After my third playthrough, I'm... really not convinced. This feels like two games -- a linear VN, and a nonlinear dating game during "free time." There is no connection between the two. None. Whatsoever. Perhaps if there were actually something to tie the two things together, I'd be more interested, but right now this feels like what would have been a fairly solid linear VN had you not attempted to smash a haphazard dating sim into it.