Praises
After going through the whole VN. I have to say I really like Pippa as a character and I jokingly hope I never meet her in my life. But I quite like how she is and how she interacts with the other characters.
I also like this OST so much. It really brings the mood up when there's no voice acting.
I also like how much the characters and the camera moves. This is a solo-dev writer and artist? Wow! Specially the dogs. So much done and I'd really guess not so many original images were used. I also liked the bird!
That librarian was morbidly funny, to me. Just the way she moves her book reminds me of those strict women featured in movies.
Extra
I have no idea what ATL you had issues with. It went fully smooth for me, except a single animation while on the street where she immediately straightens up in a snap.
The way that homeless just happened to have her book and MC was self-aware of how ridiculous that was really hilarious!
Faults
I really like the concept of the money+magic mechanic but I think it was quite underutilized. It's too easy to have money left and the punishment for doing wrong choices is quite limited. I feel like having tighter money would make it more interesting to the point to, for example, buying steak and giving money to the homeless guy, you only have enough to buy the energy bar near the end and cannot feed her in the intermediate meal.
There are some interesting plot holes I was able to get into... For example, with Mapo tofu and going cheap, I could get high 30's $ left and MC still talks about lack of money.
Ending 2 is interesting because if it was longer, it could evolve into Ending 3 after MC receives his salary no? Or am I seeing something wrong? (I like it, regardless)
That's what staid on my mind after reading. I liked it a lot. Thank you for making this! It made me a very fun morning.
This is a 8.5 out of 10 to me.