From the people behind Atlus Persona Team comes Catherine, a new erotic horror puzzle platformer video game for the PS3 and Xbox 360. After a well received Japanese release last February 17, 2011, Catherine is expected for a North American release 10 days from now, on July 26, 2011.

The game revolves around a man named Vincent Brooks, a 32-year-old office worker who frequents a local bar with his friends living a carefree life. His life began to change when Katherine (with a K) his girlfriend for five years, started to pressure him of taking their relationship to the next level.

While at the bar, Vincent meets Catherine (with a C), a beautiful and mysterious and beautiful 22-year-old woman sits next to him and started to seduce him. They ended up spending the night together at Vincent’s house and exactly after that incident when Vincent started to have nightmares every night, where in those dreams, he and other men who appear as sheep must  try to survive as death in the dream means death also in reality.

For the gameplay: it is like a sim game during the Daytime scenario where Vincent can talk to people and do other stuff but changes to a puzzle game during the Nightmare scenario where Vincent must climb up a dangerous staircase filled with blocks while surviving a various set of traps and nightmarish boss creatures.

When I first saw the trailer for Catherine, what caught my attention was the game’s mysteriously interesting plot and anime-style graphics resembling that of Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series.

For those who can’t wait 10 more days for a date with Catherine, there is a downloadable demo available from the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. And for those with the patience of a sheep, 10 days is not that long of a wait if all goes as expected.