Steins;Gate Elite will be getting a lovely, fancy limited edition on Nintendo Switch in the west when the game launches next February, it has been confirmed.
This newly announced edition appears to contain different goodies to the one released in Japan, including a 100+ page hardcover artbook which features "beautiful" artwork of the game and a 'Steins;Gate-Universe Storyboard Collection' created by Kenichi Kawamura - the director of the Steins;Gate 0 anime. On top of that, buyers will also get a cloth poster, a custom outer box, and the exclusive '8-bit Adv Steins;Gate' Switch game which we heard about last month.
If you're unfamiliar with the game, Steins;Gate Elite is a fully remastered version of the original 2009 visual novel with animated scenes from the anime included to create an "immersive experience". It follows a group of young, tech-savvy “lab members” who discover a way to change the past via e-mail using a modified microwave (yes, seriously), but their experiments in pushing the boundaries of time begin to spiral out of control, and they soon become entangled in a conspiracy surrounding SERN, an organisation behind the Large Hadron Collider, and John Titor, who claims to be from a dystopian future.
As mentioned above, this limited edition of the game will be available on 19th February 2019 - the same day as the title's scheduled release.
Are you excited for this one?
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Sounds good, but I'm guessing it's going to be priced beyond my budget.
We knew this back in late September. There does exist an image of the limited edition. See here: https://i.imgur.com/mgm6aaT.jpg
Steins; Gate is one of the best sci-fi anime released to date. I am so glad it's getting a western release. There is just too much vernacular and Tokyo slang for my textbook and Kansai Japanese.
(but let me tell you, when I visit Tokyo store clerks get really confused when an American speaks like the Japanese equivalent of an American southerner!)
The bonus game should of been alpaca man
@Heavyarms55 Seconded. It's one of the best animes I've seen.
Also digging this limited edition, quite intrigued by this 8bit mode.
As much as I like the Steins Gate franchise, I'm not too sure if it'll get good review scores due to the fact that for a visual novel, it's quite long; and if you do make a mistake in the game, the bad decision route get padded out a bit too much. There's an option in the PS3 version that allows you to fast forward the game, but I found that it's quite hard to read in the forward mode. If they streamline the game, it might be beneficial to new players.
Any gameplay?
It’s a good anime so I’m kinda curious how the game it’s based on works.
I might be mistaken but I think the 100 page art book and storyboard collection are the same thing. That's what the graphic and amazon listing seem to imply whilst the article is written as two individual things.
8-bit Adv Steins;Gate is also included with regular Switch copies.
@setezerocinco Visual Novel have no gameplay, see it like a very interactive book with voice acting, nice art and music.
VN's are great but not for everyone.
I wanted to like Steins Gate (I don’t hate it!), but I found it to be one of those shows with plenty of endearing characters but no... genuinely likeable ones.
I makes pretty much the entire cast endearingly flawed in some way, but the flaws and quirks seem so heavily drawn that the characters basically become caricatures of their particular archetype. Mad scientist dude is super mad. Cute airhead girl is super cute and airheaded. Insecure genius girl is super duper insecure. Chubby otaku dude is... well, yeah.
Maybe I should just embrace the overdriven nature of the characters as part of the show’s charm. After all, I’m playing currently through TWEWY again, and that’s not exactly subtle in its themes or character development, but for some reason the world of Stein’s Gate is more offputting. Maybe because TWEWY is very obviously a game about personal change and growth, whereas SG’s characters seem too wedded to their archetypes to really change at a noticeable rate.
Anyway... err, great that this is getting a Western bundle for those who dig the show! Maybe I should give it another chance! I’m not sure how through the show I am, but I’d guess a decent chunk.
Will be buying.
I’m hyped. I can’t get enough of Steins;Gate, I first played Steins;Gate0 on PS4 and I recently watched the anime second season on Crunchyroll. I think I saw the last episode 4 times. I just love the story and the characters, unfortunately I still haven’t seen the first season of the anime or played the first game. I’m really hoping that I’ll get that part in the Steins;Gate release on Switch.
I’m almost certainly getting this =)
In pretty sure every switch copy has the 8 bit game - not just the limited edition
hmm, i would assume the ps4 version will get the same artbook too, this is good news as i also have the steins gate 0 artbook.
Too-too-roo!
Steins;Gate is in my top 5 games off all time. Not bad since I been playing video games since 1978. I will buy again for this version. Looking forward to it.
So, will there be a normal cartridge game and another special limited edition?
I`m all for this limited edition with extra goodies, but it`ll come in my country at an unreasonable price, so I`m eyeing an normal physical edition.
@Shugo Interesting... I heard that it's the same VN, but with new scenarios and animated cutscenes from the anime.
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