Familiarise Yourself With The Rules Of Culdcept Revolt Before It Arrives On 3DS This August

The beefcake made me click.

Yes, pre-ordered this edition. Have been interested in this series, but many of them haven't made it out of Japan. Looking forward to trying it, and glad to see Kinu Nishimura (Zero Escape, Code of Princess, etc) doing the character design!

I tried the ds version years ago, kinda slow paced, but very addictive, you'll tell yourself "just one more turn" for hours...But I really hope it's on Switch though, don't wanna play on 3ds no more.

I don't know a single thing about this game but the concept has piqued my interest.

And for those of us in Europe, it's out on 1st September (seeing as Nlife didn't bother to mention Europe, as usual).

https://store.nisaeurope.com/pages/release-schedule-1

@RainbowGazelle
It is an article about NIS America.....

After reading through the mechanics, Culdcept is like the Command Board from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep! Or vice versa, Culdcept is older, but now I'm definitely interested, especially since it's deeper than the Command Board!

@RainbowGazelle

Article is about a NIS America website.

Someone gets upset there's no Europe release date mentioned.

Really nice limited edition, but I can't justify buying these anymore. I don't do anything with them. They just clutter up my house.

@RainbowGazelle May be a good time to use the contact form and give them the News Tip

Anyway, I am interested in board and card games. This certainly peaks my interest.

Limited edition bundle is only $60. $48 if you have Amazon Prime. That is a tempting price I think. I don't know if this will be my kind of game but that bundle looks nice.

looks cool

This looks fantastic, but I don't know if I want another special edition taking up space so soon after RPG Maker Fes. Might go for the standard version if I can find time to play both somehow.

I'm done with SE games for a little while but I have the regular edition on preorder. My poor, poor 3ds systems... I am sure they feel abandoned. I should correct that.

@Ryu_Niiyama I'm not worried about that. Once Etrian Odyssey V comes out, I'll be playing on nothing but my 3DS for a month or two (aside from the occasional round of Mario Kart, anyway). Oh, and Lady Layton should be coming out this year, too! That ought to be fun.

@Ralizah I was supposed to be sending my 3ds off to get the TV out mod. (My issue with handhelds is the small screen...so glad Nintendo threw their hands up with the Switch) ...um but I sorta, well...spent the money on the Okami Amaterasu bust from f4f...so um yeah. Gotta save that back up. I do love the 3ds... I just wish Nintendo had made a 3ds player or tv out for it. ...Now that I think about it I better wait until they retire the system...knowing my luck I'll spend the money for the tv out and they announce some sort of 3ds player either for the switch or as a stand alone product.

Played the heck out of the 360 game, so glad this is coming west.

For those who want a quick concept, think Fortune Street (on the Wii, which was Monopoly with a simple stock market and a target net worth to end the game with) crossed with a fantasy trading card game of some sort.

Man I miss my Kelpie deck... People I played against didn't think it'd be nearly as powerful as it was.

@Ryu_Niiyama I had no idea you could get a mod that would allow you to play on the TV!

The XL screen is too small for you as well?

@Ralizah Yep katsukity but it is EXPENSIVE to order. As in you really better want this on TV otherwise you are burning pretty close to a grand if you get the whole kit and you don't have a 3ds you can offer as a sacrificial lamb.

So I can mostly deal with the XL but eye fatigue creeps up very quickly. The resolution may also play a role, although smaller screens with higher resolution net the same effect so...

So far the Switch has been really comfortable for me to play long sessions (when I get them) undocked. I have even been able to play without my glasses and not notice a strain. With the 3dsXL glasses or no I'm reaching for the eye drops after about 20 minutes. I have relatively good vision now, so I dread what will happen in a decade or so. I've been mourning having to wear glasses for more than protection for about three years now. However surgery is not an option. Even if this wasn't my only eye, my retina is thin in some places (according to every specialist I've been to...and I've seen several) and I am a glaucoma risk so I try not to mess around with it too much.

@Ryu_Niiyama That's too bad. I'm incredibly near-sighted, so I actually read books or play games on handhelds fine without my glasses as long as I hold them reeeeeeaaaallllly close to my face. Can't play on a TV without them, though.

Good to hear you're doing okay with the Switch's tablet screen. I'm glad they opted for a large HD screen with this system.

@Ralizah Yay nearsighted club! I am somewhat afraid to see what humanity will look like in about 30 years...I am imagining a ton of people walking around with glasses thanks to cellphones, tablets, videogames and computers. Yet, I can't give these things up (outside of work). Sigh.

This game looks pretty interesting but I'm not gonna preorder the LE of a series I'm not familiar with, I will buy the regular game once released.
@RainbowGazelle IKR it would take no effort to write the EU date also.
@ShadJV Yeah cos of course no European people will read the article on a UK based site.

@Ryu_Niiyama If you think about it, our generation will probably be seen as guinea pigs in the future, considering we're the first to be consistently exposed to bright electronic displays for the vast majority of our lives. I guess if we all get eye cancer in our forties we'll have provided invaluable data to future generations about the deleterious effects of staring at computer screens for 10+ hours a day.

It also is a bit alarming how... addicted people are to their electronics. Me included. I'm practically in withdrawal if I go without access to the internet for a week, so I'm thinking about weaning myself. We'll see how that goes.

I keep hearing about this, and it has me somewhat intrigued, but I'm cautious because I'm a giant boardgaming geek and I know I'm going to end up comparing this to actual boardgames and card games and feeling like they did it better. Basically the same way I feel about boardgames that include app components to liven them up (for example, "X-COM: the Boardgame", a boardgame that mimics X-COM but relies on an app to manage your campaign).

If I want to play a boardgame, I'm probably trying to get away from videogames for a bit, and if I have to have an electronic device to play X-COM: the Boardgame, why wouldn't i just play the amazing actual X-COM game on my laptop?

Likewise, why play a video game that mimics a card combat game, and not just play a card combat game? There are dozens of "wizards' duel" card games out there, including collectable games, Living Card Games and games with prebuilt decks, amongst them several really brilliant ones that can be played solo.

I don't know, maybe Culdcept is brilliant, but it's a bit of a hard sell for me.

@The__Goomba obviously they are aware of that, it's a U.K. based website. Hence why it was obviously a conscious choice as the article is, once again, about the NA publisher.

Will definitely be picking this up. I still play Culdcept Saga on my Xbox 360. The only reason I still have the console hooked up. Well and maybe for my guilty pleasure of playing Uno.

Once you Switch, there is no switching back...

@LexKitteh I thought that character art looked familiar! The blue-haired guy on the box immediately made me think of the art from Virtue's Last Reward, and it turns out I was right to notice the similarity.

@ShadJV @Rafx NIS America is the publisher in Europe too.

Gotta admit that I wanted this game without really knowing much about the gameplay, but reading the details just got me even more interested!

@RainbowGazelle
I find that interesting.

@JasmineDragon Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don'r know of any trad board games that combine Magic and Monopoly (glib summation), and have been refined since the SNES era (I think this is Culdecpt 9?)

It's a shame this and more complex board games (Carcassone, Catan, wtc.) aren't on the Switch, but hopefully Nintendo and devs are considering it. Such a good fit.

Edit: 32-bit era (Saturn) and 7 games.

@Priceless_Spork Yes, though its worthy to note that, while the starting decks will, uh... work, they, at least on the 360 game, are rather boring, same with the starting maps for multiplayer.

So play some story mode before playing multiplayer, so you can get to some gameplay more interesting than just 'monopoly with cards!'.

(Oh, I can only hope they kept it, but not all maps had the stock-like function, which was based on element color of spaces and said spaces can have elements changed by the owner's whims)

@Spiders I don't know any game that's precisely "Monopoly+Magic", but part of the problem with that is that Monopoly is generally considered a pretty terrible game in the boardgaming community. Boardgamers mostly think of it kind of like videogamers think of Candy Crush - inexplicably popular in the super-casual crowd, and not without its own charms, but not something you'd ever suggest at a gamer meet. If you hang out with boardgamers for very long you're almost guaranteed to hear horror stories about receiving Monopoly as a Christmas present from non-gaming family members who just don't understand.

In fact, the whole "roll and move, see what happens" style of game design is pretty much frowned upon as it takes away player choice. There are some games that use that mechanic, but it's not popular.

@JasmineDragon

I get what you mean. It is the basis though - the strategy is in how you hold the tiles you land on - plus you can buy "stock" in any color.
The deckbuilding and stocks mitigate the luck of the roll aspect.

Does anyone have an idea as to what the difficulty is like? I have never really played card games except for Pokemon off and on since the 90's.

@Priceless_Spork I found it entertaining right up until I unlocked everything, but I also used a guide in order to minimize that time.

First playthrough (I'll go ahead and mention again that I'm talking about the 360 game, may be different here) can be done more or less how you want though, and if this one works in a similar manner there actually will be bonus story stuff worthy of playing through again.

I'd imagine it would be much more frustrating if you knew how much was left, but not how to get it, but I forget if it shows how much is left to unlock in-game...

Definitely pre-ordering. Curious as to how much longer til the 3DS becomes obsolete. Isn't Nintendo wanting to push the Switch as its potential replacement? Could this be the last major physical release on 3DS?

@Priceless_Spork What, gamer geeks being pretentious? I never heard of such a thing!!! 😉

But really, I've disliked Monopoly intensely since I was a child, long before I got into gaming as a hobby. I find it excrutiatingly boring, far too long, and almost completely lacking in meaningful player decisions.

There are so many better alternatives out there. You don't even have to be into designer gaming to find more fun ways to spend a couple of hours - I'd rather play backgammon or chess or canasta or gin rummy than sit through a Monopoly game - but if you do spend any amount of time looking into modern games you can find better, deeper and more entertaining choices without even trying. The aforementioned Catan and Carcassonne are both more fun to play, and they aren't even the tip of the iceberg.

There's an entire galaxy of games that will satisfy any kind of gamer, from quick and easy-to-learn strategy games like Hive to arcane behemoths like Mage Knight: the Boardgame. Like superheroes and card games? Legendary: Marvel has you covered. Fantasy quests and deck construction? The Lord of the Rings Card Game is amazing. Want to play something more like Magic the Gathering, without spending hundreds of dollars chasing down rare cards? Try Mage Wars or Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn. And so on and so forth. There are great games about everything from quiltmaking to Harvest-Moon-style farm building to dinosaur wars to galactic dominion.

@Priceless_Spork A-ha, then I have good news for you! There are a ton of solitaire games out these days. In the last few years there has been a huge increase in the number of games made for solo players, as well as co-op games that can be played solo if you are willing to play multiple roles.

I have trouble finding people to play games with, too. These days I play a lot of games with my kids, but before they were old enough to play I could only play solo. My introduction to solo gaming was the Lord of the Rings: the Card Game. I was not too sure that a solo game would hold my interest, but LOTR blew me away. Since then I've played a few dozen other solo games. LOTR is still one of my favorites, but it is a massive timesink that will eat you alive if you let it, so I've stopped playing it for the most part just so I could find time to do other things.

There is actually a pretty big community of solo boardgamers online: if you want a lot of information on decent games, I recommend checking out the 1-Player Guild on boardgamegeek.com. I'm fairly active over there when I'm not busy with video games (currently the Switch has sucked me back into the videogame habit, so I haven't been as active on BGG recently.)

Also, I played the Awful Green Things too when I was younger. Good times!

@Priceless_Spork. Huh. Had no idea. Still, Switch got dem local multis built in. I think board games could really take off on the Switch.

Monopoly is a pretty awful game - is anyone happy by the end? It's still essentially 'The Landlord's Game': an illustration of the consequences of capitalism and private property. I don't believe winning is intended to feel good, or even an accomplishment.

Culdcept subverts Monopoly in a really interesting way, and has the deckbuilding, resource managment, and multiple strategies of "alternative" board games I think might have some appeal to board game afficianados.

Totally getting this game and it's special edition! I want to support more NIS-Nintendo relationship!

@big_bad_bob
Hey man, I am really interested in this game
And have a question. Is it two player?
It would be awesome if two peeps could share one 3ds and play a card game. But even if two peeps could use two 3ds' that would work too.

@Neweradam I 'm not sure about two players sharing one 3ds, but it definitely has local wireless mode, and you can effortlessly waste an entire afternoon with your buddy playing this game.