I don't want to offend anyone and I do like the game a lot and maybe I'm biased. But I have to share my opinion :
I get if someone doesn't like a game, hell I don't like several, but why feel the need to lie in a review? Isn't that a bit unfair to write twice that a game has 'no story', then admit you haven't played the game much at all so you wouldn't know if it has a story or not?
Then play the game more, change your review after you played more. Yet still in the changed review admit you only played "70%" (so 0% of the island - the biggest update by far)... and still claim "no story", when at this point is crystal clear you have no idea yet whether there is a story. Then after writing the game has no story write that only Visual Novels (VN) can have "real stories". So now the game suddenly has a story but not a real one? But why write twice it has no story then? BTW I get you don't like games that are not VN but isn't that said in the rules that shouldn't be the basis for your review? It's like if I were to review visual novels and write that they are all garbage because I don't like the genre. Which may be true but wouldn't be a very fair reviewing method.
The game literally has no significant grind anywhere. It's simply false to state otherwise. If there was even one example of grind we could discuss it, but not a single example is given. If an example was given and I missed it I apologize in advance.
Yes it's true many events are repeatable if I choose to repeat them. Giving players the option to be able to repeat an event they like has nothing to do with grind. I like to have the option to repeat events IF I want. Me repeating an event as a player choice is not grind. It's a feature to have that extra option. We all know this thread has an impact on game development and
I'd rather this option didn't get removed from the game because some people are unable to understand this free choice given to the player to repeat events they like multiple times.
I can't remember a single case where someone asked for help in progressing, uploaded a save uploaded a progression screenshot and eventually was not helped in this thread. Sorry for the rant.