Rintaro is unbearable

[zhligw]

Is he supposed to be funny, or cute? "the mad scientist" "the orginisation" eveyone is after him.
Do I care at all bout someone like this? egotistic and delusional I got the point, I got it! but it is through out the whole story. He is ruining the story to the point I wish I could reach out and slap him. They belabored This fact for too long to the point were the writer has lost me.
Every story should have a good beginning and an even greater end. This does not in the case of the former.

I know what you'll say go further on in the story and I'll see why. But I wish they never even had this main character. He has already ruined the whole story to the point of I don't want to even load it. Oh, and the UI is the worst I've ever seen. Somebody made a mod? where? I don't see it in the workshop and why should they. The developers should have updated it.

Nothing is happening its all in this what if scifi fiction. If any of it is even remotely plausible.
The only thing I find somewhat interesting is the japanese culture information.

[zhligw]

And can't they show more pictures as the dialogue moves on. Art is kind of nice.

[Ellixer]

He is supposed to be funny/cute and most of us here find that to be the case. I personally find him to be one of the highlights of the game but I do get why many people find him unbearable. I can make any excuse in the world (the writing is very much self-aware of how much of a tit he is, he does go through some extreme low points later on that highlight how fragile his character is when push comes to shove, etc etc) but if you don't like his character that's the end of it and I'm afraid the rest of the story is likely to be a waste of your time. Yes the plot is excellent (it is slow but about halfway through it kicks into a sprint) but I personally feel that the character is the most important aspect of S;G and if you don't find the cast enjoyable then there's not a lot for you here.

Also can we get pass the plausibility of it all? Yeah it's ridiculous but it's time-travel with a bunch of university and highschool kids. The writer did tons of research into it and it shows but there's no getting around the fact that there are very little they can do to make time travel actually plausible.

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Another people losing patience I see. You know in a few time later you would have wished you hadn't said anything about "wish for Okabe to has never existed"., unless you're stubborn kind of people who hate to admit mistakes, like most people here who went slient the moment when they realized they were all just misjudging everything, and all they did was trying to praise the series as much as they could without admitting they were once bashing the same thing how bad it was, they felt guilty yet hate to drop a pride that once they were so proud of, judging this series with extreme bias. 100% of impatience people was like you atm, unless you're special kind of people who so stubborn to not acknowledge any masterpiece if there were single things you don't understand and feel so sure that don't ever bother to find out why.

Why don't you go read someone review? there was a girl who lost temper at this series ended up dropping it for 1-2 years, later to find out that she had missed a masterpiece of steins;gate, she felt so guilty that she wanted to write reviews wishing no more people would fall into same trap as her by writing her own personal experiences and admitted her stupidity, she was even more hardcore than you here.

Every story does not need to "appear" looking good at the beginnings, what's matter is what they give you in the end when they're all summing up. This series also has good reasonable beginning it's just you haven't reached anywhere near enough to come up with such common conclusions yet. 10 hours of playtime? It was like 2-5% completed story in my eyes.

I personally find him funny/cute. And he's main character with severe flaws that cause him to act childish, who later developed under extreme situations unlike other stereotypes games/animes main character. The story does explain everything when you go further and I'm sure, if you're not someone who judges somebody by a few flaw and few encounter, you would stop hating him and later feel sympathy, because it starts to get more dark later on, while everything you felt early start to make absolute sense. Everything you read were written as intended, you were expected to hate him first, you see? you're simply falling into writer's trap not because you're smart enough to figure how boring the plot is, let see you can escape like everyone else or fail and quit this game like few other.

Story still explained in the context in which Okabe has seen through his very eyes so everything will be explained by his opinions, he is the main aspect of series you have to see everything through Okabe's own eyes together to understand what is steins;gate want to present to you, so if you just hate him that much to the point you don't want to experience anymore of this masterpiece, uninstall it, Steins;Gate, series with the most realistic/inperfect main character is probably not for you. There are a lot main characters with little flaws out there with bunch of harem heroic and does a lot of hero deeds for you to admire out there with over exaggerated hyped beginnings and obvious great yet meh ending anyway.

I'm sorry to sound bluntly but it's no need to hold back against a blunt and bias criticism either. You will wish you had never made this topic. Eventhough you finally understand you have already lost all the first impression creating this topic, you will never have that chance to enjoy its series blindly again, and you will wish you hadn't lost that impression and wish you still had a chance to overcome challenges blind run in this story has given you.

[Karasu]

Warning: This is about the character and the review is based on the anime. I have not even started to play the game yet - since well, to be honest, I'm a bit afraid to do so.

Okay. Here's the thing.

My kid brother introduced me to the Steins;Gate anime. He *insisted* that I watch it. Quite frankly, that by itself already annoyed the heck outta me. At some point later on I eventually did, stubbornly taking my sweet time to choose *when* I would actually do it. Yes, I am that stubborn.

So I started to watch the anime. I felt the exact same way as you. I loathed Okabe. I did not find him funny, cute or "relatable" in any way. I felt he ruined the whole setting for me, which I felt could be interesting if only the main character would make any frickin' sense at all. Feeling the characters is important to me since I really want to relate to them - yes, I'm a "feels" guy in that sense. I felt Okabe by himself made that simply impossible.

I wanted to quit the anime and kept explaining my kid bro everything that I felt sucked about the show. The slow pacing, the characters in general... I did not find single one of them interesting. Kurisu felt like the only sane one, the one that didn't make me cringe all the time.

My brother told me to keep going - a thing which I believe you have heard millions of times by different sources already. I probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for my kid brother. I mean, there was some interesting stuff and hints here and there in the story. Sort of a... Feeling, that something is off. But even that looming sensation, I felt, was ruined by the characters. Mainly Okabe.

I feel that at this point a personal detail about me in this context is relevant: I kept watching the show, actually trying to brainstorm every possible detail and hint there was. I'm one of those guys who doesn't like things explained to him, but instead wants some "challenge" out of the story...

Then something changed. It wasn't because of the brainstorming (well, that it did only until later on - I have yet to be amazed by any other story in such a detail!), it was a feeling of relating to someone. That someone was... A lot of different people in the show. Yes, even Okabe. And yes, that subtle stray to relating to this looney started somewhere after halfway through the show. (It's probably what everyone keeps telling you as well).

I did not actually recognize that feeling at first, but until I felt a tear running down my cheek. An animated character just made a 33 year old man cry. It was absurd. I bawled my eyes out.

I related.

I related *hard*.

After that it was a rollercoaster of feelings that suprisingly had Okabe come up as one of the most unforgettable characters I have ever seen. Yes, I learned to love that guy to bits (no ♥♥♥♥). I "saw" the big picture and at that point I also realized *why* everything was the way it was. For this unique experience, every bit of what I felt earlier was needed. Every last bit of it. Suddenly, it all made sense.

Even after the show ended, I still told my kid brother: "They still could have done the beginning better, it was too slow-paced, blablabla...". That was because I was - and still am - stubborn AF. I just could not admit it and say: That was crazy good. I could not admit that I was wrong about the show and about Okabe in it.

A while later, after realizing some things on my own (that brainstorming and analyzing, if you care for such a thing you've got hours and hours to do even after the show has ended), I just had to admit and say: I was wrong.

HEAR ME, UNIVERSE! I WAS *WRONG*! I WAS WRONG AND A STUBBORN IDIOT ABOUT IT, I ADMIT!

...So I thanked my little brother, with all of my heart. For I can honestly say this story changed something in me - besides also teaching me quite a few lessons by smacking me around the head with 'em. This story deserves more praise by all standards than I can ever give it. That is how great I think it is.

It is a story for people who want theirs to be challenging. Intellectually - but most of all emotionally. And I feel like I have just done you a disfavour by telling all of this. The only thing that should be said (as to not create any expectations) is: "just f***ing shut up and watch it alrady".

...Which everyone else has probably done by now. Just give it a chance, with an open mind. Be patient and pay close attention.

Good luck.

Subete ga ima kakikae rareru.

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Originally posted by Karasu:

Warning: This is about the character and the review is based on the anime. I have not even started to play the game yet - since well, to be honest, I'm a bit afraid to do so.

Okay. Here's the thing.

My kid brother introduced me to the Steins;Gate anime. He *insisted* that I watch it. Quite frankly, that by itself already annoyed the heck outta me. At some point later on I eventually did, stubbornly taking my sweet time to choose *when* I would actually do it. Yes, I am that stubborn.

So I started to watch the anime. I felt the exact same way as you. I loathed Okabe. I did not find him funny, cute or "relatable" in any way. I felt he ruined the whole setting for me, which I felt could be interesting if only the main character would make any frickin' sense at all. Feeling the characters is important to me since I really want to relate to them - yes, I'm a "feels" guy in that sense. I felt Okabe by himself made that simply impossible.

I wanted to quit the anime and kept explaining my kid bro everything that I felt sucked about the show. The slow pacing, the characters in general... I did not find single one of them interesting. Kurisu felt like the only sane one, the one that didn't make me cringe all the time.

My brother told me to keep going - a thing which I believe you have heard millions of times by different sources already. I probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for my kid brother. I mean, there was some interesting stuff and hints here and there in the story. Sort of a... Feeling, that something is off. But even that looming sensation, I felt, was ruined by the characters. Mainly Okabe.

I feel that at this point a personal detail about me in this context is relevant: I kept watching the show, actually trying to brainstorm every possible detail and hint there was. I'm one of those guys who doesn't like things explained to him, but instead wants some "challenge" out of the story...

Then something changed. It wasn't because of the brainstorming (well, that it did only until later on - I have yet to be amazed by any other story in such a detail!), it was a feeling of relating to someone. That someone was... A lot of different people in the show. Yes, even Okabe. And yes, that subtle stray to relating to this looney started somewhere after halfway through the show. (It's probably what everyone keeps telling you as well).

I did not actually recognize that feeling at first, but until I felt a tear running down my cheek. An animated character just made a 33 year old man cry. It was absurd. I bawled my eyes out.

I related.

I related *hard*.

After that it was a rollercoaster of feelings that suprisingly had Okabe come up as one of the most unforgettable characters I have ever seen. Yes, I learned to love that guy to bits (no ♥♥♥♥). I "saw" the big picture and at that point I also realized *why* everything was the way it was. For this unique experience, every bit of what I felt earlier was needed. Every last bit of it. Suddenly, it all made sense.

Even after the show ended, I still told my kid brother: "They still could have done the beginning better, it was too slow-paced, blablabla...". That was because I was - and still am - stubborn AF. I just could not admit it and say: That was crazy good. I could not admit that I was wrong about the show and about Okabe in it.

A while later, after realizing some things on my own (that brainstorming and analyzing, if you care for such a thing you've got hours and hours to do even after the show has ended), I just had to admit and say: I was wrong.

HEAR ME, UNIVERSE! I WAS *WRONG*! I WAS WRONG AND A STUBBORN IDIOT ABOUT IT, I ADMIT!

...So I thanked my little brother, with all of my heart. For I can honestly say this story changed something in me - besides also teaching me quite a few lessons by smacking me around the head with 'em. This story deserves more praise by all standards than I can ever give it. That is how great I think it is.

It is a story for people who want theirs to be challenging. Intellectually - but most of all emotionally. And I feel like I have just done you a disfavour by telling all of this. The only thing that should be said (as to not create any expectations) is: "just f***ing shut up and watch it alrady".

...Which everyone else has probably done by now. Just give it a chance, with an open mind. Be patient and pay close attention.

Good luck.

Subete ga ima kakikae rareru.

Every insults you had made for this series and Okabe has come back right at you, very hard. The moment you realized that you were just normal person who has misjudged everything, could never ever create something like this happen, that's why it left you with the most memorable impressions you would never find it anywhere else.

It's bothering me a lot how people has such a low patience to the point of being exaggerated how bad the contents before they even finish ones itself, didn't blame you though at least you have gotten through which earn everyone respect at least. Let see if this can reaches OP , let see if he can slap this series with unshakable prides or being slapped in return and feel a shame for rest of his life creating this topic. I wish he and you had just continued on your own without anyone told you to, it would have been a lot more surprised and entertained, well you couldn't ask any more chance to experience it blindly, so let it be.

Anyway you have missed a few thing about Okabe by not reading VN game, like his inner thoughts for most situations ( it probably breaks your heart to pieces, knowing how fragile he was, he even admitted that he was a butthead) and few more timelines that never presented in anime, they are not too important they were put in there for extra mindblow.

[Karasu]

Originally posted by ~Nutkun7993~:

Every insults you had made for this series and Okabe has come back right at you, very hard. The moment you realized that you were just normal person who has misjudged everything, could never ever create something like this happen, that's why it left you with the most memorable impressions you would never find it anywhere else.

It's bothering me a lot how people has such a low patience to the point of being exaggerated how bad the contents before they even finish ones itself, didn't blame you though at least you have gotten through which earn everyone respect at least. Let see if this can reaches OP , let see if he can slap this series with unshakable prides or being slapped in return and feel a shame for rest of his life creating this topic. I wish he and you had just continued on your own without anyone told you to, it would have been a lot more surprised and entertained, well you couldn't ask any more chance to experience it blindly, so let it be.

Anyway you have missed a few thing about Okabe by not reading VN game, like his inner thoughts for most situations ( it probably breaks your heart to pieces, knowing how fragile he was, he even admitted that he was a butthead) and few more timelines that never presented in anime, they are not too important they were put in there for extra mindblow.

There are a few things you are probably getting wrong from what I wrote; I never insulted the series or bashed it or anything. I merely stated (to my kid brother) that I was not "feeling" it. I am also a very, *very* patient person in and about the things I find interesting - but probably not on the ones I don't. I think most of people are this way. This is probably just since we as human beings have a limited time on our hands, especially being adults busy with our everyday lives.

I also eventually would have finished the show. In fact, there is not a single movie, book or series in existence that I have dropped permanently. But if it's not something that instantly hooks me, it just might take me some time to finish it.

A lot of my frustration with the series had to do with my kid brother and his attitude in praising the show - something that's probably relatable to what fans are doing, trying to recommend the s*it out of it. Something which I myself am now guilty to as well (as are you!), since I really want people to see this. There really isn't any story on earth more important to me than this and I most definitely would want to share it. But in the case of Steins;Gate, more so than others, it would be for the best to be able to dive in to the story without any expectations.

I did judge the anime too quickly, that was my mistake. And as stated before, I am very willing to admit my mistakes. That's the thing about life; you can't avoid making mistakes. The important part comes *after* making those mistakes - what will you do?

The ironic part is that's one thing what Steins;Gate is about as well.

And continuing on mistakes... To be honest, I feel you're making one in acting a bit high and mighty here, even though for the most points you make I do think you are right. The way you write makes me think you've slipped to the "dark side" of things and don't give too much credit for other people's opinions and feelings; Something every and each of us is entitled to. The best you could do for actually making people want to see the story is to recommend it kindly and try not to create too much expectations. Being all harsh and saying someone is stupid (for e.g. not liking a character at first) does not make you sound too smart.

OP does not need to feel "shame" about creating such a topic; He is just probably witnessing this type of storytelling for the first time of his life. And he has the right to not even like it should he choose to do so. There is no shame about having personal opinions in one direction or another; The shame comes in when you refuse to change your opinion due to just being stubborn. And you really can't say if OP would like it or not, we can only ask him to give it a go.

Intellectual people are NOT the ones who claim to get everything right from the start. They're the ones who are able to learn and change their perspectives with the given information.

There are people who do find Okabe as a funny or cute character right from the beginning; I for one was not one of them. The genious part about this is the writing which eventually has both approaches ending up loving Okabe to bits as I mentioned earlier, due to things I will not go into because of said spoiling details and expectations.

The reason I stated "I'm afraid of doing so" to the part of not having played the VN yet is the exact thing you mentioned: I know it will break my heart to (even smaller) pieces again. And I will thank the game for it. :) But I intend to play it as soon as I can, I just want to be able to completely immerse myself it in. The curses of busy adult life...

And one more thing. I've done loads and loads of research on S;G, Okabe's and other characters' personalities, read the novels, mangas, etc. Tens, maybe hundreds of hours worth of stuff. So I think I have a little grasp for his inner thoughts, but yet I expect the game to expand on that even more! :)

TL;DR for all skeptics and cynics: Just do it. Go play the game or watch the series, but do not let this masterpiece slip by your fingers!

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Originally posted by Karasu:

There are a few things you are probably getting wrong from what I wrote; I never insulted the series or bashed it or anything. I merely stated (to my kid brother) that I was not "feeling" it. I am also a very, *very* patient person in and about the things I find interesting - but probably not on the ones I don't. I think most of people are this way. This is probably just since we as human beings have a limited time on our hands, especially being adults busy with our everyday lives.

I also eventually would have finished the show. In fact, there is not a single movie, book or series in existence that I have dropped permanently. But if it's not something that instantly hooks me, it just might take me some time to finish it.

A lot of my frustration with the series had to do with my kid brother and his attitude in praising the show - something that's probably relatable to what fans are doing, trying to recommend the s*it out of it. Something which I myself am now guilty to as well (as are you!), since I really want people to see this. There really isn't any story on earth more important to me than this and I most definitely would want to share it. But in the case of Steins;Gate, more so than others, it would be for the best to be able to dive in to the story without any expectations.

I did judge the anime too quickly, that was my mistake. And as stated before, I am very willing to admit my mistakes. That's the thing about life; you can't avoid making mistakes. The important part comes *after* making those mistakes - what will you do?

The ironic part is that's one thing what Steins;Gate is about as well.

And continuing on mistakes... To be honest, I feel you're making one in acting a bit high and mighty here, even though for the most points you make I do think you are right. The way you write makes me think you've slipped to the "dark side" of things and don't give too much credit for other people's opinions and feelings; Something every and each of us is entitled to. The best you could do for actually making people want to see the story is to recommend it kindly and try not to create too much expectations. Being all harsh and saying someone is stupid (for e.g. not liking a character at first) does not make you sound too smart.

OP does not need to feel "shame" about creating such a topic; He is just probably witnessing this type of storytelling for the first time of his life. And he has the right to not even like it should he choose to do so. There is no shame about having personal opinions in one direction or another; The shame comes in when you refuse to change your opinion due to just being stubborn. And you really can't say if OP would like it or not, we can only ask him to give it a go.

Intellectual people are NOT the ones who claim to get everything right from the start. They're the ones who are able to learn and change their perspectives with the given information.

There are people who do find Okabe as a funny or cute character right from the beginning; I for one was not one of them. The genious part about this is the writing which eventually has both approaches ending up loving Okabe to bits as I mentioned earlier, due to things I will not go into because of said spoiling details and expectations.

The reason I stated "I'm afraid of doing so" to the part of not having played the VN yet is the exact thing you mentioned: I know it will break my heart to (even smaller) pieces again. And I will thank the game for it. :) But I intend to play it as soon as I can, I just want to be able to completely immerse myself it in. The curses of busy adult life...

And one more thing. I've done loads and loads of research on S;G, Okabe's and other characters' personalities, read the novels, mangas, etc. Tens, maybe hundreds of hours worth of stuff. So I think I have a little grasp for his inner thoughts, but yet I expect the game to expand on that even more! :)

TL;DR for all skeptics and cynics: Just do it. Go play the game or watch the series, but do not let this masterpiece slip by your fingers!

Yeah I came back and read what I wrote, it sounds rather too harsh. I didn't mean anyone being stupid to not like what they see at first though, what I don't like is that there're so many people who judging a book by its cover, Steins;Gate is one with good example where people judging the whole thing and making some criticism that does nothing but bitter feelings. I just wish people would not go and immediately judge its whole game and try watching/reading till the end first then we can talk what they like and what not. I'm sorry if it sounds harsh and offends someone.

A "shame" I was talking about was a people who hate to admit mistake in a things, judging something exaggeratedly without actually having any idea what's going on there. If he has other reason for not liking content and character I would respect his decision anyway.

And yes, you gonna love VN like the anime you have seen, there's nothing to be afraid of. Just go for it and experience what you like again.

[zhligw]

Originally posted by Ellixer:

He is supposed to be funny/cute and most of us here find that to be the case. I personally find him to be one of the highlights of the game but I do get why many people find him unbearable. I can make any excuse in the world (the writing is very much self-aware of how much of a tit he is, he does go through some extreme low points later on that highlight how fragile his character is when push comes to shove, etc etc) but if you don't like his character that's the end of it and I'm afraid the rest of the story is likely to be a waste of your time. Yes the plot is excellent (it is slow but about halfway through it kicks into a sprint) but I personally feel that the character is the most important aspect of S;G and if you don't find the cast enjoyable then there's not a lot for you here.

Also can we get pass the plausibility of it all? Yeah it's ridiculous but it's time-travel with a bunch of university and highschool kids. The writer did tons of research into it and it shows but there's no getting around the fact that there are very little they can do to make time travel actually plausible.

Well thanks! I needed to know how important to the story he was so, Maybe I'll just stop playing or maybe I'll just take a break and try to finish it anyway.

[zhligw]

Originally posted by ~Nutkun7993~:

Another people losing patience I see. You know in a few time later you would have wished you hadn't said anything about "wish for Okabe to has never existed"., unless you're stubborn kind of people who hate to admit mistakes, like most people here who went slient the moment when they realized they were all just misjudging everything, and all they did was trying to praise the series as much as they could without admitting they were once bashing the same thing how bad it was, they felt guilty yet hate to drop a pride that once they were so proud of, judging this series with extreme bias. 100% of impatience people was like you atm, unless you're special kind of people who so stubborn to not acknowledge any masterpiece if there were single things you don't understand and feel so sure that don't ever bother to find out why.

Why don't you go read someone review? there was a girl who lost temper at this series ended up dropping it for 1-2 years, later to find out that she had missed a masterpiece of steins;gate, she felt so guilty that she wanted to write reviews wishing no more people would fall into same trap as her by writing her own personal experiences and admitted her stupidity, she was even more hardcore than you here.

Every story does not need to "appear" looking good at the beginnings, what's matter is what they give you in the end when they're all summing up. This series also has good reasonable beginning it's just you haven't reached anywhere near enough to come up with such common conclusions yet. 10 hours of playtime? It was like 2-5% completed story in my eyes.

I personally find him funny/cute. And he's main character with severe flaws that cause him to act childish, who later developed under extreme situations unlike other stereotypes games/animes main character. The story does explain everything when you go further and I'm sure, if you're not someone who judges somebody by a few flaw and few encounter, you would stop hating him and later feel sympathy, because it starts to get more dark later on, while everything you felt early start to make absolute sense. Everything you read were written as intended, you were expected to hate him first, you see? you're simply falling into writer's trap not because you're smart enough to figure how boring the plot is, let see you can escape like everyone else or fail and quit this game like few other.

Story still explained in the context in which Okabe has seen through his very eyes so everything will be explained by his opinions, he is the main aspect of series you have to see everything through Okabe's own eyes together to understand what is steins;gate want to present to you, so if you just hate him that much to the point you don't want to experience anymore of this masterpiece, uninstall it, Steins;Gate, series with the most realistic/inperfect main character is probably not for you. There are a lot main characters with little flaws out there with bunch of harem heroic and does a lot of hero deeds for you to admire out there with over exaggerated hyped beginnings and obvious great yet meh ending anyway.

I'm sorry to sound bluntly but it's no need to hold back against a blunt and bias criticism either. You will wish you had never made this topic. Eventhough you finally understand you have already lost all the first impression creating this topic, you will never have that chance to enjoy its series blindly again, and you will wish you hadn't lost that impression and wish you still had a chance to overcome challenges blind run in this story has given you.

I don't want to see things through someone so self deluded and immature and moreover along with that uncreative as he tells the story-which I quiet understand the authors intent on-believe me I've read deeper character portrails and stories than this. So far the story is more about him and his make believe paranoia and simplistic hangup that there isn't much else going on.

When he sees the hot looking girl with the cell phone take his picture and follow him and tries to get away from her and won't give her his number. How believable is that? He'd rather pretend he's so important that she might be a threat? No. I don't think so. In fact the writer of this story doesn't even convince me that such a character exist. And if he did who wants to read such vain stupid drivel about one self. And what made me stop playing last night was when he said she had dangerous fingers and gave her that name and repeated it just in case I didn't laugh the first time. something like fierce finger. I cringed.

Also, in sitcoms you can have low statis flunkies believe they are great and special people who big organizations are after, but not in anything remotely realistic. Living poor and powerless and unsuccessful really wakes one up to reality even young people like him, cold reality bites hard and fast in a way that no illusion is a match for.! He would have woke up long ago.

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Originally posted by zhligw:

Originally posted by ~Nutkun7993~:

Another people losing patience I see. You know in a few time later you would have wished you hadn't said anything about "wish for Okabe to has never existed"., unless you're stubborn kind of people who hate to admit mistakes, like most people here who went slient the moment when they realized they were all just misjudging everything, and all they did was trying to praise the series as much as they could without admitting they were once bashing the same thing how bad it was, they felt guilty yet hate to drop a pride that once they were so proud of, judging this series with extreme bias. 100% of impatience people was like you atm, unless you're special kind of people who so stubborn to not acknowledge any masterpiece if there were single things you don't understand and feel so sure that don't ever bother to find out why.

Why don't you go read someone review? there was a girl who lost temper at this series ended up dropping it for 1-2 years, later to find out that she had missed a masterpiece of steins;gate, she felt so guilty that she wanted to write reviews wishing no more people would fall into same trap as her by writing her own personal experiences and admitted her stupidity, she was even more hardcore than you here.

Every story does not need to "appear" looking good at the beginnings, what's matter is what they give you in the end when they're all summing up. This series also has good reasonable beginning it's just you haven't reached anywhere near enough to come up with such common conclusions yet. 10 hours of playtime? It was like 2-5% completed story in my eyes.

I personally find him funny/cute. And he's main character with severe flaws that cause him to act childish, who later developed under extreme situations unlike other stereotypes games/animes main character. The story does explain everything when you go further and I'm sure, if you're not someone who judges somebody by a few flaw and few encounter, you would stop hating him and later feel sympathy, because it starts to get more dark later on, while everything you felt early start to make absolute sense. Everything you read were written as intended, you were expected to hate him first, you see? you're simply falling into writer's trap not because you're smart enough to figure how boring the plot is, let see you can escape like everyone else or fail and quit this game like few other.

Story still explained in the context in which Okabe has seen through his very eyes so everything will be explained by his opinions, he is the main aspect of series you have to see everything through Okabe's own eyes together to understand what is steins;gate want to present to you, so if you just hate him that much to the point you don't want to experience anymore of this masterpiece, uninstall it, Steins;Gate, series with the most realistic/inperfect main character is probably not for you. There are a lot main characters with little flaws out there with bunch of harem heroic and does a lot of hero deeds for you to admire out there with over exaggerated hyped beginnings and obvious great yet meh ending anyway.

I'm sorry to sound bluntly but it's no need to hold back against a blunt and bias criticism either. You will wish you had never made this topic. Eventhough you finally understand you have already lost all the first impression creating this topic, you will never have that chance to enjoy its series blindly again, and you will wish you hadn't lost that impression and wish you still had a chance to overcome challenges blind run in this story has given you.

I don't want to see things through someone so self deluded and immature and moreover along with that uncreative as he tells the story-which I quiet understand the authors intent on-believe me I've read deeper character portrails and stories than this. So far the story is more about him and his make believe paranoia and simplistic hangup that there isn't much else going on.

When he sees the hot looking girl with the cell phone take his picture and follow him and tries to get away from her and won't give her his number. How believable is that? He'd rather pretend he's so important that she might be a threat? No. I don't think so. In fact the writer of this story doesn't even convince me that such a character exist. And if he did who wants to read such vain stupid drivel about one self. And what made me stop playing last night was when he said she had dangerous fingers and gave her that name and repeated it just in case I didn't laugh the first time. something like fierce finger. I cringed.

Also, in sitcoms you can have low statis flunkies believe they are great and special people who big organizations are after, but not in anything remotely realistic. Living poor and powerless and unsuccessful really wakes one up to reality even young people like him, cold reality bites hard and fast in a way that no illusion is a match for.! He would have woke up long ago.

Well what I could only ask you to is to be little more patient. Things start to get real rolling in chapter 5 onward so it's going to be a while. During these 1-4 gonna be well, kinda nonesense, it has some interesting facts here and there, and of course only when he's with Kurisa. I can asure you that, every characters( I totally mean every here)have very important roles later on to play, even with Okabe.

[zhligw]

With that said the I am not judging the rest of the story. I just don't know if I should endure anymore of this. He could change (really should sometime soon like wake up now!) and the story could be about more than him and his "the organization", which at this point is nothing more than the shallow simplistic world that he lives in.

[zhligw]

Originally posted by ~Nutkun7993~:

Originally posted by zhligw:

I don't want to see things through someone so self deluded and immature and moreover along with that uncreative as he tells the story-which I quiet understand the authors intent on-believe me I've read deeper character portrails and stories than this. So far the story is more about him and his make believe paranoia and simplistic hangup that there isn't much else going on.

When he sees the hot looking girl with the cell phone take his picture and follow him and tries to get away from her and won't give her his number. How believable is that? He'd rather pretend he's so important that she might be a threat? No. I don't think so. In fact the writer of this story doesn't even convince me that such a character exist. And if he did who wants to read such vain stupid drivel about one self. And what made me stop playing last night was when he said she had dangerous fingers and gave her that name and repeated it just in case I didn't laugh the first time. something like fierce finger. I cringed.

Also, in sitcoms you can have low statis flunkies believe they are great and special people who big organizations are after, but not in anything remotely realistic. Living poor and powerless and unsuccessful really wakes one up to reality even young people like him, cold reality bites hard and fast in a way that no illusion is a match for.! He would have woke up long ago.

Well what I could only ask you to is to be little more patient. Things start to get real rolling in chapter 5 onward so it's going to be a while. During these 1-4 gonna be well, kinda nonesense, it has some interesting facts here and there, and of course only when he's with Kurisa.

I may take you up on that

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Originally posted by zhligw:

With that said the I am not judging the rest of the story. I just don't know if I should endure anymore of this. He could change (really should sometime soon like wake up now!) and the story could be about more than him and his "the organization", which at this point is nothing more than the shallow simplistic world that he lives in.

If you want to know that then yup, he woke up, hard. His nonesense will be cropped away, I can say it well worth enduring for.

[zhligw]

I liked how the main character introduce the girl who was really a boy. That part was well writen and ironically funny in a mature way.

[zhligw]

Originally posted by ~Nutkun7993~:

Originally posted by zhligw:

With that said the I am not judging the rest of the story. I just don't know if I should endure anymore of this. He could change (really should sometime soon like wake up now!) and the story could be about more than him and his "the organization", which at this point is nothing more than the shallow simplistic world that he lives in.

If you want to know that then yup, he woke up, hard. His nonesense will be cropped away, I can say it well worth enduring for.

Alright then that's all I needed to know. I just get impatient when the story is about him if you know what I mean. He's far more interesting when he's speaking about someone else and boring and tedious when its about him which seem to be most of the time.