Review by Dale North:
"I think of myself as someone who is totally up on the role-playing releases, especially the more obscure ones. But, I'll be honest: I had never heard of Dokapon Kingdom. The Wii version showed up in my review queue (it's also available for the PlayStation 2) and I popped it in.
Much to my surprise, many hours later, I found myself still playing. Not bad for a game I've never heard of before, huh? It got me thinking how rare it is these days to appoach a new game without already having heard some hype or pitch for it. I came into Dokapon Kingdom with no knowledge, but now I'm ready to pitch it to you. I'll say this right off: Dokapon Kingdom was a nice surprise."
Dash Bomber writes, "Death, betrayal, backstabbing, and the destruction of every relationship you’ve ever held dear, that is Dokapon Kingdom. It is the bastard child of Monopoly and Dragon Quest developed by Sting Entertainment. A mixture of an RPG and a board game, in Dokapon Kingdom your goal is simple: become ludicrously rich while sacrificing all of your friendships. But why do you have to sacrifice your friends in order to play this? Well that’s because the game actively encourages you to pull every dirty trick in the book to win!"
I have this and always wanted to play it with someone. But the game is harsh and will utterly destroy you at least several times during the course of a game and my brother refused to play it with me. Same with all my friends. They would try it once or twice, decide it sucks, and then never play it with me again.
I would get aggravated when I would lose too, but I could roll with it better than the others. The others would just give up.
Too bad it's not on PC with online functionality. It would be a troll magnet for sure, but that could be fun too.
A look into the 2008 title 'Dokapon Kingdom'
VGC writes: "After the success of Nintendo's Mario Party franchise, there have been a few games that have sprung up with a similar premise (mostly movie tie-ins) all attaining limited success. Now imagine for just a moment that a company would decide to combine Mario Party with a turn-based role playing game; what sort of odd game would that be? Well wonder no longer as this very game exists; is it a worthy entry to the genre, or the offspring of an unholy union of genres that should not have been?"
