The reviews aren't great though, although I'm generally comfortable ignoring those. Players complaining about the English translations mainly.

I finished Day 2 of the demo, and they let you play up through Day 7, out of supposedly 100.

It's great so far! Feels just like Danganronpa except it has turn-based strategy.

I guess that fact makes it not exactly a visual novel but I'm not too hung up on it, and decided to post in this community anyway since the fanbase would be here. (And I mean, games like Sakura Wars three decades ago had the same formula and are called visual novels, so)

The English dub is really good so I kept it on English. Lately I'm finding myself doing that more often. English voice actors can sometimes have great range and expressiveness, probably helped that they come from a variety of different backgrounds. I appreciate that they pronounce the Japanese names impeccably in this game.

Japanese voice actors lately - either I'm old and have listened to them for too many years, or many of the newer VAs are limited in range and feel kinda stiff.