NEO: The World Ends with You Reviews
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NEO: The World Ends With You is a wonderfully fun game that pleases the eyes, as well as the Steam Deck!
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NEO: The World Ends With You lacks everything you would expect from a PC port, such as mouse support or useful graphics options. While the game itself is incredible, unless you desperately need the maximum resolution and framerate you’re better off sticking with the console versions.
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Neo: The World Ends with You is filled to the brim with style and charm, but actually playing the game can get tedious sometimes.
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Often, games pack so many characters, storylines, and mechanics into the experience that the end result ends up being a bloated mess. Occasionally, there are games that strip everything back and stick to a strict minimalist style and set the world on fire. Rarer still is a game that has just enough bloat, just enough restraint, and just enough special something and delivers an experience that delights, entertains, and sticks in your mind. NEO: The World Ends with You is, in my opinion, a gam...
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NEO: The World Ends With You is a unique and colorful action RPG that packs a fun combat system. While it's certainly not for everyone, those drawn to its stylish vibe will absolutely love it.
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NEO: The World Ends with You is a sequel worth waiting for. It brings together many of the best concepts from the DS original but in a more approachable and accessible experience. It may lack the lightning-in-a-bottle genius of its predecessor, but the 40+ hours I spent exploring Shibuya showed me this world doesn’t have to be complicated to be worthwhile.
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Fans and newcomers alike are going to be enthralled by NEO: The World Ends with You, that rare belated follow up to a beloved cult classic that manages to live up to, and even exceed, the original.
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NEO The World Ends With You may have taken a decade to come, but it not only pays respect to the past, but brings forth a beautiful cast of new characters to the mix to interview a story that few can match. It’s not a perfect game, but it’s a fantastic one you’ll want to play.
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NEO TWEWY is an eccentric action-RPG with an endearing youthful attitude, though its narrative lulls can obstruct its best moments.
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NEO: The World Ends With You is a game that gets carried by its intriguing world, creative lore, lovable characters, and of course, its amazing soundtrack. These aspects of the game will keep you wanting more as you trudge through the tiresome day-to-day activities that get thrown at you.
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Gameplay in NEO: The World Ends With You largely follows a pattern of solving puzzles in Shibuya to gain access to more districts and locales, then fighting through waves of Noise or bosses to advance the team's progress. There are sidequests and other elements, like Scramble Slam, which shake up the progression system further, but battles are central to the experience of NEO and, thankfully, also one of its best elements. Combat is fluid, with snappy button inputs feeling both responsive and easy to manage. Players will control each member of their team by using the buttons assigned to each...
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NEO: The World Ends With You gives players a tremendous soundtrack and a ton of content, and once the combat clicks, it's a genuinely good time. However, that comes with the caveat that players have to invest roughly 10 hours before the game really starts to be fun, and then they still have to deal with its repetitiveness. So as long as fans can put up with those issues, they will get a lot of game time out of NEO: The World Ends With You.
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Overall, NEO: The World Ends With You is a game filled with rich and quirky characters. It's easy to feel an affinity for many of them, even the various Reapers who are the ones running this deadly game. The story is filled with enough mysteries, unknown motivations, and plot twists that it should engage both fans of the original game and newcomers alike.
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NEO: The World Ends with You is way too cool, way too fun, and way too good. For fans of the series, this is a sequel that goes above and beyond 14 years of hopes and expectations. For newcomers who have never even heard of the Reaper's Game, this is one of the most genuine, polished, and stylish games I've ever played. Personality and style ooze out of it constantly, and in a post-Persona 5 world where society is starting to clamour for more immersive and all-encompassing JRPG masterpieces, this might just be the next big thing.
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The World Ends With You took the world of Japanese role-playing games by storm back in 2007 when it launched on Nintendo DS. Not only the game featured an incredibly stylish design, interesting setting, and charming characters, but it also took advantage of the console's unique features, like the dual screens and touch screen controls, in some exciting ways. The original game's mobile and Nintendo Switch ports had to alter some of the mechanics to make up for the lack of a second screen. While this did impact the experience, it did not lessen the game in any significant way.
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Neo: The World Ends With You exudes style and sophistication, its presentation is modern and its gameplay is gripping with a pace that never lets up. Elements of action, adventure, RPG, visual novel and puzzle genres collide with gusto to create an epic experience that will keep you hooked until the credits roll. If you like games with plenty of variety in their gameplay, or games that tell a compelling story, look no further; this is an outstanding RPG unlike any other.
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NEO: The World Ends With You does a wonderful job recapturing what made this formula work so well on the DS, but in a more approachable way.
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The World Ends With You launched in 2007 on Nintendo DS and quickly gained a cult following despite that year being packed with a seemingly endless supply of classics. Designed by Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura, it was a darker variant of the usual Square Enix RPG formula. Taking a modern setting, a prescient focus on memetic culture, and satisfying touch-based combat, it remains an undersung classic of the genre. A Final Remix version made it onto Switch in 2018, followed by an anime adaptation last year.
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I will be honest, I wasn’t expecting for NEO: The World Ends with You to captivate me as much as it did. I knew nothing about it before playing it, but Square Enix can now consider me a brand new fan. This falls under the same category as Yakuza 0 did way back in 2017: the “where has this franchise been all my life?” category. I cannot even comprehend the anticipation among the people who have played the original The World Ends With You back in 2007, who had to wait fourteen freaking ye...
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NEO: The World Ends with You is everything a fan of the series could ever ask for in a sequel. It feels modern and contemporary without losing what made the original unique.
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