Dohna Dohna

About
Dohna Dohna (ドーナドーナ いっしょにわるいことをしよう, literally translating to "Dohna Dohna: Let's Do Bad Things Together!"), stylized as "doHna:doHna," is a RPG/Management game developed by Alicesoft released on November 27, 2020. Its title is derived from the Yiddish folk song Dona Dona, which is about a calf being led to slaughter. The song gained popularity in Japan for its appearance in the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the phrase "dona dona" has since been adopted as slang to refer to any instance of a person or thing being forcibly abducted from a place of comfort to somewhere dangerous or unpleasant.

Created by the creative team responsible for the production of Rance 01 and Rance 03, Dohna Dohna began development shortly after the release of the latter. It was conceived as a spiritual sequel to Haruurare, a prostitution simulation game released as part of the Alice 2010 compilation disc and the first game ever directed by Ittenchiroku, the project's leader; even marketing itself as a "Haruurare RPG". It is also notably the final Alicesoft game to feature soundtrack composer DJ C++ as a regular staff member. DJ C++ actually left the company during development, but was hired back as a freelancer to complete the job.

While announced as early as 2016, Dohna Dohna underwent a lengthy development period of four years before receiving an official release date. Though no official reason has been given for this delay, it is notably one of the few Alicesoft titles ever to feature guest artists; with several notable illustrators from outside of the company providing artwork for the game's large cast of "Unique Heroine" characters.

In addition to physical and digital versions, the game also received a limited edition release which included a copy of its predecessor Haruurare alongside it. Its soundtrack was released as Alice Sound Album Vol. 33.

Player character: Kuma
The player assumes the role of Kuma, the second-in-command of one of many Asougi Resistance groups in a city dominated by a single, powerful corporation, Asougi Heavy Industries. The resistance groups are gangs that are protesting the corporate oppression over the governing of the city, but also resort to various criminal acts, such as theft, human trafficking and prostitution in order to fund their resistance.

Kuma and his allies must increase their clan's power by finding and capturing young women throughout the city and selling them as prostitutes. Along the way, they contend with rival clans, as well as the Asougi Heavy Industries corporation itself, while unraveling a greater conspiracy surrounding the city.

Turn phases
Gameplay in Dohna Dohna combines turn-based combat and strategic resource management, and is divided into three major phases:
 * 1) Beginning of turn events phase
 * 2) Base management phase
 * 3) Action phase
 * 4) * Girl-Hunting
 * 5) * Hustling

Note that the game will auto-save at the beginning of each turn.

Beginning of turn events phase
There are 4 types of events in Dohna Dohna:
 * 1) Beginning of turn events
 * 2) Girl-Hunting map events
 * 3) Unique prostitute events
 * 4) Relationship events

Events are important milestones in the game, and required to progress the story, unlock new dungeons and recruit new clan members (fighting characters).

Most of the time, beginning of turn events will be unlocked upon completing the pink-coloured objectives in the updates bar at the bottom of the screen during the base management phase or the top right of the dungeon selection screen during the action phase (girl-hunting option).

See the objectives section for more on how to unlock new events and features.

Base management phase
The base management phase gives you a few menus and screens that let you review of your parties, complete managament actions and review your game objectives:

The main menu includes 4 options:
 * 1) Prostitutes (zinzai): Overview of your prostitutes, their stats and options to upgrade them or retire them
 * 2) Garage: This option lets you look at your captures to see if you want to add them to your prostitute line up
 * 3) Party (members): Your front and backlines for girl hunting
 * 4) Shop: An option to spend your hard earned cash for consumables (for either of your teams), weapon upgrades or base upgrades. Note that many of the better options are locked behind various conditions and many are also chains that get more expensive each time you buy them. See Dohna Dohna:Items for more details

The character events to the right of the main menu generate 3 characters (at random?) from your party members. You can only select one of these per turn. The generated actions can have different types:
 * 1) Feel - this action is the basic relationship upgrade action and raises the 'feeling' stat of the selected party member:
 * 2) * + gives you +30 feeling
 * 3) * ++ gives you +60 feeling
 * 4) * (Unconfirmed whether there are more...?)
 * 5) Item - the character will give you an item
 * 6) Ero/Event - most erotic scenes in the game occur through this option, when you've met the required conditions for the character. Male characters also have events, but they are labelled differently. These types of events will be followed by a level up. Note that you will keep their accrued EXP on their next level.

Note that you can also increase feeling and levels in battle, during the Action Phase.

There's also a sub-menu (along the bottom of the screen) that gives you options for:
 * 1) Save/Load: available in the bottom left
 * 2) Objectives overview (text only): You can read your next game objective in pink in the bottom centre (and often other tips)
 * 3) Items: Lets you see all your currently held items
 * 4) Next: Allows you progress to the Action Phase

Base actions
Each turn you have 2 (upgradeable) actions to spend on your prostitutes and 1 action to spend on your fighting party. Make sure to use them every turn.
 * 1) Party action: 3 of your party members will be randomly selected to choose from with different possible options:


 * 1) Prostitute actions: You have 3 commands to choose from:
 * 2) * Give them an item - note that you can give multiple items for a single prostitute action. Try to replenish their pill status so they don't get pregnant, letting you make better use of them, otherwise, you can provide a number of stat upgrade items for their 3 stats.
 * 3) * Talk - this will randomly upgrade one of their 3 stats by a random amount
 * 4) * Fuck - this will generally upgrade their Technique at the expense of their Mental and Beauty stats

One is to select from a randomly generated selection of 3 of your fighting

Action phase
The player begins every turn in the "Feeling" phase and is given the choice between entering either the "Hunting" or "Hustling" phase. Each turn constitutes a single in-universe day, with special events occurring as days pass.

During the "Hunting" phase, the player is tasked with moving across one of many areas throughout the city to engage in battle with the ruling clan. Battles consist of turn-based fights against waves of enemies with a team of four party members, and in most cases last until the party retreats or is completely defeated. The player can switch between who is participating in the active party mid-battle, with each party member possessing distinct attributes that make them more or less effective to use against certain enemy types. Defeated enemies occasionally drop items, which can be used for a variety of useful purposes in all three of the gameplay phases.

When moving through an area in the "Hunting" phase, there is a chance that the player will encounter an enemy unit containing a female character, who can be captured for use in the "Hustling" phase if all other enemies are defeated before them. There are a wide variety of looks and attributes for women depending on the location, meaning that it is important to keep track of which kinds of women appear in which parts of the city. Occasionally, the player will encounter one of several "Unique Heroines", female characters designed by guest illustrators with unique appearances and personalities. Along with generating greater funds than other captured women, these heroines also receive unique story events and erotic scenes when used during the "Hustling" phase which make them highly valuable to collect.

During the "Hustling" phase, the player is tasked with earning money by selling women captured in the "Hunting" phase to customers. A woman's potential earnings can be increased by giving them items to raise their sexual prowess, as well as by investing money to improve the facilities in which they meet with clients. Every customer has their own distinct tastes, and are more likely to do business with the player if one of the captured women possesses a trait that they are attracted to. As a woman continues to be sold as a prostitute, her morale will steadily drop, decreasing her overall earnings when engaging with customers. In addition to maintaining the business of lucrative customers, it is important to keep up a steady rotation of women and to dispose of those whose spirits have been depleted when necessary.

As the player continues to engage in criminal activities, there are occasions when party members are placed into dangerous situations, such as getting captured by an enemy gang, and must be rescued. Bad things will happen to the party member if the player delays in saving them, and so it is imperative to come to their aid as quickly as possible.

Plot
Asougi City, a company town facing the Seto Inland Sea-

Though a single corporation controls every aspect of their lives, the citizens live without any kind of worries or doubts, and enjoy the peace that has been given to them.

However, within this pristine city lurk pockets of unrest. Known as “Anti-A”, these groups repeatedly perform acts of civil disobedience, including “Hunting”, armed theft of people and things, and “Hustling”, the selling of bodies for profit.

With Anti-A growing in influence, the corporation motioning to stop them, and the "Memorial Festival" fast approaching, the city is soon shaken by conflict, consuming the lives of all within it.

Links

 * Official Website