Es hasta ahora el mejor juego del Nintendo DS que he probado, tristemente para poder disfrutarlo es necesario tener la consola original por sus controles que se basan casi enteramente en la pantalla táctil.

La historia de este juego es muy buena con un muy bonito mensaje, el estilo de arte es de las cosas que mas define a este juego con ese contraste en el arte callejero y la música ayuda mucho en darle ese ambiente de los 2000s.

El gameplay es realmente divertido y su forma de usar las dos pantallas del Nintendo DS me pareció muy creativa teniendo que controlar a tu compañero y protagonista casi al mismo tiempo basándose en la sincronización.

This is my second favorite game ever, and what I consider to be the absolute peak of the console. Please please please play this on original hardware if you have the chance. There is no other game, nor will there ever be another game like The World Ends With You. It is hands down the most unique game I have ever played, with the best use of the dual screens via it's engrossing and complex combat. The music and 2000s style is such a time capsule of everything that made that decade fantastic. Timeless, yet so deeply of its time that it hurts in the best way possible.

absolute gem on the DS. extremely unique at almost everything it does. great capture of Japanese youth in the mid-2000s. godlike ost and very pleasant pacing.

The combat was pretty good and the controls were surprisingly tight. I just never got to really make use of my teammate on the upper screen. 90% of the time I just spammed in one direction hoping for the best.
The lower half on the other hand worked like a charm and made me really appreciate this game's approach to the touchscreen on the DS.
Great variety of pins with a lot of different move-sets and effects.
Sadly a lot of this game's features never went to use in my playthrough because they either are way too complicated and useless to even bother or the age of time killed them. Another thing dragging it down is the semi-well-written story. The setting is amazing and exciting but over the course of those 21 days you get to know almost nothing about this interesting world. Even the postgame extra files don't explain a lot and rather infused the confusion I had. Maybe the second game answers all my questions.
I can definitely see its potential in its Era and still can't grasp how I missed this in my early teens.
Absolute must play for everyone who owns a DS and is into JRPGS.

To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise. What a wonderful world such would be...

I don't remember what my first exposure to The World Ends with You was, or when. For the longest time I thought it was this video but since replaying the game I'm no longer so sure, the date that video was uploaded is April 15th, 2019, but having combed through old Discord messages, I can see that I had played this game at least by March 14th. Regardless, what I do know is that one day, back in early 2019 I saw The World Ends with You: Final Remix on the shelf at EB Games, and having heard good things about the DS version I picked it up.

I was a lot like Neku, which isn't something I'm proud to admit. I had the same mindset of keeping people out, being unable to "get people", the whole nine yards. Although, maybe that was a learnt behaviour, when I was in high school the group of friends I hung out with had a big falling out and basically split in two overnight. I was told that this happened at my birthday party because I had invited people from both sides and most of them didn't show up or say anything to me. I haven't wanted to celebrate my birthday since.

"Trust your partner" are words spoken to Neku and echoed in his mind throughout the course of the entire game. To have to put your entire faith in someone for the sake of both of you, it's a big ask, and completely impossible with a mindset like that. Despite this, the game never presents Neku's mindset as wrong, instead it is presented as an unfulfilling and unnecessarily more challenging way of living, a key distinction in my mind. If you share Neku's sentiments about life and people you don't have to change, but you'd probably be better off if you did.

I don't think I really internalised these messages when I first played the game, but to be fair I was 17. I do know that I experienced the life changing affects of the game that everyone harps on about at that time, but I don't think I really changed as much as I could have, I don't think I wanted to.

And then I realised I was transgender.

"Listen up, Phones. The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go."

I don't think this is one of those cases where a piece of media causes someone to realise they're trans, although the timing of me playing The World Ends with You to me figuring it out is pretty close.

Suddenly, my world changed just as much as Neku's did except now I was a stranger in my own walled garden, I no longer understood myself, I hardly had a hope of understanding others. I started hormones on 10/09/19, and shortly after I found myself in a local community of trans people. I was pushing out my horizons just a little bit.

I tried to be just like them, talking about subjects I didn't really want to, forcing myself to the point of deluding myself into thinking I did. I was accepted, but only as an accidentally created artificial version of myself I had bludgeoned myself into thinking was who I really was. That I was "discovering" myself. It makes me sick to look back on. It didn't last and I was sinking back into my old mindset of asocial apathy, but at least it was actually me.

I met my girlfriend in this community, and her single influence on me has been more positive and influential for me than any sense of belonging derived from a community I didn't fit in with ever could be.

The World Begins with You

I completed work trainee-ships, I'm getting my life together (maybe only a little bit), and I feel better about myself, not because of a false self of belonging but from an internal sense of direction for my own life. I have hope and prospects for my future, and my ideals are clashing with the people I'm actually keeping around, and I'm letting people in, just a little. While it's true that it's not hard to understand people, it's impossible, I figure I still might as well try.

"Same streets, same crowds too. Yeah, Shibuya hasn't changed a bit, but still, I don't think I can forgive you yet. You don't see it, but, those few weeks were very hard for me. Learning to trust people, having that trust broken. Finding out the town I pegged as small, and stifling, and empty, wasn't any of those things. I'm glad I met you guys, you made me pick up on things I probably would've just gone on ignoring. Trust your partner, and I do. I can't forgive you, but I trust you. You took care of things right? Otherwise Shibuya would be gone, and my world with it. Hey, did I mention, I've got friends now! We're getting together for the first time in a week! See you there?"

Oh yeah btw the games good, the controls are kinda hard to get used to though, funnily enough I think being left handed like me makes the game easier. Fuck the final boss though I dropped my difficulty to easy cuz it just kills you in 4 hits.

Amazing game.
The obvious is the aesthetics and soundtrack making a cohesive and immersive game. The spritework and art style is just phenomenal. Everything touches the comfort and vague memories from being younger. I never even touched this game I never would have beat it as a kid. Some puzzles are poorly designed, and the combat is difficult while dropping loads of information in such a short time. The games pacing leads to mechanics having little use time and the pacing is the one flaw. The ending was rushed and I don't enjoy being forced to replay and find secret files for story expansion. I wish they were there in the first run through. But the combat is top 5 combat systems in a game for me, it's addicting and I wanted to grind and change up moves. I never do this in rpgs. Story was amazing. Everything cancels out the flaws. would replay in the future.

this game was really fucking great. it has definitely the most unique combat system in any game i've ever played. i love a lot of the characters (i have a special place in my heart for Shiki and her arc) and the whole vibe of everything is immaculate. it's honestly kinda crazy that this is a DS game in terms of the production value here. the soundtrack is full of bangers, the voice lines are nice, and there's a lot of variety with all of the equipment and fights. some systems in the game are a little weird to me, such as gaining PP for however long you don't play the game, the "trends" system, the way you're limited by how much you can eat in real world time, and the friendship system with shopkeepers. however, for the most part, those don't really negatively affect the experience, so they just end up being little oddities about the game.

i wish i got a little more time with each of the partners, as once you're past their section in the game, you're onto another, never to return (at least for a playthrough straight to the end without using chapter selection). as such, it doesn't feel that worth it to level your partners or give them incredibly lucrative gear or food, since you're not going to even be able to salvage that equipment from them later. i imagine those systems are probably more worth it on higher difficulties, but from a casual playthrough on normal the entire time, they didn't seem to have too much of a point.

i was a little worried that the touch screen gameplay was going to feel weird and janky, and it definitely did at first, but by the end of the game it felt natural. the same goes for the top screen partner gameplay. i turned off auto-play for my partner around halfway through the first week, and while it is incredibly difficult to get used to, once you gain a good grasp of how to effectively dodge attacks and get fusions, it's some of the most satisfying combat ever. the inclusion of the "light puck" mechanic that incentivizes alternating between finishing moves of Neku and your partner is absolutely brilliant, as it lets you shift your main focus ever so slightly for whoever has the puck in order to optimize your damage. i can definitely see how some people could fall in the trap of just blindly spamming to the side for all the partners, but getting over that hump in the learning curve was super worth it, and going for fusions is such a fun little diversion as you tap the shit out of noise on the bottom screen.

the story isn't the most insane thing in the world, but i love the concept of the reaper game. there was a surprising amount of philosophical and intellectual arguments for both the importance of individuality and connections with other people, and i'm here for it. i really enjoy the sentiment of how letting our worlds reach out and collide with other people's worlds isn't something to be afraid of, but something to strive for that can make each of our worlds more special.

overall, i had a fantastic time with this game, and i will consider going for the secret reports and playing the side story "Another Day" in the future. for now, though, that shall wrap up my time with this game. that shit ended with me. loved it.

The style and aestetic of this game is yet unmatched, you can really see where the later persona games took inspiration from. The music is also reallyunique and contributes to the urban vibe. The sheer amount of content and different mechanics to indulge in is really impressive. The different pins and combat system as a whole while really hard is super satisfying and one of a kind. i found the story to not be the best written or satisfying however most of the characters were really good and intriguing even with the little story they got.

neku is among the greatest protagonists in fiction
godlike music
fun and unique gameplay
every character is amazing
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