GAMING NEWSLaunching Today: The Worst Remake EverPosted on Monday, August 27 @ 13:00:00 Eastern by sara_gunn
![]() You know what I love? The World Ends With You. Man, that game is the bomb. Riveting story, layered characters, excellent art and sound design. And the combat system? Don’t even get me started. Complex and unique, a perfect balance of real-time and rhythmic, turn-based flows that made excellent use of the DS’s touchscreen. You know what I don’t love? Sh*tty, tablet-based, casual gaming, over-priced, half-assed nonsense. Like this port of my beloved WEWY on, of all things, iOS. God help us all. The World Ends With You: “Solo Remix” (those quotes are totally sarcastic, b-t-dubs) puts Neku and his partner on the same screen – I will avoid an off-topic rant here regarding the symbolic importance of Neku’s separation from his friends by a giant bar of plastic – where, I’m guessing, they’ll both be controlled by touch. To be fair, the D-pad based rhythm combat in the DS version was a little clunky, especially while fighting with Beat, but the rhythm of it was what was important. You know, Neku’s gotta synch with his friends, find the flow of life… Anyway, with only one screen to work with, the combat becomes kind of a clusterf*ck. Just look at that mess. And they remixed the music. Of course. After watching the trailer, I had to go listen the original version of "Calling" about five times to clean out my ears. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go find a hipster with an iPhone and smack him over the head with my badass Zelda 3DS. [Source] More from the Game Revolution Network Comments
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Longo_2_guns
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Sorry for the butthurt Apple Fanboy Rant.
Axelownz
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Though they pretty much slapped TWEWY fans right in the face. I mean a countdown? really for an ios port of a game that everyone already played? The only ones who would get excited for the countdown are the fans of TWEWY, and they expected something better than an iphone port.
Pretty much they built up peoples hopes and then pulled the rug right out from under them.
HorriblePerson
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heintz_nick
Joined: Oct 2012
It agree that Neku and Shiki being on the same screen is wrong but really what other option was there? And in my opinion, which you can disagree with, it doesn't make TWEWY any worse.
It's an amazing game and it being ported to iOS doesn't make it any worse.
Also, since when is a 3DS badass... They are barely better than a DS, all they have is 3D, and Nintendo needs to either stop making game consoles or catch the f**k up fast because all their consoles are so far behind the competitiors! Example: 3DS vs. Vita. No. Comparison.