Steins Gate is probably what you want to recommend your peers to if you want show them a glimpse of the visual novel medium can do. Its duration is perfect, a sci-fi mystery thriller, good characters, and some poignant themes and remarks on time travel, will, and being. Some missteps were made in what I felt in the later chapters but the way the plot is wrapped up and connects back to the beginning is probably one of the best moments of brilliance I've experienced. I would probably rate this higher if I wasn't so spoiled by playing other VNs that broke my standards at the time when I played this.

Its disorientating, gritty, and schizophrenic. Max Payne 3 is something that had the chance to be really disastrous but instead it ended up being great for whatever reason in my eyes. The point isn't in the plot its just Max himself dealing with the demons of his past. Its been done for the past two games but some how they made it work for the third time. The gunplay is probably the best I've experienced in a game. The challenges that the game offers really amp up the feeling of being a drugged up anti hero with shooting skills of a god. The multiplayer is addicting and offers a variety of modes. I think what I've enjoyed was the disregard of the inter-connectivity of the story and instead focusing on a particular moment of distraught or a moment of silence/peace that Max has. It made it more poignant and showed the solipsism that Max achieves for himself in midst of a violent and chaotic world. For whatever is thrown at you, you can still grumble a self depreciating joke or at how absurd reality has become.

The first Shin Megami Tensei game I've played and the first of the new team's take on a mainline Shin Megami(supposedly). It really is a great amalgamation of concepts even if some of them are underdeveloped. It's take on post apocalyptic cyberpunk world sprinkled in with western and eastern mythologies is really one of the most unique things I have experienced. The unrelenting and grueling press turn system makes a return and makes boss fights and even some mundane fights adrenaline pumping. The themes/alignments of law, neutral, and chaos and how each factions are associated with them and their philosophies are a good treat to explore. The plot may feel a bit rushed towards the end and may leave some plot threads hanging but the sheer creativity in its concepts is enough to make a good impression and something that can make one think. Great JRPG for the 3ds if not one of the best. Did I mention it has best soundtrack out of all the mainline SMT games?