The World Ends With You

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Square Enix’s fresh-faced hit The New York Times referred to as “one of the most effective role playing video games ever designed for anything” has busted onto Android in a giant way, with a slick and addictive new combat system, eye-popping HD artwork, and (of course) plenty of zetta awesome causes for longtime fans to double dip.

Arm your self with psychic superpowers and battle your method via a seven-day gauntlet of action: the Reaper’s Game.

THE SETUP

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Welcome to Shibuya, a mishmash of attitudes and kinds in the heart of Tokyo.

A boy named Neku wakes up in a crowded intersection, alone and unaware of how he got there. Then, he receives a bizarre textual content: “Clear this mission...or face erasure.” With that, Neku is thrust into a life-or-death recreation that sends him scrambling down streets paved with one riddle after one other...

What is the Reaper’s Game? Why is Neku a Player, and what's he taking part in for? Will the Game actually end if he survives all seven days? Another thriller is at all times around the corner.

THE PAYOFF

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✔ Intuitive, addictive combat with a twist

Activate your combat skills, or “psychs,” with simple contact commands like tapping, slashing, and dragging. Comfy with that? Control Neku and his Game partner on the same display screen and take the fight up a notch. Like loot? Boost your merchandise drops in battle with the revamped Fusion system.

✔ Deep replay value

Finish the principle story to unlock a hilarious bonus chapter, more quests and items to search out, new fight challenges, and secret reports that flesh out the story even more.

✔ Explore a living, breathing city

Neku’s sprawling world is predicated on the real-life Shibuya in Tokyo. Visit real places and absorb some real Japanese culture through a hip, fantasy lens.

✔ Exciting arcade action

Use the pins you equip in the principle story to play Tin Pin Slammer! Take on varied in-game NPCs and be the primary to knock your opponents’ pins off the table!

✔ Completely redrawn art

Enjoy the game in full HD on your gadget with artwork and animation that has been redrawn just for high pixel density

✔ The final soundtrack: 60 songs

Composer Takeharu Ishimoto’s full, sonically chic soundtrack is included proper in the recreation with high-quality audio and full vocals.

✔ Wirelessly trade Friend Cards

Exchange profiles with different gamers, and their avatars will seem in the streets of Shibuya! Not only that, you obtain free gadgets for each trade!

THE VERDICT

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Praise for the unique The World Ends with You:

“Compelling and immaculately offered...from start to finish” – Gamespot

“Nails nearly every little thing it tries – and it tries quite a lot” – IGN AU

“Full of mysteries and surprises, attention-grabbing characters” – The New York Times

“A compelling risk/reward system that...amply blesses the daring” – 1UP

“Ice-cool paintings...impossibly catchy soundtrack” – Eurogamer

“Games rarely have things this fascinating to say” – G4TV

DS Best RPG/Best Story/Best New IP and DS Game of the Year – IGN