Dokapon DX

Dokapon DX: Wataru Sekai wa Oni Darake (ドカポンDX ~わたる世界はオニだらけ~) is a game in the Dokapon series. It is a 2003 action video game developed and published by Asmik Ace Entertainment exclusively in Japan for the Nintendo GameCube on April 10, 2003, and later for the PlayStation 2 on July 8, 2004. Sting, the creators of Dokapon Kingdom, helped port the PlayStation 2 version.
==Story==
The game has 7 basic chapters, plus two secret ones should specific conditions are met. In Chapter 3, Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, special items can be obtained in the village; if a player finishes a chapter without collecting said special items, the mayor will come and give the player that item at the end of the chapter.
===Prologue===
The players simply have to reach and defeat Wallace in the throne room.
=== Chapter 1===
The players have to collect 4 Dokapon Eggs, then defeat Wallace Green, who will appear at the end of the forest dungeon. The dungeon features log bridges that fall off after walking on.
=== Chapter 2===
The players have to collect 5 Dokapon Eggs (note: starting in this chapter, Wallace Egg may appear, which causes the player who owns it at the end of the chapter to lose money equal to weeks passed ×15000 G, as well as losing all their items; like other minus items, it can be given to other players by defeating them in battles), then defeat Wallace Yellow, who will appear at the end of the desert ruins dungeon. The dungeon features spike spaces that damage the players who land on it.
===Chapter 3 ===
The area introduces water spaces, which requires the Magic Ship item, which can be obtained in the village. The players have to collect 5 Dokapon Eggs, then defeat Wallace Pink, who will appear in the Lucky Park dungeon. (note: to reach Wallace Pink, the players have to use the spinning cup in the middle and come out from the left)
===Chapter 4===
The area introduces underwater spaces, which requires the Magic Pump item, which can be obtained in the village. The players have to collect 6 Dokapon Eggs, then defeat Wallace Blue, who will appear in the underwater dungeon. (note: In underwater spaces, the players' spinners will be restricted to 0~3, and this affects multiple spinners; the entire dungeon is also underwater)
===Chapter 5 ===
The player can get the Angel Wings item from the village, which allows them to fly over obstacles, and put them under the Super Spinner effect. However, when using it, they won't trigger anything at all, and have to take a turn to land; they also lose 10% of their max HP when using the Angel Wings, and will be forced to land if their remaining HP is lower than 20%. The players have to collect 7 Dokapon Eggs, then defeat Wallace Red, who will appear at the end of the volcano dungeon. The dungeon features lava tiles that damage the players who land on it.
===Final Chapter ===
The chapter takes place at the same map as Chapter 1. The players have to defeat Wallace Green, Wallace Yellow, Wallace Pink, Wallace Blue and Wallace Red, and go to Dokapon Castle to defeat Wallace. After this, they go through the second floor of Dokapon Castle, and then the Heck, to defeat Great Wallace. If neither the Darkness Route or the Space Route is taken, the game ends, bonuses are calculated and the winner will be announced.
===Darkness Route===
If the player owns all five D-Parts and defeat Wallace in Final Chapter for the first time, the latter will ask the player if they want to join them. If accepted, the player becomes the Demon King (a permanent Darkling), has their stats quadrupled and gets unique Demon King equipments. The game ends after either the Demon King is defeated or all other players are defeated; when the other players are defeated, they can only revive if they roll a 0 in the spinner. If the Demon King is defeated, the player who defeats them will get all the D-Parts. The winner in this route is still the player with the most total assets, not necessarily the Demon King or the player who defeats the Demon King, although there is another bonus for these characters in this route (and a penalty for the Demon King if they die in this route).
===Space Route===
If Great Wallace is defeated in 40 weeks, the player will go through an extra space chapter, where they have to defeat the Giant Meteor boss. The player who defeats the boss here will get three unique treasures.
==Gameplay==
Unlike most games in the Dokapon series, the players do not free and manage towns from monsters; instead, monsters spawn on the map, and the spot becomes a treasure site after the monster is defeated. The player who defeats the monster will own it; other players must pay money to dig treasures on it.
===Bank and Cards===
The bank returns from the previous game, where the players can save and withdraw money. Since there are no towns or incomes, the player can instead directly rob other players' deposit; doing so requires the player to guess the password correctly three times at once, which the player about to be robbed can set manually.
The player can also own another player's card, either by using a Disguise Set when receiving the card, or get it from another player after defeating them. If the player wishes to use another player's card, they also need to use a Disguise Set. A player can also disable their own card to prevent misuse.
=== D-Goods===
The treasures from the previous game return, now known as D-Goods.
===D-Parts===
There are a total of five D-Parts in the game:
* D-Part of Healing (Chapter 1): Occasionally recovers 20% of the owner's max HP. (100k G)
*D-Part of Movement (Chapter 2): Occasionally adds a spinner when the owner moves. Can stack with other spinner items, but it won't exceed 5. (200k G)
* D-Part of Guarding (Chapter 3): Increases the owner's evasion against field magic. (400k G)
*D-Part of Fury (Chapter 4): Increases all of the user's stats when they're at critical health. (700k G)
*D-Part of Reality (Chapter 5): Occasionally allows the owner to teleport to a space of their choice. (1m G)
===Clear Character===
After finishing the Story Mode, the player can create a clear data in the memory card. The clear data comes with the information with the character the player uses (known as "Clear Character"), including their equipments, level and stats. The player can use the Clear Characters in the Battle Mode. Up to 8 Clear Characters can be saved in a memory card.
===Battle Mode===
The player can pick any of the island they have unlocked in the Story Mode for the Battle Mode. There are three sub-modes: Money Race, Kill Race and Egg Race.
==Characters==
===Playable characters===
*Tap
*Luchil 
*Brikin
* Gamamaru 
* Razuly
*Wiwi
*Vint (unlockable)
==Special Event NPCs ==
*Businessman: May approach the player to sign a contract on equipment brand sponsorship. He will give the player money on a weekly basis. If the player changes their equipment to another brand, or have the brand changed by Gutz, the sponsorship will end. During the contract, the businessman may also give the player new equipments of the brand, or film a successful battle using the equipment, make it an advertisement that plays before the news, and give the player 2 times the worth of the equipment.
*Weber: There are two possible events:
** Weber may offer the player to become the Darkling for 7 days at the cost of all of their current cash and items (deposit and treasures are kept). This can happen to anyone, not just the player in the last place.
**Weber may give the player a powerful "Dark Mark" item or field magic spell, Mogumogu or Blackmail.
*Beggar: Asks for 25% of the player's current cash. When agreed, they may either do nothing or give the player an item. When refused, they may either do nothing or attack the player with a field magic spell.
* Sushi Shop Machiko: Asks the player to deliver sushi to the village. If the delivery is made in one week, the player gets money equal to current week ×5000G.
*Hineo: The player can choose to bully him or leave him alone. If the player bullies him and hits him enough times, they can force another player to pay money for the damage (the chosen player will encounter this event on their next normal space); if not hit enough times, he may either do nothing or take away an item from the player. If spared, he gives the player an item.
*Jankie: Challenges the player into a rock-scissors-paper game. If the player is in debt, he skips the game and clears the debt. If the player wins, nothing happens; if the player loses, he takes away money equal to current week ×4000G from the player and gives it to the player in the last place.
*UFO: Takes away the player for 1 turn. When they return, all of their stats (including HP) will either be increased by 1~3 or decreased by 1.
*Dr. Oper: The player can pay him money equal to current week ×1500G to increase their stats, or money equal to current week ×2000G to decrease the stats of another player.
*Gutz the Blacksmith: The player can pay him cash to upgrade their weapon for 10% of the weapon's worth. This will increase the power of the weapon by around 15, and change its brand.
*Vint the Assassin: The player can pay him to try to assassinate another player for 2 weeks. This event will not happen if Vint is one of the player characters in the run.
*Ecchan: The player can try to ask for an autograph. If succeeded, they can get an autograph that's worth current week ×5000G. If failed, the player's AT, DF, MG and SP will be decreased by 20%. Nothing happens if the player don't ask for the autograph.
*Gamettsu the Merchant: The player can buy treasures, or a rare item from him. It's not possible to rob him in this game.
==Weekly Events==
With the exception of the minigame events, the weekly events are presented in the form of Dokapon News Network, which has Ecchan the newslady report the upcoming events. Before the broadcast starts, the sponsor of the news will be noted, and if a player has recently provided an advertisement for the sponsor's brand, the advertisement will play before the news start. This also applies to the D-Part verification in the Story Mode.
===Positive===
* Bargain Sale: For one week, all goods in the shops will be 10% off.
* Mimic Outbreak: For one week, rare Mimic-type monster will appear in most regular battles.
*Panel Game: The players play a panel matching game together, where there are 25 panels, one of which is Wallace Panel, which causes the player who gets it to be revoked of everything they get in the game; the revoked goods will be given to the player who gets Angel Panels. If there are no goods revoked, the player who gets Angel Panels can get treasures instead.
*Arena Event: The players fight with each other, as well as a gladiator. The winner can get current week ×10000G. The gladiator's special skill is Crash Bomb, which inflicts damage and may destroy shields, and has all of their stats being the highest of all players. Items and treasure effects are disabled in the arena.
*Monster Race: The player can bet on the monster that they think will win the race.
===Negative===
*Shop Close: For one week, all shops will be closed.
*Monmon Outbreak: For one week, Monmon (as well as Mama Monmon and Papa Monmon) will appear in regular battles. They can inflict the Monmon Virus status, which causes the victim to lose 25% of their max HP every turn, can be passed to other players, and can only be cured by dying or by using the Monmon Vaccine dropped by these monsters.
*Thundercloud: A thundercloud appears on the map, which moves at the end of a day and damages anyone caught in it.
*Tornado: A tornado appears on the map, which moves about 10 spaces at the end of a day, damages and randomly teleports anyone caught in it.
*Earthquake: A warning will be given in the news that an earthquake will happen somewhere on the map on a day. When it occurs, anyone who's caught in it will take damage.
==Differences from other Dokapon games==
*Instead of a large map consisting of several continents for the overworld, each continent is its own island, which the player can pick in the Battle Mode.
*There are 3 proper endings for the Story Mode: Normal Ending, Dark Ending and Space Ending.
*Robbing the store in this game involves the player playing a password guessing game instead of Roshambo.
*The traditional "Town" concept doesn't exist in this game. Instead, the village is now a special building that allows the player to recover HP, and in the Story Mode, must be landed on to receive special items. For the general objective, the player will be defeating Big Monsters that are appearing on set normal spaces to turn the spaces into Treasure Sites, which allows them to dig up treasures and Dokapon Eggs.
*Each weapon and shield has a brand. While they don't affect battles, they do affect certain events.
*A special variation of treasure known as D-Parts exist in Story Mode. They are the only goods that a Devilerman can rob when defeating a player.
*The player's Battle Skills are tied to their weapon. When a Battle Skill misses, it displays "Nice Guard". Damaging Battle Skills pierce enemy defense.
*As there are no towns for the Devilerman to recover health from, the Dark Art Spinner has full healing and gaining experience points as outcome as a result.
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
Battle UI.PNG|Battle
Battle chests.PNG
Wiwi.PNG|Wiwi, Tap and Luchil on the same space
File:Tap Title Screen DX.png|Tap on the title screen
File:Machiko DX.PNG|Sushi Shop Machiko
File:Kurumi DX.png|Item Store Kurumi
File:Hans DX.png|Weapon Store Hans
File:Pista DX.png|Magic Store Pista
File:Ecchan DNN DX.png|Ecchan the newslady
File:Dokapon DX Gamettsu.png|Gamettsu
File:Magic Store DX.png|Magic Store
File:Robbing Vault.PNG|Robbing a vault
File:Dokapon DX Newslady Event.png|The player being caught by the newslady for bullying her son
File:Dokapon DX Silver Spear Comm.png|Commercial for the Silver Spear featuring Vint
File:Dokapon DX Boat After Chapter 3.png|Vint receiving the Magic Boat after clearing the chapter
File:Dokapon DX 3 Spinner Rewards.png|Matching up a 3 Spinner
===Box artwork===
Dokapon_DX_GameCube_Boxart.jpg|The box artwork for the GameCube version.
Dokapon_DX_Boxart_Asmik_Ace_Best.jpg
==Videos==
Dokapon DX Japanese TV Commercial
==External links==
*Official site
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