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There is a good amount of character development for those who need it.
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The cast of characters is a lovable lot of quirky weirdos with plenty of opportunities to flaunt their personalities. Starting fairly straightforward, but bringing in more baggage, characters, and ties to the original TWEWY as time goes on. Though, it is clear from the start that this is not a week-long engagement, as the Reapers’ Game goes through three cycles, with the complexity of the storyline and lore growing each time. Rindo and Fret are quick to form their own team, the Wicked Twisters, and stock up on other team members as they try to crawl up from their position as the underdogs. A weeklong event competition featuring a scattering of teams, where the winner receives whatever they desire, and the loser faces erasure. All before, for reasons not made immediately clear, he winds up being sent into the parallel dimension of the dead, the Underground, where he is forced to partake in the Reapers’ Game. Set three years after the original, NEO: The World Ends With You follows Rindo, a 15-year-old boy enjoying the liveliness and bustle of Shibuya with his buddy, Fret. Now, after putting over 70 hours into this title, I am exceedingly happy to say that not only did the developers capture everything that I loved about the original, but they made a title that, in many ways, surpasses it. Seeing as how NEO was released 14 years after the original, it was anybody’s guess how the title would turn out. A completely new title that aimed to evolve and iterate upon everything the original did, while offering something distinctively new. However, Final Remix also introduced new characters and plot threads, which opened up the doors for a sequel that would be announced in 2020 as NEO: The World Ends With You. Nothing came of this until 2018’s The World Ends With You: Final Remix, a remastered version of the original title that was cleaned, expanded, and refined into what I consider the definitive version of TWEWY. However, the tepid sales of the original made that unlikely, so I remained content with its conclusive ending, despite some lingering plot threads.īut then around 2012, Square Enix drummed up hype and anticipation by bringing the original game to mobile, complete with a now infamous sequel teaser, putting TWEWY characters into Kingdom Hearts, and hinting that a sequel was in the cards. When I first played it in 2009, I thought it laid a great foundation that I wanted to see explored and developed in a full-on sequel. The angular character designs, bold colors, and energetic multi-genre soundtrack were like nothing I had ever seen or heard before, and have shaped my preferences to this day. I love its story, mystery, characters, the frantic action combat, and most of all its aesthetic. The world ended with you, but the new world begins with us.Īs I have said many times in the past, 2007’s The World Ends With You is one of my favorite games of all time.