The World Ends with You: explaining life's most baffling mysteries
You PSP peeps must be shitting bricks in your misery. That's what you get for jumping the portable hardware bandwagon too early when clearly the Nintendo DS is supreme. Between the Ace Attorney series, the Advanced Wars series (which is about the closest game to the epic Final Fantasy Tactics on the PS1, in terms of awesomeness), and this game, the best you can hope for is to trade in your crap PSP and get an NDS pronto. PRONTO.
Still thanking Daley boy for introducing me to this hardware. He's somewhere in the Western hemisphere...
I scoffed at Aaron -- I did, and for that I'm truly sorry-- when he attempted to explain what The World Ends with You was about. It was all silly non-sense to me. Something about pins and a Reapers' Game and a 7 day deadline like the kind you get for watching suspicious videos found in suspicious out-of-town hotel rooms. But I see his point. It would be pointless to explain the game to an outsider. It only makes sense when you're in the game. Blue pill, red pill, Neo.
Instead, I'll stick to bare essentials. Lookit that graphics. Lookit it. Is that not awesome? If there was an MTV music awards nomination for the best video game music, this game would win it hands down. Game play is spectacular in the way it utilizes the stylus. Story is engaging and the plot twists are something to behold.
Most importantly-- and I hope someone is paying attention here-- this game finally explains the phenomenon called pop culture. Your weapons are pins (or pin buttons). Each pin button you wear gives you a unique ability like shooting energy bullets at enemies. Not remarkable. But LO-- the pin buttons are branded. Designer pin buttons, yo. With brands like Tiger Punks, or Natural Puppy, or Pegaso. Depending on which area of Shibuya, Tokyo you are in, the popularity of brands vary. If the brand popular in your area is Pavo Real, you best hope you have a pin from Pavo Real. Otherwise your powers weaken. This game teaches brandname loyalty and commodity fetishism!
Ah, and you get the beat the shit out of giant jellyfish monsters. This is very satisfying to me.
"The world ends with you. You have to expand your world to live." --Mr. H. Yeah, this game gets to spout out pretentious bullshit like that. I likes.
And there's an enemy whose battle cry really is 'SOH CAH TOA.'
Still thanking Daley boy for introducing me to this hardware. He's somewhere in the Western hemisphere...
I scoffed at Aaron -- I did, and for that I'm truly sorry-- when he attempted to explain what The World Ends with You was about. It was all silly non-sense to me. Something about pins and a Reapers' Game and a 7 day deadline like the kind you get for watching suspicious videos found in suspicious out-of-town hotel rooms. But I see his point. It would be pointless to explain the game to an outsider. It only makes sense when you're in the game. Blue pill, red pill, Neo.
Instead, I'll stick to bare essentials. Lookit that graphics. Lookit it. Is that not awesome? If there was an MTV music awards nomination for the best video game music, this game would win it hands down. Game play is spectacular in the way it utilizes the stylus. Story is engaging and the plot twists are something to behold.
Most importantly-- and I hope someone is paying attention here-- this game finally explains the phenomenon called pop culture. Your weapons are pins (or pin buttons). Each pin button you wear gives you a unique ability like shooting energy bullets at enemies. Not remarkable. But LO-- the pin buttons are branded. Designer pin buttons, yo. With brands like Tiger Punks, or Natural Puppy, or Pegaso. Depending on which area of Shibuya, Tokyo you are in, the popularity of brands vary. If the brand popular in your area is Pavo Real, you best hope you have a pin from Pavo Real. Otherwise your powers weaken. This game teaches brandname loyalty and commodity fetishism!
Ah, and you get the beat the shit out of giant jellyfish monsters. This is very satisfying to me.
"The world ends with you. You have to expand your world to live." --Mr. H. Yeah, this game gets to spout out pretentious bullshit like that. I likes.
And there's an enemy whose battle cry really is 'SOH CAH TOA.'