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NEO: The World Ends with You (2021)

Square Enix Creative Business Unit I, h.a.n.d. Inc.

Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4

4.08 from 184 ratings

706 members have it in their collection · 53 playing now · 303 backlogged · 258 wish listed

How long? Main story 37h · with extras 55h (from 14 logged playthroughs)

Explore a stylized recreation of Shibuya, as you take on the role of Rindo to battle for survival and unravel the mysteries of the deadly “Reaper’s Game” in this new Action RPG and follow-up to the classic RPG hit "The World Ends with You."
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Details

Developers
Square Enix Creative Business Unit I, h.a.n.d. Inc.
Publishers
Square Enix
Genres
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Action
Franchises
The World Ends With You
Series
The World Ends with you
Event
Nintendo Direct E3 2021
Steam
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Release dates

  • Jul 26, 2021 (Europe) Nintendo Switch
  • Jul 27, 2021 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
  • Sep 29, 2021 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution

5 stars
74
4 stars
66
3 stars
33
2 stars
7
1 star
4
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PyramidHeadcrab

Status PyramidHeadcrab Jan 14, 2024

This is the first game I've ever played where I'm just like, "I would have loved this when I was younger."

I put like 4-6 hours into this one, but it just isn't grabbing me. I love the art style, I love the music, but I really, really just don't have the patience for learning the game's fairly demanding mechanics, …

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This is the first game I've ever played where I'm just like, "I would have loved this when I was younger."

I put like 4-6 hours into this one, but it just isn't grabbing me. I love the art style, I love the music, but I really, really just don't have the patience for learning the game's fairly demanding mechanics, and I think I've finally aged out of the shounen anime thing completely. That's not to say I'll never like another one again, but this one was really trying my patience with the tropes and overacting.

And I'm gonna be real too, I have never liked the narrative style where the story is told through flat images on a static screen. I really, really hate when games do this. It makes the action incredibly hard to follow, and while the stills look great, it just completely throws the emergency break on any momentum the story may otherwise have.

I'm sure this game is excellent, and I can confidently say it's good, but it's just not for me.

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JF777

Status JF777 May 2, 2023

Slight spoiler: I actually shed a few tears when I saw the title changed to "The World Begins with You".

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supersaiyanchrono

Status supersaiyanchrono Apr 8, 2023

Just finished playing this one for the first time and trying to sort out my overall feelings. I'm very curious, if any of you have played it what did you think of the combat? I can't decide if my "turn off my brain and just mash" approach was a result of mediocre combat design or my own personal brain rot, …

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Just finished playing this one for the first time and trying to sort out my overall feelings. I'm very curious, if any of you have played it what did you think of the combat? I can't decide if my "turn off my brain and just mash" approach was a result of mediocre combat design or my own personal brain rot, and whether or not that's a good or bad thing regardless as I still wanted to try new pins and get in fights every so often.

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SpoiledPrince

Status SpoiledPrince Mar 29, 2023

Trying to reach the end of this game feels like torture, I'm 24 hours into it but I don't know If I can keep going considering I found out it takes over 40 hours to complete the game, I guess the only upside is that I got it free with PlayStation plus.

The combat started off good and I enjoyed …

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Trying to reach the end of this game feels like torture, I'm 24 hours into it but I don't know If I can keep going considering I found out it takes over 40 hours to complete the game, I guess the only upside is that I got it free with PlayStation plus.

The combat started off good and I enjoyed experimenting with the pins but the further it got into the game trying to pick the right pins just became a chore and enemies become damage sponges with ever increasing health bars.

When it comes to the story they could've cut a lot of it out and it would have worked fine, just seems to me like they wanted to drag it out by having you run around doing tedious tasks that were often pointless in the grand scheme of things.

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SpoiledPrince

Status SpoiledPrince Mar 26, 2023

It's kind of annoying how the game makes you lose in cutscenes without even getting to fight the person and then you have to go through tedious tasks just to start the fight or you do win the fight then lose in the cutscene, feels like a waste of time to me.

Also could characters stop stealing pins from me …

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It's kind of annoying how the game makes you lose in cutscenes without even getting to fight the person and then you have to go through tedious tasks just to start the fight or you do win the fight then lose in the cutscene, feels like a waste of time to me.

Also could characters stop stealing pins from me in retarded cutscenes.

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Erkin

Status Erkin Feb 28, 2023

More than two months after finishing this game, I still find myself humming its songs to myself. I especially like "Breaking Free", it kinda speaks to me. This line specifically...

Every night I lie awake, feeling like I'm just a mistake

...hits me hard every time.

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Ovinnik

Status Ovinnik Nov 29, 2022

I am strongly tempted to write a more in depth review of this game and how it attempts to expand on its excellent predecessor, and where it succeeds as well as struggles. Though honestly as time goes on this game becomes a warmer and warmer memory for me. I wasn't expecting this to be as great of a sequel as …

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I am strongly tempted to write a more in depth review of this game and how it attempts to expand on its excellent predecessor, and where it succeeds as well as struggles. Though honestly as time goes on this game becomes a warmer and warmer memory for me. I wasn't expecting this to be as great of a sequel as it is, but as time has gone on I've gotten happier with it in my head. Also because this game deserves more attention than it got, its one of the best rpgs in recent memory that was totally undersold and underadvertized by Square Enix.

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SailorV

Status SailorV Sep 10, 2022

Finished (semi-forcibly) this last weekend, and looking back, the game definitely grew on me. I like how it looked, and trying out different pins kept me excited. The enemies, other than the big bosses, kind of got a bit repetitive though. I think I would have gotten more out of the story if I knew anything about the earlier entry …

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Finished (semi-forcibly) this last weekend, and looking back, the game definitely grew on me. I like how it looked, and trying out different pins kept me excited. The enemies, other than the big bosses, kind of got a bit repetitive though. I think I would have gotten more out of the story if I knew anything about the earlier entry to the series so my plan now is to watch the anime adaptation of that. I’m not very inclined to play more from the series, mostly because I have other games I feel more inclined to play right now. Maybe that will change.

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SailorV

Status SailorV Apr 7, 2022

After ~25 hours and at 32% completion (according to the game), this game is starting to grow on me. I have more pins that I like now, and the story has taken an interesting turn. I think I can see this game through. To be fair, I could progress a lot more quickly if I choose not to engage with …

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After ~25 hours and at 32% completion (according to the game), this game is starting to grow on me. I have more pins that I like now, and the story has taken an interesting turn. I think I can see this game through. To be fair, I could progress a lot more quickly if I choose not to engage with all the optional noise battles in every area all the time.

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SailorV

Status SailorV Apr 3, 2022

Checked how long I've been playing, and I did not expect that it would only be ~10 hours. It felt longer than that, which is not a good sign. It's not that I get bored while playing but more of I want to finish it already as it doesn't have anything that I look forward to. The story is intriguing …

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Checked how long I've been playing, and I did not expect that it would only be ~10 hours. It felt longer than that, which is not a good sign. It's not that I get bored while playing but more of I want to finish it already as it doesn't have anything that I look forward to. The story is intriguing but with all the grinding that I must go through to progress and the scarcity of new pins, it doesn't feel worth pursuing as of the moment. I'm afraid this game might go back to my backlog...

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SailorV

Status SailorV Mar 28, 2022

I'm trying my best to really like this game but something's just not clicking. It seems very all-over-the-place as of the moment. I remember feeling the same way with the earlier game from this series, which is a shame as I've read a lot of good reviews of that.

I've played this game for several hours already but I still …

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I'm trying my best to really like this game but something's just not clicking. It seems very all-over-the-place as of the moment. I remember feeling the same way with the earlier game from this series, which is a shame as I've read a lot of good reviews of that.

I've played this game for several hours already but I still struggle over which buttons to push to get to different menus outside battles. Also, I'm so not a fan of how the camera auto-adjusts when I'm walking along streets. Game mechanics-wise, I'm getting the notion that if I want to see what the vast majority of the other pins are, I have no choice but to play at higher difficulty. Playing at normal difficulty drastically limits which pins I can obtain. I'm starting to want to abandon this game, especially since I feel like I've already put so much into it and yet the game shows that I have merely made 13% progress. Trying again this weekend, and hopefully my affinity for this game increases. Otherwise, perhaps it's best for me to enjoy the series as an anime show.

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SailorV

Status SailorV Mar 21, 2022

Was planning to play Triangle Strategy but I thought it best to exercise self-discipline and not buy the game yet seeing that my gaming budget is not enough to purchase it this month. This was sitting on my shelf, and I somehow got in the mood for it after reading translated Japanese novels. It's been a while since I last …

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Was planning to play Triangle Strategy but I thought it best to exercise self-discipline and not buy the game yet seeing that my gaming budget is not enough to purchase it this month. This was sitting on my shelf, and I somehow got in the mood for it after reading translated Japanese novels. It's been a while since I last played the demo so I needed to remember most stuff, and I'm getting there. There still seems to be a lot ahead, and although I'm not yet super excited, I'm very much looking forward to playing more.

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