The World Ends With You was a bit of a cult hit back in the DS days, which is why it was such good news when the smart device iteration was improved and ported to Nintendo Switch as The World Ends With You: Final Remix. Square Enix gave the quirky premise a chance to find a bigger audience, and evidently it worked.
As promised last week, new information was revealed before the anime series premiered, and it's big news. NEO: The World Ends With You launches on Switch on 27th July, so it'll be a potential summer hit to immerse ourselves in. Check out the new trailer below.
There will be a physical edition available from the official Square Enix store, and those that get it in the first month of sale (before 26th August) will get the following items.
- “Mutation” (Badge) – Effect: Gradually restores Team HP while holding the button.
- “Koumokuten” (Fashion Item) – Ability: Significantly increases HP.
- “Twister -NEO MIX-” (CD) – Effect: Can set the background music of the menu screen to “Twister -NEO MIX-.”
Those who opt for the eShop version before 26th August will get the “Legendary Threads Set,” with items that should prove useful as you get started.
- Legendary Headphones – Ability: Increases damage dealt to enemies with less damage taken.
- Legendary Off Turtleneck – Ability: Significantly increases damage dealt by attacks.
- Legendary Shorts – Ability: Shortens down time.
- Legendary Sneakers – Ability: Increases movement speed in battle.
- Legendary Audio Player – Ability: Hugely increases HP.
So there you have it; are you excited about NEO: The World Ends With You, and are you planning to pick it up on Switch?
[source gematsu.com]
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Fingers crossed it plays well, looks like another RPG to add to the list!
The rhyyythm's gonna set me free~
And also this game is going to set my wallet free of its MSRP amount of money.
As long as it does not have touch screen gimmicks call me interested in knowing more
With both this and the zelda joycon I'm gonna be horribly poor in July
@Balta666
It's also releasing on PS4 and PC. This game is going to be 100% buttons my friend.
Will compliment Monster Hunter Stories 2 quite nicely.
Looks great, can’t wait to get it. I enjoyed alot twewy even if it had only touchscreen controls for handheld. Well done 100 hours spent, with one of the greatest soundtracks for a game.
Pre-order bonuses, that's just golden.
Other than that, it's shaping up to be better than the original in just about every way. Here's hoping I get to review it.
@JR150 I know and expect it but after the way the DS port plays in docked mode you never know lol
Switch Summer 2021, you're officially INSANE. :3
Too bad I don't expect to be buying any of this at launch anymore, most of the season's gaming budget now targeting whatever amount of Vita exclusives [and exclusively-portable-on-Vita's] I may afford with it in the general absence of non-crossbuy sales by then (crossbuy titles technically don't expire anyway - buying those on PS4 will still register the other versions).
EDIT: aaaaaand jinxed it. Turns out some Vita exclusives, including my own longtime wishlist items like Dungeon Travelers 2 and Utawarerumono, have been delisted over the last weeks in utter radio silence, long before the store shutdown. I don't even. Still complaining about "the death of Mario", folks?
I can't wait for this game, DS original is still my favourite game of all time.
Switch is going to have a pretty solid July.
I hope people new to the series with the Switch port weren't too burnt by it. The original was a great game, it was just specifically made for the DS so the port didn't translate the gameplay too well.
I could pick almost any aspect of the first game and gush about how awesome it was, but what really sticks out and is mostly invisible is the localization.
Normally localization is not complicated or subtle. You change the “Sweet 16” party to a “Coming of Age day” party, you make the overly sensitive character that isn’t afraid to admit they are weak and both expresses love for and seeks physical comfort (hugs, cuddling) in members of their own sex a boy in Japan (as they are masculine traits) and a girl in the US. You don’t try to explain the whole social context of “two people of the same sex can be physically close to each other, deeply in love, and express that love without and that doesn’t necessarily make them gay” with you localization, you just make Fish Eye a girl. You don’t try to explain “look sometimes old people get all rape-y and that’s okay here”, you just cut out that character all together.
But The World Ends With You did everything it could to preserve the theme and story by reworking symbols and rhetorical device, and playing with how the two cultures see the same issues differently. Look at the titles, "The World Ends With You” vs. "It's a wonderful world”
One major theme of TWEWU is that that we just suck at human interaction and miss what's important in life when we run out of time.
In the US it’s the drive to have the most money in the bank when you die that causing you to get people wrong, as you spend your whole life angry because you don’t think you own anything to anyone and terrified because one misstep and you’ll find out no one thinks they owe you a think either. In Japan it’s the crushing weight of social obligation. Some ways of saying “thank you” in Japan really mean “I’m sorry you had to help me”, because your expected to suffer so that the social order is preserved and everyone else can be comfortable. The only thing that matters is me (the world ends with you) vs. the only thing that matters is not me (it’s a wonderful world)
That’s just one example but it happens ALL OVER the place. The end result is that if you ask people in both audiences what they learned they’ll give roughly the same answers, something like “I should focus on what’s important while I have time”. They got to that theme based on a completely difference personal experience, but that came from source material perfectly thought out to speak to two audiences at the same time rather then needing to make some big changes to characters and dialog.
I love how this trailer includes the line "you've got some pretty big shoes to fill" as the most meta statement ever. This could be the best new game in years and it still might not be as good as the original.
I'm beyond excited for this. July can't come fast enough
It's the end of the wooooorld as we know it
Mecha T-Tex?!? YES PLEASE I WANT IT
This looks brilliantly over the top. I can't wait, I'm dying to get back to this universe in a game that's actually designed for the Switch. Welcome back, Neku!
@HeadPirate Thanks for talking about that! TWEWY is in my top 5 games of all time and I didn't even know that.
Ouf, is there an option for Japanese VOs? If not, I might be playing with sound down, which is unfortunate. Not a fan of these voices, everything seems like they're going for maximum stereotype.
I have the DS cartridge of the first game, but still haven’t played it yet.
Between this, Skyward Sword HD, and Monster Hunter Stories 2, July is shaping up to be a heck of a Switch month!
I still need to play the original TWEWY though lol.
ooo this looks So good
I love how the battles look and the art style looks great.
Really happy to know the composer from the original is back too !
You can go to the Japanese website of the game https://www.jp.square-enix.com/shinsubarashiki/ and listen to three full tracks, including the one present in the first trailer but with actual vocals in the sections that used to be dubbed over with voice acting.
They're all beyond incredible.
The first game on the DS was one of the best games on that system which is really saying something. The Switch port was flawed but a decent playthrough.
Hoping this is of the same standard as the first DS game.
Great news.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question or if it's already been answered, but does anyone know if the physical version is coming to places like Gamestop or Best Buy, or is it just from the Square Enix store?
I was just wondering this week when this launches. That's exciting! Two SMTs, a new TWEWY all in one year....
@HeadPirate " ”, because your expected to suffer so that the social order is preserved and everyone else can be comfortable. "
It's weird. I always say that I'm culturally japanese. And I have no idea how. That sentence pretty much summarizes my world view and how I was taught to interact with the world completely. It defines me. And it's completely incompatible and self destructive with being an American. And I can't help it.... And I'm not japanese. I really have no idea how that happened.
Outside of Xanthe Hugh, Kate Higgins and Xander Mobus. I know none of these people
@Bizaster It's the main part of the job
@NEStalgia
A cultural identity is a collection of norm that define how a group seems themselves (or how others see a group they are not in). Almost never will anyone in that group match the identity, because while it might list some of the most likely traits your find in people, it doesn't mean you're likely to find all of them in the same person.
If you pull from 5 bags, each with a 70% chance of giving your a red ball and a 30% chance of some other colour, there is only a 16% chance you get 5 red balls. You don't have to have all, you just have to have a lot.
Obviously it's not impossible that someone in the US identifies strongly with social pressure like your do, or that someone in Japan would sell their own mother for a dollar. it doesn't make you any less (whatever nationality you are) or "Japanize like", your just buck the trend on that one thing.
This is something people like me, children of two cultures, spending years at a time in each country can tell you better then anyone. The sad reality is that I'm culturally Canadian and Japanize at the same time ... I'm an outsider to both culturals. It doesn't matter for even a second that I do 700 out of the 1000 things someone in Japan would do, it matters that I don't do 300, and that's well outside the threshold for "outsider". Canada is a lot more forgiving and accepting, but they still know I'm different.
I like to rant so sorry this is so long, but just one more example. I'll know people for months who are sure I'm 100% pure blood Canadian, who never see or hear me do anything that isn't "normal" come to my house ... and after saying NOTHING that whole time, ask me where I was born or where I grew up. Why?
I have a dresser in my bathroom where I keep towels and some cloths, and one drawers is an empty basket so if I feel I need a shower but my cloths are clean, I can put them back on. Also because ... why the hell wouldn't you get dressed in the same room you get naked in? That's all it take.
So yeah, with absolutly no offence, your not culturally Japanize. You have an outlook that's more common in Japan.
I loved the original game on DS, but this doesn't look great to me from the trailer. Also bad news: Tatsuya Kando is no longer directing, it's Hiroyuki Ito. I wish it weren't!
Edit: Apparently this Hiroyuki Ito is a different person with a similar name to the Hiroyuki Ito who directed FFIX and FFXII. Their romanized names just end up looking the same. You learn something new every day!
@HeadPirate I should have put that in quotes.. Obviously it's not meant literally per-se. But it's an oddity that I have next to nothing in common with the culture I'm supposed to be connected to, and my instinctive behaviors and views are attached to another culture I have no actual connection to. I have little explanation for it but it's quite the nightmare. You at least have the explantion of being connected to two cultures and thus not wholly integrated to either. Me? I'm connected to no culture. Or maybe, rather, a dead culture. I tend to have the most in common with people over 60.... Short of video games, of course,
I don't know much about the subtleties of Canadian culture and views, from afar it just looks like more America, so does the UK to a point. So I don't know if the same applies there or not but something, a thing I can't quite place a finger on, changed here dramatically in the past 10, 15 years. The culture, general views and attitudes of the population changed in a way that is unrecognizable from the one that was. The culture I was raised in simply no longer exists as though a foreign nation invaded and replaced the culture with their own. I suppose the culture I did know was really the one that existed for the WWII generation, and perhaps the eldest of the boomer generation... But cultures don't normally get replaced so completely between generations so that isn't quite it either.
Also, as an American that identifies with geriatrics and happens to default to the norms that seem to exist only in my head and Japan, and has zero understanding at all of current American culture, I fully endorse your bathroom dresser and clothing... I mean doesn't EVERYONE do that???
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