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The World Ends With You featured a really cool story about combatants thrust into a mysterious Hunger Games-like competition in an alternate dimension of Tokyo’s famous Shibuya district, requiring multiple playthroughs to unlock all its secret narrative twists. But if you remember the original Nintendo DS version for one thing, it’s probably the game’s insane battle system, which required controlling two characters simultaneously on the system’s top and bottom screens. It’s a demanding but totally unique system that, combined with an inimitable style, made The World Ends With You a classic.
- The iOS/Android port simplified the controversial dual-screen battle system.
- Co-developer Jupiter previously worked on the Game Boy Advance card battler Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
- Its developers originally planned to set the game in various locations around the world before narrowing it to only Shibuya.