The main character ...

[zhligw]

Rintarou Okabes is unbelievable, annoyingly, childish, shallow and stupid. Enough so to ruin the whole story. He is supposed to be a funny, eccentric young man but he is neither of these. He is not even believable as a self deluded, paranoid egotistic young man that he is supposed to portray. No one could behave like him or even think like him in real life. It just doesn't even make sense; what he says and thinks. You mean no one has told him (he's going to collage he should have been able to figure his own nonsensical stupidity way before he even graduated from high school) that everything he says is empty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t. not even his family not the kids at school or his teachers. This kind of character ( if you can call him that ) wouldn't even make sense in pure fantasy fiction.

I don't know if I can bare reading anymore of him, it is both boring and tedious.
( yeah, the author made his point about his protagonist, he is supposed to be into conspiracies and a little paranoid and an egotistic genius or just intellectual.) But does every line throughout the entire story have to make this point of this unrealistic character?
I must not be young or naive enough to be able to enjoy this kind of anime, graphic novel, drivel.

I just don't understand why it is rated so high with this glaring short coming. The only thing that makes it remotely interest is the subject matter and references to old technology. But it is overshadowed by this protagonist.

[FrozenTrout]

How far are you into the game? Yes, he starts off very annoying, and with all the made up conspiracy stuff, but he definitely has an arc. He changes as things get more serious and there's an ACTUAL conspiracy, and he realizes what's at stake, both personally and for the world at large. There's also a reason for his early obsession with the fake conspiracy talk that's eventually revealed.

I think if you stick with it, you'll find why it's so highly praised. It just takes quite a while to get there. There's also a chance you might prefer the anime version of the story. They had to cut a lot, but it does an excellent job condensing the story while still managing to get all the important parts across - and the anime, too, has a slow start, with him being annoying, but it doesn't take nearly as long as the VN to cover it. Again, it's still slow, but the pacing is, relatively, much faster than the VN.

That said, it may also just not be for you, and that's fine!

[zhligw]

Originally posted by FrozenTrout:

How far are you into the game? Yes, he starts off very annoying, and with all the made up conspiracy stuff, but he definitely has an arc. He changes as things get more serious and there's an ACTUAL conspiracy, and he realizes what's at stake, both personally and for the world at large. There's also a reason for his early obsession with the fake conspiracy talk that's eventually revealed.

I think if you stick with it, you'll find why it's so highly praised. It just takes quite a while to get there. There's also a chance you might prefer the anime version of the story. They had to cut a lot, but it does an excellent job condensing the story while still managing to get all the important parts across - and the anime, too, has a slow start, with him being annoying, but it doesn't take nearly as long as the VN to cover it. Again, it's still slow, but the pacing is, relatively, much faster than the VN.

That said, it may also just not be for you, and that's fine!

Alright, Maybe I Just need to push on maybe it will get better- I hope.

[Lone Wanderer]

Originally posted by zhligw:

Rintarou Okabes is unbelievable, annoyingly, childish, shallow and stupid.

uhm, that's actually the point of his character, but it look like you are still in the first half, which is notoriously slow.

just keep reading and you'll see (don't forget sg0, if you hate this okabe then you'll probably like 0's one)

[gaurdianAQ]

I know how you feel, when I first started playing I was just constantly cringing at Okabe, like I couldn't get over him, but I pushed on and I didn't regret it for a second... Don't know if you finished or stopped playing, but chapter 5 is where it starts to pick up...

Played through a second time to get the true ending (note I played the original not elite, not sure how close they are) and surprisingly okabes cringeyness didn't bother me nearly as much the second time through...