Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

This is the song right here. I can't stop listening to it.

This guy goes on a great rant about how this game exposes the entire rest of the industry for being complete morons.

Kaines said:

This guy goes on a great rant about how this game exposes the entire rest of the industry for being complete morons.

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Yes, he does, but he is also doing what I've seen a lot of other reviewers / streamers / influencers do, which hyping up the "made by only 30-ish" people over and over. This isn't quite true, as they outsourced chunks of the game to other studios.

Janx said:

Think this was the "gameplay animation" team

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Yes, I think there were some other production partners involved for other dev aspects, but not a lot. So while saying "only 30" people made the game, it wasn't a LOT more people. Still quite the amazing accomplishment.

It's definitely the best game released since ER. Which, isn't saying a whole lot considering the slop that has come out, but still..great fuckin' game.

When they talk about the dev team they are probably talking about contributing members who have a say in some of the decisions, work in house, etc. The eight Korean names above probably had no input and just got sent some design requirements for animation. Every business outsources in some capacity. Heinz spends $150M a year on R&D but you wouldn't call them a contributing member of a hotdog stand.

You can tell some of the seams as you play, like a lot of dungeons have just 1 shard and nothing else and its janky to move around in the overworld animation system instead of third person. I doubt that was the "intent", they just probably ran out of time/resources to fill it in. Doesn't matter in the slightest since some of the dungeons are mind blowing fun.

The writing and technical details are just completely nailed in this game, with so many places to jump and fuck around I've only gotten "stuck" once and only lost like 1 min of a fight when I rolled back a save. Pretty wild, considering other recent games have jank and bugs out the ass. Not a super short game either, I'm nearing the end of act 2 and at 26 hours, gonna try to go for 100%.

absolutely fantastic 10/10 game the story and writing really is great, I still have no idea honestly what the actual story/lore is (i am closing in I think) but I love how characters don't go into expo dump mode but just naturally say shit like "I can't believe you didn't tell me" when they read a note, not tell us their entire life backstory at the drop of a hat. Having only gotten into anime in the last 2 years it is fascinating to see the french take on "anime tropes", its different but the bones poke through.

Reminds me a bit of Sea of Stars (also French I think?) although that game wasn't as gorgeous or well written as this.

Needless said:

they unironically ask you are you sure twice after asking if you want to engage the boss, im actually so upset i didnt get to see what happens lmao
the build up and aftermath was pure fucking kino too

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I tried fighting them today. Self heals 500k+ every single round if you don't perfect dodge/parry on Expedition difficulty. Attacks coming from every direction of the arena lol. Good luck in NG+.

Utnayan said:

Just wrapped up Act 2. Holy shit wtf.

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God damn it, now I need to buckle up and get Act 2 done as well. Been so f'ing tired this week and I dont want to half ass play the game.

Day off today so time to pop some caffeine pills and start hammering some monsters!

Game is excellent so far, if you beat souls-like game I suggest you play at max difficulty. Dodging is lenient which can be a good thing with how long some of the combo are. Parry is useful for some single attack and group attack, but optional for the most part. The game punishes you a little if you don't optimize your damage, so that good dodging doesn't trivialize the game. I still think dodging should be a tad less strong (like take some low % dmg every dodge so there is some form of attrition).

I was also slightly annoyed at Gustave at the beginning of the game, I didn't really want the MC to be a shellshock wimp. GOTY for me.

Where and when does the game scale from 3k hits to millions?

Aazrael said:

Where and when does the game scale from 3k hits to millions?

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Either midway through Act II, or at the end of Act II.

That's good news. I was wondering what s up with my MC doing 7k x5 at lvl 28 but that frozen eveque STILL took close to 20min of sweating before he fell. And my big single hit attacks were pretty much useless because of the cap. He also dropped something about gradient attack that I can't use yet so I guess he was also not mean to be killed before the damage cap is lifted.

Leon said:

Did you not play bg3 at all?

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I did and I put this ahead of BG3.

BG3 is a fantastic game and will have revitalized the CRPG market, since it was basically only Owlcat keeping it alive. But..that game had a shitload of bugs on release, especially once you get to Baulder's Gate. Plus, there was the bear dong, your companions wanting to finger pop your asshole every time you fell asleep, gay vampires, etc.

BG3 is awesome, but I maintain that Clair Obscur is the best game since ER.

So I'm doing what I do in all these games and hoarding items instead of using them... do you eventually get enough attribute reset/increased lumina point items to not have to worry about this?