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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 draft trailer from 5 years ago surfaces online, and it looks like a completely different RPG with no final visuals and "terrible robotic voices"

It's come a long way since then

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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 features "ultra hard" minigames inspired by the RPG director's time in Final Fantasy 10's infamous chocobo races

Guillaume Broche is responsible for the Gestral Beach minigames

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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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'He's very good at finding really cool people': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director found its composer on Soundcloud and lead writer on Reddit

Soundcloud is pretty goated to be honest.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 head was "bored" at Ubisoft and hungry for a JRPG, and made the highest-rated game of 2025 – "Somehow it worked, which still makes no sense to me"

"We have, I think, an amazing team mostly of junior people," Guillaume Broche said

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‘Expedition 33’ Actor Ben Starr Explains The Game’s Secret Weapon

In an exclusive interview, 'Expedition 33's composer Lorien Testard and Verso actor Ben Starr explain the process of creating the game's stunning soundtrack.

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French Independent Studio's First Video Game Draws Fans

Independent French studio Sandfall Interactive's first video game "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" launched worldwide on Thursday but has already built up a solid community of fans eager to discover its post-apocalyptic fantasy world.

International Business Times

It's not just your favorite JRPGs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes notes from Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle too

Clair Obscur dev Sandfall hopes to capture the same "sense of wonder" as the best Studio Ghibli films

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director was 'starving for new turn-based RPGs,' and figured if he wanted them, there would be others out there who'd want to play his game

PC Gamer

Turn-based RPG Clair Obscur dev says all-star voice actor lineup includes people like Andy Serkis and Baldur’s Gate 3 alumni by accident: "He was like, 'Isn't that Clive from Final Fantasy?'"

Just accidentally casting some of the biggest names in games, no big deal

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Saving the world with a baguette? "A joke that went too far," shares Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's creative director, as we talk Final Fantasy, Persona, and more

Big in 2025 | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 “deeply respect[s]” Final Fantasy and Persona but wants its RPG to be “something that feels truly special and unique, with its own style"

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Games to look forward to in 2025: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

An ambitious French epic inspired by 20th-century surrealist painters and the belle époque will push the turn-based RPG genre forward

The Guardian - UK

One of our most-anticipated JRPGs for 2025 was being made "just for fun in the beginning" and "everybody was working for free"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has scrappy origins

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director put parrying in his turn-based RPG after playing Sekiro and thinking "Why can't I parry in my game?"

"If nobody is going to do it, I will do it"

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Dev of French JRPG that stunned at the Xbox Showcase "not hiding" influence of Persona and Final Fantasy 8, 9, and 10, but wants to "find our own direction"

Clair Obscur: Expeditions 33 is carving its own path

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This tiny indie team's Unreal Engine 5 RPG looks spectacular

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features immersive and surreal environments.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Reveals New Gameplay Trailer, Shows Off Mechanics

Calir Obscur: Expedition 33 is an upcoming turn-based RPG that pays homage to the classics of the genre and showed off new gameplay in a recent trailer.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director speaks about the dark fantasy RPG's stunning Unreal Engine 5 graphics: 'It’s a key foundation for the studio to really look for the latest technology'

Lighting the way forward for RPGs

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'I love stories where you go and venture into the unknown': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche opens up on the RPG's brilliantly bonkers plot

Defeat the Paintress before your number's up

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director wants no part of the debate on whether Final Fantasy 17 should be turn-based, because Square Enix can do "whatever they want with it" and it'll still succeed

Guillaume Broche has big praise for Square Enix's franchise

GamesRadar

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an "homage" to the RPGs of old, and its director wants players to "break the game with crazy builds"

Preview | Sandfall's debut game has been just three years in the making, and it looks stunning

PC Gamer

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director speaks candidly about the new RPG's respect for Final Fantasy and Persona: 'We are definitely not hiding that there are influences'

A western take on the classic turn-based RPG

TechRadar

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 preview: a beautiful world and a high-concept story, injected with action-focused turn-based combat

A strange plot and gorgeous graphics pull you in but the clever action-packed turn-based combat could be the hidden hero of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

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Ubisoft veterans behind stylish turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 "all have a love" for JRPG classics like Final Fantasy, "but also want to see something fresh done with the genre"

An RPG that melts your PC but also has turn-based combat? We're so back

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