#a peachy twewy replay

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😳 to right ✅ the countless wrongs ❌ of our day 📆 we shine this light 💡of true redemption 😫 that this place 🏙 may become as paradise ☀️🌈🌸 what a wonderful world 😊✨🌏 such would be 👀…

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the thing that’s so good about the ending of twewy is just like. there’s that duality between neku hating joshua for what he put him through vs loving him for everything he did for him.

that duality between ‘you murdered me in cold blood and the reapers game was a three week traumatic nightmare of fighting for my life every day in literal hell’ and ‘it was because of this experience that i met people who became my friends and they taught this cold and broken heart how to love again and see the beauty in life.’

it’s the ‘do the ends justify the means’ thing. it’s the ‘can you ever consider pain a good thing, even if it makes you stronger’ thing. it’s the ‘if you had the ability to turn back time and undo that pain you suffered, to un-traumatize yourself, even though you learned so much from the experience, would you’ thing.

and the game leaves the question open ended. because you can’t turn back time and undo everything whether you want to or not. this is your life now, for better or for worse. it’s up to you how to feel about it. and they handle that nuance so well.

neku acknowledges how much he really has grown as a person. and how glad he is that he met everyone and expanded his world. he cares about the others. he even cares about joshua, despite everything. it’s what the game’s narrative has been pushing along. so we should be happy, right? it’s all cool for neku now, isn’t it? but then he also acknowledges how difficult those three weeks were for him, and how badly he’s been hurt by everything that joshua is responsible for. he didn’t deserve any of it.

certain wounds won’t heal. joshua was wrong for having done what he did, regardless of what good things later came out of it. it can’t be justified. and yet we can still celebrate and enjoy those good things and live beautifully in the present moment. neku himself says it well. ‘i can’t forgive you, but i trust you.’

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forgot one of my favorite things about twewy: how the reapers start out as seemingly such an intimidating and menacing force of evil (i mean, with a name like that? ooooh scary), but over the course of the three weeks, they just gradually start getting weirder and more pathetic until you realize the bulk of them are literally just exhausted minimum wage employees with their own lives who are slacking off at their jobs as much as possible

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oh yeah this is just an appreciation post for the people of shibuya who seem to be somewhat aware of the ug. they have that ‘sixth sense,’ as they call it in neo. i think it’s a really neat part of the lore

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‘but neku, i thought you couldn’t afford to lose…

give up on yourself, and you give up on the world.’

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twewy screenshot dump part 3 except it’s just beat being my favorite character

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this honestly might be the second funniest thing in twewy. this dude literally created a dark magic summoning sigil thing so that he could be reborn with deity-like powers after intentionally blowing himself up. i think he might actually biologically classify as a humanoid noise after doing so. this dude seemed unstoppable. like a minor god of his own making. and here he is, crushed to death underneath a car and a vending machine.

honestly looking at the picture it doesn’t even look like it hit him. and plus, if he had really been erased, his body would’ve faded away. you don’t just have dead bodies lying around in the ug. and we know he returns in the sequel. if it weren’t for what we see in ‘a new day’ (aka coco resummoning him out of another sigil) i’d dare to say he never died here at all. but hey, maybe he wasn’t truly dead here, but just injured. and his soul must have stayed collected somewhere in order for coco to revive him anyway. idk

‘blah blah blah but what’s the first funniest thing?’ well dear friend,

you loot his body.

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no context twewy screenshot dump part 2

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one of my favorite bits of subtle foreshadowing in twewy is actually when beat introduces himself and rhyme. he says

‘the name’s beat. and this is my…

my partner, rhyme.’

split up into two speech bubbles like that. when first playing i thought it was kinda weird that he hesitated at first before saying ‘partner’. in hindsight, it’s because he was about to say ‘sister’ instead!

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honestly i think one underrated thing that really hits hard about twewy is the way that the cutscenes don’t have music. a lot of games will have quiet/nondistracting music on loop during gameplay and then bust out the dramatic tracks during cutscenes. or maybe they always have strong and powerful music playing to fit the various emotions.

twewy though? on the title screen, in the map overworld, in gameplay, in the menu, in shops, during general dialogue… there’s always music playing. and it’s chaotic and loud and weird music too. it’s a noisy, chaotic game.

except in those few rare animated cutscenes. some of which even have full voice acting, unlike regular dialogue scenes. and when the music drops out and it suddenly goes silent, it is a STARK transition. you immediately notice it and go 👁👄👁 because now it’s getting dramatic. and in those scenes that have voice acting, that’s the only thing you hear, and your brain focuses in on it and it hits so hard. ough

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twewy a subversion of the jrpg ‘kill god’ trope-

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just posting more of best boy

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idk guys what do you think 🤔

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KIDS THAT STARE AT CRYING PEOPLE

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i love this scene so much

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‘here you stand on the final stage— and still you don’t know who’s playing what!’

literally one of my FAVORITE cool villain lines EVER like you’re supposed to be ready to fight the final boss but you don’t even know who it is yet. you’ve come so far and yet really actually have no idea what you’re doing or what any of this means. you’re in the dark, BIG time.

and even better! this fits with the musical theme of this story. imagine the ‘stage’ as the setting of an orchestra concert. everyone in this game has their own role to play. their own instrument, their own part. all led by the conductor, at the composer’s design. you still don’t even know which instrument you’re playing yet, huh? you don’t know what your role is in this game, or what anyone else’s is for that matter, do you, neku?