Atlus paid a visit to GameSpot recently and now we can finally hear the voices in the English version of Catherine.

Here are the links to the three videos:

Making a Mistake Cutscene
Can’t Chain Him Down Cutscene
Cheating Discussion Cutscene

You should have a pretty good idea on what to expect in the English version by now. I have to say that I am personally satisfied with this quality of voice acting. Then again, Atlus had done a great job localizing the Persona games so I expect nothing less.

So Atlus has brought back three familiar voice actors from their Persona games: Troy Baker (Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4), Laura Bailey (Rise Kujikawa from Persona 4), and Michelle Ruff (Yukari Takeba from Persona 3). In Catherine, they are representing Vincent Brooks, Catherine, and Katherine McBride respectfully. I thought Laura Bailey voicing as Catherine fits really well since Rise Kujikawa had a flirtatious attitude as well XD.

There is one bad thing about the English version though… The characters’ lip movements are still according to their Japanese voices. For Square Enix, they went the extra mile to lip sync every character in Final Fantasy XIII according to their English voices, including the FMV cutscenes. However the quality of the voice acting leave something to be desired. Since Atlus is not doing that, I really hope we can switch between the English and Japanese voices in the options menu. Other than the lip sync issue, I don’t think I have any other complaints.

So if you are still really interested in Catherine, you can go for the “Love Is Over” Deluxe Edition. It comes with Vincent’s boxers, Vincent and Catherine’s T-shirt, pillow case with sexy Catherine printed on it, and all these will be packaged in a “Stray Sheep” restaurant pizza box. Oh yeah, you know how the English version’s box art is “censored”? Well good news, because the Deluxe Edition comes with the original Japanese Vincent-in-cleavage box art.

Catherine will be released on 26 July 2011 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.