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Catherine |OT| Sheep, Matrimony, Terror - Love Is Gone
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kyo_daikun
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sleepykyo said:
Yeah just start playing on normal, easy is a bit too easy in my opinion, nothing really happens new game plus wise, all you can do is get a different ending and skip nightmare levels which you have got gold on previously (has to be the same difficulty tho, so any easy levels you got gold on will have to be replayed in normal)
Im on 9-2 on hard, not long now till I try and do the other 3 babel levels then i'll be platinumed.
Lostconfused
Member
Oh dear. The music in Babel is incredibly shitty. I am going to need to make a playlist before I can do that place.
cj_iwakura
Member
Lostconfused said:
Play Obelisk. I promise you'll change your mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpW6iTAZaM
Crash Station
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Gravijah said:
I was doing them in my brain even before I finished the game. Whenever I was at work, I was devising entire levels with various types of blocks and actions in my head without even realizing it; even friggin undos! That's how I knew I was addicted and this was my goty.
Mergesort said:
You can get away with 2 & 1/2... on my MAX Chaos playthrough, I made a save file at the very beginning of Day 5 @ the Stray Sheep with a maxed-out Chaos meter. I played through for full Chaos answering all the choices with Chaos ( Red ) and got those 3 endings
Then I reloaded the Day 5 save file and answered all choices with LAW ( Blue ) and by the end of day 8 the needle was smack in the middle and I was able to get the True Neutral ending.
Jimmy Stav said:
I just beat it last night on the 360. I was originally torn as well but decided to go 360 as it's my primary platform. While in screenshots you can tell the difference in compression between the two systems, I didn't notice it while playing. The Majority of the cutscenes are in-engine anyway. I think you'll do just fine with the 360 version.
Also, for whatever reason, I used analog sticks for the puzzles.
sixteen-bit
Member
This game is fucking me a new asshole. Should I just play on Easy? Can I still get a good ending on Easy?
Augemitbutter
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you can.
Fimbulvetr
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M_Night said:
Looks like some people in the thread have been cheating.
Lostconfused
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But I just want things to stay the same.
Oh god. I started my PS3 up at 7:30 AM to get Gold awards on Stages 8 and 9-1 to 9-6. Its 2:55 AM and I just got done. My savegame went from 28:00 hours played to 47:00 hours.
9-5 and 9-6 on hard are a bitch to gold, especially 9-5. I must have retried about 200 times on 9-5. I reached the end about a dozen times but got silver because I lost my multiplier somewhere along the way.
These two stages almost made me hate the game, which is surprising because:
1) 9-5 and 9-6 are pretty easy and fun on Normal and Easy
2) This game's in the running for my GOTY
You pretty much can't do these stages through the help of a walkthrough, because once any trap block becomes a bomb/weak block it will screw up the symmetry of the stage and its up to you alone from the point. Man 9-5 Hard is a nightmarish stage.
9-6 on the other hand, though difficult, wasn't as frustrating. It was a matter of pulling blocks when under Dumuzid's spell till you get the jump block, then proceeding. I think I missed like 5 gold piles but still got the Gold award because of the continuous multiplier
9-5 and 9-6 on hard are a bitch to gold, especially 9-5. I must have retried about 200 times on 9-5. I reached the end about a dozen times but got silver because I lost my multiplier somewhere along the way.
These two stages almost made me hate the game, which is surprising because:
1) 9-5 and 9-6 are pretty easy and fun on Normal and Easy
2) This game's in the running for my GOTY
You pretty much can't do these stages through the help of a walkthrough, because once any trap block becomes a bomb/weak block it will screw up the symmetry of the stage and its up to you alone from the point. Man 9-5 Hard is a nightmarish stage.
9-6 on the other hand, though difficult, wasn't as frustrating. It was a matter of pulling blocks when under Dumuzid's spell till you get the jump block, then proceeding. I think I missed like 5 gold piles but still got the Gold award because of the continuous multiplier
cj_iwakura
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9-5 is a very consistently simple pattern, it's just that the boss' shots can easily mess you up.
9-6 is like a culmination of 7 and 9-5's boss.
9-6 is like a culmination of 7 and 9-5's boss.
Fimbulvetr
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9-6 is actually much easier than 9-5 to me.
kyo_daikun
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ULTROS! said:
Good stuff, I finally beat 9-5 last night and it took hours...
There was a glitch that kept killing me at one point where I would drop down and fall straight through a block when the boss was moving around.
Hopefully i'll just need to beat babel after tonight.
I have a friend with whom I finished my first run of the game over a period of 3 days. It was pretty neat because he would pick up on something I missed and vice versa, and together we breezed through the levels. He finished the last Quadrangle level when I fell asleep, and I finished the Child with the Chainsaw fight when he dozed off.
But no matter how hard we try, Babel always leads to us dying because one of us screwed up. Its still fun though, and we don't get too serious over it. I guess I'll have to do the remaining three Babel levels with 2 controllers.
Also, Colosseum is fantastic. The most stupidly fun versus mode since Rearmed's Don't touch the floor.
But no matter how hard we try, Babel always leads to us dying because one of us screwed up. Its still fun though, and we don't get too serious over it. I guess I'll have to do the remaining three Babel levels with 2 controllers.
Also, Colosseum is fantastic. The most stupidly fun versus mode since Rearmed's Don't touch the floor.
SpaceBridge
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Oh god, Stage 4, Floor 1 gave me a hard time.
Just finished this. Man, it was great. Some things I'd like to see in a patch: fix the jarring sound levels during the anime scenes,
, and make Rapunzel playable from the main menu screen after beating the game once.
I wish it kept track of how many times you died. Wonder if I broke 100.
Toward the end I felt a bit of Portal 2 syndrome sinking in
, but I ended up really enjoying the last hour or so.
My girlfriend was fascinated by this game and ended up loving it, asking me what happened when she wasn't around to watch.
This is my GOTY thus far. It was beautiful, smart, fun, challenging, and original. Now it's time to go for some golds.
include online co-op for the Colosseum
I wish it kept track of how many times you died. Wonder if I broke 100.
Toward the end I felt a bit of Portal 2 syndrome sinking in
where the game kept telling you the next thing you accomplish would certainly be the last, then introducing more and more stuff to do, making the end game seem long and fatiguing
My girlfriend was fascinated by this game and ended up loving it, asking me what happened when she wasn't around to watch.
This is my GOTY thus far. It was beautiful, smart, fun, challenging, and original. Now it's time to go for some golds.
SpaceBridge
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Christ, Im facing the
, I cant get a moment to catch my breath.
zombie baby
CartridgeBlower
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Does anyone honestly get better than Bronze on each mission their first time through on Normal or above?
I got Silver the first two times, but up until level 5, have only been getting Bronzes. Is it because I restart from the checkpoints, die too much, don't get enough coins? Kinda frustrating...
I got Silver the first two times, but up until level 5, have only been getting Bronzes. Is it because I restart from the checkpoints, die too much, don't get enough coins? Kinda frustrating...
Lostconfused
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It's because you restart from checkpoints. You need to pretty much finish the level in one go to get a perfect chain and score enough points to get gold.CartridgeBlower said:
I think it's entirely doable on the first run through. With all the deaths and retries I often learned the level well enough to finish it in a single attempt if I restarted from the beginning.
CartridgeBlower
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Lostconfused said:
Ah, ya I figured that was the main culprit. Do most people use checkpoints on their first run through the game just to finish it? Some of these levels are really difficult on a first run, I can't imagine going for score until I know the terrain ahead of time.
Augemitbutter
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of course, i only had bronze-silver on my first clears.
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
Hmmm...that's weird.
You missed the big correlation there.
The entire game hints at the True Freedom ending being canon, yet the Good Katherine ending is the only one that directly hints at a sequel with the ant crawling on the floor suggesting Catherine isn't finished yet.
cj_iwakura said:
You missed the big correlation there.
Boss Vincent's left eye is visible in 7's boss, yet the final boss has his right eye visible. This suggests that Vincent and the Boss are similar, yet opposite as they both are ones who survived the climb
Nora Kisaragi said:
Cool observation. I also wonder
does Vincent succeed Boss as the new...whatever he is...in the future? I think that was mentioned during one of the last few confessions.
Which ending is generally considered the best? (As in most entertaining, not necessarily canon).
Nora Kisaragi
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Himself said:
You should play Babel Mode, or if you don't want to...
No. The player of the game succeeds the Boss. This was revealed in the Babel Ending. I just wonder how the heck they'll incorporate something like that into the sequel. I think that's a hint that the gameplay might change, and maybe we'll start laying traps instead of playing them. Not sure.
Fimbulvetr
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Himself said:
Actually
the player is supposed to be Ishtar's new consort, assuming you've completed Axis Mundi.
I'm on 6-4 of my first playthrough, after pretty much conceding that I will never fully grasp the gameplay it is finally starting to click, finally.
It just makes me more eager for the next proper Persona game though, imagining this amount of polish applied to those mechanics makes me very excited!
It just makes me more eager for the next proper Persona game though, imagining this amount of polish applied to those mechanics makes me very excited!
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
Watanabe Kazuma said:
I wonder which will come first, Catherine 2 or Persona 5? It's possible that Index Holdings will want to cash in on this franchise while it's still hot on people's minds, yet Atlus has to have started work on the next Persona by now. Hmmm. We'll find out at TGS, that's not that far away now.
Oh, btw, an update on sales. According to a certain censored website, this game has sold 0.42m total (both versions) worldwide thus far. Japan is responsible for .23m and America is responsible for .20m. It's possible, if this game is released in Europe, they might be able to push it to 1m by the end of the year.
I wonder just how big of a success they consider this game to be? With the 200k copies sold in America, that's roughly 200kx60=$12,000,000 in revenue. And that's brand new copies, not counting those who bought the Deluxe Edition which would add $20 per purchase. That total probably covers all costs in localizing this game tenfold. A huge profit. Seeing that it sold this way in America and Japan, and it's no longer surprising Index Holdings wants a sequel. After all, if the sequel is done as well as the first, people that were reluctant to try the first will be more likely to dive into the series given its success, so sales can only go up from here.
The persona series is a well-known franchise, but Persona 4 has only sold 0.73 copies til now. The fact catherine, a new franchise, may be able to meet and succeed the number of one of Atlus' famed franchises on its first iteration, is just simply mind boggling.
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
ULTROS! said:
Source on this? If anything, the True Freedom Ending is canon. There is no "official canon" ending in the game as of yet.
(Forgive all my posts on this page, but this is the first i've seen someone calling true katherine the canon ending, considering there is little evidence that supports this)
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