This real life mental exhaustion, coupled with the mental exhaustion you feel as Okabe, will take its toll on you and makes for a really meta experience.
I played through the full story and got all the endings over a week and I was mentally exhausted when I was done. When the story finally goes into overdrive, it stops feeling like a game or visual novel and you start to feel Okabe’s pain.Įvery small thing done in the past effects the present, and the decisions you face in later chapters are super hard emotionally. You’ll need to be ready to set aside a good 40 to 50 hours if you want to experience everything Steins Gate has to offer though. It’s funny seeing brands everyone is familiar with like Dr Pepper or Starbucks and organisations like CERN purposely misspelled as Dr P or Starbecks. Luckily the game goes out of its way to highlight these key or new terms, with the in game information section giving you more detail. There are a lot of scientific terms used during the course of the story and references are made to pop culture phenomena both in the West and in Japan. As the story progresses, you, along with your partner in crime Itaru Hashida and “hostage” of a childhood friend, Mayuri, will befriend and come into contact with a variety of somewhat stereotypical characters.
Steins Gate is a story about time travel on the surface but it is actually about the ill effects of it the butterfly effect. You get to vicariously experience his life through friendship, emotion, mental trauma and other things. He is the first member of Future Gadget Laboratory which is a small two room flat in a rickety old building. This isn’t one that can send you to the past but one that lets you send emails to your past self thereby altering the future in some form. Rintarou Okabe, a college student and self proclaimed mad scientist, whose life you experience, accidentally invents a time machine.
Steins Gate is a near perfect experience that you owe to yourself to experience. The pure visual novel genre has only recently started seeing a steady flow of releases thanks to the likes of Sekai Project on Steam, and if you’ve ever looked for a list of visual novels to play Steins Gate and Clannad are usually at the top of the lists. Steins Gate is the first game since then to have had such an impact on me. Persona 4 Golden changed my life for the better and showed me what games were capable of, I can still remember the day I finished it and picture the credits rolling. Some games stick with you for a very long time.
Ever since I started reviewing games, I’ve been thankful for getting the opportunity to review new games in franchises I love and discovering some amazing gems.
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