
After all, who hasn't wanted to see an Olympic gold medal won by one guy tripping another? Naturally, that means screwing over your enemies, err, friends with gusto. The title isn't just about a race to the top. The gameplay in Dokapon Kingdom for the Wii is pretty simplistic: roshambo and fight your way to the top, all while taking over towns to collect tax income. (Naturally, a lucky streak at roshambo can result in a significant advantage.) The decent monetary awards of succeeding are countered by not being allowed to enter any town for a week and having a bounty on your head for the same amount of time. Sometimes, you have to roshambo instead, which is rock-paper-scissors this is specifically done to make attacking shops or towns a risky prospect that no amount of grinding can get you past. Not all combat is done in the player-versus-monster format. The simplicity and sheer luck of the system renders a basic risk-taking exercise the biggest attack has the worst consequences if your opponent uses the correct counter, and since you don't know what he selected until after both players are locked in, it becomes a measure of a careful guess.

If the fight isn't settled yet, you must wait until your next turn for another similar exchange. Whoever attacks first selects one of up to four attack actions, and the defender gets to choose his reaction (one defense action will offer an optimal response to one attack action). First, the attacking player finds out if he attacks first or second by selecting one of two cards.

Once you land on a space, something happens related to it, such as getting a random piece of equipment, fighting a monster, or some random event occurring.Ĭombat consists of three steps. A player's turn typically consists of two phases: using an item and then moving a spinner-decided number of spaces. That's about it, although different events start varying things over time in a typical send-up of traditional RPG structures.Īfter character creation (class, gender, face, voice and color), players are dropped onto a world map that resembles a board game, and play begins. Whoever is the richest gets the hand of the lovely Princess Penny in marriage, and thus becomes the next king or queen. You play a team of adventurers whose jobs consist of saving the towns and getting as much money as possible. Unfortunately, the monsters also love money, so they're taking over every last town in Dokapon to steal it. The seven-continent kingdom of Dokapon is a nice place, and the denizens really love their money.

Just plain strange, really, but also quite fun ? as long as you stay with short bursts of play. This friendship-destroying party title manages to combine a game session length of Civilization IV, the silly factor of Mario Party, and just about every existing role-playing game trope into something.
DOKAPON KINGDOM DARKLING JOB SOFTWARE
That's what it sounds like when you get three people in a room to play Dokapon Kingdom, one of the latest efforts from Atlus Software to establish that, when it comes to truly screwy games in the U.S., they are the publisher to beat. "Most of these quotes are not appropriate for WorthPlaying!"
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"They're apparently in a bad Bruce Lee movie now." (comment about the characters' lips not matching their words) "So, two magicians and a warrior go into a bar, and then their molecules are disassembled."
