I just came across this game, and I wanted to share some of my first impressions. First off, I'd easily give this game a five star rating right now, but I always prefer to wait until a VN is a bit further along so that I can give it an honest review and not one that's just based on hype. That being said, I would be shocked if this one ends up anything other than five stars once it's done, because so far
Element-174 has a great story with a strong narrative thrust, wonderful use of music (both bgm and char themes – Katy's theme in particular makes me smile for some reason), a large variety of attractive and compelling love interests with complex personalities, smart dialog, smooth editing and pacing (I never feel bored reading the short bits of descriptive text), very nice renders and visuals, and most importantly the sex scenes are extremely well done with great buildup and anticipation, plus hot descriptions of all the carnal activities that occur.
I'll put some of my more detailed thoughts on the game below behind a Spoiler tag.
I'll definitely be replaying this several times to experience all of the various content and branches that have already been created, and I'll be looking forward to future updates! I can't wait to see where this one goes and what the devs have in store for it, because this has all the makings of becoming a legendary game!