At its core, Catherine Full Body is a dating simulator and a puzzle/platformer. Your main purpose in this game is to survive the nightmares and obtain the thirteen different endings. Your success in this game will largely depend on how fast you navigate the puzzle levels and how you navigate the social events.
If you find yourself struggling with certain aspects of the game, or if you want to breeze through additional playthroughs as quickly as possible to get all the different endings, there are a number of tips you can use to make you a pro at this weird game.
10 Just Play
There are a lot of endings in this game and some, like the Rin endings, are complicated and require careful playthroughs. If this is your first time playing the game, just play. Answer the questions truthfully, use whatever items you need to beat the puzzle levels and just have fun.
Your first playthrough is essentially a tutorial to give you experience and learn how the story plays out. Just relax, have fun, chose your answers based on your gut, then after you’ve beaten the game pull out the guides and figure out the optimal ways to play.
9 Talk To Sheep
On landings during the Nightmare puzzles you’ll see various sheep milling about. Some will just have meaningless lines of dialogue, others will slowly give clues as to who they are in the real world, but the important ones will give you tips.
These sheep will teach you how to utilize the new blocks in the game, progress through certain areas, and how to get unstuck in certain scenarios. Make sure you talk to every sheep you come across in order to learn the game and get helpful tips for surviving the puzzles.
8 Get Drunk
For whatever reason getting sloshed will make you faster at navigating blocks in Nightmares which is extremely helpful for the higher difficulties. In the real world you’ll have the ability to take a sip from your drink, three sips will fill a bottle icon on your HUD and filling three bottles will make you drunk.
It’s also important to note that one drink is worth one bottle so you’ll have to order two additional drinks to get drunk so prepare to pay for it. But that additional speed will help you scoop up coins in the puzzles which can offset the cost so it’s always worth it to get hammered, at least in the game it is.
7 Save Often
This game does not have an autosave feature so make sure you are saving as often as possible on multiple save files to avoid losing progress or getting stuck. You can save in the real world by pulling up your phone and going into Data options and in the Nightmare world each landing has a book by the entrance you can save at.
There’s no reason not to save so every Nightmare landing and at least once during the day save your game.
6 Hard Save On Night 9
If you want to see all the different endings, which honestly is the point of this game, then make a hard save at the beginning of the ninth night. The answers you give this night have an impact on which ending you get and there’s still enough answers to nudge your meter one way or the other if you need to.
Having a hard save will allow you to go back and experience the other endings without having to play the entire game over again. It does not necessarily give you access to the Rin endings, but the other ten can be achieved here so make that save file and guard it.
5 Prioritize Finishing The Puzzle
Your main priority each night is to finish the puzzle as quickly and as safely as possible. Doing so will give you a gold ranking on each stage which earns you more enigma coins which can be used to buy things that improve your odds of beating the stage.
So generally speaking and especially towards the end of the game it’s in your best interest to ignore the piles of gold and just beat the level. You’ll get more out of safely completing it than if you had gotten the pile and died on the way up.
4 Farm Gold And Items In The Beginning
Having said that there is an argument to be made for farming gold and items in the early stages. You’ll have more time to climb the puzzle and can easily pick up the gold piles you find. Having this stash of gold early will allow you to buy drinks in the real world to speed up your Nightmare character and get other items to help you win.
But again, if you’re going to do this make sure it doesn’t cost you any of the stage completion bonuses and only do it in the beginning of the game when things are still easy.
3 Use Items Sparingly
The useful items you should buy are White Blocks, Bells, and Black Cap Energy Drinks. White Blocks allow you to place and use them wherever you need on the level, Bells turn all special blocks into normal blocks which can help you breeze through boss levels, and Black Cap Energy Drinks allow you to jump two blocks for a short period of time.
2 Skip Puzzles
Once you’ve beaten the game and are going back through to get the other endings you have the option to skip the puzzle levels and just play the social aspects of the game. This is especially helpful if you didn’t make a hard save on the ninth night and need to replay the entire thing or you're trying to unlock the Rin route.
On your second playthrough at the puzzle level just open the options menu and select the skip option.
1 Safety Mode
If you absolutely hate the puzzle levels and just want to get to the cutscenes and dialogue trees you can skip the puzzles entirely, even on your first playthrough. Simply choose the Safety Mode difficulty level at the beginning of the game or at any point in the game through the options menu.
It really is recommended you try to beat the game without resorting to Safety mode as the puzzle/platformer aspects are what make this game worth it and make you feel like you accomplished something at the end. But ultimately it’s your call.