World’s End Club

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World’s End Club: Among the most popular types of entertainment today, video games can be considered to possess the most genres and forms to satisfy all “customer” segments.

Many game types are like that, so when mass players start focusing on big games such as action, role-playing, strategy, many old game types used to be very popular, drifting into oblivion.

For example, there are “old” names in the adventure game village (Adventure) such as Syberia, Broken Sword, Monkey Island …

With gameplay mainly revolving around “pointing and clicking” and interrupted dialogues that link the plot, the adventure game seems to gradually become “boring” and “slow” for the modern gamer.

Coming from Too Kyo Games, the “father” of super visual novels (Visual Novels) like Zero Escape and Danganronpa, World’s End Club is inherently expected a lot because it promises to bring innovations. Especially when the game is made in adventure – a game genre that seems “lost.”

For some reason, Japanese game studios love to choose the topics “the world perishes” and “the arena of life and death” when making storytelling products.

World’s End Club is no exception when the context in the game takes place when Reycho and a group of classmates are having a picnic on a bus when suddenly a meteorite plunges straight down, “seeming” like breaking destroy the entire city surrounding areas.

The aftershocks of the explosion knock Reycho and his friends out – and when they wake up, they somehow find themselves in an abandoned amusement water park.

Not stopping there, a strange clown doll suddenly appeared, forcing them to participate in a game of death or death!

Specifically, each group member was given a watch that displayed “other people’s tasks.”

By reason and cooperation, each person can know and complete their task.

But this cruel game allows only one player to win – which means that in addition to finding a way to complete their tasks, everyone must also prevent others from completing them first.

From a group of friends that “seemed to be” close, Reycho’s internal group was immediately “divided” with many conflicting opinions, leading to quarrels and even “purging” of each other.

With each game screen only being “simulation” into a fixed 60-minute time frame, players must do everything as quickly and accurately as possible.

In essence, World’s End Club is practically an adventure game in which the player can interact with events, read each line carefully for clues, and experience the outcome of multiple choices.

However, to make the game more “dynamic,” Too Kyo Games has added many action-packed scenes – platformer-style dancing.

That makes players less “boring” at first when they have to click – read – click – read, but gradually it reveals, so it becomes more and more obvious the “contradictory” when trying to connect two opposite game types.

For example, the running and jumping system in World’s End Club is made quite awkward and uncomfortable. Jumping and clinging movements are completely unconvincing and create places of unnaturalness like zero gravity.

The fact that the storyline is interrupted when the character has to run and jump, then cut scenes, talk, brainstorm, and then run and jump again also contributes to the difficulty of players figuring out how to piece together the facts and make inferences take the next step.

Finally, because of “entrusting” almost entirely to the platformer array to “carry” the gameplay, World’s End Club’s supposedly attractive plot gradually became “weak” from the middle of the game onward. Of course, the extremely weak platformer implementation and the lack of tough puzzles have slowed the entire game’s value.

The theme in World’s End Club is not new, but it is used quite a lot through similar-themed products, such as Too Kyo Games’ Danganronpa itself, ATLUS’ Persona series, and the series horror game Doubt (rabbit and wolf).

Creating an iconic character (mascot), making the player focus on it, and freely “steering” the crazy plot around it – is a completely normal tactic.

However, the problem of World’s End Club is that it is not clear what restrictions the game has, but the game chooses to show it very “light,” leading to the situation that the plot and graphics seem incompatible with each other.

The graphics in World’s End Club are generally quite “sweet,” with the cast of characters drawn in favor of Europe and America instead of “anime.”

In addition to the main context of the group, which is a group of elementary and high school students, in real life, they belong to the age of “not enough to eat, not to worry.” Doing this makes the players feel imposing in having to kill each other with both tricks and actions, which is quite forced.

Next, the game mainly revolved around dialogues with keywords “high-lighted” for easy grasp and jumping and climbing phases of a horizontal screen – displaying the game with real 3D graphics. That is not necessary, especially when the characters in World’s End Club are inherently “distorted” to create a feeling of “cartoon” a bit too much.

After all, that’s the big problem in the character design.

With World’s End Club, from the main character Reycho to all the other members of the Go-Getters group, they all have very faint shapes and personalities, very “patterns,” but do not make any impression at all, something for players to remember.

In short, all the characters in World’s End Club create the impression that they are soulless puppets copied from the “stereotypes” that appear a lot in other popular culture products – not just created intentionally.

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