Catherine "Love Is Over" Deluxe Edition

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In this video I show you everything that comes in the box set:

"Stray Sheep" Pizza box

The Catherine Game

Large pre-shrunk 100% cotton T-shirt

Standard size pillowcase with Catherine artwork

Large boxer shorts

32-page Art book and Sound Disc (note: not a complete soundtrack)with the following songs:

1. "Planets Suite "Mars", "Jupiter""

2. "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor "Fate" 3rd Movement"

3. "Little" Fugue in G Minor"

4. "Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" 1st Movement, 3rd Movement Scherzo"

5. "William Tell Overture Part 2 "The Storm" and Part 3 "The Ranz des Vaches"

6. "Polovtsian Dances"

7. "Pictures at an Exhibition "The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)"

8. "L'Arlésienne Second Suite "Farandole"

9. "Revolutionary Etude"

10. "Messiah "Hallelujah Chorus"

11. "Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March" 3rd Movement"

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This is a review for the Love Is Over edition of the game, not the actual game itself which is great. The Stray Sheep "pizza box" this comes in is nothing more than an ordinary cardboard box that you might get with a computer component with a sticker slapped on it. The pair of boxers are some sort of cheap fabric. The artbook doesn't really have that much art in it and is more of a "behind the art" book. It also has one picture of some of the main characters and a little blurb about them before going completely into the art and style of Catherine and only Catherine. No environment art at all. No extra art or explanations for the other characters in the game. Although I'm not really surprised that the pillowcase had only Catherine on it, it would have made sense to have Katherine on the other side. The soundtrack is ok even though it doesn't have all the tracks from the game on it and the T shirt is good quality. I like the overall premise of this deluxe edition, but it wasn't as "lovely" as I had hoped.

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I like to get special editions of video games to see if they're worth the extra money, and the Catherine "Love is Over" Deluxe Edition is BARELY worth the extra $20. Since CDs and novelty t-shirts generally run around $10 each, you would technically break even, but the contents of the Deluxe Edition are really unnecessary.

Pizza box: That's exactly what it is. A pizza box with a cheap sticker slapped on the front. Personal sized pizza(possibly deep dish), to be exact. The cardboard is as cheap as any disposable pizza box you'd get from a major pizza chain.

Vincent's Boxers: I can't compare the quality of the Vincent's boxers to other boxers because I don't normally wear boxers, but the material is relatively thin and a 65/35 blend of polyester and cotton. Men's size L.

"Empty" t-shirt: The material is kind of thin, but it wouldn't be bad for everyday use, especially on some of the warmer days. The shirt is 100% cotton and from Gildan, a fairly reputable company that makes blank shirts for custom printing. Men's size L.

Pillowcase: Clearly made for display purposes, but try explaining something like this to your mom/wife/girlfriend. It'll certainly raise their eyebrows, but I suppose it's at least pretty PG/PG-13 rated. Pretty standard and about as well made as any generic pillowcase. 55/35 blend of cotton and polyester. Twin/Std sized.

"Artbook": When I heard that this was only 36 pages, I immediately dismissed it. An CE artbook should be no shorter than 50 pages, and a REAL artbook is over 150 pages. It's more like an extended manual with character bios and a quick insight into Shoji Meguro's motives for remixing the classical pieces that he did. You can expect to see a lot of the same images that are already floating around the internet. And for some reason, it's written in English and French. The real 160 page artbook is being released by Atlus in August.

Sound Disc: Please not that this is a sound DISC. And NOT a soundTRACK. It even says on the artbook that it's a "sound disc". That said, it's an amazing piece of work. Shoji Meguro has taken some of the greatest pieces in classical music and remixed them to fit the frantic atmosphere of Vincent's nightmare sequences.

Tracklist

1. Holst Planet's Suite (Mars + Jupiter)

2. Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (3rd Movement "Fate")

3. Bach Fugue in G Minor (The Little)

4. Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" (1st and 3rd Movements)

5. Rossini William Tell Overture Part 2 "The Storm" and Part 3 "The Ranz des Vaches"

6. Borodin Polovtsian Dances

7. Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition "The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)"

8. Bizet L'Arlesienne Second Suite "Farandole"

9. Chopin "Revolutionary Etude"

10. Handel Messiah "Hallelujah Chorus"

11. Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March" (3rd Movement)

"Catherine" Game: It's nothing short of amazing. The sim and puzzle genres are an unlikely mix, but Atlus really pulls it off. The sim part comes into play when Vincent's at the bar with his friends. He mingles with other patrons, answers texts, plays an arcade game called Rapunzel, and drinks (of course). The puzzle part is from his nightmares: he must pull, push, and climb towers of blocks while avoiding traps, other sheep who will try to sabotage him, and/or ridiculously creepy bosses that chase him up the towers. You know that saying that goes "easy to learn, difficult to master"? Well the opposite is true for Catherine. It's difficult to learn, but once you've learned all the techniques and can see pathways, it's easy to master.

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EDIT: The soundtrack doesn't have a lot of the great songs that you hear in the game, ie the awesome Title Screen song, the "Yo" song, etc...which is HALF OF THE SOUNDTRACK! It only has the nightmare sequence music, which I think is really STUPID. The nightmare sequence music only works for me when I'm playing the game. If I'm paying $80, then give me the FULL SOUNDTRACK! The "Original Soundtrack" has ALL the songs you hear in the game, ie. title screen, the Stray Sheep jukebox. And for some really lame reason it was only released in Japan. AND WHY WAS THAT ATLUS? So I had to download it separately to get the songs I'm missing. Really pisses me off they didn't include THE BEST Music with the Deluxe Edition in the US on the freaking DISC. >:(

I got the Special Edition in the mail yesterday. Amazon rocks! So I put it in and... 7 hours later I'm still playing it and only stopped cause I had to go to sleep. This game is amazing. Right now I'm at stage 6, level 2. (There are 8 stages). It may seem too short but it has multiple endings and a lot of re-playability.

Graphics: I don't like Anime. Let me repeat. I'm DO NOT LIKE ANIME. I don't hate it, i just don't care for it. But this game looks beautiful. It actually makes me sorta like Anime more. But overall, the graphics look beautiful.

Music: See my edit above. If you've played Persona 3 then you will know some of the songs here. The music works very well. In the nightmare stages the music fits when the stage has a foe chasing you and when it's more a stage to get you used to the new stage elements that have been introduced. The music outside of the nightmare sequences is just awesome.

Story: Here is where the game shines the most. You play Vincent who is having nightmares every night. At the same time, he is being pressured by his long time girlfriend, Katherine, to take their relationship to the next step. And on top of this, another girl, Catherine, is seducing him and trying to take him for her own. Now he is caught in a web of lies, secrets and guilt. Every time you pass a nightmare sequence you wake up to more drama in his real life. It's very engaging.

Gameplay: I really hate to call the nightmare sequences "puzzles" cause it sorta makes it less than what it is. These are Vincents nightmares. He has to climb to the top of these evil towers to escape so as to night die in real life. So the tower begins to fall down as you start climb, or there some huge monster chasing you. Everything in the dreams is connected to his real life in some way. There is more I would like to say to make sense of the sheep you see on the cover, but I don't want to spoil anything.

You are given questions to answer here and there throughout the game that determine the direction the story will go for you. The game has multiple endings and difficulties and medals you can get depending on how fast you climb the towers. So you can get a lot of game play out of it.

Overall, I love this game. I think it is pure genius. The issues that it addresses are very relate-able and really suck you into the story.

The Special Edition comes with just a pillow case, not an actual pillow by the way. The Special Edition isn't really all that worth the extra $20 in my opinion but this game is so special i just HAD to have it so I don't regret it. There hasn't been a game like this in a long time. I'm VERY impressed with how well they pulled off this whole concept and made a very VERY fun game.

If you are hesitant on this game, then try the demo. But i will warn you, the demo doesn't really do a great job in tying in the nightmare sequences with the story so you may get the wrong idea. Also the nightmare parts are a lot more complicated once you play the full game, and they get really creative, fun...and HARD. If you can rent the game, that would be best. But I would say if you like it, to go ahead and buy it. It's one of the few games out there that is worth full price in my opinion.

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I love this game, it feels really unique and innovative, the gameplay is also a lot of fun, it can be a bit difficult at first but once you get the hang of it, it becomes very addicting, the story is probably the best feature of catherine, this is one of the few games that really made me care about the character and the story and to see what's gonna happen next, the music is also top notch,the soundtrack cd only comes with 11 tracks but i was able to ding the official japanese 34-tracks soundtrack in the japanese itunes store and it's absolutely amazing, it is definitely worth a try, i do not regret any minutes and dollars spent on this game ^^