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{{quote|The night was dark.
"I can't let [[Nintendo]] know I'm out here," she panted to herself. "Mom and Dad would never let me out of the house by myself."
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"''[[Dragon Quest]]!''" ''[[
The RPG took her into his arms, burying his nose in her soft hair. "Don't worry," he whispered. "Your parents
A hybrid RPG/board game for the PS2 and Wii, ''
▲"''[[Mario Party (Video Game)|Mario Party]]?''" a husky voice called out from down the steet.
▲"''[[Dragon Quest]]!''" ''[[Mario Party (Video Game)|Mario Party]]'' whispered to herself. She pulled herself out from the shadow of the trees, the front of her blouse dirty from her [[Bedsheet Ladder|window escape down the side of the house.]]
▲The RPG took her into his arms, burying his nose in her soft hair. "Don't worry," he whispered. "Your parents need never find out."
▲[[X Meets Y|And that's how]] ''[[Dokapon Kingdom]]'' [[X Meets Y|was born!]]
▲A hybrid RPG/board game for the PS2 and Wii, ''[[Dokapon Kingdom]]'' (and the recently released ''Dokapon Journey'') cast you in the role of an adventurer in the titular kingdom. Your goal? [[Wall Street|To make yourself as disgustingly rich as possible.]] You do this not only by earning money through [[Money Spider|battling monsters]] and [[Vendor Trash|selling items]], like you would in a normal RPG, but also by going around the world map and saving towns from monsters. Then, [[Monopoly]]-style, the towns make you their leader and add themselves to your worth. By rescuing towns (and later pumping them full of cash to make them worth more) and gathering treasures, your worth goes up.
Rather than traveling in a standard fashion, the world map is a game board, and a spinner determines how far you'll travel. Naturally, players take turns spinning and moving. The spaces on the board each have different effects. Some are stores where you can buy items, or treasure chests where you can find goodies. Most of them are yellow squares, where you can either find events (ranging from the [[Game Breaker|awesome]], such as the town-worth-increasing Mitch, to the [[Fake Difficulty|downright evil]], such as Weber) or fight monsters.
Battles are both turn-based and turn-based. (No, really, it makes sense.) During battle, one side is the attacker and one side is the defender, and which you are is determined by a card you draw at the beginning of battle. Attackers have specific abilities available to them, and defenders do as well. Attackers have a
Is there a plot to the game, besides "get rich however possible?" Well, yeah, there's this whole thing about an ultimate evil attempting to take over the world and the Princess' hand being up for marriage and all that, [[Excuse Plot|but who cares about all that]] when one of the [[Standard Status Effects]] is "Shaved Head?"
Unlike most RPGs, ''Dokapon Kingdom'' was designed to be played with multiple people, and ''very'' competitively. Though it can be difficult to amass a group of people together long enough to play a 40+ game, if you can pull it off, it's definitely fun. ''Dokapon'' is a unique hybrid experience, and, with the right kind of friends, it's a blast. Oh,
The game was developed and released by [[Sting Entertainment]].
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* [[Afro Asskicker]]: You can turn your character into one by [[Luck-Based Mission|purchasing the appropriate hairstyle magazine from Kira]] and returning it to the barber at Dokapon Castle. The male version even includes a stylish headband.
* [[Alien Abduction]]: One of several random events involves a UFO transporting a player aboard, removing them from the board until their next turn. When returned, all of the player's stats will permanently be either nerfed or buffed slightly. This seems to be one of the game's several balancing agents, with tendencies to punish players with significant leads and reward players lagging behind.
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* [[Bonus Boss]]: Do all of the king's [[Sidequest|side quests]] and he'll receive a piece of inflammatory mail from an imp named Wallace. Not ready to put up with this, he tasks you with finding Wallace and teaching him a lesson, [[That One Boss|failing to mention that he's perpetually several levels above you and reads inputs nearly as blatantly as Rico Jr.]]
* [[Camp Gay]] / [[Camp Straight]]: Gold Jr.'s Camp ''Something''.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Overlord Rico, who outright stated that he wanted to [[Take Over the World]] because that's what [[Evil Overlord
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: On Easy, they -might- be tolerable in one versus one. On Hard, they know exactly what they're going to do 35 weeks from the current turn, and no amount of bad luck is going to affect them.
** The only solace is that the computer doesn't exploit the XP gain from a low-level player beating a high-level player. Nor do they actively exploit the Darkling-human trick to allow someone to permanently carry the [[Game Breaker]] Darkling equipment.
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** This is half the reason you give up if you know you can't take another hit. the other half is because you can lose TOWNS if you are defeated by anyone, <s>even</s> ''especially'' another player.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: One option to punish the loser in a PVP duel is doodling on their character's face. While most of the randomly generated doodles look suitably embarrassing, one places [[X Marks the Hero|a giant X in the middle of their face, resembling a badass scar more than anything]].
* [[Deal
* [[Death or Glory Attack]]: The standard Strike command. Much more damage than the basic Attack, but if the enemy uses Counter, then it misses completely and earns you a smack in the face. Even worse, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|some enemies are guaranteed to Counter if you Strike]]
* [[Degraded Boss]]: All the boss monsters you fight in towns show up later as normal enemies. There are very few "unique" bosses.
** Rico Jr. becomes a [[Boss in Mooks Clothing]] after his first defeat.
* [[Escape Rope]]: The Field Warp.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Kira is usually easygoing, but if you try to rob her she becomes extremely sassy in a hurry.
* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: The three base classes. The Warrior is the strongest physically and randomly gets strength boosts, the Magician is the strongest magically and can dualcast field magic, and the Thief is the fastest (dodge bonus) and steals an item every time he passes by an opposing player.
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* [[Kingmaker Scenario]]: If someone turns Darkling near the endgame, they probably had no chance to win anyway, but they're in a good position to bomb the people in the lead and decide the final winner.
* [[Les Yay]]: Female heroes are just as motivated by the [[Standard Hero Reward]] as the male heroes, and if a girl does win, Penny does not mind the idea of marrying the other girl.
* [[Lions and Tigers
* [[Lost Technology]]: The item that unlocks the Robo Knight prestige class.
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Oh, where to start on this one...
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* [[Magic Knight]]: The Spellsword class.
* [[Mascot Mook]]: The Wabbit.
* [[Metal Slime]]: The
** Gel Splatter, a slime creature with ridiculously high defense and speed, appears in the Tower of Rabble. It drops an equally ridiculous amount of gold on defeat.
* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]: The female Monk sports the miniskirt and top variety.
* [[Minigame Zone]]: The Casino Cave. The only way to get the item necessary to unlock the Acrobat [[Prestige Class]] is to [[Luck-Based Mission|win it at the slot machine here]], making it easy to get [[Sidetracked
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: The hairdresser in Dokapon castle has purple hair with a shock of bright yellow. Justified in that she's a hairdresser.
** She can also give a female player character a similar haircut, instead colored their default color with a splash of electric blue.
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* [[National Stereotypes]]: The world map is a [[Expy|barely-modified]] map of Earth and the mayors of the towns in each continent match up roughly with stereotypes from their real-world counterparts.
** Chance Boutique is a lusty, heavily-accented French stereotype.
* [[Only in It For
* [[Overlord, Jr.]]: Rico Jr.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Rico Sr pulls it off as well as any good old JRPG boss.}}
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* [[Robot Girl]]: The Robo Knight prestige class, girl version. The boy version is a [[Giant Mecha]].
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Subverted with the Wear Tigers. They appear to be feline lycanthropes in full plate, but examination of the flavor text reveals that they are human warriors who wear the skins of tigers on their heads to intimidate enemies, turning this into a [[Lame Pun]].
* [[Saintly Church]]: The temples, which cures you of status ailments by [[Religion Is Magic|praying to the]] [[The Bible
* [[Serious Business]]: You want to rob the item store, or anyone else? You gotta win at Ro-Sham-Bo! And [[South Park|no]], not that kind. I mean rock-paper-scissors.
* [[Sidequest]]: In the form of several fetch quests, ranging from tracking down a certain local food the king has a sudden hankering for to what is essentially gathering puppy porn for the princess's dog.
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* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: The king offers Princess Penny's hand in marriage, but only to the hero that brings him the most money at adventure's end. This kicks off a ''lot'' of [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|heroic sociopathy]].
* [[Title Scream]]: By one of a few characters at the title screen. The king's is especially silly.
* [[Universal Poison]]: The basic version does your level in damage each turn, and the Z Plague, transmitted by [[Everything's Better
* [[Vendor Trash]]: Every town has a unique item. Though some of them can be given to the King, most of them serve better as [[Vendor Trash]]. This is especially true of the gems the castles give out.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Krysta, the anthropomorphic cat wizard who runs the magic shop, speaks normally save for the occasional, unenthusiastic "meow" or [[Lame Pun|lame cat pun]].
* [[Warp Whistle]]: The Town Warp and Store Warp, which aren't exactly predictable, and the Guided Warp, which lets you actually chose where you'll end up.
* [[What Happened to
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Or red. Or green. Or pink... basically whatever color your character is.
** Wandering blacksmith Gutz and bandit Risque.
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