History YMMV / DokaponKingdom

** Roché can be this if the player isn't good at Roshambo, as he will steal ''one-quarter of your money'' if you lose against him.

* NightmareFuel: Combined with ParanoiaFuel: the Robo-Agent seems nice enough, to the point that one may wonder how effective he would be at stopping other players. Then he transforms into the significantly more menacing Robo-sassin and hunts the poor target down for a week non-stop. You can bribe him to attack his original boss for twice the price if you have the money...and he makes sure to offer in his Robo-sassin mode to make it more enticing on top of that.
%%** "Hey, ''kid''! Wanna see some '''magic'''?"

** Starting in Chapter 2, you'll encounter enemies such as Crawlers, Cockatrices, etc. that can stun your character in combat. A stunned character is unable to take their turn and all of the enemy's actions deal higher damage, making this particularly devastating if another player is nearby to capitalize on an easy kill. Because these attacks are often weak and the enemies that have them tend to pick this option over other skills, an unlucky player can potentially be stun-locked for several days before being killed to miss out several more turns, or even worse, have their stuffs taken away by another player.

** Some enemies have the "Sleepy" magic which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin can put you to sleep if you don't use magic guard]]. The magic is not particularly dangerous, as its power is relatively low and characters who are put to sleep tend to wake up when they get another turn, but if you don't have magic guard and don't get your first turn, you may waste one or two turns, and risk having another character striking you if you aren't lucky to wake up in time.

** Chimpys. They appear in a specific event, and their stats are even lower than [[TheGoomba Kobolds]]... except Speed, which is three times higher than the fastest player, so they'll almost always hit you and have a high chance of dodging your attacks, which gives you a virus that quickly chips away your health. Even worse, it can't be cured in a church - you must go back to Dokapon Castle or use a Miracle Serum, if they drop one, that is. Not the most dangerous thing in the game, but still very annoying.

** Enemies with Battle Skills that have a chance to instant kill or destroy equipment. Not only is there pretty much no defense against them (outside of good RNG, or Deathblocks/Revivals in case of the former), most Town Monsters and even some common enemies from Chapter 6 onwards come with these. Not only that, but the monster AI seems programmed to give these moves the highest priority for use. This can lead to a frustrating late-game, with near constant deaths and having to spend tons of money to replace weapons or shields, only for them to quickly get destroyed again. They can even destroy the InfinityPlusOneSword you get with a lot of efforts!

** Starting in Chapter 2, you'll encounter enemies such as Crawlers, Cockatrices, etc. that can stun your character in combat. A stunned character is unable to take their turn and all of the enemy's actions deal higher damage, making this particularly devastating if another player is nearby to capitalize on an easy kill. Because these attacks are often weak and the enemies that have them tend to pick this option over other skills, an unlucky player can potentially be stun-locked for several days before being killed to miss out several more turns, or even worse, have another player fight them for a free Strike and take away their stuffs.

** Chimpys. They appear in a specific event, and their stats are even lower than [[TheGoomba Kobolds]]... except Speed, which is three times higher than the fastest player, so they'll almost always hit you, which gives you a virus that quickly chips away your health. Even worse, it can't be cured in a church - you must go back to Dokapon Castle or use a Miracle Serum, if they drop one, that is. Not the most dangerous thing in the game, but still very annoying.

** If a hair contest or coliseum effect happens to take place, every player will be moved there. This is especially problematic when you are deep in a dungeon (especially long ones like Tower of Rabble) and don't have a teleportation item (which happens most of the time).
* ScrappyWeapon: The Dancing Blade has an attack power of 114, which is about the level of an InfinityMinusOneSword in the game and can be obtained as early as in Llano. However, it sometimes causes the user to use Strike instead of the action they chose. Since many late-game enemies always uses Counter if player uses Strike, this makes the Dancing Blade a dangerous weapon that basically has a chance to cause you to die and you're better off using weapons from weapon shops with lower attack power if you can't find better ones in dungeons.

** Starting in Chapter 2, you'll encounter enemies such as Crawlers, Cockatrices, etc. that can stun your character in combat. A stunned character is unable to take their turn and all of the enemy's actions deal higher damage, making this particularly devastating if another player is nearby to capitalize on an easy kill. Because these attacks are often weak and the enemies that have them tend to pick this option over other skills, an unlucky player can potentially be stun-locked for several days before being killed to miss out several more turns.

* GoddamnedBats: Roché can be this if the player isn't good at Roshambo, as he will steal ''one-quarter of your money'' if you lose against him.

* MemeticMutation: Several lines from Hans the Arms Dealer (the guy at the Weapon Store), thanks to LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys' LetsPlay of it. Especially "We're havin' a SALE!" and "Heeeeeeeey, thanks a lot!"

* ScrappyMechanic: Enemies with Battle Skills that have a chance to instant kill or destroy equipment. Not only is there pretty much no defense against them (outside of good RNG, or Deathblocks/Revivals in case of the former), most Town Monsters and even some common enemies from Chapter 6 onwards come with these. Not only that, but the monster AI seems programmed to give these moves the highest priority for use. This can lead to a frustrating late-game, with near constant deaths and having to spend tons of money to replace weapons or shields, only for them to quickly get destroyed again.

** The Chapter 3 story quest to purchase 5 of a randomly chosen item for the king can either be relatively straight-forward or a perpetually never-ending ordeal. Easy access to Purse Cutters in this chapter and the fact that most classes at this point in the game are limited to 6 item slots means that if the particular item store to buy from is far enough from Dokapon Castle that one spinner won't clear the trip home, a single Purse Cutter is enough stall out someone's chance to end the chapter as they'll be forced to return to the item store. Come Here, a field spell that teleports all players to the caster, is also available and located deep within a dungeon.

* ThatOneLevel: The Coliseum. The players are thrown into a battle royale that has Comacho thrown in. Comacho's stats are double the highest stats of all the players, so unless the players actively work together against him they have no chance of winning and even then it's still a nightmare to beat him. Rather tellingly players get any deathblocks or revivals restored after the fight because the developers expected them to lose more often than not.

* CharacterTiers: Because of the uneven nature of stats, jobs that can pump up AT, SP, and HP have a tendency to perform better throughout the majority of the game, and in story mode/low week normal mode, can win by ending the game quickly before other classes pick up. This is due to DF being a DumpStat and MG becoming increasingly less effective near the end game as players and monsters get stronger defensive magic, which reduces damage by a large percentage regardless of their MG stat and regardless of whether they actually use the skill. Meanwhile, HP and AT tend to be better than their respective counterparts and SP is always useful for increasing your dodge chance. The usefulness of certain skills over others also creates a severe gap in classes of similar requirements.
** Among the starting three classes of Warrior, Thief, and Magician, the Thief is generally credited as having the better stat growths, field skill (steal items simply by passing through other players), and level 4 ability in Escape, which remains relevant even as you advance into other jobs.
** Later on, Spellsword falls behind the triangle of [[FighterMageThief Ninja, Monk, and Alchemist.]] Its stat growths are pumped into both AT and MG, making it inefficient since it's better to specialize in one over the other. While it has a decent field skill, its battle abilities are not that great in comparison to the other three.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The story mode, while definitely fun to play with other people, is also rather impractical to finish for the simple fact that most people don't really have the time to get together in-person week after week to get through a game. This is perhaps best exemplified in LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys' infamous Let's Play of it, which went on for 144 episodes over ''4 years'' simply because it was so hard to commit time to it. Thankfully, the game has other modes that can be over and done with in a single session.

* DemonicSpiders: Each region has at least one common enemy with a Battle Skill capable of breaking equipment, and if they break weapons, magic skills, etc. this can be particularly devastating as that means the player needs to spend time finding a replacement. In the the first region of Asiana for example, the water tiles have the Level 3 Killer Fish enemy, which can use Waterfall to break your weapon and have a respectable speed stat that makes misses with attacks on them frequent.

** The Thief's Level 4 Battle Skill, Escape, allows a player to escape from battle without penalty and puts the player in an invulnerable state on the map that prevents other player from engaging in combat or hitting them with Field Magic until that player's next turn. The utility afforded by this Battle Skill makes the player highly elusive and means that they have a 50% chance to escape even the Darkling, the [[PurposelyOverpowered resident equalizing class]], as long as they move first. Objectives for the castles in Story Mode are also easier to protect as a result as a player can simply escape combat with monsters to become nearly untouchable, save for if the player lands a bad roll or hits an event that prevents them from using Escape.
** The Alchemist class can multiply useful items at random, and its Alchemy ability allows you to rack up ''ridiculous'' amounts of money. They have small inventories to compensate, but this doesn't hinder them. They can invest their ridiculous earnings into castles, and take the items to the king for end-game money that can't be reduced.

** The game also provides an ''[[PurposelyOverpowered intentional]]'' GameBreaker in the [[DealWithTheDevil Darkling]] class, which exists solely so that the player in last place can have a shot at screwing over everyone else as payback for their misfortune.
*** The Darkling class, if paired with a co-operative player, results in someone getting GameBreaker equipment for the rest of the game without having to worry about the equipment reverting. Of course, if four people are cooperating together, high-level players will throw fights against low-level players JUST to even out the levels.
*** Even better when the Darkling ''isn't'' cooperative, and simply got [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched out]] by a CrazyPrepared rival.
*** The darkling class will also remove all debt, at least in ''Journey''. Depending on how things go and when you get it, the class may just allow you to completely ruin the other players. Of course, it was designed for that purpose -- and can be especially satisfying against [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Hard]] CPU opponents.

** The game also provides an ''[[PurposelyOverpowered intentional]]'' GameBreaker in the [[DealWithTheDevil Darkling]] class, which exists solely so that the player in last place can screw over everyone else as badly as they've been screwed.

*** The darkling class will also remove all debt, in journey at least. Depending on how things go and when you get it, the class may just allow you to completely ruin the other players. Of course, it was designed for that purpose -- and can be especially satisfying against [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Hard]] CPU opponents.

* HoYay: Female heroes are just as motivated by the StandardHeroReward as the male heroes, and if a girl does win, Penny does not mind the idea of marrying the other girl.

* NightmareFuel: Combined with ParanoiaFuel, the Robo-Agent seems nice enough, to the point that one may wonder how effective he would be at stopping other players. Then he transforms into the significantly more menacing Robo-sassin and hunts the poor target down for a week non-stop. You can bribe him to attack his original boss for twice the price if you have the money...and he makes sure to offer in his Robo-sassin mode to make it more enticing on top of that.

* DemonicSpiders: Rico Jr. when he's a DegradedBoss. His stats are the average of all non-Darkling players, so no amount of grinding or buying weapons will give the player an easy win. It's especially bad if one player has managed to get a rare weapon and/or shield to put their AT or DF ahead, or he has high MG and attacks a player with poor MG, since either can allow him to one-shot a player.

** The Alchemist class can multiply useful items at random, and its Alchemy ability allows you to rack up ''ridiculous'' amounts of money. They have small inventories to compensate, but it doesn't help much. They can invest their ridiculous earnings into castles, and take the items to the king for end-game money that cannot be removed.
** If you're lucky enough to get the Acrobat, you can pretty much expect to never die, as their field skill gives them a 50% chance of being revived from death, even in battle.
** In normal mode, where you aren't blocked off from other continents, you can access the mid-level continent Aphrike near the starting area and attempt to steal from the weapon store there, giving access to a level 30+ weapon at level 1. The same concept can be applied to item and magic shops, which give you an assortment of 3 expensive, usually powerful items/magics to use at your disposal, assuming you win the Roshambo match.

* GoddamnedBats: Roché can this this if the player isn't good at Roshambo, as he will steal ''one-quarter of your money'' if you lose against him.

* ThatOneLevel: The Coliseum. The players are thrown into a battle royale that has Comacho thrown in. Comacho's stats are double the highest stats of all the players, so unless the players actively work together against him they have no chance of winning and even then it's still a nightmare to beat him. Rather tellingly players get any deathblocks or revivals restored after the fight because the developers expected them to lose more often than not.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The game is rated a mere E10+, and yet it still manages to get away with the King saying, [[FreudianSlip "assolutely flabulous."]] The fact that this line is used in the very last cutscene of a game that approximates 30+ hours makes it rather easy for ratings boards to not find out about it.

* GettingCrapPastTheRafar: The game is rated a mere E10+, and yet it still manages to get away with the King saying, [[FreudianSlip "assolutely flabulous."]] The fact that this line is used in the very last cutscene of a game that approximates 30+ hours makes it rather easy for ratings boards to not find out about it.

* SequelDisplacement: This series started in 1994 on the UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom and played like it does today, though its first Western release was a {{spinoff}} on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGlZuaSJib8 Hundred World Story]], a still-older party-boardgame-RPG for the original UsefulNotes/{{Famicom}}.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGlZuaSJib8 Hundred World Story]], a still-older party-boardgame-RPG for the original UsefulNotes/{{Famicom}}.

* GoddamnedBats: Roché can this this if the player isn't good at Roshambo, as he will steal 'one-quarter of your money'' if you lose against him.