Design Exploration - Catherine

The website I'm exploring promotes the video game "Catherine" for the PS3 developed by Atlus. The theme of the game is horror.
Atlus is Japanese video game company. They develop Japanese Role playing games (Jrpgs) and other niche titles.

http://cathy.atlus.co.jp/

The site starts off by welcoming you with two hanging pendulum, that are click able, which each pendulum will take you to the main site but depending on which pendulum you chose will show a different main character for the background(Katherine if you chose the left or Catherine if you chose the right). like that right from the start they give user interaction. Also that it plays to the consumer's preference of which character they prefer On the main page the background and site layout are formed, followed by the logo for the game, and music from the game's soundtrack begins to play. The layout is simple, small, and user friendly.

The theme of the site is clock based, so all the navigational buttons are pendulums. when you scroll over them the text bordering the button rotates.
When clicking on any of the navigational buttons, it makes a seamless transitions to wherever it is navigating while staying on the same page. each transition uses a flash based fade in. I enjoy that they use a fade in because it fits with the theme of the game they are promoting which is horror, the fade in gives an ominous feel. I thought it was very well done.

I like that the site has many buttons at the bottom which are there for the entire time, which is for some of their other media, like links to their twitter, news feed, smaller promotions, and to the developer's main website.

My Favorite section of the site is navigating to the "Characters" section. It shows all the main characters, and when you scroll over each character, they pop out a bit, and the relation ship between the characters is shown by circling them in a low opacity bubble and fade in arrows pointing to who's connected to who. When you click on a character, it takes you to their profile and gives you info on them. you can also cycle through them by clicking the arrow(that is actually a male symbol) on the left or right.