The 2008 cult basic The World Ends With You is getting a long-awaited follow-up, boasting new 3D environments and battles.
After being teased for a few years, followers of Japanese role-playing sport The World Ends With You can now formally look ahead to a sequel.
Titled NEO: The World Ends With You (as a result of possibly The World Ends With Two was too apparent), followers can return to the fashionable setting of actual world Shibuya and meet a brand new solid of characters who’re compelled to partake within the Reaper’s Sport.
With the sport releasing on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch the sequel will characteristic full 3D environments and battles will happen on a 3D aircraft as an alternative of a 2D one.
Sq. Enix hasn’t gone into an excessive amount of element, nevertheless it seems the battle system is comparatively the identical as the unique, with social gathering members working collectively and utilizing pins to carry out numerous talents.
Additionally, Minamimoto, one of many first sport’s antagonists, could be seen collaborating in battles, which appears to verify that he’ll be a celebration member this time round.
The unique sport first launched in 2008 for the Nintendo DS, the place it had the distinctive mechanic of getting battles happen on each screens, and was later ported to cellular gadgets in 2012 after which the Swap in 2018.
Other than that, a number of of its solid made cameo appearances in 2012’s Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, little doubt partly as a result of Kingdom Hearts’ director, Tetsuya Nomura, engaged on The World Ends With You as a personality designer.
Between the Swap port revitalising curiosity and an anime adaptation airing subsequent yr, all indicators pointed in the direction of a sequel being introduced in the end – and now right here it’s.
NEO: The World Ends With You’ll launch for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Swap in summer time 2021.
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