So far I have really enjoyed it. Definitely would recommend.

I really wanted to like this game. I really did. I'm a fan of VNs and I liked Crush Crush back in the day. I wanted an expanded lore on the characters. Most of the game is not "bad". The experience initially really sucks you in. The problem is how arbitrary the choices-to-results tend to be. You have to save so much, because sometimes the results don't line up with the choice. Then, there are times where the game full-on traps you into certain decisions because you don't have enough of a Skill, even when you've made good decisions up to the point. It doesn't really feel like it has "routes" in that way, like traditional dating VNs do. I also never cared for the Dmitri+Lotus subplot, it was already a distraction from the already diversified cast of the main story. But yeah, again, post July 17th (in game), things take a bizarre nose-dive with incongruency between the choices you make and what ends up happening as a result. I've seen other negative reviews on here mention similar things about how it's too trial-and-error. And I was playing it on Easy...
Maybe I would just like what's called a "kinetic" visual novel with these characters instead.
Either way, consider me crush-crushed.

I bought this because I enjoy VNs and I had fun with Crush Crush, favorite character being Mio. THEN THIS MAKES ME LOVE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER EVEN MORE?! Oh my god this game has an amazing story, the first and probably only VN to get me emotional, AND it takes the first five characters from crush crush and just absolutely gives them amazing backstory and character development. 10/10 Mio is best girl
This is one of the games you want to erase your memory and play again. I've become and even bigger fan of Sad Panda Studios because of this.