Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review - French fancy. Outstanding artwork and glorious combat bring Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's bold, painterly world to life. There's a conversation at the start of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that stuck with me throughout. A pair of ex-lovers discuss why they split up: one wanted children, the other did not. It's the sort of human question that makes a fantasy story - no matter how surreal - a relatable one. And Clair Obscur is certainly a surreal and thought-p...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a phenomenal RPG, telling a heartbreaking tale while incorporating thrilling action into its tactical turn-based combat. Everybody dies. It's the one thing we all have in common. Most of us won't know when it will happen, but that's not the reality for those living with a terminal diagnosis. Over the past year, I've become all too familiar with terminal illness and its inevitable conclusion. Because of this experience, I instantly resonated with Clair Obscur: Expe...

Wearing its inspirations on its sleeve, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 paints itself into the pantheon of great RPGs with a brilliant combat system and a gripping, harrowing story. It's one thing to wear your influences on your sleeve, and it's another to wield those influences to create something that can confidently stand on its own merits. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is explicitly built on many of the ideas of great modern and classic Japanese RPGs, and French developer Sandfall isn't shy about...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's gorgeously realized world is let down by its emphasis on combat, marred by a few fatal stumbles. Clair Obscur's offbeat take on Belle Epoque France promised blockbuster action, a cast of brooding sorcerers to mold into an apocalypse prevention squad, and a battle system which cleaves to genre standards while infusing them with twitchy QTEs. Every year a mysterious figure called the Paintress marks a giant tower with an increasingly low number, and everyone who's th...