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Wow, its pretty awesome of this series. masterpiece and fabulous.

I love time travel stories. They are my favorite type of science fiction. But even in a world with Back to the Future and Star Trek IV, I'd still say the most interesting, complex, and utterly captivating time travel narrative I have ever encountered is the visual novel Steins;Gate.

Steins;Gate is the story of Rintarou Okabe, self-styled mad scientist (read: college student) who accidentally invents time travel in the two-room apartment he calls his lab. However, the time machine does not send a person through time, but instead a small, short email.

Much of the first act deals ... with figuring out the rules of time travel—i.e., what the ability to send emails into the past can really affect and the unintended consequences of even the simplest of messages.

Over the course of the game, two other forms of time travel are introduced: a Quantum Leap-type machine that allows you to transfer your memories into your past body and a true time machine that can take you physically into the past. However, each of these types of time travel have their own unique rules which limit their usefulness—as does the multiverse itself.

The complex world it builds is where Steins;Gate really shines. Time travel stories often fall apart due to contradictions in how their time travel works—where rules are established and then later broken for no other reason than that the plot wills it. Despite being rather complex, the time travel mechanics hold together quite well and serve not only as the catalyst for the plot, but also its resolution.