Neo The World Ends With You Walmart

2021 action part-playing game

2021 video game

Neo: The World Ends with Yous
Cover art for all platforms featuring The Wicked Twisters, the game's primary cast.
Programmer(s)	Square Enix Artistic Business organisation Unit I h.a.n.d.
Publisher(due south)	Square Enix
Director(s)	Hiroyuki Itou Tatsuya Kando
Producer(southward)	Tetsuya Nomura Tomohiko Hirano
Artist(s)	Tetsuya Nomura Gen Kobayashi Miki Yamashita
Author(s)	Akiko Ishibashi
Composer(s)	Takeharu Ishimoto
Series	The World Ends with You
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 Windows
Release	Nintendo Switch, PS4 July 27, 2021 Windows September 28, 2021
Genre(s)	Action role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-role player

Neo: The World Ends with Y'all

^[a]
is an activity function-playing game co-developed by Square Enix and h.a.n.d. and published by Square Enix. This game is a sequel to the 2007 video game
The World Ends with You. It was released for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in July 2021, and for Windows in September 2021. The story features a new bandage of characters playing the Reapers' Game in Shibuya and, dissimilar the original game, now features three-dimensional graphics.

Concepts for a sequel to
The World Ends with You lot
had been attempted in the years post-obit the original 2007 release, nonetheless none came to fruition for one reason or another. Returning staff for the game include Tatsuya Kando every bit series director, Tetsuya Nomura every bit creative producer and graphic symbol designer, Gen Kobayashi as character designer, and Hiroyuki Itou, who was game designer in the original but now serves as managing director.^[ane]
Takeharu Ishimoto, the composer for the original game, though no longer a full time employee of Square Enix, confirmed that he had equanimous the music for the sequel.^[two]

Gameplay

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Unlike the beginning title in the series,
Neo
is a fully 3D title.^[3]
Players can control multiple characters at in one case during combat and set on opponents with "psych" abilities granted by items called "pins".^[4]
Each grapheme can equip 1 pin of the over 300 bachelor, and different pin groupings can create combination attacks. Each pin is assigned to a single push and requires a different input.^[4]
Wearable "threads" also requite a boost to the player characters' abilities.^[4]
Common game enemies are called "Noise", which are negative emotions that have come to life.^[v]
The scanning ability the player uses to search for these enemies allows the player to read characters' thoughts.^[5]

Leveling up grants the player characters bonus HP; other stats can be upgraded by ordering meals at restaurants in-game, though the player characters can but eat when they are hungry, depicted past a bombardment meter that depletes later each fight. As the player interacts with more people throughout the story, their "Social Network" expands, allowing them to spend acquired Friendship Points on upgrades such every bit exclusive store and food items, expanded pivot chapters, and assigning multiple pins to the aforementioned button in combat.

Outside of gainsay, characters tin can use their abilities to assistance people and explore the city - for example, Fret's "Remind" power will remind all NPCs in an area about a particular topic, and Shoka's "Telewarp" lets the grouping teleport to previously inaccessible areas. More than of these abilities are acquired by progressing through the story. Previous days can exist revisited at any time in lodge to access previously incomplete side missions.

Synopsis

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Setting

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The game takes place in a recreated and stylized version of the Shibuya district in Tokyo, Nippon.^[3]
Unlike the commencement game'south depiction of Shibuya, places such as Tower Records and Parco keep their names instead of using different ones such equally Towa Records and Molco. As with the anime adaptation, some of the elements of the game had been modernized for the sequel, such as the use of smartphones rather than earlier flip-style jail cell phones and the advent of the game's 104 building matches the current appearance of the real-life Shibuya 109 building.

Characters

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The principal protagonist and playable graphic symbol is
Rindo Kanade
(奏 竜胆,
Kanade Rindō), a high schoolhouse student and a Player in the Reapers' Game. In the Game, he is partnered with his friend and classmate
Tosai Furesawa
(觸澤 桃斎,
Furesawa Tōsai
(nicknamed
"Fret"
(フレット,
Furetto)) and a gaming otaku higher student named
Nagi Usui
(笛吹 梛,
Usui Nagi). They make upward a team of Players called the
Wicked Twisters, with Rindo as the de facto leader. Each graphic symbol has a unique power in the Reapers' Game that comes into play during gameplay: Rindo can change the past with "Replay", Fret can remind people of things they've forgotten with "Remind", and Nagi tin can go into people'south minds with "Dive". The team is as well joined by the returning former Reaper/adversary from the showtime game,
Sho Minamimoto
(南師 猩,
Minamimoto Shō).

Rindo and his friends compete against rival teams who are the
Ruinbringers, the elevation team in the Reapers' Game which includes
Kaichi Susuki
(周々木 鹿ー,
Susuki Kaichi
(nicknamed
"Susukichi"
(ススキチ
Susukichi)) and
Tsugumi Matsunae
(松苗 亜実,
Matsunae Tsugumi), the latter of whom returns from the kickoff game's
Solo Remix
and
Final Remix
re-releases, the
Deep Rivers Guild, a grouping of river enthusiasts led by
Fuya Kawahara
(河原 封也,
Kawahara Fuuya), the
Variabeauties, a group of super stylists led past
Kanon Tachibana
(立花 果遠,
Tachibana Kanon), and the
Purehearts, a group of savvy social media influencers led by
Motoi Anazawa
(モトイ,
Anazawa Motoi). Reapers are split into two distinct groups: the
Shibuya Reapers
which first appeared in the original game, and
Shinjuku Reapers
which are completely new. Shinjuku Reapers include
Shiba Miyakaze
(三谷風 椎葉,
Miyakaze
Shiiba), the Game Primary in the Reapers' Game,
Tanzo Kubo
(久網 旦蔵,
Kubō Tanzō),
Ayano Kamachi
(蒲池 菖乃
Kamachi Ayano),
Kaie Ono
(小野 解依,
Ono Kaie),
Hishima Sazakuchi
(坂筑 菱真,
Sazakuchi Hishima) and
Shoka Sakurane
(桜音 紫陽花,
Sakurane Shōka). Shibuya Reapers returning from the starting time game are antagonists
Koki Kariya
(狩谷 拘輝,
Kariya Kōki),
Uzuki Yashiro
(八代 卯月,
Yashiro Uzuki), and
Coco Atarashi
(新 子々,
Atarashi Koko), the last of whom returns from the beginning'southward game'south
Solo Remix
followed by
LIVE Remix
and finally
Final Remix.

Rindo is also supported by
Swallow
(スワロウさん,
Suwarou-san), his online friend and a mysterious individual that he communicates with through a social media game and text messages. Consume's identity is an ongoing mystery Rindo attempts to uncover throughout the game, merely revealed later the story's climax. A number of protagonists from the showtime game also brand appearances throughout to support the new cast.^[6]

Plot

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Loftier schoolers Rindo Kanade and Tosai "Fret" Furesawa are unexpectedly fatigued into the "Reapers' Game", a contest for the recently deceased in which they must battle other teams over the course of a week for their survival. The ii grade a team called the "Wicked Twisters" and recruit old Reaper Sho Minamimoto and college pupil Nagi Usui in order to survive. Overseen by Game Primary Shiba Miyakaze and several of his subordinates, including Tanzo Kubo and Shoka Sakurane, the group does battle with the other teams and clashes with the Ruinbringers, a powerful team consisting of Kaichi "Susukichi" Susuki and Tsugumi Matsunae, who have won every preceding game and keep choosing to re-enter the next round, thereby trapping the other teams in a never-ending series of game loops. During this fourth dimension, Rindo discovers he has the ability to rewind time. At the finish of the calendar week, the Wicked Twisters battle Susukichi, only are almost defeated. They are rescued past a masked human being presumed to exist legendary onetime Role player Neku Sakuraba. Shiba declares the Ruinbringers victorious and erases the last place team, the Reaper's Game is extended another calendar week, and Minamimoto deserts the grouping.

During the 2d week, the Wicked Twisters recruit "Neku", revealed to be onetime Histrion Daisukenojo "Beat out" Bito. They larn that Shiba and his Reapers hail from Shinjuku, which was erased in an consequence known as Inversion; they plan to do the same to Shibuya. They also learn that Shiba has been using Role player Pins to pull living Players into the Reaper's Game, including Rindo, Fret, Nagi and Beat out. Shoka defects to the Wicked Twisters virtually the end of the week after the Reapers acquire she was secretly helping the Wicked Twisters, and Shiba subsequently reveals that he is the leader of the Ruinbringers and that Susukichi and Tsugumi are Reapers; he declares victory in the 2d week and challenges the Wicked Twisters to face him in one terminal game with Shibuya at stake.

Over the form of the third week, the Wicked Twisters do battle with Shiba's Plague Noise, which can erode the barrier between reality and the afterlife. Due to their aggressive listen-consuming beliefs spreading in both planes, victims of those attacked have their psyche warped in different means, ranging from total apathy dubbed “Shibuya Syndrome” among the living, to more severe cases of aggression as well as amnesia among Players. Minamimoto returns and challenges the grouping to a fight; they are rescued past the real Neku, who explains that Reaper Coco Atarashi orchestrated his second decease^[b]
in a futile attempt to save Shinjuku from erasure, and that they accept since been investigating the incident in the hopes of protecting Shibuya. Coco reveals that Tsugumi is the alone survivor of Shinjuku's erasure and that her soul has been sealed in a stuffed Mr. Mew, revealed to be the original Mr. Mew that Shiki made; the group uses their powers to talk with her and larn that she has been sending visions of the time to come to Neku and Rindo to attempt to avert Shibuya'due south erasure.

The Wicked Twisters battle and erase Shiba, but are confronted by Kubo. Kubo reveals that he has been masquerading as one of Shiba'south Reaper subordinates but is in fact an Affections who gave Shiba his powers over Plague Noise and is the true mastermind behind the erasure of Shinjuku. He also gave Rindo his time-traveling powers via his Player Pin, which absorbs the lost thoughts of the timelines he leaves behind in guild to fuel a swarm of Noise that Kubo releases to destroy Shibuya. The Wicked Twisters battle Kubo, but all save Rindo are erased before Kubo is annihilated from reality past Shinjuku's Composer, Hazuki "Haz" Mikagi.

Shibuya is saved and Rindo finds himself back in the real world, but all of his teammates have been erased from reality. Haz offers Rindo the chance to get back in time one time more than to relieve his friends, although doing so volition once again put the city at risk of being destroyed by Kubo's Noise. Rindo rallies all of the survivors and with the assistance of his friends, overwrites the lost thoughts with the thoughts of present-24-hour interval Shibuya, which weakens Kubo's Noise swarm. The remaining Noise coalesce into a powerful Noise called Phoenix Cantus, which the Wicked Twisters destroy. In the backwash, Rindo and his friends all return to reality forth with Shoka, who is brought back to life past Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu, Shibuya's Composer; the repentant Shiba returns to Shinjuku along with the remaining Shinjuku Reapers to rebuild the city.

"Another Day"

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After completing the chief story, players can consummate a serial of quests^[seven]
that are separate from the chief plot events, similar to the "Tin Pin" storyline in the first game. The story is based around the protagonists getting tickets to a concert by "The Decease March", a band that performed some of the songs in the game. All playable characters from the main story are available to use. There are many variations of the dominate battles from the main story including a Minamimoto challenge dominate. Subsequently completing the storyline, players tin can heed to a live rendition of the vocal "Rockin' Rockin'" while viewing the credits.

Development and release

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The original
The Globe Ends with You
(TWEWY) had been developed past common squad members and released around the same time as the
Kingdom Hearts
serial. While the latter had more than sales and recognition, the former had garnered a strong cult following as well every bit being a project of interest by creative producer and grapheme designer Tetsuya Nomura and managing director Tatsuya Kando.^[9]
Nonetheless, much of the original's team were too involved in subsequent
Kingdom Hearts
games to focus on a follow upwardly co-ordinate to Kando.^[ten]
TWEWY
remained of meaning interest within Square Enix, which led to them collaborating with h.a.due north.d. on a high-definition port for mobile devices via
Solo Remix
in 2012, and some other port for the Nintendo Switch via
Final Remix
in 2018, the latter of which included a new chapter called "A New Solar day" with new characters.
Last Remix
was directed by Hiroyuki Itou and produced by Tomohiko Hirano, both of whom reprise their roles for
Neo.^[9]
According to Hirano, while the idea for a sequel had been on their minds for some time, "we needed to secure an surroundings where we could focus on this game, then that's why it took a little bit of time for u.s.a. to deliver it to you".^[9]

Kando stated that while
Neo
is a sequel, they did non want to call it
The Globe Ends with You 2, as in that location were many significantly new ideas in both gameplay and narrative, and were introducing new characters.^[9]
Tetsuya Nomura stated that he had a lot of trouble with the championship. He decided it just earlier the announcement. Afterwards much thinking, he decided to go with a cornball "新" (Shin; lit. New) title (Note: Japanese series tend to use Shin/New in their titles, particularly sequels).^[11]
Yet, Kando did country they wanted to address the loose ends from the original game, besides every bit from the "A New Twenty-four hours" scenario in
Last Remix, but present it from the viewpoint of characters completely new to the Reapers' Game.^[9]
Office of this includes the major shift from the dual-screen battle organization used in the Nintendo DS game to a single-screen system. According to Itou, they wanted to make sure to retain the focus of teamwork of the DS boxing system, and developed the new 3D-based boxing system so that the player has control of all 4 members of the party at the same fourth dimension, a concept that was explored during the development of
Solo Remix.^[x]

Nomura returned to blueprint the character art. For the atomic number 82 character of Rindo, he was looking to provide some type of iconic item of clothing that would brand him stand up out and correspond his isolated personality, similar to Neku'due south headphones in the original game. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, he had seen that face masks had get a popular way accessory for the youth of Nihon and opted for that;^[9]
he did not imagine that face masks would become a normal occurrence in the world past the time the game launched.^[12]

The game's world will still be based on an accurate representation of modern-day Shibuya, expanding maps into other areas of the district such every bit Harajuku. The game reflects the changes in Shibuya in the xiv years since the original game, such equally renovations to Miyashita Park that were completed in 2020.^[10]

The game was revealed on November 23, 2020, after a week-long countdown on the game's official web page.^[thirteen]
The reveal coincided with the upload of the anime accommodation'due south second trailer. Nomura uploaded an illustration featuring serial protagonists Neku and Rindo to the game'due south official Twitter account in celebration.^[12]
Neo
released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation four on July 27, 2021, with a Windows version released on the Epic Games Store on September 28, 2021, followed past Steam on Oct 19, 2022.^[14]

Reception

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Neo: The Earth Ends with You
received "by and large favorable" reviews for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, according to review aggregator Metacritic. The game failed to run across the publisher's sales expectations.^[30]

Sales

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Neo: The World Ends with Yous
was the bestselling retail game during its offset calendar week of release in Japan, with xviii,799 concrete copies being sold.^[31]

Notes

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References

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External links

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• 
  Official website