Within the game's files is an animatic for an FMV version of the sequence preceding "Waiting" in Episode 2. In the final game, this sequence instead plays out via standard gameplay save for the shot of Clef discovering the drones pursuing the train, which is fully animated.

Unusually, this animatic was not present in the base release's data, but was added in the 1.8.0 update and features a considerably different series of events. Beat, Clef, and Treble throw themselves into the train while following Quaver, just barely escaping a police officer, rather than the four arriving at the train station from different escape routes just before the train arrives. The quartet has a more fleshed out conversation about their status post-escape before Clef shushes Quaver, hearing the buzzing of drones from outside. The sequence where Beat and Quaver recreate one of Eve's photos is also absent. Some voice-acted dialogue from this scrapped rendition is retained in the final game.

When Eli Stavridis announced in a 2022 tweet that she had joined D-CELL GAMES as an animator for the game, her post included line-art of a frame matching a scene from this storyboard, indicating that it progressed to some level of animation before being scrapped. This was later confirmed when another animator, Star Ren, posted a video to YouTube compiling their contributions to the game. This video includes work in progress snippets of the scrapped cutscene, showing fully animated and colored versions of the game's cast and incomplete backgrounds. Similarly, Clef's animations in the shot of her discovering the drones are identical to the final game.