Dokapon Kingdom for Wii Reviews by Gamers

Dokapon Kingdom is a party game combining classic rpg elements with a board game element. You jump right in and start playing. And then the 'fun' starts. I tried to start as a magician, but I got my butt kicked everytime I fought a monster. You have to buy the ablities, so a magician is absolutely useless as a starting job. When I started as a thief, I was able to get past the basics, but then discovered you can win any battle if you choose 'strike' on your attack turn. It can be countered with 'counter' but enemies rarely use it. I still forged on, and then my rage reached its apex; one of the cpu went onto a Dark Space. In one swoop he stole my castles, my items and all my towns, and when I went to the Dark Space, it wouldn't let me use it! And you have to spin the exact number to land on a certain space, so you're circling the board for weeks (game time, not real time) just to get somewhere. So in short, lousy battle system, lousy move system, just plain lousy game.

This game really does have a lot of potential and the actual gameplay is enjoyable.

The only problem is you don't spend much time on gameplay. Bulk of the game is spent waiting for either another player or for the computer players to act. It gets very frustrating and if you're playing with more than one other computer or other player, over half your time is spent just sitting there.

I suppose that's a consequence of the board game style of play but I found the long wait times to be unbearable.