Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (April 24, 2025)

[Doomsday]

Ironically enough after flying waters, the next track they hit me with was ancient gestral city.




Which is my second favorite track in the game.

You can tell this was inspired by Nights into Dreams.

 

[The Mad Titan]

You can tell this was inspired by Nights into Dreams.

MANNNNN! I didn't catch that at all. But your spot on, it has a strong Nights into dream vibe

Maybe that why it resonated with me so much! I use to legit listen to and relax to the nights ost/soundtrack


I miss the 90's man the passion they put into the simplest things

 

[Jaguar93]

The OST is straight heat

 

[DapMeUp!]

Imma jump into this shyt this week.

I know this is going to be one of those long ass games that is going to hold me down going into the new year I've been putting it off for that reason

 

[Maximus Rex]

The OST is straight heat

 

[Maximus Rex]

Bought this 2 weeks ago

Just got out of of the Gestrel village

Game is

 

[Leasy]

The ending to this alone should make it game of the year and possibly one of the best games made in recent years. Just a mindfukk

 

[Fatboi1]

My coworker finally got this and he's at the Paintress and he says he's getting one shotted on the second form when she becomes giant. He's like he's grinding to get his level up. I'm like man you don't need to, I didn't feel the need to grind anything.

 

[tripleaamin]

My coworker finally got this and he's at the Paintress and he says he's getting one shotted on the second form when she becomes giant. He's like he's grinding to get his level up. I'm like man you don't need to, I didn't feel the need to grind anything.

Man I don't remember the last time I actually had to grind in a JRPG. Maybe the first Octopath game? Hell in most modern JRPGs you don't really need to unless you skipping every optional fight. Which at that point just play story mode in Exp 33 lol.

 

[hex]

My coworker finally got this and he's at the Paintress and he says he's getting one shotted on the second form when she becomes giant. He's like he's grinding to get his level up. I'm like man you don't need to, I didn't feel the need to grind anything.

Man I don't remember the last time I actually had to grind in a JRPG. Maybe the first Octopath game? Hell in most modern JRPGs you don't really need to unless you skipping every optional fight. Which at that point just play story mode in Exp 33 lol.

You cats gotta understand when a game gets this big a decent chunk of people playing it aren't familiar with the core genre it's from. In this case, RPGs.

It's why the JRPG nerds were so up in arms about the success of "Expedition 33". In one game this studio did what 75 "Trails" games failed to do.

Anyway, what's common sense to us (explore the world map, fight all optional bosses) isn't to other gamers.

Fred.

 

[JoelB]

It's why the JRPG nerds were so up in arms about the success of "Expedition 33". In one game this studio did what 75 "Trails" games failed to do.

Why are the JRPG guys hating on this? I feel like this could be the FF7 of this generation. I wasnt an rpg fan until i beat ff7 in the 90s and then i went back and started playing other rpgs.

The success of Clair Obscur is going to have alot of people looking for other turn based games to scratch the same itch. The Trails series might get a lil stimulus off this

 

[JoelB]

My coworker finally got this and he's at the Paintress and he says he's getting one shotted on the second form when she becomes giant. He's like he's grinding to get his level up. I'm like man you don't need to, I didn't feel the need to grind anything.

im willing to bet he isnt paying attention the pictos/luminas system

 

[hex]

Why are the JRPG guys hating on this? I feel like this could be the FF7 of this generation. I wasnt an rpg fan until i beat ff7 in the 90s and then i went back and started playing other rpgs.

The success of Clair Obscur is going to have alot of people looking for other turn based games to scratch the same itch. The Trails series might get a lil stimulus off this

After "E33" got all those nominations at the Game Awards there was a bunch of people on social media crying about this game "white washing" JRPGs. Most JRPG protagonists do not even look Japanese, they look white.

This game is receiving the attention and praise they think other games deserve. And instead of just admitted that they been coming up with all these weird ass reasons to criticize it. That's all it is.

Just weird, goofy sh*t like that. A decent chunk of JRPG fans come off like weirdos.

And I'm saying this as someone that has played several "Ys" games, several "Tales" games, "Trails" games, "Star Ocean" games, "Ni No Kuni", all kinds of sh*t. The reason those games haven't gotten this level of attention is because frankly they aren't remotely on the same planet in terms of quality, and JRPG fans don't want to admit it.

Fred.

 

[Fatboi1]

You cats gotta understand when a game gets this big a decent chunk of people playing it aren't familiar with the core genre it's from. In this case, RPGs.

It's why the JRPG nerds were so up in arms about the success of "Expedition 33". In one game this studio did what 75 "Trails" games failed to do.

Anyway, what's common sense to us (explore the world map, fight all optional bosses) isn't to other gamers.

Fred.

In my coworkers defense he is a hardcore gamer, he's played all types of JRPGS before and has all platforms. I just was surprised he said he was grinding. If anything I only had trouble with a few enemies and not bosses. He says he sucks at parrying lol.

 

[JuvenileHell]

After "E33" got all those nominations at the Game Awards there was a bunch of people on social media crying about this game "white washing" JRPGs. Most JRPG protagonists do not even look Japanese, they look white.

This game is receiving the attention and praise they think other games deserve. And instead of just admitted that they been coming up with all these weird ass reasons to criticize it. That's all it is.

Just weird, goofy sh*t like that. A decent chunk of JRPG fans come off like weirdos.

And I'm saying this as someone that has played several "Ys" games, several "Tales" games, "Trails" games, "Star Ocean" games, "Ni No Kuni", all kinds of sh*t. The reason those games haven't gotten this level of attention is because frankly they aren't remotely on the same planet in terms of quality, and JRPG fans don't want to admit it.

Fred.

yeah I remember seeing that shyt. it was beyond corny. Instead of being glad that E33 brought more eyes to the genre they bytch online Like E33 being as great it is will result in more folks giving more jrpgs or even just turn based games in general a shot. I can say that was the case for me when it came to BG3, I mostly played fighting games/shooters before that.