After hours of stylus scribbling, I can put The World Ends with You to rest. I stayed up fairly late (for me) finishing up the final day, which included a hundred boss fights, no save points, a lot of cussing, and a lot of "oh, so that's how you prevent that!" Of course, the game isn't over. I can go back and replay chapters, complete my Jiminy Journal, er, Phone Menu, and uncover behind the scenes stories to fill in some gaps. I do have plenty of questions about what happened, but I'll have to save the answers for another day. Too much else in my stack glaring at me right now.

I really didn't play this game to its fullest, and I regret that a little. My stats were awful (Noise fought, pin mastery, item acquisition) as I chose to blow through the game like I really could be erased if I didn't complete the mission in a real time hour. Obviously, since I did it, you can beat the game without obtaining everything (and no, I didn't play on Easy), but it still feels like I cheated the game since that isn't how I normally play anything. I blame the developers for making the story so interesting I had to find out what happens next over erasing all of the Noise and shopping.

I highly recommend this game to all DS owners. It is quite possibly one of the best games made for the DS, and it's unfortunate that it's also the best game hardly anyone played. I've heard that this may turn into a franchise despite the sales, and if so, I shall eagerly await it.