I absolutely love the movie Upside Down with Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst. I recognize this film is nearly universally hated, but something about its atmosphere just clicked for me. It is certainly cheesy. Chances are you'll hate it though, so if you watch it, go in with low expectations.
Mayuri confessed that she was in love with Okabe, who hadn't realised
Steins;Gate isn't about the player's choice, though. It's a story about Okabe, not you. Okabe fell in love with Kurisu. Although he was very good friends with Mayuri, he never developed romantic feelings for her (other than in a non-canon ending where he accepted he couldn't be with Kurisu). Yes, if Kurisu hadn't shown up, that friendship could eventually have grown into romance, but it was pretty clear the entire time that his relationship to Kurisu was different than that to Mayuri.
Also, do play 0. Although you might not like the overarching premise, most of the time it's just a background thing (S;G
after all, this is the Okabe that believes saving Kurisu is impossible and hanging onto Mayuri is the only thing he has left
). It probably won't change your mind about the ending of the first game, but it still has plenty to stand on outside of that.
If they wanted to emphasize that, then they shouldn't have bothered going with a dating sim-esque solution to multiple endings with a bittersweet romantic end for each girl (minus Moeka, who rightfully got nothing) in the first place, each of them plausible for their own reasons. I found the very idea of eliminating all ambiguity by telling players who it would be in the only ending that actually counted to be spiteful, and I already went into why I thought the execution felt forced. The fact that it was impossible to get that ending without a guide only for the payoff to not even be worth it only exacerbated matters. One could argue that there was no point in bothering to include multiple endings at all with the way they did things taken into account.
Okabe said a lot of things (and was often in denial about them), and I considered that cliched "she's like a little sister to me" crap to be exactly that. I don't buy someone putting himself and everyone else around him through the hell that he did for a person whom they consider only a friend. If they wanted to insist on only one answer and it came down to those two, I was not convinced that the choice they made worked based on everything they presented, especially with him thinking about and prioritizing Mayuri above everyone and everything else time after time. Also, there was a bit more to Mayuri's ending than him simply settling for her, as you seem to be suggesting: he outright admitted to Kurisu that he cared more about saving Mayuri than her in that path.
I'm not interested in something like 0 that won't be changing my mind about the original game, even if it's the people who actually liked that ending who are the ones upset with it. The last thing I need is to be bothered with Okabe feeling sorry for himself for dozens of hours at a time.
Also, there's even a random e-mail line in the original where Mayuri hinted that she liked someone, with it being pretty obvious who it could be (0 spelling it out doesn't seem particularly revelatory).
There's something about Siggy Weaves expression in that photo that's unnerving me. She looks like Slappy the Ventriloquist doll from the Goosebumps series.
This is not a romance, and the film's insistence that it is one is a deeply disturbing creative failure that tarnishes an otherwise incredible film.
The Deckard/Rachael relationship pushes, perhaps more than any other film I can think of, the repugnant film trope that a nonconsensual sexual encounter can be transformed into a consensual encounter through sheer force of will and animal magnetism. You think of all the men who idolize this film and could view its sex scene as an example of an acceptable sexual encounter.
It would be a defensible scene if the film treated the scene how it should be treated - as a sexual assault. But it does the exact opposite. Vangelis' score is going full orgasm and Deckard and Rachel end up in an actual romance.
The Whipping Star - a star (really a species of star) has developed sentience through chemical and nuclear processes but is being abused by powerful aliens feeding on its energy. Anyway the star is rescued and saved by a dude and they mutually fall in love despite being genuinely and utterly alien to each other in every possible way.
I watched this for first time recently, didn't finish it yet but there was no romance and then suddenly in an episode where they think they're on Earth they are banging.
Feels like the them getting together is just missing.
