the hints helped, but in the same time hints+sandbox, could be easily converted to pure-VN. but, when it got abandoned I thought, good riddance. when they introduced the sandbox it went bad, from a hot vn game, that could really shine, with 3 beautiful girls to love or corrupt to a story driven soup with so many girls and sandbox crap on top of it. v0.8 felt fresh, but when the sandbox started, I felt the same feeling I felt from the old version, disappointment. I always rate with how much I enjoyed it. I got a few nice scenes with sister, but not enough to spend that amount of time playing. I really wish I could be as happy as many of you are, it seems most people think this is a masterpiece.