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If you can change the past with a single text message, what would you send?
If you can change the past with a single text message, what would you send?
Rintaro Okabe is a self-proclaimed mad scientist, aka Hououin Kyouma, in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. When going to a presentation about Time Travel, a young prodigy of Science named Kurisu Makise questions him, and is found dead after the presentation. In horror, Okabe sends his friend and Super Hacker buddy Itaru "Daru" Hashida a text message stating that Kurisu Makise was killed, and after a strange phenomenon, the once crowded street of Akihabara he was JUST on becomes deserted, and the radio building he had come out of has a huge satellite crashed into it.
As Okabe tries to understand the depth of the mystery he's been sucked into, with fellow "Lab Members" Daru, his childhood friend Mayuri "Mayushii" Shiina, and the alive Kurisu Makise, he realizes that they have found and made the first time machine that altered the past and saved Kurisu's life: a microwave connected to a cellphone. But they delve too deep and begin to go into places they never should of been into in the first place, and Okabe must set everything right with their Phone Microwave Time Machine. But how long can his mental stability last?
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I know what you're thinking. A Microwave attached to a Phone that can alter the timeline by sending text messages. But when you give the series a few episodes and explanations, you'll realize that it runs deep. When one thinks of time, they believe it to be in a straight line, from past to future. But if you changed a part of the past, just by subtle actions, can alter that line into a branching alternate line of the "World Line". And you can keep adding more and more with each alterations you do.
Time travel is a very crucial part of this series. If you've ever watched the movie, The Time Machine (2004), or read the book, then an element there will be strongly featured in this series and expanded. It's full of suspense (if you don't read Wikipedia) and so many twists and turns.
And in the end, you have to feel for the main character because of all the carp he's been through throughout this entire series. I won't go into detail, but I suggest watching it to get it.
The characters are designed by Huke, wellknown for his works on Black Rock Shooter. You can even see some of the BRS series in this one. The series originally started as an Xbox 360 Visual Novel game, which also became a PSP game.