SQEENIX YOU BASTARDS
So, Square Enix finally made a game that holds my attention, Subarashiki Kono Sekai, a.k.a. The World Ends With You.
I've spent far too long today playing it. And I will probably spend far to olong playing it even more before the day is done.
Here is why this game is awesome, so far:
-Touch screen controls. At first when the DS came out, the touch screen was so gimmicky, but first Phantom Hourglass and now TWEWY have wonderful touch screen controls. You use the DS's buttons very rarely, and the touch commands are so good that you don't feel as though buttons would work better. The battle controls specifically are very smooth and flowing because of the touch control (although they take a while to get a hang out, especially since there are so many different abilities with different commands)
-The art style is amazing. Even on that LIL ITTY BITTY DS screen, the cartoon art style just pops out at you. The manga/anime style cutscenes are really cool as well, very stylistic to make up for not having actual animation. And theres so much comic book and vector style art, both of which I REALLY LIKE.
-The music is intense. Seems to be half English, half Japanese, and 100% awesome. Gone are the days of crap background music, its like an actual album.
-Every battle is rated afterwards... this is like crack for me, because a higher rating= more experience, so I have incentive to set everything harder and do awesome in battles, vs just jamming the A button like most RPGs. MUST GET THE STAR RATING.
-You use a deck of abilities, called pins, in battle and....
-THERE ARE 300 DIFFERENT PINS. THREE HUNDRED. Some of them are pretty similar, but THREE HUNDRED. My favorite I have gotten so far are "Happy Beam" and "Cutie Beam" just because their names are ridiculous. BUT EVEN BETTER...
-THE PINS LEVEL UP. AND EVOLVE. And YOU HAVE TO DO CERTAIN THINGS TO EVOLVE THE PINS THROUGH DIFFERENT TRACKS. Its like Pokemon, dammit, now I'm already organizing all my pins and figuring out which one needs which kind of experience. BTW DOES ANYONE WANT TO MINGLE DSes WITH ME I NEED MPP FOR MY MURAKAMI PIN OMGORIZZLE.
-When you turn off your DS, the game has a timer that gives you experience even though you haven't been playing. Feels so satisfying to boot up the game and see that in your absence you got closer to leveling up a pin :D.
-Oh yeah and there are a bunch of random made up fashion brands (at least I think they are made up) that brand all the items in the game, and following trends gives you more powerful attacks. Its a pretty sweet system that speaks to the inner brand whore that we all harbor within.
-Also an oh yeah, EVERYTHING IS ALL LIKE JAPAN. They didn't localize anything other than translating the dialogue into English, so its SOOOO JAPANESE... I love reading signs.
EXCITING GAME IS ExCITING. Now I need to do homework and NOT PLAY TWEWY.... maybe.... just a little bit??? xDDDDD.
I've spent far too long today playing it. And I will probably spend far to olong playing it even more before the day is done.
Here is why this game is awesome, so far:
-Touch screen controls. At first when the DS came out, the touch screen was so gimmicky, but first Phantom Hourglass and now TWEWY have wonderful touch screen controls. You use the DS's buttons very rarely, and the touch commands are so good that you don't feel as though buttons would work better. The battle controls specifically are very smooth and flowing because of the touch control (although they take a while to get a hang out, especially since there are so many different abilities with different commands)
-The art style is amazing. Even on that LIL ITTY BITTY DS screen, the cartoon art style just pops out at you. The manga/anime style cutscenes are really cool as well, very stylistic to make up for not having actual animation. And theres so much comic book and vector style art, both of which I REALLY LIKE.
-The music is intense. Seems to be half English, half Japanese, and 100% awesome. Gone are the days of crap background music, its like an actual album.
-Every battle is rated afterwards... this is like crack for me, because a higher rating= more experience, so I have incentive to set everything harder and do awesome in battles, vs just jamming the A button like most RPGs. MUST GET THE STAR RATING.
-You use a deck of abilities, called pins, in battle and....
-THERE ARE 300 DIFFERENT PINS. THREE HUNDRED. Some of them are pretty similar, but THREE HUNDRED. My favorite I have gotten so far are "Happy Beam" and "Cutie Beam" just because their names are ridiculous. BUT EVEN BETTER...
-THE PINS LEVEL UP. AND EVOLVE. And YOU HAVE TO DO CERTAIN THINGS TO EVOLVE THE PINS THROUGH DIFFERENT TRACKS. Its like Pokemon, dammit, now I'm already organizing all my pins and figuring out which one needs which kind of experience. BTW DOES ANYONE WANT TO MINGLE DSes WITH ME I NEED MPP FOR MY MURAKAMI PIN OMGORIZZLE.
-When you turn off your DS, the game has a timer that gives you experience even though you haven't been playing. Feels so satisfying to boot up the game and see that in your absence you got closer to leveling up a pin :D.
-Oh yeah and there are a bunch of random made up fashion brands (at least I think they are made up) that brand all the items in the game, and following trends gives you more powerful attacks. Its a pretty sweet system that speaks to the inner brand whore that we all harbor within.
-Also an oh yeah, EVERYTHING IS ALL LIKE JAPAN. They didn't localize anything other than translating the dialogue into English, so its SOOOO JAPANESE... I love reading signs.
EXCITING GAME IS ExCITING. Now I need to do homework and NOT PLAY TWEWY.... maybe.... just a little bit??? xDDDDD.