VN - Unity - Completed - The Letter - Horror Visual Novel [Final] [Yangyang Mobile]

1/5 - DNF; didn't get me off

Gameplay consists of making choices and a few QTEs. There are many choices to make and they strongly influence the narrative. Each of the 7 chapters has 3+ endings, and there are 50 epilogues for the final ending.
Despite this, the lack of control can be frustrating. You will only decide little things, such as whether you want to nag your husband a lot or nag your husband a bit, but you won't be given an option to not nag him at all. You will decide between confiding in friend A or friend B and then later on complain about how you really should have talked with friend C.
The effects of choices are also unclear. For example, at the climax of chapter 2 your character has a confrontation with her husband. However, instead of you (the player) deciding how the wife acts, the decision is made for you based off the previous choices in the chapter. I didn't like how choosing whether I was nice or rude to total strangers earlier on in the chapter determined the ending for me.

You'll have noticed that all of these choices I'm discussing are about relationships, not about horror or mystery. The Letter is 70% drama, 20% mystery, and 10% jump scares. I wouldn't call this a horror VN. It's just a typical soap opera relationship building game, but with a ghost thrown in. Newsfalsh - it takes more than the random jump scare to make a story scary. There needs to be a dark atmosphere, there needs to be some sense of fear. Just shoving in a creepy girl in the middle of a happy conversation doesn't qualify as horror. Jinkies, Scooby Doo is more horror than this.


+ This is the first VN where I didn't mute the voices... but still I wouldn't call the acting good. The emotions don't match the dialogue, like a dub for a foreign movie

- No back button
- Characters don't change clothes
- Having to play as 7 different characters, it's hard to connect with all of them. As mentioned, the nagging wife is particularly terrible
- Game isn't scary. It relies on jump scares to provide the fear factor, but there are no screams or sounds or anything to help. There isn't even any dark atmosphere or anything like that, it's just everyone's cheerful and then a random flash and suddenly the creepy girl is on the screen. It doesn't work.

absolutely recommend, great story and character development, great visuals and voice acting, great deal of player agency and the atmosphere is really well done. I still have to find out about the replayability as of yet. There aren't many better horror games out there, and that includes several AAA titles. I'm sure there are things you could improve, but from my perspective they are not even worth mentioning. It's just a really good game overall.

This game is my first visual novel horror game I have ever played and oh boy is it good! There are moments when it really gives me the goosebumbs, the voice acting are on point and I always can put myself into the person's skin, getting the feeling that I myself am a part of it and am in great danger! Definitely recommand it to any horror fans and to people who can take some creepy and horror stories.

It's rare that I get to post a rating about a game just a day after downloading. Always nice to see a completed game on here. It's even more rare I rate a game with no sexual content. And yet something about this grabbed my eye and I'm glad it did.

I have to start by confirming this indeed has no porn in it. It's as far from the usual games you will find here as it gets. It's a choice-based VN in the horror genre and the most you will see is a "fade to black", optional sex encounter. And one of the protags with lingerie. So if you are looking for porn better look elsewhere.

Its theme still qualifies it as an adult game though, so it has a place here. And it was a pretty enjoyable 6-7 hrs. The plot is not the most original. It's the stadard haunted house story with an interesting twist on the chain mail pranks. Full with every trope you can think of from Japanese horror, grimy dark haired ghosts, spooky photos, ceiling crawling and all.

But it's delivered really well. You get to play through various protags as their story interlinks with each other, heading towards the inevitable climax at Halloween night. And with each story you get to fill more blanks. The story grabs you and the cast is interesting enough to make the whole multi-protag thing work. I was impressed at how well their own issues were woven into the story (and exploited by the evil antagonist accordingly). It gave a surpisingly grounded approach, where the line between supernatural and mental illness is thin.

On top of interesting characterization the voice acting in this is spot on. It's rare I don't get to mute voice in a VN but this just worked for me. Probably because so many posh English accents made for the lack of sexual content

Choices matter in this, as it has multiple endings. In my playthrough I managed to only lose two from the cast so I didn't do too shabby. But it does indicate this game doesn't always have obvious black and white choices as I thought I was picking the best each time.

So if you are looking for a break from the usual fuckfests or blueball fests pretending to have good writing, you might want to try one that actually has that. Especially if you are a fan of Japanese horror flicks like Ju-On. This is practically a love letter to that genre.

Hands down, this is one of the best visual novels you will ever play. That is all I need to say.

Just listen to the opening song - Letters Goodbye (https://youtu.be/4qkEnsR2rnE) - and try to tell me you don't want to play it.

Hands down, this is one of the best visual novels you will ever play. That is all I need to say.

Just listen to the opening song - Letters Goodbye (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qkEnsR2rnE&ab_channel=ShinAlford) - and try to tell me you don't want to play it.