Well, I'm pretty disappointed, I liked a lot his other game (Encode Encore) and it's probably in my top 5, but this one is a chore. The grind is brutal unless you want to use cheats, you have to farm materials to craft items for the quests, you have to farm advanced materials to craft more advances tools, you even need to craft items to progress with the lewd content. Also in my 3 hours I wasn't able to find a way to use most of the lewd skills while in the dungeon. I can accept the farming in the forest and the cave, but later you need materials from the enemies in the dungeons, and to progress the dungeon, of course you have to craft potions and remedies or your party dies.
Above all that you have to manage the stamina, you have to manage her lust and there is a reputation system, and if you fail there is a loop and you have to do everything all over. In Encore you basically had 2 things to keep in mind which were the stamina and the money and the game progression went pretty smoothly.
I don't know what the developer was thinking with this game, it's a grind and it's not so easy to unlock the CGs. At least the lewd is on par with the other game, but right now it's a bit of a mess.
I wasn't even able to unlock the sex stuff, I just stopped with the foreplay and I convinced myself that you can't unlock some options in the first run because you need to re-loop a bit (the first game had something like that).
The game right now is overcomplicated and grindy as fuck, I had to activate the infinite stamina mode, but still I wasn't able to unlock sex and things like that, the bad translation from MTool for sure didn't help.
I wish he added a merchant that sells some of the ingredients, so you can use money for that, still, to make money you need to craft things and give them to the guild, he should rework the whole system.
I sincerely hope with part 2 and 3 he is focused on adding CGs, because the first game had a lot more than this one, also when he tried to cook a gameplay, he burned the whole pan, so he should just focus on the "porn" part of the game.
All the games revolving around alchemy have this problem and I don't know why they think that going 200+ times in the farming area and 100+ in the crafting table should be considered fun.
TL DR: super grindy and boring gameplay, the CGs are good but a bit few. Play it with cheats.