Product ReviewsThe World Ends with You (DS, 2008)

Wonderful!

Love this game so much glad to have gotten it at a great price

There should be more games like this.

Shibuya: a teeming city where superficial trends in clothing, pop art, and music rule the lives and afterlives of its population. Trapped in the nearly invisible layer of Shibuya known as the Underground, The Composer presides over the Reaper's Game. This elaborate invention overlaps and mimics life for the dead (or is it the other way around?). The players fight for their lives, quite literally; after each game, a winner is given a second chance at life while losers are erased from the world forever.

Featuring a frenetic and ever-evolving battle system that cleverly makes use of the DS dual-screen design and a seemingly exhaustible amount of items to collect, this is a really fulfilling game. The story line is strong, though it falls prey to the tropes of its game genre in that it provides only linear, limited choices to advance the story. And though the characters are engaging (particularly Sho Minamimoto and Joshua), many of them are pretty hard to look at.

I chose to play TWEWY after enjoying Persona 3 and asking friends for recommendations on story-driven RPGs. Like the Persona series, this game delves deeper than its cutesy character design would lead you to believe. It plays with themes of superficiality and self-involvement, using game mechanics themselves to make you a foil for the moral of the story... as Mr. Hanekoma says, “The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world."Read full review...

Very unique gameplay

would recommend this game, lots of fun

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: shop_us_store

Good Games Shipped Quick

Shipped quickly! The cart shell has a minor cosmetic flaw, but the game functions flawlessly. Thanks so much for a great deal on a great game!

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: daisy412109

Great price!

This was a great game with a great price! Thank you for the product!

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: ksw_69

A unique take on the JRPG Genre

This game is by far the best game I have played on the DS to date. The learning curve as well as the story really take time to develope, but with a little bit of time invested into this game, you should be pleased with the results.

This game draws the collection element of Pokemon and the real time battle sequences of later JRPG games and then throws them on their head! The dual screen battle system is both mind boggling and a heckuva lot of fun. Completionists will love trying to collect and evolve all the pins (psychic weapons) while not getting bored to death by the same old battle system that we have seen in JRPG's for the last 20 years.

The biggest downside of the battle system in this game is that some of the pins become so similiar in what needs to be done with the touch screen to activite them, that they will either be difficult to use, and sometimes on occassions will not work whatsoever.Read full review...

The World Ends with You (Nintendo DS)

Seeing the great reviews by other websites, I decided to give this Real-Time strategy RPG a try. I'm in love with it! Sometimes I like to use careful timing and precision penwork, and sometimes I just attack as fast as humanly possible. The game easily accommodates both styles, as well as many, many, many more customizable features. A 5 year old can play this (with a couple of settings adjustments), as well as any experienced gaming pro (again with a couple of settings changed). The game rewards daredevil behavior (if you can pull it off!), as well as requiring you to use the various strategies involved to be an effective player.Read full review...

Awesome

I am a big JRPG/Square-Enix fan, so I thought I'd check this game out now that I have a DS. All I can say is that I am completely mesmerized.

This game is so fun and original and complex! (I like my complex games.) The art is neat, and I've always been a fan of stylistic art in games. I find the characters interesting, and the plot is original and fun to follow. My only complaint is that there's a lot of text to wallow through, and sometimes you can't complete an obvious mission because the characters have to talk amongst themselves to figure it out first. It seems sort of arbitrary.

But the battle system is fun. I've been letting the DS handle the top screen because I simply can't pay attention to both of them at once, but you get to set bears on fire with your mind, and the frantic scribbling does take some skill. The item drops are interesting, since you have to scale down your levels to get anything good (or sometimes anything at all). Pins and clothing and food are a cool idea, but sometimes it feels sort of grind-y, especially when you're "digesting" the food.

But no matter how much I sound like I'm complaining, I was completely absorbed in the game for hours on end. It's very fun and original and I would definitely recommend it to RPG fans.Read full review...

The best RPG on Nintendo DS!

This game impressed me insanely! Long story short, you play as Neku Sakuraba, a young punk living in the fashionable Japanese district of Shibuya, who wakes up one day to find out that he's been swept up and involved in what's called The Reaper's Game. If he doesn't accomplish the mission that appears on his cell phone each day for seven days, he's "erased." Clearly, this causes quite a strain for Neku, which is further exacerbated by his loner attitude being punched in the gut by his need for a partner, his first of which is an overly spunky type, to counteract the wildly deisigned "Noise" monsters. While this seems like a typical rpg, the modern style, clever quick wit of the dialogue, and expansive level of items, psych pins, food, and clothing to buy, along with the terrific music, beautifully colorful art design and full-of-life characters make this game one not to miss.

Square Enix is famous for role-playing franchises such as Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Quest...but The World Ends with You is a great new property by the company, one that will likely stick with players for a long time!Read full review...

Great game

My friend recommended it to me and I was put off by the secondhand price, but given how complete the package was and its quality, it was worth it.