I just downloaded this, and it might be just me, but I find the game too player unfriendly.
1) Money-in the beginning you are getting something like $25 a day for no real reason, but as soon as you can get out of the house, it drops to $5 a week. At that rate, it'll take until my NEXT birthday to afford stuff in the shop.
2) time passage. Unless you "study", play games, or end the day, you don't appear to have anyway to advance the time. And you can't even "study" if your spirit is weak. which is awful for games where you need to do things at certain times.
3) movement outside- from some comments in the forum(growing corn, etc), I take it you can actually go into your own yard using the door at some point, rather than always using the phone to get a taxi.
4) some events have to be done in scripted order, despite being obviously open- specifically, the peep hole driller. I am only willing to use the peephole when I know my mom is NOT taking a bath???
5) no clear path to advancement. Okay, first I needed to find a way to raise my horniness to get out of the house. Only having the first event happen on a specific day (I assume justification is Mom is irritated from no hot water, and forgets to lock door again on Wednesdays, but remembers every other day of the week) was annoying, and I would not have played long enough to find it without seeing it listed in early comments. Now I've bought the CD, been refused the shampoo, and my only option seems to be to literally wait months until I've been given enough money to buy Gina all her clothes...