Gamasutra Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Of Square Enix's The World Ends With You

The latest issue of Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine includes a creator-written postmortem on the making of Square Enix and Jupiter's The World Ends With You, the unusual 2D Nintendo DS RPG set in modern-day Japan.

These extracts reveal how the two studios behind the project faced the obstacles of early, perhaps overambitious, design goals, but succeeded in creating a new intellectual property -- a fairly uncommon occurrence at Square Enix.

Artist Takeshi Arakawa, graphic designer Tomohiro Hasegawa, and animator Tatsuya Kando -- leads on the project -- crafted the postmortem, which was introduced in Game Developer as follows...