Just finished C;H NoAH, first timer in SciAdv
Came from Steins gate anime obviously, and man. I don't have any other place to glaze chaos head, so I figured I'll do it here.
What a tough title to sink teeth into. And it doesn't help that it requires quite a deep bite, like 20 hours of patience enduring Takumi's bullshit, boring villain and offensively flat characters of girls just to get to the actual good part. And oh boy does it pay off.
I don't think I've ever seen any other piece of media that places SO MANY Chekhov's Guns and doesn't forget to shoot every single one of them. Even the goddamn >!smug explanation of sky color being the refraction of light. I've facepalmed so hard at that part, and then so much later it's recalled. And the disappearing building too.!<
While hating Takumi and calling him all kind of slurs to the very end of my 60 hour playthrough, I still ended up sympathizing with him, and can't bring myself to not call it by his name anymore.
I'm so mad that, although I get why it ended up this way, it's so unpopular. I haven't yet touched any of other SciAdv VN's, so boy I'm looking forward to it, >!especially after Sena's Route (I wonder if baby will appear in C;C? I'd refuse to believe he won't be used for anything). !<But the fact that it's best entrance to SciAdv, and it took me incredible "trust in the process", knowing english, knowledge/tolerance of otaku and gaming culture, willingness to play VN and tolerance to absolute vile degeneracy of first 7 chapters, it kills me that the bar for entrance in C;H, and in SciAdv as consequence is so astronomically high for average person.
I've been sperging all about my experience to my friend, and while I'm sure I can force him to sit through the start of Steins Gate anime (which myself took 4 attempts), to my heartbreak I don't think I can recommend anyone going through C;H.
If you agree, how you cope with this? It's so badly underrated and it's probably going to stay this way...