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The World Ends With You (Nintendo DS)

It's nice to see the publisher of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts – all multi-million selling megafranchises -- go the extra mile and release original games like The World Ends With You. The game is set in modern-day Tokyo: most specifically the shopping hub Shibuya, with several real-world landmarks being re-created within the game.

The game's protagonist is the angsty Neku Sakabara, who is forced to play The Reapers' Game, a dark competition in which the evil Reapers assign its players a task every day for seven days. (Fail to complete the task within the set time limit and the player is erased from existence.) And oddly enough, none of the other inhabitants of Shibuya can see Neku or the other players. It's all weird, heady science fiction, and the result is one of developer Square-Enix's finest moments.