The World Ends With You

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Here’s Hoping They Never Make A Sequel To The World Ends With You

3:00AM January 21, 2012 | Mike Fahey

In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Zombie711 wants Square Enix’s DS masterpiece The World Ends with You to end with itself. In other words, here’s one of the game’s biggest fans explaining why it should never, ever get a sequel. Aww. More »


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Gifts For Sullen Teenage Girls

2:00AM November 24, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

Of all the people you might have to buy gifts for this Christmas, the sullen teenage girl just might be the most challenging. For what, exactly, do sullen teenage girls like? They are so sullen! It can be hard to tell if they like anything at all. More »


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The World Ends With Batman, Brando And The Spy

7:30PM October 26, 2009 | AJ Glasser

Today’s Kotaku pumpkin patch includes the Godfather, Batman, the Spy from Team Fortress 2 and the World Ends With You. Cheers to Chris Wells, Lee Harris, Kevin “ShadesBot” Moore and Chae Wells! More »


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The World Ends With Totilo

5:00AM September 23, 2009 | Brian Crecente

Released last year in the US, The World Ends With You brought action role-playing to the real-world setting of Shibuya reimagined by Square-Enix. More »


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Awesome TWEWY DS Was A Present From Nomura

5:00AM June 27, 2008 | Leigh Alexander

So the other day when I was visiting Xseed, checking out Valhalla Knights 2 and Little King’s Story, I espied this sweet The World Ends With You DS. My photo quality is poor, so the little caption beside it says “It’s A Wonderful World”.

Turns out that Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura gave the TWEWY DS as a.gift to Xseed’s company president, Jun Iwasaki, who was Square’s CEO before he left to found Xseed. Nomura also gave Iwasaki one of those Crisis Core PSPs, but apparently, while Iwasaki decided to keep the TWEWY DS, he gave the PSP to one of his colleagues.

The DS is even more awesome-looking in person; it’s gloss silver, and the logo is nice and shiny.

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This Square Enix CD Cover Does Not Hurt Eyeballs

11:20PM June 19, 2008 | Brian Ashcraft

Phew, yesterday’s Final Fantasy Remix album cover? Man, that was brutal. My eyes still hurt at the mere thought of looking at that! This, this right here is quite nice. Here is the CD cover art for The World Ends with You CD soundtrack, which is also getting an iTunes release. It goes on sale next month.

Side note: Shame that this game didn’t do better.

Subarashiki Kono CD [Famitsu]

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Zero Punctuation Takes On The World Ends With You

2:00PM May 29, 2008 | Brian Ashcraft

Sorry for the hold-up! Here’s this week’s Zero Punctuation, which is taking on Square Enix’s DS title The World Ends With You. Totally agree about using the dual screens during the combat. Totally.

The World Ends With You [The Escapist]

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Square Enix Goes Modern Day, The World Ends

4:20AM December 6, 2007 | Mike Fahey

Square Enix isn’t all about Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. It’s also about Kingdom Hearts, and from the makers of Kingdom Hearts comes The World Ends With You, coming to this Spring to the Nintendo DS. Released in Japan as Subarashiki Kono Sekai, The World Ends With You is the story of a guy named Neku who wakes up to find a message on his phone telling him that he has seven days before his existence ceases to be. Then it gets weird. Only with the coolest fashions, friends and fighting skills can Neku restore hope to the city’s population and prevent being stricken from existence altogether!

*raises an eyebrow quizzically* Okay! This is Squenix’s first foray into the modern world, set in Shibuya, which is “the coolest district in Tokyo”. It features “achingly hip” characters, each with a different fashion sense, a soundtrack full of “bleeding-edge” music, telepathic powers, and a combat system that utilises the microphone. More »