[ChicletPrime]

okay, i changed my mind again (i do that). i will do my own commentary post BUT i will split screen with yours so as I watch the playthrough, i can cut/paste for continuity without tramping rougshod over yours.

but going back first to the SPOILER stuff in your other message:

-- i am betting before checking anything that the "long dream.. led me out of centuries of darkness... " is from Xavier's point of view. it could be from MC's but i don't think so.
-- this really does look like an alternate timeline, but it also could be the very far-est future of Philos if Traceback fails in its mission and Philos just keeps on trucking on. i mean, technically if Xavier is immortal in the cheat sense, eventually he'll catch up with himself, yah? through the destruction of Earth to the rebirth of Philos to its eventual decay and suddenly he's the last royal struggling to keep his planet's head above the proverbial dark waters.
-- those are definitely Wanderers attacking in the trailer, the eyes are the same.
-- i bet its is dad ze King cursing him.

okay, onto the myth! ... jesus christ on a cracker, its 2 HOURS LONG?  well.  uh.  /girds up? 

Where Tears Scatter | Chapter 1: 

• okay, right off the gun, i am already wrong. this voice has to be the girlfriend, dreaming away in UnlifeNotDeath
  
• huh. regarding the "return to Philos prior to the Apocalypse" .. is he talking, like, time travel? like literally go back? or more figurative like, just reset to the world back to the state it was before The Bad Stuff Happened. I think you have the comma in the wrong place, even if the voice line deliver was a tad... uh. uneven.
  
• they seem very excited that i am possessed of a vessel of flesh and blood. what are they made of, chips and dip? 
  
• :D  yes, the voice acting is about par for the course, ain't it? 
  
• yay, black and gold rescue at hand! 
  
• oookay, you're right. they are definitely talking like Philos is some other place that is not here. if you ever watched Stranger Things, maybe they're in the Upside Down of Philos? Or maybe the "Sinders" is an analogue for the River Styx or even Lethe, flowing into the Underworld.
  
• ooookay. so we push the acolyte into the flames and he goes up in dust? fucking hell. Wanderer. in a human form? already dead, looking to be even more dead?  hah. none of them cast shadows. fantastic, no notes.
  
• (so many notes)
  
• /pauses to admire Undead King Xavier. i'll be honest, the golden metal lilies on his chest are exquisite and are my favorite part.  oh! and i can see embossed lilies twining on his leather tunic. superb! oh! and the little hanging bit that is not quite black yet has little stars trapped in it. 
  
• i appreciate that they specifically took the time to note that Xavier stared at me for a long, long time. when he asks who exactly we are, do we think he's lying? or he's forgotten? or are we truly in a different timeline where we've never met before and he was just deeply startled that we are a living being in a city full of the miserable dead?
  

well, this is a VERY good start! mysterious circumstances, terrible secondary voice acting to help us set the scene properly, and Xavier's VA stretching himself a little. i am not sure either if the familiarity is her carrying an unconscious memory of previous lives with Xavier, or if this is continuous to the other myth and she's just been asleep too long.  but again, she was swept in by what appears to be a river and if its something like Lethe... maybe her memory just got shredded on her way in.

Chapter 2

• Philos fell during a catastrophic war.  Fallen Cosmos? they were at war in that one, i know that much. mentions of a Tree of Life and I remember the Cosmos trailer had Caleb's apples on a digital tree so... lets just stretch for it, hey? 
  
• good GOD  Xavier is beautiful. i say it all the time and every time i say it, i believe it more. whoever designed that face should eat peeled grapes and be fanned by nubile people of their preferred sex for the rest of their life. 
  
• also, nice sound design. 
  
• and why are they (re)using the Starfall Forest background? and she recognizes this place as somewhere in Philos "vivid in memory" so its like some of her brain got eaten but not all of it.
  
• yeah, the Revenants are kind of neat. so Xavier is guarding the gates that would lead back to Light And Eternity.. so he's keeping the Dead from rising back into the world. He's taken the fight against the Wanderers right to the source of the problem / inside the pool ?!
  
• "Feeble Revenant" is REALLY good and "Irritable Revenant" is not far behind. that is some excellent voice work. how do they get such uneven performances in these things? 
  
• Grandis Knight: May Philos prosper under eternity's divine gaze. 
  
• yeah, this is the Philos from the other myth, that is exactly what Xavier said before he left for Traceback for the final time.  this is some sort of inversion inside Starfall Forest, on the dead side of things after they are eaten by the pool.
  
• "She carries his essence."  buddy, we haven't even kissed in at least three timelines. 
  
• oh yeah, that exchange about fate in her hands and her in his hands was excellently done.
  
• did that horse just EVAPORATE?
  
• the singing sound as he called his blade to his hand.  noice.
  

Chapter 3

• yeah, i think you're onto it. eventually too many people got sacrificed and the balance tipped towards the dead and the still living Philos was overrun. 
  
• aww, he lifted his cloak to shield me while i searched for my name among the gravestones. see, this myth is already so much better than the first one, and we KNEW each other in that one. 
  
• is Xavier.. sleeping on the boat? :D
  
• yeah, but not Styx, that has to be Lethe, river of memory and oblivion.
  
• hiiii ever so much younger Xavier! they are have using these third myths to close off the previous ones, aren't they? but i agree, its not exact either. if we assume the knight that forced the 'young king' to take his life is now the current Tyrant, that means Xavier forced someone else to die on the throne, which... could have happened, yeah, but that would be new information for some unknown time after the Queen we left.  do-able, the time frames would allow for it. Queen dies, empty throne, a youth put onto it from some branch of the royal line, there's war (fallen cosmos again?), the rebel army forces the king to abdicate through death and then the Wanderer issue takes over everything.  ORRRR what you said... this is an alternate timeline where Xavier never left for Traceback, ascended the throne.. but no, that doesn't work, because that king died and our Mad King here is definitely alive in the realm of the dead. so. where the fuck does that leave us? 
  
• i'll be honest, this backdrop of the inner city looks a LOT like most gothic architecture in Final Fantasy. maybe you weren't far off with the threesome pregnancy comment.
  
•  before the Apocalypse descends .... (/flashes to Doomsday! ... *descends*) /shivers with what we're gonna call excitement.
  
• Tree of Life... Fountain of Atei... Tower of Babel? :P
  
• why does everybody always pick me out of a crowd? then again, i am wearing a dress made of Shoot Me Now white.
  
• also why do i think that if i "go back to Philos" somehow, i'll remember who i am? 
  
• canon-compliant: Xavier can't cook in any timeline.
  
• "...white city walls transform into a clock tower... " c'mon!  "I thought you'd never see me again." wow. OUCH. there was so much hope in that delivery.
  

a blooming flower is from another boyfriend's myth? let me guess... Zayne? i know he's linked to jasmines, it was mentioned a few times in the wedding event.  and i'll also point that she's walking the many branches of the river as it flows through and around the city... which is very reminiscent of the rivers in the palace in the Abysswalker myth, which was something like seven branches each of seven.