I think I need something like a guide, or at least some help on how to advance things in this game...
I get that everything is about managing your resources, but I can't find any way of progressing because no matter what I try, it's a quick slide into failure.
1. Money: I need money, and really the only viable way to make money, seems to be working for April. Okay, fair enough, you can level up cleaning too, which lets you get paid without spending much food or energy. I earn about 30 coins for working for her, which pays for 1 warm bread, which is not nearly enough food... leading to...
2. Energy: The only way to get energy is by going to bed with a full food bar. Going to bed with a full food bar is impossible... and without having a huge energy, I can't progress in the Gym thing, which bars a lot of content from me right out of the gate. It also means more often than not, I can't pay attention in classes, leading to further reduction of vitals. There is water, but I can't afford to buy water because I have no money.
3. Willpower: So here I am, not a lot of energy, food is at 0, and I need money to buy more food... so i work for april anyway, but because I have no energy, I get punished, which lowers my willpower and forces me into the "foot fetish" content with 0 energy, you get no reward for this, all you get is foot addiction which.... slashes your max willpower by an insane amount.
4. Rent: I have no surplus money, and so I have no money to pay rent after the first time. Which the game thought of and "helpfully" lets someone pay for your rent, but in return whatever tiny progress you may have made in the game gets deleted by taking the pink pill. What used to be a spiral has now become a nosedive. My stats are going down and I have no way to get it up, not even over time, because of this pill that resets all progress and then some.
5. Skull girls: They keep attacking you, taking your willpower, energy, money and accruing debt. There is now way to get on top of this, and you can be damn sure that if I am able to run up 30-40 gold in a week of grinding, they will simply take it in forced encounters, which guarantees you have no chance to ever build up any money for rent.
I am sorry, I am frustrated, I understand that you're not meant to flourish in this game, but I can't even see the content because I can't find any way to avoid getting into this loop. And the game takes a LONG time to play, and after several failed attempts, I've spent hours on basically nothing...