Written by: Patrick Orquia
Title: Culdcept Revolt
Publisher: NIS America
Developer: Omiya Soft
Genre: Strategy, RPG
Release Date: October 03, 2017 (NA)/Oct 06, 2017 (EU)
No. of Players: 1-4 players
Price: $39.99
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
I’m non much of a fan of carte or board games. They are actually non my thing. And yet, much to my surprise, I come upwards to similar a video game that combines both. Who would bring idea that such a combination would fifty-fifty work?
The game is most a protagonist who woke up, non remembering anything other than his name. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 vocalization summoned him to a hiding spot, together with afterward reveled herself equally the leader of a resistance group, named the Free Bats. They are against a ruthless ruler, the Count, who has been hunting downwardly Cepters. It is upwards to this protagonist together with his skills equally a Cepter to assist the Free Bats larn rid of the Count together with to find his lost memories.
Culdcept Revolt starts amongst a serial of tutorial stages, where the role musician gets introduced to the many rules of the game, similar the dissimilar kinds of cards, how to summon creatures, occupation enhancement cards, leveling tiles, etc. During battles, at that topographic point is a board amongst many tiles on twisting paths which the players tin bathroom occupy using the creatures on their cards if the tile is unoccupied. Otherwise, the role musician tin bathroom challenge the occupant on that tile to supervene upon amongst his ain using cards through a battle, where the animate beingness from a carte of the competitor tries to defeat the animate beingness on the tile through a curt animation scene that shows cards beingness sliced or swatted away. The HP or forcefulness of the animate beingness on the cards tin bathroom hold upwards farther enhanced amongst the occupation of enhancement cards that grant additional defense, additional assail power, or other ability-enhancing effects. If the role musician trying to challenge the occupied tile wins, the animate beingness on that tile gets replaced amongst his own, otherwise, they bring to pay a toll, which could hold upwards a hefty amount depending on how leveled upwards the tile is. Leveling upwards a tile is i of the enhancements players tin bathroom create on their occupied tiles. You tin bathroom too alter the terrain type (which could hold upwards fire-, earth-, water-, or air-based) depending on the animate beingness on the tile to maximize its effect. If a animate beingness type on the carte matches the terrain type on the tile, additional bonuses tin bathroom hold upwards obtained. The role musician tin bathroom too chain creatures on the same type of terrain.
The destination during battles is to make a educate publish of magic points, which the role musician accumulate through occupying tiles, defending them, leveling tiles, battling creatures, together with others. There’s a lot inward play during battles merely everything is easily understandable. The game too provides assistance to players past times suggesting the best movement to create or best carte to play, merely it tin bathroom hold upwards turned off if the role musician wants added challenge.
Aside from the story mode, you lot tin bathroom too play amongst friends via local wireless or amongst or then other individual online. Local wireless manner requires split game cartridges/copies on the players’ 3DS units. Online battles tin bathroom hold upwards tough to win, peculiarly to me since this genre is non actually my forte, merely it’s yet fun nonetheless.
Collecting cards together with edifice decks is surprisingly slowly together with elementary together with using them inward battles is fun. It’s an effective motivation to win battles, equally winning battles agency winning coin to purchase novel decks. As the game progresses, enemy AI improves, together with you lot equally a role musician volition request to cook a proficient deck inward social club to win.
Overall, Culdcept Revolt is a really proficient merging of carte together with board games. It’s my commencement fourth dimension to play a Culdcept game together with I did taste it. I recommend this game to fans of the types of games mentioned above, together with too to those who are fans of turned-based RPGs, equally this game is a squeamish spin on the genre.
REPLAY VALUE: high
PROS:
- Good visuals, grapheme design, carte illustrations, enemy AI, vocalization acting, narrative style, soundtrack, together with occupation of stereoscopic 3D
- Easy to sympathise game mechanics
- Collecting cards together with edifice decks is fun together with addicting
- The game rewards players coin whether they win or lose, then you lot volition bring coin to purchase novel cards to brand your decks better, thence leveling the playing field
- Takes a proficient amount of strategizing together with luck to win battles, peculiarly inward the afterward stages
CONS:
- The story is a flake bland
- Connecting online tin bathroom hold upwards difficult at times
- Character animation during battles cannot hold upwards skipped, thus, you lot request to see equally a grapheme on the board movement from i tile to another, making battles longer than needed
RATING: 4/5 winds of hope
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