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  • Catharsis Factor: After getting through every scenario by the skin of your teeth and enduring constant setbacks from forces smugly assured of their superiority, it's beyond satisfying to send Pollon back to the very start of the story and watch him completely blitz through all of the game's events with his foreknowledge.
  • Epileptic Trees: In a 2019 interview, Chiyomaru Shikura has stated that Anonymous;Code is set to resolve unanswered questions and act as "the culmination" for Science Adventure Series. Based on pre-release material, the ending of Sena's route in Chaos;Head NoAH saying the events take place in a videogame, Gamon seeing binary at the end of Occultic;Nine adaptation, and motifs in the songs, a lot of speculation got focused on World Layers and implications that events of all Science Adventure Series happen in a simulated reality, where O;9 and A;C exist on a higher Layer from others. While it's not explicitly confirmed and only raises more questions, fans use World Layers as a to-go explanation for anything that happened in the franchise.
  • Even Better Sequel: The reviews note that while it may not end as popular as Steins;Gate, the pacing and character writing are potentially the best across Science Adventure Series, or at least much better than the previous Robotics;Notes DaSH.
  • Fridge Horror: The world being Inside a Computer System would explain every paranormal thing in Science Adventure Series, would tie up all the Technobabble, nods in the songs, and Committee of 300 information together, but the story doesn't make such connection, so it's ambiguous if World Layers relate to other concepts.
  • Fridge Logic:
    • Despite the police securing Davide's corpse, no charges are made against Rosario for shooting him. It hasn't been stated if Kaoru has pardoned her or simply didn't know about her until much later, but it says something when the same police tries to arrest Pollon for relatively minor offenses.
    • Everyone knows Japanese, including Momo, who fled to Japan and really had no time to study the language.
    • "3 6 9" relevant in the ending also represent Holy Trinity in some studies and appears in the "Dread" soundtrack during Davide fight.
  • Genius Bonus: The third quest involves audio frequencies only kids can hear. Wind calls it a curse, but it's actually a phenomenon known as presbycusis.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: One of the news snippets discusses presidential election fraud and blames it on Corporate America. In 2024 the presidential elections have seen both the republicans and democrats accusing each other of voters fraud.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the news snippets says that NSF has abandoned repairs of the Arecibo Observatory in 2037. The real NSF did just that in October 2022, just a few months after the novel's release.
  • It's Short, So It Sucks!: Many have noted that the novel is about half as short compared to other entries, and it's despite also being linear, while also costing twice as much as Steins;Gate and Chaos;Child. Some say being all-action is good, but it could have added more breather time to give the cast more development.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Both of his parents have committed Spiteful Suicide because he was just too talanted, the government only keeps him around to develop a superweapon for their own needs and tries to get rid of him once it becomes a scandal, his only caretaker turned out to be a traitor, and the social media vilify him and wants him dead just for giggles. It's no surprise Asuma Soga became a nihilist who trusts nobody.
  • Narm: The walking animations. Since it's a visual novel with static backgrounds, the characters walk in the place, so it looks rather goofy.
  • Scrappy Mechanic:
    • In theory, the player can activate Pollon's Saving and Loading at any moment, since he's explicitly capable of rewinding time whenever he wants. In reality, doing so outside of very specific lines of dialogue will get the menu blocked. This means that if the player is already well aware the plot expects to Load, they have to try every line one by one since such moments get less telegraphed later in the story, and if it's clear they're already on a path to a bad ending, there's nothing they can do and Pollon also forgets he can escape any situation. Everyone brings this up.
    • In some cases, Loading the last checkpoint after a game over preserves the bad ending Event Flag instead of using the initial checkpoint's state before the decision, meaning the player has to use a different save slot, provided it was even made close by.
    • The games lacks subtitles for the Japanese dub. While almost all of the dialogue is in the text boxes, some of it isn't, so the player may miss what characters are talking about when they're not focused on. A patch by the Committee of Zero community addresses this.

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