Extremely addictive and very rewarding. Controls are simple, but the gameplay has depth. Hard to find good games like this nowadays.
EDIT: After some calculation, it looks like many of the awards don't work. In particular, the ones that give you extra approval, like "get 10 approval", "get 5 approval for each game you published", and "get 15 base approval but lose 5 for each empty slot" do not seem to factor into the final score for each stage. If this could be fixed, I'll increase my score to 5 stars, because the idea is good, but the game is impossible in the later stages without these awards (unless you're extremely lucky).