So, as I often do, I wrote my feature on The World Ends With You a bit prematurely. I still stand by most of it, though I like it quite a bit more overall now that I’ve gone from ‘used to’ the mechanics of it to ‘ensnared hopelessly.’ It’s been a while since I’ve run across a game with such a rewarding learning curve- starting out, every battle was an E-Rank, skin-of-my-teeth experience and if I won any items from the ordeal, then whoopty doo. Now I’m effortlessly dancing the two fighters around the screen, defeating Noise by the threes and fours, and all but showered by rare drops and pins at the end of every battle. The only tough decision now lies in whether to start over and pick up all the stuff I missed early on- or whether to plow through the rest of the game before doing so.

Little by little, I feel a bit better~