Unlike most RPGs, Dokapon Kingdom was designed to be played with multiple people, and very competitively.
Is there a plot to the game, besides "get rich however possible?" Well, yeah, there's this whole thing about an ultimate evil attempting to take over the world and the Princess' hand being up for marriage and all that, but who cares about all that when one of the Standard Status Effects is "Shaved Head?" This is more or less necessary when fighting boss monsters. If the battle is ongoing, it'll pick up the next time it rolls around to that player's turn again. Each fighter gets the chance to be both an attacker and a defender in one "turn," and then it's on to the next player's turn. Defensive fighters have a standard defend (decreases all damage, but especially that of a standard attack), a "Counter" move (only works on "Strike," but prevents all damage and turns it on the strike-r), a defensive spell (resists offensive spells), and the ability to run away. Attackers have a standard attack (whose damage can be greatly decreased by a standard defend), a "Strike" attack that does high amounts of damage (but can be countered and turned against its user by the defender's "Counter" move), an offensive spell (whose damage can be decreased or turned by a defensive spell), and a special ability that can't be countered, but uses up a vital attack turn.
Attackers have specific abilities available to them, and defenders do as well. (No, really, it makes sense.) During battle, one side is the attacker and one side is the defender, and which you are is determined by a card you draw at the beginning of battle. Most of them are yellow squares, where you can either find events (ranging from the awesome, such as the town-worth-increasing Mitch, to the downright evil, such as Weber) or fight monsters.īattles are both turn-based and turn-based. Some are stores where you can buy items, or treasure chests where you can find goodies. The spaces on the board each have different effects. Naturally, players take turns spinning and moving. Rather than traveling in a standard fashion, the world map is a game board, and a spinner determines how far you'll travel.
By rescuing towns (and later pumping them full of cash to make them worth more) and gathering treasures, your worth goes up.
Then, Monopoly-style, the towns make you their leader and add themselves to your worth. You do this not only by earning money through battling monsters and selling items, like you would in a normal RPG, but also by going around the world map and saving towns from monsters. Your goal? To make yourself as disgustingly rich as possible. A hybrid RPG/board game for the PS2 and Wii, Dokapon Kingdom (and the recently released Dokapon Journey) cast you in the role of an adventurer in the titular kingdom.
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