In the same way, I complained first, 99% of the categories will classify this work as science fiction suspense, but he did not meet my requirements for science fiction suspense at all, which led to serious deviations in my expectations and mentality when I saw him. Please put the tag of love on this work in big bold. The most luminous place of this work is the love of boy meets girl, which Galgame is most proud of, and the deconstruction of daily life and humanistic care. I believe that this game should have a better experience as a game, and the adaptation to animation will lose the unique romance of galgame with a piece of cg detail. The old SG on the one-person blood book steam supports macos, and by the way, the macos support of one-person blood book galgame is popularized, otherwise you can only hold projectiles and cry
Back to the topic, the first thing I want to talk about is the science fiction and suspense part of this work. Unlike 99% of frivolous works involving time travel, this work has put a lot of effort into the unsolvable problem of trying to build the "reason" of time travel. In contrast, xmen's reversal of the future, which was casually made up last year, is simply Pediatric jokes on the popcorn assembly line of the sloppy Yankees. It is basically impossible for science fiction works to be logically self-consistent, and the logical gap beyond reality is the so-called "science fiction" part. Excellent science fiction will use very small logic gaps to create infinite possibilities. For example, the science fiction Klein Kettle I highly recommend, he uses only one AI to break through the logic gap of the Turing test, creating a false world. Thousands of visions; another example is ever17, which uses only X as a gap to write a story that will be honored in the annals of galgame (here, it is pointed out that there will be serious spoilers, so X is used instead). In contrast, although this work is trying to build the "reason" of time travel to normalize the logic of the whole work to achieve suspenseful effect, it also gives very interesting and clean "reasons" or logical gaps, such as "the world line is constricted. ("World Line" has the feeling of borrowing the quantum school of many worlds that science fiction works very much love. After all, this academic school is a natural science fiction material after popular science), but the difficulty of challenging the theory of time travel head-on is still too high. The reasoning of this work sometimes seems to be in jeopardy.
For example, the lowest version of the time machine, dmail, its rationale is not clearly explained in the animation, and he also has different situations. For example, the dmail, one of the culprits that caused the alpha world line to change to the beta line, actually interfered with the world line in a way of a butterfly effect (captured by sern and made it aware of the time anomaly), its content itself does not Has a direct world line interference effect. The dmails sent by the laboratory all have a clear intention to directly interfere with the world line, and together with the butterfly effect or aggravate the change of the world line (the one from Phyllis) or become completely useless (the one for the Mark Six), the flash That finger doesn't even have a butterfly effect, it's just that the dmail content itself is decisively interfering. In this case, those so-called "cancelled dmails" sent by Okabe trying to rewind these dmails should also have the side effects of uncontrollability and possible butterfly effect. For example, the cancellation of dmail to Liu Jia's mother did not completely eliminate her subconsciousness of eating more vegetables. In the end, Liu Jia was still a girl, and so on. It is so easy (logical level) to approve a kind of behavior that cancels the chaotic system of dmail, which has to be said to be a regrettable defect in science fiction.
A higher version of the machine, what about the time-jumping machine? First of all, I won't care about whether memory can be turned into digital storage and the magic compression rate from tb to b, because they are gaps that have nothing to do with the core of this sci-fi set. To care about these is completely false. I think the most inexplicable part of this machine is that it uses a very uncontrollable method to transmit memory by discharging electricity when answering the phone at a certain time in the past. It is very reasonable to jump casually when 0 Lioka is plugged into the electrode when he is lying down, but Other times the timing of jumping back in time appears vague and ambiguous. In addition, although the animation did not mention it, I think for the sake of completeness, we should think about what happens to the world line before the teleportation after the memory is teleported back. It should be split into a world line with successful teleportation (jumping back to the past) and a world line with failed teleportation (continuing with the world line before the split caused by jumping), and the observer's subjective awareness is not clearly defined. For example, most of the time, Okabe's consciousness is in the world line of successful teleportation, but there is also a time when it stays in the world line of failed teleportation (plot of 0)
As for the ultimate version of the time machine, I think this work has given up on building his reasoning, just using it conveniently to introduce the character of Suzuha, and at the same time focusing all energy on avoiding the formation of an infinite logical loop: Event A originates from the future event B, and event A leads to event C which leads to event B. This is also the basic ethics of most time-travel works that need to be shamed, and there is nothing to say. However, in the theatrical version, Okabe's fierce setting came from the future Chris, and the charm of the fierce turned around and drove Chris to tell Okabe the infinite loop of the fierce setting. Although the gong is broken, I don't think it's a big problem, and I'll expand on it later.
It can be said that the frontal attack on the theme of time travel, even if it is extremely responsible and trying to make "reasonable" efforts like this work, it will not get too good results. Because this topic is extremely incomplete in both physics and logic and philosophy, it is simply a romantic fantasy of intelligent creatures, and efforts to process romantic fantasy into a quasi-scientific system are bound to be arduous and fruitless. Although there are a lot of gaps in the frontal challenge of time travel in this work, it still makes a relatively complete theory of the convergence of the world line. At the same time, the decisive change strategy for the world line comes from the logical divergence of the theory of the convergence of the world line. Interesting thinking, which is also the absolute core content of this biography and 0. Whether it is from an analytical point of view to really eliminate the factors that cause the world line to change (alpha to beta), or from a consequential point of view to reverse the facts in an instant (beta to steins gate), the two solutions laid out in a lot of content are extremely weighty . From this point of view, this work has also achieved the feat of constructing infinite possibilities with the single hypothesis of the world line binding, which is worthy of being named in the galgame history.
However, looking at this work with a suspenseful mentality will not get a good impression. As a weak boy in middle school, Okabe is really not suitable to be the protagonist of a suspense drama. First of all, doing something like a time machine is not something that can be shown off to others casually, and attracting Moeyu is more than half of it. The countless futile attempts after Mayuri's death also seemed extremely reckless and reckless, without the help of friends at all, and even used the bean sprout body to run to Moeyu one-on-one after a jump, so stupid that it was unbearable. Look straight. In chapter 0 of the beta line, although he changed his body to black, he was no longer a second person. On the contrary, he became depressed and indecisive. Although he played a good card to mobilize the two fighting forces of Tennoji and Mengyu, he was stuck and couldn't change the beta line. horns. Suzuha beta ver told you that after this is not possible, everyone will be miserable in the war. It stands to reason that Okabe, who wants to protect Mayuri the most, should soon rise up to fight the beta line, but he still lives in self-paralysis and Chris. In the shadows (Should it be said that Chris is really in love). This indecision also cost Okabe a lot, and it was not until he saw the cruelty of the war that he became the protagonist of a suspense drama. The 3,000 jumps are on the one hand the price of getting to the steins gate, and on the other hand the punishment for his indecision. Probably the most taboo in suspense script is the protagonist who can't think clearly about the problem, and the cowardice and indifference to conceal and go it alone on the grounds of protection. Compared with 0, this biography has a Japanese-style suspenseful demeanor similar to Pujie or Isaka's humanistic concern. Salvation starts from the small things around you, and truly understands the truths of friends and acquaintances around you beyond ordinary interactions. In order to save Mayuri, Okabe must truly understand the rationale of all labmem, the grief of working warriors who travel through time and space and the desire for family love, Phyllis's thoughts about his father, Ruka's struggles with gender, and Moeyu and Tennoji of malice and motives, and understands his love for Chris. A weak teenager who just wants to withdraw dmail in a desperate attempt to isolate himself with a middle-aged fart can't do anything. Only by truly understanding others, trusting others, and cooperating with others, will the middle-2 teenagers grow and rescue will happen. . There is often a point of view that the first 12 episodes of the first season are persuaded to quit. I personally don't agree with it. Instead, I think it is indispensable and very in line with the warm and skillful unfolding of this Japanese suspense genre.
The element that made me chasing after watching this work is neither sci-fi nor suspense, but love. The protagonist of a love story is indecisive or indecisive or a middle schooler. What a love story needs is the accumulation of delicate and delicate feelings that are laid out layer by layer and properly released and exploded. With the help of the huge story design, the interaction and experience between Okabe and Chris made the elements of love more and more sweet and bitter. The two struggled in the reincarnation and interweaving of time. After the midfield that ended with the loss of my love, the heartbreak was extremely rich in the style of Makoto Shinkai in the early days. The bitterness and poignant beauty of shopping and dating with Yiren ai is like a fruit tail. Rhythmic bitter coffee. Chapter 0, Chapter 8, even wrote the love between Okabe and Chris in a dream-like form. The single animation detonated all the emotions of love, making people feel lost. After endless time reincarnation, the two were finally able to kiss in a true sense with the sunset on the vast wasteland and highway in Messina. This miracle, which is hard to describe and downright insulting, gave me the most honorable mention. Beautiful viewing experience. As for the infinite loop of logic in the theatrical version mentioned earlier, it is simply a trivial matter, because the theatrical version basically does not have any elements of sci-fi suspense. I believe that the guide is Gang Ma. Lovers chased each other back, and by the way, they recalled the foreshadowing of Okabe's first kiss in the first season. Who cares if you are not scientific and logical, the love that travels through time and space, and the envy of the gods.
Finally, I want to end with Okabe's confession in episode 25 of the first season. Although the confession has turned into real words, the long-term company itself is the most affectionate confession:
"
I have the power of Reading Steiner
Has all the memories on the world line
That's how I can understand
three weeks with you
not much longer than that
It's because I'm with you that I understand
No matter which world line you are in, when and where
i like you
I'll say it again
Makise Kurisu
I like you
"
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