The variation in the scenes is very interesting. I can definitely understand why you put in the stat system. It forces different outcomes to events later in the story. Unfortunately, its no really condusive to the type of player that is your audience. I really appreciate what you are trying to do with all the branching scenarios. What I do worry about is how complicated the story and development is going to be in even just the next update. There are so many variations in the scenes that you'll have a ton of work and a ton of it will go completely unnoticed to the VN crowd.