The World Ends With You (Nintendo DS)

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One of the top games on the DS today.
Review posted on May 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

The world ends with you or (TWEWY) as som people call it is a new game from Square-enix, the team that works on Kingdom hearts. It is focused in the streets of shibuya in tokyo, players from there are taken into this game called the reapers game, they must finish there mission or face erasure. The game itself is amazing, but it does take getting use to the controls before you can actually become good at this game. The music is a great mixture of Pop, Hip Hop, and Rock that will keep you wanting to hearmore even after the game ends. The world ends with you is a terrific game to have on the DS, and probably one of the best to come out this year. Do not miss it.

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Great Game, One to be remembered among the best of all time, Get it while you can!
Reviewer: Chris from California, USA on Jun 3, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

The game stars a young teenager, Neku, a kid sick and tired of the world and the people in it, who wakes up in a strange version of his hometown with all his memories gone. It turns out to be a game organized by a strange group that calls themselves 'Reapers' where he has to work with this strange preppy stalker girl, Shiki, to win the game in 7 days or face 'erasure'!

The game play takes a little time to get use to, but feels extremely satisfying when you do get good at it. You control Neku at the bottom screen with the stylus and control Shiki at the top with the buttons, at the same time. This sounds a little confusing, at first but you quickly do get the hang of it, the game also features many ways to adjust the difficulty to your liking. You equip pins to modify Neku's psychic powers, most pins also have brands that get enhancements depending on the trends in your location. In fact, even the clothing that your characters equip get bonuses based off of the trends.

The game even takes the ideas of trends and fashions and applies it to the art and music. It's soundtrack features a trendy mix of Hip-hop, Rock, Techno and JPop reminding some of other artistic games with trendy music such as Jet Set Radio. The art as well is hard and edgy, with many sharp edges and strange proportions, it definitely takes style and cranks it past 11.

The only thing I can say where it lacks is the lack of a multiple player battle mode or co-op, (It features multiple player in the forum of a fun mini-game) and that it hasonly one save file. However with the intriguing story (with it's surprising plot twists), addictive gameplay, quantity of things to explore, collect, and customize, and killer sound track and art, The World Ends With You is a game you do not want to miss! (And with the game being hard to find you should check back as often as possible to see when it is available)

A WARNING TO PARENTS: This game is rated T for Teen. Some games rated T are more okay for children than others, (with content matching what isoften in children's cartoon shows despite being rated T) . This game however, is not the case, despite the kid-friendly design of the characters this game this game features a lot of STRONG LANGUAGE and ADULT CONTENT, and I strongly suggest this for ONLYAGES 13 AND UP.

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the best game i own
Reviewer: Nekusagi from Indpls. IN on May 27, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is the best game I own! Gorgeous graphics, fun, and challenging - I can't put it down.

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