John Dow

I seem to have missed this one completely, but it has me quite intrigued.

Anyone have an opinion on it? deKay? KKC?

J


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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <0vk1r8-jjn.ln1@bague.nelefa.org>,
John Dow <jmd@nelefa.org.invalid> wrote:
>I seem to have missed this one completely, but it has me quite intrigued.
>
>Anyone have an opinion on it? deKay? KKC?

It did not live up to the hype. But as an action RPG it has a number of
original play concepts that have not been imitated. Use of the shoulder
buttons to affect the fight in the upper screen as you use the face
buttons to control the lower screen directly ends up being challenging at
first, but becomes automatic over time as you learn to divide your
attention. The setting is also unique, but less interesting now that it's
arguably out of date.

If you have to categorise it, put it in with The Last Remnant and Third
Birthday as interesting Square/Enix experiments that likely won't be
repeated. If you can find it for cheap it's worth experiencing, but you
won't go back to it again and again.

-KKC, hoping noone notices Arena on the screen during the meeting.
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deKay

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, John Dow wrote:

> I seem to have missed this one completely, but it has me quite intrigued.
>
> Anyone have an opinion on it? deKay? KKC?

Looked too horribly confusing to me!

deKay
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Carl Cross

John Dow <jmd@nelefa.org.invalid> wrote:
> I seem to have missed this one completely, but it has me quite intrigued.
>
> Anyone have an opinion on it? deKay? KKC?
>
> J
>


Isn't this almost impossible to get now?

I had it on "order" from Play for about 18 months.

Carl.

Bruce Stephens

Carl Cross <carldjcross@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

[...]

> Isn't this almost impossible to get now?

Amazon.co.uk marketplace claims to have a few. I'd guess it would be
available used at various places.

[...]

Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <874nxdmi3h.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk>,
Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet@cenderis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Carl Cross <carldjcross@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Isn't this almost impossible to get now?
>
>Amazon.co.uk marketplace claims to have a few. I'd guess it would be
>available used at various places.

The World Ends With You is one of those few Square/Enix titles that wasn't
overproduced. The Akihabara setting and the oddball localisation choices
made it more clearly a risk than, say, Drakengard. You may find that
American-region copies are strangely more easily obtained.

-KKC, who should sign off of work now and go play Skyrim.
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John Dow

Carl Cross the Monkey was never naughty:
> John Dow <jmd@nelefa.org.invalid> wrote:
>> I seem to have missed this one completely, but it has me quite intrigued.
>>
>> Anyone have an opinion on it? deKay? KKC?
>>
>> J
>>
>
>
> Isn't this almost impossible to get now?
>
> I had it on "order" from Play for about 18 months.

Couple of Amazon sellers have it ni stock for about 18 quid (inc postage)

J

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Chris Whitworth

On 2011-12-06, deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, John Dow wrote:
>
>> I seem to have missed this one completely, but it has me quite intrigued.
>>
>> Anyone have an opinion on it? deKay? KKC?
>
> Looked too horribly confusing to me!

It was (well, is). The combat mechanic was kind of bewildering, and the
hyperactive presentation (think JSR in squint-o-vision) made it really hard
to see what was going on. OTOH, it was kind of fun if you got past that, and
had some really neat ideas, but ultimately was a bit less than the sum of
its parts.

Chris