Review of Steins;Gate 0

I went in completely blind for watching the sequel. I read none of the comments and I watched this way past when it aired so I have little bias. Also as background, Steins;Gate is one of my favorite shows, to me it's a 10/10. The concept of text messages to change the past was interesting and unique and so were the personalities of the lab members. It made the shock of when Kyouma had to constantly go back to the different worlds have some weight to it. This sequel is a humungous let down. Some people say that the second seasons of Code Geass andDeath weren't good or as good as the first seasons but this second season of Steins:Gate makes those second seasons look like masterpieces.

This second season is convoluted, repetitive and melodramtic, with many of the emotional scenes lacking any weight at all. Also it took until about episode 18 till the show kind of revealed it's big suprise but it really didn't add anything to the previous season or this season. All it did was setup another more convulted storyline that they can't resolve. They also treated Rintaro horribly in this season as a character. He goes through trauma from his previous experiences time travelling and the empathy they show him isn't very long lasting or too supportive. I guess it's supposed to be a tough love type thing but they just can't leave him alone and just always want him to time travel or try to mess around with that stuff. And when he calls them out on it, he gets punched. But when the tables are turned, they start acting the same way.
Also after episode 18, they just straight up don't explain details and just hope that some music montages or whatever will distract you from the fact they don't explain how any of the stuff that's happening is happening. The whole show is too convulted, has no emotional depth, is full of plotholes, is repetetive, and they completely butcher the characters. It's so bad it makes me re-consider my opinion on the first season. For me this is the worst sequel I've ever see of anything in my life because of how much worse it is than the first. By the end, it literally resolves nothing. 3/10 absolutely terrible.