Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

June 21, 2011

The good news is Atlus’s ultra-weird dating sim/puzzler will be getting a completely uncut release in the US. Hooray!

The bad news is the cover art’s been tweaked a bit in order to make it happen. You can see the difference to the left. Why the change? Jeremy Cail, a creative designer for Atlus' US branch says retailers were a bit squeamish about the somewhat risqué original covers.

“We have two different versions of Catherine cover art. There's already two different versions, one for both the PS3 and Xbox 360, but the altered imagery was at the request of some our retail partners. They wanted the change in case people got the wrong idea about the game... or, as I see it, the right idea about Catherine! No change to the games themselves – the disc themselves are the same.”

If you went to E3, you might have noticed the Catherine art on your badge holder. According to Cail, selecting the art for those was a headache in and of itself.

“We tried another of different image, but that didn't go through [it was the one with Catherine's legs spread]. We couldn't put it on the badge but we put it on [Atlus staff] shirts... Certain hemlines were lengthened before final approval... We also have to balance concerns of the original designers in Japan; maybe we'll want to use one piece of art in this way or that, but we'll ask them and they'll say it wasn't the intent to use it that sort of way. But with the badge stuffer... it took three to four iterations to get there, but people seem to like it.”

You can see pics of the badge holder art, including the original “spread legs” one, over at the[a]listdaily.

Via: IndustryGamers

-Reporting from San Diego, GamePolitics Contributing Editor Andrew Eisen

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Comments

Re: Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

Submitted by CyberSkull on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 06:52.

I have to ask, which of the two covers is more likely to grab a customer's eye and generate sales? Hint: Never the nerfed one.

Re: Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

Submitted by thatblack1 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 08:32.

They should do the dual art cover trick where we can out the insert and have the real version on the other side. They did that with Digital Devil Saga II.

Re: Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

Submitted by CyberSkull on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 06:51.

That is a better idea. :D

Re: Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

Submitted by Cheater87 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 18:23.

So M games's boxes are censored for children now?

Re: Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

Submitted by hellfire7885 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 21:59.

Of course they are. I mean, if a kid glances at it, they might begin asking their parents questions ,and *gasp* the parents might have to, talk to their children!!!! Oh the horror of making parents be parents!!!!!

Re: Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

Submitted by Rodrigo Ybáñez ... on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 16:53.

United States of America: where everybody is six years old.

Damn, the cover for the Xbox360 version was very tame already.

Re: Catherine Troublesomely Sexy For Public Adverts

Submitted by airford on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 17:48.

THINK OF THE CHIlDREN!!!

Or really, think of the whinning from the parents of the children.

Poll

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DorthLous: Anybody tried Hiversaire? Thoughts?05/22/2013 - 5:48pm

E. Zachary Knight: New Humble Bundle Weekly Sale. Alan Wake: https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly No Linux or Mac support. :(05/22/2013 - 1:46pm

E. Zachary Knight: Microsoft talks about the lack of backward compatability. You're backwards. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/192801/If_youre_backwards_compatible_youre_really_backwards.php05/22/2013 - 1:39pm

E. Zachary Knight: That is absolutely nuts there. As bad an experience XBox Indie Games was, the problems weren't with the self published side of things. Forcing a publisher onto independent studios is not going to help.05/22/2013 - 10:43am

MaskedPixelante: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-22-microsoft-wont-let-indies-self-publish-on-xbox-one And the hits just keep on coming.05/22/2013 - 9:20am

E. Zachary Knight: AE: You beat me to it. That's what I get for taking the night off.05/22/2013 - 7:40am

E. Zachary Knight: To continue the confused and convoluted messaging system present in EA, They are making Wii U games: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/192753/EA_is_working_on_Wii_U_games_after_all.php05/22/2013 - 7:33am

Imautobot: I gotta admit, I seriously believed Microsoft was going to "Bring It" with this new console. But they failed, and I think that failure might be Epic.05/22/2013 - 7:27am

Andrew Eisen: Well, the Xbox One reveal certainly had an interesting affect on the big 3's stock prices. https://twitter.com/AndrewEisen/status/33705126448977100805/21/2013 - 10:45pm

PHX Corp: http://kotaku.com/so-the-xbox-one-reveal-screwed-up-a-lot-of-peoples-kin-509179256 So The Xbox One Reveal Screwed With Some People's Kinects05/21/2013 - 10:36pm

Zen: On a funny side note...both of my boys have already voted NOT to get the Xbox One as soon as they found out Minecraft won't transfer lol. Some people have priorities damnit! ;)05/21/2013 - 9:27pm

Andrew Eisen: Here's the full quote on EA making Wii U games according to Neogaf: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56112105/21/2013 - 8:19pm

Andrew Eisen: Xbox One may not be always on but that doesn't mean you can use it without an internet connection. http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-50916410905/21/2013 - 7:39pm

Andrew Eisen: Polygon says EA's CFO says it is developing games for Wii U but doesn't provide that quote. http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/4351844/ea-developing-wii-u-games05/21/2013 - 7:11pm

Andrew Eisen: Well, I was right. Both Sony and Microsoft's consoles will be out by the year's end and both will be significantly more powerful than the current gen.05/21/2013 - 5:06pm

james_fudge: thnx05/21/2013 - 4:47pm

Zen: Just to let ya know...you called it the "Xbox 260" in the backwards compatibility article lol.05/21/2013 - 4:26pm

Zen: @PHX Awesome, I will hit those up after class tonight. Going back to college finally! :) My kids have had a blast telling ME to do my homework now lol.05/21/2013 - 4:19pm

PHX Corp: @Zen I sent you a friend request on both PSN and XBL, just a heads up05/21/2013 - 4:16pm

Zen: I noticed it with the football players when EA showed off Madden as well.05/21/2013 - 4:11pm

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