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How does Japanese fashion collide with a pin that grants psychic powers? Square and Jupiter find out in The World Ends With You.
Plot
The World Ends With You puts the player in the role of Neku Sakuraba, an antisocial teenager who awakens surrounded by the trendy shopping of Tokyo's Shibuya district. Graced with a black pin that gives him psychic powers, Neku eventually meets up with an upbeat and friendly girl named Shiki. Together, the two are trapped within a deadly game set up by a group of powerful individuals called Reapers, who have the ability to erase "players" of the game from existence should they fail a task. Over the course of seven days, Neku and Shiki must discover how to escape from the Reaper's game before they are eventually killed.Gameplay
The World Ends With You makes extensive use of the stylus and dual screens, simultaneously splitting the action-gameplay between the two, and providing many different ways in which the stylus can be used on the lower screen. Players fight the Noise, who exist simultaneously on both screens, and share health between the two. The upper screen, on which Neku's partner fights, is controlled by the d-pad/buttons. The lower screen, which has Neku, is controlled by the touch-screen and microphone. In addition, battles feature a light puck that is transferred between players upon the succesful completion of a combo, and gives bonuses to damage. The game includes dozens of special powers, each making use of the stylus in a different way, and these stylus movements can be combined to attack with multiple powers simultaneously if used properly. Additionally, the game has a number of ways to earn experience points and further build your character's abilities. For example, experience is earned when the DS is turned off or when the game is set to "mingle" mode, which suspends the game and starts the DS searching for other DS Wi-Fi signals. In this manner every DS your unit encounters accrues experience for your game, whether they're playing the same game or not. Other than the fast paced nail-biting action The World Ends With You also throws in a bit of RPG elements with its collective pin system. Pins are items that you obtain as loot "drops" or through just progressing through the story. These pins are essentially used by Neku to attack. Each Pin has its own special ability (such as swiping up to create a iceberg damaging all enemies it touches of slowly sliding your stylus over the screen to ignite all your foes), but once each pin is used it has a cool down time so choose wisely. Another rpg element is that you have the choice as to which pins to bring into combat since there is a limited amount of slots you can place the pins in. As you progress the amount of pins you can bring into battle increases and you gain a wide variety of moves to combine together.Soundtrack
Disc 1
1.Twister2.Calling
3.Give Me All You Love
4.Long Dream
5.Unplugged
6.Make or Break
7.Game Over
8.Give me a chance
9.New born
10.Twister
11.Déjà vu
12.Transformation
13.Three Minutes Clapping
14.Twister-Gang-Mix
15.The One Star
16.Owari-Hajimari
17.Three Minutes Clapping
18.Transformation
19. Déjà vu
| Game Name | The World Ends With You |
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| Original US Release |
April 22, 2008
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| Original US Release |
April
2008 know the real date? |
| Aliases |
It's a Wonderful World Subarashiki Kono Sekai TWEWY |
- Neku
- Joshua
- Dexter
- Shiki
- Sho Miniamoto
| Platform | User Reviews | Avg. Score |
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| All Reviews | 11 reviews |
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| Nintendo DS | 11 reviews |
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