618: The World Ends With You

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish, Kat Bailey, and Stuart Gipp put on their trendiest threads and rub Hachiko's nose for good luck as they work their way through the Shibuya-shaped maze that is Square Enix's iconoclastic DS classic The World Ends With You.

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0:00.0	This week in Retronauts is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-purpose DIY website platform for pros and beginners alike.
0:08.0	This weekend, retronauts. Take that, Hiroshi Yamuuchi. Hey. Hi everyone welcome to retronauts. If you'll think back a long time ago
0:39.5	more than 25 years ago you'll remember that time when Square Soft and Nintendo had a schism.
0:47.0	They didn't like each other for a while.
0:49.0	Square Soft started to hit it really big on PlayStation with some RPGs and people asked Nintendo's
0:54.9	president Hiroshi Yamuuchi about that and he said you know what we don't care
0:59.2	because people who enjoy RPGss are depressed losers who dye their hair brown and sit in their room by themselves playing video games alone.
1:08.8	And that's not our people.
1:10.0	Well, this week we're talking about the video game where Squaresoft said,
1:15.0	you know what, that is our people and we're going to make a game about them.
1:20.0	That game is the world ends with you, about a depressed loser who learns that actually you have to not be alone.
1:26.0	You have to work with other people and that the world is what you make it.
1:30.0	It is The World ends with you.
1:31.0	And I am Jeremy Parish.
1:32.7	The world does not end with me because I have my companions here
1:36.7	for this game.
1:37.6	Two of them.
1:38.3	It's breaking the rules.
1:39.4	What are the reapers gonna say?
1:40.5	I don't know.
1:42.2	But calling in from the West Coast of America we have
1:45.4	returning to the podcast for the first time in a while I think or maybe it's
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