This will be my 1000th post on Giant Bomb and for some reason I find it kind of exciting. It's a milestone in my dedication to the site in a way. But enough about that, just wanted to throw that out there.

Something actually worthy of a blog is me finally getting around to playing The World Ends With You. I had always heard good things but it seemed like one of those weird Japanese games that I probably couldn't get into. Turns out I was totally wrong, the game is awesome! I'm actually not too far in at all but so far I am liking everything about it. My favorite part of the game so far is its art style and the way the game is presented. The top and bottom screens are put to excellent use in battles and such, but the way that cut scenes and character dialogue work with the screens is better.

The characters seem really interesting too. The two dudes, Beat and Rhyme seem interesting (as if they couldn't be with names like that). I like the whole concept of the game too. Basically you and your partner have to team up to defeat "noise" which are the games monsters because you have been chosen to play the reapers game. Honestly I'm not quite sure of exactly what's going on yet but that makes me wanna keep playing and see exactly where this game goes.

The only thing that bothers me so far is the combat system. It seems like something you get used to, but it's really pretty complicated when you start controlling both characters plus remembering how to control each pin and dodging the enemies. It can get pretty tough.

Anyways, I want to keep this short so I'll just say I was very pleasantly surprised by this game and am now wondering what other great DS games I may have missed out on.