The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

An interesting and well put together visual novel that centres on the premise of mystery and urban legends, and builds a cast of characters with their own personal dramas around it. It has an interesting structure in that there isn't just one protagonist. The whole story consists of 7 chapters, and in each chapter, we're viewing the events from the eyes of a different character. All of these characters are part of the story and interact with one another frequently. I liked this approach, especially as the story wasn't always chronological. Whenever we switched to the next character, we often got to see some of the events we've seen already from a different point of view and with different internal thoughts. I wouldn't say it's entirely a horror game, but it has horror elements and horror scenes. It gives a lot more story time to uncovering mysteries and to interpersonal relationships between the characters. In fact, the latter is perhaps the main thing I disliked, because at times the pacing was extremely slow due to filler scenes between characters simply chatting and solving non-plot related issues. In the first 5 chapters, a good 80-90% of the time the plot takes a backseat, …

I originally played The Letter on Switch, but after replaying it on Steam, I can confidently say that PC is the much better experience. The game looks absolutely gorgeous, especially the huge variety of backgrounds (many of which are even animated) and the overall production quality is genuinely impressive. The voice acting is also fantastic. I normally don’t particularly like English-voiced visual novels, but the cast here really won me over :) My favourite part, though, has to be the achievements. There are so many branches and different outcomes that you genuinely have to work for 100%. I’ve already filled over ten pages of notes trying to keep track of which routes and choices I need to replay to unlock everything. I’ve 100%ed everything up to Chapter 6 so far, whilst Ashton is around 75%, and the final two chapters are proving to be an absolute nightmare. I love that the game actually rewards you for properly exploring its branching story rather than just playing through it once. The horror is also handled pretty well. I’d personally describe The Letter as more of a mystery/thriller with horror elements than a straight-up horror game. The atmosphere and setting do most of t…

~~~ QUICK REVIEW - NO SPOILERS ~~~ TITLE OF REVIEW: The Letter overstayed it welcome, and glad I'm finally done with it. RATE: 5/10 PRICE: Wait for Discount HORROR LEVEL: Almost non-existing RECOMMENDED: No STEAM DECK: Runs well. However, some of the QTE (Quick Time Events) were incompletable on Steam Deck. OVERALL There were many things in this game that made me want to drop it, but I continue on, because I really wanted to like this game, however, that something never came. I hated almost all the main characters. I didn't feel like the story was well-written, It left a few things unsolved. There isn't much horror in this game. The story could had easily been cut in half with nothing of valuable lost. The music was okay. The CGs, and background art were good, but wish there was more of it. I wasn't a fan of the character design. I would say I did enjoy that this game had Voice Acting, and that it offed multiple playthrough because of the tree branch system it has, and maybe one day I'll come back to quickly 100% this game. However, for now, I'm just glad that I'm done with it. Overall, I didn't enjoy this game. I never written a reviews of just flat-out complaining before, h…

Was definitely worth hearing Luke say "this is all your fault" and "might as well start a bloody massacre" roughly a hundred times to get 100% completion.

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This is a really good visual novel. The characters are fully voiced and the voice acting is good. The story is suspenseful, though a bit slow at times. It's got jumpscares.