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Why I still haven't read Steins;Gate

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Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-19 06:09:20
December 19 2010 05:22 GMT
#1
Not that most of you care, or probably even know of Steins;Gate, but...

I'm not usually one to push stuff-I-want-to-read back, especially when it's as hyped and given positive feedback as Steins;Gate, and when it's a VN that even I was pleasantly surprised when I found out it was being ported to the PC and looked forward to the release date of.

But this is how my desktop looks:

[image loading]

On the left, Steins;Gate

On the right,

this ungodly garble of a "walkthrough" also known as what appears to be a freaking presentation-like flow chart of like a billion things holy crap.

Ecael:
and well, only like
two real flags to worry about
every other route is just one obvious choice
lol

Honey, that thing is still scary.

Edit:
'course booting up my save from four months ago gives me:

[image loading]

Something like "[her? I dunno context anymore lol] powers must be something like Shining Finger"

Sigh, maybe I should start over.

Edit2:
Kinda turning into a facepalm play-through journal, but that's okay.

He explains how to write his "name," Hououin Kyouma (his actual name is Okabe Rintarou...)
鳳凰院凶真
HouOuIn KyouMa
Houou = phoenix
In = institute
Kyou = evil
Ma = truth

フェニックスの鳳凰に、院、そして凶悪なる真実、だ
"The phoenix houou, followed by in, and then the evil truth."

Edit:
Might be a "you gotta hear it" thing but
+ Show Spoiler +
after the second banana they counter-clockwise microwaved vanished

[image loading]

Where did you go!? Babnaaaaaaaaana! Bannaaaaaaaaaaaanaaaaaaa!

<3 Japanese people putting a bizarre accent on english words they already suck at pronouncing.

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Misillusion
Profile Joined April 2010
46 Posts
December 19 2010 05:42 GMT
#2
I've been waiting for the sequel for a while now. Too bad it won't be translated to english for a while

I doubt too many people here can help with reading that forest of tree of routes there, as the second unofficial language isn't Japanese, but Korean.

I would assume there are multiple other translations online, waiting to be dug up though. Good luck with that.
Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
December 19 2010 05:43 GMT
#3
I'm Japanese, it's all good o/

I'm just

slightly intimidated

orz

Also I just ran into Feiris (however it's romanized). I feel like she's even more f-ed up than the main character, yeesh.
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Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8031 Posts
December 19 2010 05:45 GMT
#4
Quite honestly, I don't think that flowchart seems too bad. The person that made it just did a pretty bad job of organizing it, and as a result, there's lines crisscrossing all over the place.

And at least you can read it. D:
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Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
December 19 2010 05:47 GMT
#5
On December 19 2010 14:45 Spazer wrote:
Quite honestly, I don't think that flowchart seems too bad. The person that made it just did a pretty bad job of organizing it, and as a result, there's lines crisscrossing all over the place.

And at least you can read it. D:


Hahah, Ecael was like "there're only like five choices in the game"

then what the f is all that other stuf?

"oh, for the achievements"

WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT *headdesk*
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Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-19 05:58:19
December 19 2010 05:55 GMT
#6
Well and the other funny little tidbits from the mails, I think I actually went through most of them myself since I had a lot of rereading that I had to do from not using walkthrough earlier.

On December 19 2010 14:45 Spazer wrote:
Quite honestly, I don't think that flowchart seems too bad. The person that made it just did a pretty bad job of organizing it, and as a result, there's lines crisscrossing all over the place.

And at least you can read it. D:

It is decent, just a freaking ton of possible mail replies, Not many ways to make a picture be organized that much better.

and I think the 2 flags for true route are like 5parted and 7parted respectively, but individual routes is just a really obvious choice at end of chapter, so yeah. 12 choices at most?
Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-19 06:16:48
December 19 2010 06:15 GMT
#7
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The genius that put out a dissertation in "Science" (super esteemed research journal) at the tender age of 18... the super sadistic girl that picks on men in public settings... and alias, "The Zombie"...



I swear this MC might be more CNB than the MC from Chaos;Head but he sure cracks me up a lot more. And he's a lot more tolerable :|

Edit:
I won't forgive you, biiiiiiiiiiitch!

^-- in the Yagami Light voice.

Too funny.
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Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
December 19 2010 06:16 GMT
#8
Seriously how did you put this off for 4 months~
Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-19 06:20:27
December 19 2010 06:19 GMT
#9
BECAUSE OF THAT FLOWCHART

You know how much I hate reading more than the "main plotline" of any VN :/ Treat them like books and such.

I feel like a cornered mouse now. Nothing else to do. School over. No motivation to play LoL. No VNs because freaking Type-Moon turned into hermits. Too early for PSP X-Mas releases. Omnomnom.

Edit:
Jokes aside I've probably opened this game and the flowchart once a week for 4 months, and it just turns me off every single time. I think you can see the flowchart file on my desktop for the last 3-4 monthly desktop threads.
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Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
December 19 2010 06:23 GMT
#10
Yeah I did, and I am always wondering wtf you are doing with it, so silly~
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9563 Posts
December 19 2010 10:27 GMT
#11
Steins;Gate... ever since I heard you 2 (Southlight and Ecael) talk about it in the Anime thread, about how it's supposed to get an anime, I put it on my "to check" VN list. I think in complexity, it reminds me of Chaos;Head (the flowchart, length, etc.) which turned out to be a pleasant experience.

Anyway, good luck, lol o/. Looks like a bitch to play through ;D
For the curse of life is the curse of want. PC = https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/4JknvV
Blobskillz
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany548 Posts
December 20 2010 09:27 GMT
#12
such a shame that I am too lazy to learn the kanji, VNs should only be written in Hiragana
Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
December 20 2010 10:09 GMT
#13
Almost done with chapter 5, I think. Also I'm up at 5am and I have work. YES.

So far my thoughts are as follow:
Okabe Rintarou (main char) is awesome; he's clever, thinks incredibly fast, and is all over the spectrum when it comes to how he acts. Very big props to Miyano Mamoru (Yagami Light [Death Note], Kida Masaomi [DRRR], Setsuna [Gundam 00], Death the Kid [I forget], etc.) for being able to run the gamut in terms of voicing. I was never particularly impressed by his voice acting in anime, but he's blowing me away in S;G.

The story's quite nice, I never got into C;G (mainly because of the main char) but S;G really started pulling me in relatively quickly. It's fast-paced and starts turning into an absolute mind-melter, reminds me of stuff like Baldr Sky and Ever 17. One of those stories you'll probably end up going through a second time just to pick up on subtle hints you missed before. Not a lot of books make me do that. This is looking like one of them. Quite a feat given how notoriously bad I am at re-reading stuff (to the point where I despise VNs that make you do multiple playthroughs).
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Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
December 20 2010 21:37 GMT
#14
On December 20 2010 18:27 Blobskillz wrote:
such a shame that I am too lazy to learn the kanji, VNs should only be written in Hiragana

Play Pokemon. Learn Kanji. Then come back to pokemon. Kanji is the best thing that ever happened to Japanese.
Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11768 Posts
December 20 2010 21:41 GMT
#15
On December 21 2010 06:37 Ecael wrote:
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On December 20 2010 18:27 Blobskillz wrote:
such a shame that I am too lazy to learn the kanji, VNs should only be written in Hiragana

Play Pokemon. Learn Kanji. Then come back to pokemon. Kanji is the best thing that ever happened to Japanese.


きゅうしょにあたった!
こうがはばつぐんだ!
やせいのぴかちゅうがあらわれた!
いけ!10まんぼると!

/me kills himself
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