The World Ends With You | 
 enlarge | From: Square Enix
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 317
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 90801
UPC: 662248908014
EAN: 0662248908014
ASIN: B00136MBHA
Release Date: April 22, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Modern art style created by a team of artists led by Tetsuya Nomura, world-renowned character designer of the upcoming Fabula Nova Crystallis project | | • | Innovative Stride-Cross Battle System allows players to control two characters simultaneously, unleashing special attacks with the stylus | | • | Collect a vast array of custom-designed pins, each with a powerful psychic ability that can be activated with the right touch or sound command | | • | Customize characters with Shibuya's coolest fashions and exchange items with other players via Mingle Mode while experiencing an amazing soundtrack combining a fusion of musical influences from hip-hop to rock and electronica | | • | Battle with up to three friends in Tin Pin Slammer, an exciting and fast-paced mini-game, via local wireless connection |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Imagine waking up one morning and finding out that you will soon cease to exist. That's the message that Neku found on his phone in The World Ends With You. He has only 7 days until then to restore hope to the city's population by using the coolest fashions, friends and fighting skills. This game was previously known as Subarashiki Kono Sekai on its release in Japan. It fully utilizes the capabilities of the Nintendo DS, and takes major influence from Japan's modern day culture including its people, music, clothes, food and design.
Immerse yourself in an amazing audio soundtrack featuring a diverse fusion of bleeding-edge hip-hop, rock, and techno A tale of friendship, hope and overcoming your challenges, creatively told with a modern edge Shop till you drop! Keep abreast of the latest Trends to stay one step ahead of the fashion scene and your enemies Trade items with friends using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Action-packed minigame fun that can be enjoyed by up to four players via DS Wireless Play Engage the Chance Encounter mode via DS Wireless Play to share data with fellow game users you bump into in the real world
Amazon.com
From the creators of the award-winning Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts franchises comes a revolutionary, modern action-RPG title for a new generation of gamers. Square Enix and Jupiter team up once again to showcase The World Ends With You, a trendy and vibrant gaming experience developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS. Featuring an intuitive combat system and exciting multiplayer mode, The World Ends With You is set to immerse gamers into the modern-day culture of Japan.Story
The story begins as Neku Sakuraba, an unsociable 15-year-old boy, unexpectedly wakes up in the Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, Japan. While trying to piece together his rude awakening, he receives a strange text message warning him that he will cease to exist unless he accomplishes a certain mission. Although he barely has time to grasp what is happening to him, he commences his assigned task in the mysterious streets of Shibuya.Features:- Distinctive modern art style created by a team of artists led by Tetsuya Nomura, world-renowned character designer of the upcoming Fabula Nova Crystallis project which includes Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- Innovative Stride-Cross Battle System allows players to control two characters simultaneously, unleashing special attacks with the stylus
- Collect a vast array of custom-designed pins, each with a powerful psychic ability that can be activated with the right touch or sound command
- Customize characters with Shibuya's coolest fashions and exchange items with other players via Mingle Mode
- Experience an amazing soundtrack combining a fusion of musical influences from hip-hop to rock to electronica
- Battle with up to three friends in Tin Pin Slammer, an exciting and fast-paced mini-game, via local wireless connection
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| Customer Reviews:
A ton of fun, at least for the first playthrough! December 27, 2008
A. LeBourveau (NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed playing The World Ends With You so much. I do have a couple brief issues, but nothing enough to knock down the game's rating for me.
These are the aspects that come to mind most with the game:
- Plotline: The story is rather unique and quirky. There are plenty of surprises included that aren't easy-to-guess plot twists, as in many RPGs where it's easy to guess right away what's coming next, or what will eventually happen. I'm used to studying foreshadowing and other literary elements, so generally when I play a game or read a book, the first thing I do is speculate and lay out my guesses, but this game kept me wondering what was going to happen and who had which secrets hidden away.
- Music: The music for TWEWY gets a lot of praise it seems, and I definitely enjoyed it too. While music is different for everyone, I particularly enjoyed how it fit in so well with the environment and style of the game. Even songs I don't like, I still feel fit in so well with the game itself, and some of the songs have become total favorites.
- Battle System: I like battling with Neku. The touchscreen makes grinding a little more exciting because it's not just button-mashing, though it can get tiring after awhile. However, controlling both characters at the same time is very difficult. For many battles, this is okay: if your sync rate isn't too bad, generally leaving your partner on auto-play is fine. Other battles however, are made nearly impossible if you can't play both. One of the extra battles in particular (the hardest one of the game, imo), in the runthrough that's available after you beat the game, is highly difficult as your partner will take a lot of damage, and the enemy is hard to hit. Trying to solely control one character may leave you floundering for a few, which seems a bit unfair to me as it's impossible to be able to cover the d-pad, a/b buttons, and touch-screen at the same time.
- 100% Completion: This is generally seen as getting all the secret reports, all the items, all the item abilities, battling all the enemies in the game, and owning and mastering every pin. It is also a pain. I loved my first playthrough, but the second one to get everything the game contains has been an extremely long endeavor. Some of the bosses are ridiculously hard and MUST be fought on level hard or ultimate, while mastering all the pins and getting enough money to obtain all the items and max out friendship with store owners for ability secrets takes a LOT of level-grinding. You can spend hours straight with your HP set on as low as possible, fighting the enemies that give out the most yen, and still not be able to get halfway through the necessary buying.
- Save Points: I always notice save points (especially on the DS) because, like most, I've had plenty of emergencies or dead batteries that made it necessary to lose my hard work when I couldn't get to a save spot in time. TWEWY allows you to save at any point outside of battle or cut-scene/conversation, which is a great help - especially if your battery light goes red and you're unable to use your charger for any reason.
Overall, it's a lot of fun. The game doesn't take so much grinding that it takes forever to complete, but it is long enough to make the price worth it, and offers a lot of entertainment and enjoyment.
Those who enjoy grinding and a lot of work will probably get the most out of this game, as those will be the people ready to tackle full completion, but for those who don't like too much grinding, it's not so bad. You choose when to fight (unless it's a battle or you're prompted by a reaper for any reason to kill noise), and I found that I leveled up well enough naturally without having to spend a lot of time doing superfluous battles.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys RPGs with a bit more modern taste to them
 refreshing and rich December 25, 2008
cecilin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the good :
unique style and setting -Tokyo high tech and modern youth
deep and funny gameplay
lots and lots of items and reports to collect
adjustable challenge, choose anytime between easy and hard but more reward
interesting story and characters
music
the bad :
visual style a little disturbing and pixelated (characters)
battle system confusing at first
hard to follow 2 screen action at once, controlling it is still harder
some improvement would have been useful in pin's management (custom stockpiles)
reaper creaper is required at some point, but it's a very touchy mini-game (too sensitive)
music (some of them)
despite the number of bad points, the overall quality is just great and it's worth buying for any action-rpg or adventure fans who don't fear a little challenge
Easily the best game out on DS right now December 4, 2008
ichaBuNni (CA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Since everyone else have written a long detailed review on this game, I would just like to say this: I personally would rank TWEWY up there with the Professor Layton series and Zelda Phantom of Hourglass. Definitely worth the money
Quite possibly the best game on DS October 19, 2008
Axel (New York, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a well hardened gamer, and it takes a game such as this to make me leave a review. Hands down, this is the best game I have ever played on the DS. It might even be the best game I have played on any system. Let's take a look at the specs:
Story: Original, great, no complaints here. You die, you play a game to get a second chance at life. You must have a partner to fight enemies. It goes on, it's detailed, but not so detailed that it becomes a headache.
Graphics: It is a DS game, it's not Super Mario DS, but it has very good 2D graphics. Anime-style, designed by the game guy who made the characters from the acclaimed Kingdom Hearts series on Playstation 2.
Controls: Ok, let's take a look at the battle controls. Yes, they are difficult. BUT, you get used to them with time. You can even focus on the bottom screen, and let the auto mode take the top. Once you get used to the bottom, try to integrate the two together. Field controls are east, and not worth an explanation.
Music: Amazing soundtrack, a techno-y, Japanese-y soundtrack. It can get repetetive tho, and I don't usually play with the music on.
Overall: 5/5.
This game has almost no flaws, the only on i can think of is the fact that the controls are hard to get used to.
TWEWY, a suprise masterpiece! October 5, 2008
William Nelson (Phoenix, AZ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After logging over a hundred hours of play time in The World Ends With You, it sometimes seems like the DS was designed for this game rather than the other way around. Some developers have a hard time utilizing the unique capabilities of the DS, the dual screen and touch pad are unusual tools and too often, are awkwardly implemented in a manner that makes the game more difficult to use.
TWEWY uses every feature of the DS that I'm aware of with the exception of the WiFi internet connection. The dual screens are used to show two halves of a single combat and each are controlled with their own methods. The top screen is controlled with the direction keys (but can go on autopilot if you're having trouble keeping up) and the bottom screen uses the stylus in a wide variety of patterns.
The plot and characters are great as well. The protagonist seems like an unlikeable jerk at first but it soon becomes clear that his personality is intentional, the title of the game actually is a reference to his view of the world at the beginning of the game.
New franchises are becoming rarer and rarer these days, Square took a huge gamble by publishing a game with unusual mechanics and an unfamiliar setting. TWEWY is one game that I look forward to having a sequel.
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