Recent reviews by Artemis

Second to none, it is a game that you would like to return to from time to time. Sheer beauty and absolute genius, it's amazing a puzzle game can touch you so deeply.

The story is so beautiful that it took my breath away.

I played this game after having watched the anime, so basically there aren't that many twisting plots for me. But the game experience is still wonderful to me thanks to its marverlous story-telling skills.
Pros
The game is remarkbly story rich. The main story is a long and complex one and there are several branches.
The music is good, perfectly fitting to the story.
The theory of worldlines and timetravel in the game is not absolute nonsense as I expected in this kind of games(or animes). Actually the theory sometimes makes sense even in a scientific perspective despite of some unanswered questions. However, who can truly understand the nature of time? This game has exceedingly satisfied my expectation in its scientific core.
The story plots are extremly emotional. Seeing characters struggling in the face of a merciless fate, only trying to save each other, seeing them surrendering to the dark part of their nature are more than heartbreaking.
Cons
Compared with the anime, the game has more galgame elements. Sometimes I feel female characters' behavior is quite strange...Maybe it's just me. And it has nothing to do with the main game line.
I sometimes feel that the charaters are all too perfect in morality to be real human beings. It seems impossible to make a decision when faced with those dilemmas if you want everyone happy, which yields far more tear-shedding but less true sadness if you know what I mean. But this is only a game, and maybe it is just too difficult to depict a full-rounded character by only using the measure of dialogue, unlike in a film.

Go buy this any time because it is definitely worth its price.
There is one thing you need to know before playing: the true ending is almost impossible to get through the first run all on your own, and it is still very hard to get even through the second or third run. If you want to get the true ending by your own, here is the basic tip for you to get it: you need to collect 6 true end flags before the end of episode 10, which are all Kurisu's mails. So make sure to answer Kurisu's mails in a proper way. The first true end flag occurs in episode 4. You can always use the spoiler-free walk-through flow chat on the wiki to help you, it merely tell you at what time you will receive a mail from who and how to respond to it, with a minimum hint at the story contents. You can find it at http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Steins;Gate_100%25_Completion_Walkthrough.

It's a game you need some time to find out the hidden contents. Be patient until the whole beautiful, even a bit emotional story unfolds before you.