One of the first things I remember about the gameplay on this one was that grinding any of the stats over 50 is pointless, the game is mostly choice and event based VN than a sandbox. You have to choose x to get to y and get y to progress to z. That's the basic idea.
Trying to cheat yourself to progress by raising your stats artificially without actually going through the events that raise your stats "naturally" and trigger new events will make you stuck sooner or later.
Stats are there to create triggers to some of the events, but essentially it's the events that will give you progress. It's not a sandbox where you can cheat yourself through by raising stats and jump from event 1 to event 25, skipping everything in between. Cheating will get you nowhere.
The girls and at least some of the events are mandatory to progress, trying to avoid any of them will just make you run around in circles.
The "walktrough alt" is likely the one to follow if the third one looks too complicated.
