STEINS;GATE ELITE

Good

If it's your first experience with the game, play the original. It's more inmersive and has great CGs. ELITE is better for a second run. Gives a different experience with some content changed and anime images. It's worth buying because it comes with Linear Bounded Phenogram.

Never watch the anime. The games are much better.

What an experience, I had not played the original or seen the anime before playing this so can't comment on the best way to experience this for the first time. However after looking at videos of the original vn I do actually think I would still have preferred this as a good combo of the two in one.
I must say the first 10 hours or so can be a challenge to get passed, and to be honest if I didn't know from other reviews to expect this and that the pay off would be worth it I may not have stuck it out.
BUT - I am so glad I did. Easy 9/10.
This was my first VN, so glad I tried it out.

While it's true that this is somewhat inferior to the original Visual Novel, as someone who hasn't watched the anime, this was a pretty great way to "replay" the funny, brilliant, beautiful and sorrowful story that is Steins;Gate.

Anime or VN. This is a classic masterpiece.

Absolutely worth it, does not matter if you saw the anime or do not know anything about this story, completely recommended.

Elite is a funny name for a game that is inferior to both the original version and the anime adaptation, but hey, at least it costs more. This VN is a more streamlined version which replaces the original artwork with content from the anime and takes out a lot of the phone interaction.

To give the game some credit, the idea of having an almost fully animated visual novel is great and would be amazing if done for something new. Of course, that would be an insane amount of effort to put into a brand new VN, but reusing old animation to sell a pricier version of the same story is just an obvious cash grab move.

There is some new animation to fill in sections which were not a part of the anime adaption. It appears that a lot of it was done by White Fox, the studio behind the anime. Unfortunately, a significant chunk of it is of lesser quality than the original animation. The way the anime footage is edited into the VN is mostly fine, but sometimes the reuse of certain shots will take you out of the experience.

The phone is much more awkward to use. Instead of being able to pull up the phone at any moment to look up your messages, the game now slams the phone in your face and covers the whole screen when you get mail. The animation is longer and the whole experience is kind of immersion breaking. In the original, taking the phone out at any time to briefly check something was much smoother. There are even some parts of the original script, where the game is clearly nudging you towards using your phone, but you are unable to do it in Elite. At least all of this results in easier phone achievements.

If you played the original, watch the anime. If you watched the anime, play the original. Leave Elite for when nostalgia strikes in a couple of years and this will serve as a slightly new way to experience the story.

For newcomers, the original VN and anime adaption are both cheaper ways to get into Steins;Gate and both play into each medium's strengths. Elite attempts to merge the two into one ultimate, 'elite' version but ends up in an awkward middle ground.

11/10

Sci-fi isn't usually my genre, but when I was half through the game, I surprisingly got to really enjoy it. The character development from the protagonist really appealed to me and although not expecting it at first I got to appreciate his chunibyo persona he puts on sometimes as well when I realized where it originates from and what purpose it serves. I'm also very satisfied with how the story concluded (the true ending) and I thought the romance subplot was also well executed (The major one within the main route). I'm looking forward to playing the sequel!

This is the wrong version.

10/10 but if you already played the original version then 8/10 because cash grabber :V

Pretty sure I don't own this game but I can post a review anyway. Regardless, don't touch this with a 10-foot pole, if you came here you probably came from the anime, the visual novel is a longer more in-depth version of that. Elite however just mishmashes the anime and the VN, constantly repeating scenes from the anime and cutting out alot of content, for a higher price point at that. Oh and even if you liked this they didn't make one for Steins Gate 0,. So there's really no reason to get this

absolute masterpiece

Truly an Elite Choice's of Steins;Gate

Despite not having the verbose explanations of the original VN, I quite liked seeing the alternate timelines; I wish they kept the original song for the other endings tho

“this is a beautiful story about time travel”

STEINS;GATE ELITE is a visual novel that I think is VERY EXCELLENT , I can recommend a game for you to try to PLAY RIGHT NOW and I guarantee you will not regret it.

This is my story about STEINS;GATE, I knew STEINS;GATE a long time ago, at that time many anime communities and some of my friends said or recommended to play the Visual Novel or watch the anime series, at that time I was not at all interested in STEINS; GATE because at that time I didn't really like Sci-Fi-themed media and the like that's what I had in mind at that time, but one day I accidentally found a Doujinshi from the STEINS;GATE series (I forgot the code and btw it was pretty good) which made me recognize one of the characters in the series, namely Okabe Rintaro and Makise Kurisu, right after that I decided to watch the anime.
and I watched it until it finished one season, for the ending my first impression MEDIOCRE I didn't understand the story at all (because I was really stupid at that time) and therefore I decided to play the Visual Novel because I read a comment he said “try playing the VN, you will understand the story better!” and I finally played it myself
and I didn't expect the ending in the game to feel more, and that's my story about STEINS;GATE :)


so if you like science fiction stories you must play this VN
this is the STEINS GATE choice

El Psy Kongroo~

Anime pieces but better than the anime version.

Amazing

Lazy and shabby mix between the original VN and the anime adaptation, manages to be the worst of both worlds.
Not worth your time or money.

MAAAAANNNN Its easy one of the best books i have read in my life.

I love it great great stuff here I love it

Only recommended If you played Stein;Gate and haven't watch the anime.
Otherwise, original Stein;gate is better.

Really good story, and very engaging from the start

El Psy Kongroo

basically the anime but you can play it

This game was my introduction to Steins;Gate and not gonna lie, the first few chapters are pretty boring. It takes a while for it to fully hook you in, but oh man it hits. I'm glad I played through the whole thing. One of the best visual novels I've ever played hands down.

One of the things I don't like about it is the lack of a chapter select that you could use after you beat the game to help you with achievements, auto-save works but it has a save limit and it can delete your old auto-saves if you take too many tries going into chapters and chapters. So manually save often, that's my best tip for this masterpiece of a game.

As a bonafide Steins;Gate otaku I really wanted to recommend this despite its flaws, but I cannot. It's passable if you've already experienced the original VN, but only barely (I'd honestly rather just rewatch the anime than play Elite). The phone system (a central mechanic to the original VN) has been entirely gutted and is replaced with a pretty intrusive full screen pop up that forces you to look at all texts and calls. Even worse the entire story has been gutted to fall in line with clips from the anime. How gutted you say? An entire character removed from the game. There are also direct references in all of the other VN's that you will not understand because they weren't included in Elite or the anime. Let me also share just how gutted Elite actually is.

Percentage of dialogue cut from Elite per chapter:

Prolouge: 35.43%
1: 36.24%
2: 34.78%
3: 29.20%
4: 29.45%
5: 37.91%
6: 31.06%
7: 52.18% (yeah this already fairly short chapter is pretty much nonexistent in Elite)
8: 32.77%
9: 40.95%
10: 32.84%
11: 38.33%

The organization wishes to lull the masses into submission by pushing Elite over the original masterpiece! Why, you ask? Simple! They seek to sedate the mind with flashy animations, to distract from the raw, unfiltered power of the original's text based brilliance! They think they can control how we experience the divergence of world lines, but Hououin Kyouma will not be so easily fooled! The original VN is the true path to Steins;Gate! El Psy Kongroo.

Happy 15th Anniversary Steins;Gate! <33

Steins;Gate will continue. LFG!!!

I love this game

Man microwaves his friend's banana and invents time travel. 10/10

Play the original

这一切都是命运石之门的选择

Best anime of all time. El Psy Congroo.