In practice, it’s a very simple board game indeed. Of course, it was nostalgia driving that purchasing decision. It recently got revived and production began anew and just about everyone I know of my age picked themselves up a copy. Weirdly enough, the closest comparison I can think of is Hero Quest, a board game from the 90s that every millennial nerd grew up adoring. Just with turns and board spaces and such. After that, it becomes an entertaining but grindy entry-level JRPG experience. Overall there’s good variety in the events and enemies to combat, but for the most part, Dokapion Kingdom has a gameplay loop that takes about an hour to learn. Additionally, random events happen periodically. There are also items and spells you can find in the world and use to boost yourself or attack your opponents. If neither wins, the combat will continue on your next turn. If they defeat you, you’re sent back to the king’s castle and have a penalty of a couple of turns to sit through. If you defeat your opponent in that time, you get loot and experience from them. Both times you have four skills to choose between (and, as with something like Pokemon, as your character levels up, they’ll gain access to more powerful skills). Once in combat, there are two rounds – you’ll attack once, and defend once. “Field” monsters are relatively weak, whereas town monsters are more powerful as “bosses”. Most of the time, when you land on a blank space, or a town for the first time, you’ll fight a monster. Dokapon Kingdom’s real meat is the combat system. If they own the town themselves they can invest in it, which levels it up and makes it more expensive.īut that is such a secondary part of the game that it’s almost negligible. If they land on a town that has been occupied by another player, they can pay a fee to rest there overnight.
Players roll a dice (or in this case, spins a spinner), and then move the allocated number of spaces across the board. There are some elements that are vaguely similar to something like Monopoly or Boom Street/Fortune Street/Itadaki Street (what I wouldn’t give for Nintendo to revive that Wii classic for a remaster). This means the hero that does the most excellent job of beating up monsters, liberating cities, and building wealth. He offers the hand of his daughter in marriage to the hero that best defends the kingdom over a period of weeks and months. There’s a king, and his kingdom in trouble. Related reading: If you love digital board games, Billion Road is essential. Just go in with the expectation that it’s the latter that only looks like the former, and you’ll be well placed to have a good time of it. Dokapon Kingdom: Connect is a clever little attempt to take the board game format, and apply it to an RPG.
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