When comparing Joe Dever's Lone Wolf vs The World Ends With You, the Slant community recommends The World Ends With You for most people. In the question“What are the best games with rich story for Android?” The World Ends With You is ranked 22nd while Joe Dever's Lone Wolf is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose The World Ends With You is:
There is a fair learning curve to the game that allows players to steadily learn while they progress.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Enveloping design thanks to the gorgeous art and slick animations
There are page turn animations as well as ink drawings that look as if they were just drawn. This lends itself well to the book like nature of the game, creating an experience much like reading a freshly hand created book.
Pro Fun classic RPG turn-based combat breaks up the story, keeping the game exciting as the story moves along
The combat in game is turn-based, mostly in the form of mini-games. These gameplay sections of the game are sprinkled about in order to break up the story and provide a good bit of interaction over the regular reading sections.
Pro Very rare type rpg that having a great graphic and the match between the music, condition, plus fashion, this game flow our fantasy just as it finest
Pro Steady progression
There is a fair learning curve to the game that allows players to steadily learn while they progress.
Pro Retooled gameplay to work on single screen
The original version of The World Ends With You was for the Nintendo DS, which utilized two screen s for the gameplay. With the Android and iOS port the gameplay has been retooled to work on a single screen.
Pro Deep gameplay
Unlike the majority of games on mobile The World Ends With You has great depth to the gameplay. The amount of options and length definitely shows that this game was developed for core gamers in mind.
Cons
Con Can't farm, so it's hard-core
Its story line doesn't let the player gain extra money or exp.
Con Difficult
The game is pretty difficult, so users may find themselves starting over quite often. This can set the player back or just aggravate them. More patient players should be pretty forgiving, but for the casual player not used to this type of game, it may be too much.
Con Not the most original story
The story feels a little to familiar and a little too contrived.
Con High price
Like all Square Enix games on Android, The World Ends With You asks a very high price for what is essentially an old game. Though it does seem like at least a little bit of work was put into this port as the graphics are redone in HD and gameplay has been adjusted for a single screen.
Con Contains in app purchases
Despite being a $17.99 upfront paid game there are also in app purchases that are $0.99 an item.