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Steins Gate 0 Free Download for PC is a visual novel video game developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is part of the Science Adventure series, and is a follow-up to Steins;Gate (2009). It was released for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita in 2015 in Japan, and will be released for the latter two in North America and Europe in 2016. Additionally, a Microsoft Windows version is planned for release in 2016 in Japan.
Gameplay
As a visual novel game, minimal interaction is required by the player and most of the time spent is on reading the text representing dialogue between characters or the thoughts of the protagonist.
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For the decision points, Steins;Gate 0 has a different system from the «phone trigger» system introduced in the original Steins;Gate. In Steins;Gate 0, the «RINE trigger» system is used where the player can exchange messages real-time with the characters of the game via the RINE app installed on the player's in-game smartphone. The player is notified through an indication found on the upper left corner of the screen upon receiving a new message. Depending on the message, the character of the game will react differently. The player also has the option to send stickers. Steins Gate 0 Download free Full Version.
Plot
The story follows after Rintaro Okabe returns to the Beta worldline where Kurisu Makise is fated to die. He failed in his attempt to save Kurisu, only to accidentally kill her instead. The protagonist later suffers from serious posttraumatic stress disorder and tries to cope with his failure to save Kurisu. He later meets Maho Hiyajo, a neuroscientist working on a program called «Amadeus» which allows the copy and digital recreation of a person's brain into an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar of said person. He is later surprised that Hiyajo managed to create an AI copy of Kurisu using Amadeus, before the latter's death.
Development
Steins;Gate 0 was planned and written by Chiyomaru Shikura and produced by Tatsuya Matsubara, and features character designs by Huke. The scenario was worked on by Naotaka Hayashi, Toru Yasumoto, Masaki Takimoto, and Tsukasa Tsuchiya, and makes use of the stories in the light novel series the Epigraph Trilogy[a] and in Steins;Gate drama CDs as one of its «roots». It is however not an adaptation of these; it features a new scenario, and the developers describe it as a «legitimate numbered sequel».
The music was composed by Takeshi Abo. His process for composing the music consisted of him reading the game's story, to get an as full as possible understanding of the setting and the character personalities. He considered his first impressions of the game's emotional flow and events to be very important: he would write them down together with the kind of music he would want to use for each scene, and keep them in mind when composing the music. He said that this approach, while taking longer than if he had just designated songs to various places in the game, made for higher quality music with a better relation to the game's worldview. Steins Gate 0 Game free Download Full Version.
Promotion and release
The game was first was announced in March 2015. It was originally scheduled to be released in Japan on November 19, 2015, but was delayed and released on December 10, 2015 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. Japanese first-print copies of the PlayStation 4 version of included a digital PlayStation 4 copy of the first Steins;Gate. The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions of Steins;Gate 0 are planned to be released in North America and Europe in 2016 by PQube. A Microsoft Windows version was planned to be released on June 24, 2016 in Japan, but was delayed to August 26. An anime adaptation has been greenlit.
Reception
The game sold 100,000 copies on its first day of release, bringing total Steins;Gate visual novel sales to more than one million copies sold. Kotaku included Steins;Gate 0 on a list of the best Japan-only video games of 2015, praising its story and saying that it, while not being as good as the first Steins;Gate, is a «fantastic follow-up». Steins Gate 0 game free Download for PC Full Version.
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