Oh man, I found this game via an interview by DarkTeaTime's interview with Stefan Gagne about games that offer features and options for Asexual gamers and honestly don't tend to do a ton of graphic novel like games, but decided on a whim to give this one a try and it was exactly what I needed.
Despite not playing many text/choice based games like this, the ones that I have tried in the past often felt a bit isolating because I couldn't relate to the narration whatsoever, so I constantly would have to imagine everything I did from the perspective of someone who thought more like the narration to get any direction I wanted to go but this game felt like it might've been reading my mind half the time to the point where I actually had to stop a few times and laugh in surprise at being able to say exactly what I would've wanted to in real life.
It was incredibly refreshing and helped immensely with immersion for me and so I had the most fun I think I've ever had playing one of these games. It even managed to squeeze a few tears out of me, which I need to be quite focused and immersed in something to do.

My critiques? At most they're just my own biases, like how I found Naomi's voice offputting and her lipstick color just felt super out of character and jarring (but she still won me over as a character and still considered her as a romance option for a good portion of the game. irl we'd definitely be close friends.) but that's about it really. Great game. Refreshing characters with very real feeling takes on the situations in the game. I might just have to play another round.

This game made me so mad that I went and bought a bunch of other dating sims to wash the taste from my mouth.

I hate that I didn't like it!! I'm a queer person who loves dating sims and rpgs and will play absolute garbage but this one filled me with such immeasurable disappointment that I couldn't even brush it off as "whatever".

All the characters are super shallow and many of them fall into really gross stereotypes. The autistic girl is super childish, the indian girl is super aggressive, and the fat guy is on the verge of death. The latter really, really got me because there's so few fat guys or bears in VNs and this is another one in the dark halls of "poorly written afterthought bear LI".

Hey why does the only fat character have a heart attack? Why is his romance constantly plagued about how he's going to die? Why does he look exactly like the OTHER boring fat guy in Dream Daddy? Why did the 2nd game not include a fat guy at all?

I wish I could still return this game.

What would have happened if console gaming never took off and arcades were still the only way to game?

Probably not this. But it's fun anyway! It's silly. It's colorful. It's a lot of fun for a good price.