Well, how do I put it ... It didn't ruin the game for me, that's for sure. The only things I knew from VLR was that there would be Junpei, Akane and Clover in the nonary game, and at the end, they'd meet 'all-ice' Alice. Some of the endings still got me good, like the death ending in which Clover goes full rampage with that axe - kinda reminded me of the VLR Clover.