Out of necessity of reviewing the new content, this review contains spoilers for the new ?Rin? Route in Catherine: Full Body! If you don?t want spoilers, come back later when you?ve finished the game! The spoiler-free take" It?s a largely appealing game hampered by some mean-spirited and poor writing choices that undermine many of the very things the game is trying to do.
It?s 2019, and the world is a very different place than it was towards the beginning of the decade. Communities on the margins have grown louder and stronger, and the pushback against them has tried to do the same. Complex social ideas have gained more mindshare, and at the same time, media like video games have strived to grow along with the social discourse. Catherine, a game from Atlus? Persona team that seemed edgy at the time, almost feels tame today. Nonetheless, it has its cult status, and the team has revisited its grand experiment-slash-genre blend with more content, more options, and a brand new character and accompanying route. Revisiting Catherine has been a strange experience, as with such a long gap of time comes just as many personal changes as the external. And despite it being such a strange little project comprising some unique and compelling play, time has not been kind to Catherine?s narrative ambitions, or frankly, lack thereof.
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