Wow, finally a shop that I like 🥳
And for the planned clothes: I know that it's hard to implement, especially if you can put them on everywhere and could have every event in it )most devs quit after that because it's too much work), so having outfits for event's only is definitive the save way...
I really like that with the newest update you get repeatable scenes, something I miss in most games. And the randomness is also great, so that you need to repeat it more times to see everything.
And I look forward to new clothes, now that you introduced the (overpriced) clothing shop.
I'm not so far in the game and I can say that's more text-based.
With this kind of VN's you can make so much more if you put in the effort, sadly here it's not the case.
Don't worry. Games in development are always the same, so replaying the start is normal. Only after a longer playtime it gets tedious if you need to replay everything cause something in the beginning got changed. I know a few games still in development which you constantly need to play from the...
I remember playing a quite early build of this game, and again, the creator thought to rebuild everything. kinda liked how it was at first. Not to mention, that the game is so buggy that you can't save without applying a patch beforehand.