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Topic	Just finished Stein's Gate tonight. That was fucking amazing. spoilers
woodman 07/30/18 12:03:00 AM #1:	It took everything I love about Time Travel and everything I love about Visual Novels and combined them almost perfectly. Fucking Chapter 6 stomped on my heart and it just got worse from there. The first false ending (Mayuri, no perfect flags oops) absolutely destroyed me (I'm even tearing up a bit thinking about it), and the short, fake character endings were all individually satisfying. I ended up having to spend 3 hours trying to troubleshoot why Kurisu was being a bitch and not sending me a true ending flag email, but that kind of worked to the game's favor when I finally reached the fake credits for the true ending. I was confused and frustrated, thinking that the game bugged out again, and fucking bam the phone call hit me exactly as hard as it was supposed to. The epitome of "earn your happy ending", because god dammit Okarin deserved it after everything he'd been through. There were a couple things that bothered me though. One, when Moeka sent her D-mail about the IBN 5100 and the changes happened and nobody remembered her anymore, in a few hours game-time the lab mems knew who she was again. Unless I'm misremembering, that's really the only instance I can think of where something was left unexplained or was overlooked. Two, at one point Mayuri asks what a hadron is and Daru, IIRC, replies that it's a fundamental particle, when in fact a hadron is specifically the general name for composite quark particles (eg, protons, which the LHC collides and have three quarks or mesons, which have two), so he, in a way, had the definition backwards. I expected more from a true otaku that fetishizes the LHC like him. I really liked the touches early on where the writers would intentionally set up foreshadowing flags. The game was meta, but not in an overdone and cloying way. Those subtle little touches like Okarin saying he wished to spare Mayuri from being Steins Gate's plaything in the prologue, or Kurisu being aware of @channel/anime tropes but still being a textbook tsundere (complete with "it's not like I like you ~baka!~ outbursts) help tie in with the theme of Okarin being an observer disconnected from causality and their worlds in an interesting way. But yeah, overall one of my favorite VNs of all time, bar none. I'll get around to playing 0 here soon probably. --- NFUN nice <cite>woodman posted [p:905945021] in Just finis... [t:76853887]...</cite> <quote>It took everything I love about Time Travel and everything I love about Visual Novels and combined them almost perfectly. Fucking Chapter 6 stomped on my heart and it just got worse from there. The first false ending (Mayuri, no perfect flags oops) absolutely destroyed me (I'm even tearing up a bit thinking about it), and the short, fake character endings were all individually satisfying. I ended up having to spend 3 hours trying to troubleshoot why Kurisu was being a bitch and not sending me a true ending flag email, but that kind of worked to the game's favor when I finally reached the fake credits for the true ending. I was confused and frustrated, thinking that the game bugged out again, and fucking bam the phone call hit me exactly as hard as it was supposed to. The epitome of "earn your happy ending", because god dammit Okarin deserved it after everything he'd been through. There were a couple things that bothered me though. One, when Moeka sent her D-mail about the IBN 5100 and the changes happened and nobody remembered her anymore, in a few hours game-time the lab mems knew who she was again. Unless I'm misremembering, that's really the only instance I can think of where something was left unexplained or was overlooked. Two, at one point Mayuri asks what a hadron is and Daru, IIRC, replies that it's a fundamental particle, when in fact a hadron is specifically the general name for composite quark particles (eg, protons, which the LHC collides and have three quarks or mesons, which have two), so he, in a way, had the definition backwards. I expected more from a true otaku that fetishizes the LHC like him. I really liked the touches early on where the writers would intentionally set up foreshadowing flags. The game was meta, but not in an overdone and cloying way. Those subtle little touches like Okarin saying he wished to spare Mayuri from being Steins Gate's plaything in the prologue, or Kurisu being aware of @channel/anime tropes but still being a textbook tsundere (complete with "it's not like I like you ~baka!~ outbursts) help tie in with the theme of Okarin being an observer disconnected from causality and their worlds in an interesting way. But yeah, overall one of my favorite VNs of all time, bar none. I'll get around to playing 0 here soon probably. --- NFUN nice</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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