JemenRoad said:
Steins;Gate is amazing! I’ve been trying to find more of that type VN/Anime to give me the same feel but alas. Recommendations welcome though!
A late response, but if you have not played it, I recommend the spinoff VN Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram. It talks about different possible realities and ways the story could have played out, with every chapter being from the perspective of a different character. Every chapter has a different writer, so there is a slight inconsistency in the quality of writing (most are great though, and even the ones by new writers can be great supplementary stories to the original, with the only chapter I ended up really disliking being the Lukako chapter), but the chapters for Okabe, Daru, and the final chapter are written by the original writers of the first game and are all fantastic. My biggest complaint is that you cannot buy the English version on its own and need to buy Steins Gate Elite to get it, which in my opinion is BS.
There are also the drama CDs, which vary in quality; some have no writer credited and are terrible enough to make me question how they got published in the first place but others can be very good. For example, I do like the Character Series CDs as they are written by Hayashi Naotaka, who was the main scenario writer for the first game. The stories themselves are quite short and inconsequential, but they still have the charming writing of the original game and their short lenghts are remedied by each ending featuring absolutely kickass songs for every character in the cast, which are all worth listening to. The composer for these songs was not one of the composers from the game to my knowledge (Takeshi Abo is listed but for the background music present in the stories, and Chiyomaru, who usually did the openings, is not credited here as a composer), but he knocks it out of the park, and the songs are extremely varied and fun to listen to, with Okabe’s song being a favorite of mine. The translations are quite easy to find on Youtube, and I recommend giving them a listen. There is also the alpha-beta-gamma trilogy of drama CDs that Hayashi wrote, the beta CD actually having a really cool translation with VN-style animations:
https://youtu.be/TZk9Y1EiNP4
Sadly, the guy who made these stopped uploading; I’d have loved to see him do the full trilogy. Also, sadly, I can’t recommend most of the other CDs he animated, as most were done by uncredited writers and, in my opinion, aren’t that great.
And Steins;Gate 0 VN if you haven’t played it, of course. (I wouldn’t recommend the anime as it mashes together two timelines that are meant to play out separately on two replays in the game and is a bit of a train wreck.)
