As a game designer I feel obligated to hate the time management mini-game, but as a player I honestly didn't mind.  I actually liked how there weren't any pass/fail choices in the events.  It allowed Sara to be her own person and make her own mistakes without immediately getting a bad end.  My biggest complaint is the unevenness of the routes.  The Lavinia and Jessie routes are both five-star material, but the other routes feel like afterthoughts.  I would have liked the other characters to also show hidden depths beyond what was already in the source material.