The World Ends With You is Square Enix’s newest endeavor into Nintendo DS RPG fun and it works. You are Neku Sakabara and are forced to play in something called the Reaper’s Game; if not you will be erased. The Reapers set up different tasks for you to perform within a certain time frame and this goes on for seven days.
No one can see Neku, but he can read peoples’ minds and this becomes useful for solving certain puzzles and finding enemies or Noise. You roam around Shibuya trying to free the world of monsters and make sure that you do not get erased in the process. There is an underlying message that this Reaper’s Game is forced on you and you are in an alternate reality world, think a cross between Lord of the Flies and the Matrix.
