YMMV / Area X

• Escapist Character: Elcia has a fair amount of fans who love her for subverting the usual otome heroine personality of being demure and/or lacking agency, instead being a proactive Deadpan Snarker.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Yuras and Belph's Good Ends, as neither takes into account the overall plot—that is, the idea that the timelines are still breaking and so the world will come to an end eventually. According to Word of God, it won't necessarily happen soon, but it still will.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In his route, Belph jokes that rather than become a star, he'd rather become a black hole so that he can continue making others suffer even after his death. In Yuras's dimension, it's revealed that the Belph of that timeline used Axilium—i.e. a "little black hole"—to destroy the world.
  • Ferim claiming that his name isn't Ferim, while already a Tear Jerker in context, takes on a new level after playing Memory of Ice and realizing that it isn't just some name he pulled out of thin air—and thus he's not just talking about how it's a name he chose for himself, rather than one that was given to him—but another person's identity altogether.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Elcia declaring in frustration that she wants to meet whoever built the "stupid time machine", thanks to it glitching while she's stuck in the Ice Age. Hey, Elcia, you have met him, in fact.
  • Belph's Good End, where he and Elcia become terrorists, after playing through Rexus's route where he dryly claims that he wants to be a terrorist when he grows up. Snark or not, life ambition achieved, apparently!
• Jerkass Woobie: Trole, to a degree. The man is an unrepentant Jerkass (though it helps that he's not quite as awful as Loil or Pedoe), but it's clear that Albec's death has left him bitterly lonely, even if he expresses it by being utterly controlling over Belph's life. Even Elcia finds him pitiful.
• Unexpected Character: Characters from X-Note making cameos in Rexus's route is predictable enough. Seeing Oure in Yuras's route, though, likely comes as a surprise. Similarly, in V2, seeing Anon—or rather, Xirr—in the Middle Ages comes completely out of the blue.
• The Woobie: Virtually all of the main characters.
  • Elcia: Even if the universe wasn't out to get her, somewhat literally, her entire life has been a Trauma Conga Line. Dealing with a mother who was never around, dying in an avalanche, being transported into another body who was used as a human experiment, having to struggle to survive while growing up—and that's before the present, which isn't a walk in the park for her either.
  • Belph: His uncle is basically out to break him into obedience, and his inevitable fate is to become a villain, whether he likes it or not. This has left him depressed and, in his Bad End, outright suicidal. Years after said Bad End, he snaps.
  • Rexus: Growing up in a plague and slavery-filled era was not fun. Neither was growing up in the future, where his lack of memories left him feeling empty and without a purpose. He's done a better job than most of the others of bouncing back, but really begins racking up the Woobie points when he realizes that everything he's worked for over the last couple of years has led up to Elcia's death.
  • Livan: Like Rexus, his parents died from the plague, leading him to wonder what the point in helping people was, and he got captured by slave traders. His Living Emotional Crutch eventually died, prompting him to be desperate enough to warp reality. In the present... well, he doesn't even get to survive his Good End.
  • Yuras: He's got a rather bloody past, and presently, he has Brash for a surrogate father and his surrogate sister is lined up to be a Human Sacrifice. She'll die in both of his endings, and how well he takes it depends on which one.
  • Ferim: He lacks a tragic backstory, but he becomes rather pitiable when you realize that his only two fates are 'win and die' or 'lose and ultimately die with the timelines', even in his own route. He may not be able to feel sorry for himself, but the player probably will.