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well visual novel and sound novel don't have the same game design. in visual novel, (like in higurashi) you have a character standing in a wallpaper behind it and a textbox where you can read what it is said. in a sound novel, you have a different view on the characters and the textbox get the whole screen or more or less. to me it's not the same but I was said I was bitching about making categories for nothing. but I think I still have a point and higurashi is visual novel more than a sound novel. just go watch on yt. you'll see the difference inbetween visual and sound novel