Dokapon Kingdom/YMMV

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Dr. Exiles is really a kindly doctor taking desperate measures to cure the kingdom of its biggest malady: Greed. The real reason he was exiled from the kingdom was because his value of health over money was seen as destructive to the status quo. By constantly charging exorbitant amounts of money regardless of his patients' level of wellness he hopes to expose the ridiculousness of living one's life solely for financial gain and shows people that there is life without money by forcing them to go without.
  • Leane uses her innocent, village girl image as a facade for drug trafficking. She continually pops up asking players to deliver parcels of food to different towns, but every item - including a full pizza - is presented in a pouch too small to carry what she claims it to be. Some of the "meal" names get pretty exotic, too.
    • Seriously, replace her introduction with, "Hey buddy, wanna make some money?" and the whole thing takes on a different tone.
• Designated Hero: The Player Characters would often do things that made them end up as this in order to win. This includes: sending thieves and assassins against the competition, robbing shops, attacking towns, Kill Stealing, and not delivering items from a little girl like they promised to.
• Game Breaker: 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.
  • The game also provides an intentional Game Breaker in the 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, if paired with a cooperative player, results in someone getting Game Breaker 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.
• Nightmare Fuel: If a girl wins, the girl and Princess Penny are fine with marrying, but the King notes that they can't publicly marry two girls. So, the wedding scene plays out with the King in bride's wedding gown(!)
  • "Hey, kid! Wanna see some magic?"
• Sequel Displacement: This series is actually based on a pair of highly obscure dungeon crawlers for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance released all the way back in 2001. Never heard of 'em? Don't worry—aside from the Mascot Mook and the skeleton of the battle system, they have almost nothing in common.
  • What do you mean Game Boy Color & Game Boy Advance? This series started in 1994 on the Super Famicom and played like it does today! The Game Boy Advance Spin-Off was just the first of the series in the West!
    • Nope, it's still Older Than They Think. Even that game was the Spiritual Successor to Hundred World Story, a still-older party-boardgame-RPG for the original Famicom.