"You ran into a psycho hose beast."

The World Ends With You has a pin evolution system (pin=attack, basically) that requires one of three different kinds of power points -- battle (from battling), shutdown (from not playing the game -- really), and mingle (from communicating with other copies of the game or other actively broadcasting DS games). Of the three, the latter is naturally the biggest pain to accrue. (Sort of. If one has the time, inclination, and resources, one can set up a Wii and as many other DSes as they can get, then flip in and out of Mingle mode to rack up effectively unlimited points. But that's annoying.) Recognizing this, the programmers inserted random point gains called "aliens" for players who couldn't otherwise gain the points. Run into an alien, get points.

But all the aliens have cute names, like that lovin' feeling, bliss on a stick, yourself in 20 years (who doesn't complain about your lack of epics) and a bunch of other odd ones.

All of which culminated in me opening my DS to see the above message. Yeaaaaah.

As a side note, I'm replaying the chapters with the incredibly awesome character Sho Minamimoto. His role in the game is Game Master of the Reaper's Game, which means he's supposed to assign missions for the protagonist to complete, but after a couple of these he completely wanders off on his own agenda, showing up only occasionally to insult the main characters.

He is also pure awesome. I say this because he has the thematic defectiveness of a Batman villain -- and that theme is math. The man uses the word "factor" where other people would use a certain other word that begins with F -- within the first conversation he mocks the protagonists as "factoring hectopascals" and more generally as "yoctograms". Meanwhile, his vocal quirk is the use of "zetta" as an adjective -- "zetta" as in the SI prefix meaning 10 to the 21st power, not Crispin Freeman's greatest performance.

Admit it, you didn't even know "zetta" and "yocto" (10 to the negative 24) were SI units until you read this. That's how awesome Minamimoto is. ^.^ And then he makes a a SOHCAHTOA joke. Twice. With voice acting. When you fight him, his battle cries are just as ludicrous: "SINE!" "COSINE!" "TANGENT!" "Inverse matrix!" n factorial!"

His ultimate (cutscene) attack? It has an invocation. That invocation is the first 156 digits of pi. The invocation itself? Level i Flare. In the grand tradition of Level (x) (Attack) spells, Minaminoto's ultimate attack hits everything, including things that have purely imaginary levels.

At the end of the game you discover exactly who he was trying to use that attack on, and the logic behind this becomes even more brilliant.

Any tree can drop an apple. I'll drop the freaking moon.