A Beginner's Guide to Steins;Gate & SciADV (2024 Edition)

[@CheezerTheGrate]

I didn’t know there was more than just Steins;Gate.. this has me both interested and a bit overwhelmed I will try to play it all on Steam and download the patches as well to experience the entire story Might come back to this video incase I get stuck on where to go next when it comes to media.. thank you btw

[@revelosity4924]

Thanks for making SciADV content!! Filling a niche on YT which no one else is doing. Liked and subbed. Gotta support fellow SciADV fans!

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you!!!

[@SkymeraldZin]

Finally, some good SciADV content. I can see this video as a good reference point to recommend the series to people!!!!

[@06.dungleang85]

Holy cowwwww Tks alot for this This is gonna get me into sciadv universe The amount of work put into this video is insane U got urself 1 sub

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you so much for your kind words and for the sub!!! I hope you enjoy the series!

[@Terminal-Thought-Experiment]

Just about to start going down the rabbit hole.. Thank's for this.

[@zapatitosonic8975]

You know- when I got S;G elite on switch back in late 2019, I was still in Highschool and most of the VN were not translated at the time. And by the time I entered college, there was video of going beyond Steins gate and it trouble of reading the vn. 5 years later, we pretty much have every single main entry, and hopefully we get the spin offs like what we got for steins gate. Really love videos like this explain the (at the time) of being of a fan of the series.

[@VolcanicPhoenix]

What a video, immensely detailed, and easy to follow. This is the prime ressource of material for SciADV fans imo, I even learned about stuff i never did before!

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you so much for the immense words of praise! I really appreciate it!

[@spheromancer_]

Glad this video is getting good traction. The more information is out there, the more people can enjoy this great series with us.

[@Troyless]

It's a shame this vid only has 3k views it deserves a ton more

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you! I put a lot of effort into this video.

[@OrigiNope]

Excellent job on this, thanks for the side material list shoutout too!

[@mariogarciaurena1104]

I love the series, here are my thoughts on all of them: Chaos;Head Noah: a weird masterpiece. Its narrative choices make it difficult to parse, but they are so worth it. Even nowadays it still is a gripping and beautiful psychological horror game. Steins;Gate: a more mainstream masterpiece. The tight time travel story and charming characters made it one of the most popular stories in the medium. It takes the foundations of Chaos;Head and makes what worked on that novel accessible with a, still, complicated story full of thrills. Robotic;Notes: a flawed and all-compassing masterpiece. Character driven, full of slice-of-life and, at the same time, the first conclusion of the series. Contains the best character dynamic of the leads (Kai, Aki and Misato's relationship). The ending is incredible, despite being flawed and leaving some character plots hanging. Chaos;Child: the first sequel and another masterpiece. Thematically thick with themes of grief and family, it contains a story that is in conversation with Chaos;Head. It has a couple of weak characters (C;H too, but this time you cannot hide that amongst Takumi's extreme behaviour), nonetheless it has my favorite ending of all the series. Steins; Gate 0: a midquel and the first I do not consider a full masterpiece. Steins;Gate 0 is still fantastic and its non-linearity is at its best during mid-game, where the time travel sheananigans are no longer under your control. At worst, it contains endings that lack the punch of the original and the real ending is a bit anticlimactic, albeit fantastic in lieu of the non-linearity. Occultic;Nine: the worst across the series. I only watched the anime, but despite the great visuals, the exposition-driven execution makes it difficult to connect with the characters. It has good ideas, albeit mixed with now well-established tropes in the seried, and makes for a mixed-bag experience. Robotic;Notes DaSH: a nice holiday pack. A direct sequel to Robotic;Notes, at best is a great way of tying some thematic threads for the original. At worst the pervy Daru jokes are just too much for most of non-japanese audiences. It has great ideas and works at its best when the cast is caring for each other. Nonetheless, it is normal it is so divisive amongst the fans. Anonymous;Code: the latest entry. A high-octane conclusion for the series. The way characters are introduced is similar to O;9, which I am not the fondest of, however, the structure of missions, the great action and hacking plans and a core cast that actually you end up caring about, makes the game an absolute thrill and the best in the series since Chaos;Child. A beast of its own, I wish they added a bit more meat in the future to spend some more time with the secondary cast.

[@mariogarciaurena1104]

For the spin-offs: Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu: worthy for the Taku/Rime relationship. The rest is pretty much any ecchi/comedy manga from early 00s. S;G Darling; a fun little adventure. Has some fun routes, not much more. Chaos;Child love chu chu: an aberration. An excuse to put the characters into pervy situations in the worst executed way possible with very uncomfortable scenarios.

[@30caratteri]

I am amazed at how unnoticed this video went. It's awesome, at the level of the most famous anime reviewers. Good job!

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you for the kind words! I really tried my hardest with this video. It took me a few months to make.

[@CalebMorea]

Great video. I feel like there is a huge void on KZbin (English) for sciadv content and feel some more in depth lore series would be awesome

[@4livetv934]

I would also be interesed on the inspiration and development aspect of sciadv

[@marta2631]

Thank you for your hard work!! Videos like that are a lifesaver 🙏🙏

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

@@marta2631 You're very welcome! Happy to help!

[@marta2631]

@@bassman.sharingan12341 also I have one question - around 38:03 you mention how MDE has some chaos moments, and I couldn't find anything about that online, so I wondered what these might be? xd I finished C;H Noah, like, a few days ago, MDE I watched maybe two years ago, so I don't remember that much...But was it Ruka's route, maybe?

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

@@marta2631 Aside from the few nods to the Sena route twist, I'm talking about everything regarding the device in the Kurisu route. It was made based off of Chaos; mechanics like visual rebuilding. Kurisu outright shows the patent in there. Then of course, there's the stuff regarding the dragon delusion from the Luka route.

[@marta2631]

@@bassman.sharingan12341 oh yeah, I completely forgot about that one..Thank you for your answer :D

[@TallTapper]

bassman ur so amazing i wish you existed irl

[@theegocollective2695]

Great content, thanks for putting this out there :)

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you!!!

[@jafeta.7553]

Great video!

[@Davadro]

Amazing underrated video!, will use to force my friends to play SciADV games :)

[@zorojr8785]

whose eyes are those eyes!!1!11!

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Those eyes are God's eyes 👁👁

[@kysfggt]

the dude was watching himself :))

[@albababtout8158]

The trauma...

[@msyon.]

Don’t look at me.

[@TheFutureGadgetLab]

Blue froggy :)

[@MathewSan_]

Great video 👍 I really enjoyed Steins;Gate and I still think it's still one of the best anime out there 😄

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you for the kind words! I hope my video encouraged you to check out more of the series!

[@dibbobiswas9343]

Best video for any beginners!

[@millerwoodward1198]

fantastic video, its definitely made approaching the series less daunting and given how interesting it sounds I'm eager to get into it

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!

[@AmandineYlan]

This is such an informational video!

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

@@AmandineYlan Thank youu!!! ❤️

[@usharma1624]

Loved the video!

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

@@usharma1624 Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

[@fishsayhelo9872]

very gud man, thanks for filling a coverage void 👍

[@boomfanfic-a-latta8996]

THANK YOU FOR THIS

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

@@boomfanfic-a-latta8996 You're very welcome!

[@AnimeSimp234]

This is a great video. Good on you for putting this out there and getting more people into the larger Sciadv series. I personally never thought much of the series, I think Chaos Head Noah is quite mediocre and Steins Gate, while good, I find to be significantly overrated. But then I read Chaos Child, and that is one of the few 10/10 visual novels I've ever read. It's something I'd call a genuine masterpiece and it blew me away and shocked me to my core more times than I can count. It's one of those few stories where, if memory wiping a story from my mind was possible, I'd pay a ludicrous amount of money to do it and experience this tale blind again. My overall point for anyone reading is, even if you don't like, or aren't particularly fond of, an entry in this series, that doesn't mean you shouldn't give the others a try. Despite being in the same series and having similar names, and even covering similar themes and topics, these are VERY differrent stories with VERY different characters and plots, despite how similar they may seem on the surface.

[@ThaJokerWild]

thanks for this

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

@@ThaJokerWild You're very welcome!

[@theunkn0wn1104]

Actually a really well done video Do you plan on talking about each title in more detail with it's own video later?

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you for the kind words! As for series-specific videos, I wasn't really planning on making one for every SciADV entry. I talked pretty extensively about everything premise-related within this video. But I am planning to make videos for Steins;Gate's 15th anniversary and Chaos;Child's 10th anniversary, especially the latter since MAGES is probably going to ignore it.

[@theunkn0wn1104]

@@bassman.sharingan12341 I see, good to know Hopefully we see news about Steins;??? but what they said also made it sound like they were working on another direct sequel We'll see soon ig

[@Sivvedu]

Great video

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you!!!

[@NeidhardtDB]

Another Bassman W fuhihii

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank youuu!!!!

[@bakazan9091]

20:15 Grey Christmas

[@JayVeeDee]

nice video :D

[@4livetv934]

Wonderful, i wnated a refresher on all sciadv content and it was a great watch, although i would move some things around such as the more popular things such as anime adapations earlier in the video and tried to kind of juggle the attention span between things that most people did heard of and things they didn't to keep the pacing at a steady rate

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you for the feedback! I also thought about doing it that way but ultimately, the reason I had side material before adaptations was because of Steins;Gate 0. It just wouldn't make sense to talk about the 0 anime before the 0 VN. So I structured it this way in the end.

[@4livetv934]

​@@bassman.sharingan12341I see, that's a good reason. But maybe I would prefer a little chaos (pun not intended) in presenting order in cost of better pacing, still watched the whole video nonetheless tho

[@argnt_real]

The chad vid about chad series

[@Armory4]

Good video!

[@MrCaioLeonardo]

I am a SG fan, watched the anime then played the VNs... I then saw the chaos:head anime and since then I was convinced that Chaos;head in general was trash... (the visuals/design are also a bit off on my taste too) Now that I see the points of the video I am looking forward to play the Chaos:head:Noah VN soon. This video surely made a change in my future in this world line. Sorry for bad english.

[@darkenblade986]

This is a really good video. Thank you for taking the time to break everything down and go indepth. Can I ask what is the minimum amount of visual novels one has to play before play anonymous code to get a "full" experience.

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you so much for your kind words! For Anonymous;Code, the bare minimum I'd say is Chaos;Head NoAH, the Steins; sub-series (at least OG + 0 + Octet + the movie), and Occultic;Nine (the anime alone is sufficient). But of course, the more you go through of SciADV beforehand, the better.

[@RaykinaBreaker]

Still can't believe I actully watch this 1 hour video.

[@warpspeedscp]

Guess I know what im splurging on next month

[@Tesemer]

I actually enjoyed chaos;child more than chaos;head and steins;gate. And i LOVED anonymous;code

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Same for me for both. C;C and A;C are tied for my top 1 spot!

[@ruzzfeASMR]

Sono me, dare no me?

[@Troyless]

I'm genuinely curious about the development history bit from the pannel

[@socialreveluv5428]

I bought Occultic;Nine anime yesterday because the VN doesn't really exist at least it's not really international friendly. I've heard that it is really bad compared to the other entries but as a fellow Sci;ADV enthusiast I have to watch it somehow.

[@rdanq_603]

i found out about the SciADV series a few chapters in to the steins;gate vn (and after watching the anime + 0 twice) so do you think I should pause it and play chaos;head noah first? amazing video btw

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you!!! As for your question, in your case, I would recommend pausing and playing Chaos;Head NoAH first! The additional context improves the experience quite a bit.

[@rdanq_603]

@@bassman.sharingan12341 alright thanks

[@L1ghtArimura]

With this I can finally brainwash my friends fuhihihi

[@AnimeSimp234]

Same! Trying to get my friends into this series too. Chaos Child is one of my favorite VN's of all time. Also based Hinae enjoyer.

[@NinosThighs]

@@AnimeSimp234 C;C peak

[@reeymonteiro9528]

El psy kongroo!

[@bohdanyurchenko9670]

So, I played all of the main entries up to Steins;Gate 0 with patches EXCEPT for one - Chaos;Head, I played it on the Switch. Is there a way to find out what exactly I missed without replaying the whole game? And also thanks for the video, I love how detailed it is!

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you for the kind words! As for what you'd have missed, it'd be very hard to briefly sum it all up since basically the entire experience would be quite different. I'd recommend waiting for a good little while and then replaying it patched at some point.

[@valou6649]

I think it's incredible that the first SciADV game was released more than 15 years ago , for me i played most of the SciADV within one or two year (except VNs that only in japanese im waiting for the fan patch of comitee of zero for the love chuchu C;H and C;C) S;G for me the VN I like the most the first time i watch (I watched the anime first in 2017) i have never been in Occultic;Nine, how can i get into Occultic;Nine easily?

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

The easiest and most accessible way to get into Occultic;Nine is just the 12-episode anime. But I would still recommend the 3 light novel volumes beforehand. They're a lot more detailed. You can find them on J-Novel Club's website or on various other common ebook storefronts.

[@ProudlyIdiotic]

Having reached the end, could you those sections on series inspirations and development history into a unique video?

[@abbeyjane5014]

What's the music/ost you use for this it's awesome and the video is too respect to you

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

I just used tracks from the series itself! From start to finish: - Numerical Expression - Prologue - Shogun - Gate of Steiner - Robotics;Notes -2nd theme- - World - The Occultism - End Theme - Accelerator - Silence - Gloomy Fact - The Third Melt - Life Game - Explanation - Chaos Mind - Hack -short vision- - Presage - Mapping Mode - Silent Sky - Urd - Operation Skuld - Kidou! - Gamon Yuta no Image - Institution - Divergence - End Theme

[@abbeyjane5014]

@@bassman.sharingan12341 oh well thanks very much your videos are great too I particularly like the steins gate movie one keep it up

[@arcticfox1916]

hi

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Tutturu!

[@NinosThighs]

arctic everywhere

[@user-wh5po9mp8t]

real

[@dibbobiswas9343]

Watching this video again, I have a question. If anyday someone decides to adapt these visual novels of Science Adventure into live-action, will 2 or 3 seasons of one hour episodes will be enough? If you can, please answer guys.

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Adapting SciADV into live-action - even if Japanese-made - would be quite challenging. Ignoring concept-related difficulties, you'd ideally need a full season of hour-long episodes for each entry. But each entry is of a different length so the number of episodes would be different for each title. S;G for instance could work in 8 hour-long episodes. But R;N or C;C would need 12 hour-long episodes.

[@dibbobiswas9343]

@@bassman.sharingan12341 Thanks for the reply, man. Hopefully, someday it gets fully adapted into a live-action series.

[@Pownchao]

As someone who only really has access to console versions, it's a bit annoying to know I won't be getting the best experience with some of these. Though, I guess it's not such a big issue if I have to watch someone else's playthrough of some of these (would save me some money, too). I wonder if you know of anyone who has a great "let's play" of any of these?

[@gamingandotherstuffchannel]

sono me dare no me

[@mifZE-jt5st]

It's kinda sad Mages hardly release SciADV media nowadays. I hope we can get news about Steins;Gate thematic sequel Steins;???, It's been 5 years since announcement

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

@@mifZE-jt5st we actually did get news a few days ago. It's still in the concepts phase. They haven't started writing the game's scenario yet.

[@mifZE-jt5st]

@bassman.sharingan12341 It seems that gonna take longer than Anonymous;Code. A;C took 7 years since initial announcement, It's been 5 years since Steins;??? announcement

[@Prime-yd7id]

Fuhihihihihihi

[@quplet]

Good video from the basedman

[@bassman.sharingan12341]

Thank you for the kind words, Qu!