Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | 17th Shard | Page 2

cunning reef Apr 26, 2025, 9:49 PM

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How are we liking the game so far?

dawn spindle Apr 26, 2025, 9:50 PM

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Yes

ionic kite Apr 26, 2025, 9:50 PM

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cunning reef How are we liking the game so far?

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hollow ruin Apr 26, 2025, 9:53 PM

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excellent

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Act 1 ||esquie's cave|| ||I am loving the weirdass rivalry Esquie and Francois have||

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||Francois the get-off-my-lawn turtle is rockchefskiss ||

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||but i would love to know what the deal is with Esquie knowing Sciel. Did Esquie save her during the whole landing on the beach fiasco?||

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act 1 ||esquie's cave|| ||hm... this is now second time that one of those creatures called Verso a friend, and this time, I don't think Esquie means it in teh sense of "he comes to fight us all the time"||

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||so this Verso guy is buddies with all the Paintress creations, huh 🤔 ||

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i feel like i'm tracking down the cryptid, the way i'm latching onto every mention of this name

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okay! i have a theory! a big theory, so nobody tell me if i'm right or wrong

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act 1, up to end of ||esquie's cave|| ||the various creatures that mention being friends with Verso are all very... toy like, both in appearance and mannerism. Esquie is like a plushie, and gestrals are basically art posing models with paintbrush bristles stuck on them. what if those were actually toys that this Verso guy had as a child, and the Paintress sort of... painted them to life when the fracture happened? For some reason?||

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||actually, if that happened during the fracture, that would mean Verso would have to be over a hundred years old, which like... not impossible but unlikely||

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||theory 2: what if Verso is simply someone who was born and raised on the Continent. If he was born and lived there, it'd make sense that both gestrals and esquie call him a friend, they'd literally known him since he was a child||

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okay, question: have any of you visited an area called ||twilight quarry|| yet?

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it seems to have a weird bug where the camera gets stuck in place while my characters are moving around in the distance

analog tiger Apr 26, 2025, 10:13 PM

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hollow ruin okay, question: have any of you visited an area called ||twilight quarry|| yet?

answer ||I haven't||

hollow ruin Apr 26, 2025, 10:18 PM

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oooh this is not just a problem with this one zone

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oh no

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okay, i went to camp hoping to clear things and got a bunch of cutscenes 🤔

dawn spindle Apr 26, 2025, 10:28 PM

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It sounds like you're getting all the bugs

hollow ruin Apr 26, 2025, 10:28 PM

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this did not fix my camera issue

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full restart it is

hollow ruin Apr 26, 2025, 10:30 PM

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dawn spindle It sounds like you're getting all the bugs

qa tester curse yaaay

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anyway, those cutscenes; act 1 ||post-esquie's cave|| ||I'm pretty sure Maelle's nightmare included a shot of Verso and Maelle looking at the monolith with the number 100, so maybe my initial theory of him being just that old is correct... but then, what is Maelle's deal? She said she never felt like she felt at home in Lumiere, is it because she's not actually from there? What are her ties to the old guy, mask woman and Verso?||

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i've decided to verify all the file integrity on steam, just in case 😔

hollow ruin Apr 26, 2025, 10:51 PM

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...restarting the game did not fix the camera issue

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okay, i went to ||stone wave cliffs|| and this is not an issue there

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so there are two possibilities:

this bug occurs only in optional areas and will not affect me on the critical path
this bug occurs only the first time the game wants you to ||use esquio||

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either would be... fine. Well, I'd rather it was (2) than (1), but either would be fine

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i can continue playing

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act 1 ||stone wave cliffs|| ||can i have esquie in my party? i wanna have esquie in my party, bet he'd one-shot the Paintress too||

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man, i love how each area looks so different, yet so pretty

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how did this game not ship with even a most rudimentary photomode

fallow geode Apr 26, 2025, 11:05 PM

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It's amazing how many games don't

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Literally free advertising
-# figuratively because the photomode costs money to develop

hollow ruin Apr 26, 2025, 11:19 PM

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act 1 ||stone wave cliffs|| ||a journal from a past expedition here talks about "white haired bastards" that "look human but are monsters". I can't help but notice, the masked woman has white hair 🤔 Could she be one of many such women that exist here?||

hollow ruin Apr 26, 2025, 11:49 PM

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oh, it's... almost 2 AM

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i should probably stop playing, huh

cunning reef Apr 27, 2025, 12:47 AM

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scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 2:40 AM

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End act 1 (I’m guessing) || OMG G NOOOOOOOO ||

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|| what the heck!!!||

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|| whhhyyyyyyy|||

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Act 2 || nooooooo G RIP IM SAD||

exotic ember Apr 27, 2025, 5:24 AM

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Game goes so much faster the second time lol

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On the PS5 I’m already back in act 1 || Flying waters|| ||Just got Mielle ||

rancid vessel Apr 27, 2025, 6:03 AM

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exotic ember Game goes so much faster the second time lol

Wait you already FINISHED

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I haven't played at all today lmao

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I got distracted by arknights and MTG

exotic ember Apr 27, 2025, 6:21 AM

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rancid vessel Wait you already FINISHED

Oh no I’m not even done with act 1 on my PC save.

I keep my PS5 at my girlfriend’s place, so I bought it again on that platform and started a new save. At this rate I’m going to be hitting new content on the PS5 before I’m home next lol

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On my PC save I’m in act 1 || Stone wave cliffs ||

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But ps5 I’m nearing the end of Act 1 || Flying waters ||. Stopping for tonight but I imagine it won’t be long before I’m back where I left off on the PC

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I do think the refresh rate on my gf’s TV is different, so my parry window timing has needed adjustment

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I’m just obsessed with this game haha

reef iron Apr 27, 2025, 6:53 AM

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act 1 ||flying waters|| ||...ok the mime is terrible and hilarious||

ionic kite Apr 27, 2025, 7:10 AM

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Act 1 ||Do I want to kill Demineur, or do I want to leave him? I assume I want to leave him.||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 10:13 AM

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scarlet trout Act 2 || nooooooo G RIP IM SAD||

act 2 ||welcome to the club! the tissues are on the table by the door||

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 3:14 PM

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i swear, every time i start this game, i need like 20 minutes to reacquaint myself with combat

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and the game needs a crash to reacquaint itself with my laptop

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 3:44 PM

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act 2 ||stone wave cliffs|| side quest ||Okay, so they pretty much confirm that the "mistress" who created the nevron is not the same person as the paintress 🤔 hm... so what is the paintress, then?||

exotic ember Apr 27, 2025, 3:55 PM

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The numbers are growing! Absolutely love to see it

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 4:01 PM

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hell yeah

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mmm y'know

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I wonder how many people were reluctant but are getting in because of word of mouth

exotic ember Apr 27, 2025, 4:02 PM

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That’s what I’m wondering as well. Whether the game is going to just keep growing in counts through word of mouth

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I do think that word of mouth is putting in some serious work

floral gale Apr 27, 2025, 4:27 PM

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Well, me for one. I don't like JRPGs but I'm giving it a go anyway

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 4:31 PM

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analog tiger I wonder how many people were reluctant but are getting in because of word of mo...

me

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I had this on my "cool story, but me no likely the gameplay list"

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turns out I was only right about one of those things

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 4:35 PM

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Act 1 ||stone wave cliffs|| ending ||chat, I don't think Gustave's making it out of this one ShallanOhNo ||

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||whatttt is going on here||

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Act 1 ||stone wave cliffs|| major ending spoilers ||GUSTAAAAAAAAAVE 😭 ||

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||dammmiittttt. I was sure he'd die as soon as the old dude appeared from the mist but aaarghhh||

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||okay so now that i got that out of my system... first of all, Verso! At last, my cryptid man, we meet. Pity about the circumstances. Also, I swear your face has twice the amount of pixels everyone else does||

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||Second, Verso and old guy are totally related, right? they look similar, same hairstyle, same black... ink scar running down their eyes (I know hairstyle and scars aren't hertiable traits, but still). And Verso seems to be... working with mask woman? while the old guy is off doing his own thing. Hm.||

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the plot thickens for sure 🤔

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Act 1 ||stone waves cliff|| major ending spoilers ||wait. if gustave's gone, I've just lost one of my party members ShallanOhNo Who's gonna be my buffer and mark applier?||

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||...hey, Verso... How do you feel about becoming a playable RPG character?||

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||I say that and then Verso strolls in to camp with Gustave's hand LUL ||

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(still same tags) ||huhhh. so my guess about Verso being more than 100 years old was actually correct, but my guess that he grew up on the Continent was not 🤔 but the whole "some of us turned immortal" thing is sus af. Early guess: Renoir did reach the Paintress and struck some kind of deal with her? But then, how does that square with the fact that it's Mistress, not Paintress, that creates nevrons, and how does that square with Maelle's whole situation? I feel like if Maelle was unaging, Gustave would've noticed it, he is her legal guardian, so why does she have flashbacks to knowing Verso and seeing the 100 monolith? Did she somehow get sent back to Lumiere and deaged? Did her immortality stop when she left the Continent? What is happening here?!||

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well... act 2 time

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act 2 very beginning, ||in camp|| ||hm... but Esquie says Verso "put on a lot of weight", which feels like it's supposed to mean Verso grew up since Esquie last saw him... so either Verso is lying about being part of Expedition Zero (which is unlikely since Maelle saw him looking at the 100 monolith in her nightmare, or there's something weirder going on, or I'm just seeing clues where there are none.||

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me rn

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 5:03 PM

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act 2 ||welcome! tissues are on the table by the door!||

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:06 PM

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act 2 ||camp|| ||absolutely living for the Esquie-Verso friendship, ngl. Very sweet, very cute, healing that gaping hole in my heart I have rn.||

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||man, i should level up Verso but I have no idea what he does in combat 🤔 well, i guess the Paintress gave us recoats for a reason||

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 5:14 PM

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hollow ruin https://tenor.com/view/charlie-day-gif-18564553

|| I thought it was just some light teasing b/w old friends tbh||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 5:16 PM

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Act 2 ||(I haven't played beyond just getting to Act 2 and leaving camp)|| ||my current theory is that Maelle is the daughter of either the Paintress or the masked woman||

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Act 2 ||also I think Verso is wrong about Renoir. Either he is lying or is just wrong but what I've seen from Renoir doesn't seem like someone who is doing this just because he wants to continue being immortal||

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:21 PM

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Act 2 opening ||Renoir does talk a lot about protecting family... maybe he's got someone who's going to die if Paintress's immortality is dispelled||

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||what if the masked woman - she seems rather... not all there, maybe she's related to Renoir and he's trying to keep her from falling apart?||

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act 2 optional area ||stone wave cliffs cave|| ||gods, this is gorgeous||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 5:22 PM

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yeah I'm thinking something like that too

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:24 PM

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act 2 ||verso|| gameplay ||bro has DMC ranking system as his combat mechanic? LUL ||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 5:38 PM

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Act 2 ||oh there are manor doors on the open world ShallanOhNo ||

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:40 PM

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same tag ||oh, did you not see them before?||

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||I found one in gestral village and in Stone Wave Cliffs||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 5:40 PM

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Act 2 ||oh I have to figure out his equipment and pictos and all that ShallanOhNo ||

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Act 2 ||I found a gestral village one and I think I found the Stone Wave Cliffs one too? but now I found one on the small island just after the one you start act 2 on||

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:41 PM

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||ooh open world as in overworld ShallanOhNo i see i see||

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act 2 ||stone waves cliffs cave|| ||i think i caught another bug. boss stopped tkaing damage after i broke his shields ShallanOhNo ||

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why is my game like this

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why is everyone saying their game is bug free meanwhile i'm here catching every bug left in the game

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camera in (optional area) ||ancient gestral city|| is still bugged too...

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 5:46 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||stone waves cliffs cave|| ||i think i caught another bug. boss stopped t...

Not a bug

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:46 PM

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oh ShallanOhNo

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well, i still claim the camera bug is a bug

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 5:46 PM

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Yeah it took me 20 minutes to figure out what was happening last night

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Idk about the camera one I haven’t been there yet

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 5:51 PM

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Act 2 ||okay I guess Sprong is a 'fight way later' kinda enemy huh||

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:51 PM

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at least (act 2 optional area) ||gestral beach|| works properly...

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 5:52 PM

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Act 2 ||... mmm this feels like an important area...||

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 5:54 PM

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man

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i really didn't do much today

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but it's almost 8 PM on a Sunday and I need to stop

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😔

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oh, to have like an uninterrupted week to complete this game...

coral trout Apr 27, 2025, 5:59 PM

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exotic ember The numbers are growing! Absolutely love to see it

Its interesting, for a lot of steam games, after the game comes out it goes down fast.

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 6:02 PM

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this is the game's first weekend, so this stretch of three days is the first time many people can play; I'd still call it a "the game comes out" period

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plus the amazing reviews and word of mouth, obviously

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 6:02 PM

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The game is buzzing

hollow ruin Apr 27, 2025, 6:04 PM

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iirc yesterday they posted that they sold a million copies of it

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and that's not counging gamepass players

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 6:04 PM

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Act 2 ||I love the sword graveyard aesthetic||

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 6:04 PM

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🐝🐝

reef iron Apr 27, 2025, 6:04 PM

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oh they hit a million? I only saw the 500k number

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that's great

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 6:08 PM

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act 2 ||WHAT DO YOU MEAN||

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 6:10 PM

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analog tiger act 2 ||WHAT DO YOU MEAN||

||they can one shot you too!||

rancid vessel Apr 27, 2025, 6:30 PM

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Welp I got a make some progress today to finish act 1 or I'm gonna fall behind lmao

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 7:54 PM

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Act 2 ||Forgotten Battlefield|| ||huh you can get the deluxe edition's outfits just by playing the game?||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 8:11 PM

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Ok!
It's 9PM on a Sunday, and I can finally play for the first time since Friday

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 8:19 PM

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Got too distracted by the music to dodge lol act 2 || the Monaco boss music omg||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 8:50 PM

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Act 2 ||Forgotten Battlefield|| ||that dungeon took a while huh||

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Act 2 ||also damn I hadn't zoomed out the world map, it's way bigger than I expected||

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Act 2 ||I think I'll try to keep the pace of one dungeon per gaming session (with some leniency to open world exploration) since the dungeons are pretty sizeable now||

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Act 2 ||also having relationship meters for the cast worries me what if I need to have all of them maxed out so that they survive ShallanOhNo ||

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I might have to buy the soundtrack

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I want to listen to it but youtube is notoriously bad for having major spoilers in the thumbnails of videos when you are looking up soundtracks

dawn spindle Apr 27, 2025, 8:58 PM

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Nah

dawn spindle Apr 27, 2025, 8:59 PM

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analog tiger I want to listen to it but youtube is notoriously bad for having major spoilers ...

The entire OST by Sandfall Interactive is there since 10 months ago, it only has the game title

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 9:01 PM

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yeah but other videos on youtube might have the spoilers 😔

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also I'm hesitant to look up song names

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especially for act 3

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I like that this game wears its inspirations on its sleeves, especially Final Fantasy and Lost Odyssey

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and it's wild to see a game this inspired by Lost Odyssey

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 9:08 PM

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Arc 1 ||Abbest Cave|| || https://tenor.com/jUCumDwwmle.gif ||

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analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 9:12 PM

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I do have some complaints though, (act 2) ||wasn't sure if they would be fixed in later acts but I think by now I'm confident that they won't||

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general ||besides no save slots and photo mode, it's crazy to me that this game has no bestiary and no minimap in dungeons. It really could use both, especially the bestiary (and preferrably with a model viewer)||

exotic ember Apr 27, 2025, 9:37 PM

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Act 1 || Up to the start of Stone Wave Cliffs || || So my girlfriend and I just finished Flying Waters on the PS5 save and we’re thinking the paintress may basically turning all of the people who disappear into Nevrons ||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 10:01 PM

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Act 1 ||The Manor|| ||can anyone give a clue for the secret here? I found a column decoration I could rotate, but nothing more than that||

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||I've collected Maelle if that matters||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 10:07 PM

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Act 1 ||Manor|| ||... I didn't know that there was a puzzle lmao||

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 10:09 PM

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fallow geode Act 1 ||The Manor|| ||can anyone give a clue for the secret here? I found a col...

|| other decorations? ||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 10:09 PM

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Same tags ||Solved it. I needed to look at more walls||

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If you're curious Naru ||I found a weird room with more paintings, and got a record for my trouble||

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analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 10:10 PM

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as above ||what's the record name?||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 10:11 PM

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||I forgot, will let you know when I next camp||

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Act 1 ||Flying Waters, Post Manor|| ||My Pictos are Too Strong for you Expeditioner!||

scarlet trout Apr 27, 2025, 10:21 PM

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Act 1/2 general || lol the open world chromatic enemies are insane. I’ve killed 1 open world and one in a level. The other two I’ve found just destroy me ||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 10:35 PM

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Act 1 General ||Killing the quest Nevrons is starting to feel like the Bioshock Kill The Children route||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 10:37 PM

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man

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I think Feather will really like this game LUL

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 10:48 PM

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Act 1 ||Flowing Waters|| ||Maelle just stopped showing up to fights?||

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||Ok, I somehow mashed [X] which removed her from the party||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 11:16 PM

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Act 1 Mechanics ||Maelle|| ||Does her Base Attack remove Virtuous Stance?||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 11:20 PM

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as above ||pretty sure||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 11:22 PM

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analog tiger as above ||what's the record name?||

Act 1 ||Manor Record|| ||Nocturne Pour Un Masque De Tristesse||

analog tiger Apr 27, 2025, 11:24 PM

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as above ||oh I don't have that one, I should go grab it||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 11:24 PM

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Act 1 ||Flying Waters|| ||"Bourgeon eats Maelle" I'M SORRY WHAT!?||

fallow geode Apr 27, 2025, 11:50 PM

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Act 1 ||Flying Waters|| ||Chromatic Troubadour got hands||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 12:11 AM

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Act 1 || up to some of Stone Wave Cliffs || || Hmm coming back to Esquie’s Cave again on the PS5 save, Mielle’s Deja vu and Sciel being familiar to Esquie stands out more again. Mielle or Sciel being the paintress or Alicia and this being some time-y wime-y thing with the paintress turning everyone who disappears into nevrons definitely still seems possible. Maybe not super likely but hmm. Still super sus about white haired man being verso and basically being an old Gustave. Strong side eye there. But we shall see. Should be getting to new content fairly soon now ||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 12:15 AM

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Act 1 ||Cliffs|| ||these enemies have got hands ShallanOhNo ||

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||oh...that expedition 56 journal ShallanOhNo ||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 1:04 AM

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wait a minute

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I just started playing

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Is Maelle vocied by the same VA as Shadowheart???

dawn spindle Apr 28, 2025, 1:04 AM

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Yup

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 1:08 AM

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thats amazing, i had no idea

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Is Maelle like 13 years old or just extremely short, I cant tell

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I suppose ill know soon

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the character animation is a little bit jank so far in cutscenes but the environments are really beautiful

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 1:11 AM

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how far in are you?

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 1:12 AM

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I started like 5 minutes ago lol

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 1:12 AM

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ok yeah, answers will come in time LUL

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 1:37 AM

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for some reason there are strange graphical artifacts around hair especially when it moves

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does anyone else get similar artifacts?

coral trout Apr 28, 2025, 1:39 AM

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Act 1 ||Gestral Village|| ||The gestral in the fire LUL ||

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 1:40 AM

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cunning reef does anyone else get similar artifacts?

yeah

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I think I managed to reduce it by switching the AA/Upscaler and setting it 100% (No upscaling)

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 1:41 AM

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I see, ill try that too

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thanks

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 1:54 AM

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Act 1 || Stone Wave Cliffs || Officially caught up to where I was on my PC save. Time for new stuff!

scarlet trout Apr 28, 2025, 1:58 AM

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Well I found || sprong||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 1:59 AM

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Act 1 ||Cliffs|| ||oh... Oh good god no||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 2:00 AM

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7 hours and 54 minutes to get to the same place that took me 15+ hours on the PC save

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 2:01 AM

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Wat

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 2:03 AM

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I got partially through Act 1 || Stone Wave Cliffs || on my PC before heading to my girlfriend’s place for a few days. Bought the game again on PS5 because I’m addicted. Just got caught up on the PS5 to where I was on PC, in half the time

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 2:06 AM

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Act 1 ||Cliffs|| ||what is even going on... Gustave is dead ShallanOhNo ||

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||who are these people
AHHHHH||

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Act 2 ||oh, so this is Verso.
And Renoir is immortal because of the paintress, probably.
And understandably, Maelle wants him dead.
Revenge plot!
Oh, Gustave... Gustave ..||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 2:35 AM

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im sorry, am I missing something or is there actally just not a way to manually save the game?

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 2:35 AM

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It auto saves at every checkpoint

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So far as I can tell

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 2:38 AM

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I hate that

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just let me choose when to save???

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also lmao this game clearly takes inspiration from Elden Ring by adding outrrageously long delays before every attack to bait out your dodges/blocks

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 2:43 AM

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you are not missing something

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but there is a work around.
swap something in your character setup, a weapon or a pictos or w/e
the game saves every time

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:00 AM

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Pre expedition ||I am ashamed to admit Maelle beat my ass 4 times in a row before I beat her, her attacks were just sooo delayed I always dodged early. The good news is I practiced and I can actually consistently parry her now!||

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Also ||wtf did the entire city just get thanos snapped????? Where did everyone go, and why are none of the expeditioners getting thanos snapped?||

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:10 AM

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cunning reef Also ||wtf did the entire city just get thanos snapped????? Where did everyone g...

||I think you missed some exposition. Let us know if you're still confused when you reach Act 1||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:11 AM

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I reached act 1 and im still confused

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maybe I missed some dialogue options

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:13 AM

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Prologue ||Every year, The Paintress wakes up and paints a new number. Everybody that age or older dies (Gommages) as you saw. Sophie was 33, Gustave is "only" 32||

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||BTW, Maelle having "9 years left" means she's ~16, since 16 + 9 = 25 and 33-9 = 24||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 3:15 AM

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Act 1 || Stone wave cliffs || || Boss fight || || Oh that second phase goes hard ||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:17 AM

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fallow geode Prologue ||Every year, The Paintress wakes up and paints a new number. Everybody...

||oh ok, I must have missed that. No wonder Maelle made a big deal of Sophie's age...||

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:18 AM

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NGL, I almost want to suggest you replay the prologue

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:18 AM

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||I mean I think I got everything except I didnt get that everyone older than the number dies...||

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:19 AM

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||Kind of a load bearing concept in the lore LUL ||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 3:22 AM

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So I need to run a quick errand, but..

Act 1 || Stone Wave Cliffs Boss || || This fight is so freaking cool. The lead up through the cave. The mechanics of the fight. Then the second phase, which looks STUNNING. And then it brutalized me. Can’t wait to take this guy down. My girlfriend’s reaction to the second phase was very much WTF, whereas I got giddy lol. She thinks there’s something wrong with me ||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:24 AM

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oh god what do I upgrade...

dawn spindle Apr 28, 2025, 3:25 AM

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So, agility allows you to have more turns past a certain threshold (you basically act slightly more often)

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Luck gives you crits

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The rest is kinda obvious

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:25 AM

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crits seem important for Gustave, no?

dawn spindle Apr 28, 2025, 3:25 AM

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You can see his skills and choose I guess?

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I'm using him to buff others

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:26 AM

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can I reset their stat attributes whenever I want?

dawn spindle Apr 28, 2025, 3:26 AM

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Because [others] have a lot of damage

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:26 AM

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cunning reef can I reset their stat attributes whenever I want?

limited reset tokens

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:27 AM

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Ew

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:27 AM

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IDK If you can buy more later or not

dawn spindle Apr 28, 2025, 3:27 AM

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cunning reef can I reset their stat attributes whenever I want?

Nope the "recoat" on your screenshot is how you reset

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:27 AM

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dawn spindle Apr 28, 2025, 3:27 AM

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So you can currently reset once... you'll find more tokens later

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 3:34 AM

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cunning reef can I reset their stat attributes whenever I want?

Gen || You can buy recoats a little bit into act one for 10k chroma each. I don’t love that you can’t just respec whenever but I suppose I can kind of understand why they do it ||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:34 AM

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omg gliding around as Lune feels so much nicer than sprinting as Gustave

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 3:35 AM

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My gf asks me to basically always just run around as Luna

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:35 AM

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you have to be asked?

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 3:36 AM

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fallow geode you have to be asked?

I forget oftentimes at this point to do the character swap, probably because I’m so focused on taking in the gorgeous environments

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More and more convinced though that this may have dethroned Doom Eternal as my favorite game of all time

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 3:38 AM

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Act 1 ||Flying Waters|| ||Maelle feels zoomier though||

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 3:50 AM

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act 1 ||ancient village|| ||and by that i mean the gestral village, omggggggggg this place is SO FUNNY. the "this is fine" gestral. that's so good. that's SO good||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 3:52 AM

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what

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this lancer bro just oneshot my entire team

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is that my queue to go somewhere else and come back later? lol

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lets GO I re-treied and beat him anyways

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 4:38 AM

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act 1 ||esquie's place|| ||ok esquie sounds a LOT like guga||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 4:45 AM

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Random ||after finishing act 1 I ended up fricking around for while. I discovered a parkour area, a volleyball area, an annoying boss who crushes me with walls after exhausting me/shielding itself every other turn, and an area with a giant nevron eating a mountain I'm not quite sure I actually finished.
Most of which I kind of just checked out and then left
Now, continuing with Act 2||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 4:46 AM

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are you all playing on PC? How is performance for you all?

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 4:47 AM

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Act 2 ||battlefield|| ||another kind of counter? Sigh look I'm already kind of bad at this given how often poor Verso is literally getting one shot at this point lmao||

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My computer isn't the best, but it's chugging along. No real complaints on my end, I drop frames sometimes but that's about it

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 4:48 AM

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mine stuttered a lot but then I turned off motion blur and it runs beautifully lol

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Anyways I just beat the first boss. The combat is quite fun and I am already pretty invested in the story

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 4:49 AM

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Act 2 general ||also I discovered this secret Gestral arena that has provided me with the funniest build
Essentially, I have two line ups. My main team of Verso, Lune and Ciel?
Then, when they die, I have Maelle, who's been fitted out with a bunch of Lumens that essentially make her very stronk when fighting by herself. It's very funny||

coral trout Apr 28, 2025, 4:50 AM

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Act 1 ||Hidden Gestral Village || ||I beat tiny head, it took me a second but I did it.||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 4:50 AM

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||gives me a good back up option when I really screw up||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 4:50 AM

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coral trout Act 1 ||Hidden Gestral Village || ||I beat tiny head, it took me a second but I ...

Hard fight

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||though I love the things you get for it
I was saying above (don't read it, spoilers) that I'm using Maelle with them as my backup team for when I get team wiped LUL ||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 4:55 AM

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Has anyone here played Ruined King? This game reminds me of a much higher production value version of Ruined King

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but theyre extremely similar games

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Ruined King has a more in depth combat system but no quick time events in combat

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its completely turn based so theres a lot less skill involved

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 4:57 AM

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cunning reef are you all playing on PC? How is performance for you all?

Performance has been stellar for me on ultra settings, 1440p, no upscaling. Except I ended up getting a performance drop in an area in act 1 fighting a specific enemy. So I switched to the next highest render resolution (forgot setting name) with a bit of upscaling. No issues after that.

But I built my PC in the past month and went pretty high end so… probably not a great benchmark

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So uhh

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 4:57 AM

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yeah i also built my PC like a couple months ago

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and its doing well

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 4:58 AM

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I just finished Act 1 || Stone Wave Cliffs ||

|| O || || M || || F || || G ||

cunning reef Apr 28, 2025, 4:59 AM

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exotic ember Performance has been stellar for me on ultra settings, 1440p, no upscaling. Exce...

funny, my game doesnt even let me adjust the resolution for some reason, its forcing me to play at 4k... lol

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it also forces me to use upscaling

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 5:00 AM

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Act 1 || Ending || || Wow, digesting. This is a lot of unexpected stuff ||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 5:00 AM

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exotic ember I just finished Act 1 || Stone Wave Cliffs || || O || || M || || F || || G ||

|| ShallanOhNo ||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 5:01 AM

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exotic ember Act 1 || Ending || || Wow, digesting. This is a lot of unexpected stuff ||

||yeah, this is why I ended up spending the rest of my time playing today just wandering around the map instead of advancing the story
I didn't think they'd actually just... Kill him. I mentioned it would be an interesting story beat but
God, poor Maelle ||

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 5:06 AM

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act 1 ||just after esquie's nest|| ||if anything happens to maelle i'm killing everyone in the room and then myself||

coral trout Apr 28, 2025, 5:08 AM

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act 1 ||gestral beach|| ||I am sorry, but this game is HORRIBLE for parkour/jumping challenges. ||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 5:11 AM

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Act 1 ending || This is very understandable ||

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 5:15 AM

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act 1 ||cliffs|| ||everyone GIVE IT UP FOR COLUMNAR BASALT!!! you win again, columnar basalt||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 5:23 AM

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Act 2 start || In Camp || || Whoa, all gustave’s weapons transferred but they now mostly all have abilities. That’s kind of wild. Also, RELATIONSHIP LEVELS!? Also, what is are Esquie and Verso not telling us? Gahhh, I’m not okay and I have so many questions||

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 5:25 AM

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act 1 some journal spoilers ||i wonder what the last expedition was, where the expeditioners last had context for what they were seeing on the islands. unless part of the curse was that they ALL forgot? hm||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 5:29 AM

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Act 2 || Morning after || || 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 ||

coral trout Apr 28, 2025, 5:47 AM

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cunning reef are you all playing on PC? How is performance for you all?

My pc is getting cooked, I am playing on low/medium settings with some upscaling I think.

coral trout Apr 28, 2025, 5:48 AM

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coral trout act 1 ||gestral beach|| ||I am sorry, but this game is HORRIBLE for parkour/jump...

||I DID IT||

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Okay I avoided the msq and finally I have nothing else to do. Tomorrow I gotta start the msq.

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 5:53 AM

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Act 2 || Forgotten Battlefield || || What do you mean you’re adding another counter mechanic? 👀 ||

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 5:56 AM

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act 1 ||cliffs|| ||ok now i'm starting to have trouble keeping up, i didn't thiiink there was trouble with my build, but who knows. and i know i should try out sciel but she's a new character you get so late into this.... i don't really want to experiment 😩 it's just like, oh what if she's op||

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 6:12 AM

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reef iron act 1 ||cliffs|| ||ok now i'm starting to have trouble keeping up, i didn't thii...

||she's particularly good in this area, most of the enemies are weak to dark which she's good at.
I'd also recommend using Maelles shield breaker skill. That thing literally carried me through the area||

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 6:13 AM

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rancid vessel ||she's particularly good in this area, most of the enemies are weak to dark whi...

ayy thanks

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 6:16 AM

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I really wish the game had an enemy roster
I'd love to, after fighting an enemy for the first time, know what it's weaknesses and strengths are

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It's annoying to need to basically experiment on each enemy and boss to figure out what's good against it. And then remember all that information for when you encounter said enemies again

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 6:22 AM

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Act 2 || World map || || This map is huge! And you can eventually dive under water in addition to flying? I imagine there are going to be a ridiculous number of areas to explore ||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 9:12 AM

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exotic ember So I need to run a quick errand, but.. Act 1 || Stone Wave Cliffs Boss || || T...

Act 1 ||Stone Wave Cliffs|| ||did you figure out the gimmick for the second phase?||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 9:15 AM

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rancid vessel I really wish the game had an enemy roster I'd love to, after fighting an enemy ...

yeah this game not having a bestiary is really weird

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Act 2 ||I don't know whether to mess around in the open world or advance the story 😭 I want to find more stuff but also I want to see more of the story 😭 ||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 11:08 AM

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Act 2 ||post Forgotten Battlefield|| ||I just fought Grosse Tete and what the hell is this enemy?||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 11:26 AM

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Act 2 monkaW

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Act 2 ||Painting Workshop|| ||this sure is an interesting flag to find here...||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 11:45 AM

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Act 2 ||Monoco Station|| ||HE'S NOCO'S DAD?||

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||also man this theme is bopping||

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Act 2 ||post Monoco Station|| ||mmm I just got the achievement that I got all the playable party members, but I don't think the devs would have 5 fight characters instead of six, plus there is a little space to fit a sixth in the party screen so I guess Gustave is coming back||

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||also I love Monoco 😭 ||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 12:45 PM

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Act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||this is the most tense I've been this whole game lmao I hate 3d platformers but also first try tho||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 2:16 PM

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Act 2 ||Old Lumiere|| ||oh boy||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 2:35 PM

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analog tiger Act 1 ||Stone Wave Cliffs|| ||did you figure out the gimmick for the second phas...

Same tags || I think so. Hitting the lanterns with free aim in the right order? I didn’t manage to pull it off ultimately because of the angle of my main free aimer. The last lantern didn’t want to register the hit. I am curious to see what happens if you hit them all, which I’ll probably find out when next on my PC ||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 2:36 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 ||I don't know whether to mess around in the open world or advance the sto...

Huge mood

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 2:44 PM

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Act 2 ||Old Lumiere|| ||okay found and solved the manor puzzle I had missed||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 3:52 PM

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Act 2 ||post Old Lumière|| ||... I have a lot of questions||

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Act 2 ||post Old Lumiere|| ||I thought Old Lumiere was going to be the city in the trailer and now I'm very curious||

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I want to check the achievements but man

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I know some of them are going to be giga spoilery

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 4:22 PM

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act 1 ||esquie|| ||why did they even make a separate achievement for this 😅 ||

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 8:14 PM

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Act 1 ||post Flying Waters|| ||wat||

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||cool nightmare Maelle||

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||NGL, she seems a little suss||

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||I guess it depends on whether the nevrons & paintress turn out to be good actually||

fallow geode Apr 28, 2025, 8:41 PM

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fallow geode Act 1 ||Flying Waters|| ||Chromatic Troubadour got hands||

Optional Bosses ||TL Note: Chromatic means Hands||

hollow ruin Apr 28, 2025, 9:18 PM

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act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||man, I absolutely suck at beach rafting volley ShallanOhNo ||

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||my depth perception on these gestrals is 0||

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||doesn't help that my character doesn't want to turn the right way...||

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||...surely, there has to be something other than Beach Rafting to do here?||

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||surely they didn't make an entire area just for one minigame 🤔 ||

hollow ruin Apr 28, 2025, 9:41 PM

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oh - regarding the camera bug i talked about earlier, i discussed it with a friend and she says she believes it's not actually a bug and it's just that hose particular zones are just single areas 🤔

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which is slightly disappointing if true

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act 2 optional boss ||the sprong may be beyond my capabilities just yet 😔 ||

wild jackal Apr 28, 2025, 9:50 PM

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hollow ruin oh - regarding the camera bug i talked about earlier, i discussed it with a frie...

There are a few areas with only a music collectable in them that use a fixed camera. Was it only happening in that paticular zone? From your earlier messages I thought the issue was that the camera stayed fixed even when you returned to the other area.

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 9:54 PM

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OH same yeah

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 9:54 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 optional boss ||the sprong may be beyond my capabilities just yet 😔 ||

This stupid thing

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||alternating between exhausting and shields every turn and then freaking smashing me with the walls is so incredibly rude||

hollow ruin Apr 28, 2025, 9:56 PM

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wild jackal There are a few areas with only a music collectable in them that use a fixed cam...

ah, no, it was in specific zones

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||game, i am barely managing to dodge and jump and you've now added a fourth option of responding to enemy attacks ShallanOhNo ||

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mph

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i wish there were like five more hours in a day instead of five more hours before i have to wake up for work

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 10:16 PM

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rancid vessel ||she's particularly good in this area, most of the enemies are weak to dark whi...

oh. my. god. immediate improvement

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 10:16 PM

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Haha happy to help LUL

reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 10:20 PM

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act 1 ||cliffs|| ||literally that move of maelle's by ITSELF might get me to beat this petank fight. the petank fight in the forest was EASYYYY by comparison||

shell minnow Apr 28, 2025, 10:26 PM

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alright why not

rancid vessel Apr 28, 2025, 10:27 PM

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reef iron Apr 28, 2025, 10:31 PM

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shell minnow alright why not

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

shell minnow Apr 28, 2025, 10:31 PM

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It's even on sale right now

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 10:33 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||game, i am barely managing to dodge and jump a...

act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||I was worried at first but I've found the counters to be pretty easy tbh, I feel like the window of the enemies I fought is pretty generous and if you know the attack is coming it's free damage||

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 10:34 PM

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shell minnow alright why not

I think you will love this game lmao

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but also highly recommend keeping spoiler tags up for it

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 10:37 PM

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shell minnow alright why not

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-of-wall-street-jordan-belfort-leonardo-di-caprio-one-of-us-jonah-hill-gif-5441859

Tenor

one of us

▶ Play video

analog tiger Apr 28, 2025, 10:38 PM

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Act 2 gen ||I think I'm close to the end of act 2 🤔 definitely past 50% but not sure if closer to 60, 75 or 90 tbh||

exotic ember Apr 28, 2025, 10:40 PM

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I genuinely don’t know whether to start taking my PS5 back and forth between my place and my gf’s place when I next go home or to keep playing two saves.

Ferrying the PS5 back and forth would mean I get to progress in the game more consistently, rather than doing a back and forth catching up to where I left off on the other platform

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Oh how I wish the game had cross platform saves

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Might depend on how far I get before I next head home

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 12:43 AM

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end of act 1, just started act 2 ||ugh i saw it coming but wished so hard it wasn't going to be. i loved him so much.... his face.... i miss his expressions.... hate being riiiiiiiiight 😭||

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end of act 1 mega spoilers ||literally i was like, "damn gustave's talent tree is SO weird for being this locked off, does he die?" and "wow gustave and maelle's scenes are SO cute so one of them HAS to be dying but maelle is so plot relevant...." and the lurking "haha wouldn't it be funny if they did meta main character things"||

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act 2 ||not going to lie. i DO appreciate that the pain of loss is entirely based on the character and is plain emotion for the story rather than adding in frustration in adding a new character with different weapons, abilities, set-up and so on||

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act 2 ||hahaha weeping at the scene with maelle throwing rocks by herself. tears are streaming down my face||

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||ooooh the wine i'm drinking is already going to my head.... time for more wine..... goes well with the game 😭 i AM still crying tho. learning about gradient counters and perfection ratings through the tears||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 1:26 AM

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reef iron act 2 ||hahaha weeping at the scene with maelle throwing rocks by herself. tears...

Same tags || Right!? My girlfriend was on her laptop next to me and I’m just crying like “babe, she’s throwing rocks! Which they used to always do together! 😭😭😭” ||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 1:28 AM

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act 2 general ||also the thing happened that i thought was going to happen - i got so hype about sciel that now i'm like ugh lune she's not as good 😭 but i think i need to revamp lune's setup now that i understand her stains a little better||

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and ngl. drinking wine while i play this game. yes it's very french but it's also hurting my reaction time for dodge/parry MASSIVELY

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actually idk why i said parry, i never parry, i just dodge

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 1:40 AM

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reef iron act 2 ||hahaha weeping at the scene with maelle throwing rocks by herself. tears...

Act 2 ||I completely lost it when I selected the option to write in his journal
She can't even bring herself to write in it. It hurts too much ShallanOhNo ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 1:40 AM

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Wait, am I the only one who’s parrying?

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 1:41 AM

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i took the "dodging is easier than parrying" dead serious

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and now that i'm managing perfect dodges a good amount of the time, i'm still nervous to try parrying 😅

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 1:43 AM

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Yeah that’s very fair haha. Idk why I’ve been so insistent on sticking to parrying. Maybe due to how good the counters are. Or maybe I’m just a masochist.

My girlfriend thinks there’s something wrong with me

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Act 2 || Forgotten battlefield || || I don’t know how I want to build Verso gahh. And recoats are so expensive, particularly because on the PS5 save I’ve skipped so many of the fodder fights so I have noticeably less chroma than I had on the PC save ||

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Same tags || May just not spec attributes for a minute and toy with his mechanics a bit. Thinking I may try the Demonam weapon? ||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 1:53 AM

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| does anyone know the elemental weakness of the enemies here?

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||planning lune's stains is annoying to do without this knowledge 😩 ||

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||okay never mind all her moves basically consume stains from all kinds of stains 💀||

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||i see that they're weak to light.... which is different than lightning....||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:00 AM

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reef iron act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| does anyone know the elemental weakness of the e...

Act 2 || Forgotten Battlefield || || I also just started this level and I’m getting dumpstered on lol. If they land one shot I die ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:01 AM

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reef iron act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| does anyone know the elemental weakness of the e...

Same tags || What levels are your characters? Just curious. I suspect I may be a tad underleveled lol ||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 2:02 AM

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exotic ember Same tags || What levels are your characters? Just curious. I suspect I may be a...

same tags ||started at 19/20, now 21 - what's your hp levels? who's in your party? a lot of them use gradient attacks so if you hit and hold r2 in response, you should be alright||

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||use your pictos to boost hp....||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:04 AM

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reef iron same tags ||started at 19/20, now 21 - what's your hp levels? who's in your part...

Same tags || Ahh I’m not far behind then. Levels are 18/17/16/17. HP 686/394/334/440.

Yeah I’ll learn the attack window timing haha. Just takes a minute ||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 2:05 AM

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||okayyyyyyyyyyyyy so my hp stats are like 1161, 1420, and 1232 ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:05 AM

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reef iron ||use your pictos to boost hp....||

Same tags || That’s fair haha. I pretty exclusively look to get all the luminas I want on everyone. Stats have been secondary with the pictos for me ||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 2:05 AM

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||you GOTS to be assigning the "energising" pictos and use them as pictos, not luminas, to get the hp bonuses||

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||the hp bonuses are MASSIVE ||

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actually this can probably be out of tags now that we're in mechanics nitty gritty haha

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:07 AM

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reef iron ||you GOTS to be assigning the "energising" pictos and use them as pictos, not l...

|| Well aware that pictos grants stats. I’ve just been more focused on getting them stacked with the passive effects I want. So I try to spread things so each can hold pictos with high lumina costs so I can load them up with the cheaper luminas haha ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:07 AM

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reef iron actually this can probably be out of tags now that we're in mechanics nitty grit...

Fair haha

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 2:08 AM

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well a lot of the high hp boost pictos are hand in hand with being a high lumina cost

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so maybe you're... missing pictos? on the maps?

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:10 AM

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Yeah maybe. Or maybe not running them. I do need to do a pass at updating my builds again too since I’ve been working on mastering stuff. Feels like there have been an influx of new pictos lately

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 2:10 AM

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i do feel like with those massive hp boosts costing at least 10 lumina, they are things that should be available?

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idk

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anyway i just ran off the map and borked multiple jumps landing me in an abyss a few times

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so my hysterical laughter is telling me: maybe another activity for right now!

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:11 AM

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Yeah I have a few with high hp boosts

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 2:11 AM

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my question IS answered on whether the game will let me jump off the map

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:12 AM

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I could also just keep slamming against these enemies until I learn the parry windows haha. Starting to get them down

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I think I very well may just lean into the “just don’t get hit” playstyle lol

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 2:22 AM

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that does feel like the way I'm supposed to play?

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!

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rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 2:25 AM

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exotic ember Wait, am I the only one who’s parrying?

Well uh, I'm trying

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Just mostly failing

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But I keep trying because it's way more satisfying to parry than dodge

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 2:26 AM

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Yeah parrying and countering is so much fun haha

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Also counter damage is absolutely wild

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Also act 2 || Forgotten Battlefield || || Sciel is outclassing everyone else for damage and that’s with them resisting her attacks lol.

And yeah tossing 2 energizing starts on Lune has her able to really take hits as opposed to instantly dying lol. ||

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Getting my parry rhythm back now

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Genuinely only complaint in the game is not having free respecs. Would love to be able to freely experiment with builds

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 3:30 AM

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Oh I think I may be cooking on a build

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 4:11 AM

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Late act 2 probs || omg esquie puking wine like a fountain ||

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|| oh bs the French would let a 16 y/o drink with them ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 4:33 AM

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Act 2 || Forgotten Battlefield || || Chromatic Luster is such a fun fight. Also I love how I finally was about to really lean into a burn build with lune and maelle, and then this enemy is like yeah, about that ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 4:45 AM

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exotic ember Act 2 || Forgotten Battlefield || || Chromatic Luster is such a fun fight. Also ...

Same tags || Got it! And dang Energizing parry seems awesome ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 5:52 AM

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Act 2 || Forgotten Battlefield Boss || || These bosses are amazing. Dualliste pre-second phase cutscene is so metal ||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 6:06 AM

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act 2 ||post monoco's station|| ||i s2g, if they kill VERSO after all this healing bonding with maelle and the others....... like what is act 3 going to be called? whomst?||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 7:10 AM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||...okay is it worth it to try and get those items behind items when i'm soloing maelle 😩 ||

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||maybe i'll be better at dodging tomorrow....||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 7:36 AM

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Act 2 || Post forgotten battlefield || || Finally beat the forgotten battlefield boss. That one took a while. Didn’t help that I tried to force a burn build through their resistances and that I kind of was adamant about learning to effectively parry the attack patterns on the second phase. I did ultimately switch up my weapons and which skills I equipped, though I didn’t respec. That scene at the tree was beautiful. Sad but beautiful ||

ionic kite Apr 29, 2025, 8:48 AM

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Ah perfect

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Swimsuits

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Exceptional, now I can drain the story of all seriousness

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GOOD LORD
Lune's just CAKED with dirt and blood wearing the swimsuit lmao

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It's amazing how much cleaner Maelle is than those two

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 8:51 AM

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outside of cutscenes, it's based on their current HP

ionic kite Apr 29, 2025, 8:51 AM

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Ahhhh

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Lune is at 1 HP

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So that makes sense

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I uh kinda got my ass kicked beating up a monster that I probably shouldn't have fought yet

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But I killed it!

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Maelle got like three levels lmao

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~~There we go now i can properly appreciate how attractive lune is~~

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Why does she have markings on her legs

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 9:57 AM

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There's an optional dialgoue in the prologue talking about how some people tattoo themselces with Chroma to do magic

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So I assume those leg markings are what lets her float

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 12:02 PM

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reef iron act 2 general ||also the thing happened that i thought was going to happen - i g...

Act 2 general ||I recommend setting Lune up with the weapon that gives a free stain on aim and using Mayhem, I found Mayhem to be really strong||

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 12:02 PM

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exotic ember Wait, am I the only one who’s parrying?

I parry once in a red moon when an enemy is not too hard to parry but mostly I just dodge

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 12:06 PM

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exotic ember Act 2 || Post forgotten battlefield || || Finally beat the forgotten battlefield...

Act 2 ||post forgotten battlefield|| ||man Maelle's expression when she's holding the arm got me 😭 she looks devastated||

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 12:07 PM

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reef iron act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||...okay is it worth it to try and get those items behind...

act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||with some life steal I think Maelle might be able to solo the whole game lmao her damage output is so crazy||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 12:12 PM

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analog tiger act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||with some life steal I think Maelle might be able to sol...

same tags ||I'd been having great success with using confident with her, but those chevaliers, you can't get hit at all basically 😭 and I can't switch pictos right now because the person who has lifesteal on right now isn't in the party...||

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 12:16 PM

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same tags ||oh I thought you could switch pictos at this point||

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||my Maelle is built to pretty much one shot most normal enemies with Percee and then heal on kill||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 3:06 PM

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analog tiger same tags ||oh I thought you could switch pictos at this point||

ah nope, just checked ||other person isn't in the party, can't switch their pictos||

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 3:29 PM

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https://youtu.be/p00EF6_b5pI?si=sh251jYCYl67WHhi
This song, man

YouTube

Sandfall Interactive

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Alicia [Official Music Video]

Experience the magic of our main theme, Alicia, in this stunning orchestral recording. Witness the passion and artistry that brought this piece to life during an unforgettable three-day recording session.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launches on April 24, 2025! Pre-order now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S (available day one with Xbox Game Pa...

▶ Play video

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 3:32 PM

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https://youtu.be/TcEdif_2PNY?si=FlyGYHLTs0--klpR

this one has been my fav

YouTube

Sandfall Interactive

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Monoco (Original Soundtrack)

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Original Soundtrack - Gustave Edition EP
Composed by Lorien Testard

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's music is available on all streaming platforms:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/lorientestard/clair-obscur-expedition-33-original-soundtrack-gustave-edition

Wishlist Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and follow us on Soc...

▶ Play video

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 3:54 PM

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where does that one play 👀

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(I bet it's spoilers for me)

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 3:58 PM

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In act 2

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I will give no other context

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 3:58 PM

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big time spoilers for me then LUL

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Act 1 ||I'm only just about to reach the Gestral Village||

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 3:59 PM

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Oooo that also has some good music

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 4:03 PM

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fallow geode Act 1 ||I'm only just about to reach the Gestral Village||

SPEAKING OF (prologue screenshot)

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||Verso be like "this powerful Nevron that murders all these people hasn't been seen in years, so it's probably not around anymore"||

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||Verso, my guy, hate to break this to you, but you're in an RPG, this guy is (1) still around and (2) definitely the final boss of this zone||

ionic kite Apr 29, 2025, 4:44 PM

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hollow ruin There's an optional dialgoue in the prologue talking about how some people tatto...

Ahhh right I remember that

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 4:55 PM

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I should play more today but eh I kinda just wanna vibe today

dawn spindle Apr 29, 2025, 5:04 PM

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I still haven't managed to play since the 1st 4 hours LUL

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I've lost some of the hype itself by now though I'm looking forward to it

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 5:05 PM

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oh, i found something interesting in act 2 ||forgotten battlefield||. ||If you talk to the Fading Woman as any member of the party, she'll tell you she has nothing to tell you and to go away. But if you talk while having Maelle as your leading party member, the woman will actually chat with you 🤔 ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 5:10 PM

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hollow ruin oh, i found something *interesting* in act 2 ||forgotten battlefield||. ||If you...

Same tags || Dang that’s good to know! I never think to check as different party members. What did she say? ||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 5:12 PM

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same ||She was surprised to see Maelle and asked if she's "woken up" and "remembered". When Maelle expressed confusion in response, the woman got annoyed and said not to bother her because she has important stuff to do, and that Maelle should go and "play with her friends". Then she went silent.||

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woo, first crash of the day

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may it be the last

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oh, there's actually an update out on steam 🤔

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 5:39 PM

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are there patch notes?

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 5:50 PM

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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1903340/view/499445587486180703?l=english

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Hotfix 1.2.2 is now live! - Steam News

Expeditioners, We have just rolled out a patch to Steam which fixes and changes the following: Bug Fixes Fixed a soft lock caused by stunning the Grown Bourgeon right after it eats an Expedition Member Fixed an issue where upgraded Tints that were not restocked to full capacity could be lost after returning to the menu Replaced a placeholder tex...

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 5:51 PM

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yep

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i don't know if it's maybe just my laptop, but it's taking surprisingly long to update once it's downloaded

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i have limited time every day game, why do you not want me to play you

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 5:55 PM

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hollow ruin same ||She was surprised to see Maelle and asked if she's "woken up" and "rememb...

Same tags || Well that feels like a big one. I’m increasingly in the “Is Maelle is somehow the paintress?” camp. There was that one interaction with the young boy in cliffs that’s a bit sus. I think about playing with the paintress but then she found new friends or something?

Maybe we’re in for more deaths and trauma for Maelle and she somehow using chroma creates this dream world? Though idk that that would quite make sense.

I’ve also noticed the nevrons tend to have the same peg leg sort of thing going on.

I feel like I’m way off and grasping at straws but I’m trying to piece it together. Dreams, toy-like things almost in the nevrons, trauma and grief, “play with her friends”. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 5:58 PM

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fallow geode https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1903340/view/499445587486180703?l=englis...

Patch notes and Act 2 || Post Forgotten Battlefield but also Monoco’s Station even though I haven’t gotten there yet ||
|| Already had figured Monoco was going to be a playable character due to the voice acting behind the scenes + the post forgotten battlefield cutscene about Monoco being an old friend of Verso’s, but wow am I not opening any other patch notes again until I beat the game lol ||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 5:59 PM

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exotic ember Same tags || Well that feels like a big one. I’m increasingly in the “Is Maelle ...

act 2 (same topic, up to ||forgotten battlefield||) ||I'm not sure if I'm quite in the "she's the Paintress" camp, but I do think she's a lot more closely connected to everything going on with the Continent than she knows. She did say at the start of the game that she doesn't feel like Lumiere is her home, and there was that nightmare of her looking at the 100 monolith...||

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 6:00 PM

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exotic ember Patch notes and Act 2 || Post Forgotten Battlefield but also Monoco’s Station ev...

why would you ping me about a conversation I can't read BibleThump

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 6:14 PM

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fallow geode why would you ping me about a conversation I can't read <:BibleThump:33017598851...

Oh my bad I’m so sorry

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 6:15 PM

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fallow geode why would you ping me about a conversation I can't read <:BibleThump:33017598851...

Also didn’t mean to ping you either time, sorry. Forgot I need to turn off the @ when replying to you ShallanOhNo Please forgive me

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 6:19 PM

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act 2 ||post old lumiere|| ||I don't know if I'm in the 'Maelle is the Paintress/The Paintress' daughter/The Paintress' reincarnation' team or the 'Maelle is Alicia/Alicia's daughter/Alicia's reincarnation' team tbh||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 6:19 PM

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||oh man, the Chromatic Luster is gonna take a while to kill off||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 6:25 PM

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act 2 ||post old lumiere|| ||oh it feels so good to be going back to explore the early zones again 😩 time to go clean up early bosses i avoidedddddd||

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 6:28 PM

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Act 2 ||post old lumiere|| ||I don't know if I should go do that or wait until flying is unlocked tbh||

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||I've done a little zone and exploring but haven't gone to the beginning beginning||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 6:30 PM

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act 2 ||i went back to the spot gustave arrived - nothing new there, alas, but i did have stuff in that zone i needed to do, like a world boss and i forgot to actually finish the nevron quest lol||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 6:43 PM

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield boss|| ||what in the dark souls||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 7:13 PM

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(same) ||took four tries, but Duelliste is dead 😌 my favourite boss so far by far, both in terms of design and combat||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 7:42 PM

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oh, i saw people talking about builds much earlier, so LUL I've noticed a lot of people use burn, but I found a lot of fun with a Mark build. (builds rambling) ||Basically, have another character go before Maelle and apply Mark, then have Maelle use Percee, which deals stupid damage on Marked enemies. I have a weapon that starts her off in Virtuous stance, a Picto that gives her a 50/50 chance of dealing 200% damage, and I keep pumping her attribute points into Might and Luck, so my usual battle opener of Powerful > Marking Card > Percee often results in the unlucky first victim taking literal 9,999 damage||

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||not as powerful once Maelle leaves Virtuous Stance, but being able to delete the most annoying enemy in the opening turn is very nice||

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 7:47 PM

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hollow ruin oh, i saw people talking about builds much earlier, so <:LUL:731391902397628486>...

||a weapon that starts in virtuous stance||
||*grabby hands* I want it||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 7:47 PM

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Have you reached (act 1) ||gestral village|| yet?

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If not, once you reach it, (keeping it vague, but how to obtain the thing) ||there is a series of mandatory one on one duels. Select Maelle for all of them (it's possible you only need to do so for the final one, but I've used her for all, since she's the best duellist), and after winning the final battle you will receive the weapon.||

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 7:50 PM

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hollow ruin Have you reached (act 1) ||gestral village|| yet?

||I'm making my way there at the moment (when I next play)||

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tamlypi

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 7:50 PM

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nice, so you can still get it chaos

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 7:59 PM

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hollow ruin (same) ||took four tries, but Duelliste is dead 😌 my favourite boss so far by f...

Same tags || That boss took me hours last night lmfao.

But much of that time was messing with ways to force the burn build despite resistances (I just unlocked combustion on Maelle). And I was forcing myself to learn the parry windows haha. Eventually I gave up on trying to force the burn build against him haha.

So much fun though and the music was amazing. Super awesome boss. ||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:01 PM

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield boss|| ||funnily enough, my Maelle did not actually survive the battle 😅 I ended up killing it with a gradient counter, which frankly deals a silly amount of damage||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:01 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||oh man, the Chromatic Luster is gonna take a *...

Same tags || Really dug how that side boss forced me to change up weapons and some stuff. Would have done more of a tailored build if we had a way to save and restore builds and free respeccing. Would have been so much fun too ||

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 8:01 PM

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Builds ||my Maelle build is a solo build. She's all by herself, so when I get team wiped, she's in there with insanely strong buffs to destroy the enemies by herself LUL ||

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Act 2 ||especially because I keep getting Verso killed LUL ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:02 PM

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I feel like after playing this I’m going to have to eventually give the souls games a try and maybe give Elden ring another shot

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:02 PM

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exotic ember Same tags || Really dug how that side boss forced me to change up weapons and so...

(same) ||lmao yeah, the moment i realized that it absorbs fire half my build went out the window caue i need the enemy to burn before i can go into Virtuous stance 😭 ||

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||fortunately, it can still be marked and percee cares not for stance, percee simply demolishes the enemy||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:02 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||forgotten battlefield boss|| ||funnily enough, my Maelle did not actuall...

Same tags || Counters do nutty damage in general yeah ||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:04 PM

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rancid vessel Act 2 ||especially because I keep getting Verso killed <:LUL:731391902397628486>...

(act 2 gameplay) ||pump Verso's vitality up and unlock the skill that deals damage scaling with HP loss, then let him get hit and enjoy playing Mydei, Expedition 33 edition LUL ||

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||like it's silly, my Maelle has like 433 max HP and meanwhile Verso rolls into battle with 1600 HP and deals 5K damage after losing half of it||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:05 PM

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I can’t wait to one day do a playthrough of this game where I enforce a rule that I can’t use revive tints.

Maybe my girlfriend is right and there really is something wrong with me

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 8:06 PM

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hollow ruin (act 2 gameplay) ||pump Verso's vitality up and unlock the skill that deals dama...

I just spit water

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OF COURSE you turned him into mydei

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:06 PM

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😌

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of course i did

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 8:07 PM

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Act 2 ||actually if anything he kinda reminds me of DMCs rank system||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:08 PM

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act 2 ||yeah, that was my first thought too. It's kind of weird honestly that he has the skill that wants him to take damage while his basic combat mechanic rewards not taking damage||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:08 PM

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Act 2 || Forgotten battlefields boss ||
|| When I hit the second phase and promptly got immediately deleted I called out to my girlfriend something like “babe, happy times just happened.” She asked what happened and I basically explained that the boss had a second phase and absolutely decimated me and she just had that “wtf is wrong with you” look ||

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 8:08 PM

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what difficulty are y'all playing on?

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:08 PM

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Expeditioner

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:08 PM

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reef iron what difficulty are y'all playing on?

Expert

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I’m a glutton for punishment

fallow geode Apr 29, 2025, 8:09 PM

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Whatever the highest is

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 8:10 PM

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Normal

reef iron Apr 29, 2025, 8:10 PM

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ok cool cool - yeah, normal too

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 8:11 PM

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The timings are tight enough on normal that I feel fine where I am

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:11 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||yeah, that was my first thought too. It's kind of weird honestly that he...

Act 2 || Sac him against fodder and then kill the fodder. Boom, he’s at 1 HP for your next fight. Just don’t rest ||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:11 PM

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ooh, that's smart

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i just need to get better at dodging to make good use of it LUL

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act 2 mechanics ||all I need now is a picto that gives an autorevive and my Verso Mydei build that makes full use of that skill will be complete||

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 8:12 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||yeah, that was my first thought too. It's kind of weird honestly that he...

He also has a skill that knocks him to 1 hp iirc

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:12 PM

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Oh yeah that too

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:12 PM

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i don't think i unlocked that one yet 🤔

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or i did and forgot about it

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:13 PM

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I really think the pictos and lumina system is brilliant

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:14 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 mechanics ||all I need now is a picto that gives an autorevive and my Vers...

Act 2 || You have at death’s door on him too right? +50% damage when at 10% or lower ||

hollow ruin Apr 29, 2025, 8:14 PM

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nope. i need to do that, i keep forgetting to review my pictos

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i feel like always have so little time to play, i keep just wanting to push forward instead of pausing and taking a long hard look at my builds

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 8:15 PM

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The only thing about the lumina I would alter is like a better summary of the effects you have on. Because there are so dang many and I have trouble remembering what I have on sometimes lol

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Like if I could just have a list of the effects instead of the titles

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:16 PM

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Definitely fair. I spent so much time last night messing with builds before really continuing on because Act 2 || Verso ||

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Hmm that’s fair

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Would be nice to sort pictos by lumina cost too

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 8:17 PM

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You might actually be able to do that

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:17 PM

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Luminas yes. Pictos no

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 8:17 PM

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Ahhhh okay

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But like I had to change some stuff for a boss and free up some lumina space and coming back after the fight and trying to remember what I took off is bit rough when the list of skills is enormous

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:19 PM

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Yeah I really hope they add build slots or something in a later update

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Really curious what the NG+ will be like. Never done one of those, but I absolutely will for this game

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It’s genuinely criminal just how well done this game is

analog tiger Apr 29, 2025, 8:41 PM

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fallow geode > ||a weapon that starts in virtuous stance|| ||\*grabby hands\* I want it||

act 1 general ||it's a fairly early one||

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Act 2 ||forgotten battlefield|| ||I didn't have much trouble with Luster tbh even though my build is a burn build. I have a lot of AP generation on Maelle so even if she couldn't go on VIrtuoso she still was hitting Percee super hard. That combined with Mayhem and Lightning Dance on Lune got through that boss pretty easily||

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I'm playing on normal

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if I do a second playthrough I might go for expert

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Act 2 all ||Maelle and Sciel get the spotlight for damage but Lune's damage is nothing to scoff at either||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 8:59 PM

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Act 2 || Post Forgotten Battlefield ||
|| We going to get to see snow in this game eh? 👀 ||

exotic ember Apr 29, 2025, 10:11 PM

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Act 2 || Monoco's Station ||
|| Ooooooo so pretty coming out of the cave to see the outside of the station ||

rancid vessel Apr 29, 2025, 10:14 PM

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scarlet trout But like I had to change some stuff for a boss and free up some lumina space and...

Yeah I really wish you could set and make explicit builds that you could just switch between

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That and having an enemy journal are my two big asks from this game. Nothing major but would just make it easier to remember stuff, and the journal would fit in flavor

scarlet trout Apr 29, 2025, 10:16 PM

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~~Yeah but that’s what the sequel is for ~~

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It’s genuinely wild how good this game is from a studio that’s new

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Like I know they’re former Ubisoft people but like still it’s really impressive

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 1:06 AM

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Act 2 || Monoco's Station ||
|| Monoco harvests feet to learn new skills!? This game is incredible. Absolutely peak. Hilarious ||

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Act 2 || Monoco's Station ||
|| Not Monoco being 3 levels higher than the rest of my party upon joining lol ||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 1:32 AM

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Act 2 ||Forgotten Battlefield|| ||https://x.com/PaulTassi/status/1917287481528979714 ||

Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi) on X

I like how in Expedition 33 you’re traipsing through like a level made entirely out of corpses but you’re also friends with Baymax from Big Hero 6

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 1:59 AM

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analog tiger Act 2 ||Forgotten Battlefield|| ||https://x.com/PaulTassi/status/191728748152897...

Act 2 || Monoco Station || || Can't forget about the fluffy manequinn with the foot fetish ||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 2:32 AM

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Act 2 || Gestral Beach after Monoco’s Station ||
|| Finally decided to see what these Gestral Beaches were. What in the Getting Over It is this. Also I made it to the top of this hellscape and everyone is dancing. This is wild haha ||

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Same tags || Omg it’s Monoco in a speedo LUL This game is not serious 💀 ||

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 3:30 AM

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Act 2 ||clearly I am doing something wrong because Verso has been dying in EVERY SINGLE FIGHT SO FAR||

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 3:51 AM

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Update: I'm stupid LUL

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Act 2 ||no wonder he was constantly dying, I had perilous parry on him LUL ||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 3:57 AM

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(same tags) ||if it makes you feel better, there was a post on steam forums yesterday of a guy complaining that their entirely party suddenly, mysteriously stopped receiving healing, only to realize that he put the picto that prevents you from getting healed on literally all of them.||

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So at least you're not that guy LUL

reef iron Apr 30, 2025, 4:00 AM

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how ... confident Kappa

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 4:24 AM

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Update: he has stopped dying and I finally figured out the parry timings

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Life is good LUL it pays to check on your builds folks

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Act 2 ||Forgotten battlefield|| ||that was a pretty fun fight, ngl. Loved the moment of the nevron drawing the second sword
Still beat him first try though... Whoops
Also I gave Lune a very goofy outfit and it is not helping me take these cutscenes seriously LUL ||

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||she's currently wearing a clown outfit and a beret and silly glasses
Very goofy||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 5:39 AM

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rancid vessel Act 2 ||no wonder he was constantly dying, I had perilous parry on him <:LUL:731...

Same tags || That’s one of the luminas I’m putting on everyone haha ||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 5:39 AM

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rancid vessel Act 2 ||Forgotten battlefield|| ||that was a pretty fun fight, ngl. Loved the mo...

Same tags || There is a setting to disable the outfits for cutscenes ||

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Act 2 || Post Old Lumiere ||
|| Wow, well then ||

reef iron Apr 30, 2025, 5:40 AM

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act 2 ||visages|| ||oh my god this joy mask fight is so annoying and i'm too tired to redo my setup to make it easier. ugh. tomorrow||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 5:42 AM

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exotic ember Act 2 || Post Old Lumiere || || Wow, well then ||

Act 2 || Post old lumiere ||
|| Father thing not really a shocker because the looks were very much giving father. But the big one seems to be the fact that Verso shouted “Alicia, no” and blocked Renoir when he went to swing at Maelle. So uhhh, seems like Maelle and Alicia are definitely the same person. Managed to call one thing at least! ||

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 5:55 AM

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Act 2 ||HAHA TAKE THAT GROSS TETE
THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR POUNDING YOUR FACE INTO THE GROUND OVER AND OVER FOR 10 MINUTES||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 6:01 AM

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Act 2 || Post Old Lumiere ||
|| The esquie WheeWhoo conversation LUL Topped off with “They spend more time looking at the stars, saying they look like things they absolutely do not look like” ||

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I adore this game

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 6:16 AM

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Act 2 ||Mococos station || ||ah, I see, this is the last playable character again.
And he has a foot fetish LUL ||

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||I LOVE HIM ALREADY HAHAHA||

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Think it's unfortunately time to stop right after this though

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Stupid sleep required for stupid work to make stupid money

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||huh, interesting kit. Looks like I'll have to reshuffle my teams entirely||

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Act 2 ||Mococos station || ||also there is some sort of reveal regarding Maelle coming, and for the life of me I can't put my finger on what it'll be. Is she a reincarnat, a child of the paintress, idek. Something important that makes Verso think this is actually possible||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 7:47 AM

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rancid vessel Stupid sleep required for stupid work to make stupid money

Such a huge mood

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Act 2 || Visage || || 2 of the three mask fights complete - joy and anger. Going to have to call it for tonight though as it’s 4 AM and I have to still be a functioning employee. Having a fairly easy time with this section so far running Maelle, Monoco and Sciel ||

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Act 2 || Visages ||
|| That pictos to apply double burn whenever applying burn is CRACKED ||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 12:56 PM

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Act 2 ||post old lumiere|| ||I don't think Maelle is like, part of Alicia or Verso's family because Renoir talked about fixing both of their families. Though then again during a talk about Renoir with Esquie Verso did start to say that Renoir wasn't something, it could be that the current "Renoir" isn't the original one and is like, the Paintress possessing him or smth||

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||I think Maelle is the Paintress' daughter. If she is Alicia's daughter then I think Renoir is not actually the Alicia and Verso's father Renoir||

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Act 2 ||Visages|| ||oh I think I might have gone into the actual boss fight without exploring the side paths? I thought I was going to a side path but I might have gotten turned around||

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Act 2 ||Visages|| ||okay yeah that was the real boss alright||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 1:36 PM

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Act 2 ||Visages|| ||mmm starting to think that Alicia didn't get out of the fire tbh maybe neither did Renoir or Verso||

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||maybe they are immortal because they were already dead||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 2:13 PM

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Act 2 ||visages|| ||oh people are going to hate this chromatic||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 2:32 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 ||post old lumiere|| ||I don't think Maelle is like, part of Alicia or Ver...

Same tags || Yeah it feels flimsier after Verso and Maelle were talking in camp after old Lumiere ||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 2:51 PM

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Act 2 ||visages|| theorising about major spoilers, if you have spoiler tags open by default you might want to skip this message ||mmm a picture is starting to form... bosses and npcs keep referring to a male painter. the manor sure was full of paintings. a different (or maybe real version of the) manor is deeply connected to Renoir's family (and seems to shield the Paintress' heart). Alicia was trapped in a house fire and apparently has some control over the manor that houses the Paintress' heart. There's a lot of whimsy to this world with a lot of things resembling toys... I'm not sure what the exact picture is but I'm starting to see its contours. Also Renoir has the power of vanishing (or erasing) people from this world.||

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as above ||we don't know anything about Verso's mother 🤔||

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as above ||but then where does that leave Maelle... Maybe the Paintress made a deal with Renoir to let his family live again and Maelle is the Paintress' daughter or something?||

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as above ||Maelle could be the mother somehow but mmm I don't think she's part of the family and Verso referred to her as Alicia... mmm maybe a childhood friend of Alicia who got caught on the fire with her?||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 3:12 PM

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👀 Soon (TM)

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 3:12 PM

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Act 2 ||post Visages|| ||WHAT DO YOU MEAN||

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act 2 ||post visages|| ||I have many questions||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 3:13 PM

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Hmm do I try to finish that level before I start my work day 🤔

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 3:13 PM

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act 2 ||post visages|| ||but I am a bit more confident in my theory, though maybe Alicia is Maelle and the Alicia in the Manor is the Paintress and Verso and Renoir are Paintress creations||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 3:14 PM

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exotic ember Hmm do I try to finish that level before I start my work day 🤔

Act 2 ||visages|| ||the cutscenes are pretty chonky, I'd wait until I don't have a timer||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 3:16 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 ||visages|| ||the cutscenes are pretty chonky, I'd wait until I don't have...

Thanks for the heads up! Guess I’ll hop online then and try to crush some work

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My YouTube watch later is growing larger with Clair Obscur content but I’m playing it really safe and choosing not to watch anything until I finish the game

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Really curious about the digital foundry tech review though

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 4:36 PM

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Act 2 ||post Visages|| ||I'm wondering if the world is real or if it's like, in Alicia or the Paintress' head or something||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 6:29 PM

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Watched the digital foundry review and it did get me wondering if the game is harder on PS5 than PC for me, specifically with regards to parry window timing. On PC I would think I’m getting higher frame rates, I have a high refresh rate monitor, and my controller is wired.

Definitely noticed in act 1 || Stone Wave Cliffs || there was an enemy I had no trouble parrying on PC that I was doing notably worse against on PS5.

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Also I am very tired after staying up until 4 AM last night playing this game and I have no regerts. I will almost certainly do it again tonight too 😂

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I imagine I’ll probably end up just bringing my PS5 back and forth between my place and my gf’s at this point, even though playing on PC is preferable. Simply because I really want to continue progressing the story, and I refuse to experience this on a steam deck. And taking the PC back and forth would be ridiculous lol

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 6:33 PM

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Act 2 ||post Visages|| ||act 3 speculation|| ||y'know, I'm pretty sure it's going to be Act 3 (Gustave) or Act 3 (Maelle/Alicia) but it would be really funny (and evil!) if it was Act 3 (Expedition 32)||

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||I'm terrified of the journal writing having gameplay relevance in act 3 tbh||

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||also fairly confident that act 2 will end just after dealing with both axons||

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Act 2 ||post Visages|| ||also I'd really like on screen unambiguous confirmation that Lune and Sciel got together. To me it's pretty clear but I can see an argument that their thing was purely platonic||

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Act 2 ||act 3 speculation|| ||also I think the first dungeon of act 3 will be when you unlock flying||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 7:26 PM

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alright, expedition time

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by which i mean, taking-a-look-at-my-builds-and-figuring-out-what-to-do-with-them time

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i have found myself with a sudden abundance of free time since my long weekend family visit fell through, so hopefully i'll catch up to y'all before sunday

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act 2 ||forgotten battlefield ending|| ||man ShallanOhNo Gustave's funeral... wwhw ||

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act 2 ||post forgotten battlefield|| ||Verso and Esquie's friendship continues to be the most wholesome heartmelting stuff in this whole game wub ||

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||the final fantasy protagonist and a nineteenth century Baymax, and they're besties||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 7:49 PM

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Act 2 ||Sirene|| ||my Maelle is uh a little bit strong I think||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 7:59 PM

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act 2 ||post forgotten battlefield|| ||okay, i know this is like... a sad conversation, but you cannot convince me Sciel and Lune don't have something going on between them||

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||maybe it's my shipper brain at work, "we shared comfort that night but then you left" sounds a whole lotta like they had a one night stand and then Lune ditched her LUL ||

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||and then the "making friends is thirsty work"?||

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||I know what you are||

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 8:01 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||post forgotten battlefield|| ||okay, i know this is like... a sad conver...

OMG IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE

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||that entire conversation I was like, did these two have a night and then Lune just became a workaholic lmao||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 8:08 PM

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EXACTLY, that's exactly how it sounded

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act 2 ||post forgotten battlefield|| ||"welcome to Disaster Expedition". Man, i love these characters.||

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||also, a specific note - I love that they could've made Verso this brooding gloomy edgelord guy, but instead he's... idk how to describe it. Warm? Friendly? Like, dude is literally friends with every sapient being on this island not named Renoir. It's lovely.||

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||and Lune and Sciel being opposites but also similar in some regards is really neat as well; with Lune being this workaholic who needs to figure out when to open up to people, and Sciel being more emotive and empathetic, they match each other very well||

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||I LOVE THESE PEOPLE||

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act 2 ||stone quarry|| ||I love the nevron that just wants to not kill people and play its music, and i wish it all the best in the rest of its little nevron life||

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act 2 overworld ||what in the Ao Oni is this 😨 ||

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 8:20 PM

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hollow ruin ||also, a specific note - I love that they could've made Verso this brooding glo...

Act 2 ||and yet, he's just as broken in some ways as the others. He's watched so many expeditions fail. If you had conversations with all the party members he talks a bit about it. It's a minor miracle he's still willing to help||

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 8:20 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 overworld ||what in the Ao Oni is this 😨 ||

Uh

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||I hope you're good at dodging||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 8:20 PM

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uh oh

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i should note that i have to fight anything today

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time to get gud fast

rancid vessel Apr 30, 2025, 8:21 PM

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Details of the above spoiler (don't click if you want to go in blind) ||you basically need to dodge him for a certain number of turns, over and over. He'll eventually explode if you survive long enough||

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||but he's really annoying so be prepared||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 8:23 PM

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noted, thank you

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||i am not prepared||

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oh man

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the slightest bit of lag on my laptop is absolutely killing me in this fight

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 8:30 PM

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Act 2 ||Sirene|| ||oh boy this boss probably uses charm. If one of those hits Maelle I'm screwed lol||

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Act 2 ||Sirene|| ||oh she was absolutely one of those music box dancers 100%||

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Act 2 ||both axons|| ||also I'm annoyed that it took taking a break for me to realise what the game straight up tells you LUL with the cutscene on camp after beating Visages which I assume happens no matter whichever you beat first and what Verso says after beating Visages||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 8:40 PM

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act 2 ||Grosse Tete boss|| ||does anyone perhaps recall how many turns i have to dodge before it explodes?||

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||well, i do believe the answer is about 10 😌 ||

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dodging practice: complete

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act 2 ||grosse tete boss|| ||It's kinda funny cause like - my whole team ended up dying, then it was like "do you wanna bring out you backup team", I selected yes, and the very next action, the boss exploded||

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||talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat||

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||Hoooly but the picto you get for defeating it is gonna be amazing on Verso||

reef iron Apr 30, 2025, 8:53 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||grosse tete boss|| ||It's kinda funny cause like - my whole team ended u...

where is this boss?

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 8:53 PM

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one sec, i'll screenshot the world map...

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act 2, post ||forbidden battlefield|| ||It's just standing there... menacingly.||

reef iron Apr 30, 2025, 8:58 PM

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ahhhhhh

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 9:02 PM

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Act 2 ||post both axons|| ||I don't trust this. I don't trust this one bit.||

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Act 2 ||post both axons camp|| ||oh yeah Verso's mom is the paintress 1000000%||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 9:13 PM

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Act 2 ||monoco station|| ||i feel bad for Lune, poor girl's gonna get frostbite out here ShallanOhNo ||

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same ||oh that's beautiful wha ||

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act 2 gameplay ||man, i was just gushing yesterday over my Maelle dealing 9,999 damage per Percee, and today here's Verso with 27,000 damage a per his Berserk Slash||

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act 2 ||monoco station|| ||the camera focusing on Lune right after Verso explains the feet thing, I can't LUL ||

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||watch out, Lune!||

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||may be a bit dark, but I need someone to draw fanart of Monoco running after Lune with a chainsaw||

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||"we're heading for old lumiere" "Ok, bye" 🤣 LUL ||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 9:24 PM

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Act 2 ||post axons|| ||man I'm terrified Act 3 is going to be Act 3 (Expedition 32) I don't trust this at all||

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Act 2 ||Sirene boss|| ||also this was the hardest boss so far for me, third phase was rough||

scarlet trout Apr 30, 2025, 9:25 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 gameplay ||man, i was just gushing yesterday over my Maelle dealing 9,999 ...

Wait you don’t have a damage cap?

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 9:25 PM

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Act 2 ||monoco station|| ||"there will be a lot of fighting, though" "okay, I'm in" 🤣 ||

reef iron Apr 30, 2025, 9:25 PM

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hollow ruin Act 2 ||monoco station|| ||"there will be a lot of fighting, though" "okay, I'm ...

||this KILLED ME this game is so funny||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 9:26 PM

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act 2 ||monoco station|| ||"as a responsible parent, I think [taking my child to Old Lumiere to become a merchant] is a superb idea" LUL Everything that comes out of Monoco's mouth is pure gold||

reef iron Apr 30, 2025, 9:26 PM

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||it's the execution as much as it is the writing, props to the actors and directing||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 9:26 PM

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scarlet trout Wait you don’t have a damage cap?

act 2 gameplay ||I do, but Berserk Slash deals 3 hits, so each strikes for 9k damage (the cap) for total of 27k, whereas percee deals only one hit, so it's limited by the 9,999 damage cap||

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act 2 ||monoco station|| ||I love how Monoco talks exactly like the gestrals, just in understandable english. and the deadpan delivery is on point||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 9:32 PM

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Act 2 ||I might take a gander at the soundtrack for act 3 just to see...||

scarlet trout Apr 30, 2025, 9:33 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 gameplay ||I do, but Berserk Slash deals 3 hits, so each strikes for 9k da...

Ah ty I was like wait how do I get this magical power

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Would love to see what some of act 2||verso’s S rank stuff would do||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 9:44 PM

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act 2 ||monoco station|| ||it kinda escaped me earlier in my joy at everything monoco, but it is interesting that both monoco and verso recognize Maelle. Not sure what she is exactly quite yet, but she clearly was around back during Expedition 0, even if she does not remember||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 9:45 PM

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Act 2 ||post both axons|| ||oh yeah I see the shape now. Makes sense too|| ||breaking this up because the next part is huge spoilers|| ||I knew it! the world is fake, probably a painting, though I still wonder if Verso and co. are alive outside the painting or not🤔||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 9:51 PM

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act 2 ||camp after monoco station|| ||Esquie is the most precious creature ever. Look how happy they are with the headband!||

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||cutie patatootie||

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act 2 ||past Monoco Station|| ||I love how large our party has grown. Quite the change from when it was just Gustave and Lune at the camp.||

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same ||Verso and Monoco's idea of lightening the mood apparently involves cutting Verso in half... ShallanOhNo ||

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||well, it sure is a... party trick||

exotic ember Apr 30, 2025, 10:03 PM

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hollow ruin ||maybe it's my shipper brain at work, "we shared comfort that night but then yo...

Act 2 || Post forgotten battlefield || || Not to mention their hands were awfully close together during that whole thing. Totally expected a move to hold hands or something ||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 10:06 PM

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yep yep

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same ||i was genuinely surprised they didn't end up holding hands||

fallow geode Apr 30, 2025, 10:21 PM

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Act 1 ||Esquie's nest|| ||Esquie might be my favourite character||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 10:25 PM

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act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||imma be real with y'all, i don't think this game's movement controls are good enough for a massive platforming challenge like this 😅 ||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 10:27 PM

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Act 2 ||Inside the Monolith|| ||... oh. Yeah okay everything makes sense now||

fallow geode Apr 30, 2025, 10:29 PM

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Act 1 ||Esquie's Nest|| ||Dog ahead!||

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Act 1 ||Post Esquie's Nest|| ||... Esquie, what are you doing, crouching there?||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 10:40 PM

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Act 2 ||Inside the Monolith|| ||cute gimmick for the dungeon. especially with where I'm 90% sure it's going to end||

rocky raptor Apr 30, 2025, 10:40 PM

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Snrk
https://twitter.com/expedition33/status/1917647285816811928?t=1gAgG6yz7DXJ7vSnYYbayA&s=19
https://twitter.com/expedition33/status/1917653210212270542?t=SNwYAc0N_DIV8uMtBK93Ng&s=19

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (@expedition33) on X

Remember, you can always practice your parries by dodging first, and learning the enemy moves.

Dodging is a little easier, which allows you the time to start memorising patterns.

Practice is everything!

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (@expedition33) on X

OKAY, we were wrong, we get it.

The true strategy is dying over and over until you land a counter.

This is the second option.

fallow geode Apr 30, 2025, 10:40 PM

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fallow geode Act 1 ||Post Esquie's Nest|| ||... Esquie, what are you doing, crouching there?|...

||a very silly section, and chock full of meaning, I'm sure||

fallow geode Apr 30, 2025, 10:41 PM

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rocky raptor Snrk https://twitter.com/expedition33/status/1917647285816811928?t=1gAgG6yz7DXJ7...

https://tenor.com/view/mando-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian-star-wars-gif-18467370

Tenor

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 10:42 PM

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act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||I think I'm quite done with the climbing challenge 🙃 ||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 10:42 PM

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Act 2 all ||man I really hope they explicitlly say that Lune and Sciel got together more than platonically||

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||it's pretty clear that they did but I want no ambiguity there||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 10:42 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||I think I'm quite done with the climbing challenge 🙃 ...

||good done or bad done?||

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taking a break for tonight

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 10:43 PM

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bad done

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||falling from near the end to the very bottom sucks||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 10:43 PM

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yeaaah fair

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act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||3d jumping puzzles are awful (except in a few games where it's goated)||

scarlet trout Apr 30, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Oh I’ve just avoided all the || gestral beach|| I tried the first one a few times and it was just like nope I’m not spending an hour doing this lol

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Act 2 ||Inside the Monolith|| ||man. mmm. man. I want to comment something but I really don't want to accidentally spoil something in case someone accidentally clicks the bar or discord messes up spoiler tags display again||

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Act 2 ||Inside the Monolith|| ||I wonder if the daughter survived||

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E33 all ||not sure if I should even spoiler tag this but just in case. There's one game that I wonder if the devs took inspiration from. It'd be a deep, deep pull so it'd be surprising if it was but I definitely could see it being a heavy influence||

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Act 2 all ||I can't wait for you guys to get here lmao||

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 11:10 PM

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Act 2 all ||I wonder what act 3 will be like, there are some interesting options...||

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 11:24 PM

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well, well, well, it's the obligatory crash of the day

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i think it's telling me i should turn the game off cause it's half past 1 AM

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thank gods i don't have work tomorrow 😅

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or

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today

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 11:30 PM

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hell yeah

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labor day prayge

hollow ruin Apr 30, 2025, 11:40 PM

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yeee 😌

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and i took the 2nd off too (we get an extra vacation day cause 3rd is also a state holiday but it falls on saturday this year), so it's a long weekend i can spend on the Continent

analog tiger Apr 30, 2025, 11:42 PM

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hell yeah

coral trout Apr 30, 2025, 11:54 PM

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Act 1 ||Nest|| ||I love Esquie wwhw ||

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Act 1 ||Nest|| ||He's a mount wha

More places have opened up, like in ff.

Thought, Esquie probably is related to Esquire.||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 12:16 AM

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same tags ||apparently, it comes from french words "esquisse", which means rough/preliminary sketch||

coral trout May 1, 2025, 12:57 AM

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Act 1 ||Twilight Quarry || ||This is very much a ff 'location' here, by that I mean not the design or anything, but how they have it set perspective.||

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 2:14 AM

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rocky raptor Snrk https://twitter.com/expedition33/status/1917647285816811928?t=1gAgG6yz7DXJ7...

The latter is my strategy

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 2:18 AM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||I think I'm quite done with the climbing challenge 🙃 ...

Same tags || That was my first Gestral beach. 99% I know which one you’re talking about at least. Haven’t tried the others. It kept going and going lol ||

rocky raptor May 1, 2025, 2:22 AM

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uh...did most of the messages in here get deleted?
i was going to look for some tweets i linked but the oldest message i can see is only about 4 hours old

fallow geode May 1, 2025, 2:24 AM

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I can see all the to yesterday at least

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You probably need to reboot discord

reef iron May 1, 2025, 2:24 AM

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sounds like a discord/network glitch

rocky raptor May 1, 2025, 2:29 AM

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ugh

upbeat trench May 1, 2025, 4:53 AM

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bought the game, uh, we'll see when/if I have time to play it this summer

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 5:32 AM

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End act 2 || oooooooo boy we gotta go back ||

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|| WHAAAAT OH NO BRUH WE GOTTS GO UN THANOS THIS ||

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Same tags

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|| uhhhhhhh what is happening ||

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Post act 2 seriously don’t click || well I thought that we might be going this direction but I didn’t expect like weird magic alternate dimension. I thought it was just gonna be a regular alternate dimension ||

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 6:02 AM

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Not playing tonight as it’s 2 AM and I really need some sleep. Will make more progress tomorrow.

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 6:09 AM

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Act 2 ||Old Lumiere|| ||maybe I'm supposed to be surprised or angry that Verso is Renoirs son, but... Honestly I'm not really surprised or upset. Them being family isn't too shocking, and him hating his dad isn't surprising at all given Renoirs penchanct for killing people just for being in the way.
Like poor Noco ShallanOhNo
Anyway given the song name Alicia, and Verso seeming to mistake Maelle for Alicia, there is clearly some relation there. Just... What though?
Also can't they get into the manor from all those other doors scattered all over the place? What's the manor for anyway? What relation does it have to the paintress? So many questions. ||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 6:34 AM

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Post act 2 ||Genuinely what the heck am I supposed to do now everything kills me instantly and has a million health ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 6:50 AM

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act 2 ||axons|| ||both of these zones are giving an ABSURDDDDD amount of exp and attribute points to spend, it's NUTSSSSS||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 12:49 PM

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scarlet trout Post act 2 seriously don’t click || well I thought that we might be going this d...

I wanna click 😭

shell minnow May 1, 2025, 12:52 PM

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I started last night, made it through the prologue and a little ways into the first area

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Quite fun so far and very pretty...

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Honestly it was just fun getting a bunch of worldbuilding from reading all the French posters in the starting area

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 12:56 PM

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scarlet trout End act 2 || oooooooo boy we gotta go back ||

||is Inside the Monolith the last dungeon of|| act 2?

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 2:35 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||i appreciate that the reason for our party splitting up isn't "we needed to do two things at once" or "an enemy separated us", it's "monoco was a dumbass" LUL ||

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same ||oh boy, i love being forced to use a team that features one character i barely got to use, one character i'm bad at using, and one character i haven't used since gestral village chaos ||

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||i love when the first enemies i encounter in the area can kill two of those characters in a single combo chaos chaos ||

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||this gameplay section is gonna be so much fun! chaos chaos chaos ||

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| || ShallanOhNo gods i hate it here||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 2:47 PM

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hollow ruin ||i love when the first enemies i encounter in the area can kill two of those ch...

yeah same reaction

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 2:47 PM

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||give me back my actual damage dealing characters, game||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 2:49 PM

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act 2 general ||I will say that in hindsight I am glad for every time the game forced me to use certain characters because it means I really got to use them and figure out how they work. this is also unfortunate because it means I like every single character in battle but I can't have everyone in the party 😭||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 2:52 PM

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Act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||they really should you switch out pictos at least in that section||

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||I feel like that would help a lot||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 2:53 PM

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act 2 general ||getting sciel "yeah cool but I just don't think I'm going to use her... uses her all the time now||

||gets monoco "yeah cool but I don't think I'm going to be using him ever" uses him all the time now||

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sometimes certain zones are just... really hard, unless you switch to another character you haven't been using, and then suddenly it's EASY MODE

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the exception is (act 2) ||maelle, she NEVER leaves my party||

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act 2 general ||characters like monoco (ie. like the blue mage wildcards) can be a little rough in battle but I find the abilities that he started with are great just basic moves for good output and the combo of VERY STRONK plus being able to heal with Regen for cheeeeap just make him an incredibly good pick. I wonder if he's statted so strong to encourage people to use him when you get him so "late" in the game||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:00 PM

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act 2 general ||my blue mage spell list is super empty because I never use monoco 😭 ||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:00 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||I am goingn to burst a vein trying to figure out the dodge timing for ceramic chevaliers 😠 ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:01 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||I am goingn to burst a vein trying to figure out the dod...

same tags ||truly actually my least favourite enemies in the game||

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 3:03 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||I am goingn to burst a vein trying to figure out the dod...

The number of times I got got

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I ended up just using one shot abilities

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:04 PM

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re: the character using discurouse, act 2 general ||ngl, the moment I got monoco i immediately swapped sciel out for him in my standard team||

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||ally that can transform into enemies is just too cool not to use||

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||the only problem i have with him right now is that all the abilities i got for him so far have stupid high AP costs||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:06 PM

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act 2 general ||my party has been sciel, maelle, and monoco. verso is okay, but I only just got a setup for him that feels like it's exciting, and lune I feel fell off, I can't figure out how to get her damage output up, so I almost never use her now||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:06 PM

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act 2 general ||mine are Verso, Maelle and Monoco; with how much I get hit, I love that I can build Verso to deal more damage the less HP he has 😆 ||

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||also, I am now 2 for 2 in "my favourite character in a turn-based RPG is an immortal man whose gameplay involves losing HP a lot" LUL ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:08 PM

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act 2 general ||verso just never felt like he had anything as exciting as overcharge, and everything with him just felt like basic physical/light attacks that only pop off if there's an enemy weakness. I think I'll have to try your setup with the berserk move because I can't figure out how else to use him ||

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 3:10 PM

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Act 2 general ||I'm currently using one of his swords that gives him an additional action after basic attacking. Then with a combo picto, and other buffs to basic attack, it gets me 2 ap and I can get off his big break move way more often. It's really fun||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:11 PM

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Act 2 general ||my comp is Maelle, Lune, Verso with Verso on the weapon that lets him get a new turn on base attack and a lot of attack buffing luminas and pictos + inflicting defenceless on base attack to set up Maelle (though I need to mess around with speed for turn priority stuff because it's not working as I want to right now, either he gets a turn before the enemy which then clears the defenceless or he gets a turn after Maelle) and a lot of break buffing stuff so I can go base attack > second turn Light break attack > Lune Mayhem to do like 75% of the break bar on a turn. Lune I've set on doing double burn and Free Aim buffing pictos and luminas + the weapon that gives a random stain on free aim shot to set her up to do insane break damage (and just damage in general lmao) with Mayhem as well as passive dot on Immolate||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:11 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||Verso is what? Game, if the characters know something, just tell me!||

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||also, there is 100% something off with Verso's story and memories and stuff. Like Monoco saying he's always known Verso is sus af, and both Monoco and Verso recognize Maelle and she doesn't remember them...||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:12 PM

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Act 2 ||it's not uncommon for me to get like, 20 burn on an enemy in a turn thanks to Maelle also doing burn on hits, unfortunately burn damage caps at 9999 per tick and it only ticks once per turn 😔great on bosses that get multiple turns tho ||

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Act 2 general ||if Mayhem hits an weakness even once, my Lune does like 30% of a boss' damage in a single hit it's crazy||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:14 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 general ||my comp is Maelle, Lune, Verso with Verso on the weapon that let...

oh that sounds neat, would you send me some screenshots of your setup for her?

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:15 PM

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Act 2 general ||it's hard to setup the 9 cost Maelle ultimate skill (not the fire one, the other fire one; it's called like Sword Ballet iirc?) but when it hits it's like 50% of an enemy's HP. I also have Maelle on Rush and Shell at the start of combat and Powerful when given Shell||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:15 PM

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reef iron oh that sounds neat, would you send me some screenshots of your setup for her?

okay opening the game rq

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 3:15 PM

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Act 2 || Visages || || Chromatic Ramasseur is mean ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:16 PM

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act 2 general ||I'm not sure exactly how I've done this but I never have trouble getting maelle up to 9, she's an ap generating machine somehow||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:16 PM

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exotic ember Act 2 || Visages || || Chromatic Ramasseur is mean ||

I tried once and never again

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:17 PM

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act 2 general ||oh yeah mine generates a lot of AP too it's just that I spend it like crazy too on the break move that keeps her in virtuoso; I'm usually sitting at 8ap||

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Act 2 ||visages|| ||which one is chromatic ramasseur?||

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 3:17 PM

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Act 2 ||Old Lumiere || ||also, I am supremely annoyed that no one bothered to explain or ask about the GIANT GLOWING SWORDS EVERYWHERE||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:17 PM

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i also need to not always be playing late at night because my patience for ||optional bosses and their bs sometimes just doesn't feel worth the effort when I'm a little sleepy and want to feel like I'm advancing||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:17 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||...no. the problem is not my teammates, the problem is ceramic chevaliers||

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||they are equally ass now that i'm playing verso and maelle||

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 3:18 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 ||visages|| ||which one is chromatic ramasseur?||

Same tags || The one that just keeps attacking again and again and doesn’t let you attack. Seems to require you to parry everything as counters weaken it ||

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 3:18 PM

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||I could never time their second hit properly. Thus I just tried to one shot them with Maelles fire sword rain move||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:19 PM

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Act 2 general ||my Lune build|| ||I need to switch out Effective Heal, I was only using it to unlock for everyone, and maybe switch out Energising Pain too||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:19 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 general ||it's hard to setup the 9 cost Maelle ultimate skill (not the fir...

act 2 general ||also sword ballet I think is just physical damage?||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:19 PM

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o forgot to set it as a reply but those are the screenshots

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:19 PM

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oh yeah all good

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:20 PM

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exotic ember Same tags || The one that just keeps attacking again and again and doesn’t let y...

Act 2 ||Visages|| ||oh yeah do you want a tip for that one?||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:21 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||oh, and now i lost verso too ShallanOhNo ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:21 PM

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||or well, the strategy that worked for me who sucks at parrying||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:21 PM

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reef iron act 2 general ||also sword ballet I think is just physical damage?||

act 2 general ||Weapon's element||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:21 PM

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analog tiger ||or well, the strategy that worked for me who sucks at parrying||

yes tell me

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 3:21 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 ||Visages|| ||oh yeah do you want a tip for that one?||

Sure why not

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:21 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||playing through this area in a nutshell:||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:22 PM

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same rasarr.... samw

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:22 PM

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act 2 general ||this is my Maelle||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:22 PM

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ok so part of the damage diff is that you are ten levels above where I am LUL

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also something I'm very excited about is to get to the endgame and recoat to redo everyone's attributes with their fully leveled weapon bonuses

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 3:23 PM

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analog tiger Act 2 ||Visages|| ||oh yeah do you want a tip for that one?||

Same tags || Ahh just got the break on him via counters ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:24 PM

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exotic ember Sure why not

act 2 ||visages|| ||the normal hits are too annoying to parry for me so I dodged or tanked them and focused on parrying the mortal hit. If you have the Play First Picto you can also set up a Break combo with your main characters' break skills to lessen the number of parries you need to hit and theoretically I think you could even instant break it before it gets a turn||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:24 PM

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it is only in this conversation that it clicked what Break actually does

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/how it works

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:25 PM

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a lot of optional enemies get way easier when you break them

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especially the (general) ||mimes||

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not just because it gives you a free turn to wail on them but it also removes annoying mechanics

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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also hey general question but I'll tag it ||I've noticed some gestral vendors aren't in the zones where I first met them, is their stock gone forever?||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:26 PM

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analog tiger especially the (general) ||mimes||

this one I knew, but it's because they're all so rigidly the same encounter that I was able to put it together

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 3:27 PM

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analog tiger act 2 ||visages|| ||the normal hits are too annoying to parry for me so I dodged...

Same tags || Yeah makes sense. After seeing that he auto breaks that came to mind.

I… may still try to parry everything ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:27 PM

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general mechanics ||okay so JUST having figured out - the break bar goes up with break damage (which I can increase with weapons and pictos and so on) but when it's at max, then I need a skill that says it can break to actually do it?||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:31 PM

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act 2 general ||I need more Lumina so I can get everyone on +Rush, +Shell, +Powerful at the start of every fight 😭 ||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:31 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||well, i called Verso and Renoir being related 😌 ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:31 PM

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reef iron also hey general question but I'll tag it ||I've noticed some gestral vendors ar...

no idea tbh

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:32 PM

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hollow ruin act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||well, i called Verso and Renoir being related 😌 ||

same tags ||I think like ten minutes before verso disappeared, I was like, "is he your dad...." I can't even remember what triggered the thought - but when the reveal happened I was like, oh lol yup||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:33 PM

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same ||they look really similar||

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||and Renoir keeps talking "our" family||

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act 2 ||old lumiere boss|| ||game, wtf have you put Lune on my team, I need Sciel or Monoco in that spot 😭 ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 3:37 PM

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ooo yeah that's the stuff baby

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general mechanics ||didn't know that certain Chromatics counted as bosses lmao||

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late act 2 ||inside the monolith|| ||that was a first turn break where Lune did 50% of the health of the chromatic enemy thaks to a weakness stain LUL ||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:39 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||it's a bit funny, the song that's been playing as the overworld background music mentions names Alicia, Verso and Renoir, and we got Verso and Renoir, and now, it turns out we've had Alicia already||

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||also, the same song going into the "Alicia" line just as Maelle asks "won't you tell me your name" is lowkey funny||

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||but also||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:40 PM

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analog tiger

||I got this one basically by accident/not realizing, I went back to the optional boss in the very first area that I skipped and dropped it in two hits (one of which was a free aim) and startled myself with the steam notification noise||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 3:40 PM

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act 2 ||old lumiere|| ||NOCOOOOO 😭 ||

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||I get he's a gestral and will be reborn but NOCOOOO ShallanOhNo ||

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act 2 ||post-old lumiere|| ||"wonderful pep talk" "I know" Oh, to have as much confidence in myself as Lune does here LUL ||

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act 2 ||post old lumiere|| ||what is this conversation LUL ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 3:55 PM

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I adore them

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 3:56 PM

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exotic ember Same tags || Yeah makes sense. After seeing that he auto breaks that came to min...

Same tags || Finally got him. All parrying no dodging. Because I have a problem lol ||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 4:26 PM

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act 2 ||post old lumiere|| ||you mean Verso dyes his hair? LUL oh, that's hilarious actually||

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Act 2 || Visages Boss || || After my first rotation of attacks I had 60 burn on the boss. Double burn is cracked ||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 4:53 PM

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act 2 general ||lmaooo, if you talk to Golgra (the chief of Gestral Village) as Monoco, it starts a fight between them LUL ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 4:56 PM

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late act 2 ||inside the monolith|| ||oh was she a twin sister? ShallanOhNo ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 4:57 PM

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reef iron ||I got this one basically by accident/not realizing, I went back to the optiona...

lmao nice

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 5:15 PM

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late act 2 ||inside the monolith|| ||being able to break loop enemies is very fun||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 5:22 PM

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ugh I want to go home and play so I can click on some of these!

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 5:23 PM

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Saaame

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But I have work for another 5.5 hours
Hopefully today I managed to not take a nap so I can play longer

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 5:29 PM

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act 2 ||gestral beach|| ||lune and sciel are gonna gommage by the time i figure out how to do the parkour challenge||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 5:33 PM

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act 2 ||axons|| ||the leveling on the axon islands has been CRAZY good tho, I'm ascendinggggg ||

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I think I'm going to have to listen to the soundtrack for the remainder of the day because I cannot stop thinking about what I'm doing next in the game

shell minnow May 1, 2025, 5:40 PM

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reef iron ugh I want to go home and play so I can click on some of these!

I keep opening this channel to look at messages I can't open for some reason

reef iron May 1, 2025, 5:41 PM

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yuuup

fallow geode May 1, 2025, 5:49 PM

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I keep seeing my friends on discord just as they catch up to me

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 5:51 PM

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shell minnow I keep opening this channel to look at messages I can't open for some reason

Same

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 5:59 PM

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late act 2 ||inside the monolith|| ||yoooo I found them!!!||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 6:04 PM

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I would say it's fine it's just buildcrafting but even the discussion about builds is full of spoilers

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 6:17 PM

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@analog tiger Act 2 || Post visages || || I was promised chonky cutscenes ||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 6:18 PM

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Me: "I have the whole day off today, I'm gonna progress the plot so much!"
Also me: completes one main story area and goes to faff about in the optional zones

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 6:37 PM

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late act 2 ||inside the monolith|| major spoilers ||oh neither of them made it out huh ShallanOhNo ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 6:51 PM

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exotic ember <@151433189867388929> Act 2 || Post visages || || I was promised chonky cutscene...

they were chonky to me 😔

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late act 2 ||Inside the Monolith|| ||that boss fight theme was banging tho||

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same as above ||second phase was dope as hell too||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 6:53 PM

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general, mechanics up to ||gestral village|| ||don't forget to visit the gestral that collects expedition journals from time to time, I just got 50 lumina points out of them||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 6:55 PM

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I had that written down as a task to do today

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 6:56 PM

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act 2, camp stuff ||I am still unclear on what relationship levels do 🤔 i suppose they unlock gradient attacks?||

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||not that i've been using gradient attacks, most fights i've been to since unlocking them kinda... end before i charge up the Gradient bar||

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||one way or another||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 6:57 PM

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act 2 ||post visages|| ||so I guess verso and sciel have hooked up now! I'm unclear on whether I was able to choose between her and lune or what||

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 7:14 PM

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hollow ruin general, mechanics up to ||gestral village|| ||don't forget to visit the gestral...

Wat

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Damn it I'm not going to be progressing at all today, i want to wander around the map

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 7:18 PM

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doit

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there's quite a lot to find, both in the overworld and in various optional areas

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 7:26 PM

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late act 2 ||inside the monolith boss fight|| ||oh hell yeah||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 7:49 PM

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act 3 ||...||

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act 3 ||One moment please||

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act 3 ||asjlfaslkjdklsajflksajfgklasjdgklashfdjaklsjd??? akslfjhsalk!!!||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 7:51 PM

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analog tiger act 3 ||asjlfaslkjdklsajflksajfgklasjdgklashfdjaklsjd??? akslfjhsalk!!!||

Oh hey you reached what I was referring to earlier lol!

split canyon May 1, 2025, 7:51 PM

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oh dam i forgot this existed

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i dont know where im at but im at || the water land just got into it and these guys are hard to dodge/parry||

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 7:52 PM

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That would be act 1

split canyon May 1, 2025, 7:52 PM

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still getting used to the dodge and parry mechanic and im curious how soon do i get a new party member

rancid vessel May 1, 2025, 7:53 PM

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Very general act 1 spoilers ||you will get another party member before the end of Act 1||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:21 PM

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this is a good pause point for today

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act 2 ||inside the monolith|| ||but jesus christ that dungeon was a mammoth dungeon||

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there's so much I wanna talk about regarding this game

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act 3 ||I was curious to see how they would do sequels in this world but now I have an idea and I'm even more curious 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:38 PM

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hollow ruin general, mechanics up to ||gestral village|| ||don't forget to visit the gestral...

wait I didn't even know that existed

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act 2 ||gestral village|| ||I need to go check that up lmao||

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 8:39 PM

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was it you who was talking earlier about having too few lumina points? I think that might help a touch LUL

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:39 PM

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LMAO yeah

reef iron May 1, 2025, 8:39 PM

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omg

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:40 PM

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man I need people to reach act 3 I wanna talk about this game with a lot of people 😭

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late act 2 ||post axons|| ||though that last dungeon is so long I don't recommend rushing it. I did it in two sessions and it still took most of today lmao||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:42 PM

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scarlet trout Post act 2 seriously don’t click || well I thought that we might be going this d...

SAME

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Post act 2 ||I thought it was just going to be our normal world I didn't expect this 👀 ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 8:43 PM

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PEPEHANDS at these unclickable messages

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:43 PM

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post act 2 ||I'm so 👀 👀 👀 at this whole thing, I need to grill the devs on this world I wanna know if it is possible for beings to travel to Paris. They assume it isn't possible but I think it has to be||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 8:44 PM

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analog tiger Post act 2 ||I thought it was just going to be our normal world I didn't expect ...

|| I was thinking. It would be like the fracture caused a little alternate dimension, not like what we got. Not a complain I like it ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:44 PM

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post act 2 ||plus a war??? between magic user factions??? 👀 👀 👀 I want that game now I want to see what the Writers can do||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 8:44 PM

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reef iron PEPEHANDS at these unclickable messages

DO NOT CLICK PLEASE

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:44 PM

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yeah extreme do not click warnings on these lmao

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:45 PM

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scarlet trout || I was thinking. It would be like the fracture caused a little alternate dimen...

post act 2 ||I thought it was going to be a "it's all n the Paintress' head" or something like that set in like our normal world||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 8:45 PM

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wwhw

shell minnow May 1, 2025, 8:46 PM

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wwhw

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:46 PM

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post act 2 ||like she created this world in her grief but there's no actual magic||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 8:46 PM

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analog tiger post act 2 ||I thought it was going to be a "it's all n the Paintress' head" or ...

|| same! But like it is very interesting and very on theme for what the game is. What is life, what does it mean to be alive?||

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Post act 2

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:47 PM

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scarlet trout || same! But like it is very interesting and very on theme for what the game is....

post act 2 ||yeah this is part of why I think that people might be able to travel to Paris||

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post act 2 ||also this puts in perspective Verso wanting to be a musician more than follow in the family's footsteps LUL ||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 8:49 PM

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analog tiger post act 2 ||also this puts in perspective Verso wanting to be a musician more t...

|| where did you actually stop in the game? ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:50 PM

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act 3 ||just after unlocking the overworld again||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 8:53 PM

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analog tiger act 3 ||just after unlocking the overworld again||

|| okay cool just making sure. Also everything with verso and like it being his world and him being a shadow of a person (see very on theme)||

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Post act 2 gameplay general || also I think I’m gonna have to start carrying anti status skills now. There are some nasty statuses||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:58 PM

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Act 3 ||I wonder if the game has multiple endings||

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Act 3 ||oh I googled that and it didn't immediately spoil me, pog! there are two endings apparently||

scarlet trout May 1, 2025, 8:58 PM

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analog tiger Act 3 ||I wonder if the game has multiple endings||

|| my guess is yes… based on vibes ||

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 8:58 PM

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Act 3 ||I think I know what they are from the jump LUL ||

reef iron May 1, 2025, 9:00 PM

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I'm so glad I turned off spoiler bars for this so early

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my guesses for end of act 2/beginning of act 3 ||has been the idea that we're getting another party member swap about. like I just don't know if we get to keep verso. I think maybe we're losing verso and getting the white haired woman instead. but that's just me having fun calling a shot||

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 9:10 PM

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I need to catch upppppp

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Will be binging a bit more later tonight

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And then the next week I’ll fall much further behind since I’ll be away with my gf for our anniversary

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That said, I did mention that I’m trying to play a bunch before we leave tomorrow and she said I could bring the PS5 👀 So there may still be a a little bit of progress here and there this next week. (She has also gotten invested in the story) Probably not much though lol

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Once I’m back I’ll definitely be binging a bit again, especially with Doom coming up so soon after

nova temple May 1, 2025, 10:43 PM

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Prologue ||Why isn't she a playable character?!||

exotic ember May 1, 2025, 11:19 PM

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hollow ruin was it you who was talking earlier about having too few lumina points? I think t...

I also need to go do that 👀

hollow ruin May 1, 2025, 11:19 PM

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nova temple Prologue ||Why isn't *she* a playable character?!||

||iirc, you can get her outfit for all your characters if you buy the deluxe edition of the game||

nova temple May 1, 2025, 11:25 PM

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p2w mechanics

analog tiger May 1, 2025, 11:30 PM

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Act 3 ||on the one hand I hate how rude Clea (Clia? don't quite remember rn) is to Alicia on the other ma'am 🥺 ||

fallow geode May 1, 2025, 11:46 PM

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hollow ruin ||iirc, you can get her outfit for all your characters if you buy the deluxe edi...

prologue + outfits ||Indeed. The glasses are Baguette I think, but the hair and clothes are the deluxe only "Flower" outfit, and there's one for everyone (afaik)||

nova temple May 2, 2025, 12:15 AM

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Act 1, but really it's just UI - ||I don't think I've seen a tutorial tell me about these icons and letters next to my stats?||

split canyon May 2, 2025, 12:16 AM

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i assume its like other games

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UI in act 1 || i believe it would work like elden ring where a letter closer to S rank would scale better with that stat||

nova temple May 2, 2025, 12:17 AM

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I am not familiar with this... system? gameplay? w/e

split canyon May 2, 2025, 12:17 AM

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ill grab you a guide

nova temple May 2, 2025, 12:18 AM

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eh, if that's what it is, I get the idea

split canyon May 2, 2025, 12:19 AM

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relevent paragraph from the things explaining the above issue ||Each weapon scales with up to two attributes. While equipped, each attribute point allocated to one of the scaling attributes grants an additional increase to Attack Power. In general, you should prioritize investing most of your early attribute points into Might and Luck. However, once your weapon reaches around level 20, the attributes that scale with your weapon begin to outperform Might. This occurs much earlier for weapons that scale with a single attribute.

The letters assigned to each attribute on a weapon represent the scaling factors, with S being the highest (D⇾C⇾B⇾A⇾S). The higher the factor, the better, as each point invested contributes more to Attack Power with higher scaling. But this is only a good indicator of the scaling progression on a given weapon, not the scaling factors between different weapons. For example, Dualiso provides much less damage per point than Gaulteram because it’s balanced around the ability to play twice.||

reef iron May 2, 2025, 12:46 AM

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act 2 do not click ||post-sirene|| ||ok hold the phone. if visages was renoir, and sirene was alicia..... then is the one that verso said "no no that one's impossible we'll skip it" .... him. what's his game. 👀||

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 12:52 AM

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General. Doesn’t seem like it’s a spoiler to me but just in case || TIL attributes have a cap ||

nova temple May 2, 2025, 12:52 AM

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Hm, I am struggling to get the timing of parries right...

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 12:53 AM

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nova temple Act 1, but really it's just UI - ||I don't think I've seen a tutorial tell me ab...

It explains it a little later too. I for a while thought it increased those stats

fallow geode May 2, 2025, 12:53 AM

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it is a struggle indeed
I think higher frame rates can help?

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 12:53 AM

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nova temple Hm, I am struggling to get the timing of parries right...

It’s definitely a bit tough at first. And even later on I find hard fights take a number of tries for me to get the parry windows down for each enemy

nova temple May 2, 2025, 12:54 AM

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Well, that's not the issue. It's just not clear to me in which point of the attack I should be pressing my buttons - i.e. I don't know if I am waiting too long, or if I am too early

fallow geode May 2, 2025, 12:54 AM

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I generally end up finding a tell in the visuals/audio to time my first parry, and then learn the timing from there

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 12:54 AM

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If you try dodging, it has a wider window which can let you know if you’re early or late

fallow geode May 2, 2025, 12:54 AM

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you might want to try dodging first.
The timing for Parrys and Perfect Dodges should be the same

analog tiger May 2, 2025, 12:56 AM

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nova temple Hm, I am struggling to get the timing of parries right...

I'd suggest getting good at dodging the attacks first and when you are consistently getting perfect dodges, switching to parry

fallow geode May 2, 2025, 12:56 AM

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slightly related, I wish Counters didn't consume Mark

analog tiger May 2, 2025, 12:56 AM

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the perfect dodge window is the same as the parry window but if you miss it by a little you still get a successful dodge

nova temple May 2, 2025, 1:01 AM

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who put Dark Souls in my French game

hollow ruin May 2, 2025, 1:02 AM

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Welcome to French Souls

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Final Frenchasy

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the FRPG

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 1:02 AM

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Honestly this game has sold me on the fact that I need to really give Dark Souls a try

split canyon May 2, 2025, 1:05 AM

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So its "Final Frenchasy Souls"?

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 1:05 AM

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Final Souls: Dark Fantasy

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French Edition

nova temple May 2, 2025, 1:07 AM

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I am just grinding away at that guy I am not supposed to be fighting

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you know the one

split canyon May 2, 2025, 1:08 AM

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The mime or the pink flowery thing

nova temple May 2, 2025, 1:08 AM

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neither, actually, which is concerning to me

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Act 1 this baddie

split canyon May 2, 2025, 1:12 AM

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I don't remember him

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Mabey there is more optional content than I thought

nova temple May 2, 2025, 1:13 AM

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well, I am super early

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||Like, I just got Lune||

split canyon May 2, 2025, 1:17 AM

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I am also super early

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Not that far past you

fallow geode May 2, 2025, 1:17 AM

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nova temple Act 1 this baddie

Act 1 ||Meadows|| ||oh he's very doable RN||

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||your first taste of an optional miniboss||

split canyon May 2, 2025, 1:17 AM

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And mabey i killed that guy and forgot about him

nova temple May 2, 2025, 1:18 AM

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||Yeah, I definitely think he is doable - all his attacks are just one-shots, so I have to not miss||

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Oh wait, he has a name LUL

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Act 1 ||Chromatic Lancelier||

analog tiger May 2, 2025, 1:25 AM

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I think I found my favourite song in the OST

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after I'm done with the game I need to read the lyrics

nova temple May 2, 2025, 1:27 AM

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k, got him

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 1:39 AM

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nova temple Act 1 this baddie

Act 1 ||Meadows|| || Yeah it feels very much like it’s intended to be a teaching experience for players to help them practice the game’s mechanics ||

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I will say. General || I do still wish we had free respecs since weapons scale off of attributes and you have enemy weaknesses and resistances. Would be nice to tailor your build towards specific side bosses. Though perhaps it would make the game too trivially easy.

That said, it does essentially prevent me entirely from doing too much major experimentation. Like there are some really interesting build prospects but I’d have to respec my whole team’s skills and attributes. And if I didn’t like the results I would have to respec back. Which would be like 20 recoats just to try out a different build ||

nova temple May 2, 2025, 1:48 AM

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That does sound rough

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I haven't thought about builds much, I just kind of assume I can make do with whatever

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But it for sure won't be optimal

analog tiger May 2, 2025, 1:49 AM

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to play casually and not like optimise every boss fight you get more than enough respect items

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I have like 30 of them and I never used one lmao

exotic ember May 2, 2025, 1:50 AM

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I haven’t used any either

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I just have been swapping weapons and skills + maybe a few pictos and luminas for some fights.

There’s just so much I want to experiment with. But I’ll save that for another time I guess or for later game

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Act 2 || Sirene || || Tisseur || || Swapping to light weapons on Monoco and Sciel really made mostly easy work of this one. But then they did a new combo attack right before I could kill it and I died lol ||

analog tiger May 2, 2025, 2:03 AM

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act 3 ||mmm man I have some ideas for a setting because of this game...||

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act 3 ||need to think more on it but I might even try to write a little thing||

reef iron May 2, 2025, 2:07 AM

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act 2 ||monolith|| ||they've played this track before but this song sounds SO much like "To Zanarkand" and i'm AFRAID of it hahaha||

reef iron May 2, 2025, 2:41 AM

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act 2 ||inside the monolith|| ||ohhhhh my god i feel like the biggest idiot in the WORLD, of course she's their MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM||

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