Culdcept is a series of card/board games that began in 1997 on the Sega Saturn. Developed by OmiyaSoft, the game is often described in Western media as a cross between Magic: the Gathering and Monopoly. In it, you build a customizable deck of spell cards which you use to (among other things) strategically control spaces on a board. The Sony Playstation received two updated versions of the first game in the series, titled Culdcept Expansion and Culdcept Expansion Plus. A later update was also released on the Nintendo DS. All games in the series support one to four players.
While playing Culdcept Expansion Plus, you're going to encounter the same text on your cards repeatedly. This provides a wonderful opportunity to practice. It was also wildly popular in Japan, with the Expansion release earning a 35/40 rating from Japanese gaming publication Famitsu. Such a high rating places it in the company of the likes of Gran Turismo, Valkyrie Profile, and Street Fighter Zero 3. In the March 2000 readers' poll in Sega Saturn Magazine, Japanese readers rated it ninth among the 940 games released on the platform up to that point. Finally, all versions of the game are quite affordable and much of what is learned in one is transferable to the others.
Much of the text encountered in menus as well as that which appears on cards in the starting decks is finished. You can look forward to more card text being added in the future.