Square Enix's newest RPG, titled The World Ends With You, will be hitting stores on April 22 ... and according to IGN, this could be the beginning of another blockbuster RPG franchise.

The World Ends With You is not your typical Square RPG, in fact, it's quite the departure. The game is set in modern day Tokyo, and features a deep storyline that relies heavily on character development.

It's not often that Square Enix comes out with some genuinely new IP. Which is hardly a criticism, since the vast majority of all those Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games and spin-offs are nothing short of utterly brilliant. It's just that, after playing The World Ends With You, you'll wish the company would do more of this sort of thing, because it's really, really good. And in many ways it's a bit of a departure for the company. Having built its reputation as one of the world's leading publishers by building exotic new worlds, this game sees Square Enix cement it by entering the real world: Tokyo's fashionable Shibuya district, to be precise.

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