Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is completely awesome. We are many hours into this game and it’s been a supreme treat so far. If you have Xbox Game Pass, then you HAVE to play this game. If you Don’t try it, then yes you’re not that smart. Even people who aren’t a fan of this type of game as in turn based gameplay have liked it. It’s that good. We getting ahead of ourselves but there’s no such thing. X35 Earthwalker‘s pace is the right pace. Let’s take a look.
Let’s get this out of the way Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is easily better than every turn based final fantasy game. Nostalgia drugged fans will argue otherwise but no, they are being dumb. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is better… easily! Visually this game is very very good. not the highest tier but a category below. The animations are top tier. The story is seriously engaging and intriguing. X35 Earthwalker himself is literally avoiding everything Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to make sure to not encounter a spoiler of some sort.
The battles are clean and done very well. The boss battles are what’s not clean but dirty. These monsters are here to kill you. Ever wondered what it feels like to get smacked or crushed by a solid igneous rock club by a giant rock creature? Yeah, get the full experience and more in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Faced sword wielding bosses who tower over you. Encounter even a group of orphan monsters who were repairing a hot air balloon by the looks of it. Things get crazy.
The story is the biggest event here in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The paintress every year paints the next number down, like a countdown, and everyone older than that number disappears. Like a thanos snap. She has to be stopped. Many other expeditions have all sailed out to try and take the paintress down. They have all failed. The paintress liveth. You are a part of expedition 33 (roll the credits) it’s your turn to try and stop the paintress. Now off course things aren’t as simple or straightforward as it seems. There’s more to the situation and it’s obvious.
There are many weapons with their own effects. These can really shake things up. It also allows for many different builds and synergies. There’s then a ton load of pictos that bring different effects and abilities to your characters but primarily stat boosts. For example you can have one that allows you to gain a bonus AP on successful parry but you take double damage. There’s another that allows your character’s base attack to strike twice. There’s another that deals big damage to all enemies when your character falls in battle. There’s soooooo many of these pictos. Then there’s the luminous which are abilities from pictos that you master for fighting 4 battles with them equipped. As long as you have enough pictos, you can stack on numerous abilities. It’s better to see for yourself.
It’s better to not say so much as it’s something gamers have to experience for themselves. Even details about the characters are low key spoilers. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is available on Xbox, Playstation and PC. Best experienced on Xbox. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has already sold over 1 million copies and the biggest group of players are Xbox players. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was developed by ‘Sandfall Interactive‘ and published by ‘Kepler interactive‘.
Overall Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a fantastic game. There’s a few weaknesses like facial recognition isn’t that greta in some cases like with Sciel but it’s not a big deal. These things are too small. Having a blast and diving into this game for real. The developers ‘Sandfall interactive’ have done fantastic job so far. X35 Earthwalker told everyone this game was special long before it came out and as always he is right. Now Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 may be a game of the year contender but it’s still not as good as… the ‘Earth Walk!’
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