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"It was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits": Balatro's Localthunk joins team size discourse after Geoff Keighley fumbled it at Summer Game Fest by saying Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was made by "under 30" people

For many reasons, no

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Maelle actor and her real-life partner play the French JRPG for themselves, immediately hunt down the notorious "sex hotel" – "a perfect way to balance out the darkness"

But what happens if you interact with the hotel 30 times?

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs say "our game was crafted with love," and don't want anyone using their RPG "to spread hate"

Sandfall Interactive speaks out in a new post

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director found something that "makes the game feel 10 times better" mid-development, then painfully realized they had to apply it to "like 1,100" different attacks

A breakthrough moment made Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 “feel ten times better” but left its creators facing hours of painstaking fixes

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t invent Final Frenchtasy or the J'RPG: the newly dubbed subgenre has a long and complicated history

Pas mal, non? C'est français.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer wants to follow Valve and Nintendo's example with Half-Life 2 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time by keeping teams lean despite success

Sandfall Interactive probably won't expand wildly with its second game

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio already has "great ideas for the next game" after its debut release "smashed our forecasts pretty fast"

Expedition 33's producer "can't wait to dig more into the ideas we already have"

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With the caveat he got "really, really, really lucky," Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director shares classic advice: "You have to make a game that you will like"

"I think it will always resonate if there's a sense of honesty and truth and joy in the game"

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I missed out on the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Collector's Edition but thankfully, the developers are launching something special

The Monolith Set is for fans who missed out on the original edition, that is being sold for insane prices on third-party websites

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Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker adds more Chrono Trigger to an already-exceptional RPG, and it's the perfect chaser to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Now Playing | After Expedition 33, there's no other turn-based RPG with combat as satisfying as this one

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 endings and story explained – from doppelgangers to the true purpose of The Gommage

Unpicking Expedition 33's story and both ending choices to answer your burning questions

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the studio itself is "like an RPG party" of people who came together randomly, and treating "stupid ideas" seriously is essential

I love it when a plan comes together

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's controversial ending has been on my mind for a week, and I finally know why it's been bugging me so much

Opinion | Making the wrong decisions for the right reasons

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors tripped up over French words a lot, but "if you don't like the way we say it, you can just go and play it with the amazing French cast"

"I think their French is a little bit better. I can't prove it but I think it might be."

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Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does

You'll never guess what his favorite fighting style is.

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Watch in horror and awe as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director uses early builds of characters like a vtuber model in the only video on Sandfall's old YouTube channel

If that is Lune, boy has she changed a lot

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 player proves you can finish the entire RPG without dodging or parrying anything, so don't worry about your reflexes: "This is not Elden Ring"

The turn-based RPG doesn't have to be "hardcore"

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Fans are surprised by the early concept trailer for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

You won't believe how different the year's best video game could have looked.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn't coming to Nintendo Switch 2 yet, but its director reportedly seems interested in it

A Switch 2 release could help make the RPG even more of a hit

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'

"We couldn't beat him."

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's deeply frustrating minigames make harsh parries look like a breeze in contrast, and it's all Final Fantasy's fault

Now Playing | I mean that with love, I swear

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"

"The only thing we knew how to do was just auto-attack, which is really bad"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets its first big patch, as the RPG's devs say "this is the first in a series of patches we are looking to do over the coming months"

"We are still investigating many feature requests and issues for future updates"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's big Maelle nerf is even worse than we thought, as it turns out one of her best weapons was never meant to be so powerful in the first place

Medalum has been bugged all along

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Amid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's turn-based hype, Square Enix asks JRPG fans "what's the best combat system" in its catalog and shares "some games with brilliant battles"

Can I interest anyone in a little Final Fantasy?

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