History VideoGame / NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou

* LuckBasedMission: A bit more pronounced with pin drops than it was in the previous game. ''TWEWY'' had all boss enemies except for a [[FinalBoss specific]] [[SuperBoss two]] made into Blue Noise after beating the game, making the rest chainable even if they weren't otherwise; those two had all of their drops with at least a 1% drop chance, so you could always guarantee the drop from a given enemy if you were prepared. ''NEO'' doesn't do the same honor; in addition to the Plague Nemophilia under LastLousyPoint, Susukichi and Mr. Mew's second fights only appear in the post-game BossRush, while [[spoiler:Felidae Cantus and the Alpha versions of Grus Cantus, Iris Cantus, Cervus Cantus, and Shiba]] can't be chained at all; each of these enemies has at least one drop with less than 1% base chance.

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Day 5's target is a golden Pig Noise - a ''specific'' golden Pig Noise, with smaller, less valuable golden Pig Noise scattered throughout. [[spoiler:Halfway through the day, an imprinting mistake on the Wicked Twisters' part makes the needle-stack even bigger, with impostor Pig Noise absolutely flooding Shibuya, which makes finding even the less-valuable ones a trial.]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:All other player teams, who get erased at the end of each week,]] to highlight how dangerous the Reapers' Game is. [[spoiler:Kanon gets erased on Day 3 of Week 3, to instead show how dangerous the Plague Noise are.]]

** Near the end of the game, you can unlock a Social Network ability that shows the level at which pins with evolutions can evolve, and also which character needs to equip certain pins for them to mutate (as opposed to whether it can evolve just appearing as "???"). [[spoiler:This shows that some pins need to be equipped to Minamimoto to mutate, all of which can only be obtained well after he ''leaves'' the party, spoiling that he eventually comes back (in Another Day).]]

* SuperBoss: Another Day features [[spoiler:"Alpha" variants of the Shinjuku Reapers and a souped up version of Minamimoto's Leo Cantus called Felidae Cantus]].

* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:At the end of Week 3 Day 4, Neku returns from the inverted Shinjuku to [[BigDamnHeroes save the Wicked Twisters]] from Leo Cantus Armo. He then joins the party for the remaining three days.]]

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [[spoiler: When the Wicked Twisters actually managed to beat Tsugumi at the end of Week Two, putting them in first place and dethroning the Ruinbringers as the week's leaders due to the points earned from the act, Shiba turns up, reveals himself as the Ruinbringers' actual leader, and summons a horde of [[MadeOfAir Plague Noise]] to threaten Rindo and the others into conceding their 'loss' against Tsugumi and putting the Ruinbringers back in first place for the week, or he'll have them DevouredByTheHorde and take the points advantage that way. The Wicked Twisters reluctantly give in to his demands, facing the fact that [[FixingTheGame it's impossible to win the reaper's game fairly]] unless they get stronger than Shiba and the Ruinbringers by the end of the next week.]]

* BonusBoss:
** [[spoiler:You can fight "Alpha" variants of the Shinjuku reapers in Another Day.]]
** [[spoiler:Another Day also contains the true Bonus Boss, a souped up version of Minamimoto's Leo Cantus called Felidae Cantus.]]

* ComebackMechanic: Referred to InUniverse as the Upheaval Rule, which is applied to a number of missions and rewards the last place team with more points. Even with the bonus, it never seems to be enough to dethrone the Ruinbringers outside of Day 7, where the rule allows the team that defeats the Ruinbringers to take all of their points while hurling the Ruinbringers into last place.

* DegradedBoss: In an example of this happening between games, the Woolly AOR, a minor BonusBoss from the first game, returns as a GiantMook here.

** On Week 2, Day 5, [[spoiler: Beat]] has a conversation with [[spoiler: Kubo]], wherein the latter mentions how he 'isn't allowed to fight back' and confidently claims that if he could, none of them would last a second. When [[spoiler: Beat]] asks him if he's a Shinjuku Reaper, he flippantly responds "Maybe I am. What's it to ya?". [[spoiler: He's not actually a reaper. He's an Angel, a being of higher power than a Reaper by a grand order of magnitude, to the point that the prominent one featured in the last game was the BonusBoss and could utterly cream the player in combat even when holding back massively. If Kubo was actually allowed to ''act'' directly, rather than relying on Catspaws to avoid direct interference, he could likely wipe out every Player and Reaper in Shibuya by himself]].

** In Week 3, Day 6, Susukichi announces his plan to "flip the wicked twisters". [[spoiler:And this time by "flip" he doesn't mean defeat them. Just like in Othello, he means '''convert them to his side.''']]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Black Cat set have their attack tripled when all together, just like the Darklit Planet set from the previous game. Just like the Darklit Planet set however, it's very difficult to obtain, requiring some rare items, nearly a million Yen, and fighting a BonusBoss or two.

** Veterans of the first game know [[spoiler:a pin deck has 6 pins]]. So when looking around the menu and observing [[spoiler:there are 6 inputs for pins and how each party member can only equip one type with no overlap between them (at least without Social Network upgrades)]], it's not much of a logical leap to deduce [[spoiler:the Wicked Twisters will end up with 6 people ]].

* LegacyBossBattle: [[spoiler:[[MadMathematician Sho Minamimoto]] in his "Leo Cantus" form during Week 3 with all of the familiar BossBanter you'd expect from the Grim Heaper. He also appears as a BonusBoss in the form of Felidae Cantus, similar to Panthera Cantus from the first game.]]

* LuckBasedMission: A bit more pronounced with pin drops than it was in the previous game. ''TWEWY'' had all boss enemies except for a [[FinalBoss specific]] [[BonusBoss two]] made into Blue Noise after beating the game, making the rest chainable even if they weren't otherwise; those two had all of their drops with at least a 1% drop chance, so you could always guarantee the drop from a given enemy if you were prepared. ''NEO'' doesn't do the same honor; in addition to the Plague Nemopilia under LastLousyPoint, Susukichi and Mr. Mew's second fights only appear in the post-game BossRush, while [[spoiler:Felidae Cantus and the Alpha versions of Grus Cantus, Iris Cantus, Cervus Cantus, and Shiba]] can't be chained at all; each of these enemies has at least one drop with less than 1% base chance.

** [[spoiler:Kubo's "exorcism" [[UpToEleven removes him even more thoroughly than being erase]]. Even in the UG, people [[WistfulAmnesia only vaguely recall him]] when directly reminded, and Kubo is still physically gone when Rindo ''travels back in time'' to before it happened. However the consequences of his actions still remain and the heroes are left to deal with it.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Persona1'' starts with a group of friends from class [=2A=] making preparations for the school festival, and then going to the hospital to visit a friend of theirs. They make remarks like "I have to get off in time for my part-time job" and stuff. And then they reach the hospital and the apocalypse strikes.

** [[spoiler:Beat now doesn't wear a beanie and now wears a black hoodie and doesn't have as many chains to represent how he is OlderandWiser now, albeit not much smarter. He also has a hairstyle similar to Neku's to not only commemorate him but also to reflect this.]]

* AllOrNothing: In this iteration of the Reapers' Game, only the top-scoring team recieve any sort of reward at the end of the week. [[spoiler:It becomes doubly important during the final week as Rindo's last attempt to travel back in time means he will either save all his friends and Shibuya or lose everything.]]

** Shoka has a single earring in her Mr. Mew kigurumi. Which ear has it depends on the direction she's facing.

** [[spoiler:Hazuki showing up out of nowhere to anhiliate Kubo during the DarkestHour.]]

* BrokenPedestal: The lyrics of "bird in the hand" describe a woman who no longer wants anything to do with someone of whom she was formerly "[[ImYourBiggestFan your biggest fan]]". What, precisely, broke the pedestal is not specified, but given that she says "not every woman likes it rough", there are a few likely guesses.
* BrutalBonusLevel: In Another Day, [[spoiler:Rhyme can be found in Dogenzaka as a 10-chain Dive battle with a recommended level of 80 and a T-Rex Noise as the final fight]].

* CameBackWrong: As the first we're seeing of him since Coco re-murdered him in Final Remix, players may be as terrified as the characters are of of this new incarnation of Neku who has bleach blonde hair and a black mask covering most of his face. [[spoiler: Actually subverted, the masked man is Beat. Neku came back just fine, just a little late.]]

* DoubleUnlock: Social Network rewards. First you have to unlock the character's node itself by meeting said character. Then you have to activate it, which is done by doing their side-quest for RG NPCs, spending money for shopkeepers and automatically during story progression for important characters. Then you have to connect their nodes to Rindo through a chain of acquitances. And only then can you actually redeem the reward by spending Friendship Points, which are gained from completing the side-quests. Somewhat downplayed, because most nodes are unlocked more or less with the story progress with little to no input from player (and you'll check every shop and cafe anyway), and most of the nodes with really important skills are activated the same way, requiring from the player only to do some quests to get a few FP.

* LuckBasedMission: A bit more pronounced with pin drops than it was in the previous game. ''TWEWY'' had all boss enemies except for a [[FinalBoss specific]] [[BonusBoss two]] made into Blue Noise after beating the game, making the rest chainable even if they weren't otherwise; those two had all of their drops with at least a 1% drop chance, so you could always guarantee the drop from a given enemy if you were prepared. ''NEO'' doesn't do the same honor; in addition to the Plague Nemopilia under LastLousyPoint, Susukichi and Mr. Mew's second fights only appear in the post-game BossRush, while [[spoiler:Felidae Cantus and the Alpha versions of Grus Cantus, Iris Cantus, Cervus Cantus, and Shiba]] can't be chained at all; each of these enemies has at least one drop with less than 1% chance.

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:All other player teams, who get erased at the end of each week,]] to highlight how dangerous the Reapers' Game is.

** [[spoiler:Beat now doesn't wear a beanie and now wears a black hoodie and doesn't have as many chains to represent how he is OlderandWiser now but not much smarter. He also has a hairstyle similar to Neku's to not only commemorate him but also to reflect this.]]

* SpoilerCover: Shoka is clearly plot-relevant since she's with the main cast on the cover art (and the title screen) despite being a Reaper [[spoiler:which foretells her joining the Wicked Twisters]].

** At the end of Week 2 Day 6, Shoka mocks [[spoiler:Motoi]] for trusting Kubo with the same words he used to mock Rindo for trusting him, [[spoiler:"an absolute ''idiota''"]].

* NeverTrustATrailer: The final gameplay trailer shows the Wicked Twisters fighting a boss Noise. [[spoiler:Sho is in the party, even though in the game proper he's long since left the Wicked Twisters, and Beat would have been in his place]].

* {{Catchphrase}}: Rindo, Fret, and Nagi each have lines associated with their latent powers that they say each time it's used.
** "Here's an idea!" or "Time to change your mind!" for Imprint.
** "We'll change our fate!" or "We're going again!" for Rindo's Replay.
** "C'mon, think!" or "Try to remember!" for Fret's Remind.
** "Pardon the intrusion!" or "Onward I dive!" for Nagi's Dive.

-->'''Rindo:''' (Somehow, I feel like he'd get along great with Minamimoto.)\\

** Rindo met his friend Swallow through ''Fantasy GO'' (or ''[=FanGO=]'' for short), [[VideoGame/PokemonGO an ARG where you catch monsters on the streets of Shibuya.]]

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Anyone can wear any clothes in the game and nobody bats an eyelid; there isn't even a Bravery requirement for men to wear women's clothes as there was in the previous game.

-->'''Shoka''': ''(to Motoi)'' I know you're the one who's [[spoiler:been tattling on me to Ayano and Kubo]].

-->''"Allow me to re-introduce myself: I am [[spoiler:your illustrious Game Master]]... the Ruinbringers' leader... the one and only... [[spoiler:Shiba Miyakaze]]."''

-->'''Shoka''': And here I was... thinking we could finally play together in person.\\

-->'''[[spoiler:Shiba]]''': Allow me to re-introduce myself: I am [[spoiler:your illustrious Game Master]]... the Ruinbringers' leader... the one and only... [[spoiler:Shiba Miyakaze]].

** [[spoiler:At the end of Week 2, Shiba tells Rindo, "Well, we must declare a winner. And if you won't say it, then allow me: we win," after revealing himself as the leader of the Ruinbringers and forcing the Twisters into a tight spot. This gets sent right back at him at the end of the final day, where Rindo, after defeating Shiba, utters the exact same words. However, this gets [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig Zagged]] due to Rindo having to rewind time to before the fight even happens, thereby erasing the timeline when he gave the echo to Shiba.]]

** Neku is known as ''the'' legendary Player who saved Shibuya from destruction and everyone is on the lookout for him.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Rindo's second attempt at the final day ''does'' save Shibuya from destruction, [[EverybodysDeadDave but at the cost of the erasure of EVERY other member of the party.]] Rindo eventually decides that Shibuya is empty without his friends, and when given the chance by Hazuki, decides to rewind time one more time to try for an outcome where EverybodyLives, even though this risks them failing and dooming the city.]]

** Mind-reads in this game have attached Twitter-esque handles; one for a young rail enthusiast is [[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine @TaroTheTankEngine]]

->''[[SigningOffCatchphrase And with that, I bid you adieu]].''\\

* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:At the end of Week 3 Day 4,Neku returns from the inverted Shinjuku to [[BigDamnHeroes save the Wicked Twisters]] from Leo Cantus Armo. He then joins the party for the remaining three days.]]

** ''[=FanGO=]'', short for "[[Franchise/FinalFantasy Fantasy]] [[VideoGame/PokemonGO GO]]", features various monsters such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV nutkins]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII pupus]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Cactuars]]. Rindo also has [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII moogle]], cactuar and tonberry stickers in his chat app.

** ''[=FanGO=]'', short for "[[Franchise/FinalFantasy Fantasy]] [[VideoGame/PokemonGO GO]]", features various monsters such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV nutkins]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII pupus]], and [[VideoGame/Final FantasyVI Cactuars]]. Rindo also has [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII moogle]], cactuar and tonberry stickers in his chat app.

** ''[=FanGO=]'', short for "[[Franchise/FinalFantasy Fantasy]] [[VideoGame/PokemonGO GO]]", features various monsters such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV nutkins]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII pupus]], and [[VideoGame/Final Fantasy VI Cactuars]]. Rindo also has [[Franchise/FinalFantasy moogle, cactuar and tonberry]] stickers in his chat app.

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''NEO: The World Ends With You'' (Japanese: ''Shin Subarashiki Kono Sekai'', or ''New It's a Wonderful World'', the sequel to ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', is a UrbanFantasy ActionRPG developed and published by Creator/SquareEnix.

* PuppetFighter: Every playable character is assigned to a button depending on the pin they have equipped, allowing you to control up to [[spoiler:six]] characters at once.