This review contains spoilers
Well, I gotta say that I am frankly surprised that the team that made this came up with Steins;Gate just 2 years later. What a quality upgrade.
Not to say that this was bad by any means, I did enjoy it as a whole, but it's still the worst VN I've read.
The plot was really good and had a lot of potential, the build up to chapter 10 was excellent and the cast was, at least, good enough. The problem comes with two points:
1.Takumi, what a pathetic guy. Had me wanting to scream sometimes because he just COULDN'T OPEN HIS FUCKING MOUTH TO SAY A THING. After the reveal of him being a delusionary existence, he actually got interesting, but the sudden man-up he got at the end of chapter 10 with the di-sword was too far detatched of his pathetic background.
The endings felt completely rushed. It was like "yeah, finally got your di-sword 5 minutes ago, now go kill Norose". Which oh, by the way, was a terrible villain with generic delusional plans. Some other guy said somewhere that Rimi's motivation to kill or not Takumi didn't have a good established causal relation between Takumi's choices and her action, which I totally agree with. So both A and AA endings, in original C;H terms for those that haven't played Noah, felt really badly done. Ending B felt a lot more interesting because of the highscho delusion.
Now moving to the girls' routes, I really enjoyed them all, but added some details to the original plot that obviously weren't even thought about when the original VN was developed. For example, at the end of Kozue's route (or was it Sena's? Can't remember), we can hear a phone conversation between almost certainly Momose and the cometee of the 300 that directly implies she was an agent. This doesn't fit inside the canon of the original VN. Also, in Yua's route, it is revealed that it was actually Yua who had died in the first new gen incident and then Mia felt guilty and impersonated Yua. It was really cool to know that, but it felt totally wrong that they only tried to add that on Noah because they hadn't come up with it for the first release.
Some other things to say... Let's see, Sena best waifu bar none, really bland OST aside from the track that pops up in sexual delusions, Kozue's slaughterfest in her route was INCREDIBLE...
...Aaaaand can't think of anything else, which probably kinda speaks a lot of how much this VN didn't do for me. Let's hope that Chaos;Child is the giant step up in quality that a succesor to Steins;Gate deserves.
TL;DR Good idea with great build up but extremely dumb ending.
Not to say that this was bad by any means, I did enjoy it as a whole, but it's still the worst VN I've read.
The plot was really good and had a lot of potential, the build up to chapter 10 was excellent and the cast was, at least, good enough. The problem comes with two points:
1.Takumi, what a pathetic guy. Had me wanting to scream sometimes because he just COULDN'T OPEN HIS FUCKING MOUTH TO SAY A THING. After the reveal of him being a delusionary existence, he actually got interesting, but the sudden man-up he got at the end of chapter 10 with the di-sword was too far detatched of his pathetic background.
The endings felt completely rushed. It was like "yeah, finally got your di-sword 5 minutes ago, now go kill Norose". Which oh, by the way, was a terrible villain with generic delusional plans. Some other guy said somewhere that Rimi's motivation to kill or not Takumi didn't have a good established causal relation between Takumi's choices and her action, which I totally agree with. So both A and AA endings, in original C;H terms for those that haven't played Noah, felt really badly done. Ending B felt a lot more interesting because of the highscho delusion.
Now moving to the girls' routes, I really enjoyed them all, but added some details to the original plot that obviously weren't even thought about when the original VN was developed. For example, at the end of Kozue's route (or was it Sena's? Can't remember), we can hear a phone conversation between almost certainly Momose and the cometee of the 300 that directly implies she was an agent. This doesn't fit inside the canon of the original VN. Also, in Yua's route, it is revealed that it was actually Yua who had died in the first new gen incident and then Mia felt guilty and impersonated Yua. It was really cool to know that, but it felt totally wrong that they only tried to add that on Noah because they hadn't come up with it for the first release.
Some other things to say... Let's see, Sena best waifu bar none, really bland OST aside from the track that pops up in sexual delusions, Kozue's slaughterfest in her route was INCREDIBLE...
...Aaaaand can't think of anything else, which probably kinda speaks a lot of how much this VN didn't do for me. Let's hope that Chaos;Child is the giant step up in quality that a succesor to Steins;Gate deserves.
TL;DR Good idea with great build up but extremely dumb ending.