The format of a visual novel is more digestible to me than any old-fashioned book. Sometimes I skip through description, but for the most part, I can actually get through a visual novel without getting frustrated with the amount of text (and some of these games can have a word count similar to that of a Tolkien novel). Usually, you’ll have scenery or character portraits to accompany what text is on the screen. Lots of these games are part of a genre called visual novels They’re considered games, but you spend most of your time reading through descriptions and character dialogue.
The closest thing to bo oks that I’ve read since finishing The Picture of Dorian Gray are story-oriented games.
I even surprise myself when I recall the fact that I was an extremely avid reader in my childhood I used to max out the amount of books I borrowed at the library all the time. It doesn’t matter if it’s a fantasy novel or a scientific article I get frustrated by the seemingly endless text and stop trying. Nowadays, when I actually try to read, it just takes me too long to really understand what’s going on. I would even go as far as to dedicate my high school diploma to SparkNotes. I got through high school with the help of SparkNotes (although I’ll never forgive them for the two-sentence summary they wrote for Brokeback Mountain - only got one question right on that pop quiz). Since I started high school, I’ve occasionally skimmed through texts the night before an exam, but it’s not like I’m actually taking in the meaning of most of the words.
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