Fair Warning- This game is completely in Japanese, and while I'm expecting like every other site we've hooked this on a few people asking 'what about an english release' it's not in sight and probably never will be. The games simple enough, anyway.
matsuri!Edit:
English version now available! APK here. DO NOTE: THIS VERSION WILL BE EXTREMELY FAR BEHIND THE JAPANESE VERSION. SERIOUSLY, DO PLAY THE JAPANESE VERSION. ONLY REALLY ADDING THIS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO BOTHER WITH JAPANESE TEXT AND STUFF.
Welcome to Dragon Poker.
Also known as Japanese exploding poker. It's a multiplayer dragonesque (PAD-inspired design) with amazing ease of access and straight up better quality than most of the genre and probably PAD itself. If I hadn't made a ton of ill-advised mistakes and actually invested in the dying whale that is PAD I'd probably have stopped playing it for this. I may anyway.
It's gameplay is simple, and as long as you know what poker hands are or understand how to match cards together you can understand how to play Dorapo.
The only catch for a long time has been again, this game is completely japanese and we've been flying by observation and seat of our pants for ages.
So what's changed?We broke the game in two and literally know more than most japanese users, basically. At that, our playerbase increased enough to include several people who can actually read and describe stuff, and we've become really organized enough I feel safe pitching it here.
I'm down, where do I start?Here for the APK. or
Here for how to rig your Itunes to Japan and
Here for the ITunes PageHere for a really quick reference guide with too many words.And this is the Wiki, still in progress.If that's too much- Let me summarize starting. When starting you'll be given a whooping six starter choices, 2 for each element. The best 3 are straight up the Red Dragon, Octopus, and Sheep, though the Green Girl is also okay but the cards that she goes on are much rarer. Smash is a ridiculous attacking element, so Octopus and Sheep are my suggestion.
From there, you're generally free to stumble around and get your bearing. There's one caveat.
At level 20, you lose the opportunity to put someone elses code in the referral section. This gives you an S rank card and 15 stones, you don't want to miss that.Here's a menu translation so you can get to it. Optimally, you want to pair up with another new user. You'll both earn double the stones and S Rank cards. Once you're in the screen it's basically find your code, input friend's code, profit.
After that, you're set to bug me once I rig up an IRC channel on MOTKnet or post in the thread with most questions, so long as you don't derp and feed your starter there's nothing big besides you may want to keep stones for a 40 roll.
Stinger QuestionsWhat are the downsides?Asobism has shitty coders and the game is actually pretty battery intensive, they tend to break stuff, and there's a slight gamble with getting a card really good because of a number of things (though to be honest, knowing jack shit before I have two facewreckers even in the second highest play level of PVP).
Plus side?I have probably rolled more than I have in PAD without spending a fucking dime. Dragon poker pisses stones -all fucking over your body-. It is completely plausible to become a terror in this game without paying, even with the PVP section (By the way, we have actual PVP. It's pretty fun in a 5-stack.
Example.). The gameplay is a lot more fresh and fun, even the 'worst rolls of your life' will mean something at the start and rarely does a card become completely useless (Some cards still manage it).
'Godfests' are every weekend as well, so you don't have to wait forever with your hot stones unless you want to sperg roll for the best card ever (That's yomi. She just went off weekend.) Events are pretty constant, and something is always happening. Stamina is a LOT BETTER MANAGED than PAD ever will be, as you have literally double the stam regen rate, more stam for only slightly higher costs (for a long time), and the ability to snipe runs for stamina discounts to play longer. Oh, and you get a free stam refill everyday to keep going.
Also, skill ups are readily available every weekend, universal, and you can absolutely assure them. Evo materials are also super condensed. Multiple things drop per wave. You can ensure drops.
Also the good card rate in the gacha is 7%, with 20% for a slightly worse card which I can tell you is a hell of a lot better than PAD.
The art is also rather nice, with some quality designs.
THE MUSIC IS GOD DAMN AMAZING, ESPECIALLY FOR A MOBAGE.The game is really entry friendly, fun, and a lot less fuckin' absurd than PAD's shit ever will be.
What's this about breaking the game?We've basically managed to tear it apart and find all the files, so we know exact multipliers and numbers and everything now. We've also managed to find mad leeks. We're going to probably condense and create a pretty solid wiki if we can, and I'dve waited for that so you could all use that instead of our rough-ass current stuff but some events are briefly up that I'd do a disservice to not try and get you in before they end.
Have the next card for example, isn't she adorable?
Can you stop talking now?Sure. I'll be creating an IRC channel eventually for this (or just invite you all to the goon chat on syncirc), but until then I'm done- there's plenty of stuff in the reference and I'm available here if something fresh comes up.
(name ig is Chaore, as usual.)
Actually, Hold up, When should I roll and how?The gacha tier list has you covered, though it's subjective.Basically, most SSS and SS cards are agreed to be really good- We don't point out a lot of stinkers, but my personal advice is avoid anything with a Skull on it, because skull has a lot of worthless cards.
When starting though- go for 40 rolls to get a few SS no matter how bad/good they are if you can, just a few will help you out immensely. Once you feel you've got a lot of S and SS card feel free to go picky and snipe certain colors and such to round your deck out. The best time to pull is -usually- when the button for it is gold, since that's a gachafest with featured monsters that you're garuanteed to get when you roll an SS at a higher rate- though doing pulls outside of that will nab you a SS just fine, sometimes.
