Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (April 24, 2025)

[winb83]

I think you get a few more milliseconds for the button pushing for dodging but the risk/reward of parrying is too hard to ignore.

I just got a 2nd parry and it seems like a lot to keep track of. Dodge is simpler.

 

[Hopeofmypeople]

Dam if you don’t explore in this you could miss so much, just seen that there was two items you could grab from the mansion and I didn’t even get one.

 

[Phantum]

Now I have to jump?

 

[winb83]

Now I have to jump?

It gets worse. At least jumping has a prompt.

 

[Diunx]

When you parry a combo specially when it includes jumping, the feeling

This game is gonna have a decent lifespan just off streamers doing no hit runs and shyt like that.

 

[winb83]

I'm at level 30 at the beginning of act 2. I think I'm over leveled. I have like $80K worth of their currency and nothing cost that much at the stores. It's all outfits anyway.

 

[Fillerguy]

I'm getting my shyt pushed in

 

[MidniteJay]

I'm getting my shyt pushed in

 

[Sghost597]

When you spaz out and completely whiff a parry on a 5 minute combat session

 

[Da Rhythm Rebel]

I love this game

 

[winb83]

B0nd is right here. People gushing about this but back when turned based RPG fans were saying Square needs to pay attention to their core fans not abandon them for a fake Devil May Cry everybody wanted to act like we were wrong for saying that. This game is an indictment on Square Enix not turned based RPGs in general. A team of 30 people made a turn-based RPG that shit on their AAA teams of hundreds trying to make action RPGs pop in a series that was built up on turned based ones. It's like taking a Gran Turismo game and going people don't want racing sims anymore we're only doing arcade racers going forward.

There's been heat in the turn based space for a while it's just that the people who mostly just play Persona and Final Fantasy passed it over and this game woke them up. I feel like people are really gushing here because this game divorces the turned based RPG from anime ascetics most JRPGs have. This game allows people who don't really like anime and by extension JRPGs with that ascetic to enjoy a turned based RPG because many western developers (and partially even Square Enix) either ignored making mainstream turned based JRPGs or tried to downplay them. How you ever enjoyed JRPGs and didn't care for anime ascetics is beyond me. The two have almost always been intertwined.

Perhaps this sparks an era of western developers making turned based RPGs. That would be a positive but long time fans of the gerne haven't been feeling deprived at all.

 

[Sghost597]

B0nd is right here. People gushing about this but back when turned based RPG fans were saying Square needs to pay attention to their core fans not abandon them for a fake Devil May Cry everybody wanted to act like we were wrong for saying that. This game is an indictment on Square Enix not turned based RPGs in general. A team of 30 people made a turn-based RPG that shit on their AAA teams of hundreds trying to make action RPGs pop in a series that was built up on turned based ones. It's like taking a Gran Turismo game and going people don't want racing sims anymore we're only doing arcade racers going forward.

There's been heat in the turn based space for a while it's just that the people who mostly just play Persona and Final Fantasy passed it over and this game woke them up. I feel like people are really gushing here because this game divorces the turned based RPG from anime ascetics most JRPGs have. This game allows people who don't really like anime and by extension JRPGs with that ascetic to enjoy a turned based RPG because many western developers (and partially even Square Enix) either ignored making mainstream turned based JRPGs or tried to downplay them. How you ever enjoyed JRPGs and didn't care for anime ascetics is beyond me. The two have almost always been intertwined.

Perhaps this sparks an era of western developers making turned based RPGs. That would be a positive but long time fans of the gerne haven't been feeling deprived at all.

Who would of thought QTEs and good writers would be all that square needed.

These Japanese game writers just haven't evolved with the times and are pretty terrible when given freedom to write whatever they want.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

The intro is up there with The Last of Us

 

[OnlyOneBoss]

Learning how to time dodges and jumps makes the game so much easier brehs

 

[DeeezNuts]

I just got to the village… is this shyt act 1? I’m lost like a muhfukka .. damn near spoke to everyone but I don’t know wtf to do next