Very cool -- your description of the layered storytelling experiences correlated with playthroughs really caught my attention.

Unfortunately, I'm a broke college kid who's been reduced to selling his old games for food money. Would you mind if I borrowed this from you?

The version I have is in traditional chinese. Not sure if you read chinese. Otherwise I may give it to you: )

It probably won't be feasible for me to play this since I only speak english, but I'm glad you brought it to my attention.

It sounds like your take on this game is similar to my impression of Planescape: Torment, a dodecehedron that unravels in a variety of patterns, each of them meaningfully recombinant. Maybe Ever 17 has more causal breadth, and Planescape more causal depth or more naunce along a constrained situation. Either way, I can feel your enthusiasm, the 4-D, unwrappable, tesseract approach to interactive narrative can work, it just requires lots of writing, at least a novel's worth.

The link I put up in the article leads to a website where they sell English version of this game. It does worth a novel's weight, 2,500,000 Kongji. I'm not sure how much does it take for English translation.

It's got an ESRB rating on it. Therefore, there's definitely an English version. Check out the website that Jenova posted. That's the English version. :P