A Second Culdcept Revolt Nintendo Direct is on the Way in Japan

It's on the cards

by Thomas Whitehead Fri 17th Jun 2016

In early May Nintendo hosted a Japanese Nintendo Direct for Culdcept Revolt, and interesting 3DS title heading for a July release in the country.

It was an intriguing watch, and it's a big deal in Japan as it's the first entry in the series for a number of years. Nintendo is now lining up a second Direct dedicated to the game, with the live stream video popping up on our YouTube feed.

It's going down on 22nd June at 4am Pacific / 7am Eastern / noon UK / 1pm CET; that's actually a prime-time slot of 8pm in Japan, which is the target audience. When covering the first broadcast we learnt quite a lot about its gameplay and strategic usage of cards - it is, essentially, a virtual brand of the sort of complex fantasy card games that are popular around the world.

This series hasn't had a release in the West for 14 years, so odds are slim this will make it out of Japan. We'll be live blogging it out of curiosity, nevertheless; you can re-watch the first Direct below.

Tom has been involved in the games industry for over a decade, mostly writing about it or struggling to sell Indie games. Loves reading, writing, hunting Capcom’s fiercest monsters and watching baseball.

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argh4430
Fri 17th Jun 2016

I wonder what the hold could be. People were pretty receptive to Lucadian Chronicles, iand Yu-gi-oh is getting another 3DS release in the west, imagine what a game like that pushed by Nintendo could do.

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manu0
Fri 17th Jun 2016

For a couple of platinum coins you can get a starter version on my Nintendo

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ianl579
Fri 17th Jun 2016

Japan gets two directs in two months and we haven't had ONE since March. 😡

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doll
Fri 17th Jun 2016

i'm surprised they don't think a card-style fantasy game could be popular here, given hearthstone and magic. i would give it a try....

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Kingrat
Fri 17th Jun 2016

Here's hoping this does come out in the west, we could always use more strategy games on the 3DS. I noticed the gameplay featured a fair amount of English voice acting, which is ever so slightly reassuring.

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JohnBlackstar
Fri 17th Jun 2016

@thomasbw84 The last game released in the USA was Culdcept Saga about 10 years ago on the Xbox 360. An amazingly awesome game. Played it to death, but it didn't sell very well. 😞

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BakaKnight
Fri 17th Jun 2016

These directs are too painful, it's ages I'm waiting the chance to play a culdcept game; years ago I read a manga about it and I loved it, too bad I had to discover it was related to a game never released in Europe >.<

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Moon
Fri 17th Jun 2016

Desperate for a Direct.

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Aozz101x
Fri 17th Jun 2016

Can we have a Direct, please, Thanks Nintendo.

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TOUGHDUDE94
Fri 17th Jun 2016

Can we have pokemon direct to show off the crystal in the watch.Also include pokemon gold,silver and Crystal please.We want it.

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Joeynator3000
Fri 17th Jun 2016

Meh...

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Kirby-life
Fri 17th Jun 2016

I have no idea what they're saying but the game looks kind of interesting. It's a shame it probably won't be coming to the west but I understand why.

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SteamedSquid
Fri 17th Jun 2016

Culdcept was one of my favorite PS2 games back in the day. I'd love to see this stateside.

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JohnBlackstar
Sat 18th Jun 2016

Hopefully they code this game better than it was on the Xbox 360. The game would make the 360 have slow down and tearing. Nintendo should release a Mario version for the west to get people interested and then release with the Culdcept card deck. The game is amazing. Way better than Fortune Street which they brought over for Wii.