This is a really good game that will take years to fully clear. This game practicly never runs out of things to do.

Gameplay 10/10
You go around Shibuya completing missons made by the reapers so you can advance to the next day without being erased. Your money, is called yen, you use that to buy clothes that give special abilities, and they dont change how your carecter looks. You can buy food, which ups your stats.

As neku, you attack with the stylus by preforming a stroke, dragging it on the screen, tapping, or holding it in one place for a while. your stylus movements depend on what pins your wearing. pins are what you use to attack on neku

You have a partner with you at almost all times. he/she helps you in battle. You attack using stylus movements, and for your partner, you atting using the d-pad, or the X, A, B, Y buttons.

here are the partners and there attacks.

Shiki Masaki, the 1st one fights by controlling a stuffed cat that she made. every time she lands a successful combo, she gets an esp card. if its the correct one, she gets one point that later on in the fight can be used to execute deadly finishers.

Yoshia Kiuru, usea a power in his phone to attack. if you get the correct number that its asking for when you finish a combo, you alos get points that can be used to execute deadly finishers.

Finaly, Bito (Beat)Daikensuko He attacks with a skateboard and gets a card whenever he finishes a combo, and if he gets 2 or more of the same suit, he gets points depending on how many times they touched. 1 time, 1 point. 2 times 2 points. 3 times, 4 points, and it doubles every time.

You can upgrade different tiers of finishers, once there all fully upgraded, its 1st finisher, 4 points, 2nd, 8. 3rd 16. and they show an animation for each of them.

Story 9/10
Your part of a game run by reapers to get a second chance at life. every week, theres a big guy that you have to kill. You play as one main, Neku Sakuraba, and you get 3 other partners each with there own abilities. The 3 are explained above.

Graphics 10/10
The graphics are very clear on whats going on when watching an animation. The enemies are very detailed for a DS game. and same with the 2 you control.

Camera 10/10
On the stylus screen, you look at it from above, and you move around also with the stylus looking for enemies, while your partner you look at it from the side. The camera can not be moved, but when you look at it, why would you want to anyway? the camera is perfect from what i can see.

Tin Pin Slammer 10/10
Your pins arent used just to attack. you can also use them to play this fun minigame called Tin Pin Slammer. What you do is put the stylus on the screen in the derection you want to go, you move it in the opisite direction, but accros the pin or accros the side to execute a spin, and relese. this will send your pin flying into your opponents pin. You have whammys that can be used to stun, or save yourself. The X button makes you go flying up, and back down. this is used for pins that are idling. the A button does a spike ball. this is defencive, and is used to stun a pin coming at you. Y does a hammer and is used to break the spike ball defence. B is used to knock your pin back on the feild.

Overall 10/10
This game can be challenging, but is still addicting. This is probobly the best DS game there is in the world.

I love this game. It will not be beaten easily. This is a must have on the DS. In my oppinon, this is the best game in the world, and always will be.