hey so i just finished the current build and i thought i would just lay my thoughts out as they come to me.
the story is bit of a rollercoaster for me cause in the later parts it's actually pretty good and i'm really looking forward to continuing any of the girls stories. that might have something to do with your ability as a writer getting better as you go but early on i just felt super out of place. sasha's arc seems to be the general main story but it happens mostly passively and i get big bombs of info dropped on me long before i understand their relevance. and the girls plot lines feel like they ran in circles for awhile without going anywhere.
i'm also pretty uncertain what the stats do for the most part cause i think the only time they came up for me was when i taught mary guitar and working but even that seems to hit a cap very quickly.
the morning and noon slots felt pretty barren of activities to do because none of the girls wanna interact in the morning and they don't wanna do training at noon either. so if i didn't have a story to continue at those times i just did running or martial arts training cause i couldn't think of anything else to do.
and i get it is a problem with the format of how the stories are done cause you can't know how far the player has got in the other ones. but the girls individual stories feel so disconnected from each other that they feel like entirely different time lines. to the point that huge reveals can just be swept under the rug and big character changes can just have not happened at all anymore. like i can be telling prim one minute that i plan to stay with her forever and in the next i can be telling mary that i don't know what i am going to do after my business here is done and that i might leave. or charlotte can put on her grandmas black dragon outfit and i can just be like holy shit that's the thing yui wear so she must of been a black dragon but the MC is just like meh that's weird. or layla can tell me i start going in pain or pass out and maybe even die if i go to far from town and that lines up perfectly with what sahsa says about mayor candidates and the MC just shrugs it off. i definitely feel like the story could benefit from gating stories based on progress with other ones to be able to tie them together better.
i would also love to see the girls interact with each other more. the dnd thing was pretty nice purely because of that and i kinda wanna know how the girls feel about all of them sort of dating the same guy. and their relationship is pretty unclear. like they say it is something along the lines of friends with benefits but will regularly tell each other that they love them or how if they get pregnant they will raise it together so i would like it if things were a bit more clear.
while i was mainly pointing out the things i didn't like overall i actually really liked it. and i think it's because i liked it that i gave it this much thought. and if i were to choose the main points that bothered me the most it would be the weak start and how the girls stories feel so disconnected from each other. but you are doing a great job and i imagine some of the things i said may have already been on your radar but i just wanted to say it all in the hopes that it will help you make a better game and i look forward to future updates.