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#52. The World Ends With You (DS, 2008)



I think Tetsuya Nomura's designs in everything are dumb as hell. Why is everything so edgy, what are all these wild clothes and accessories, why do the shoes gotta look so goofy?

But then TWEWY is set in the one place in the world where these fashions might exist, and the rest of the game is designed to be edgy-looking and outlandishly unique, and it all makes sense? The soundtrack seemed very distinct for the time, and you bought tracks at the store! It gave this feeling of excitement when you got some new tunes to listen to. In fact, this game kind of made shopping fun.

The battle system is the real star of TWEWY, though. It's a big mish-mash of ideas and multi-tasking. It quickly becomes just too chaotic to keep up with, and you just... do stuff as you attempt to keep up. Like I would find an enemy on the bottom, and just tap-scratch-tap-scratch while I focused on pushing the button pattern on top. And then I'd have to track the bottom enemies and what moves I had, so I'd just mash right-up-right-right while focusing on my swipes and holds. I also liked that you had freedom to select your character's level, so you could drop down to level 1 just to add some more challenge if you wanted.

I will also always remember that when I first met my wife, TWEWY was the game I was playing through around that time. As we got to talking about video games at some point, she asked me what this game was all about, and I had to try and explain whatever the hell was going on in this big mess of game.

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