So I beat steins gate 0 and its uh pretty good? If you ask me it is not even close to the quality of steins gate its more a fairly mixed experience with a very very good ending to me. Im usually not good with making concise thoughts but its even harder with games Im more mixed on but I will try. When it comes to this game its not that any ideas presented are really bad its just that in its more nonlinear style in comparison to the first game its alot messier. The premise is absolutely excellent but it feels like when it comes to expanding the world it kinda branched away from the things I really liked about the first game with its more linear narrative. It's not like its written bad either really its just that to me. it rarely reaches the emotional connection the first could do excellently. I can understand why people say this game is more depressing than og but I honestly didn't really feel the same way just do to the more unfocused nature of it making it harder to grab me. The new characters are like fine. The best one is Maho who is probably the most complex new addition and I liked her her complex about how she felt about kurisu was very interesting even if the mozarts stuff was kinda heavy handed for me.The others on the other hand are just um fine I guess? Kagari is a thing that exists and shes like fine? Honestly wish I could have more of an opinion bit she just really isn't much to talk about for me she avoided being irritating to me but shes like eh. Some of the other new ones had a really obvious twist attached and I wouldn't call it especially interesting either. The stuff with fubuki was actually very interesting and I wish we got to see more of her side of that. But when it comes to the returning cast that stuff is actually creme le croupe. Daru in the first game was pretty whatever BUT HERE GOAT hes so goat in this one. The suzuha stuff is also really good its tied in with daru. There with like specifically two scenes that got me really good and that is one scene with with kirusu (Real one) and a scene with Mayuri it really showed the quality of the character writing for those characters it was just so amazingly written and it was just so fucking good. Its just its hard to explain but those scenes were so masterfully done with how its shows the conflict within a character but also the resolve JUST FUCKING AH SO GOOD I CANT EXPLAIN THE EMOTIONS IT MADE ME FEEL. Now when it comes to the man the the myth the depressed one himself he was also very good his emotional state is very realistic and very interesting his character culmination also makes for one of the hypest endings ever in ever. So like tldr Steins gate 0 is a game I wish I liked more its still fairly good but I feel like it had the potential to live up to the first one and sometimes it does but due to its nonlinear approach and more complicated nature I feel like I just doesn't live up to the first one. Its ending is absolutely incredible tho and ties into the first game perfectly. I feel like if this game trimmed down itself more letting more focus be put on the characters and alot less of the government fight for time travel stuff it would be better offIts ending is absolutely incredible tho and ties into the first game perfectly. I feel like if this game trimmed down itself more letting more focus be put on the characters and alot less of the government fight for time travel stuff it would be better off