Money

From The World Ends With You

Money is a basic monetary unit between most video games. In The World Ends With You, the basic monetary unit is yen, ¥. The total amount of money for the partners is shared, and allows all players of the Game to buy items in shops.

The money is held in the wallet. Each wallet can only hold so much money, and in some cases that amount will be too low to buy certain items. This acts as a limitation on a Player's purchasing abilities. For example, certain items cost over 1 million ¥, and since the first wallet cannot carry that much, those items are unobtainable at that point in the game.

Obtaining money is relatively simple. Players must discard pins to make the money. Money pins, or "yen pins," are a group of pins used largely for this purpose. These pins have no use inside battle, and can be used for Tin Pin, shop quests, or Reaper wall requirements, but are mainly discarded for the amount of money denoted by their name. For example, a "10000 Yen" pin can be discarded to put 10000¥ into the wallet. Money pins can be evolved. Money pins gain PP the same way normal combat pins gain PP, and evolve in the same manner. The pins can evolve from either BPP, MPP, or SDPP. Each of these give the pin the potential to change and become a pin that is worth more. Some shop quests require specific money pins; certain items, Books, and Swag are only available in this manner.

There is another way to obtain money, but it is slightly more difficult to do thanks to the requirements, and more complicated. After receiving the phone menu's "Friends" and "Mingle" modes, players can set up their own "shop". This shop will show up under the friends list of any other player that they Mingle with. If a player buys something from another player's shop, then the next time that the two players Mingle, the friend who had their shop bought from will receive half the money spent by the other player.

For example, if Joe and Max both have the game, and Joe and Max Mingle, then their shops will be open to one another. If Joe buys something from Max's shop, the next time the two Mingle, Max will receive half the money Joe spent.

Also, Money in pin form can be used to buy certain items, such as Books, quest items and Swag.