LemiusK

Rewatching Steins;Gate as I'm playing the VN. Realized that the anime has a tighter pacing, as opposed to the VN's verbosity/infodump. It might just be one of the few anime out there (aside from Clannad and Kanon 2006) that surpasses its VN source. Just about everything was done better than the VN, including putting "Skyclad Observer" at the end of the story rather than as the opening.

Of course, there are some changes the anime made that I felt were unnecessary, but they're really more like minor changes and nitpicks than real criticisms. There's also a lack of multiple endings, which made the VN more interesting as I was able to change the fate of Okabe myself. That's an advantage most VNs with choices have over their anime counterparts unfortunately - the power of choice. And of course, the anime couldn't adapt the very fun and interesting emails. Aside from the ones that require you to respond to earn the achievements, the other non-obligatory emails were still amusing enough to read, as are Okabe's replies to them. That's unfortunately one very fun part of the game the anime couldn't adapt. Wish they could've made a special section at the end of each episode for the emails though, like, "Okabe Replies to His Lab Mems!" or something.

Anyway, I'm reaching the end of Chapter 5 soon... It's almost that mood whiplash moment where everything is about to change for Okabe's carefree life... Mwahahaha. That's the real choice of Steins;Gate. El. Psy. Kongroo.