Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Me encanta Expedition 33, tras 47 horas y empezando desde 0 otras vez he de decir que este Videojuego es PERFECTO, sin dudas, uno de los mejores Videojuegos que he jugado. Nunca se me olvidara. La presentación de la Historias y sus personajes ya te dice que algo especial tiene, jugadlo en Frances, cambia totalmente.

it's peakkkkkkkk best game and story everrr

10/10 cinema

"I'm tired too."

TL;DR: It is not the best game ever made, gameplay (fights, interactions) is it's weakest part, but it excels surely in what it does mainly. You don't play this game for XPs, weapons or fights, but for the people - characters, the story, art-like world or the depth. If story or characters did not impress you, the game overall won't either. Although not impressing you will be really hard. If you know games like GTA: San Andreas, Minecraft, Portal or Baldur's Gate 3 - iconic, some artistic, unique. This one belongs here too. --------------------------------------- Strongly recommended to at least try the game! I never played JRPGs before and my only RPGs played ever before this game are Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, so my opinion might be based on the lack of comparison. <<< No spoilers here and kinda long text, sorry :) >>> At first, not impressed. Yeah the music was nice, but I didn't pay attention much, the surroundings were fine, kind of realistic a bit, well it's another 2025 game. Moving the character and gameplay overall felt clunky and cheap, guess I'm spoiled from KCD2 or GTA games? I've played until after some annual event at harbour happened, which is not much (20-30 mins playthrough). Then I just left the game for a week or two, until I got some mood to try it again and then ... BANG! The OST is incredible, the story ..... you must see it for yourself. It might not impress you immediately, but they do act well ... perfectly. You start to have feelings for the characters gradually, they all have some identity, it's not just another "healer, tank, archer", but "[mysetrious name], [mysetrious name 2], [mysetrious name 3]". And you will remember them. And then Act I ends and you end up with your jaw on the floor. And then ... you can't just stop playing till the end. Every Act ending will devastate you, as well as the last choice you will ever make, and then the ending. My jaw is not on the floor, but drilled it's way into Earth's core. Graphics is stunning and many times you might just stop and take screenshot, because it's just pure art. Although there are reserves, such as some effects (e.g. waterfalls) looking pretty "cheap" and not really realistic at all, but hey, I don't care about that, since the rest is just pure art. Clair-Obscur isn't just some random game name, it's an art-style and the game is made by that. And that's fascinating, because nowadays, nobody does this, they just make the best grahpics possible and done. And here, they've done art. So even though it's not most realistic and top-tier grahpics of all time, I still love it. Then there are some inner jokes and memes. It's not the best game ever made. Gameplay felt clunky at first and basically till the end. I kinda disliked how you move your character, how there are "invisible walls" in the world and you just can't jump past something. But it is not tragedy, I mean nothing is perfect. Overworld surprised me, I thought the camera broke being so far away and it's some bug but ... it's another in-depth thing you will realize in time (tribute to older JRPG games). Then there are fights, which with exploring (walking) is basically most of the thing you do in the game (I'm not ommiting story, NPC interactions, collecting weapons, ...!). Turn based combat is fine, however I hated parry/dodge at first and I'm not fond of it even now. It seems obvious to me that dodging enemy's attack's is basically the core of how to win a fight, not much other options. Starting fights seems funny too, you go to the ONE enemy, start a fight, and somehow you fight with TWO or THREE. Also you randomly appear somewhere else. Or you get close to the enemy but do not start the fight, then they will be just blindly following you until you get too far from then. And then, even after the fight, if you get too far from the place you fighted, the enemy respawns like nothing happened. Also if you just shoot your enemy (out of fight), nothing happens. And then, I'm travelling with some number of expeditioners, but I can fight with only three? And the rest does what, watches them with popcorn? What happened to logic? Ofc it all might be just another "intended" things and features, but it still makes a little sense to me here. As I told you before, I don't care about these flaws, like I don't care about car blowing up every time it's upside down in GTA games. It is just like that, mostly because someone had a decision to make - invest more time to story and game art, or more realistic battles? They made the first choice. And they made it very very very very right. It's like someone had vision and just done 330% effort into making it true. You don't play for XPs and best gameplay mechanics, but for the art, for [name], [name] or [name].

"What are we gonna do, huh? Tell me. What are we gonna do? We're gonna take down the Paintress, just the three of us? My... my gun and... and your sparks?!" - Gustave, offering the most accurate insight into JRPGs in history, while simultaneously telling us he's clearly never played one. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a needlessly long name and shall henceforth be referred to as just Expedition 33, because that's what the game actually is. Its like looking back at the Bard's Tale series. Did you know that its actual name was Tales of the Unknown: The Bard's Tale? Thought not. See, those needlessly long names are just pretentious for no reason. Anyhow, Expedition 33 runs hot and cold. Fortunately, more hot than cold. Part of that is me, but a large part is it. The combat system provides myriad tactical build options, which is totally my jam. On the other hand, I hate QuickTime events and not the biggest fan of souls-like or rhythm games that require perfect timing. That means that I largely found the combat horrendous, because the game injects those elements into the JRPG landscape and requires not just that you can do them passably well, but that you master them for certain fights. Even if you grind up your levels, you'll find that the damage enemies do if you miss a dodge/parry/jump/gradient defense (yes that's a lot of defensive buttons you need to master) is generally enough to smoke you in a hit or two. Where you can play much of the game with just good build craft and being good enough at dodging, you will hit a wall. Getting past those walls does not give a sense of triumph or accomplishment, but rather a sense of "is this game worth the time I had to spend on that?" This leads to putting the game down for a spell to do other things. Of course, when you come back to the game, those reflexes needed for its mechanics have deteriorated, so the cycle starts all over. I appreciate the attempt at innovation, building on what FFVIII started over 25 years ago, and I appreciate that this game design might succeed with some players; however, it largely failed with me. If you are at all a casual gamer, turn on Story Mode or you will be frustrated. The storytelling is generally peak, which makes the missteps that much more obvious, so let's nit-pick. Expedition 33 spins a wonderful tale of grief and addiction, of how a writers' strike can upend the lives of other creatives in the industry. It does this through a solid cast of playable characters: Gustave, the mopey philosopher that the game tries to convince us in the main character; Maelle, the murder waif and obvious real main character that, unlike other games, actually suffers psychological trauma; Lune, the side dish that should have been the main character, and who will carry most fights; Sciel, the side dish that is just kinda there; Verso, the main character that should just stop; and Monoco, because what would a JRPG be without a mascot character. Where I concede that it is a disservice to label two of those as side dishes, that is unfortunately what the game reduces them to. Once Verso is very awkwardly introduced, he becomes the main character, the one you control in camp, even after the game clearly anoints Maelle as the actual main. In camp, he can talk to the other characters. Doing so automatically builds relationship points, and if you don't see where this is going already, yes, Lune and Sciel are basically reduced to "talk to them until you hook up with one." Compounding the sin, those scenes lack any depth, being 8 or so lines of dialog before omniscient narrator cuts in. I don't believe I'm saying this, but Mass Effect did it better over a decade ago. Those scenes and their outcomes all felt lazy and trite, as if they were a late development decision that was just tacked on after playing Baldur's Gate 3. If I was under any delusion that the French had a better grasp on romance than the rest of us, the efforts here shattered that. If you set relationships and moments like Verso's introduction aside, the storytelling is excellent. Where you don't directly interact with principle antagonist, they are one of the most believably written ones in recent history. The conflict between Gustave and Lune early on does so much, not just to establish their characters but to explore the trauma survivors experience and how they cope. Later scenes mostly build upon and continue this overall excellence, which makes certain things like the camp scenes feel incredibly disjointed. Then there's the third act. The directed narrative is blink and you miss it; it's good, but it is also rather minimal. Instead, it is discarded for grinding challenges that are now accessible on the map. This map exploration that mirrors the sin of many other games: The starting area is densely packed with landmarks, yet all the others are spread out. This approach to Act 3 flubbed the pacing of a game that would have benefitted from those optional areas being sprinkled in earlier while meaningfully elongating the narrative. Music: 11/10. Many notes. Other devs please learn from this. Graphics: The character heads look a bit big. Once you get past the uncanny valley of that and how the scars look just strange, yeah, very solid. Lest you think this award showered game is free of bugs, let me assure you, its not. I experienced quite a few CTDs, typically while attempting to use the world map. A few others too. Fortunately, the game autosaves frequently, so you are not likely to lose much progress. Also, why for some menus wrap but others don't? The many highlighted flaws in Expedition 33 are generally drowned out by the superb storytelling, but again, it is the Everest aspiring quality of the rest of the game that makes its flaws so obvious. PS While I grok an optional boss being its own achievement, also gatekeeping a collection achievement behind said boss is silly.

"Decide the fate of the Canvas."

真正的艺术