NEO: The World Ends With You

 PlayStation 4
User Score
8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 127 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 104 out of 127
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 127
  3. Negative: 16 out of 127
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  1. dharma
    May 11, 2022
    6
    NEO suffers a lot from being outside its 'original' design philosophy, which is a unique, touch screen interface based game. I remembered playing the original on the DS, its use of the stylus made the combat engaging. By simply relegating it to button presses, the game became incredibly monotonous. Kudos also replaying the same set of levels over and over again; it gets old quite fast.NEO suffers a lot from being outside its 'original' design philosophy, which is a unique, touch screen interface based game. I remembered playing the original on the DS, its use of the stylus made the combat engaging. By simply relegating it to button presses, the game became incredibly monotonous. Kudos also replaying the same set of levels over and over again; it gets old quite fast. No wonder sales for this sequel is under par.… Expand
  2. BeeSting1
    Apr 10, 2022
    7
    Good

    - combat is unique. Charging attacks and timing them one after the other to build up an ultimate move feels great. The variety of moves gives depth to the combat in general. - they brought back the custom level adjusting which gives players a lot of control over how hard they want their experience to be, which is great. - the story and characters were very well written. The    Good

    - combat is unique. Charging attacks and timing them one after the other to build up an ultimate move feels great. The variety of moves gives depth to the combat in general.

    - they brought back the custom level adjusting which gives players a lot of control over how hard they want their experience to be, which is great.

    - the story and characters were very well written. The dialogue was very hip, and full of present day online references. I also liked how the characters weren't afraid to throw some curse words around. It felt more organic especially for the more hot headed characters. This should be adapted in more games.

    - the music tracks were of course phenomenal as always, and played at the right time to inflict the most emotional impact.

    - I liked how they brought back the old characters slowly one by one, keeping me drawn in to want to know who will appear next.

    - voice acting was very well done.

    - i'm glad i can buy clothing even if my style isn't high enough, and still get the base stats.

    Bad

    - the last ultimate move the game gave me was a little bit too OP. It was super powerful and refilled my health every use.

    - the hub world got way to repetitive. As well as the progression outside of combat. Felt like I was just trying to get from point A to point B, wait for some dialogue, then repeat. I can only handle so much going back in time. Eating at restaurants was only able to give a tiny bit of variety when traversing the hub world.

    - there were points where I felt they dragged a story event on for too long.    … Expand
  3. Jollyraffy
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    I paused this game after reaching the 3rd day of the second week. I still do not know if I'll play it back again or leave it be, because it was getting sooo ripetitive. I LOVED Persona 5/5R and I for sure wouldn't recommend this game to people who liked them too, they are similar only in a few aspect but you won't find the dynamic scenarios and fights of Persona here (and many other thingsI paused this game after reaching the 3rd day of the second week. I still do not know if I'll play it back again or leave it be, because it was getting sooo ripetitive. I LOVED Persona 5/5R and I for sure wouldn't recommend this game to people who liked them too, they are similar only in a few aspect but you won't find the dynamic scenarios and fights of Persona here (and many other things of course, but it's the fight that I'm not enjoying at all in this game).
    Background musics are amazing, and I also enjoyed every part of the map which is, unfortunately, very small and that doesn't give you sense of progression during the story. This game has different good things for sure but they just don't work together for me, I'll try to give it a second chance in the future.    … Expand

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 57 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 57
  3. Negative: 0 out of 57
  1. CD-Action
    Oct 12, 2021
    65
    Tetsuya Nomura’s latest game resembles Persona to some degree, but offers real-time combat. Similarly to Kingdom Hearts, it goes for flashiness rather than a deep tactical system, but after you unlock enough psychic powers, the game becomes more varied. Overall, NEO is solid, but it needs quite a lot of time to gain momentum. [10/2021, p.64]
  2. Games.cz
    Oct 4, 2021
    80
    Neo: The World Ends with You is a traditionally non-traditional JRPG. At first glance, you could mistake it for a brainless button smasher but as you’ll soon find out, there’s a great deal of thinking to be done. A very strange game full of very strange charm.
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  3. Malditos Nerds
    Sep 16, 2021
    80
    Without being perfect, Neo The World Ends With You is a beautiful Action RPG, original, entertaining and with one of the best soundtracks I have heard in recent years.
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