![]() ![]() As does Erica, who demands that an already penitent Vincent apologize immediately.īut the damage is done… unless you make a bunch of “correct” decisions in the puzzle world. It’s a decision he immediately regrets and recognizes as wrong. Vincent, having fallen in love with him, doesn’t know how to process this revelation and lashes out. See, the big “reveal” about Rin is that he’s actually a man - just one that happens to dress very femininely. He learns something about Rin and himself, and it’s pretty hard for me to read it as anything but the “right” way to play the game. Whereas I went into the game intending to make choices in the least asshole-ish way possible, the Rin route actually has Vincent confront his own bad behavior directly. But it does at least sidestep the shittiest elements I had heard about over the years. It’s ridiculous, and schmaltzy, and at times didactic, but I enjoyed it! I don’t know just how directly it confronts the sins of Catherine in 2013. Rin is also the character I pursued, since I wanted to see the most “modern” views of the games creators, distilled in a single route.Īnd, like I said, Catherine: Full Body does a pretty good job - at least in the English localization of Rin’s true ending. They’re a friendly amnesiac Vincent and co. Qatherine, or just Rin, is new to Full Body. He doesn’t actually remember their encounters after the fact. Catherine is an intense and attractive stranger who Vincent apparently starts an affair with. Katherine is his girlfriend of five years, looking for a concrete commitment from her cowardly beau. Those go to Katherine, Catherine, and Qatherine - the three people Vincent can “romance” over the course of the game. There’s also a neat system where you craft text messages sentence-by-sentence out of multiple choices. You learn about their lives, as well as those of other patrons, who spout bad relationship advice and pop psychology. Protagonist Vincent spends his evenings hanging out at a bar called the Stray Sheep with his friends: Jonny, Toby, Erica, and Orlando. The game is part dating sim, part block puzzle game. But first let’s talk about what Catherine actually is. There’s no reason Catherine couldn’t do something similar.Īnd, based on my playthrough… It seems like that’s exactly what happened. All of which culminated in Yakuza actually removing its worst “jokes” from remasters of the older games. Each game has improved on the last, partially due to feedback from Western audiences, slowly cultivating that series’ protagonist into an all-supportive dad. The Yakuza series (one of my personal favorites) has continuously worked on its own shitty use of transgender identity, in particular. WARNING: Heavy spoilers for Catherine: Full Body ahead.īut publisher Sega also has a pretty strong history of fixing its mistakes on this front. Meanwhile, speculation and unofficial translations of Full Body from Japan didn’t instill me with confidence that this re-release had learned any lessons in the time since. That game is much more recent and still seriously dropped the ball when it came to its very few queer characters. And I knew it shared a director (Katsura Hashino) with Persona 5. I knew the original game, released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011, had a reputation for casual transphobia and too-hard puzzles. I had very few expectations going into Catherine: Full Body - and even fewer of those were positive. ![]()
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