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.

Shout box

RedMage: The cover art thing points to an industry trend of only wanting to appeal to teen boys despite the talk of "broadening the appealz"06/19/2013 - 6:17pm

RedMage: I'd like to turn myself in for unintentional theft of a joke. Ignorance of the law is no excuse :o06/19/2013 - 6:17pm

Andrew Eisen: Remember the fight to get Last of Us's Ellie on the game cover? Check this out: http://cheezburger.com/758618624006/19/2013 - 6:12pm

Andrew Eisen: RedMage - Thief! You stole my joke! You're a horrible, loathesome person! Or you simply had the same idea and didn't read my earlier shout!06/19/2013 - 5:35pm

RedMage: Maybe they're going to rename it the Xbox 18006/19/2013 - 5:26pm

IanC: Bet EA are pissed.06/19/2013 - 5:17pm

Andrew Eisen: Ah, James is just a little quicker on the keyboard than I!06/19/2013 - 5:07pm

Craig R.: Too little, too late.06/19/2013 - 4:52pm

DorthLous: PWAHAHAHAH, the MS spinning sound woke me up :)06/19/2013 - 4:27pm

Andrew Eisen: Microsoft's new console shall now be known as the Xbox One-Eighty.06/19/2013 - 4:17pm

Andrew Eisen: I imagine we were typing our respective shouts at the same time.06/19/2013 - 4:14pm

MaskedPixelante: So Andrew... is there going to be a new poll now? I mean, the one about the XBO DRM is kinda no longer relevant.06/19/2013 - 4:13pm

Andrew Eisen: In light of Xbox One's furious backpeddling on its DRM policies, I'm closing the poll for now. I'll probably write a new one later today or tomorrow.06/19/2013 - 4:11pm

IanC: Found three people whining about this so far. Saying that its because of cheapasses and that its going to be horrible online now. W T and indeed F.06/19/2013 - 4:09pm

Andrew Eisen: Technogeek - I agree but: "After a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again." Why do I need to connect online to set up a system I'm not going to use online?06/19/2013 - 4:07pm

Technogeek: @Andrew Eisen: I can't really see any other possible use for the one-time setup given the listed changes.06/19/2013 - 3:58pm

PHX Corp: http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update it's available as of now06/19/2013 - 3:49pm

MaskedPixelante: Backpedal! Backpedal like the wind!06/19/2013 - 3:47pm

Andrew Eisen: Here's a telling bit: the page with the updates to the DRM? Yeah, it's down right now. And MS wonders why this "online check" stuff irks us so much.06/19/2013 - 3:40pm

Imautobot: Damage is done, I am not going to give them another chance.06/19/2013 - 3:38pm

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