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NEO: The World Ends With You |OT| Zetta fun times
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Started this game just a few days ago and today made my way to W2D2.
Got a quick question regarding the party: Minamoto left at the end of W1, so on which day do I get a fourth party member again? Please refrain from name drops for spoiler reasons, it just irks me playing with an incomplete party and I wanna know. :D
Got a quick question regarding the party: Minamoto left at the end of W1, so on which day do I get a fourth party member again? Please refrain from name drops for spoiler reasons, it just irks me playing with an incomplete party and I wanna know. :D
You'll get an answer pretty quickly on the day you're on, just keep going :)
Thank you, my question was answered pretty promptly in-game :D
I am now at Week 3 - How much longer do I have left, percentage wise? Is the third week comparable to the first two when it comes to length?
So now I am stuck at the W3D6 boss, he kicked my ass pretty thoroughly. I would like to leave the area, get some more foods to level up, get new gear, pins etc.
BUT I seemingly cannot escape this guy. I tried running in both directions, but everytime it triggers the cutscene and subsequently the boss fight. I can only return to Shibuya Stream, but that area only has two food places that give very low stats. :/ Can anyone help?
BUT I seemingly cannot escape this guy. I tried running in both directions, but everytime it triggers the cutscene and subsequently the boss fight. I can only return to Shibuya Stream, but that area only has two food places that give very low stats. :/ Can anyone help?
Use the Chapter Select to warp to a previous chapter/location?
Thx, that's what I did. Farmed foods for at least two hours after looking up where the best places for the individual stats are, returned to W3D6 boss and steamrolled him. :D
I started it a couple of days ago, even though I bought it @ black friday (school, work, etc...)
Currently @ W1D7. Pretty cool so far, although I wish the map was a bit bigger with more variation, feels like going back and forth for the whole game would get a bit old.
Something about Minamimoto's presence seems really weird to me - the cast treats him like he's not there most of the time, yet he's there for literally every fight. What's up with that?
Currently @ W1D7. Pretty cool so far, although I wish the map was a bit bigger with more variation, feels like going back and forth for the whole game would get a bit old.
Something about Minamimoto's presence seems really weird to me - the cast treats him like he's not there most of the time, yet he's there for literally every fight. What's up with that?
I took it as if he's just observing, collecting data. Minamimoto isn't there to be buddy-buddy with the group. Probably just follows them without saying much lol.
Finally finished this. The last week started off nicely but was severely dragging towards the end.
I also really wish this game had more animated cutscenes, that could have sold important moments a lot better than dialogue & pictures. I guess the budget they had was severely lacking :/
Can't say I was a fan of the "replay" abuse throughout the game, but they really pushed that thing in our face too much there at the final day.
Fighting against Shiba, losing to the noise, making Shiba not fight us, losing to the noise (except Rindo), going back, recruiting Shiba & friends and then a very annoying final boss (that looked cool though) soured my experience.
I'm also very ambivalent towards how they incorporated the OG cast into this game, besides Beat maybe.
Neku's entry was state of the art deus ex machina. I was excited to see him and moreso having him in the team, but they really should have given a better back story then "Neku was between worlds" or somecrap only to emerge and 1HKO Minamimoto for reasons.
Same for Rhyme, Shiki and Joshua. I loved seeing them but I wish their time in this game was more developed and "worthy", if it makes sense.
Perhaps they didn't want to outshine the new cast too much, which is definitely a good reason. I just feel like they could have handled the juggling of the new & old better.
Overall I feel like this game is ~10 hours too long. The pacing in the second half of the game really started to be a bit of a drag, where as I felt the pacing was strong in the beginning and like the game didn't waste too much of my time.
I'm definitely not going to 100% this game, and I don't even know if I'll finish Another Day (is it good?). Guess I just need a little break from this.
Shoka & Rindo's romance is everything though. Was happy to see their cute meeting at the end. Her being Swallow took me by surprise even though I should've known better.
Fighting against Shiba, losing to the noise, making Shiba not fight us, losing to the noise (except Rindo), going back, recruiting Shiba & friends and then a very annoying final boss (that looked cool though) soured my experience.
I'm also very ambivalent towards how they incorporated the OG cast into this game, besides Beat maybe.
Neku's entry was state of the art deus ex machina. I was excited to see him and moreso having him in the team, but they really should have given a better back story then "Neku was between worlds" or somecrap only to emerge and 1HKO Minamimoto for reasons.
Same for Rhyme, Shiki and Joshua. I loved seeing them but I wish their time in this game was more developed and "worthy", if it makes sense.
Perhaps they didn't want to outshine the new cast too much, which is definitely a good reason. I just feel like they could have handled the juggling of the new & old better.
Overall I feel like this game is ~10 hours too long. The pacing in the second half of the game really started to be a bit of a drag, where as I felt the pacing was strong in the beginning and like the game didn't waste too much of my time.
I'm definitely not going to 100% this game, and I don't even know if I'll finish Another Day (is it good?). Guess I just need a little break from this.
Shoka & Rindo's romance is everything though. Was happy to see their cute meeting at the end. Her being Swallow took me by surprise even though I should've known better.
I also really wish this game had more animated cutscenes, that could have sold important moments a lot better than dialogue & pictures. I guess the budget they had was severely lacking :/
I'm gonna be real with you, this post just feels like you skimmed through a lot of the game without actually taking the time to take it all in.
Rindo's an almost painfully realistic depiction of your average teenager: a guy that has no confidence in himself and the decisions he makes and tries to pass off his responsibilities onto other people whenever he gets the chance to. He's quiet, reserved, and very closed off, only ever truly opening up to his friend Swallow, and you can see this constantly when you peer into his head and observe how he neurotically commentates on every move he or someone else does. He also has the tendency to take the people around him for granted. In some ways, he's lot like Neku in the sense that he's cut himself off from other people but whereas Neku actively rejected other people, Rindo just doesn't care to get close to them. Even when their team needed more people so they could survive just one week, Rindo preferred relying on the skills Sho had already shown them rather than even trying to meet Nagi, and he might not've recruited her if not for him trying to avoid having her Dive into his head again. There's also he didn't confide into his teammates about his time travel abilities until Sho dragged it out in the open for the others to know about. To Rindo, following along with who he already knew while not confiding in them kept him safe and able to just slip through life without having to worry. In that sense, I honestly feel that his arc is more organic and fluid compared to Neku's and I say this as someone who loves Neku's character arc. Compare his first run-in with Nagi when she accidentally Dives into his mind to his behavior on all the iterations of the Last Day, where he takes charge, listens to his teammates fully, seeks and reaches out to people, and overpasses his aversion of going towards people to make the first connection. He's actually the one willing to do the first step and remind people of what's at stake, instead of being lead around on a whim by others.
Over the course of the game/Game, Rindo grows from someone not deciding anything to avoid the responsibility of a bad outcome and bristling when called out on that, to someone becoming brave enough to fully undertake the weight of such decisions, willing to risk himself in a bit more and as a leader, and fully expressing his opinion about things and plans instead of just poking holes into others' ideas and appropriating their advices as his like he did with Swallow.
As for the Fret thing, what exactly do you mean by him flirting with Rhyme? That's just how he introduces himself to a lot of the cast, including Neku and Beat. He's also shown to be still hurting over Kanon on Week 3 Day 5, which Nagi actually takes notice of and goes out of her way to help him move past it.
As for Shoka, there's a very good reason for why she didn't tell Rindo the truth about who she is. Due to her betraying the Reapers at the end of the last week, she was already setting herself up to die due to their rule that former Reapers get erased at the end. It's why Ayano was freaking the fuck out about trying to bring her back. As far as Shoka knew, there wasn't any possible way for her to come back to life since only the Composer has the authority to do that and he's currently MIA. Due to this, and her already dire depression and suicidal issues, Shoka didn't want her best friend to know that he actually got to know his online friend before she passed away and wanted to spare him the heartbreak when she inevitably gets erased and he gets to live. The only reason she even tells him the truth in the second-to-last timeline was because she figured that they were already fucked against the Dissonance Noise due to how Rindo already traveled through time and make the Noise even stronger and so she decided that she might as well tell him the truth before it's ultimately too late.
And as a side-note, "alive players can play this Reaper Game too" was a concept that was brought up in the first game, with Kariya even mistaking Joshua as one.
Anyone who wants to play it on PC, GET IT! It also gets a 50% off on the eShop when SEnix does their sales there, which is basically every month, I suppouse it is the same on PSN but I can't confirm it.
As someone who adored the original on release, I am happy to say I finally beat NEO today. I started in February, but Elden Ring and school took over. I just beat it today.
That said, I really enjoyed it, but my goodness, the final few days reaaaaaaalllyyy like to take their time. I won't go into spoilers, but I was just thinking "is it over yet?"
I loved the cast of characters, but I don't think the game needed to be as long as it was. Those NPC fights and shibuya slams were really not great.
Overall, I really liked it a lot! :) the only character I didn't like was Nagi. She was way too one-note and became really annoying.
That said, I really enjoyed it, but my goodness, the final few days reaaaaaaalllyyy like to take their time. I won't go into spoilers, but I was just thinking "is it over yet?"
I loved the cast of characters, but I don't think the game needed to be as long as it was. Those NPC fights and shibuya slams were really not great.
Overall, I really liked it a lot! :) the only character I didn't like was Nagi. She was way too one-note and became really annoying.
Yep, it's infuriating how they dropped the ball on the marketing for this. Game is incredible.
It really is a great game, the cast is wonderful.
If I had one complaint is that characters backstories and relationships between the characters could be a bit more fleshed out.
If I had one complaint is that characters backstories and relationships between the characters could be a bit more fleshed out.
I was lucky enough to get it early and triple-dipped. I adore everything about this game and series. It is a shame TWEWY is such a pain to play on the Switch. I am convinced they could have done a much better port/reimagining of it utilizing the partner system.
I was there Day 1 enjoying myself as much, if not more, as I did back in 2009 when I played the original on my DS, but also angry at how much they didnt give a fuck about the game ):
I love NEO but I think the TWEWY brand is destined to cult status despite having all the trappings that should make for a big hit. I love both TWEWY and NEO and would love a 3rd entry 15 years from now that will also be amazing but sell similarly poorly.
It's legitimately one of my favorite games of all time (somewhere in my top ten). No other games does it like TWEWY.
It's a shame we'll never get a third, but at least NEO exists.
Early as in the Square Enix oversight? That's one of my gaming memories I will never forget. I took the week off and just stayed in my room playing hours upon hours of NEO weeks early because it unlocked on the eshop early.
Yea the oversight. It was legit one of the best gaming experiences I have had.
Takeharu Ishimoto released an acoustic album for TWEWY.
View: https://twitter.com/ishimoto_music/status/1754892368816550293
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View: https://twitter.com/ishimoto_music/status/1754892368816550293
石元丈晴の「TWEWY acoustic (feat. Mas Kimura & Stephanie Topalian)」をApple Musicで
アルバム・2024年・11曲
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TWEWY acoustic
A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.
Takeharu Ishimoto released an acoustic album for TWEWY.
View: https://twitter.com/ishimoto_music/status/1754892368816550293
石元丈晴の「TWEWY acoustic (feat. Mas Kimura & Stephanie Topalian)」をApple Musicで
アルバム・2024年・11曲TWEWY acoustic
A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.
Oh shit finally, it's been cooking for a long time at this point
Takeharu Ishimoto released an acoustic album for TWEWY.
View: https://twitter.com/ishimoto_music/status/1754892368816550293
石元丈晴の「TWEWY acoustic (feat. Mas Kimura & Stephanie Topalian)」をApple Musicで
アルバム・2024年・11曲TWEWY acoustic
A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.
Awesome!
man I didn't know this is a sequel, I thought it's the ps4 port of the first game, what's up with the name?
Never understood why they didn't go for a more obvious sequel name.
I got it on day 1 on Switch and LOOOOVEEEEED IIIIITTTT!!
It's a Square Enix game. Putting the Neo prefix in the title is a pretty direct way of saying "this is a new game" by their standards. You should get it. It's good.
Man I might be stupid because Fret had to repeatedly spell out loud for me what Rindo's character flaw was for me to get it. Sometimes in these games the protagonist is just very passive! It's not as visible as Neku's flaw I guess. It's oddly cozy about it as the end of Week 2, the team doesn't seem to have a plan besides win the game while also establishing that everyone knows the game is rigged. Just focused on the characters getting to know each other and have people unravel/introduce mysteries. Since it's not about partners anymore, there's a lot more character banter. It's really cool to see Beat again, his bravado now comes across as genuine rather than posturing, matured but familiar. Feels like his personality overlaps with Fret being the over enthusiastic party member though.
I'm on W2D6 and unlocked using two pins on the same button, which sounded confusing but I get it now. They managed to capture the frantic chaos of the DS battle system and Scramble Slams finally taught me to engage with setting up Beatdrops and pay attention to the move timings. It's frantic and rewarding and throws something novel at you steadily.
I'll get there eventually. Scramble Slams tend to grind my progress to a crawl because I really want the first prize, so I obsessively save before each encounter to make sure I'm optimizing my point gain. I know I could just replay the game but you only have your first playthrough once!
I'm on W2D6 and unlocked using two pins on the same button, which sounded confusing but I get it now. They managed to capture the frantic chaos of the DS battle system and Scramble Slams finally taught me to engage with setting up Beatdrops and pay attention to the move timings. It's frantic and rewarding and throws something novel at you steadily.
I'll get there eventually. Scramble Slams tend to grind my progress to a crawl because I really want the first prize, so I obsessively save before each encounter to make sure I'm optimizing my point gain. I know I could just replay the game but you only have your first playthrough once!