CGM spoke to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Lead Writer and Lead Game Designer to pull the curtain back on one of 2025's most anticipated RPGs.
Sandfall CEO has recently commented on the chances of a Switch 2 version of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
The game runs fine on the deck but visuals do take a big hit. I wonder how Sandfall would port this to the switch 2 if they do.
Sandfall's CEO admitted that he felt a little burned out by JRPGs and talked about the dilemma with turn-based gameplay.
I like both, it's very much all about execution though. Plenty of turn basedand action games I fine absolutely boring and generic. You need to nail the gameplay and mechanics. Sandfall did something amazing by combining a mix of some of the best combat systems out there and made it real engaging and entertaining for huge turn based fans and even real time.
Parry is also a big one, I think all games need parry lol.
I like all types of RPGs- action, pure turn based, hybrid. Quality is what matters to me
Whatever is developers vision works best. Gaming industry is big enough where we can have multiple genre exist
I mean, people have only just f*cking cried about it for ages when things go real-time… who would’ve thunk giving people what they want would make them buy something
In this generation I don't mind turn base if the battle system plays like Persona 5 & Expedition 33. I also enjoyed the 16 year old turn base
battle system in FFXIII which was the Paradigm system.
Chrono Trigger still has some of the best turnbased combat in a JRPG to this day imo. Still gotta play Lost Odyssey but I've heard great things
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 brings to life a dark yet colorful fantasy world, with amazing gameplay, meaningful relationships, and a general sense of wonder in one of the decade’s finest games, then paints it bleak with its final unsatisfying stroke. That’s not a fun conclusion to have to draw after being so deeply invested in the title - I badly wanted it to be the incredibly rare 10/10 game that it almost managed to be. Instead, it lands itself as an(other) almost masterpiece; one that feels absolutely incroyable while playing it, but left me with mixed feelings afterwards – and not in the way the developers intended."
So many games to play right now. I’ll get to this sometime this next couple of months
Today, Oblivion Remastered and Obscur on Thursday? I'm going to have a few good months of gaming. (I only play RPG's on weekends)