With its demo releasing last week, the wait is almost over forNEO: The World Ends With You. After almost 14 years, the sequel to Square Enix’s beloved Nintendo DS RPG will finally release next month for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. As fans prepare forNEO: The World Ends With You’s release, Square Enix has revealed how long it will take to complete the long-awaited action RPG.

NEO: The World Ends With Youwas first announced in November 2020 after the announcement of an anime adaptation of the 2007 game. The game serves as both a prequel and a sequel to the original game and will transition the original dual-screen battle system into fully 3D action RPG gameplay. A sequel toThe World Ends With Youhad been highly requested from both fans of the game and its original development staff, withKingdom Heartscreator Tetsuya Nomurareturning as creative director and character designer for the follow-up.

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After such a long wait, fans will be relieved to hear thatNEO: The World Ends With Youwill be a substantially longer game than the original, with the series' director claiming it could take some players over 100 hours to beat the game. In an interview with 4Gamer (as translated by Nintendo Everything,)series director Tatsuya Kando and game director Hiroyuki Itorevealed thatNEO: The World Ends With Youwill take around 50 hours to fully complete. Kando later claimed that “If you’re the type of player to do everything a game has to offer, expect your hour count to reach the triple digits.”

For comparison’s sake, game length aggregator site HowLongToBeat claims that the original Nintendo DS version ofThe World Ends With Youtakes 25 hours to finish, with a further 10 hours added by playing the Switch version’s “A New Day” epilogue. Some characters fromA New Daywill return inNEO: The World Ends With You,which follows a new cast of characters as they fight their way through a new “Reaper’s Game” set, once again, on the streets of Shibuya.

The sequel will be accessible to newcomers and longtime fans of the series, asSquare Enix set out to tie up loose endsfrom the original game with theFinal Remixversion’s A New Day epilogue. The sequel will also mark the series' debut on PC and PlayStation 4.

A demo forNEO: The World Ends With Youis available now on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, and allows players to experience the first two hours of the game ahead of its launch on July 27th, 2021, the 14th anniversary of the original game’s first release in Japan. The game will also come to PC as an Epic Games Store exclusive later in summer.

NEO: The World Ends With Youwill release on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 27th, 2021. The game will release on PC later in summer 2021.

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