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Launching Today: The Worst Remake Ever

Posted 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.

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  • Longo_2_guns
    Longo_2_guns

    Joined: Jun 2003
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
    Don't forget that they had a countdown for this for five days. A ****ing countdown.
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
    I just don't see tablets and phones as good grounds for porting games. Maybe those Final Fantasy games work considering the menu-based combat, and that isn't to say that some interesting games haven't been made for use on smartphones. At least Android has some level of controller support, though clearly plugging a controller into a phone sounds kinda awful. Unless you could just like, take a DualShock controller, enlongate its width, hollow out the center, and just put the phone in the middle. That would rock, like making a makeshift Vita.
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
    Love my Zelda 3DS too!! I remember playing this years ago and how I didn't like the combat that much, and I kept thinking we need 3 screens to play this. On the iphone though? There's been a lot of console and handheld based port to that that have been bad.
  • moretokes
    moretokes

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
    I beat goldeneye on my ASus transformer tablet .... Played perfect ...another good tablet game is shadow gun
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
    iPhone plays turn based strategy games well, other than that touch screen controls are just awful. Im buying a 3ds XL soon also. Woo!
  • ShadeTail
    ShadeTail

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
    Capacitive touchscreens like on Apple junk are crappy for game controls, that's for sure. But resistive touchscreens like the DS line uses are actually pretty good, as far as precision goes at least.
  • Lenin17301
    Lenin17301

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
    I wanted to make a long, respectful, well documented rebuttal to this "Sara Gunn" post (whoever/whatever she/he/it is), but you know what? that's boring, so I'll just say this: get out of GR you unfunny, deluded hack, this and the Windows 8 article are the worst posts ever done on Game Revolution, both belong on IGN or some other crappy site that just bashes what's popular to get cheap hits.

    Sorry for the butthurt Apple Fanboy Rant.
  • Axelownz
    Axelownz

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
    This makes me hate Square Enix so freaking much. Ok i can understand if they wanted to port the game to ios, sure put it on there, and get some new fans to the game and make money, i get that.

    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
    HorriblePerson

    Joined: Sep 2011
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
    I am HorriblePerson, and I approve of this post.
  • heintz_nick
    heintz_nick

    Joined: Oct 2012
    Posted: Oct 1st, 2012 at 1:51 pm
    While I understand some of your anger, I honestly don't see the harm in the the iOS port. I played it on the DS years ago and I loved it, probably one of my top favorite games of all time. I have it on my iphone and it is fun, it gave me a reason to replay it again (beside it just being awesome)! It's awesome to see it in HD (which is something the DS cant offer) an ya they didn't make everything HD, like the videos, it's still great to see.

    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.

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