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You got me with the map. I had to rollback for the correct answer. And it looks like the artefact worked after all. (:
But I was wondering: is there one ending or there are more? It looked like there is just one to me, but I wanted to ask just in case.

... 1.) the color of Alicia's birthday ball dress and 2.) depending on the choices, she will or will not give you the kiss. There are 9 choices that determine whether Alicia will kiss you, and you need at least 4 to get the kiss. But it doesn't change the ending.

I loved the fact that you could change the color of Alicia's ball gown. When I realized it, I was so touched. It not only shows a charming attention to details, but also a wonderful piece of romantic fluff. :3

The ball was wonderfully written especially. I also loved it when you opened up the "artifact" to find it was nothing more than a wristwatch. It was wonderfully disappointing -- I could feel Kazuhiko's disappointment.

I found the ending reminiscent of a Shakespeare comedy -- EVERYONE gets married at the end. XD Even the random servant girl!!

Or I could even end up in Calleighmore

... and strangely enough, I did have a rather bizarre alternative universe type dream

When Kazuhiko asks Alicia if she knows who Luminae is, she says something along the lines of "I don't think I know... but maybe... Why do you wanna know?". At first I took this as, she didn't know a Luminae at all, so when I found out that Alicia and Luminae are the same person, I was a little confused. But upon rereading it, I saw it more as Alicia sorta evading the question or a little unsure about the answer. I don't think there's any way she couldn't know her second name, so I'm having a little trouble understanding why she wouldn't give her second name. If she was dodging the question, what reason did she have for doing so, and if she was unsure, why didn't she just venture a guess that it is indeed her Kazuhiko is asking about? Or is it just one of those moments where you have to hide the details a little longer to keep the story going? Just a little bit of clarity on this little detail would be appreciated.

I first assumed it was a completely made-up fairytale kingdom he appeared in in the dream. If it was indicated that this was a kingdom he'd read about in history class, I must have missed it.

This made me really baffled when it was suddenly mentioned in the history class test. Although I then assumed "okay, he dreamed about or traveled back in time to an ancient kingdom he was reading about for history class..."

Then got even more confused by the question about the princess, since the question asked "Who IS" implying present-day. Which... puzzled me why it would be in history class. Especially if this is such an easy question that everyone knows, which makes me wonder why it wasn't mentioned earlier...

I'm guessing the disrespect thing is a cultural difference? I can't imagine anyone being that angry with a ten-year-old for screwing up a test. [edit] Okay, I understand that part later. My confusion with history/present-day remains, though. Since obviously there would be MANY princesses in history in a particular kingdom...

I'm still playing as I write this, so more comment later. I just wanted to note this before I forgot about it.

Loved the ball. Loved the simple tension element of the bell tolls (though I don't yet know what happens if you try to go at the wrong time) and awwwwwwwed when it pointed out the dress color thing, which I hadn't caught on to.

We had a sequence with shattering glass, later on replaced with leaves, Alicia had a sword - she doesn't have it (actually there is one tiny leftover from that scene, at the beginning where Alicia points her finger at Kazuhiko - the early stages that was a sword). The guards are actually only chasing them in the night, not threatening to hurt them (a prison is the only threat). Also in Hideo's story - originally for that "theft" he was to receive a much harsher punishment. I think more and more into the development I wanted less and less violent things (down to zero in the end, so that characters would not wear weapons, mention them or anything), but of course I still wanted action and excitement, without the children making anything superhuman or impossible... so in the end I'm really happy that it all has worked out.

Alicia generally knows, of course, but they never call her by that name (as explained by Akira). Not even at the birthday ball... So she is surprised, knows that she has heard the name, but does not make the immediate connection that it could be her, since she considers herself Alicia. Then, she realizes that she has this name ("I don't think I know... but... maybe..."), but then it's Kazuhiko who doesn't pursue the question anymore ("It's nothing... really.")

I wanted to have this, to show that both Alicia and Kazuhiko are in their nature 10-year-old children - Alicia doesn't really make the connection (or she would need more time) and Kazuhiko doesn't pursue the matter intensively enough (he has it that this Calleighmore is slightly different - if he even thinks about it) - both do not see it as something important. A few times in the story Kazuhiko also tells how he doesn't think when things hurt or get complicated, since again - 10 year olds will generally not be able to cope with and solve things of magnitudes that adults will. Of course, this isn't putting them down or anything, it's just that it doesn't work that way - well, maybe in anime, where you have children understanding the meaning of life, but I wanted to avoid such thing - even at the expense that initially this may seem confusing.

Ugh.. I'm afraid, this is mentioned six times, before the test:
1."- You are on the soil of the Calleighmore Kingdom. And it just so happens that you, stranger, are talking to the princess."
2."- Yes! It's the key to everything, hidden and guarded inside Calleighmore Castle."
3."- One more thing... I'm... Alicia. Alicia Calleighmore."
4."In... Calleighmore Kingdom..."
5."I was in Calleighmore Kingdom."
6."I dreamed that I was in the Calleighmore Kingdom."
I don't know how this could happen, but then again, you're a very quick reader as I know, so sometimes things can get overlooked.

Bingo!!
Akira asks specifically "What is the name of the kingdom..." as well as "What is the name of the crown princess" - though she doesn't ask "who is", it does indeed have this present-day feel, and Akira uses this specifically and especially when she asks the question about her daughter - for her, her daughter is not dead, for her it's unnatural to think of her in past tense. She allows herself to say this, to prove that she hasn't lost all hope, because she is in relative safety with her students - no one will expect 10-year olds to pry into the wordings of the teacher. But I'm really happy you noticed!

When the kingdom is mentioned on the test, I definitely know it's the same kingdom I just visited in my 'dream'. I recognise the name.

However, when I was first in that 'dream' kingdom, I did not see any sign that this was a kingdom I was STUDYING. She says Calleighmore all the time but I don't remember him ever saying 'I was just reading about that before I went to bed, I have a test on it tomorrow!' That's what I was confused about. Did he ever comment when she said what kingdom it was that he was studying that kingdom?

Restarting it, I do see the name Calleighmore mentioned at lot at the very beginning of the game. So I guess my problem is that I don't take in information very well at the very beginning of a game when I'm more focused on trying to figure out who and where my character is than paying attention to the teacher. I noticed the poem and I remembered that it was a history class, but I didn't remember the names that were being mentioned. When he was preparing for bed, he only mentioned 'that test' and not what it was about. I figured it was about history in general.

So he wakes up in this mysterious place. She says the name Calleighmore - which I did not remember and which he did not respond to, commenting only on how she thinks she's a princess and there's no such thing. He says he doesn't know where he is.

She says "You mean you don't know the Kingdom?" and he says No.

So I interpreted this as - she is claiming to be from some kingdom that he has never heard of before, ever. It is therefore probably some kind of fantasy land, completely removed from the history he is learning about in school.

Since I thought the place he visited in his 'dream' was a made-up fairytale kingdom, when the class started having questions about it on the test, I thought perhaps we were /still in a dream/ - but then I suspected that was getting too head-trippy for a children's adventure.

Admittedly the crucial problem is just that I didn't pay attention to the name Calleighmore being said at the very beginning of the game and therefore didn't recognise it when Alicia said it. But it would have been helpful if he'd commented that he was studying this historical kingdom when she first mentioned the name.