STEINS;GATE EN Reviews – Page 3
5/5 rating based on 23 reviews. Read all reviews for STEINS;GATE EN for iPhone.
STEINS;GATE EN is paid iOS app published by 5pb.Inc.
Fantastic and compelling to the end!!
Mikeakopa
Really enjoyed the story and ended up truly connected to the characters. The amazing characterization has you deeply hating the "bad guys" and actually caring for the well being of the "good guys". The pacing was absolutely splendid in my opinion and was very well done. Definitely recommend!! Little pricey but will engage you for dozens of hours and will leave you begging for more!!
Well worth the price!
Meowvia
Make no mistake; you’re paying for a whole game here and getting your money’s worth. The game is a visual novel, so interaction or ‘gameplay’ is fairly minimal - what you’re coming for is the story, and it is fantastic. You play as Okabe, a chunnibyou nutcase mad scientist wannabe in downtown Akibahara. Throughout the story, you’ll meet many characters and friends who offer interesting and compelling stories. Some of them are fairly trope-ish, but Okabe tends to disrupt those cliches fairly well, and any major predictions you have about the story will be slightly subverted. The game also has a unique, realistic tone that plays very well. Phone interactions, your primary source of character ‘routes’, are a fun way to get you involved with the game. There’s also an extensive ‘tips’ section that acts as a glossary, achievements and a music gallery. The game is fairly long (30+ hours) so you’ll get a lot from your purchase. It’s also fully voice-acted, but sadly only in Japanese. The voice acting adds a lot, but dual voice would be great in the future. The characters designs fit great into the theme - the shading on all of the characters is done in a style reminiscent of space or glial cell mapping. The game also has a few CGs where you get to see he action closer. These aren’t as common as I’d like them to be, but it’s always a treat when they pop up. A fairly important feature that this game has (that some mobile games don’t, for some reason) is a suspend feature. Interrupt your game and when you next open it, it’ll pick up right where you left off. Similarly, the game auto saves about every 10 seconds, so even manual reloading is easy. The translation is amazing. All the references, terms and jokes are translated into thier English equivalents. Things that wouldn’t make sense if they were direct translations (like memes in Japan we don’t have here) have been smoothed out. The game reads so well, you’d think it was written for an English audience. EDIT: I’m playing through the sequel, Steins;Gate 0 right now, and I’m sorely missing the humor of the translation that this version has. Even over the other localizations of this game on Xbox or PC, this version of the translation is hilarious and insightful, accurately recreating net slang from 2010 (when the game is set). This is definitely the definitive version of this game. There are a few minor gripes. Sometimes, the music will glitch and start playing the soundtrack twice, at two different points in the song, at the same time. Opening the menu can sometimes fix this, but other times the music will cut out entirely, and you’ll have to save and reload to fix it. Luckily, this is super fast and easy. Secondly, the double-tap feature to bring up the menu doesn’t always work very well. This can lead you to sometimes swipe right when you meant to bring up the menu, which fast-forwards the text at rocket speed. This means you lose all the text and the accompanying voices unless you reload a save. The issues are minor. This is a big league purchase for a full game, one you’ll be unlikely to put down. The story and characters are likeable, thrilling and unique, and well worth the cost of admission. Even if you’ve seen the anime (which I had seen a few episodes) the game is overflowing with so much detail and extra content, that it’s easily the most definitive version of the story. (Note to devs - translate more of these into English and you’ll have a buyer in me!)