thank you for playing, as always i was expecting your review(pepe emote).
i'm glad i scared you, i had an intention to make this game pure horror unlike GANA games.
I understand it could be confusing, i still sometimes forget that people approach the game not knowing anything of its origins, oops😅. I think if i try to explain everything, it will take a lot of time and might make the story less interesting, so i'll give you hints: the games spirits play and music - i used traditional nursery rhymes "Toryanse" and "Kagome, kagome". I especially love Toryanse - it plays at the beginning and the end, its so sad and beautiful, and you better google about this song and its meaning, bc as i said i cant really explain it all😄
(btw huge thnaks to Altelier Magicae for accidentally making a perfect soundtrack for the game lol)
about Rirou - i saw the name in the dream, but then i chose fitting hieroglyphs for it. Rou means wolf, and Ri means "get sick with something", "suffer from something", "get infected", etc.
btw there were 3 kids disappearing at the start - Mary and Tony(hyperactive siblings) and Henry, but somehow people keep missing Henry😥
the scene at the end - Charlie at first didnt see real nature of the children's spirits, at that moment he saw it.
about the sprirt that "plays" with kids' spirits - the monk explained it all: "which one of them is Rirou?" - "everyone". "who did that to them?" - "nobody did anything". "but they were just kids" - "they still are". And one more hint - "lord of the flies"
also this will be a long conversation it seems, so we better move to discord if you dont mind:)
ohhh i see!! that's a lot of interesting stuff i had no clue about :O it's always so so cool to play games where the creator/s put a lot of effort into the background and lore.
i definitely get what you mean, explaining everything can end up being a drag and i understand that in a game like this, loredumping could just be detrimental to the experience. and ooh, i totally missed henry disappearing, that's on me whoops XD ahh he saw the true nature of the kids' spirits, ok ok gotcha (me missing stuff seems to be a common theme in a lot of my comments hahskds).
i'd love to talk more about the game on discord! :>