Catherine Full Body

The cult classic puzzle game Catherine brought the meaning of masculinity to a terrifying new level as players pit on the role of Vincent Brooks, a man cursed by the Woman's Wrath and climbs his way to survive the nightmares of his masculinity torn by two women, one's named Katherine McBride and the other's named, you guessed it, Catherine. With Valentine's Day here, the game that ruined masculinity is back with a twist and everything you know about the story of Catherine has changed.

Catherine Full Body

Catherine Full Body brings a terrifying new twist on the unconventional romantic horror we are familiar with as well as the puzzles to climb your way to freedom. Players will return to the story of Vincent Brooks, an earnest and kind man with a certain curse who has a terrifying week. He keeps seeing those terrifying nightmares all because of the women that tore his life apart. Since this is the Full Body version, not only Vincent will ran into his love interest Katherine McBride and the mysterious young woman named Catherine, but this fresh new rewrite introduces a new, mysterious character goes by the name of, ahem, Qatherine or Rin for short. How the story goes and ends is all up to you.

The gameplay fans are familiar with has been rewritten as well and those who are unfamiliar with the game are introduced with the new Safety difficulty setting. This very easy setting allows first-timers to keep playing without getting Game Over as well as undo several times and engage Auto-Play. Apart from the new setting, players can play in either Standard or Arrange. The Standard mode lets players familiar with the Catherine game play classic puzzles while the Arrange mode features new and terrifying ways to survive. There are over 500 ways to play Catherine Full Body, so don't be shy.

If you had fun revisiting the story of Catherine, you can challenge everyone in a two-player mode, either local or online, versus or co-op, whatever you want if you got the balls to climb your way to the top faster than everyone else in the world.

At launch, the full Catherine experience gets expanded with numerous DLCs such as additional playable characters and several voices for Catherine. If you bought the Dynamite Full Body BOX set, you get early access to the Nero glass DLC apart from all of the goodies you got from the box set. Come end of February, you can play as Joker from Persona 5 as a DLC character.

This terrifying rewrite to the 2011 cult classic puzzle game wants new and returning players to see if they have the balls to take on the Woman's Wrath once again while making the most crucial choice to see if they are man enough for their relationships. The original Catherine had shook everyone's feet with their terrifying puzzles to solve and this Full Body version made it even more terrifying but downright humorous in a dark comic matter and whether if you are familiar with this game or those who want to try it in the first place should consider this game worth the shot.

PERSONA3 Dancing Moon Night & PERSONA5 Dancing Star Night

A few years ago, ATLUS' Persona RPG franchise went to a different side of the moon with PERSONA4 Dancing All Night where the Investigation Team went to a new kind of Persona adventure and it involves dancing their way to the greatest hits and remixes as heard from the world of P4. So, the question now is with the Investigation Team had their fun, are the S.E.E.S. and The Phantom Thieves joining the fun as well? Yes, they can!

PERSONA3 Dancing Moon Night (PS4)

PERSONA5 Dancing Star Night (PS4)

Drop your weapons and step into your dancing shoes because two new additions to the Persona Dance spinoffs have arrived and like you experienced with P4D, you can dance with your favorite P3 and P5 characters through the greatest hits from the games, including remixes. Time to get KING CRAZY once again with these new installments!

Like the last one, both P3D and P5D are basically rhythm-based games and as rhythm-based games, players need to mash the corresponding buttons as shown in the screen and complete the song as the crow flies. Simple as that. Some go for the score challenge, others go for the combo challenge, but few are rising up to the challenge by going FULL COMBO in all of the in-game tracklists at all difficulty settings, which is very Herculean by rhythm-based game standards but it sure is addicting more than beating up dark shadows.

In P3D, you can dance as your favorite characters from the PERSONA3 games such as the main character (Makoto Yuki), Junpei Iori, Yukari Takeba, Aegis, Mitsuru Kirijou, Akihiko Sanada, Fuka Yamagishi, and Ken Amada, among many others. In P5D, meanwhile, you can dance as the main character (Ren Amamiya), Ryuji Sakamoto, Anne Takamaki, Morgana, Yusuke Kitagawa, Makoto Nijima, Futaba Sakura, and Haru Okumura, among many others. There are other characters coming soon in the game via DLC, most are playable only in Free Dance mode.

Throughout the game, if a player finishes a song, regardless of clear results, they'll get cash to purchase costumes for their favorite characters, spicing things up on your next gameplay. Heck, they can even progress their way to get new and exciting rewards for bragging rights as well. As they clear certain conditions, they can progress through the Communication part of the game, where you get to meet your favorite characters through talking but choose your words well because it's hard to predict the outcome from your favorites. If you have a PlayStationVR, you can even get a glimpse to the sights and sounds from the world of P3 and P5.

So, with P3D and P5D, the Persona dance craze just got even more crazier than ever. You can purchase them separately or go all-out attack with the Persona Dancing All Star Triple Pack which includes not just both games but also a digital copy of PERSONA4 Dancing All Night on the Playstaton4. Not only that, it even comes with a four-disc original soundtrack as well! Yours for 16,880 Yen plus tax and delivery.

For the PSVita versions, there's the Dancing Deluxe Twin Pack featuring not just both games and the four-disc soundtrack but also costumes straight from ATULS' hit games. Yours for 15,780 Yen plus tax and delivery.

From the Tartarus to the Mementos, enjoy dancing with your favorite S.E.E.S. members or Phantom Thieves tonight!

THE IDOLM@STER MUST SONGS

This is where the THE IDOLM@STER 10th Anniversary celebration come in full circle because 10 years of IDOLM@STER songs come together in a very special PSVita game made in collaboration with the iconic Taiko No Tatsujin rhythm games. This is THE IDOLM@STER MUST SONGS, a celebration of 10 years of IM@S songs come together in a very special Taiko No Tatsujin game for every IM@S veteran or newcomer will enjoy.

THE IDOLM@STER MUST SONGS
(Red Version)

THE IDOLM@STER MUST SONGS
(Blue Version)

Ideally, there are two versions of MUST SONGS, Red and Blue, and each version contains a different playlists commemorating 10 years of THE IDOLM@STER. The red version features the first IM@S songs recorded since its July 2005 debut till 2010 while the blue version features songs heard from the 2nd Vision era as well as heard from the anime series and live performances up to the present day. But either way, this Taiko no Tatsujin game gives players a brilliant way to discover the history of THE IDOLM@STER franchise and enjoy hit songs as heard from the franchise. There's also special appearances of rival idols such as 876 Pro's Dearly Stars as well as Jupiter and elite idol Leon as seen on One For All.

In Live Festival, there are different set to playlists to master and most of the playlists are heavily inspired from the games, anime series, and live events alike. Pick one and Dodonggadon like you always do in a Taiko no Tatsujin game. If you done well in any of the playlists, you'll receive in-game cash suitable to unlock playlists as well as purchasing some extras to customize this game from the coordinates, sound effects, and many many others. Keep increasing your Produce Rank and you can buy more and more items that will fit your liking. Kinda reminds you of Shiny Festa except a thousand times more manageable, I dare say?

Let's not keep this observation a bit longer, okay, but rest assured that MUST SONGS is the ultimate history lesson in the history of THE IDOLM@STER. Ever since its debut in 2005, THE IDOLM@STER has been transformed into one of Bandai Namco's most successful titles to date. From the long list of games, the anime series, the movie, the live events, the music CDs, no one comes close when it comes to the historical back catalog that made us salivated.

THE IDOLM@STER MUST SONGS is now available for PSVita for 5,700 Yen (plus tax).

Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts

Last autumn 2013, Infinite Stratos returned for its explosive and high-octane second season in Infinite Stratos 2. The second season of IS...some follow, others change lanes. It's their move. After getting the fans fasten their seatbelts on the New IS, there's still more assault in store for the New IS even after the second season concluded.

Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts (PS3)

Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts (PSVita)

The first ever video game in the IS franchise finally power-slided our way exclusively on the Playstation systems, namely the PS3 and the PSVita hand-held console. So, what's it all about the new Infinite Stratos video game? To find out, time to press the ENGINE START STOP button from the inside of the IS and let's go because this is going to be one heck of a ride! Be warned though...Professional Driver. Closed Course. Do Not Attempt.

In this game, Ichika has lost his memory and it's up to the girls to retrieve back his memories no matter what it takes. Simple as that and that's just the start because while strapping yourselves on the driver's seat for the heck of it, Ignition Hearts is in the form of a dating-sim game with a difference and in this different kind of dating-sim, choices are the critical point of the game because even a slight mistake would cost you badly. Whether if its facing with Houki Shinonono, Cecilia Alcott, Huang Lingyin, Charlotte Dunois, Laura Bodewig, and the Sarashiki girls (Tatenashi and Kanzashi), your judgement is on balance between a success or failure. Keep them happy and their Ignition point will raise but get it wrong, their Stress point will raise and if its too much stress, the game is over...unless you want to trigger the Passion Event. Be careful when your out there or you will be in big trouble.

This is how it's done with one of the following official videos:



Because both the PS3 game and the PSVita game were launched simultaneously, you can take advantage of its cross-save feature. This is a very convenient Playstation feature. Play this game on the PS3 and if you want to continue while you're away, initiate the cross-save and continue your gameplay to your PSVita.

Having talked through the fundamentals of this dating-sim game based on the hit anime series, Ignition Hearts is not quite a bad game for an IS fan but because of such complicating ways this dating-sim has to offer, it's going to be a lot more difficult as you faced with numerous dating-sim games in the past but when you get the hang of it, it's not really bad at all. As a quick precaution, you might run into several unusual scenes as you progress in the mission to recover Ichika's memories such in the case of one of the characters who is going to be your fiance or wife or whatever stuff that is surely going to be messy.

Like the anime series, Ignition Hearts features the opening theme song by Minami Kuribayashi and the closing theme song by the IS girls. Opening song is titled coloration while the Ending theme is titled Grow Up Shining!!

Onto the limited editio;, for those who've already pre-ordered it, the limited edition in both the PS3 and the PSVita versions come with a SD figure of Charlotte and the soundtrack CD. For the PS3 version, players get a product code for the swimsuits while PSVita owners get the bath towel costume code.

And that's the end of this...test drive. You're free to come out from the IS now.

Silent Hill Book of Memories

Now, anyway, Silent Hill. You may remember that last year, there was a follow-up to the 2006 movie based on Konami's Silent Hill game called Silent Hill Revelations and that main protagonist kinda reminds us of that main character from SH3, anyone saw that film?

Anyway, shortly after that, there's another Silent Hill video game called Silent Hill Downpour. It was available exclusively for the PS3 and the scare never been so bad, so bad and scary, those who have it had wee their pants while spending hours of playing it. Just as you thought it's safe to go out there after a day's game, you were wrong because there's another Silent Hill game coming out to scare you but this time it's in the palm of your hands via your PSVita.

Silent Hill Book of Memories

Silent Hill Book of Memories is the first ever Silent Hill game made exclusively for the PSVita system but this game is more than that because this is the first ever Silent Hill game to have multiplayer gameplay, meaning that with the help of your friends, you can conquer your fears against your favorite Silent Hill monsters page after page after page.

It all started as a book where all your life's past and present were written and if you have the chance to rewritten what's done, you can alter the past. Oh dear, timey-wimey perspective but anyway, this Book Of Memories game is a stand-alone to Konami's flagship survival horror franchise and it focused more on multiplayer gameplay rather than psychological horror. Book of Memories allows players to create their own characters and immerse themselves to the world of Silent Hill, solving puzzles, collect items, brave through the scare rooms and face against some of the most memorable foes in the Silent Hill history such as the iconic Pyramid Head (one of the fan favorites), the Silent Hill nurses, the Bogeyman from Silent Hill Downpour, the Butcher from SH Zero, the Valtiel from SH3, the Double Head, the Straight Jacket, and Robbie, many others.

This survival horror game is too scary to play if you're alone but if you're teaming up with a buddy via co-op, you can work together to solve puzzles, fend off beasts, and take down bosses, the same moment when you're co-oping with your buddy since PW but forget about that. Sometimes when you're teaming up with your mates, Book of Memories keeps on getting harder and harder and harder until one of your mates say that this is getting too scary to work with you. Yeah, what a scary way to scare your friends by teaming up to play Book of Memories, you know what I mean?

Because the rooms are made to scare your wits, the supplies are limited, and the same Silent Hill darkness enveloped to your PSVita, Silent Hill Book of Memories really is a challenging game even for seasoned Silent Hill veterans. You have to make use of your effective strategy on how will you preserve your limited supplies, attacking enemies, and whatever it takes to survive an unforgiving world full of evil. At your first gameplay, you think that this is oh so piece of cake but as you progressed, it gets even more challenging until you came to the part that it takes hardcore guts to conquer your darkest fears.

Overall, Silent Hill Book of Memories is a game too scary to set off alone and you need help from your mates via co-op to save yourselves from the fear that haunts your deepest darkest secrets. Good luck...