Review of Steins;Gate 0
(TLDR at the bottom, thanks for reading.) Steins Gate 0 is pure steins gate fanfiction that everyone thought was a good idea, it lives off the premise that we already like these character so it exploits that to not actually be a good show because just having the characters on the screen makes money. The main difference in steins gate 0 is it takes place in a timeline where Okabe has given up, this should already be setting off alarms because that means most of the show is spent waiting for Okabe to actually decide to progress the plot. So steins gate 0's first 16 episodes isjust characters pissing around while the writers try to figure out as many contrived ways that they can force the whole cast into one scene. This is why I called it fanfiction. Some things do happen in these early episodes but they are ultimately dropped at just serve as misdirects to pad for time. The lab gets raided a few times and the show subtle suggests that one of the new characters, Yuki, might be involved in this raid. By showing different parts of her body bandaged corresponding to where one of the raiders was kicked, they further lean into this to get the viewer to suspect that something was going on. But the show just days it wasn't Yuki and all the characters just ignore this and the show carries on. This happens multiple times.
These episodes were the show is just killing time isn't even enjoyable to watch as every character has had their personality stripped out and is replaced with a cardboard cutout of themselves. All the female characters are now just cardboard cutouts with massive tits that the writers force into some of the most contrived sexual situations in anime just to pad for time. And while I'm on about characters lets address the elephant in the room, the Amadeus system, since Makise Kurisu is one of the most people characters she had to be in the new series but this takes place in a timeline where Kurisu isn't alive so the writers come up with a half-assed workaround which is the ai Amadeus, nevermind that this takes place in 2011 so technology like this shouldn't be possible, this allows the show to pretend Kurisu is back while not actually committing to anything. This issue with this is no one wants this half-assed version of Kurisu. Kurisu fans aren't satisfied because their favourite character isn't really back and people who want an actual story aren't satisfied at this obvious attempt to pretend to have Kurisu while also sticking to the beta timeline. There is also Kagari which is another cynical attempt at bringing Kurisu back but she is as flat and uninteresting as the rest of the cast and I don't care.
The 16 episodes leading up to the final arc all vary in quality from barely passable to frustratingly bad and since most of them are inconsequential I'll skip to the final arc and not nitpick the minute detail's of every single detail and skip to the final arc.
Near the end of the series Okabe decided to time leap into the future to progress the plot, he awakes in a bombed-out building and learns that he has been in a coma for eleven years how he is still alive since the only thing watching over him is Amadeus, a computer program is never explained. How was Okabe fed? How is he able to move after being stationary for 11? How has he not been harmed as he is in an open building in a post-apocalyptic future? Moving on, he finds out that everyone else has been moping around waiting for Okabe to wake up while Feris and Rukako have now been turned into super soldiers. Steins Gate 0 takes itself pretty seriously but I can't take it seriously when Rukako cuts down some armed soldiers with a katana (this isn't the worst scene as there is one scene where Kagari karate chops two dudes heads off). So then Okabe explains his plan to make 3000 consecutive time loops to get back to the point where he can change what's happened. While this is kind of cool on paper in the show it just comes off as unimpressive. He then gets back to the normal time and does somethings and changes the course of time. The end.
TLDR: The first 16 episodes are just boring characters messing around and the rest are boring characters enacting a boring plot.