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This story is spectacular, but there's just one thing that bugs me a little - It's about Loil. I did realize that he probably wasn't planned to be the villain from the very beginning, and it's actually noticeable through the game that he seems to be thrown in halfway. What makes a reader most unhappy with a story is when their expectations are let down - In this case, it's about the situation with the black-haired boy in the introduction. Naturally, upon seeing him so many times, the reader is naturally hooked to the twisted prospect of a six-year-old boy committing murder with a straight face, and also the possibility of unraveling his identity and confronting him. Basically, he is portrayed from the very beginning as the main villain.

While plot twists are great, it's only interesting when the twist surpasses expectations. On the other hand, when it actually does not reach expectations, it becomes the complete opposite, and lets the reader down. To players, I'm pretty sure the prospect of a young, cynical boy being the main villain, a psychopathic child who has lost his way and become a twisted, sadistic individual, is a lot more dramatic a story than a creepy pedophile who does not really do anything but scream "I'm evil!". While I'm not saying this is bad per se, the fact remains that the rich underlying story the player expected is not there. Because of this, "X" has turned from a major plot point into just one of the obtainable boys with a sad past. It is actually quite sad when he has so much potential as a character.

Actually, that's his natural hair color...lol. His hair color used to be dark green, but as he grow older, for whatever reason it became washed out green. Yeah...it's probably the river's fault. XD

As for the other question, it is part of the game design, but it also fits with the story. If you neglect any of the characters (minus Yuon which you can't ignore until chapter 5), that character can't be saved. In case of Oure, he just died. In case of Anon, 99.5% chances he will end his life. So, yeah, if there's any reason of why I didn't mention them in other character's path is because it would be very depressing to know what happen. ^^'''

Originally, I did think of making Oure-Anon path, but it gets way too confusing so I cut that part off. While Anon technically doesn't remember Oure, his subconscious remembers it. His fear of using his power stems from Oure's incident, which is why he didn't use it to save Essi's mother.

Actually, I really like Loil as a villain than X, to be honest. I'm not sure where people get the idea X is the villain, even from the intro. It was purposely left ambiguous. X fits the mysterious boy role rather than villain.

Perhaps you didn't Loil exciting because he's oh-so-evil, but I actually thought the opposite. Before his appearance, I actually thought the story was rather dry. Let's say if the story is missing him, there would be no climax in Yuon nor Oure's path. Making Anon appears evil in other path would be a giant spoiler to his own path.

I supposed it boils down to what kind of expectation you had. If you are expecting a story of a psychopathic child grown up to be a sadistic killer then it probably will disappoint you.

I'm biased because Loil is one of my most favorite character to write in X-note. My favorite part of the entire story is actually the talk of Loil and Anon. It's so crazily disturbing---like listening to two mad men's conversation. I really love it.

villains that do not have anything beyond their exterior other than being creepily evil. The fact that he doesn't get any payback at all in any of the paths doesn't help... XD

I found Anon's resolution and his own way of facing his problems rather strange, mostly when he wanted to jump off the building and end his life. I'm not too sure why he's so convinced that he's a "monster" or anything, since after all, the only murders he ever committed were out of self-defense. In fact, I'm pretty sure he saved a lot more people than he killed. Secondly, even if he does have crazy powers that allows him to kill people, the fact remains that he can control it - he can control whether or not to use it. He can simply choose not to use it, and he can live as a normal human. It's not like he's permanently killing people around himself. XD

And I really liked the Oure/X friendship... ;_; I was actually really sad it wasn't elaborated upon. I was half-expecting Anon to burst in halfway when Essi is running away carrying Oure from Loil, but turns out Rexus appeared instead. XD

While it's true that Loil is definitely super evil, he's far from being one dimensional villain. This is particularly alluded in Anon's path, specifically Anon's bad ending. (The show down between Anon and Loil in that ending is also one of my favorite scenes.)

As for the decision to let Loil escaped in most of the endings is because I wanted to avoid a completely happy end where heroes live happily ever after and the villain gets punished. Seemed too perfect of an ending to me.

Loil did get killed in Anon's bad ending though. lol!

Anon's twisted way of solving things is precisely the root of of his entire problem. While many things are clear to other people, they aren't clear to Anon himself. His mentality and way of thinking have already been twisted as young as he was 6. All that happened to him after that can only escalate him to make irrational decisions. (Such as his point of view of not having a personality...which is clearly nonsense to begin with.)

While he was unable to access most of his memories, his subconscious remembers it. He grew up feeling guilt and disgust to himself without knowing why. All the pressures eventually built up, so it's not strange if he decided to take his life anytime. (Actually the fact he's still alive is amazing in its own way.)

Last but not least, Anon's actually pretty bad at controlling his power compared to Essi. He intended to save Oure, but ended up killing everyone else in the room.

Yay for deranged Essi! Frankly, it's understandable why she did that. Feeling so much guilt towards the fact that she indirectly caused the death of a person she cares for, it's natural that a person's mind would, to protect her sanity, morph that guilt into hatred for the direct cause, which seems to have become murderous loathing for Loil.

Firstly, it's because of the conversation between Loil and Anon as you said. I think I ended up not reading it into depth the first time I played it, but now that I'm through with it, I believe it's the conversation where we managed to peel past Loil's outer covering the most. Truly as you said, he's not that different from Anon. The main difference is just that though both of them detest humanity in general, Anon succumbs to self-hatred while Loil attempts to prevent such self-hatred by coining himself as not a mere human, but an overarching observer who surpasses humans. Truly an extraordinary scene.

Secondly, Essi. I have to say that last few quotes are really wonderful(ly sad), when she went "Red. It's red everywhere. Everyone is dead." which directly echoes X's first memory upon seeing everyone die. I like how it implies that Essi herself would end up becoming somebody like Anon - and whether she does or not, we do not know. That's the beauty of it, hurrhurr. I think I might like that ending even more than the good ending. XD Who knows, maybe if I play it again, the good ending might seem better?

Oure's bad ending is the only one that lacks this, that's why his path is probably the weakest out of the three. (As much as I love his flashbacks with Anon's) XD

Will Oure ever wake up 'cause that'd be too sad
why is Anon's good ending is in Egypt I mean there muse be elsewhere that he wanted to go right? since he just happen to know how to fly
I just replay Anon's bad ending by chance and I was so happy to find out that Anon's past probably similar to Essi when she's gone mad
the idea of slipping a little bit of information for all the endings is pretty good I like it ^^ It makes me when to play all of them if I want to know more

Oure: I think the photo at the end of the game should answer your question~ :3

Anon: He ended up there because he had been to that place before. Remember, he used to be a travelling merchant. So he has visited all over the world. Btw, Anon can't fly that far. lol

so what's is Loil's source when he talk about Essi in the ORZ corporation private message
is it the hidden camera XD and why doesn't he know a bit faster if he already saw them talk about investigation on the the first day O.O
when I played Oure's path I really wanna hear his cute voice singing XD
why didn't Anon die when he jump in the river is the river too soft or his power protected him and why did Essi not hurt if Anon didn't help her. At first, I thought X could only help children o.o