Board 8 > handsomeboy2012 plays Steins;Gate (spoilers)

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This game has been recommended to me years ago when I was playing Ace Attorney, but gave it a pass because I liked VNs with a bit more gameplay. But it turns out the anime adaptions are very popular and got high scores, then it went on sale on Steam, and I heard the story is great, so there really is no excuse not to go ahead.

I'll write something about chapters 1 and 2 as I blew through them yesterday before I thought to make this topic. There's going to be reactions, predictions, opinions and maybe character rankings. This is also the first time I do a playthrough here so it's probably going to suck.

Oh and I use a spoiler free guide to get the endings because I'm lazy.

Can't wait to change this dumb username in 2 years

Some very brief thoughts before I get going later

Chapter 1
Right off the bat there is a mindfuck with Kurisu supposedly dying and people in the street disappearing... then everything goes back to normal. Rintaro's memories don't fit with the others, so did he somehow travel to an alternate universe where things happened slightly differently? This reminded me of the mind swap thing from Zero Escape. The time travel lecture just confused me but then they managed to create a time machine?. The game starts slow as I expected. Lots of unanswered questions though.

Chapter 2
I can't tell whether Rintaro is smart or dumb, or whether he means what he says. He keeps talking to himself, but is quite knowledgeable on a lot of scientific stuff, and then spouts a bunch of bullshit conspiracy theories that turns out to be somewhat true. It's also funny how he decides to hack into SERN without much reasoning only to find they really are up to something. I get the feeling that they are going to get caught sooner or later, and that's when things will start to pick up.