Gamers know as a culture that Japan can produce some quite interesting and weird games, many of which do not leave the oriental shores of the land of the rising sun due to lack of demand, or just no interest from publishers. It seemed earlier in 2011 that this was the fate that Catherine was going to be consigned to. Upon many requests from the media, Atlus always said Catherine was a Japanese only release, but they were either holding off an announcement or surprised by the want for the game and have now brought the game to the west. We played the Japanese version upon its release and were intrigued by gameplay and story (or what we could tell of it anyway) and it has translated to the western world quite well.