Review of Steins;Gate 0

Okay so this is my first time writing a review on MAL but i just felt the need to share my thoughts about this with the rest of y'all. I can't even put into words how disappointed I am with this season of Steins Gate. As a huge fan i had high expectations for this alternative story, and although at first i was like ''why but it ended with a good closure'' i was still curious and decided to check it out because i believed they would make it fun and interesting no matter what the story is about. I had fun watching the first8 episodes, the 8th episode was the best in my opinion because they made it look like it's a final closure with Makise and Okabe being the tragic hopeless character, they made it look like Okabe could finally move on and he'll surely progress to coming back to his old self and continue searching for Steins Gate or idk just do something with his life, focus on doing what has to be done. Instead, the story continues in the same way, Okabe being the main lead of a melodrama with his tragic character, everyone suddenly being in love with him, basically the anime turned into a harem with a huge dose of pathetic outbursts. There were so many unnecessary characters and stories. First, it was Hiyajo with her inferiority complex, Makise wannabe, a girl who appeared out of nowhere, tried hard to be made into an interesting character but failed and eventually turned into an Okabe's harem part, her overly annoying American professor with that cringe style of talking and just overall unnecessary and predictable, then Amadeus that looked like something that will become very important for the plot but instead served as a Makise replacement but in a shape of a virtual girlfriend, then Kagari who appeared out of nowhere looking the same as Makise, another unnecessary replacement for Makise, ''friends'' who are suddenly lab partners without any deep, real connection between the characters, feeling awkward when you see them mixed together in those forced scenes. They made all those random parties for them to grow on us, but they failed. Parties were random and unnecessary and were just an oppurtunity for them to sexualize young girls and make those random disgusting scenes. Another thing that fascinates me is the character of Kagari who was a character that had no purpose in the anime, like i already said basically a character made to look like Makise so we wouldn't feel like she's missing in the series. Her tragic story wasn't that heartbreaking since they included her randomly and basically we never knew anything about her in the first place for us to connect to her and feel sorry enough. Also, the thing that was so disappointing was the ''plot twist'' because it was everything but a plot twist since i believe most of us figured it out immediately in the beginning. Honestly this whole season turned out to be pointless in so many ways. What was it actually about?? What is the point of him going back and using that damn microwave for the last 5 episodes when the whole season was built on his ''NO I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU EVEN SAY THE WORDS TIME LEAP''. Basically he let Makise die and gave up on her and finding the Steins Gate but now he suddenly cares so much about a random Kagari, overly annoying Mayuri whose character turned into a harem material, and everyone else who was completely useless and he decides to time leap just to find Steins Gate and save them... um what even???? I mean i don't even know where to start and how to properly connect all parts of this anime into a solid review because it was so messy itself and all parts of it were chaotic tbvh. I'm just utterly disappointed and i honestly can't believe i endured through this mess for 23 episodes. I guess i did it because i'm a fan and i would feel bad if i just dropped it.. I wouldn't recommend it, especially to fans like me because this will probably just disappoint you. On the other hand, it will make you appreciate the first season and the movie even more because those were just masterpieces. To conclude, i'm giving this a 3 and even though i feel kinda bad for doing it i just have to because it doesn't deserve any better. I gave a 10 to original Steins Gate and the movie Deja Vu so.. i guess that speaks for itself.