Catherine likes it dirty.

Atlus’ new game – their first attempt in Persona-esque game on next-gen machines was quite a surprise on this year Gamescom. We still don’t know whether it’s a jRPG or adventure game or visual novel , dating sim or mixture of all following, but its electrifying trailer seems to promise much.

Atlus' Catherine shares some similarities to French diva Catherine Deneuve - both blonde, both classy.

Catherine is a story of Vincent (who made his way into P3 as cameo), a sad average guy who meets beautiful yet mysterious hot blonde that many guys would kill for – since then – he is having nightmares in which he turns to a… goat/ram and run for his (real) life through the endless stairs… oh, just another random Japanese story…

Game is produced by Persona regulars, including composer Shōji Meguro, producer Katsuro Hashino and artist Shigenori Soejima. Cut scenes are being made with famous Studio 4C – they made Animatrix and stunning Mind Game, I highly recommend the latter.

Persona series although light hearted at first glance, featured a lot of complex, provocative and sometimes even disturbing themes (which I’m not going to spoil, but Persona 4 shines here) – Catherine seems to be outright suggestive – and actually that’s what the developers wanted. I only hope it won’t get cut when localised in USA and Europe. IF it get’s brought over…

In the end – look at this gorgeous trailer – If I could I will pre-order it right now.

Oh, and if you haven’t played Persona 4 – one of the best games in history  - play it.