First off, overall, I enjoyed the game, story, and, of course, the great artwork.
I tried to play this game normally and just couldn't take it. Without the cheat to keep your stats static, this game is absolutely painful to play. It works for a short while, but after a couple weeks go by, I just couldn't do it anymore.
Later on I just gave up on the game because there was absolutely nothing left for me to do. No progress was being made. But then it turned out I had to go back and forth from the ships multiple times for something to show up. No reasoning at all behind this. Multiple times have situations like this and without the walkthrough (or the forums), I would have never figured this out. Also, without the star icon on the overhead map, I also never would have figured out what to do. So much time wasted in the game just hitting the FF button.
Then the gripes I had towards the end. Once you finally leave the ships to the underwater station, I was bored out of my mind. One thing that made no sense to me at all was that you are stuck using a female "avatar" and then when you are actually put into the simulation, you are still an android avatar instead of looking like an actual woman.
I would think that a game like this that has so much sex throughout the entirety would actually have some whisper of it in the finale, but nothing. So it felt like there was no pay off in the end.
Or maybe I just gave too much thought to this.