Awesome, thanks. I still need to play these, honestly - my wife loved the first one but hasn't played the second, and a good friend of mine loved the second but hasn't played the first.
Haha, yeah, I'm in the same boat as your wife. I loved the first one but still have to play the second. Were you looking for the Vita one or the 3DS version?
I have a hard time calling them visual novels, but I guess that's what they really are. They feel more like puzzle-y adventure escape-the-room sort of games, at least the first one does - but with a really interesting dialogue, story, and choice-making outside of the puzzles.