Some gems like 428 aside, I'm generally not a fan of "pure" VNs (the style is often much too verbose), but VN/puzzle hybrid games like Ace Attorney, 999/VLR or Ghost Trick have slowly established themselves this past decade as one of my favorite genres.
From the description in the article, it sounds more like what you would have called an "adventure game" ~30 years ago. And going by this quote:
> In practice, you will end up dying quite a few times until you find out the nature of the curse that ends up killing you, which is a hint on how you can avoid its effects.
...it seems to be more in the tradition of the Sierra adventures (try to cross street -> get hit by a car).
