The game's size was about 3GB, so I tried the game with high expectation, but how should I put it, we need to grind money so that we can grind skills to grind another money while minding the plummeting stats and not forget to patiently seduce the females while their affection will immediately reduce with a single mistake which was decided by luck that's obtained from grinding?
heck, unless we use cheat, I think it'd take forever just to see a single meager event.
I'll try to answer in a hopefully, fair way.
I think that the graphics look great and because that is what we come here for, is good enough to look at, however you are absolutely right, I for one had to cheat to not go in a craze, I wrote a quasi-review which I now regret not posting in the appropriate section.
here is my recommendation:
1) Wait 1 or 2 month (basically 1/2 updates)
2) Get the game
3) Look at the tutorial, get an idea of the game mechanics and then CHEAT.
4) Cheat unless (and check the upcoming from now on changelogs for it) the game mechanics are heavily revamped, because as you said you gotta grind a lot and there are many stats, lots of RNG, you can't even save right before each step of an event or scroll back, unfortunately there is not enough text to get to know the character or to keep you nice in between all the grind, is just repeating the same actions to get some numbers to go up. It could have been much better as a linear VN.
5) Download the CG pack so you can double check to see if you got all the content.
I think it can be worth it because it looks very good, but your sanity is at risk and there are various other games that handle the gameplay in better ways.
EDIT: If you plan to play it now, cheat smart, in a way that you won't skip any event, for instance you can safely up your luck, or programming skill, but even that you can skip the assignments by changing the value in the savefile to almost zero so that is done right away.
b) Don't sleep, change the time to 8 AM once you reach midnight, that way you won't lose any of the stats, but do put back to 100 those energy stat and the cleanness, they are important bonus factored when assigning relationship points.
EDIT: If you plan to play it now, cheat smart, in a way that you won't skip any event, for instance you can safely up your luck, or programming skill, but even that you can skip the assignments by changing the value in the savefile to almost zero so that is done right away.