The World Ends With You

This software will no longer be available on 64-bit units as of Saturday, July 31, 2021.

Square Enix’s fresh-faced hit The New York Times known as “one of the best function playing games ever designed for anything” has busted onto Android in a big means, with a slick and addictive new combat system, eye-popping HD art, and (of course) loads of zetta awesome reasons for longtime followers to double dip.

Arm yourself with psychic superpowers and battle your means by way of a seven-day gauntlet of action: the Reaper’s Game.

THE SETUP

-------------------------------------------------

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

A boy named Neku wakes up in a crowded intersection, alone and unaware of how he obtained there. Then, he receives a bizarre textual content: “Clear this mission...or face erasure.” With that, Neku is thrust into a life-or-death game 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 is he taking half in for? Will the Game really end if he survives all seven days? Another mystery is all the time around the corner.

THE PAYOFF

-------------------------------------------------

✔ Intuitive, addictive combat with a twist

Activate your combat abilities, or “psychs,” with easy contact commands like tapping, slashing, and dragging. Comfy with that? Control Neku and his Game companion on the identical screen and take the combat up a notch. Like loot? Boost your item 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 seek out, new fight challenges, and secret reports that flesh out the story much more.

✔ Explore a living, breathing city

Neku’s sprawling world relies on the real-life Shibuya in Tokyo. Visit actual areas and take in some actual Japanese tradition via a hip, fantasy lens.

✔ Exciting arcade action

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

✔ Completely redrawn art

Enjoy the sport in full HD on your gadget with art and animation that has been redrawn only for excessive pixel density

✔ The final soundtrack: 60 songs

Composer Takeharu Ishimoto’s complete, sonically elegant soundtrack is included right in the sport with high-quality audio and full vocals.

✔ Wirelessly commerce Friend Cards

Exchange profiles with different players, and their avatars will appear within the streets of Shibuya! Not only that, you obtain free gadgets for every trade!

THE VERDICT

-------------------------------------------------

Praise for the original The World Ends with You:

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

“Nails just about every thing it tries – and it tries quite a lot” – IGN AU

“Full of mysteries and surprises, interesting characters” – The New York Times

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

“Ice-cool artwork...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