It seems that ever since Honey Select 1 brought them international success, Illusion have been doing their very best at getting worse at every new installment. Koikatsu was fine for what it is, AI Girl was a good step forward in experimenting with gameplay and active worldbuilding howbeit implemented and executed poorly, Honey Select 2 is just Honey Select 1 with small additions and features, just like how Koikatsu 2 is just Koikatsu 1 is more animations and slight tweaks to the dating system.
But with THIS game, they couldn't try any LESS than anything they've worked on before. For a company that promises fucking and sex as its main attraction, they have somehow made it fucking BORING. What the fuck happened? Who asked for this? In theory, there is nothing wrong with trying to create a sims-like game. Hell, if made well, I wouldn't mind a sims game with graphics this good. In fact, it could've been GREAT. But is it? Fuck NO.
all the crap about this game has already been well-covered by the first reviewer below me, and I don't find the need to rehash the same points, but I will say this;
Illusion, do a remake of Artificial Academy. Or hell, remake the first Koikatsu but with realistic graphics and tweak the 'daily life' routine and YOU WILL have a BLAST of a game on your hands. Your fans both western and eastern have been asking for ages, but it seems that this company isnt interesting in making good games, they just want to jack themselves off.
There is nothing wrong with experimenting with gameplay mechanics, but when you've been failing this hard several games in a row, maybe its time to smell the roses and go back to your roots and do what you actually got right the first time.
This game is utter garbage, and I find the interactivity and relationship building between NPCs even more shallow than the system implemented in Koikatsu 2. Enough said.