Culdcept Revolt Looks Interesting. Should I Get It?

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - In this article, I don't answer the question posed in the title.

Today, Culdcept Revolt released on the Nintendo 3DS in America, to little fanfare. There isn't even a Miiverse community for it... and no one really knows what Culdcept is. Or how to pronounce it. All I know is that the main theme was heavily remixed by series composer, Kenji Ito, for inclusion on the Punch-Out!! Boxing Ring stage in Super Smash Bros. For Wii U. Compare the original theme to the remix and they're... quite different. But the inexplicable inclusion of this awesome theme from a game no one's ever heard of into my favourite stage in Super Smash Bros. certainly piqued my interest. (By comparison, Tomorrow's Passion from Captain Rainbow, while also on the Boxing Ring stage and quite niche, is something I'm already aware of and it's actually Little Mac's theme from Captain Rainbow. That song has a reason to be there.)

Don't underestimate the power of great music to get someone interested.
(Note the Ludwig silhouette.)

So now I'm interested in Culdcept Revolt, but I don't know anything about the game. Here's the launch trailer, which tells me the game is a card-based board game with a story mode and decent character designs (drawn by Kinu Nishimura, who also did the character art for 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors and Virtue's Last Reward... but not Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, which explains why it has worse character designs than its predecessors. Anyway...):

It doesn't matter to me if Culdcept is celebrating its 20th anniversary or not if I've never heard of it, and in order to be a sales success, Culdcept Revolt will probably need a lot of sales from people who also don't care that the series is 20 years old.

There just aren't good resources out there on Culdcept. The Wikipedia pages on the different Culdcept pages aren't even linking to one another or have a template or category. There's, like, one Culdcept fan site, Culdcept Central, which is similar to KoopaTV in how it's designed to look like a late-1990s/early-2000s fan site. I suppose that makes it quite endearing.

Looks like the game has a lot of deep strategy to it, which I could see myself either getting into, or getting overwhelmed by. All of the (pretty limited) marketing from Nintendo and NIS America talk about how Culdcept Revolt is easy on allowing newcomers to learn the concepts and it's beginner-friendly, which would be perfect for me if I got the game.

There should totally be a demo on the eShop... 

For now, “Who are you people?” is my question.
It seems like I already identify with the main character!

 


Ludwig doesn't even have the time to play Culdcept Revolt if he got it. This won't be the only article this week on a 3DS game that Ludwig is not sure about getting, though that article will be on a game everyone knows about already. If you have any insight on Culdcept Revolt and if it would be the type of game that the author would enjoy, leave a comment!


That 3DS game later-in-the-week article actually came out over a week after this article due to other articles.
Ludwig decided that if he saw a physical copy of Culdcept Revolt then he would purchase it.
Ludwig actually bought Culdcept Revolt as a digital version... in 2019.