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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says the secret of the J'RPG's success is to "not care too much about the players" – "if you care about your game, it means you care about the players ultimately"

"The best way for me to care about people is to make something that is sincere"

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"We love making games more than we love managing": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "it's good to have limitations," so the RPG studio won't "scale up" for any future projects

"It's not tempting for us"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the award-sweeping hit is "very different from traditional JRPGs": "Currently, in France there's a movement to make FRPGs"

Sandfall Interactive had "absolutely no intention" making a JRPG

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says the J'RPG has "very Japanese" gameplay, which makes it possible to play "without taking a single hit": "Even if I'm told it's impossible, I want to keep trying"

Unleash the no-hit runs

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 AI usage admission resurfaces amid Larian Studios backlash

Conflicting quotes from Sandfall leadership have sparked fresh controversy.

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French video game Clair Obscur sweeps LA Game Awards with record nine wins

The French video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has swept the annual Game Awards in Los Angeles, dominating the ceremony with a record-breaking nine wins, including for best video game of the year.

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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi shouts out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after its director said the JRPG icon "inspired me to become a game dev"

The JRPG-inspired game just swept up at The Game Awards 2025

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets free update to ring in record-breaking The Game Awards GOTY win: "New weapons, new quest, new boss"

There's yer new content

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For the price of one Marvel's Spider-Man 2, you could make roughly 30 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33s, as developer reveals 2025's indie darling cost less than $10 million to make

I mean, it's one AAA quality turn-based RPG Michael. What could it cost?

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "anyone who's a fan of our story" should check out one of the RPG's biggest inspirations, but you're gonna have to learn French first

He also reveals "I didn't play Legend of Dragoon before coming up with the QTEs"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director reveals it isn't just the fans arguing over which is the "good" ending: "That’s something we've had a lot of arguments about in the team too!"

He thinks your preference is "related to your own personal experiences in real life"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – how a tiny studio developed the Belle Époque-set gaming blockbuster

What started as Guillaume Broche’s personal project has been nominated for 12 Game awards, sold more than 2m copies and been praised by Emmanuel Macron as a ‘shining example of French audacity’

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"The real reward in our heart is the emotional response": As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its GOTY domination, the devs and actors are still reeling from its success

Year in Review 2025 | The JRPG wasn't supposed to be "big," it was supposed to be "cool" – and 7 months later, it's officially both

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says Xbox Game Pass "lowered that barrier of entry" for his turn-based RPG, a genre that "might put people who prefer more real-time action games off"

"They could just try it and see how it feels"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director doesn't think sales and awards success should change the studio: "What we want to do is exactly what we wanted to do when we started"

"We don't want to grow too much as a company"

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Clair Obscur creative director says he knew the game was going to be 'cool,' but he really didn't expect it to be so 'big'

Nobody on the team saw this coming.

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Despite the JRPG love letter dominating award shows, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative lead insists the game really was "not supposed to be big"

Before Clair Obscur's release, its devs thought "it's not going to be big, it's going to be cool"

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Dispatch leads say the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team's shout-out at the Golden Joysticks "means so much," and "I've never had a game make me cry so quickly before"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead uses award win to say play Dispatch, a superhero comedy from ex-Telltale devs with The Boys vibes: "It's very very cool and has a very good story"

Dispatch's first season just ended

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "cult classic" Xbox 360 JRPG from Final Fantasy creator is "one of the best games of its kind" and "the last game that made me cry"

Hironobu Sakaguchi himself was involved in Lost Odyssey

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is only 85% of its creative director's original vision for the French JRPG, and he "would have loved" to do more with a specific fan-favorite character

Justice for Esquie is "something that we might want to do later," says Sandfall Interactive lead Guillaume Broche

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Sandfall says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 winning GOTY "isn't something we aim for," and even though it would be a "nice little bonus," it's rooting for Megabonk

Clair Obscur director Guillaume Broche can't stop playing Megabonk: "Help me!"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says "there are still a few" secrets players have yet to find in the JRPG

"Maybe they have been found, but I haven't seen anything about it"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio's next game won't necessarily be an RPG: "We don't want to be constrained by story, art style or gameplay"

"We just want it to feel authentic, and made with love"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director wants the French RPG to be open to interpretation, but thinks "we failed as writers" if you don't connect to its cast as humans

Guillaume Broche nudges players in the right direction

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