3.5/5
I half expected to hate this game and drop it after a few hours, but was pleasantly surprised by the anti-NTR route, where if you play your cards right, you can basically reverse cuck everyone trying to cuck you by becoming the ultimate giga-chad cock blocker.
My biggest complaints are that the game doesn't really explain it's mechanics very well, essentially, your goal, should you choose to accept, is to balance knight training (which is just either passing time in the classroom or training hall), and keeping everyone off your girl because even though she's a badass, she's been struck by a curse that makes her vulnerable at random times.
You'd think that keeping the cucks away would be your immediate top priority, but no, you actually have at least a day or two window in which to start getting your shit together, she can wreck the nerds on her own for a while, but after that, they'll all come back for revenge, and that's when you need to step in if you wanna avoid the NTR path, which is like a vast majority of this game.
Each of the 5 antagonists seem to have their first 2-3 events be unskippable but harmless, since it's essentially just their failed attempts and trying to learn more, so if you're like me and wanna be the cuck-proof giga-Chad, you're gonna wanna grind harder than your waifu in the first few days to try and max out your lock picking, get money and gain skill so you can save bitches without dropping a grand on new lockpicks every other event.
By the end of the tutorial, you'll have 2 SP, which I recommend investing into the Event Log, and Location Tracker, so you know what events are happening even if you're not there, and you can pick up the H-Scene tracker the next time you train.
You'll know you're in the danger zone with each antagonist when you see these events in the log-
Gierre: Beat in a duel.
Locke: Researched Hypnosis.
Tay: Pranked during practice? (I'll be honest, I only ever saw Tay for three events and I never had to stop him, don't know what's up with that)
Don: Learned about the lewd crest. (Maybe you can stop progress before this, but I've literally never seen this scene, only thing I can think of is that the scene only happens exceptionally late at night, but every time it happens, it's when a day ends.)
Henji: Learned about the lewd crest.
After this is when each of them will legit start trying to cuck your boy Coreas, and that's when you'll be needing stamina to get through the day and lockpicks to intervene, each of them however has a feature where every time you intervene, they have a reduced chance of appearing, stop them enough times, and you're home free essentially.
However this can be easier said than done because of the game's poorly explained time system, essentially any time you do an action or go somewhere, time advances, whether you're training, studying or just trying to figure out what room your girl is in, time moves forward, the game seems to work in hour increments with time advancing at inconsistent rates depending on time of day, moving from room to room may normally only take 5 minutes but at night it can take an hour or something for some reason.
The important part to remember though is that if an H-event appears at say 4PM, you only have until around 5PM until it's over, whether you wanna see it for yourself, or stop it, it'll be over by the end of the hour, so plan your next move carefully, since time doesn't move unless you're traveling to a new screen or doing an action that requires stamina.
My biggest critique though, is that while the game does have an NTR-free route, that is supposedly the true ending (I haven't seen it yet for the reason I'm about to mention), it doesn't have enough content in my opinion, basically you drive off the cucks by interrupting their plans enough which is never acknowledged in the story, you unlock all 10 sex skills, go through all the wholesome scenes, and then...you have to wait for the game to end-
The game is WAY too damn long in my opinion, while also moving too fast. a single day goes by in a handful of actions, and in the beginning you're basically racing against time, but by the mid or even late game?-
You're just waiting....constantly, and when the cuckers are gone all you can do is replay the same scenes that have no contextual additions or dialogue variety-
You could have the main girl give BJs in every single area of the game, but it'll still be the same exact H-Scene, with the same animations, the same two starting lines of dialogue, and no variety between different locations or scenarios, and at some point the main girl just repeats the same single line of dialogue when you talk to her in a location.
The game sort of just falls apart at the finish line, because even if you have everything together and have all the stats you could ever want or need, you're basically stuck without anything to do but repeat the same scenes over and over.
I've got hundreds in both main stats, thousands of G, and all skills, but I still got 11 in game days to pass before the ending. Maybe it's just me though-
I enjoy grinding in games, but there's just not enough for me to grind towards.
All the difficulty comes from early parts of the game, and then gets consistently easier.
You'll likely struggle the most in the first or second week, after that though it's all downhill.