Started off fine, but then i got to the first trial and having tried to balance skills out, couldnt do a damned thing. Not one single option for passing through any of the trials doors would allow progress, every one of them failed so ended up soft locked. Maybe a bug? i dont know, but at this point i dont care, because i closed the game out of frustration, then loaded back in to find the last save was riiiight at the start of the game again, because the only time you can ever save is in your dorm room.
Let alone there being a lack of any kind of direction except a vague "Shape Up" and "find a girlfriend". So helpful...
Killed any motivation to keep playing.
Edit~ Did it anyway and skipped everything, got to date with Violet, but oh look, doesnt trigger, and gets over ridden by this Ciara chick instead with no option to ignore that and focus back on Violet. Fantastic... so well designed...
Yeah nah, im done. Screwed if i do, screwed if i dont.
Well, first of all, Violet's date is not in the free version of the game yet, it was only added in version 0.5.0 and it doesn't get overridden by other events. You have been warned that Violet's date is not in the game yet, when the date gets assigned.
About the saves. The game autosaves every Monday, so even if you forgot to save manually, with 8 autosave slots, you should have almost two months worth of save points.
Lastly, even though the first Trial can be won with you stats just above 30 if you know the Trial inside and out, and anything above that just makes the Trial easier, you don't really need to win to progress the game, as you clearly figured out yourself.
If after all of that, this still isn't your kind of game, well, I am not doing a "game for everyone." Hopefully, there are a lot more games for you to scratch your itch =)