Ignore the first reviews on this site which trash on this game, it rocks but it has its issues.

Pacing kinda sucks if you're not ready for a slow story, there's tons of alternate text which makes every route fairly unique with less skippable text than you'd probably expect.

Certain events expect you to have played other routes in order to unlock them. Sometimes they never play again and there's no way to track whether you've seen an event and it sucks replaying a route just to see nothing happen. Following a suggested route order is recommended.

Love this VN so much, but some of the design hasn't aged too well and I'd definitely recommend using a guide for route order and choices.