The World Ends With You.

Cali · 04-28-2008, 10:10 PM

Over rated, I think so.
Story is very cool. It pulls you in.
Save feature? Its good, but I often forget to save.
Battles? I really dont like looking at two screens at once. I cant always get certain psycs to work when I want, (Wether im looking at the bottom screen or not, because I have to pretty much randomly scratch while looking at the top screen to input specific arrow combinations) and the girl gets hit before I can finish her comboe, especially with the scarf equipt.
Bosses? So far, they are all re colors of other monsters in the game. Granted, they look cool, but its a step back. Recoloring average monsters for bosses (and in some cases giving them an extra move or two) Isnt acceptable anymore.
You (or at least me) just cant help but hate the main character.
The bad guy who relates everything to food? Stupid IMO.
a 9 page manual on every single screen in the game for the first episode? Boring.
A LOT of dialog for how much you accually play.
I think the games good, has alot of new mechanics (Maybe too many since it has to explain them all, the first few hours of the game is reading.), Great story with all very unique, even if sometimes cliche, characters. It progresses very slowly, but its suspensfull. Music gets very boring and repetitive, and I personally didnt like it to much the first time I heard it.

I know its kinda scattered, but thats what I think. Im still glad I bought it, but there are some obvious flaws that seem to get overlooked while this game is getting its "Hand held game of the month" awards, which it may or may not deserve, but there cant be many other good hand held games released recently, or Game Informer is sucking squares cock again.

k⁄⁄eternal · 04-28-2008, 11:01 PM

Haha, you're getting knocked out of combos with Shiki? Ouch.

Everything gets a lot better pretty quickly; the first segment is almost all introduction, zero challenge. The "bosses" in question get demoted to regular monsters soon afterward; you'll see them in random fights. Actual bosses pop up soon enough and you don't get that kind of silliness again.

At the stage of the game you're in now, you haven't really seen any of the cool points. Wait until you unlock Hard, it makes the game a lot more fun.

Vangulus The Great · 04-28-2008, 11:24 PM

Cali · 04-28-2008, 11:26 PM

What exactly does switching it to hard do? It doesent just increase the difficulty?

Oh, and that was funny.

k⁄⁄eternal · 04-28-2008, 11:33 PM

I half-wish you could see the changes in-game, but since so much of the good equipment later on involves crossdressing, it's kind of double-edged. I mean, it'd be great for a laugh and then it'd just be ridiculous.

Setting it to Hard, well, makes it harder, yeah. It forces you to play more intelligently and develop combos.

The game has a few infinite loops that totally slaughter some bosses later on. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but it makes getting rare drops easy.

Lovless · 04-28-2008, 11:38 PM

This is from Square? I have a hard time wanting to play any of their new rpgs.

k⁄⁄eternal · 04-29-2008, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by richard_loveless

This is from Square? I have a hard time wanting to play any of their new rpgs.

Even if you think they've been on an uncreative streak lately... this is different. Give it a spin.

Lovless · 04-29-2008, 12:10 AM

I would but I don't have a DS

zonic505 · 04-29-2008, 04:17 AM

I'd buy it, but my touchscreen is all screwed up. Left 1/2 of the screen is off by about 1/2 a inch & I can't calibrate it....I really need to get a new one...

*Eggman* · 04-29-2008, 05:25 PM

This is game is extremely good and quite honestly, it bugs me that people always complain about how Square never does anything new or innovative and then this comes along and it just gets ignored. The soundtrack is amazing, the battle system is as complex as you want it to be, the battles themselves as hard as you want them to be, a very deep attack/skill system, an excellent stat/equipment system, and great artistic style/graphics.

k⁄⁄eternal · 04-29-2008, 07:15 PM

Eggman's got it nailed here.

Vangulus The Great · 04-29-2008, 08:50 PM

It's sad how this is the first quality game since the Squenix merger that wasn't already something from an existing property.

And for the record, Kingdom Hearts was made before the merger.

k⁄⁄eternal · 04-29-2008, 09:10 PM

I'd find it sad also but I'm enjoying this game too much to be sad about it.

Lovless · 04-29-2008, 10:15 PM

The reason I didn't know about this is because I don't own a DS, or any portable gaming system (PSP died) but I noticed there are a lot of quality rpgs being released on the DS, I live what I had seen of Final Fantasy Tactics A2? I think it was called. Maybe I might buy a DS then.

flava86 · 04-30-2008, 06:37 AM

this is the bust game to come out for the ds in a long time