Riona (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-10-18 07:15 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2012-10-18 07:15 pm
Entry tags:
He Who Stays And Fights Away Lives Today Another Fight.
I finished The World Ends With You yesterday evening and haven't stopped thinking about it since. Such a good cast! Such a good everything!
It absolutely breaks my heart that Beat's entry fee was Rhyme's love for him. MOST THINGS ABOUT BEAT AND RHYME BREAK MY HEART.
I still can't get over how Beat and Rhyme entered the Game. A car came hurtling towards Rhyme, and Beat jumped in front of her, trying to save her - but they both died, because you can't just stop a car like that. It's so awful.
After our rocky start, Joshua ended up quite possibly being my favourite character. I love that I started out thinking he was just a bastard, and then I concluded that he was a bastard with a softer side, and then I realised that in fact he was a bastard with an even more bastardy side. JOSHUA.
The 'see you there?' at the ending did strange things to my heart. Neku still sort of considers Joshua a friend, even after everything Joshua put him through.
I'll talk more about the 'Another Day' bonus chapter at the end of this entry, but whilst I'm under a cut for spoilers: in the 'Another Day' chapter, Joshua (much to Neku's confusion) makes cryptic excuses for the developers not creating real-Shiki portraits ('We all perceive the world around us differently, filtered through the lens of our desired reality. So if you're wondering why a certain young lady still looks like somebody else... it's because you refuse to perceive her as she really is. The only thing stopping you from seeing what she really looks like... is you. So you see, it's your fault. When you're drowning in a sea of work with not enough time, why pour your soul into assets that get used all of... what, once? Really. Have some compassion. Ta-ta').
He also seems to personally know Shinji Hashimoto, the producer of The World Ends With You, who makes an appearance at the end of 'Another Day'.
Was Joshua involved in the development of the very videogame that created him? This is going to make my head hurt.
Very soon after completing the game, I watched all the cutscenes from Traverse Town in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance; I doubt I'll ever be able to play Dream Drop Distance, because I have no 3DS and no intention of acquiring one, but the Traverse Town storyline features The World Ends With You characters and I couldn't miss it. I was disconcerted by how adorable I found Kingdom Hearts Joshua. Fairly certain that's not supposed to happen.
And then I played the bonus 'Another Day' non-canonical chapter, which is just unashamed crackfic. I love this game. It also contains the following rather delightful exchange, if you head to the Shibuya River. (Note: at this point in the story, the characters have been assigned colour-based code-names. Neku is 'Blue' (or 'Black 'n' Blue'); Joshua is 'Pink'. In Joshua's own words, 'I should be Pink, because Pink is love, and a humanitarian like me loves people.')
Shiki: Sorry, but I'll pass. These boots were so not made for sewer-walking.
Beat: Yeah, this ain't my style either, yo.
Neku: I guess that's understandable. All right, I'll go check it out.
Joshua: Whoa there, Black 'n' Blue. I'm going with.
Neku: You? You seem like the last person who'd want to go in there.
Joshua: I could never live with myself if I let you go alone. Let's spend some quality time.
Shiki: Whoa-ho-ho!
Beat: You guys are... Like, you ain't...
Shiki: Blue and Pink!? Sure, they go... but I didn't know they went LIKE THAT!
Neku: Now look what you've done!
Joshua: Hee hee... Shut up and walk, dear.
Shiki: ...I'm going, too. If something happens, I want to see... I mean stop it.
I was also quite amused by what happens the first time you talk to Joshua in 'Another Day' (which in the 'Another Day'-verse is the first time Neku and Joshua meet). Neku approaches him to challenge him to a game of Tin-Pin Slammer:
Neku: Hey, wanna play me in—
Joshua: Say, did you know? We all perceive the world around us differently, filtered through the lens of our desired reality.
Neku: Huh!? (Is this kid high?)
Oh, Joshua. Joshua.
It absolutely breaks my heart that Beat's entry fee was Rhyme's love for him. MOST THINGS ABOUT BEAT AND RHYME BREAK MY HEART.
I still can't get over how Beat and Rhyme entered the Game. A car came hurtling towards Rhyme, and Beat jumped in front of her, trying to save her - but they both died, because you can't just stop a car like that. It's so awful.
After our rocky start, Joshua ended up quite possibly being my favourite character. I love that I started out thinking he was just a bastard, and then I concluded that he was a bastard with a softer side, and then I realised that in fact he was a bastard with an even more bastardy side. JOSHUA.
The 'see you there?' at the ending did strange things to my heart. Neku still sort of considers Joshua a friend, even after everything Joshua put him through.
I'll talk more about the 'Another Day' bonus chapter at the end of this entry, but whilst I'm under a cut for spoilers: in the 'Another Day' chapter, Joshua (much to Neku's confusion) makes cryptic excuses for the developers not creating real-Shiki portraits ('We all perceive the world around us differently, filtered through the lens of our desired reality. So if you're wondering why a certain young lady still looks like somebody else... it's because you refuse to perceive her as she really is. The only thing stopping you from seeing what she really looks like... is you. So you see, it's your fault. When you're drowning in a sea of work with not enough time, why pour your soul into assets that get used all of... what, once? Really. Have some compassion. Ta-ta').
He also seems to personally know Shinji Hashimoto, the producer of The World Ends With You, who makes an appearance at the end of 'Another Day'.
Was Joshua involved in the development of the very videogame that created him? This is going to make my head hurt.
Very soon after completing the game, I watched all the cutscenes from Traverse Town in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance; I doubt I'll ever be able to play Dream Drop Distance, because I have no 3DS and no intention of acquiring one, but the Traverse Town storyline features The World Ends With You characters and I couldn't miss it. I was disconcerted by how adorable I found Kingdom Hearts Joshua. Fairly certain that's not supposed to happen.
And then I played the bonus 'Another Day' non-canonical chapter, which is just unashamed crackfic. I love this game. It also contains the following rather delightful exchange, if you head to the Shibuya River. (Note: at this point in the story, the characters have been assigned colour-based code-names. Neku is 'Blue' (or 'Black 'n' Blue'); Joshua is 'Pink'. In Joshua's own words, 'I should be Pink, because Pink is love, and a humanitarian like me loves people.')
Shiki: Sorry, but I'll pass. These boots were so not made for sewer-walking.
Beat: Yeah, this ain't my style either, yo.
Neku: I guess that's understandable. All right, I'll go check it out.
Joshua: Whoa there, Black 'n' Blue. I'm going with.
Neku: You? You seem like the last person who'd want to go in there.
Joshua: I could never live with myself if I let you go alone. Let's spend some quality time.
Shiki: Whoa-ho-ho!
Beat: You guys are... Like, you ain't...
Shiki: Blue and Pink!? Sure, they go... but I didn't know they went LIKE THAT!
Neku: Now look what you've done!
Joshua: Hee hee... Shut up and walk, dear.
Shiki: ...I'm going, too. If something happens, I want to see... I mean stop it.
I was also quite amused by what happens the first time you talk to Joshua in 'Another Day' (which in the 'Another Day'-verse is the first time Neku and Joshua meet). Neku approaches him to challenge him to a game of Tin-Pin Slammer:
Neku: Hey, wanna play me in—
Joshua: Say, did you know? We all perceive the world around us differently, filtered through the lens of our desired reality.
Neku: Huh!? (Is this kid high?)
Oh, Joshua. Joshua.
no subject
TWEWY sounds like I would find it even more irritating :)
Still, new Layton in 2 weeks!!!
no subject
no subject
And then I shall be looking for the fic.