

The scientific organisation in question has done this to a dead friend of Rintaro’s, giving him a chance to interact with his friend again.

Without giving too much away a group of scientists have created technology that allows a person to download their thoughts and memories into an AI software, that is then capable of developing its own personality and creating new memories. In Steins Gate 0 the characters are grappling with death and the ethics of AI. Steins Gate 0 does similar, though with less levity and a theme more directly related to society today. Steins Gate 0 carries across the same larger than life character In playing Steins Gate, you can feel the pulse that it has on otaku cultures, and the nuanced storytelling balance between parody and reflection made that game a near-thesis on one of Japan’s most misunderstood and ridiculed social environments. The broad narrative dealt with Akiba’s love of underground alternative philosophy and mania in that case, the obsession with time travel and fringe science. What made the game so completely intriguing was just how immersed it was in Akihabara culture, and how it both deconstructed and examined how Akiba’s unique subcultures worked. The original Steins Gate was a masterpiece of storytelling, and not just because it told a ripping good yarn.
