So I tried this out and have been enjoying it greatly, but there are some serious game breaking bugs:
After getting the book for Dixie, she asks to talk after classes, which leads to a scene where I have no control and nothing is happening.
For some reason Macky started asking to talk after class, which leads to the teacher's room being loaded, then immediately loading outside the teacher's room. This doesn't break anything as far as I know, but I think this event may not be triggered properly (I'm only in week 1, so I'm not sure what I could have done already to cause it).
One of the houses on the left side of the village fails to load a map when trying to enter, resulting in a screen where the only option is to try and reload the missing map data. Not sure if that screen is part of the vanilla game engine or an add on, but it would be nice if there was an option to reset to the last map area. In any case, there is a problem here with a missing map or a transition trigger that shouldn't be there.
I would like to play more, but the Dixie issue in particular makes that impossible.
Edit: On a second attempt the Dixie event worked. Not sure why though. The first time the player was located a tile away from where they should have been though, so that might be connected.