The game is pretty neat so far. I've only played about an hour but what I did see was nice. A lot of the backgrounds were a bit slap-dash but that's understandable given time constraints. I look forward to seeing a more polished version eventually. I also felt like there was a very slow build up to the actual gameplay itself, but being a VN that's understandable. What I did see of the gameplay was simple but effective. The little cut-outs of your character doing stuff reminded me a lot of a cute game called A Little Lily Princess.
As to the characters, I think there were only a few I didn't really get a good feel for/remember well. I got a bit attached to Perry, Yun, Chris, Ryan, Oliver, Lanford and Archie. I was super upset when Ryan got sent home first because I get the feeling it's because I bugged him the first day when Perry nabbed me to slack off. ;.; I'M SORRY RYAN!
So, yeah, it doesn't need saying that the character art is gorgeous, being that it's Makio and Racheal making the game. It definitely needs some in-game reference-type thing, though, if only so you can see how you're changing over time and how your relationships are stacking up.
Overall, I quite liked it. >.<)b