Talk:Science Adventure Series/@comment-44772409-20200101225312/@comment-40047625-20200102015547

For replays and rewatches, chronological order is a completely acceptable way to experience the series. For a first time player, however, following the order that the authors chose to write and release the content in is the best choice in almost every case when it comes to fictional content. For example, there are callbacks to Chaos;Child and Robotics;Notes in Steins;Gate 0 that one won't catch right away if they take the chronological approach (though arguably, the reader may figure it out later if they do the other order).

Note that this page only lists the *main* games in their chronological order—titles like My Darling's Embrace, Linear Bounded Phenogram, and the Love Chu Chus aren't listed, though they range from largely irrelevant to the main timeline (or worldline in this case) to legitimate sequels to their main games and very relevant to the continued story. Phenogram is all over the place in terms of when it takes place because it tells several different stories that take place at different times, but the game itself was released *after* Robotics;Notes. Without delving into spoilers the reader benefits from knowing what happens in Robotics;Notes before going into Nae's story in Phenogram.

I feel as though I've gone on a bit of a tangent, so I'll try to boil this down to a final statement. Ultimately, the way a potential reader approaches the series is up to the reader, but it is on the reader to do their due research and follow the order that they think will benefit them the most based on the research they have done. I have not experienced the series in release order, nor in chronological order, and I doubt many in the West have—I have not experienced every title in the Science Adventure Series either, due to the existing language barrier. Despite that, I've spoken to many Science Adventure fans and done a fair bit of research on what the best way to approach the series is, and the general consensus has been that release order is objectively the best way to approach the series, even if it only slightly beats out chronological order.