Just a quick note, as I'm still playing through the game: apparently the game doesn't remember which house you selected, and defaults back to the basic one when you come back. It had me stumped for a bit as to why none of the progress bars were moving. I had progressed all the way to the pocket dimension, so you can imagine going from x500 to x1 is a huge drop. Which uh... I kinda already got that, plus max age of over 600 in just the second life, which might indicate a need to slow certain factors down?
And yeah, so far this game feels like someone played Progress Knight and said - "I like this game, but want to just make a few changes." I'll reserve judgement until I've finished, though.