I heard so much about this game but never played it. After looking at it, kinda reminded me of Jet Set radio with the place being in Shibuya and the radical character designs except for it being made by square enix.

Not once do I hear why it's a well received game especially for a handheld that uses the touchscreen controls as the main gameplay which to some people may be off putting compared to a full fleshed out controller with buttons. A DS game that only use touch screen isn't uncommon, just not what I expected from the system. Cellphones or tablets, yeah because they don't have buttons.

I wondered how this version would play, but it doesn't seem to add mainstream controller inputs so I dunno. It would be nice to have a choice but I guess is not possible since the game wasn't designed that way. I do think this was informative about why people like it but I dunno if it's a game I'll enjoy if the only way to play is the recommended touch screen or on a tv waving my Joycon around like a wiimote. (What stopped them from wii port then?)

9.0*3=9.3? even with wii controls? ''The World Ends With You is my favourite game of all time'' (kinda biased maybe?)

i played it on ds, it was ''meh'' for me, but it kind of is a girly game

I'm not really a fan of the writing done in this review, especially how the personal opinions and spoilers get in the way more times than it should be acceptable, imo.

So if basically all I remember about the time I tried the DS version was hating the control scheme, will this version of the game fix that?

I'm not allowed to have a favourite game?

Also, the final score is not an average.

i didnt like the ending or the story in general (its a rippoff as 'GANTZ'), japan has a suicide problem apparently

Warning: Spoilers inside!

wouldve been better if they showed shiki, or if she was a 6'5 obese guy and neku was catfished in the end to save everyone. It made no sense that her appearance could even have been altered in the first place

It's a girly game gentlemen, move on nothing to see here.

with all the new found love for anime and all the sjw-ing and constant almost harassment-like push for womanisms, this game's story is perfect for an HD comeback, it was ahead of its time.

It's better in that it doesn't require you to split attention between two screens, which was impossible for me to get used to. It plays like the DS one but without the top screen.

The not an average text in the overall score should denote that the final score is not an average.

This is the most ignorant commen—

Oh. Never mind, this one is.

How in the world do you get “pro feminism/SJW” from this game? You can argue a writer’s bias, but this is a baffling demerit I’d like to see actually explained rather than snarked.

the story is mostly about that stupid girl and her pettiness to try to be popular or pretty or whatever. theres a lot of emotions and crazy womenly habits and themes most dudes cant possibly comprehend. Its like that ''TLC -Unpretty'' Song. Only mostly some females understand it, i like the melody but everything else is a drag

I worry that you really think you speak for men or women here. It's fine to say you don't get or enjoy themes, but don't drag a gender down with you mango.

mango? i speak for myself with an opinion based on what i know , just telling the truth toots, sorry to set your little fluffy world to blaze

Yeah, I don't see it. I haven't played it in a long time, but the game struck me most as speaking about the idea of perception creating a world's facsimile within the observer, and some of the effect that come with that (the world literally ending with you, and that slight double-entendre), as well as the idea that the conflicting of these different perceptions of the world through interaction and debate are a necessity to elevate the average worldview and forge ideas greater than the sum of their parts. Considering the devotion to cultural purity Japan used to have way back when, and how I've seen the idea thrown around that the youth there considers that sentiment to still linger slightly today, I imagine this theme working on both a philosophical and critical level. Besides that are ideas depicted like the effects of trauma, self-sacrifice, familial love, defensiveness to protect tenderness, so forth and so on.

As for this idea that the game revolves around feministic themes, I have no idea how you got that, much less how you think that the game's mostly about Shiki and her not feeling pretty. Not only is that just one of her hangups, but she's just one of the characters with their own arcs, personalities, and hangups. For heaven's sake, she's not even present for half the game, you cashew-filled nutbar.

Really a spoiler

After Neku finishes his time in the UG, he finds himself more open, and he removes his headphones, which acted a metaphor for Neku's repressed personality.

Ouch. Spoiling the ending in the first sentences of your review? Glad I already played it back then.

Amazing a gbatemp review that couldn't be considered a short novel. (Good review though.)

...What? Have you even played this game?

I mean, it's hardly a huge spoiler? If you really think it matters, I can remove that line, but that's hardly 'spoiling the ending'.

I may pick this up, especially since "Co-op" was re-implemented. I may just enable it and leave Shiki on her own if it works like it did on the DS

I'm actually okay with this. Always wondered why he wear the headphones, maybe he was listening to some "Funky Fresh Beats" like a jet set radio character. Nope, he just didn't want to hear anyone else but his own thoughts.

I didn't know people are so sensitive to spoilers, especially for a review. Can always just play the game first and look at review later.

i played it when i first got my 3ds in 2013, the game was 'meh' to me, story never grabbed me and i can only remember a bit of the girl's storyline. twewy has a cult following, to me its also a 9.5/10 on the nds based on how everything is put together but the story is a 2/10 and not something i would revisit unless it was on youtube.

I'm an old bastard, for sure and I can't comprehend how can someone watch someone play on Youtube.
It's like the old days, when the owner of the coolest console invited kids to his home, and played with them at his side, not letting them play.

Also, more girly games with this quality, please. I like to read a review by someone who really likes the game and actually plays it. Maybe I should review Suikoden one of these days. My favorite game, ever.

Perfect, my type of game.

Years Ahead

Long story short: could consider trying it if you've never played it before, but if you've played it on DS or on the iPad, then this is mayhaps a pass.

Been grinding this game for a bit after release, loved the original DS game and while the pointer controls have their issues... they are fine enough. I don't like using the switch touch screen for any game, so the alternative is good.

That being said, you can, in fact, use the touch without the controllers, but you need to have the controllers connected wirelessly first, then touch the screen. That'll disconnect the controllers immediately.

I'm glad to see the game being done justice here. A New Day is absolutely meh, didnt much care for the battles and the writing was... decent at best if you don't count Coco, but the "ending" to it was absolutely horrid with nothing to go on. The original game was amazing and those who really wanted to know more could delve into the secrets of everything with the secret reports, all written to explain either why certain story elements are as they are or even explaining why game mechanics work like they do - in canon no less. Only a few stones were left unturned by the end as to tease a sequel, and it is sad that A New Day only ended up tossing more stones instead of turning those unturned stones.

Here's hoping we get either a sequel (doubtful) or a DLC (far more doubtful).

I gave TWEWY on the DS a shot not too many years ago. The gameplay was interesting, however, the music and the characters didn't click with me, since at that time I'd stopped watching animes and started being annoyed by japanese anime storytelling and that special straight up comedy/sillyness. Maybe I should have realized this before starting the game...

Still, it is very interesting to see how this game can be in a such a low regard to someone (me), while others find it to be one of the best games ever made. It's essentially the same how I can't stand FIFA but still people love it, partially because of the football culture they love, much like how people who love TWEWY has to like or at least be neutral to japanese culture and its tropes.

Anyways, I'm glad anytime a remaster/"enhanced port"/remake turns out great.

most times i dont want to spend time grinding or playing a less than polished game and i just watch the youtube ''movies'' for the story. Most games are just BORING (like UNCHARTED i.m.o) that i get get to a certain point and just say 'eff that' and youtube it.

Even if I owned a Switch, I'd pass on this... just because I can't see the original DS version ever being bettered. I've tried the other ports and found they somehow lacked what makes the original so endearing and a joy to play.
At one point I was playing three different copies of the game simultaneously on 3 NDS's (mainly just for the item trading, however one copy was my legit gamecard, and two versions on flashcarts - the 'undub' and the the vanilla Japanese release)... like the reviewer, I'm pretty biased. And while not my "favourite game of all time" it's almost certainly my favourite JRPG on the NDS.

Although it took a while to get used to, I became fond of (and really adept at) the control scheme on the DS version - simultaneously controlling stuff on the top screen with buttons while controlling the action with the stylus on the bottom screen... it's part of what makes the original version great that hasn't translated to the 'updated' ports.
I'd sooner play that one again than any new port of it.

*rubs eyes* ... The last time I played it on DS is sure didn't look this crips.

Anyhow... it's becoming apparant that SE will *not* revive this IP... Enough of the rehash.

Time this IP gets its well deserved rest...

*puts on sunglasses and listens to some "Calling"*

Why does he keep doing this to us with the unrequited cliffies at the end of every iteration of this game? =\ Either make the damn sequel or gtfo with your carrot on a stick bs, Nomura!~ He enjoys watching us squirm faar more than is probably forgivable.. <_<


and holy shit, is that toxic gameboy kid's opinions on video game narrative concepts the most absolute autistic cancer in literary form i've ever accidently read. I'm still cringing just thinking about what it must be like to have a brain like his. Poor bastard. >.<

I completed this a few years back on IOS and intended to re-buy it for the Switch. It would have been nice to replay this game on a bigger screen and with some extra content. Given that many people agree that the New Day content was rushed I decided stuff it. A real shame.

I don't think it's rushed, the writing is just bad.