man...I finally got myself to play this, after seing it being referenced and straight up have adds for it in another VNs I've been playing I finally got to it...(the board in "lessons in love" was the 4th stuff that I've seen in different VNs telling me to give it a go, and fuck it, it must be worth it; so I thought)
and damn I'm glad I did...initially I just thought of it as a cringefest; some bits funny other not so much, but then I got into the story, stopped seing what it looked like and instead taking it for what it was, and its a pretty damn good story.
years of seing western stuff turning into shitshows and scams has turned me into a cynic, yet this time I regret not playing it earlier, probably gonna give some bucks for a couple of months to the dev next year.(after getting a new job, I'm broke right now)