If I can describe this game I would describe it either as: where friendship is broken, or my favorite multiplayer party game ever!

I’m guessing the friendship part is, because people grow fond of their character, and want to be the best (thanks to the RPG part of the game) so eventually a person will turn on his friend.  They get angry and turn on each other.  That or they’re just power hungry…

This happened to me and my friends.  We all started out nicely.  Then one of my friends fought me (by accident), I killed him (hey it was either me or him!) and took his money (okay I couldn’t resist).  He got angry at me so he plotted with my other friends to get back at me.

Pro:	Fun RPG aspect in this board game Game can last forever Play with 12 different classes all with unique skills Customize your characters and then customize your friends character once you kill them A lot of things to do Robbing people is fun! No matter how bad things get you can still catch up Play with wiimote, gamecube, and classic controller
Con:	Turns take too long If you’re losing/got a bad start it may feel like the end of the world Random events can cripple you A lot of things have to do with luck (of course you can learn to control it, literally) Guilt for doing cruel things for your friends Broken friendships (hopefully you have mature friends who won’t hate you for what you did in a video game)

Dokapon Kingdom Gameplay

Okay playing this game isn’t hard.  There are many modes in this game, but you would probably go for story mode first.  Story mode is multiplayer by the way.

You make your character (name, class, gender, haircut, and color).  Then off to Dokapon Kingdom we go!

Now that you’re in the game you have so many things to do.  You could:

• Do what the king asks you to do
• Save towns, which is technically what the king asks you to do
• Kill monsters to level up
• Explore caves
• Kill your friends
• Run away from your friends in places where they can’t fight you, because you angered them by robbing them of everything they have
• And the list goes on…

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Classes

There are 12 classes to play.  3 of them are already unlocked for you, 8 of them have to be unlocked, and the last one, the strongest one, can only be specially attained.  You start out with a magician, thief, or warrior.

There is one class everybody hates… the deviling class.  It’s only available to the person that’s at last place (least money), they’ll get a bat on their head and if they go to the dark space in Asiana they’ll become the near invincible darkling for 2 weeks (14 turns).

The darkling is the strongest class (it triples your current stats), but to become one you have to sacrifice everything.  You get weapons that will basically make sure you win every battle.

Battle

Fighting in this game is easy.  If you are attacking you can:

• Attack – You attack
• Strike – You attack, it’s a lot stronger, but have risks.  Look at counter
• Use magic – You use your magic, it can’t be dodged (or at least it has yet to dodge)
• Use class skills –Every class has skills that’ll increase your stats

Now if you’re defending you can:

• Defend – You reduce damage you take from being hit
  

  Battle against demons and monsters you only heard of, and laugh your face off as they turn out different!

• Counter – If your opponent uses strike you and you use counter you will must likely kill him.  My friend decided to use strike at me as a deviling, I countered and killed him in one shot.
• Use defense magic – Use one of the magic you bought for defensive purposes
• Give up – Similar to being killed, except you don’t go back to the starting area.  However you can’t lose your equipment, and things are less harsh.

Stats are the deciding point in this game and they’re:

• Attack – How much damage you do physically
• Defense – Reduces the amount of damage you take physically
• Magic – Increases the damage you do with magic, and decrease damage taken by magic.
• Speed – Increase your chances of dodging and hitting enemies and increase the chances of hitting and dodging with field magic

Dokapon Kingdom Multiplayer

This multiplayer wii party game doesn’t have Nintendo WFC, but that’s fine this game is a life taker (12 hours and still at chapter 3!), and taking it online will lasts forever assuming you didn’t give up.

All of the modes here are 4 players

Story Mode

Story Mode is where everything happens.  You play through chapters which could last forever.  I spent 4 hours on chapter 2 with my friends (of course it’s probably, because we turned on each other, and the fact I was chased by a Darkling, I won btw).

Normal Mode

First you have to set an amount of weeks to play.  The person who has the most money wins.

Kill Race

This mode will get you strangle to death.  You have to go around killing people, and the person reaches the certain amount of kills win.

Town Race

In this mode the person who captures the most town wins

Shopping Race

In this mode the king orders to go get items in a list.  Whoever brings back the items first wins the game.

Conclusion

Dokapon Kingdom is one of my favorite sleepers hit for the wii.  When I first played it I hated it, because I kept on losing, but then when my friends came and played, things got a lot more fun.

After that we learned that we could do a lot of things that can actually give us money like robbing items shop and then sell the items you steal back to them for a lot of money.

Then things became very fun for us as we ventured through Dokapon Kingdom leveling up, getting items, and best of all get new classes.

If you’re interested, I definitely recommend you to buy this game (it will lasts you a long time, one game session for me lasted 3 month), but you can rent it first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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