4EVER's favourite DS game of all time

The twin developers of Jupiter and Square Enix decided one day to create the best DS game that there ever will be. It's called, the World Ends With You. It's a game with fantastic story, fantastic gameplay and a very interesting art style. The player will take control of Neku, an anti-social teenager who claims that he: "Doesn't get people. Never has, never will" and so he wears headphones to block out the noise of the others. But one day, he wakes up in the Scramble Crossing and knows nothing of what's going on, except that he has a timer etched onto his hand and that he is being attacked by strange creatures. Neku finds out that he is in "The Reaper's Game" and must win each challenge if he wants to be free. Along the way, you will team up with Shiki, Joshua and Beat respectively The story is incredible. It's obvious that the devs poured their heart and soul into making it emotional and gripping and it is. It also produced some of the best music I've ever heard in a game. The main meat of the gameplay is done in battles with the creatures known as "Noise" You control Neku on the bottom screen using the touch pad and your partner on the top screen with the D pad. At first, this is really tricky, but you can actually make the cpu take over your partner for a little while if you cease input. But if you do this, the reward for beating your foes insn't as great as if you do it by yourself. Neku fights by using pins. You can equip pins on the menu and use them in battle. The touch screen uses different commands for each pin and they have loads of different powers. Ice spears, shields, pyrokenisis, levitation of objects which you can throw, melee attacks and oh so much more. The top screen is a bit different. Your partner has combos which, if you pull off correctly will allow you to use a special move that really helps out in tough battles...and looks extremely cool. 


I love this game for many reasons, but the thing I will take away from this game the most is the story. I love a good story as much as anyone, but this one takes the cake. This is like "the kite runner" of video game stories. Unmatchable. Pick this game up.