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3「STEINS;GATE」- Zeer's Correspondence

  Dear Reader, A friend put me on this game and I am playing through it little by little, trying my damnedest to wrap my head around the concepts being put forth, because it is something — not exactly necessitating an erudite adequacy, but one that certainly requires a lot of consideration. This is a game of thinking, not because the mechanics are dependent on the reasoning ability of its player, but because the story and literature embedded within this visual novel is so enthralling, the player can do nothing but be compelled to meditate on its contents. Nothing has ever put me on in such a way; it is so uniquely positioned by being a visual novel to use immersion, by which I mean that the regular bound by paper is not able to take advantage of in its full capacity, in perhaps the best way I have read even after Fata Morgana. Yet, and perhaps a bit confusingly, I will still count this game the second to that tale of accursed make because there are certain issues with its plot. But...