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Danaru: Jun 5, 2012; 何 ??

Dokapon Kingdom is a JRPG!

In Dokapon Kingdom, you fight monsters, level up your skills, and buy new equipment to take on boss enemies and liberate towns! You can switch between various classes such as Warrior, Mage, and Thief who all have their own special abilities in both combat and on the field.

Dokapon Kingdom is a party game!

Each turn starts by you spinning the spinner and moving the amount of tiles you get. Specific tiles can give you items or magic, while most empty tiles will result in a battle or a special event. Your goal is to have the most money and towns to win!

Dokapon Kingdom is loving bullshit.

Dokapon Kingdom doesn't even pretend it's not cheating all the time. If I had the manual I'd be able to tell if it outright said it. The spinner is loaded, high level enemies can read your command inputs, Mid level AI players can rig the drat RNG in their favour, sometimes the game just hurls itself into chaos just to spite everyone. Sometimes the rich get richer, sometimes the rich get eaten, sometimes everything equalizes violently and every once in a while someone turns into a demon. It's completely impossible to predict.

In what ended up being a somewhat poor decision, Grace and I decided to go in mostly blind. The two of us played a practice round of the first chapter, but beyond that it's all new to us. We get to discover all of the game's rudeness in real time, including the ever increasing suspicions of AI player cheating. We're also playing this in person for that extra layer of "WHY WOULD YOU ATTACK ME I DON'T EVEN HAVE MONEY"

As is normal for Dan and Grace, alcohol and poor decisions will be a staple of this LP. We're playing on a PS2 which means the graphics are not going to look as good as you remember from the more popular Wii version.

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: We ended up getting kinda sick during the back half of the LP. We both tried very hard not to cough much but also we were both sick.

Danaru fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Feb 19, 2018

# ? Dec 25, 2016 21:50

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# ? Jun 8, 2023 05:57

Mikl: Nov 8, 2009; Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Aw yes, ground floor in this. Bullshit Atlus JRPG / party game Let's Played by Dan and Grace? I'm so in it's not even funny.

Edit after actually watching the episode: holy loving poo poo the RNG does not like you, not even one bit :stare:

Mikl fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 25, 2016

# ? Dec 25, 2016 22:01

Zanzibar Ham: Mar 17, 2009; You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.; Grimey Drawer

Yes, I'm glad there's finally people whose love for each other is strong enough to withstand ~~each other after playing~~ Dokapon Kingdom! Your love will crush it like a mace! :black101:

# ? Dec 25, 2016 22:13

Pyroi: Aug 17, 2013

Why did you do this to yourselves?

Do you have such a lust for party games?

# ? Dec 25, 2016 22:15

Kemix: Dec 1, 2013; Because change

So. Dan and Grace are gonna get wasted killing each other? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME! This is gonna be so much :atlus:

personified. I'm looking forward to the choking after grace makes Dan poor as gently caress. LET THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BEGIN OVER A VIDEO GAME!

Kemix fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Dec 25, 2016

# ? Dec 25, 2016 22:45

Rigged Death Trap: Feb 13, 2012; BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Lets see what happens first

One game of this ending
Or
The heat death of the universe

# ? Dec 25, 2016 22:47

cant cook creole bream: Aug 15, 2011; I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Oh my god!
I've heard about this game. How are you still alive???
I can't wait for the amount of sass and bullshit this will produce.

But i believe in you Dan and Grace! If any relationship could survive this game it's probably yours.

After watching that video. 11:20 neatly defines how much this game likes Dan.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Dec 25, 2016

# ? Dec 25, 2016 23:06

Rigged Death Trap: Feb 13, 2012; BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Shared appreciation of alcohol is a powerful bonding agent

Billy mays would sell it if he could

# ? Dec 25, 2016 23:27

Schubalts: Nov 26, 2007; People say bigger is better.

But for the first time in my life, I think I've gone too far.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Lets see what happens first

One game of this ending
Or
The heat death of the universe

There have been two LPs of Dokapon that I have seen finished and the first took about 120 weekly episodes.

# ? Dec 25, 2016 23:32

Danaru: Jun 5, 2012; 何 ??

We currently have 35 episodes recorded, we're uh... in the last quarter at least I'm pretty sure. We should have enough episodes to keep posting videos until next time we get to see each other again and we can finish it :v:

I won't spoil anything because frankly you might not believe some of that poo poo unless you see it.

# ? Dec 25, 2016 23:39

cant cook creole bream: Aug 15, 2011; I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Danaru posted:

We currently have 35 episodes recorded, we're uh... in the last quarter at least I'm pretty sure. We should have enough episodes to keep posting videos until next time we get to see each other again and we can finish it

I won't spoil anything because frankly you might not believe some of that poo poo unless you see it.

The way this is going I actually expected Estele to somehow breeze trough the whole game in 5 videos.

Here's what I think happened. The AI difficulty is stored as an integer. Something like 5 is easy 50 is medium and 100 is hard. But the game adds or subtracts up to 6 points. By an underflow error her difficulty is now 255. Or it's a long int and her difficulty is around 4 Billion.
Or it's stupid random chance combined with a cursed game.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Dec 26, 2016

# ? Dec 25, 2016 23:49

504: Feb 2, 2016; by R. Guyovich

Jesus Christ... a creepy whisper offering me a Japanese anime game?

It's like Jimmy Saville is back from the dead.

# ? Dec 26, 2016 00:01

Yapping Eevee: Nov 12, 2011; STAND TOGETHER.
FIGHT WITH HONOR.
RESTORE BALANCE.

Eevees play for free.

Ah, the game I once played against a single AI character, with savestates available just in case.

It still took three days to play the full game. This is gonna be the most :magical:

LP ever.

# ? Dec 26, 2016 00:46

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008; Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Lets see what happens first

One game of this ending
Or
The heat death of the universe

The latter. I did a 4 team game of this with drinking game rules. A couple months of meeting and playing and we gave up.

# ? Dec 26, 2016 02:44

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

cant cook creole bream posted:

The way this is going I actually expected Estele to somehow breeze trough the whole game in 5 videos.

Here's what I think happened. The AI difficulty is stored as an integer. Something like 5 is easy 50 is medium and 100 is hard. But the game adds or subtracts up to 6 points. By an underflow error her difficulty is now 255. Or it's a long int and her difficulty is around 4 Billion.
Or it's stupid random chance combined with a cursed game.

Her words are backed with NUKE.

Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Dec 26, 2016

# ? Dec 26, 2016 03:04

Danaru: Jun 5, 2012; 何 ??

Yapping Eevee posted:

Ah, the game I once played against a single AI character, with savestates available just in case.

It still took three days to play the full game. This is gonna be the most LP ever.

Fun fact, I happened to find this post from just over two years ago a few weeks back from the 2007 thread, after Grace and I played Monopoly :v:

# ? Dec 26, 2016 05:00

Yapping Eevee: Nov 12, 2011; STAND TOGETHER.
FIGHT WITH HONOR.
RESTORE BALANCE.

Eevees play for free.

Something something, Avenue Q, Schadenfreude.

(This game will be an absolute treat to watch if you enjoy an LPer's suffering.)

# ? Dec 26, 2016 06:11

Kemix: Dec 1, 2013; Because change

Yapping Eevee posted:

Something something, Avenue Q, Schadenfreude.

(This game will be an absolute treat to watch if you enjoy an LPer's suffering.)

WHO DOESN'T?! :kheldragar:

# ? Dec 26, 2016 06:18

oldskool: Aug 9, 2010

This game looks really cool! I hope Dan & Grace don't end up hating each other :ohdear:

# ? Dec 26, 2016 07:33

senrath: Nov 4, 2009; Look Professor, a destruct switch!

This game doesn't bill itself as the Friendship Destroying Game for no reason.

# ? Dec 26, 2016 07:44

Extra Tasty: Aug 5, 2014

I've never heard of this game. Looks...real bad :v:

Excited to see just how bad the RNG shits on you if this first episode is anything to go by.

# ? Dec 26, 2016 09:18

Scalding Coffee: Jun 26, 2006; You're already dead

I can wait to see you LP the franchise.

# ? Dec 26, 2016 13:26

SpruceZeus: Aug 13, 2011

Pyroi posted:

Do you have such a lust for party games?

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!?!

# ? Dec 26, 2016 21:01

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

I sense a kindred spirit in you, Danaru. Guess what my die rolls look like when playing a board/party game? :P

# ? Dec 26, 2016 22:26

Manic_Misanthrope: Jul 1, 2010

good loving luck lads, this is going to be a doozy

# ? Dec 26, 2016 23:12

marshmallow creep: Dec 10, 2008; I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Is it possible to set 4 AI players? Because I find Estelle loving poo poo up with such effeciency while poor Steve languishes in kobold-hell to be kind of funny.

# ? Dec 27, 2016 00:00

McGwee: May 1, 2012

Oh man! I LOVE this game! It's bullshit and :magical:

all rolled up in to a Atlus gently caress You. The caps are important.

Me and my friends like to play this every once an a while. We have to sit down first an agree to some house rules, if only to stay friends. I'm so down for this Masochism.

# ? Dec 27, 2016 00:34

Glazius: Jul 22, 2007; Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.; Clapping Larry

It's super weird that a wilderness monster gave up for you but not for Estelle even though she's the same level.

I guess it's just that Estelle magic.

# ? Dec 27, 2016 06:39

Section Z: Oct 1, 2008; Wait, this is the Moon.
How did I even get here?; Pillbug

Rude Dudes vs Rude Game: Estelle's Revenge?

# ? Dec 27, 2016 06:53

Wrestlepig: Feb 25, 2011; my mum says im cool; Toilet Rascal

The Dice Crystal things are pretty good actually, I'd dig that outside of sadism party for preteens.

# ? Dec 27, 2016 07:30

Cathode Raymond: Dec 30, 2015; My antenna is telling me that you're probably wrong about this.; Soiled Meat

Wow, you're off to quite a start. Or at least Estelle is.

What's Estelle's income situation? Am I to understand that she gets 10,000 gold periodically forever because she conquered that town? She can buy whatever she wants now?

Is the rest of this lp going to be an endless, hopeless struggle to catch up to this particular Weak AI? Because that would be awesome.

# ? Dec 27, 2016 22:00

Brunom1: Sep 5, 2011; Ask me about being the best dad ever.

See, Estelle knows that if you folks have any breathing room, you'll turn on each other. Thus, she'll pound you both into the dirt as a way to keep you united.

She's the hero you needed.

# ? Dec 27, 2016 22:04

Zanzibar Ham: Mar 17, 2009; You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.; Grimey Drawer

Cathode Raymond posted:

Wow, you're off to quite a start. Or at least Estelle is.

What's Estelle's income situation? Am I to understand that she gets 10,000 gold periodically forever because she conquered that town? She can buy whatever she wants now?

Is the rest of this lp going to be an endless, hopeless struggle to catch up to this particular Weak AI? Because that would be awesome.

Nah, she doesn't get a 10,000 income, the town has a networth of 10,000.

# ? Dec 27, 2016 22:07

Cathode Raymond: Dec 30, 2015; My antenna is telling me that you're probably wrong about this.; Soiled Meat

Zanzibar Ham posted:

Nah, she doesn't get a 10,000 income, the town has a networth of 10,000.

I'm a little bit relieved but also a little disappointed.

# ? Dec 28, 2016 03:28

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

This game is amazing and also potentially friendship destroying so good luck.

Edit: Like I know this is the popular thing to say about the game but it's also something I experienced firsthand, although it never really escalated beyond being extremely annoyed at being cockblocked from the things I needed to class change to something cool and useful for no good reason.

Shadow Ninja 64 fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 28, 2016

# ? Dec 28, 2016 03:33

FractalSandwich: Apr 25, 2010

I want to make a party game with a Left 4 Dead-style AI director that genuinely does go on a vendetta against specific players and engineer ridiculous winning streaks and comebacks.

# ? Dec 28, 2016 04:36

Yapping Eevee: Nov 12, 2011; STAND TOGETHER.
FIGHT WITH HONOR.
RESTORE BALANCE.

Eevees play for free.

FractalSandwich posted:

I want to make a party game with a Left 4 Dead-style AI director that genuinely does go on a vendetta against specific players and engineer ridiculous winning streaks and comebacks.

I sometimes feel like 100% Orange Juice has a malevolent AI who feeds on human suffering and will screw with your dice rolls for maximum salt amongst players. :v:

This game is like that, but with way more methods with which to screw you over.

# ? Dec 28, 2016 04:42

oldskool: Aug 9, 2010

Cathode Raymond posted:

I'm a little bit relieved but also a little disappointed.

If it makes you feel any better you're all missing a zero, because that town income was 100,000.

# ? Dec 28, 2016 17:35

Senerio: Oct 19, 2009; Ooh! Are we messing with Adora?

This game is much less friendship destroying with AI because a common enemy does that. Also, yep, that is definitely the first two weeks of any given Dokapon Kingdom game.

# ? Dec 28, 2016 20:54

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# ? Jun 8, 2023 05:57

TheGreatEvilKing: Mar 28, 2016

This promises to be amazing.

I look forward to busted controllers and sadness.

# ? Dec 29, 2016 04:51

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