If you haven’t gotten to check out The World Ends With You: Solo Remix yet, it’s completely understandable. Publisher Square Enix has a reputation for charging much more than the typical iOS game when it releases its popular games onto Apple’s touchscreen platform. It totally makes sense you might not want to pick it up for $17.99 for your iPhone, let alone $19.99 for your iPad.
If I said that the game, originally released to the dual-screen Nintendo DS, is completely worth every penny of the asking price, would you pick it up? Probably not.
But what if I said that both versions are now much less expensive, with the iPhone version in the App Store at $9.99 and the iPad version at $10.99? If you love innovative, brilliant gaming on the go, you’ll go grab a copy right now. Who knows how long the sale will last?
The World Ends With You: Solo Remix, from now on referenced as TWEWY, is a precise port of the Nintendo DS game, minus, obviously, the second screen. While the change from an innovative and chaotically fun double-screened battle system worried some of the original fans, myself included, it turns out that the switch doesn’t have too much impact on the game itself. TWEWY continues to be one of the best role playing games on any platform, mostly due to the setting. This isn’t your typical high-fantasy RPG, but rather a fascinating tale of modern-day Tokyo starring teenagers trapped in a weird time-dependent game for their lives, forced to rely on other teens they may or may not be able to trust.
The Japanese pop music that plays through every scene, especially during combat, is ear-worm candy at its finest. It will definitely stay in your brain long after you’ve moved on to something else on your iOS device of choice.
It’s rare for Square Enix to drop the price on any of its popular intellectual properties, so this is a cool development. Could it mean that a rumored sequel is pending? Probably not, but I’d like to see it happen, for sure.
The World Ends With You: Solo Remix is available in an iPhone and iPad flavor, for $9.99 and $10.99, respectively, in the App Store now.
Source: App Store
Via: TouchArcade
