Steins;Gate

Steins; Gate is the name of a Japanese Adventures, the 5pb in a collaboration between the two Japanese game developers. and Nitroplus created. It was after Chaos; Head the second collaboration between the company and was released in October 2009 for the Xbox 360. This was followed by ports for Windows PCs, Sony's PlayStation Portable in 2010 and 2011, Android in 2013, as well as adaptations in the form of manga series, an anime television series and an anime movie.

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Scenario and conception

The plot is based on the assumption that time travel to a limited extent are possible. Accordingly, both specific time points, the principles of causality play a significant role. Scientists, it is possible, and later to return information themselves the spirit of a people in the past. With each journey through time change according to the principles of the present and the future. This discovery carries a high potential for abuse, which is hanging on the further development of the story. The protagonists are threatened by the state organization SERN who does not shrink from murder.

As an essential venue was Akihabara, a district of Tokyo chosen. Various real existing buildings appear repeatedly in the game. One of these is the Radio Kaikan building, on the roof of the action begins. According to Chiyomaru Shikura, who led the development of the game, Akihabara was taken as Handlungsort because it historically, has always been, a place where it is easy to get hold of failed hardware. Thus, it is also the ideal place for people who like the protagonist of the game, playing around with things and looking for innovations.

The organization SERN is an allusion to the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN). In addition to the experiments using particle accelerators it is envisaged the role of the antagonist in the story. The fictitious organization SERN is said to have experimented with time travel and black holes, which many people lost their lives. Although the time travel into the past succeeded, but the victim did not survive the trip.

Plot summary

The action takes place in Akihabara and is about a experiment of the very peculiar, described partly as a mad scientist Rintaro Okabe. He succeeds in doing a microwave oven remodel so that they can send to the past with him text messages. What is, however, he realized later, is the fact that he was so influenced each his own presence and that is what makes him look crazy. However, he is not the only researcher in the field. Soon he is confronted with an organization named SERN, which adjusts both him and the other initiates of the experiment. Together they try to escape the clutches of the organization, where they are confronted with a permanent change in their own present.

Game mechanics

From the developers of the game itself as Sōtei Kagaku ADV (想 定 科学ADV, dt " hypothetical science adventure " ) is described. It follows a linear plot with predetermined events and ways of interacting. The player is busy, the dialogues between the characters and the inner monologues of the protagonist to pursue most of the time. As in many other Japanese adventures there at irregular intervals decision points at which it can direct the action in a certain direction with his actions. Here, the game branches into various routes that lead to different events and endings.

The decisions the player falls in Steins; gate by means of a phone trigger (フォーン トリガー). Thus, the decisions of the protagonist provide answers to incoming calls and text messages dar. In the case of a call, he may choose or refuse the acceptance of the call for a response. In text messages individual terms, meanwhile, are highlighted in color, which then constitute the appropriate reply to the topic. This type of control is that of the predecessor chaos; comparable Head, where the player does not have to respond to any call or any message. In some places, however, this is necessary to direct the action in a certain direction.

Formation and Publications

Steins; Gate was established in 2009 as the second result of the collaboration between the game developers 5pb. and Nitroplus. From the previous cooperation conceptually partly comparable game was chaos; Head emerged that in the second quarter, was published in 2008. Unlike its predecessor, the business should be more rooted in reality. Accordingly, the developer announced that they had set out to design a concept should be "99 % to Scientific facts (reality ) and 1% fantasy " exist. The plans led to Chiyomaru Shikura by 5pb. Building on the idea designed Ryohei Fuke (also called " Huke " ) the character design, while the emerging in-game items by Sh @ rp were designed. The scenario was of Naotaka Hayashi of 5pb. written together with Vio Shimokura as an assistant to Nitro Plus. As the producer of the game Tatsuya Matsuhara ( 5pb. ) was named as the artistic director of Toso Pehara was taken. The music was created in collaboration with Zizz Studio. So both Takeshi Abo ( 5pb. ) and Lee- Isoe ( Zizz ) were involved. This works essentially the same team as in the predecessor.

Adaptations

Anime

The computer game in 2011 was animated by the studio White Fox, which previously transposed the computer game Tears to Tiara as anime. Was directed by Takuya Satō and Hiroshi Hamasaki as chief directors, as well as Kanji Wakabayashi. The character design and the animation line were made by Kyūta Sakai and the screenplay was written by Jukki Hanada. The series was broadcast from 6 April 2011 after midnight (and thus on the previous TV day ) on TV Saitama and Sun TV. Within a week, followed Chiba TV, TV Aichi, Tokyo MX, TV Kanagawa and nationally via satellite on AT -X or streamed on Nico Nico Channel. An English subtitled version was streamed on their first publication on Crunchyroll or in the UK on Anime on Demand.

Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu ( STONE; GATE負荷 領域 の デジャヴ) in Japanese theaters with the same production staff as the anime series: Gate; On April 20, 2013 came the movie stone.

Reception

For this unusual approach, based on the delusions of the protagonist from Chaos; Head is based, the game was highly praised and the speaker said to have been created as for those roles.