Clearly a lot of hard work went into this update, and in many ways it's really good and a lot of fun, but man, does it ever get weepy and dramatic. The game often entered that territory before, but this update takes it up to 11 (on at least one route, so this is depending on choices i suppose). My sister used to insist on watching soap operas on the living room tv that weren't this emo.
And this is not to say adult games can't tackle serious issues and themes and deep introspection successfully - in fact they're at their best when they do so and do it well - but this attempt so far has just not landed imo. The results have been distracting and unenjoyable.