NEO: The World Ends With You
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Despite being a cult classic back on the Nintendo DS, The World Ends With You has seen a resurgence of popularity in the past few years.
This is thanks to a port of the first game coming to the Nintendo Switch, the announcement of an anime that will release in April of this year, and of course the announcement of a new game, NEO The World Ends With You.
The first The World Ends With You game is about Neku, an anti-social teenager who doesn’t really understand how to interact people. One day Neku wakes up in Shibuya with no memories and is quickly forced into a pact with a complete stranger and it told to defeat enemies called “Noise.”
He soon finds out that he is dead and in some kind of afterlife called the Underground. He learns that he’ll have to prove himself by completing various missions if he wants to return to the world of the living.
It’s not known how connected this new game is to the first, but from the trailer we have gotten, it seems like they share a lot of the same themes.
This sequel is scheduled for the summer of 2021 and will feature 3D graphics instead of 2D like in the first game. Not much else is known besides there being a new cast and that the composer from the first game is returning.
