonna say that cake is a lie .

@Mr_Skeleton said:

The cake isn't lying.

@TatoBins said:

the cake is a lie.

it needed to be said.

@mnzy said:

The cake is a liar.

@JediAutobot said:

Man, Valve's given cake a bad name. Curse You! :)

Fuck all of you.

Good for them, now bring us Persona 5!

Your forgetting what happens after the block color happens. And the collection of money piles and pillows pretty much resonates the same way as getting score ups in q-bert. Plotting your own course is pretty much the same as what happens once time runs low. But if you really need another example, Snake Rattle'n'Roll is very similar to Catherine

*Reading through the thread* 

@Napalm said:

people already saying things like how it's the, "best game ever," is a really weird thing to be saying this early in its life.

"Early in its life"? What does this even mean? It came out, and people liked it.  Also I have never played Catherine, just saying.

@mutha3 said:

@Mesoian said:

Your forgetting what happens after the block color happens. And the collection of money piles and pillows pretty much resonates the same way as getting score ups in q-bert. Plotting your own course is pretty much the same as what happens once time runs low. But if you really need another example, Snake Rattle'n'Roll is very similar to Catherine

That's still kind of a long shot, honestly.

The games are only similar in the most superficial sense-- your shoving boxes in one and scored in a similar way in the other. Not to mention that these similairties become even more hard to notice when the game really hits it groove by introducing the hazardous elements, which turns the game into a puzzle-platformer. Besides, its the combination of that unique puzzle element and a story heavy narrative that really make the game stand out as "unique".

Well yes, the question is what GAME is similar to Catherine. Catherine is, inherently, a block puzzle game, so other block puzzle games will be brought up in comparison. I really don't know if I would go about calling it a platformer either; it's a platformer in the same way that intelligent cube is a platformer. Replace the main character with a cursor and it completely returns to being a straight puzzle game.The story beats the game has factor in very little to how the game actually plays, which seems to be the biggest complain people have about the game. Everyone universally keeps saying how the puzzle elements get in the way of what they're really interested in, the story.

And yes, Snake Rattle and Roll is a much better comparison to Catherine. Only difference between that game is that you occasionally go down the tower before going back up, and you are a snake with a springy tail.

Really cool for Atlus. Aside from Red Dead(He is wrong, of course) and some other games, Jeff's tastes are pretty much mine."

@Omega said:

@Mesoian said:

@Ygg said:

@Axelhander said:

Bothers me when games like this do well.

Name one game that is anything like Catherine. Good luck with that.

Q-bert.

If I remember correctly Q-bert was about changing the colour of the all the blocks on the field, Catherine's gameplay is about getting to the top of a tower while moving blocks around to create paths. I'm pretty sure it isn't the same. You might as well have said Catherine was like Super Mario World because they both have square blocks.

Your forgetting what happens after the block color happens. And the collection of money piles and pillows pretty much resonates the same way as getting score ups in q-bert. Plotting your own course is pretty much the same as what happens once time runs low. But if you really need another example, Snake Rattle'n'Roll is very similar to Catherine.

You seem to be upset that this game doesn't necessarily resemble the unique snow flake you sought it to be.

Obv Persona needs more sex.

@Jayzilla said:

@blacklabeldomm said:

nice, getting mainstream and all...

hipster?

HIPSTER ALERT!

I assume 200K is good for a game like this. However I don't see it breaking 500K, or possibly even 300K. This kinda game seems like Atlus fans boys only, and 200K sounds about all of them, :P

Freaking awesome news for Atlus!

Impressive numbers.  I plan to get this some time soon.

@DonutFever said:

@Jayzilla said:

@blacklabeldomm said:

nice, getting mainstream and all...

hipster?

HIPSTER ALERT!

That came out wrong, I meant to congratulate the guys at Atlus for their success. Everyone on youtube is playing it, even the guys at Achievement Hunter are playing it and every major gaming website talks about it....I find that awesome!

Obv Persona needs more sex.

@mutha3 said:

@Mesoian said:

Your forgetting what happens after the block color happens. And the collection of money piles and pillows pretty much resonates the same way as getting score ups in q-bert. Plotting your own course is pretty much the same as what happens once time runs low. But if you really need another example, Snake Rattle'n'Roll is very similar to Catherine

That's still kind of a long shot, honestly.

The games are only similar in the most superficial sense-- your shoving boxes in one and scored in a similar way in the other. Not to mention that these similairties become even more hard to notice when the game really hits it groove by introducing the hazardous elements, which turns the game into a puzzle-platformer. Besides, its the combination of that unique puzzle element and a story heavy narrative that really make the game stand out as "unique".

Well yes, the question is what GAME is similar to Catherine. Catherine is, inherently, a block puzzle game, so other block puzzle games will be brought up in comparison. I really don't know if I would go about calling it a platformer either; it's a platformer in the same way that intelligent cube is a platformer. Replace the main character with a cursor and it completely returns to being a straight puzzle game.The story beats the game has factor in very little to how the game actually plays, which seems to be the biggest complain people have about the game. Everyone universally keeps saying how the puzzle elements get in the way of what they're really interested in, the story.

And yes, Snake Rattle and Roll is a much better comparison to Catherine. Only difference between that game is that you occasionally go down the tower before going back up, and you are a snake with a springy tail.

@Omega: It was fruit and 1ups, but they served the same purpose.

I mean, that's sort of the thing I don't really understand about people really singing the praises of Catherine's uniqueness. Was I the only one who thought the somewhat archaic nature of the block puzzles was intentional; that it was reaching back and referencing old 80's game design in a very Suda51 NMH fashion? The fact that you can play the same game in the bar sequence was supposed to really drive that home, wasn't it?

I mean, that's not a bad thing, especially here rather than NMH's because unlike NMH's, this game is still fairly enjoyable even with the game design choices (though I suppose that all depends on your ideals on difficulty). But if we really wanna dig our heels in the sand and take a good hard look at gaming in the 80's and 90's, it's not hard to find quite a few isometric block puzzles where the object is to get from A to B, where A is at the bottom of the screen and B is at the top. I mean, shit dog, one of the number crunchers was like that.

I dunno...I thought it was pretty glaring, actual gameplay wise. Storywise...well...games? It is pretty unique. Movies and specifically anime that are like Catherine..there are a lot; so many to the point where that ending (you know the one I'm talking about) isn't really that much of a revelation and is more of a shark jump.

@SteamPunkJin said:

mature themes 

lol. 

treats the players like adults  

lol.

vaguely original                                         

Trying to make the case as to why Catherine is more "mature", serious and less ridiculous as Shadows Of The Damned makes absolutely no sense, and you should probably play more videogames, or something.

Well yes, the question is what GAME is similar to Catherine. Catherine is, inherently, a block puzzle game, so other block puzzle games will be brought up in comparison. I really don't know if I would go about calling it a platformer either; it's a platformer in the same way that intelligent cube is a platformer. Replace the main character with a cursor and it completely returns to being a straight puzzle game.The story beats the game has factor in very little to how the game actually plays, which seems to be the biggest complain people have about the game. Everyone universally keeps saying how the puzzle elements get in the way of what they're really interested in, the story.

Really good for them i like Atlus ,just hoping this dont get ideas in other companies too to try sell what should be a dowloadable title boxed and full price too...buuuuut if it helps maby finace the creation of Persona 5 i thank you all who bought climbing blocks game for full price so i didnt have too. thank you!!!

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Napalm said: 

Trying to make the case as to why Catherine is more "mature", serious and less ridiculous as Shadows Of The Damned makes absolutely no sense, and you should probably play more videogames, or something.

You should probably play Catherine before claiming to know what it's about.

Or I can just read the fucking wiki and save my hard-earned twenty hours on something far more compelling.

Why can't everyone just be fucking happy that a unique game found an audience and did well? Does it always have to be some kind of retarded pissing match? 
 
I know the first reply is going to be "this is the internet" and I'm sure some smart person will read that and then quote and reply that exact sentence thinking they're hilarious, but it's so god damn tiring to hear this kind of shit everywhere you go.

Cake is the new NPD.

Yo. Atlus dudes. Good on 'ya. Now make a fucking Persona game. :|

That's good news. Even though I've had a hard time playing Catherine [not very good at it], I've really been enjoying it. It's nice to play something unique from you're used to playing for a change.

@LiquidPrince said:

So fucking stoked. Catherine is one of the best games I've ever played... and I've played a ton of games. So happy for them!

This :)

Alex, honey, this again? Cake better than pie. I thought we talked about this already, baby.

People with anime avatars love this game.

I assume 200K is good for a game like this. However I don't see it breaking 500K, or possibly even 300K. This kinda game seems like Atlus fans boys only, and 200K sounds about all of them, :P

@ryanwho said:

People with anime avatars love this game.

Yes! :)