When A Deluxe Edition Changes Everything

Since its release in 2011, there hasn't been a game quite like Catherine. It attempts to tackle tough topics about adult relationships, though it handles its subject matter somewhat clumsily (in my opinion).

Eight years after the original release, an enhanced edition titled Catherine: Full Body was released. It address a lot of oversights and shortcomings in the original game. It adds some new story stuff, several endings, and a new major character.

And it also changes everything.

Catherine: Full Body makes some fundamental changes to the original game. Is this enhanced version even about the same thing anymore?

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Games Discussed: Catherine (2011) / Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Windows / Publisher: ATLUS / Developer: P-Studio / Genre: Story-Heavy, Puzzle, Simulation, Dating Sim, RPG

Catherine: Full Body (2019) / Platforms: Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch / Publisher: ATLUS / Develoepr: Studio Zero / Genre: Story-Heavy, Puzzle, Simulation, Dating Sim, RPG, Remake

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Additional Works Cited: Hatfleid, Elaine, "Passionate and Companionate Love," from "The Psychology of Love" edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Michael L. Barnes (1985)

Hatfield, Elaine and Sprecher, Susan, "Measuring Passionate Love in Intimate Relationships" from The Journal of Adolescence,(1986)

Sternberg, Robert, “A Triangular Theory of Love,” from Psychological Review (1986)

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