I've watched Steins;Gate before and it is probably one of my favorite anime, but recently I saw pic related and had to do a fucking double take. I never read the visual novel, as I thought it was literally the same thing as the anime.
Did I get the neutered experience?
yes, dumbass
It's a VN, a very long VN actually
There are lots of routes not covered in the anime
You missed a lot of good stuff
Anime follows Kurisu's route, the VN has like 5 more routes or so
d...did okabe just become /ourguy/?
>Few suzuha doujins
What a crime to humanity
Literally every VN adaption is a worse experience than the original bar Shuffle
fpbp
You missed out on quite a lot user.
>Steins;Gate
>routes
More like alternative epilogues for chapters.
That's a little misleading. They're generally pretty lengthy.
Very neutered, like literally every other VN adaptation you miss a significant amount of character development and shit being fleshed out. It's really hard to cram a 30+ hour story into about 10 hours.
>10-15 minutes of reading at most after D-Mail choice
>lengthy
Kurisu and Mayuri are the more or less the only somewhat lengthy "routes".
That would only be the case if you skipped all the voice acting.
If I skipped all the voice acting it would be even faster.
I skipped some though.
>I skipped some though
Obviously.
Point was, those are too small to be called a routes.
why didn't okabe just read a book?
>tfw you read all the books
okabe is such a well written character.
You'd eventually get bored no matter what you did.
All he wanted to do is spend time with his friends and see Suzu happy. Then 100s of loops later he got bored. Suzuha ending is the best S;G ending other than Twin Automata in 0
but the problem is that if he is the least bit introspective(which okabe is) he would realize that shit was not cutting butter long before he would have thoughts of rape.
which would mean he would seek to occupy his time with other medial things long before he resorts to doing such radical things.
The S;G anime has none of the alternate endings, greatly abridged later chapters, mangles chapter 9 almost entirely, and doesn't let you experience nearly as much as Okabe's internal thoughts.