NEO: The World Ends with You

Love the sequel but wish partner was controlled like the first TWEWY. Got some answers from the ending that wrapped it up.

It's the sequel to TWEWY. The combat is vastly different, but it's hard to replicate the original DS gameplay. In fact it's probably impossible. That being said, the game is still good, even with a different system. The story is a sequel, taking place a few years after TWEWY, so you need to play the original to start making sense of things that happen later.

this game is the definition of a hidden gem, so much that i wish i could go back in time and play it on its original hardware, the nintendo ds!

Lots of fun, played the first one on Switch. Great story, fun gameplay, and amazing music (just like the first one).

NEIL: THE WORLD STARTS WITH ME

Honestly one of my favorite games. I have played the original TWEWY on DS, on mobile, and the final remix on switch. This is also my second time with this game as I beat it 100% on switch and I wanted to give it a go with better graphics. I would have to say that the transition for the control schemes was never going to be without its issues taking into account that the original game was ingrained with the system. It had you using the double screens, the mic, and the touchscreen in a good flow, something that the revisions of the original twewy lacked. However, I find that this game's combat is more fluid and intuitive than the first game and the revisions. On the topic of pins, of course there's a myriad of pins that get powercrept easily by the time you get a new one. I find that to be slightly frustrating, but I have always enjoyed the collecting aspect of this series, and this game is way better at it than the original twewy. This game's menus are way more organized than the original, they're very visually descriptive with their abilities and use in game with a in-game video replay (which does not take any time to load might I add). By then end of the game it might feel like a slog to go through all the pins to master them, but to be honest the only gripe I have is that a lot of the late game PP (pin point) grinding is because they share the same input. It gets particularly frustrating when you have too many pins that use the ZR button, because there's soooooo many of those pins. if we are talking visual and audio presentation, I couldn't have asked for more tbh. I never grasped what made all the songs in the original twewy to feel like "twewy" per se because they are all so different in genre, but neo twewy captured that magic again in my opinion. It feels more like it's trying to capture a decade worth of pop/punk/rock music instead of going for a specific genre, and they keep the game a bit more fresh by having different battle songs that shift depending on the day. Is the game perfect? No, but it set out to do what it wanted and it did with flying colors. Honestly the QoL stuff like the game calculating item effects or the food/eating component being more visual (character reactions) and streamlined felt like a change that the first game should have had. Overall I am a bit sad that this game did not get the marketing treatment that other bigger games that got released around the same time by the same company like ff7 remake because not many people know about this game despite it being very well polished. Despite all this, I would not dislike getting a game like this every 10 years just to see what they can add to the repertoire.

26.7.25通关，我玩过唯一一个音乐上能跟P5r掰手腕的游戏，里面的歌每一首拎出来都非常奈斯，画风也在我的审美点上。剧情是非常王道的热血剧情，依旧是拯救世界那一套，我觉得也没毛病。 可惜不足的也有：首先是操作，地图采用的是固定视角，非常难受，且没有传送。其次是战斗及技能，对于有腱鞘炎的我来说非常恐怖了兄弟，而且技能招式跟敌人的模式都非常固定，战斗体验属实算不上好（所以我开了）。还有就是服装搭配的加成，有点云里雾里。最后就是因为这部是跟第一部共享世界观的，没玩过第一部来玩的话，可能有点云里雾里（我就是，打算补个动漫） 最后：我觉作品对不起国区100多的折后价，不建议现阶段买入。游戏打折到4-50可以考虑。