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The World Ends with You
In the game, Neku Sakuraba and his allies are forced to participate in a game that will determine their fate. The battle system uses many of the unique features of the Nintendo DS, including combat that takes…
The World Ends with You is an arcade developed by Jupiter Corporation, released 26 July 2007 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 30 hrs to finish.
What The World Ends with You is
The World Ends with You is an arcade game developed by Jupiter Corporation and released in 2007. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A boy named Neku wakes up in a crowded intersection of Shibuya in the heart of Tokyo – alone and unaware of how he got there. Then, he receives a text message: “Clear this mission...or face erasure.” With that, Neku is thrust into a life-or-death game that sends him scrambling down streets paved with one riddle after another.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The World Ends With You series
The World Ends with You is the first of 4 entries we hold in the The World Ends With You series. The next entry was NEO: The World Ends with You in 2021.
How it was received
The World Ends with You holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 27 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 30 hrs.
What it launched against
The World Ends with You launched on 26 July 2007, within three weeks of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage and Sam & Max: Save the World. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage, Sam & Max: Save the World.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The World Ends with You yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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