this game is kinda unexpectedly amazing. me and 3 other friends booted this up with no knowledge except the fact it was like mario party but really long. we also didnt allow each other to look anything up at all, with a couple exceptions about a couple items, but it seriously was such a great experience that went so much further than we initially thought.

the game itself can be pretty unbalanced but you wont really notice some of these imbalances later on. for example, the alchemist class can just dupe items and consumable magic spells in their inventory as many times as they want which is already an insane skill if you get the right things in your inventory and sell any other garbage you have. on top of this, the alchemist gets a battle skill that lets you earn money based on how much damage you deal and take in a fight. if you use this ability on basic ass baby enemies and hit it with moves that do ~1000 damage, you instantly get 200000 gold. a friend figured this out, went to the casino area and just gambled a fuck ton with a loop he figured out with shop items in the casino area and eventually hit it big getting the best sword in the game and 50 million gold. if this friend hadnt been killed by another friend and all of that money hadnt slowly dwindled away, he would have won the game even after i beat the final boss and got the last reward. at the time i thought the game was over but i pressed on and progressed the plot anyway because i figured there was nothing else i could do. i did end up winning the game but it seriously was in contention for a little while when that huge sum of money kept passing hands. its moments like these and more that make me adore this game even if its so batshit insane with some of the stuff youre allowed to do in it. this game just makes for so many great moments like this that evoke so many emotions from everyone in the room playing.

i think even though this game has some crazy shit that really feels like it was either unintended or misunderstood how powerful it could really be, its the exact type of stuff that will make for such a good party game experience and will create stories within the game. it has to be the best party game experience ive ever had and might ever have. im convinced there will be no two campaigns of this game that will be the exact same and it makes me wanna go back and play again even after finishing it tonight. the long ass sessions me and my friends had after we were done with classes for the day made for such good memories i never thought i could have with a game. if you can convince 3 other people to play this game with you and spend about 30-40 hours together over the course of multiple sessions with no prior information about this game, please do. it will be some of the most fun youve had in a party game and it will have you dying to play more after each session

played with my wife (and one CPU) over the course of a week for 30 hours and was one of the most emotional experiences i've ever had with a game. we banded together against the CPU guy who, without fucking fail, ALWAYS rolled exactly what he needed to get where he wanted and had ungodly luck - until he was repeatedly sent to Brazil, foot-blistered, purse-cuttered, and killed only to revive back in Brazil. little did my gorgeous partner know, however, that i was only leveraging our mutual hatred of the CPU to get the heat off myself. i became an unstoppable killing machine, i got so rich Dr. Exile meant nothing, only to attain a hollow victory. i did nasty shit. evil shit. she got a cool shield that reflected attacks, i killed her and took it. i'm not proud. i don't love what i learned about myself through this game. i don't love circling around an exit for a week, the bullshit of unlocking the Acrobat and Hero, the way the cpu kept saying 'shazbot' making me cringe every time, or the music in the tower of rabble - but i do love my wife. and i loved the time i spent with her playing this. it was fun :)

Mi experiencia después de jugar una sesión en modo normal por 5 horas:

Bo este juego es una mierda
No entiendo nada
Bo está demás
Creo que ya entendí
La puta madre perdí todo
No voy a jugar más
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO
AAAAAAAAA PERDÍ TODO DE NUEVO
Qué juego de mierda
Muy bueno

What if Mario Party was an RPG instead of minigames and it hated you. I don't say that lightly, Dokapon Kingdom hates you, the player, and will take every chance it has to ruin your day. Too much money? one bad roll and you now have negative money. Too many towns? Given away to the other players. Got a really nice weapon? Broken immediately.

Sounds frustrating, right? But I gave it 4 stars anyway, because you have to embrace the madness. I played with a group of 3 others and watching the game ruin all of our lives collectively was a good time.

This was one of the worst yet best gaming experiences I ever had while having the privilege of playing with my dedicated friends that saw it through til the very end. 142 Weeks in total to beat the story mode on our first ever playthrough, and about 30-40ish hours clocked in too because we tried to unlock as much as we could in terms of classes. The Story Mode for this game is a behemoth that only a few would even tackle, let alone finish. It's a fun game, but if you're not dedicated to finishing it, most would probably abandon the story mode.

Thankfully Party Mode exist so you can have a lighter and more casual time there.

(Oh and also, really wish you could name opponents if you ever win against a player. I understand why due to people online possibly naming others some offensive stuff, but that's why in-game censors are suppose to detect that kinda stuff)