Game's too dark for too much squealing, but it's still super anime with lots of cliches so you might not enjoy it if your tolerance for that stuff is low.
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Game's too dark for too much squealing, but it's still super anime with lots of cliches so you might not enjoy it if your tolerance for that stuff is low.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Per Shizuka's reminder (thanks!), I tried to update the OP. Added new prices, release dates and I updated the review section with all the new reviews. If I'm missing more pertinent info, tell me.
Well, you should probably review the FAQ as well, question #1 is already answered and all that.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Dark is good, don't mind the anime cliches so much if the subject matter is interesting. Looking forward to it.
Just a minyamum amount from a certain character.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Yep yep. Got it.
YES!
Sorry you don't like this! But oh god I love it so much and now am very excited. I love all sorts of tech and scifi/magic techno babble.
One of the best parts of Tales of the Abyss. Woooo this is good news
I thought they (and the translators, I guess) did a pretty good job at explaining everything in a brief but exhaustive enough way so that it doesn't feel too boring or too superficial, actually. Maybe it's just because I like that stuff but I don't think it's "too much".
DarkChronic
Member
Wow. They did SUCH a great job translating the forum posts on @channel.
It really feels like I'm reading /b/ posts. Amazing.
It really feels like I'm reading /b/ posts. Amazing.
Yup. For me it's handheld all the way when it comes to visual novels, but it's really cool how you're able to choose how you want to play it with the Vita version.
Basileus777
Member
Why? You should have an autosave from before the branching decision.
I was playing everything without paying attention to trophies, but I might as well take this opportunity to do another playthrough while answering the right emails and stuff to get that out of my way once I finish the game.
Dragon1893
Member
It's great if you're interested in the subject matter. You can actually learn quite a bit from the game.
Indeed.
Modest Mauser
Member
How do multiple endings in this game work? Do you have to replay from the start every time?
Funyarinpa
Member
Shizuka, stay away from Remember11 for your own sake. It gives, like, half a year's course of quantum mechanics.
No, if you save frequently you can easily get all endings in a single playthrough. It's only getting 100% and just one particular ending that would necessitate a walkthrough. The game makes it quite clear IMO when you are about to get a branch in the story.
Got it, I'm glad there wasn't a lot of that in Ever17.
Well, one ending is determined by an email in like chapter 2 or something. So you'll need to play from at least before that point.
Pull through. He's insufferable, but he gets better after chapter 5.
Pretty much everyone in this thread who I've seen mentioning that they hate Okabe (myself included) turns around on him in the end, so play through to the end of the game before you regret your purchase.
So I just got up to the part where
I went back in time 48 hours to try and fix the time machine and now know who John Titor is. This last portion of the game has been really intense what with the message threat, the killing of Mayuri and then the constant time leaps. Stark contrast from what it had been up until now. I did see a number of small details coming like the other non-Anonymous name on @channel being Kurisu but the larger direction of the story had escaped me so far. There's still a lot I don't get. The direct connection to SERN being one of them and how Kurisu knew where our lab was right off the bat. But there's stuff I suspect like Suzuha being my daughter or Nakabachi's or something. I really hope I don't have to go back to the timeline where Kurisu gets killed to have Mayuri be saved.
Some of the D-Mail stuff was weird. It took a while for Okabe to catch on to Lukako switching to a girl (and how it might result with the IBN not being there anymore - it was the first thing I thought when he suggested becoming a girl. How he was not going to be living the same thing and thus we might not get the IBN) and the Akihabara change by Faris didn't seem to have the same kind of impact I thought it would (lab being relocated and/or Itaru losing his reason for joining because the hostess club isn't near the lab anymore, etc.) but it's been cool to see the progression and I really love it right now. Between this, Virtue's Last Reward and Life is Strange over the past three months, feels like I've been on an unintentional streak with time mechanics and it's been great..
Some of the D-Mail stuff was weird. It took a while for Okabe to catch on to Lukako switching to a girl (and how it might result with the IBN not being there anymore - it was the first thing I thought when he suggested becoming a girl. How he was not going to be living the same thing and thus we might not get the IBN) and the Akihabara change by Faris didn't seem to have the same kind of impact I thought it would (lab being relocated and/or Itaru losing his reason for joining because the hostess club isn't near the lab anymore, etc.) but it's been cool to see the progression and I really love it right now. Between this, Virtue's Last Reward and Life is Strange over the past three months, feels like I've been on an unintentional streak with time mechanics and it's been great..
20cent
Banned
got one ending, get disappointed, find out the game has 6 of them, lol
I still haven't finished the game, but I have a question about how
to reach the end, no spoiler please
If I want to unlock every "true ending flags", assuming that I didn't get the first one and they have to be unlocked in sequence, do I have to replay the game since that chapter til the end?
Yep. It's a pain, but you can use it to catch up on alternate scenes you missed too (e.g.
I missed the Nao scene in Chapter 9
20cent
Banned
Aww alright, thanks. I hope that the skip function will help (haven't tried it out yet)
sixteen-bit
Member
does the vita ver play nice with Vita TV?
calc84maniac
Member
Yep! Art still looks great, the only thing that suffers a little from aliasing IMO is the font.
Copy finally arrived, but I don't want to start if I'm just gonna get hooked by Ultra Despair Girls tomorrow.
Except my copy of Ultra Despair Girls doesn't seem like it's arriving on time.
So... I might fall into temptation. I'm looking forward to finally sharing this ride with everyone!
Except my copy of Ultra Despair Girls doesn't seem like it's arriving on time.
So... I might fall into temptation. I'm looking forward to finally sharing this ride with everyone!
ChackanKun
Member
Damn, missed the discounts! Is it still worth it?
How much space does it take on the Vita?
How much space does it take on the Vita?
Vita is 1.6GB.
& for the heck of it, PS3 is 5.5GB.
So, I just got finished with the
ending.
Where do I go from here? How do I get the other endings? Do I just press start and play through it again? I didn't really notice how I could've done anything different at any point.
Suzuha
The bit with Moeka and SERN was very intense and I find the groundhog day part was very well executed. You really felt like you were becoming numb just as Okabe was. I also am pissed it took me until the start of Chapter 6 to realize Okarin is the first three letters of Okabe Rintaro.
Where do I go from here? How do I get the other endings? Do I just press start and play through it again? I didn't really notice how I could've done anything different at any point.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Just got in my NA copy today. Very excited to finally get to experience this. I've even been holding off on watching the anime.
Just follow a guide. There's virtually no way you'd find the true end on your own.
Speaking of which, the game should at least allow you change your mind before sending an email reply. It's pretty nuts that you just have to click on a hyperlink and hope for the best.
If you play it like you're supposed to play a VN, then, yes, there's a way.
Paper, pen and start making a flowchart.
Thanks! Any good spoiler-free one?
Nuts to that. It requires several precise email replies to seemingly innocuous messages. And there's no way to even preview the message you're about to send before the idiot sends it.
So yes, it's technically possible to make my own flowchart. I just don't hate myself that much.
Not sure about spoiler free but these are good so long as you don't skip ahead:
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/steinsgate-complete-walkthrough-get-all-the-endings-and-achievements
http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Steins;Gate_100%_Completion_Walkthrough
You're going to need to do the majority of the game at least twice to get all of the endings anyway. No need to use a guide while there's still stuff left to spoil for you.
Alright cool, so if I understood correctly I start another playthrough blind once again as there will be new content (like in a NG+) and only after that do I use one of those guides. Thanks everyone.
Basileus777
Member
None of the popular guides are really all that full of spoilers anyway, not unless the general structure of the game counts as a spoiler (which it shouldn't.)
No, it's the same game the second time. No New Game +, except for the fact that you can skip all of the text you've already read.