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The Drunken Monkey
03-29-2008, 10:18 PM
The World Ends With You
AKA It's A Wonderful Life

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/The_World_Ends_With_You.jpg
Neku Sakuraba, a 15 year-old boy with a hobby for music and graffiti, wakes up in what seems to be the Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, Japan. With no idea why he's there, he opens his hand to realize he is holding a strange black pin. After flipping it with his hand, the thoughts of the people surrounding him began to flow into his head at once. Surprised, Neku discovers he is able to read the minds of others, and assumes it has something to do with the black pin he is holding.

A cellphone starts to ring in his pocket, and he can't tell whether it is his or not. A text message appears: "Reach 104. You have 60 minutes. Fail, and face erasure. -The Reapers". After discovering he can't delete the message, a timer of 60 minutes imprints onto his right hand. Neku is in Shibuya to play the "Reapers' Game" (死神のゲーム, Shinigami no Gēmu?).[5] which spans a total of 7 days. All participators of the Reapers' Game have a black pin with a skull embedded on it. The Reapers' Game has certain rules, which prevent him from leaving the Shibuya district. If Neku doesn't complete the game, he will be stricken from existence along with Shiki Misaki, a girl who is another participant in the game. Shiki requests Neku as her pact, and he agrees to work together with her for their week.

The Reapers monitor the duo's actions and invite them to dangerous and difficult tasks. In order to survive, Neku and Shiki will have to defeat the "Noise", physical manifestations of people's negative thoughts and feelings. The Noise are based on animals such as pigeons, wolves, and bears and can also take the forms of objects and historical monuments in Shibuya. Neku's psychic talents are essential not only to gather clues and hints from the people, but to also detect the Noise that sweep through the roads of Shibuya. During their week in Shibuya, Neku and Shiki run into other people who have become involved in the Reapers' Game.

As you can see, the Kingdom Hearts Team helped in producing this. =D
I've been hearing a lot of great things about this game over at GameFaqs. This game came out in Japan in 07. And now it finally comes to America at April 22. =D And PAL regions at April 18(Holy shit, they get it before us).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0iUQH7UpVY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81PGAP2zMI&feature=related

Mukuro Rokudo
03-29-2008, 10:59 PM
Looks interesting. I might look into this when it comes out... Hopefully, it is easy and convenient to play, do you have the links to the screenshots, goods?

crazymtf
03-29-2008, 11:28 PM
How does this game work though? Any gameplay movies? I like the art design.

Xell
03-29-2008, 11:51 PM
Lol Nomura's anorexia art.

Still.. I'll be playing this. Mainly due to the fact that it apparently has KH1's difficulty and KH2's battle style.

BerserkerGutts
03-30-2008, 07:07 AM
This looks like its going to be a really great hit, Heres couple review scores:

GamePro - 90/100
Thunderbolt - 9/10

(from Metacritic) http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ds/worldendswithyou

heres the Thunderbolt-review (http://www.thunderboltgames.com/reviews/article/the-world-ends-with-you-review-for-ds.html)

Goofy Titan
03-30-2008, 09:14 AM
As you can see, the Kingdom Hearts Team helped in producing this. =D

Is this supposed to be a looked at in a good or bad way?

Also, lol Nomura trashy art sucks.

It'll be fun to play as a copypasta of Sora, just in the sake of mocking mister belt-n-zippers.

Ziko
03-30-2008, 11:47 AM
Cant wait to try this out.
I love the Kingdom Hearts serie's so this is a must buy for me :P

2nd Trailer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i81PGAP2zMI

Fanmade trailer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NutKbJ1WbOU&feature=related

Trailer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nr_g6EXYY5s&feature=related

The Drunken Monkey
03-30-2008, 12:20 PM
The battle system is pretty unique. You have to use two characters at the same time. You control one with the touch screen and the other with the D-Pad. I'll add a trailer vid of it on the first post.

Cel3stial
03-30-2008, 01:21 PM
Look like an exceptional game.