History VideoGame / TheWorldEndsWithYou

*** [[HandWave Handwaved]] in one of the early cutscenes where Shiki explains to Neku that there are some Psychs that can only be used in battle, and some only out of it. It pretty much never comes up again, though.

* SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer[=/=]RuleOfFunny: Proof that SquareEnix has a habit of making [[JustOneMoreLevel too many addictive games]]: [[spoiler:the reason why Joshua was not in the last week up until the final day was because he was too caught up in playing Tin Pin in Another Day]]. And, yes, [[BreakingTheFourthWall you]] can do exactly the same.

* HoYay: This is even {{lampshaded}} in the bonus chapter at the end of the game, where Joshua's codename is 'Pink', someone comments on how a Rainbow Tin Pin Launcher was 'made for him' and he's the 'Roy G. Biv' of Tin Pin, and Josh himself offers to escort Neku alone down an abandoned drainage river and "spend some quality time". Shiki is torn between shock and YaoiFangirl-ism.

* JigsawPuzzlePlot

*** And on the subject of ''FinalFantasyVII'', there's a food item called Mako Synergy.

*** One of the Swag items makes a shout-out to the original ''[[FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'', with Matoya's spell.

* TotallyRadical: Usually avoided, as the game uses modern slang, and properly, at that. The salesman, Mick, however, is [[StillTheEighties still stuck in the 80's]] when he first appears.

** Furthermore, the manual [[spoiler:even points out all of Neku's partners, making Neku's shocking expression after finding out he has to play through another game less surprising.]]
*** [[spoiler:AndAnotherThing. It even goes so far as to tell the order in which you get Shiki, Joshua, and Beat.]]

* ChainedHeat

* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that Reaper with the black hoodie who gave you instructions for Tin Pin Slammer? [[spoiler: That's [[CreatorCameo Shinji Hashimoto]], the Wizard of Slam and your final opponent in the Another Day chapter.]]

* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Neku's [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome final fusion attack]].

* CurseCutShort: (Neku, thinking) "Maybe if just for one minute you could stop your bi--" Subverted in that Beat calls plenty of things "bitch"es later in the game.

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Neku [[spoiler:force-chokes Shiki]] using Telekinesis early on, but you cannot invoke this power in battle later, even against Reapers.

* TheDragon: Konishi, and depending on how you slice it, [[spoiler:Neku]].

* DualBoss: Since bosses are generally the only monster you ever don't have to fight two of (sometimes, you have to fight two of them as well), you get thrown by the Grindcore Minks and Kariya and Yashiro. Especially the Minks, as you are fighting four at once. ''They have combo moves, too.''. [[spoiler:Mr. Hanekoma's Noise form also qualifies, since you fight a different boss on each screen]]

* EasilyForgiven: Subverted to a degree. [[spoiler:Neku's ending monologue is addressed to Joshua, accusing him of not understanding how painful those three weeks were for him emotionally, forcing him to trust people through life-or-death situations, and how he basically used him. However, Neku still trusts him and considers him a friend, but he can't forgive him for all that he's done.]]

* FunWithAcronyms: One of Minamimoto's things is to say "SOHCAHTOA" ([[GeniusBonus a mnemonic for basic trigonometric functions]]) [[VoiceGrunting out loud]] while reciting in the text some contrived statement that fits the acronym. This is also a subversion of LostInTranslation and AWorldwidePunomenon, in which Minamimoto makes a pun on "Sou ka~?" or "Is that so~?"

Now part of the [[KudzuPlot already confusing enough]] KingdomHearts universe with the upcoming KingdomHearts3D. This should be interesting.

* ThirtyGambitPileup: The plot is the result of more than one mastermind squaring off against each other. The post-game OneHundredPercentCompletion quests exist just to reveal what the hell is going on.
** Example XG: [[spoiler:the O-pins.]]

See also ''{{Sh15uya}}'' and ''{{Gantz}}'', which have similar premises. For a game similar in setting theme rather than story matter, see ''{{Jet Set Radio}}''. DevilSurvivor also has a protagonist wearing headphones and stuck in Shibuya for a week.

See also ''{{Sh15uya}}'' and ''{{Gantz}}'', which have similar premises. For a game similar in setting theme rather than story matter, see ''{{Jet Set Radio}}''.

--->[[spoiler: Panthera Cantus: '''''"Enjoy the MOMEEEEEEENT!!!"''''']]

* and yet, there is not a SINGLE example of fanart for any compinsashion of this or any other Fetish Fueling Fashion fusions.

* WidgetSeries: This game is so overpoweringly japanese it's unlikely any other game will ever surpass it in raw Nippon goodness. Simply playing it will [[{{AnimeHair}} make your hair spiky.]]

* WidgetSeries: This game is so extremely japanese it's unlikely any other game will ever surpass it in sheer rising sun rating.

Word of a possible sequel has surfaced -- in the September 2010 issue of ''NintendoPower'', there was an interview with Nomura (the game designer), who stated, [[http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/08/nomura-open-to-developing-the-world-ends-with-you-sequel/ "I definitely want to make a sequel. I’m very busy working on other titles right now, but when the time is right, I would love to make another installment of The World Ends with You.”]] If nothing else, Neku and the Reapers' Game will make an appearance in ''KingdomHearts3D'''s Traverse Town world, [[http://gematsu.com/2011/09/nomura-hints-at-the-world-ends-with-you-sequel and now Nomura has teased that this could be taken as a hint of something to come...]]