40 Fun Facts About Catherine (Video Game)

Catherine's cocktail trivia gives rum and cola which formal name?

Cuba libre means Free Cuba, the slogan of the island's independence movement, and the drink caught on shortly after 1900, when bottled Coca-Cola was first imported there.

In Catherine, the stranger who seduces Vincent Brooks at the Stray Sheep is really which being?

Succubus is her true nature, and Vincent later realises he seems to be the only person aware of her, with her messages gone from his phone.

Catherine's cocktail trivia covers Prohibition, when America's illegal bars went by which name?

Speakeasies leaned on sweet mixed drinks because honey, fruit juice and other flavourings masked the foul taste of bootleg liquor.

Which bedtime item, found in Catherine's nightmare stages, gives Vincent extra retries?

Pillow pickups each grant fewer retries as the difficulty rises, and Full Body turns them into extra undo moves instead.

The word whisky, as Catherine's bar trivia explains, comes from a Gaelic phrase with which meaning?

Water of life is a translation of aqua vitae, the Latin name for distilled alcohol, which Gaelic speakers rendered as uisce beatha.

Which voice actor, also Kanji in Persona 4, plays Vincent Brooks in Catherine's English dub?

Troy Baker returned for Full Body eight years on, though the team reused his original 20-second scream rather than strain his voice.

Catherine's whisky trivia says whisky starts as grain, while brandy is distilled from what?

Wine gives brandy its name too: the word shortens the Dutch brandewijn, which literally means burned wine.

Between Catherine's nightmare stages, Vincent answers a moral question while seated inside what?

A confessional closes every landing, and when the console is online the game graphs how other players answered the same question.

Catherine's whisky trivia covers the spelling with an e, standard in the US and which other country?

Ireland and the United States write whiskey while Scotland, Canada and Japan drop the e, though a few American labels such as Maker's Mark drop it too.

Which Persona 5 Phantom Thief joins Catherine: Full Body as a playable guest via DLC?

Joker arrives with two new cutscenes featuring the rest of the Persona 5 cast, who also chip in with commentary while he climbs.

The best-known fizz, a cocktail family in Catherine's bar trivia, is built on which spirit?

Gin fizzes were such a hit in New Orleans that bars hired teams of bartenders who took turns shaking them.

Which amnesiac pianist at the Stray Sheep is the third love interest added in Catherine: Full Body?

Rin can be called on inside the nightmares to halt the tower's collapse for a short time, a rescue the original game never had.

Catherine's beer trivia places a 9,000-year-old brew of rice and fruit in which country?

China's Neolithic village of Jiahu left pottery jars whose residue revealed a fermented mix of rice, honey, grapes and hawthorn.

Which console received Catherine: Full Body in 2020, a year after the PlayStation 4 version?

Nintendo Switch owners got every piece of downloadable content bundled in, while the earlier handheld edition never left Japan.

Catherine's beer trivia cites Mesopotamia, where the oldest surviving recipe brews it from what?

Bread made from barley, as the poem's main ingredient is usually read, starts the brew in a 3,900-year-old Sumerian hymn to Ninkasi, the goddess of brewing.

Which Stray Sheep waitress brings Vincent a fresh drink each time he finishes one in Catherine?

Erica has the same English voice as the game's narrator: Erin Fitzgerald plays both the waitress and the host Trisha.

Which country makes Spirytus, the 96% spirit Catherine's bar trivia calls the world's strongest?

Poland's Polmos bottles it at 96% alcohol, just short of the roughly 97% ceiling that conventional stills can reach.

What does drinking at the Stray Sheep give Vincent in Catherine's nightmare stages that night?

Faster movement is the reward for filling the three-bottle meter, and the only cost is that Vincent staggers around the bar itself.

As Catherine's whisky trivia notes, a single malt is the product of a single what?

Distillery is the word that matters: most single malts marry several batches at bottling, so long as one site made them all.

Which fictional TV programme frames Catherine's story and names its single-player mode?

Golden Playhouse is fronted by Trisha, the self-styled Midnight Venus, who introduces Vincent's story and returns to close it.

Which Catherine character, the bar owner known as Boss, is behind the nightmares?

Thomas Mutton targets men who will not commit to marriage and family, convinced that humanity's population is growing too slowly.

As Catherine's bar trivia explains, what is whisky lost to evaporation in the cask called?

Angels' share vapour feeds a dark fungus that coats most surfaces close to the places where spirits are left to age.

Which actress, also Rise in Persona 4, voices the seductive Catherine in Catherine's English dub?

Laura Bailey found the part strange to record, because she thinks of the actor playing Vincent as a brotherly figure.

Which hangover cure in Catherine's cocktail trivia is a raw egg with Worcestershire sauce?

Prairie oyster is swallowed in one gulp so that the yolk stays whole, which gives the drink a texture similar to the shellfish.

Which Japanese spirit in Catherine's sake trivia is distilled, often from sweet potatoes?

Shochu takes its name from a term meaning burned liquor, a nod to the heat of the still, and it is a cousin of Korean soju.

What did Atlus add to Catherine in a patch weeks after its 2011 Japanese launch?

An easy mode arrived by patch in March 2011 after Japanese players complained the game was too hard, and Catherine went on to ship a million copies worldwide.

Which fairy-tale arcade game at the Stray Sheep lets Vincent practise Catherine's puzzles?

Rapunzel is no innocent pastime: the bar's owner laced it with subliminal messages to draw its players into the nightmares.

Which Catherine: Full Body difficulty removes the time limit and lets players skip puzzles?

Safety also rules out a game over, so players who only want the plot can leave the block towers to an autoplay function.

Catherine was an official side event at Evo 2015, a tournament devoted to which genre?

Fighting games are all Evo normally hosts, and Catherine's developers said its popularity as an esport took them by surprise.

In Catherine's true Freedom ending, Vincent wins a wrestling bet and spends the money on what?

A trip to space is his long-held dream, which sits oddly with Full Body's reveal that the story unfolds on an American space colony.

Which drink from Catherine's cocktail trivia stacks liqueurs by density into coloured bands?

Pousse-café means coffee-pusher in French, and one New Orleans bartender was known to float 34 liqueurs in a single small glass.

Which Jesuit, in Japan from 1549, does Catherine's trivia call sake's first Western drinker?

Francis Xavier travelled with Anjirō, a fugitive from a murder charge who had sought him out in Malacca and became the first Japanese Christian.

Which cloudy sake, named in Catherine's bar trivia, is only coarsely filtered?

Nigori still counts as refined sake under Japanese liquor law, unlike doburoku, which is never pressed at all.

Which Mesopotamian shepherd god does the Stray Sheep's owner turn out to be in Catherine?

Dumuzid, also called Tammuz, was ritually mourned every midsummer, and his cult later reached Greece, where he became Adonis.

Which director of Persona 3 and Persona 4 conceived Catherine as a game aimed squarely at adults?

Katsura Hashino wrote the first scenario alone, then asked colleagues about their own love lives so the triangle would ring true.

Which Persona series composer reworked classical pieces for the nightmare stages of Catherine?

Shoji Meguro worked to his director's key words, among them classic and erotic, and his team kept jazz for quiet moments and symphonic music for the anime scenes.

The younger Catherine was modelled on which actress, Vincent Gallo's co-star in Buffalo '66?

Christina Ricci's co-star shaped the hero too: Vincent Brooks is named after Vincent Gallo and based on Billy Brown, the character Gallo plays in the film.

Which animation house, maker of Tekkonkinkreet, spent about a year on Catherine's anime cutscenes?

Studio 4°C delivered far more footage than the half hour a Persona game then carried, and came back to animate twenty more scenes for Full Body.

Which big-name sequel, released in Japan the same day, did Catherine outsell by two to one?

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was the bigger name, yet Catherine's PlayStation 3 version alone topped the Japanese chart with more than 140,000 copies.

In Catherine's secret ending, host Trisha reveals herself as which Mesopotamian goddess?

Ishtar hides in plain sight, since Trisha is an anagram of the name, and she offers to make the player a god at her side.