Beginner's Guide: Tips and Tricks for Getting Started

This is a guide to getting started in NEO: The World Ends with You (NEO TWEWY). This guide will cover tips on starting the game, such as how to find Noise, how to use the Thoughts menu, how to increase drop rate, and more!

Tips and Tricks for Starting Out in NEO: TWEWY

How to Save Your Progress

NEO: The World Ends with You has an autosave function that automatically saves your progress when you reach certain checkpoints in the game. You may also manually save to up to 9 save files by opening the Save menu through - (Switch) or Options (PS4).

How to Save

Fast Forward Through Dialogue Using A

Dialogue Control Options
Function	Switch	PS4
Skip Dialogue
Dialogue Auto-Play
Chat Log

NEO: The World Ends with You has a lot of lengthy cut scenes for dialogue between characters. You can skip through bits of dialogue between the characters by repeatedly pressing A (Switch) or Circle (PS4). This is handy if you can read the speech bubbles faster than how the characters speak. You don't need to worry about missing important information either, as you can review the Chat Log anytime afterward.

Access Mental Notes to View Current Objective

As you progress through NEO: The World Ends with You, you will take on missions and even side quests. In order to not lose track of your current mission or progress, use Mental Notes to see what your current objective is and, sometimes, get even clues on how to clear the objective.

In order to check your Mental Notes, access the Main Menu with X (Switch) or Triangle (PS4), then go to the Thoughts tab. There, you should see the overall objective (in yellow font color), and a breakdown of the tasks to do.

Scan Your Surroundings

Scan in order to see the enemies known as Noise in any area. Scan with R (Switch) or R1 (PS4) to see Noise symbols floating around the area. Interact them to initiate combat.

Scanning also allows you to listen on some people's thoughts by pressing A (Switch) or Circle (PS4) when near them.

Scan Functions and How to Use

Change Pin to Change Psych Abilities

Collecting Pins allows you to unlock different Psychs. Changing the equipped Pin of a character changes their Psych, which changes their ability during combat. A character can only have 1 Pin/Psych equipped to them at any time.

How to Change Pins

To change equipped Pins, open the Main Menu with X (Switch) or Triangle (PS4), then go to the Pins tab. Here,y ou'll see the characters on your team and their currently equipped Pins. Select a character in order to swap their Pin with any of your currently unequipped Pins.

Hovering over a Pin also shows you its corresponding Psych/combat abilities and stats.

Tips and Tricks for Obtaining Pins

Increase Difficulty to Obtain Rare Pins

Dialogue Control Options (while exploring)
Function	Switch	PS4
Difficulty Menu

Some pins are only obtainable at higher difficulties. To obtain these rare pins, access the Difficulty menu through + (Switch) or the Touchpad (PS4) and increase your game difficulty.

How to Change Difficulty

Lower Team Level to Increase Drop Rate

Pin drop rate varies betweeen enemy and level. In order to increase the drop rate of pins, lower the level of your team before fighting Noise. Decreasing a level reduces team HP by 30 but increases the Pin drop rate multiplier by 1.

How to Increase Pin Drop Rate

Fighting Chain Battles

Chain Battles occur when you attract multiple Noise to you at once while Scanning. The chain battles increase the multiplier of Pin drop rate, but since the battles are consecutive, they don't allow your team time to recover in between rounds.

Chain Battles Guide

Noise Spawn in Every Area

The enemies known as Noise spawn in every area each time you enter it, so you can farm EXP and Pin Points by clearing an area and repeatedly revisiting it. To check if an area has Noise, use the Scan function to reveal the Noise symbols in the area and as red dots on your minimap.

How to Reach the Max Level

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Tips and Tricks
Game Mechanics
How To Save	How to Change Difficulty
Controls and Best Settings	How to Unlock Ultimate Difficulty
How to Use Scan Function	Social Network Guide
Replaying with Rindo	How to Fix Mixed-up Memories
How to Sprint and Move Faster	All Warp Point Locations
Final Time Attack Guide (Time Trial)
Best Items and Tier Lists
Best Pins to Use	Best Threads for Each Character
Tips and Tricks
100 Percent Guide	How to Earn Scramble Slam Points Fast
All Quiz Answers	List of All Pin Mutations
How to Get Black Cat Ensemble	All Pin Ensembles
List of Uber Pins	How to Get All Graffiti
Pin Affinity Guide	Food Shop Guide
Should You Evolve Pins?	What to Do with Excess Pins?
How to Change Character	--
Combat and Noise Guides
Combat Tips and Techniques	List of Pig Noise
How to Get a Higher Battle Rank	All Dive Locations
Rhyme Dive Guide	How to Perform Killer Remixes
How to Build Up Groove	Chain Battles Guide
How to Reboot Single Use Pins	How to Run Away
Best Pin Combinations	--
Farming Guides
How to Farm EXP	How to Farm Money
How to Farm Friendship Points	How to Increase VIP Level Quickly
How to Farm Pin Points	How to Increase Pin Drop Rates
How to Raise STYLE Quickly	Best Food to Raise Each Stat

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