Are We Seriously Dead? That Would Really Suck.
I'm currently playing two recent, new-to-me Square games simultaneously: Bravely Default II and NEO: The World Ends with You. I am up to my neck in Square Enix nonsense and having a great time.
Today, I'm talking about NEO: The World Ends with You! I'm up to... day five? I think I'm on day five.
Rindo is immediately and horribly traumatised, which is a promising start to a game, although I'd like him to dwell on it more.
Rindo sort of reminds me of Roxas in both appearance and voice, actually.
Can't believe the protagonist of this game dies while playing Pokémon Go.
I wish Fret would stop saying 'galaxy brain'.
I love that Rindo hears 'you're in the afterlife' and his reaction is 'oh, so that's why I can't contact anyone on my phone.'
Shoka's great. I love that she keeps showing up to insult us and then running off again.
The World Ends with You was already one of the most complicated games I've ever played; I can't believe they're adding time travel to it!
'Crap, this is before we learned how shopping works' is an incredible line without context.
I took a quick dislike to Fret in the demo, but I decided to give him more of a chance when I started playing the actual game. I'm glad I did, because he's got some great lines. I laughed aloud at 'We need to biggify our number 'cause math, kid' and 'jackass-of-all-trades'.
I think Fret has a crush on every character in this game. But he's especially in love with Rindo. Tem, watching me play, pointed out that Fret immediately started clamouring for Rindo's attention whenever Rindo was distracted, and suddenly it was all I could see.
I'm glad I've come around to Fret. I would have been so frustrated if I actively disliked a character with such strong potential to be shipped with everyone simultaneously.
Like Rindo, Nagi is told that she's died and just goes 'oh, makes sense'. These characters are taking huge revelations very much in their stride. (Rindo also seemed to take to 'guess I can travel in time now' remarkably quickly.)
Minamimoto told us we have the chance to 'create a multiplicative function', and I assume he's encouraging us to have a threesome.
I'm still not clear on how we died. We're definitely alive at the very beginning of the game; one of the first things we do is bump into a passer-by. We seem to have entered the UG by the time we leave the restaurant, or at least that's when we start hearing people's thoughts. Did we die of... ramen? Is there going to be a twist where it turns out we've been alive all along?
I also think it's interesting that, as far as I recall, there's been no mention of the 'the winner of the game gets a second chance at life' aspect of the original World Ends with You. In fact, we're told the Ruinbringers won the last game, and they still appear to be in the UG. There have been a lot of changes to the Reapers' Game; does it no longer let the victor come back to life?
The cleanliness-obsessed band that insists on fans masking up and keeping a two-metre distance is cracking me up. Both very topical and very stupid. I think that's the first clear reference to the pandemic I've seen in a published work of fiction; I'm sure I'll be seeing many more!
Like the original, this game is both strangely compelling and absolute bullshit. I'm very pleased.
Today, I'm talking about NEO: The World Ends with You! I'm up to... day five? I think I'm on day five.
Rindo is immediately and horribly traumatised, which is a promising start to a game, although I'd like him to dwell on it more.
Rindo sort of reminds me of Roxas in both appearance and voice, actually.
Can't believe the protagonist of this game dies while playing Pokémon Go.
I wish Fret would stop saying 'galaxy brain'.
I love that Rindo hears 'you're in the afterlife' and his reaction is 'oh, so that's why I can't contact anyone on my phone.'
Shoka's great. I love that she keeps showing up to insult us and then running off again.
The World Ends with You was already one of the most complicated games I've ever played; I can't believe they're adding time travel to it!
'Crap, this is before we learned how shopping works' is an incredible line without context.
I took a quick dislike to Fret in the demo, but I decided to give him more of a chance when I started playing the actual game. I'm glad I did, because he's got some great lines. I laughed aloud at 'We need to biggify our number 'cause math, kid' and 'jackass-of-all-trades'.
I think Fret has a crush on every character in this game. But he's especially in love with Rindo. Tem, watching me play, pointed out that Fret immediately started clamouring for Rindo's attention whenever Rindo was distracted, and suddenly it was all I could see.
I'm glad I've come around to Fret. I would have been so frustrated if I actively disliked a character with such strong potential to be shipped with everyone simultaneously.
Like Rindo, Nagi is told that she's died and just goes 'oh, makes sense'. These characters are taking huge revelations very much in their stride. (Rindo also seemed to take to 'guess I can travel in time now' remarkably quickly.)
Minamimoto told us we have the chance to 'create a multiplicative function', and I assume he's encouraging us to have a threesome.
I'm still not clear on how we died. We're definitely alive at the very beginning of the game; one of the first things we do is bump into a passer-by. We seem to have entered the UG by the time we leave the restaurant, or at least that's when we start hearing people's thoughts. Did we die of... ramen? Is there going to be a twist where it turns out we've been alive all along?
I also think it's interesting that, as far as I recall, there's been no mention of the 'the winner of the game gets a second chance at life' aspect of the original World Ends with You. In fact, we're told the Ruinbringers won the last game, and they still appear to be in the UG. There have been a lot of changes to the Reapers' Game; does it no longer let the victor come back to life?
The cleanliness-obsessed band that insists on fans masking up and keeping a two-metre distance is cracking me up. Both very topical and very stupid. I think that's the first clear reference to the pandemic I've seen in a published work of fiction; I'm sure I'll be seeing many more!
Like the original, this game is both strangely compelling and absolute bullshit. I'm very pleased.