That third romantic interest is Rin, who’s storyline has been woven into the game in a way that works fairly well overall and doesn’t seem to impede or interfere with the original Catherine vs. Other changes include additional characters for multiplayer, new stages for the Babel and Colosseum modes, online multiplayer/co-op for those modes, the ability to fully rotate the in-game camera around block walls (also nice), new cutscenes, alternate endings, and the addition of a third romantic interest for Vincent to pursue. It’s probably my favorite addition to the game and makes for a far less frustrating experience overall. What this did for me is teach me where I made mistakes in my original climb, and help me see either additional options or solutions that I wasn’t getting on my first go around. This will allow you to either restart the entire stage, or from the last checkpoint, and then the game will helpfully play itself out until you reach the section of the stage you were at before triggering the retry. Basically, if you find yourself in an unsolvable dilemma, you can pause and hit retry. While I found the difficulty of the original game to be a bit crushing, I never had to adjust below the standard difficulty in Catherine: Full Body and a lot of that comes down to the auto-play mechanic that triggers when you retry a stage. The additions and changes made to the gameplay in Cathrine: Full Body make the puzzle block, tower climbing bits a lot more tolerable. That hasn’t entirely changed, but the additions made here definitely alter my overall feelings on both elements. To boil down my original 2011 thoughts, I was a little lukewarm on the puzzle gameplay, while generally enjoying the story. While our site and servers have gone through some changes that wiped that review out, I was able to drag it back up via the Wayback Machine and decided to read through it prior to typing this review for Catherine: Full Body on the Nintendo Switch. I haven’t played Catherine since I did the original review of the PS3/Xbox 360 release for the game back in 2011 for Gaming-Age.

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