So i want to ask a question here to all the people here who have read a Visual novel. We all know reading books gives a lot of great benefits to the people who read it like improved reading capability and better memory. But do you all think Visual novels give the same kind of benefits? I am talking about stuff like increased reading capability and improved memory that you get from reading real novels. I believe they certainly do since a Visual novel is basically just a book but with music, voices and Visuals.
Kind of need to understand the mechanism by which reading improves memory and reading capability to provide an informed answer. Based on assumption alone, I don’t think visual novels would have as great of an impact as reading books, especially on memory.
Visual novels take away some of the need to form memories from the text. When a character is in a scene, the image of the character is generally shown; the brain doesn’t need to recall a memory of which character it is and how the reader previously interpreted their description. And, related to descriptions, visual novels don’t need to give detailed character descriptions because there is (or will be) an image. The reader’s cognitive abilities aren’t flexed nearly as much as if they have to form an image from the text themselves.