Caitlin Moore
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A few weeks ago, in anticipation of the anime coming out, I bought the Switch port of the game
The World Ends with You. I d been meaning to play it for a long time, and I figured if I spent about an hour a day on it, I d have the game finished before the adaptation premiered. Then, I played about an hour of it and got distracted by another game.
Oops.
And so, while I didn t approach this premiere totally blind, I didn t know a whole lot about how the story here was going to progress. To me, the premiere felt, well, a lot like a video game adaptation. It was easy to see the seams where fight scenes would have occurred within the game, but were skipped over because they didn t advance the plot. The tutorial, the character events, and the boss fights with increasingly-difficult monsters are all there, but there s some serious connective tissue missing. By the end of the episode, three full days have passed, and there s been very little character deve