Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for July 7th, 2020. Today is Tanabata, which means good ol’ Orihime and Hikoboshi get their once-a-year chance to meet. Provided it doesn’t rain, anyway. The skies are looking a little gray right now, but I’m pulling for those wacky kids. In today’s article, we’ve got a full review of Atlus’s Catherine: Full Body. We’ve also got summaries of both of today’s new releases, and a list of incoming and outgoing sales as a chaser. Let’s get into it!
Reviews
Catherine: Full Body ($49.99)

The original Catherine released back in 2011, which may as well be a million years ago from the standpoint of both the games industry and culture in general. It was Atlus’s first foray into HD development, and rather than going the expected route of being an RPG, it was instead a puzzle game with visual novel elements. Its story was particularly noteworthy. While Atlus wasn’t exactly well-known for wading around in the child-friendly end of the game industry’s pool, Catherine was aimed exclusively at a more mature audience. At the time, Japanese culture was obsessed with the idea of the ‘herbivore man’, the new generation of young men who were supposedly disinterested in sex or lacking the confidence to pursue such relations. Catherine has a lot to say about that topic, in both subtle and blunt ways. It also hits on a variety of other topics connected ...