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.
DualShockers Writes "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is more than just an excellent homage to old-school RPGs."
Craig Reid from Game Friend writes "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a perfect blend of everything I love in turn-based RPGs. It’s an instant classic, and I’ll be recommending it for years to come."
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a cinematic RPG experience that showcases both visual and audio prowess.
I am stuck between playing this or the days gone remaster this weekend.
I never played the original days gone and it was sitting in my library for years
Days Gone is a little slow in the beginning as you are fairly weak and your motorcycle is a clunker. Once you upgrade your skills, weapons and motorcycle a little bit, it is a lot of fun.
Just wait until you come across your first horde—it is terrifying even in the later game. The biggest change I was hoping they would make to the game (which, in my opinion, severely detracted from the survival horror element of the game) is that gas canisters and gas stations contain unlimited gas. It would have ramped up the tension even further if this had been a limited resource. I would have even appreciated an option to toggle on/off, but there was not one. Otherwise, it's a fantastic game! Enjoy!!
Trying to decide if I play this or Lunar Remastered next. It’s hard for me to pass up Lunar but I might.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy for me. Picking it up from Best Buy next week.
The craziest thing about it is that it was made with a development team of 30. How many employees do the big studios have? The likes of Ubi, EA etc couldn't dream of ever producing a game as good as this. Veilguard was the last RPG I played and this game is in a completely different league to that, how many employees did Bioware have working on that? Sandfall have wizards on their payroll or something to create something so amazing with just 30 employees. My GOTY so far by far and I'm only 8 hours in.
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)