The World Ends With You (DS)

[Arc_Master_14]

Thank you for the hands-on impression, JKTrix. Can you explain what is happening in those battle screenshots? It looks like each character is in a different location.

Technically they are in the same place just a slightly different part of the area

Lets say for example

The main character is here

The partner is over here


or something to this extent

[Leen-Leen]

Whee, I just got the game! And it's really, really fun! It's a lot different from the RPG games that I'm used to, so it did take a while to learn. But the gameplay was so different so I didn't want to put it down until I learned the ins-and-outs of it -- and once I finally did get used to it, it's great! And you can adjust the difficulty of the game at anytime anyway, so ...

OH OH I have a question!

How often do you have to use the stylus when working with the touch screen?

You have to use it a lot during battle. I don't think there's any other option. xD

[Roogle]

And you can adjust the difficulty of the game at anytime anyway, so ...

Does this affect the game in any way aside from adjusting the difficulty? For example, in some games, you cannot learn certain abilities or receive certain items if you are playing the game on easy difficulty, or sometimes there are rewards for playing the game on a harder difficulty.

[Leen-Leen]

Yeah. You get half as much EXP and also you are rewarded with new, but weaker abilities. If you played at a harder difficulty level, then you'd get stronger abilities.

[Jessweeee♪]

I am dying without this ;_;

I've been listening to the music on Youtube...pretty catchy (the power is yet unknown...the power is yet unknown...)

[ljkkjlcm9]

Yeah. You get half as much EXP and also you are rewarded with new, but weaker abilities. If you played at a harder difficulty level, then you'd get stronger abilities.

Kinda

AS you play the game you choose to fight the Noise enemies. After you kill an enemy, it gets added to the Noise list in your menu. Each enemy drops a different item on easy, normal, hard, ultimate difficulties. You can get ultimate after you already beat the game. The list also says the drop rates of the enemies. At any point in the game, you can choose to fight at any level lower than your actually are. For example, I am currently level 50, and until I ran into a boss that kept killing me in one hit, I had been fighting at level 1. Level really only affects your HP, so I bumped it up and now fight at level 10. Fighting at a lower level gives you more stars, which increase the drop rate of enemies. On top of that, you eventually can chain battles back to back, up to 4, until you beat the game then you can unlock chains of 16. So, I'm level 50, fighting at level 10. A single battle, I'll have a multiplier of 40, if I chain 2 3 or 4, I'll have 80, 120, 160 multipliers respectively. I almost always chain 4 battles together, and I am almost always guaranteed drops because of it, except for really rare drops. Also, as stated, the difficulty also changes exp gained.

Most important to take from this. Even though I rarely have difficulty on hard, choosing to fight at level 10.... there are times where I'll lower the difficulty to get a particular Pin drop, or just to see what the enemy drops on that difficulty. There is a lot of depth to this game, and I'm well past the point JKTrix was at, and there is plenty more than what he has stated there. Tons more in fact.

oh, and the bottom character only reacts to touch screen. Note that some touch screen moves are harder to do than others, and because of this, some of those types of attacks are useless compared to others. Most notable the scratch empty space pins, as many people have a hard time activating them. The main attack of any group of pins will most undoubtedly be slash through an enemy to attack(by choice of everyone), it's the bread and butter attack, though I've done some fights without it to complete tasks the game gave me.


EDIT: One very important thing to note for anyone playing is the second page of info for pins. This will tell you if a pin will evolve or not. You may have found that you mastered a pin and it did not evolve. This is because there are 3 ways a pin can evolve. Battle PP, Shut down PP, and Mingle PP. Most pins only evolve in one way, from one form of PP. Others can evolve down multiple routes, such as Shut Down PP evolving one way, and Mingle PP evolving another way. A few of my favorite pins evolved 3 or 4 times making the last form quite powerful. You can get more than 1 of basically any pin in the game, so don't fret if you mastered it when it could've evolved. You can get another one later.
(SPOILER)For Battle PP, obviously just stack 4 battles and fight, I get well over 100 a fight now.
For Shutdown PP, it works by how long your system is off for. 144 for 1 day, 72 for the 2nd day, 36 for the 3rd, 18 for the 4th, and 9 for 5th, 6th, and 7th. I personally will save, shut off, put the calender ahead 3 days, load, save, repeat until I evolve the pin I wanted to evolve.
For Mingle PP, I happen to have an old regular DS. For anyone else with the game that's mingling, it's an ESP'er connection, idk how much PP for that. My other DS I put into pictochat, and that's a civvie connection. 20 PP for each. Aliens are completely random, and I usually get 1 or 2 when I leave it on mingle when I sleep, 100 PP each. If I'm really in the need for mingle PP, I'll put my other DS in pictochat, and keep mingling, detecting civvie, then unmingling for 20 pp over and over.Of course, none of the evolutions are needed to beat the game, but they're all needed if you want to see some really cool powerful moves and get 100% of everything.

THE JACKAL

[Ashi]

Thanks for the pin evolving info. Will have to check this out once my ds is charged.

[Roogle]

I am dying without this ;_;

I've been listening to the music on Youtube...pretty catchy (the power is yet unknown...the power is yet unknown...)

Do you know if the game has an original soundtrack release yet?

[Ashi]

There's a soundtrack and Play-Asia has it.

I've already ordered one on the 29th but apparently it will only be shipped out at around the 15th or something. But I think it's worth the wait.

[Roogle]

Thank you for the information, Ashi. I will probably get this soundtrack in the near future; however, I will probably get the soundtrack before the game. Does anyone, after playing the game, feel that this game might have a series potential? I feel like it should be a unique game, left alone from franchising, after reading the impressions in this thread.

[Leen-Leen]

They also have the soundtrack for sale on iTunes.

I finished the game recently and loved it. I think it'll get a sequel or something like that, just based on what I saw through the game, but I guess I shouldn't say anything, just in case. xD

[ljkkjlcm9]

They also have the soundtrack for sale on iTunes.

I finished the game recently and loved it. I think it'll get a sequel or something like that, just based on what I saw through the game, but I guess I shouldn't say anything, just in case. xD

And what will it be called

It was "Wonderful World" in Japan, but "The World Ends With You." over here. Maybe they'll call the sequel "Wonderful World" in the states lol.

Or The World Ends With Two lol

THE JACKEL

[Jessweeee♪]

They also have the soundtrack for sale on iTunes.

I finished the game recently and loved it. I think it'll get a sequel or something like that, just based on what I saw through the game, but I guess I shouldn't say anything, just in case. xD

And what will it be called

It was "Wonderful World" in Japan, but "The World Ends With You." over here. Maybe they'll call the sequel "Wonderful World" in the states lol.

Or The World Ends With Two lol

THE JACKAL

I doubt it, the only reason they didn't use It's a Wonderful World was copyright issues

[hhr1dluv]

A friend of mine recently decided to give away all of his DS games to me, and this was one of them. Sadly, I don't yet have a DS , so I can't play it.

I hear this game's a GPA ruiner.

Why are so many cool things happening right around my finals period?

[Roogle]

The World Ends With Two sounds like a great title for a potential sequel.

I decided, based on the impressions in this thread, to purchase this game over the weekend and try it out. It will be weird to play a Square Enix game that is not Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts —