1UP writes: "During our recent four-player Dokapon Kingdom soiree at the 1UP offices, executive editor Shane Bettenhausen ably summed up the decidedly subdued atmosphere: "This is like watching someone play Dragon Quest 1."
In theory, though, we'd composed a team tailor-made for the Dokapon Kingdom experience: myself, Shane, reviews assistant Justin Haywald, and copy chief Jason Wilson. Publisher Atlus has touted Dokapon Kingdom as a party game with role-playing elements, an experience that encourages free-for-all mayhem and anything-goes backstabbing. Well, we're all big-time RPG fans, we're all party-game vets, and any regular 1UP Yours listener knows that we're not exactly the type to shy away from playing dirty."
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?"
