User:Cukie Gherkin/Catherine and Katherine

Catherine and Katherine are a pair of characters in the 2011 video game Catherine.

Concept and creation
Katherine is portrayed in English by Michelle Ruff.

Reception
In a poll by Deep Silver of who European respondents would pick between Catherine and Katherine, Katherine won by 59 percent. Destructoid writer Charlotte Cutts noted that on her second playthrough, she felt herself liking Catherine more and Katherine less, noting that Katherine being a "flawed human" made it easier for her to be resented than Catherine, who is "relatively straightforward" and is a certain way due to her origins. She says that Katherine comes off as an "unsympathetic nag," saying that Katherine seems to force Vincent into conforming into what people their age should be doing. She discussed the perspective that Katherine seemed to care about getting married more than marrying Vincent, citing how she keeps him out of decisions about the marriage, though noted that Vincent's ineptitude may justify her not including him. She also touched upon the idea that Katherine and Catherine portray a tsundere/yandere relationship, suggesting that it goes against this by Katherine having some yandere traits as well. GamesRadar writer Kimberley Ballard discussed the tendency of some reviewers to identify Katherine as the "typical nagging girlfriend," suggesting that the reviewers being male may have influenced their criticisms of Katherine. She also criticized the game for making Katherine and Catherine too basic of female stereotypes; she discussed how Katherine was "the girlfriend we all fear," citing her cold gaze and her being "beautiful but frightening." She described Katherine's portrayal as not being a woman, but a "responsibility, and it’s not too hard to see that with a serious relationship comes death."

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