The multiplayer games on wii just seam to get better and better and i am about to throw another onto the already huge pile Dokapon Kingdom.
So what is Dokapon Kingdom?
Well it is Mario Party meets Final Fantasy meets Monopoly.
The game takes place on a huge game board very similar to those found in Mario Party, but here it is one board with many zones. Think all the boards you get in Mario party interlinked. The idea here is to make money, the player with the most money at the end of the chosen amount of weeks wins.
To obtain money you can do this in one of 3 ways
Capture towns
Defeat random battles and boss monsters
STEAL! - This is not just from other players or towns, you can try to steal weapons and items from shops, as well as getting magic that helps you steal in battle and when you walk past other players. However with this stragey comes risk, get caught you are banned from all shops and towns for a week and a bounty is placed on your head. If anybody defeats you in the next 7 days they get the reward for your capture. This doubles every times something is stolen, so it soon gets up to game changing amounts.
Depending on which class you are relates to which skills you will be best at. The thief can carry lots of items. The magican is strong with magic, or the warrior who is great with attack and combat. Once you fully level up your character to its top skill level you gain access to new classes or jobs as they are called. You do not have to change and each class has its own abilities. Once you are at max ability level you still gain character level which increase HP, DP, MP, luck and health. Each space on the game board falls into one of the following areas.
Battle - These are yellow spaces that feature ona good percentage on the gameboard
Item - you randomly get an item from the spinner
Magic - you randomly get a magic ability
Shops - these can buy you weapons, magic or items
Poison - avoid these unless you want to be hit with poison
Rent collect - land on a silver one and you can collect your rent from 1 of your towns, or a gold one and take all rents owed
Towns - defeta the town guard and you will own the town
As well as these spaces you also have spaces that you only find in caves
Treasure chests - gain random amount of money
Locked chests - gain you money items or abilities
You also sometimes get random event spaces these will usually give you something good randomly from one of the towns people in that area.
The game lends its self to so many different tactics. Head for the caves where there is lots of gold to be had, grab towns and gain a steady income. Or go for power, level yourself up and battle the high level monsters and bosses you can gain a lot of gold, items, and other things here.
Unlike Mario party you are free to travel in any direction you choose. However if you want something like access to a shop or cave you have to get the exact number on the spinner. Though items are available to aid in this.
The game is not a graphical powerhouse and has some nice bouncey music but nothing special, the game here is 100% pure gameplay. One thing to note unlike most RPGs this game may aswell not have a single player mode as its just like Mario Party in 1 player... very dull. This game is a little gem, you can play with 1 wiimote and passing it between players, though the game does have classic and Gamecube pad support.
One thing to note in this.... The flow is much much better than Mario Party, it is at a constant level and you never feel like your waiting too long to make your move. It is also very important for players not in control to take note of what their rival is doing, where they are moving and such. The game also features a very handy look feature if you spin a number just hit 2 and you will get any space you can move to with an arrow above for quick movement, Mario Party needs this badly!
The game delves just enough into the RPG elements to keep RPG fans happy, but at the same time not deep enough to exclude any none RPG fans.
If you have mates over to play games and a spare 10 hours, yes i sat and played for 10 hours straight last night on this with my mates then you will have fun if you like party games or RPGs.
Like a couple of other games that i have posted impressions on i know this is not going to sell which is a big shame as it is multiplayer gold.
So what is Dokapon Kingdom?
Well it is Mario Party meets Final Fantasy meets Monopoly.
The game takes place on a huge game board very similar to those found in Mario Party, but here it is one board with many zones. Think all the boards you get in Mario party interlinked. The idea here is to make money, the player with the most money at the end of the chosen amount of weeks wins.
To obtain money you can do this in one of 3 ways
Capture towns
Defeat random battles and boss monsters
STEAL! - This is not just from other players or towns, you can try to steal weapons and items from shops, as well as getting magic that helps you steal in battle and when you walk past other players. However with this stragey comes risk, get caught you are banned from all shops and towns for a week and a bounty is placed on your head. If anybody defeats you in the next 7 days they get the reward for your capture. This doubles every times something is stolen, so it soon gets up to game changing amounts.
Depending on which class you are relates to which skills you will be best at. The thief can carry lots of items. The magican is strong with magic, or the warrior who is great with attack and combat. Once you fully level up your character to its top skill level you gain access to new classes or jobs as they are called. You do not have to change and each class has its own abilities. Once you are at max ability level you still gain character level which increase HP, DP, MP, luck and health. Each space on the game board falls into one of the following areas.
Battle - These are yellow spaces that feature ona good percentage on the gameboard
Item - you randomly get an item from the spinner
Magic - you randomly get a magic ability
Shops - these can buy you weapons, magic or items
Poison - avoid these unless you want to be hit with poison
Rent collect - land on a silver one and you can collect your rent from 1 of your towns, or a gold one and take all rents owed
Towns - defeta the town guard and you will own the town
As well as these spaces you also have spaces that you only find in caves
Treasure chests - gain random amount of money
Locked chests - gain you money items or abilities
You also sometimes get random event spaces these will usually give you something good randomly from one of the towns people in that area.
The game lends its self to so many different tactics. Head for the caves where there is lots of gold to be had, grab towns and gain a steady income. Or go for power, level yourself up and battle the high level monsters and bosses you can gain a lot of gold, items, and other things here.
Unlike Mario party you are free to travel in any direction you choose. However if you want something like access to a shop or cave you have to get the exact number on the spinner. Though items are available to aid in this.
The game is not a graphical powerhouse and has some nice bouncey music but nothing special, the game here is 100% pure gameplay. One thing to note unlike most RPGs this game may aswell not have a single player mode as its just like Mario Party in 1 player... very dull. This game is a little gem, you can play with 1 wiimote and passing it between players, though the game does have classic and Gamecube pad support.
One thing to note in this.... The flow is much much better than Mario Party, it is at a constant level and you never feel like your waiting too long to make your move. It is also very important for players not in control to take note of what their rival is doing, where they are moving and such. The game also features a very handy look feature if you spin a number just hit 2 and you will get any space you can move to with an arrow above for quick movement, Mario Party needs this badly!
The game delves just enough into the RPG elements to keep RPG fans happy, but at the same time not deep enough to exclude any none RPG fans.
If you have mates over to play games and a spare 10 hours, yes i sat and played for 10 hours straight last night on this with my mates then you will have fun if you like party games or RPGs.
Like a couple of other games that i have posted impressions on i know this is not going to sell which is a big shame as it is multiplayer gold.
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