Review: Root Letter: Last Answer (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S. 

Root Letter: Last Answer leaves me in a very difficult position. On the one hand, and purely on a sentimental level, Root Letter is my favourite visual novel. I'd argue that there are smarter and deeper VNs out there - Steins;Gate, for example, and there are certainly ones that are more philosophically dense - Danganronpa being an obvious example there. But Root Letter's romantic treatment of Shimane prefecture, and its "page-turner" mystery narrative, is more comfortable and memorable, like a favourite good book. The kind you read over and over again purely because it brings you joy.
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