This is sadly un unbalanced offering.
The renders are pretty nice, the mc is not half as hateable as in many games and the story is fairly convincing - even the writing is not as bad as could be
Unfortunately on the flip side EVERYTHING is a minigame and theres annoying fight sequences. I guess it seemed like a good idea becasuse the entire community hates mini games and especially fight mini games?
These mini games are made an even bigger chore by the developed blocking you from access to the menu for huge chunks of dialogue and scenes you dont want. Even once you get access, you cant re-load without going to main menu. The option to skip dialogue has also been removed, even though 80% of dialogue will be seen multiple times
In short they did everything they can to take away control or player choice, in a novel, where player choice is the main aim!?