Dokapon Kingdom: Connect Review (Keji Goto)
Dokapon Kingdom is a classic friendship ruining experience that feels like Mario Party on steroids with the mini games replaced by RPG mechanics, a class system, and a huge world map to explore instead of a small game board. You'll level up, fight monsters to free towns, meet random NPCs who will either aid or hinder your quest, back stab your friends, and so much more along the way. I've played on the PS2, Wii, and gladly picked this up on Steam to continue the tradition within my friend group.
This is also best experienced as a multiplayer game with friends. Story mode is quite basic and really just acts as a gated experienced to the world map and random events that occur as a means to learn the game. The King provides updates and gives out quests to complete each chapter. Multiplayer is best experienced in the standard mode where the whole map is open from the start and you're at the mercy of the RNG gods, your own wits, and how well you can play your friends in a race to acquire as much wealth as possible.
However the $50 price tag is a tough pill to swallow with this being a fairly straight forward port with the only new frills added being online multiplayer which is a welcome change but at $50 you'd hope to see a little more done than keyboard prompts being added in and basic graphical options. $35 is a stretch but $20 feels like a no brainer purchase.