It's certainly quite a stylish, goofy and funny game in many senses, so I really want to like it and do think it is pretty good, but I found my impression of it very soured due to the confusing, shoddy construction and odd design decisions. Basically the core characters and dialogue are very nice, but the dialogue system, minigames and other aspects are pretty bad/nonsensical and drag the experience down.
First and foremost, the dialogue was very infuriating to deal with as it was generally lacking typical quality of life designs. I understand that the dialogue is paced in a certain way with pauses to reflect speech pattern and such, but every dialogue-heavy game should offer a way to click and have the line immediately fill out to finish, as without it the game can be incredibly tedious to get through. Even with the option to speed up the dialogue I still found it very frustrating, and furthermore replays were super annoying as there was no skip option or save/load feature.
Second, I found the game took way too long to get to some actual gameplay. In retrospect, the game is a visual novel, so there isn't much gameplay to speak of beyond reading text, but the introduction sequence just takes so damn long to set everything up (especially due to the aforementioned unskippable dialogue) that it doesn't allow even a crumb of interactivity to get a feel of what the game has to offer. Furthermore, when the game does actually introduce some minigames, they feel really shoddy and confusing, both in where they are placed and how they operate. I have no idea why a shooting minigame pops up in random parts with the film geek as they don't seem to correspond to anything happening in their current activities, and the rules for the game don't make sense: I think you need to only shoot bad people, but the logical for it isn't clear as to who is bad (for instance, I felt like it was just saying to avoid shooting women and children, but you can't shoot this one guy, and you can't shoot this woman who is part of the group in that music game so you'd think they'd all be fair game, but you can shoot Stepford and the cops for some reason?) In the end it didn't even matter as no matter whether I won or lost, it didn't even seem to make a difference (or if it did, the game didn't offer clear feedback of it).
Finally, the game also just seemed weirdly designed: you've got these choices to make that affect your romance bar, and I made a few goofs so I didn't have full bar at the end. Despite this, the story seemed to have the two of them absolutely falling over each other, so you'd think I'd get the good end, only for them to suddenly get cold feet outta nowhere and give me a bad ending most likely due to my unfilled bar. Just felt dumb for the story to only have the bar influence it at the very end, and to have it completely derail where the story is going: may as well just get rid of the bar altogether and just give a good ending at this rate since it just felt so dumb!
Also some buttons like the Go Home button just straight up do not work??? And there's just a lot of odd buggy things like the dialogue boxes and time gauges in the minigames go all wonky at times.
Having said all that, I do think the game is pretty cool once you come to grips with it. The graphics are very stylish, you weren't lazy as there are tons of unique expressions and character animations and CGs for all sorts of events, the dialogue is very funny and charming not only due to the words they say, but the more subtle things like how it is paced to reflect speech patterns and has intentional lack of punctuation and such. Despite me having a frustrating time that I don't know if I'm adequately explaining (the gall of me to give you guys complaints when I can't verbalize either, haha) I still found myself going back to retry with the film geek girl and check out the other characters, so it hooked me in the end. Certainly a pretty cool visual novel!
EDIT: oh what the hell i replayed film girl and got full bar this time instead but the ending was still just a weird copout where he left for some reason despite them being madly in love? how does this game work? is there even a good ending? i'm so confused.