I beat all the Danganronpas and the mini games during the trials are so annoying. I get they wanted to change things up. But at no point did I go, "Aw hell yeah peak gaming".
It's the story - it's so freaking engaging. And I'll deal with the boring point and click finding for clues, if I get to learn more how the sumo wrestler man was not the killer.
Yeah I got through like 20 minutes of that game before I realized it was a light novel and this wasn’t some kind of annoyingly long and convoluted tutorial.
Biggest reason I play visual novels is definitely for story and lack of gameplay, usually (cough cough Danganronpa cough cough). Gameplay means little to me if I'm really interested in the story and wanna see it through.