DS #1157: Itadaki Street DS: Dragon Quest Super Mario (Japan)

[ambitous21]

I've been playing this and doing okay...the only questions I still have are what are the four colored cards for, and how do you raise the worth of a street. The one I own this game, an entire street, has four buildings over 400 yet the street is only Level 12 (or something) while other ones are worth as high as 23...

You must go through the 4 symbols on the map, spades, hearts, clover, and diamond, when you have them filled out, go back to the bank, or the starting spot. You will 'level up' as in, they will give you some more money. It is very useful in the beginning of the games when you spent all your money buying the land, so be sure to go through the correct paths to find them.

Hmm.. where did you see the 'level' of the streets? I haven't noticed that myself.. but usually once you own the whole street, the price goes up. And when you land on your own property, you can choose to invest money to build houses. So on your own property, move the arrow to the land that you will build on, and just spent money on it. Once you own all the properties on that street, you can invest a lot, such as 800 on the piece of land.
It's landing price will tune up to 1000-2000, very painful for your opponents.

 

[Gaisuto]

That's not what I ment, ambitous21. I know about the symbols. I mean I keep collecting actual cards that have four colors on them.

 

[ambitous21]

ah, sorry about that. I skimmed through too fast.
The cards act as a substitute for one of the symbols,
so if you got 3 already, the card will allow you to level up and collect money.

 

[Gaisuto]

...I could of won like five times earlier multiple times if I knew that. Thanks ambitous. You can have shares in my street, I have four $1000+ worth mansions there

 

[blink625]

Did anyone get this game to work in G6 Lite?
What setting works? Thanks a million.

 

[juliobbv]

Hehe, it's funny when you don't know japanese at all and you try all the options to see their effects.

Basically, my first play went like this:

I start the game, the game wanted my name, so I tried to click the options at the left row until the game showed me latin characters. I put my name, character face..., etc. The main menu then appeared and I clicked all the first options that the menu offered. The game started, and I realized that the game was like monopoly after 10 minutes of playing. Some options were straightforward, throw the dice, explore the map, etc. At that time I didn't bothered to try all the other unknown options.

During the game, I had some funny moments that I'm going to describe:

When I first played a casino game, It was mario in the welcome to the warp zone. At the touch screen, it showed three options: a pipe with a piranha plant, a question box, and a card. I chose one, wishing that mario would land at the question box or at the card. Well, mario landed at the question box, thinking that only good things would come off from it. My mind was thinking:

-Mario is going to jump at the question box, yeah I'm going to win something.
-Mario jumps, revealing a poison mushroom (Mmmm, that's going to do nothing good). I literally thought "Run mario, RUUUUUUUUUUUUN, you are going to die", but mario happily got the mushroom and I was pissed (damn, I'm gonna lose if I continue like this).

At later in the game, I decided to try the other options, so I chose one and the thing went like this:

-Mmmm, the game wants me to choose a property, maybe is for something good.
-WTF is happening, the other players are present and giving some numbers. The thing ends, and I realized that the option I chose was to auction my property. Damn, I was sad, but at least I learned something from it. :'(

After that 20 minutes passed, and my mom called me to do something I don't remember right now and turned off the DS, because I was too annoyed and tired, and remembered that I can't stand monopoly games from more than an hour.

I was doing good in the game, I had more coins that everyone else, even though I was a level less than the rest. The subsequent games my luck wasn't that great:

-Mmm, I'm going to roll the dice, WTF I'm going to lose 300 coins, oh no there isn't another way to walk. Damn, I have to
retire points from my properties. After realizing that I was losing my patience, I chose not to play this game for some time. I'm so bad at the casino games, I almost never win anything.

I conclude this is a very good game, even for people who don't know japanese if they like monopoly and experimenting with the options.

If there's a misunderstanding, please let me know. (wow, what a long post)
Juliobbv

 

[pakoito]

One little thing. I dunno a single word in Japanese but I've managed to play it rightly thanks to some intuition and some help from gamefaqs -> http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/924358/38158

So I don't really think this is a "only for Japanese speakers" game, everything is pretty intuitive in screen, I even recognized the text on the game menus after reading the guide...

 

[deathfisaro]

Strange for a board game, this one messes you up if you don't understand what it's saying. There are only 100 kinds of cards so once translation is done it should be easy, they're kindly numbered

 

[Gaisuto]

After playing this, I promptly downloaded/played the PS2 version from a few years ago which features Final Fantasy instead of Super Mario. This one plays almost exactly the same, and there's a good guide at GameFAQs to translate/explain everything, including the cards.

They play exactly the same as each other, so I bet the cards are the same too.