Mythe Scenario START!

Well, after finishing Ruby's scenario, I was pretty hyped to start a new game, so I went ahead and jumped right into Mythe. His introduction was actually pretty interesting! I've actually started it before but I quit before even finishing the first little scene in Fugar's Mansion LOL. So honestly I didn't remember much of anything.

Mythe's scenario seems like it might be more story-heavy than Ruby's (well, I feel like every character has more story than Ruby did, honestly, except maybe Armic who I have yet to play...) so I'm pretty excited about that. And while I originally did not have much interest in Mythe, I already am growing pretty attached to him. He's definitely unique at the very least. And he has a nice voice.

If for some reason you see the facebook album, don't be afraid of its 100+ images. I screencap every line of the story for my own reference but I don't plan on embedding them. And sometimes I just take like 20 screencaps of the same one thing because I'm trying to catch an animation frame or something XD This will probably still be pretty long, though, because a lot happens in the beginning, actually.

More than "Let's go find the kitty, Hiro!" *4 hours figuring out how to pick up a key*

But yeah, let's go ahead and set the rules for this scenario. I'm not going to be doing a challenge run because my last three times playing this game have been challenges, two of them particularly obnoxious (Ruby's was fun though), and I've never played Mythe's scenario before, so I'd like to just play it casually/regularly.

My only rule is going to be no save scumming of any kind. Yup, I'm even going to play with axes. Since I want these play diaries to be pretty thorough, I figure it'd be weird to just completely ignore axes. Actually, I don't mind using them so much in general, I just realize how cheap that axe art which shall not be named can get... but honestly the more I understand the game, the less OP I really think it is -- there's a lot of arts that come very close in power, and honestly there are even better things out there in the right combinations IMO.

But yeah, enough of that rambling, let's get on with the show. And it's actually quite a show!

( Who dat gurl )

The search for Tiffon continues...

Last time, Mythe went to Loch Vaan to talk to the fortuneteller Sapphire in hopes of learning the whereabouts of a girl named Tiffon, who had apparently sold the photograph to Fugar that caused Mythe to go into an obsessive craze.

However, instead of Sapphire, her younger sister Ruby appeared and gave a bad reading, telling Mythe to go to the bottom of a well and look for Tiffon there. And that's where we'll start today.

But first, I want to mention that each character has theme music specific to their scenario, which plays when you're in the 'town' segment of the game (when you're not on adventures), just like in the Romancing SaGa games. Mythe's is particularly cool. You can listen to it here. Ruby's has a really different feel to it, though I never mentioned it when I was playing her story. You can listen to that one here if you want. They're both really cool, though. All the music in this game is cool.

But anyway, let's go well-diving.

( gurl u in here?? )

In Search of Grace...

Last time we left off, Mythe and Sapphire decided it was a good idea to break into someone's house so they could stalk Tiffon because of women's intuition. Mythe helped Tiffon defeat a monster, and when he didn't care enough to turn her over to the authorities, Tiffon started to trust him more and offered to take him to the home of Grace, from whom she stole the photograph.

It's time to set out on the trail to Nivacolina way up north. This entry won't be too long since this was mostly a "travelling" adventure, but we'll learn another neat thing about the crafting system, and we get to see Grace again!

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