Many folks on this board take any criticism of the game as if we are calling your baby ugly.
Well I am firmly in the camp that feels the game has gone off the rails.... much too slow, much too grindy. I don't mind slow builds and even not a lot of lewd scenes - but I want there to be some payoff for the grind. My MC made all the pools shots and still loses. He gets slaughtered in VR without even a chance. He gets killed in the D&D game, he gets dissed by just about everyone - and that is playing the nice guy romance routes. The D&D game is the essences of grind - wander around and get killed randomly, rewind, reset, and get killed again. Wasted animation on dice rolling - oh you lost again! The pool mechanics also obviously took a ton of time and programming skill but the juice is not worth the squeeze. Yup I've seen And yes, I've done the two field trips in different run throughs, but I am not impressed, From my perspective it is nearly impossible to "play your gut" and have anything good happen. And for me, the Chris domme thing is just plain boring, way too long, way too slow, not even a little erotic - so no, not well accepted. I agree with the comment that there is very little about most of the choices to suggest you are either opening a route or closing a route. I don't enjoy and will pass for a while.
Just my $0.02 - spend it wisely.
DrD