You play as fifteen year old Neku Sakuraba, an antisocial purple-clad boy who wakes up in an alternate version of Shibuya called the Underground. Although these factors make the game grounded and relatable, it is underscored by the theme of the struggle for personal connection. It is based on a real place- Shibuya, a district in Tokyo, Japan-and the game’s soundtrack features Japanese hip-hop, rock, and electronica (rather than sweeping orchestral scores that I’d been used to in other JRPGs). When I first played the mobile port of the 2007 video game The World Ends With You, its setting was immediately striking for a few reasons.
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