Back when I first found this game, it would've easily been a 4 stars. Of course, it would've never been a 5 star game, because its still plagued with all the issues this genre has for me. I wont go into detail about them, but I'll briefly summarise some of my general issues with these types of games that I can tolerate.
1. Same sexual progression with every character. (Foreplay, Handjob etc, Blowjob, Sex, Anal)
2. There are no real challenges. Most of the cast love the MC before anything begins, and so the story is just "Reach a point where they get the courage to act on their feelings", which doesn't really mix well with the characters description of being an unpopular nerd.
2a. The exception to the above are a couple characters that aren't in love with you, and oh my god the Main Character becomes stalkerish level creepy immediately.
3. Pointless Minigames and fake "choices".
Now then, for the specifics of this game and where I think it goes from "standard bad tropes" to "1 star".
1. There's one character where the objective is to beat her and win a bet. Its your standard button masher. The game tells you to try and beat her, or "Train" to get better. You physically cannot train until you lose, and you will always lose. It is hard coded that you must lose. So why the fuck am I doing a button masher?
Following that, the story is unclear for most of her route on whether its only canonically recognising your wins, or both wins or losses, because guesss what? Your losses are just nonstop repeatable until you win then progression occurs. It also makes NO SENSE that she lets you rematch her when you lost? This was never dealt with.
At the end of her content, they then make it clear that its all canon.
2. Same character from #1, but there is one scene where you get a dialogue option. Its to let OTHER characters do sexual stuff with the girl as part of a humiliation kink. To be specific, you aren't doing anything or making anyone doing anything, you simply voice it as an idea and walk off, with the sell being that if you say it, she ends up doing it.
But here's the catch. There are no scenes where you get to see it. They barely confirm it happened. Then it never happens again.
Some of you may be thinking, "I'm not into NTR" or whatever, and this isn't for you. And that's FINE. The issue is, why the hell is this dialogue option even an option, when it adds very little? Either commit a bit more to having it as an option for those that would like it, or don't bother. What the hell is this half hearted mention?
3. Creepy behaviour. You persistently approach women non stop, basically begging for sex, then guilt tripping them or annoying them until they do it.
4. Money.
Money as a mechanic is a staple for these games, and I personally am not a fan most of the time.
One game has the character have a single job they can do, once a day, for money. But not this game.
We have options.
A) You can use your computer and gamble in an annoying and tedious game of "Match the pairs", only with 3 or 4 of the same image to match.
B) You can use your computer to gamble in a game of rock paper scissors.
C) Beg for a small bit of pocket change from a parent.
D) Interesting job but it's part of a story and quickly gives no money.
E) Work as a cleaner for another character. What is it? Oh, its a mini game where you are shown an image of an office and have to find all the trash that "Doesn't belong." which includes, TISSUES, BOTTLES. Oh and, the tissues are white and the office is white. I have spent minutes looking for some obscure bit of tissue that's a slightly darker shade of white over the floor.
F) Work as a Pool Cleaner. Barely pays, only available for a short time as part of a quest.
G) Work for another parent. Guess what? ITS ANOTHER BLOODY MATCHING GAME.
And that's it.
You need money for a LOT of the quests in this game, to buy items or just give the money.
Money could've been made a key story component, where you do quests that imply a job etc.
Instead, its locked behind boring, tedious and sometimes annoying mini games that add nothing to the game.
They aren't fun. They just bloat play time and not in a good way.
All in all, this game went from a favourite of mine with amazing renders, to a heap of piling shit all in one update.
And when you combine other facets of how the development went, and the developers seeming thoughts on this whole thing, I cannot recommend this game to anyone with any degree of taste.