Why Catherina isnt a playable character...

[Sohkka]

I can accept the fact that there is no rommance in this game, like okay it hurts but i get it... but having actually good characters that you cannot use on your party... common bro

[Faiyez]

Hifumi Togo

[REBirthTheEdge]

I'm actually mad that some followers aren't playable, Catherina is one, Brigitta is the other.

They should have some battle support roles.

[Slacker]

Yeah, Brigitta and Catherina. So sad :(

[Atlas]

Omg tell me about it. Catherina and Brigitta are the two characters whose designs stood out so much that I immediately thought "oh, can't wait to see what they can do later", just to find out they're only confidants -_-

How are you about to cook so hard on character designs like that, and not even have them be front and center in the game? All of this on top of having zero romances to cultivate, which to me at least, has always been half the fun of Atlus games. Such a bummer. Awesome game, but such a bummer.

[Drakeeper]

They're saving that for future DLC/enhanced version, of course.

[Sohkka]

Originally posted by Darkeeper:

They're saving that for future DLC/enhanced version, of course.

they better fcking add them on a dlc, its just such a dumb decision to not include them when its probably the first thought every player had when they meet them

[Manfred]

Originally posted by A MATTER BABY:

Yeah, Brigitta and Catherina. So sad :(

Really?
man,what a waste

[FhqwhTODD]

Originally posted by Sohkka:

it hurts but i get it...

Please get some help.

[scoobythedoo]

Originally posted by Faiyez:

Hifumi Togo

this is the answer; dude is scared of girls

[Sohkka]

Originally posted by Gottkaiser Fhqwhgod:

Originally posted by Sohkka:

it hurts but i get it...

Please get some help.

Braindead comment lol

[LINK]

theyre saving her for the rerelease common atlus strategy

[mono_sloth]

Originally posted by LINK:

theyre saving her for the rerelease common atlus strategy

It's gonna be the ultra ultimate director's cut season pass dlc with ray tracing remaster.

[Kapika96]

She really should've been. The moment I saw her I thought "yay, new party member" and then... nothing.

Took so long to finally get a 4th party member, and the gap to the 5th was huge too. Really would've been ideal to have another party member added early on, and Catherina was the perfect candidate for that.

[Tiasmoon]

Originally posted by Sohkka:

I can accept the fact that there is no rommance in this game, like okay it hurts but i get it... but having actually good characters that you cannot use on your party... common bro

Its important to also have great characters that aren't part of the main party. It helps a lot in making the world feel more alive.

[Null Winter]

Catherina is one of the first named characters you can meet on your first time in Grand Trad; she's idling on the entrance street. You then meet her as a mandatory questgiver in the first "real" dungeon, complete with an altered and unique character model for her during that period. Her goals mostly align with your group, aside from increased aggression and a desire for perceived justice; this was likely meant to contrast her against the protag's idea of a utopia. After all that, she ends up as just a world map fight to boost her bond rank; that was a lot of effort and build-up to then not even formally involve her in the tournament since she doesn't show up in most scenes relating to it.

Several of the other tournament participants are shown in the big tourney intro cutscene, and then they drop out of the race entirely after the first or second time you beat them on the world map. Why go to the effort of making a unique non-human model, several different art portraits for multiple emotions, and hiring a VA if you're going to drop an interesting character like Lina from the plot after a single fight?

Godell also feels wasted as a rival; he feared always being in the background, and his fear came true since he was constantly ignored until the devs remembered he'd be a good scapegoat for bad writing causing a rapid series of plot holes.