Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[errant wedge]

||Because she wasn't the cause of the gommage.||

[coral trout]

I ended up getting in the mood to playing today, I wasn't sure I was going to.

Act 3 ||Renoire's magic stuff looks a lot like Maelle's weapon... Though that would make sense because he was the one who made it.

Also Lune and Sciel is back.||

Act 3
||Not Maelle: We have a lot to talk about.
So uh.... Your not really real and this is just a war going into a magical painting that my dead brother made between my mom and dad. Pls halp, ty.||

||I can now upgrade expedition resources on my own, huh.||

||You can make the game harder and limit yourself, huh. I wonder if on a replay this sticks away.||

Act 3 ||Bad things happen when we get mad. ||

Act 3 ||Knowing what you know now, would you have helped force my mother out of the canvas?||

https://tenor.com/view/dammmmmmm-son-he-need-some-milk-gif-23611493

Act 3 ||Small thought, Maelle ended up being a 'surpise' birth because she was literally painted in.||

||I almost think the piece of Verso's soul was the person who repainted Alicia, not her mother. That somehow makes more sense to me... ||

Act 3 ||Isn't this grave robbing? ||

[halcyon elbow]

||Our mother||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||https://youtu.be/XgdFSL2A02U||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||OHHHH, the damage unlimiter is a picto, that explains things.... ||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||A casino?
I got all this chroma from gambling, time to go spend it all!||

https://tenor.com/view/desktropolis-puttler-bean-juice-bean-juice-studios-anderson-gif-11581288968222899718

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||Sciel lost her child... I kind of figured that happened but thought it came before her husband died.||

||Verso painted Esquie to help them when they are feeling bad. ||

||I kind of wish.... You got nothing for maxing out a relationship. Like these are really personal things, it would almost be better if the reward themselves is as grand.

Yeah it feels wierd for me to say that about a video game, normally you get something, but this isn't just a good video game, it is a great one.||

Act 3 ||So Monoco knows who Clea is? So there is or was a painted version of her.... ||

Act 3/stormlight ||Whats with child liking rocks....||

Act 3 ||One of the small hidden great things about exp33 is when you choose a dialogue option, it is what you choose and not something else.||

[halcyon elbow]

||Pierre is French for stone, and Pierre Esquie was a French architect. There's also a pun Esquie makes about both Sciel and he having lost rocks that is lost in English translation (her husband's name was Pierre)||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||Esquie saved Sciel ||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||Small thought on "For those who come after", yes it does play a heavy role for the expeditions, but it has a slightly deeper meaning, for the family.

It is about being able to live after Verso died and being able to handle that.||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||I found an actual globe, confirmed outside is Eart.||

[nova temple]

There's one in Lumiere, I spent a considerable amount of time looking at it like 10 minutes into the game 😅

[coral trout]

Yeah, I think I did too, but I found another.

[coral trout]

act 3 ||Maelle just rosed herself.

I spent some time trying to kill the beast, but did other things instead. I'll go back and beat it tomorrow...or today because I stayed up too long.

I also want to make sure I got all the journals before I finish the game.||

[halcyon elbow]

I would go finish the game as soon as you've done the major character questlines, then go do all other optional stuff

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||Could you have saved Gustave..... 😭

The game let's me lie. 💀 ||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||Is the fading women.. Clea? They used to play together?

Also small thing, she says that Alicia would stay in her room reading while Verso and her played in the painting.

Reading...writers....o.O||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||I basically have done everything, I am just collecting the rest of the journals that I missed and tomorrow I will finish the game.||

[halcyon elbow]

||Her back room also has the only typewriter in the house||

[coral trout]

||I remember one in the old house, but not the new one. But it appears that Clea can atleast use the harp, and their mother knows how to dance, so I might have cooked a little too much on that theory...maybe...||

Act 3 ||I found all the house rooms, the doggo has his own room.

I found Simon, killed him. So...it appears that there was a painted Clea, but something happened to her? Maybe real Clea got her.

Also that Verso journal goes HARD.||

Tomorrow I finsih the game.

[nova temple]

||"found Simon, killed him" is such a raw flex||

[errant wedge]

||Verso journal does go hard.||

[coral trout]

||I have the most op build, full level/stats, I have been one shot ting everything else that exist. ||

[coral trout]

I finish the game today?

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||WAIT I gotta find the lost gestrals. ||

[errant wedge]

Find them after finishing the game.

[coral trout]

That doesn't make any sense to me.

Act 3 ||Being the worst parental figure that I can be.||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||She made her own army? ||

||This music is going hard ||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||Expedition 30||

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-chest-bust-rip-shirt-gif-18233808676138016499

||They were able to break the barrier then learned that the pain tress wasn't the cause .... How didn't we learn this if the journal made it all the way here..
Unless Reniore killed them and just decided to throw this thing in the water now.
....||

[halcyon elbow]

||He only almost made it||

[errant wedge]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-W7hVF_L4U||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||This entire zone is giving me: We had too much music so we are just gonna throw the rest at the end here.||

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||Time to one shot daddy.||

Act 3 ||There is a kaiju fight ||

||This is not a game.... Buddy uh.... ||

ACT 3 ||DID VERSO JUST JUMP INTO THE PAINTING? ||

||You know, it is ironic for a piece of media to tell us that we shouldn't get sucked in my media and being too into it has a price like ignoring for real life. ||

||You know a lot of these zones make me think "Am I in Elden Ring?" ||

||Decide the fate of the canvas... ||

||Time to one shot myself. ||

[coral trout]

All ||Damn, that Maelle ending was MESSED UP.

I liked the Verso ending.||

[errant wedge]

I figured you would.

||Maelle ending is better if you consider the inhabitants to the Canvas to be real people.||

||Verso ending is better if you treat them as fake.||

||Neither is a 'good' ending tho, they are both tragedies.||

[coral trout]

All ||That's not it... The Maelle's just felt really.... Surreal? It feels like everyone has this wierd forced happiness? It doesn't feel real. In not that I treat them as being fake before but... It feels very fake now? And Verso seems really forced to have to play. And idk what was going on with Maelle at the end... And who was the kid? Was Sciel's or her brother?||

||It felt very Twilight Zoney to me.||

[errant wedge]

Endings ||Maelle is the least skilled Dessendre in Painting terms so in her attempt to make everyone happy she's made things kinda wrong, and also being in the Canvas that long is killing her. Recreating (or aging up, depending on your interpretation) Verso is a step too far and she's finally suffering netrunner burnout, which Old Verso knows. She's basically just bad at being a god.||

||The kid was one of Gustave's apprentices iirc.||

[merry lance]

All ||I disagree with the "you think they're fake vs. real" framing. In Maelle's ending, she's brought everyone back and is a god playing in a sandbox. Once, they might've been real people with autonomy, but now they feel more like minds trapped in action figures. Verso's ending is conceptually horrific, but Maelle's is cosmic horror without the space.||

[coral trout]

Ending ||The way I see it, it isn't a misstep in her ability, she is forcing them to be happy. When her brother no longer wants to paint/perform, she ends up using her power to force him to, making her go into the painting too deep.||

||Dance puppet dance.||

[errant wedge]

||Yup she is absolutely robbing Verso of his agency with that. Maelle, like the other Dessendres (except maybe outside-world Verso) is not a particularly good person. I don't think any of the other stuff seen is particularly wrong tho. Pierre didn't gommage but recreating him was basically Sciel's one big prayer to her, and obviously she's gonna recreate Gustave because her lived experience is not just Alicia's, it's also 16 years of Maelle.||

[coral trout]

Ending ||I think Clea seemed alright as a person. Though I thought that at the end she might have secretly ended up being the end boss but wasn't.

Though there was the whole thing with Simon... ||

[halcyon elbow]

Endings ||Verso's ending to me is like, is Verso gonna pull the trigger on this functional genocide or is he gonna let Renoir do it after Maelle and potentially Aline are dead? And is it okay to let the remaining piece of Verso's soul function as a battery when it does not want to even though many people's lives are dependent on it?||

[coral trout]

I am glad I beat the game before I turn 33 next month, I am not gonna die then.

[coral trout]

Endings ||Metaphor wise, the game is kind of talking to you. You can either end the game sadly or go back playing it but the ending is hollow because you did the thing.||

[coral trout]

Ending/Stormlight ||When one falls, we continue/For those who come after seem like such Edgedancer ideals to me.

And it is funny, how the Lumire was kind of forced how to cope with death in a good way, the painters 100% don't.||

Act 3 ||Okay one thing I didn't find/do, finding the Painted Clea||

[coral trout]

All ||Two thoughts, who made the Mimes? I feel like that is never explained.

And they are using the French Renaissance calendar, which is why his death was on the 33rd.||

[nova temple]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[errant wedge]

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

[coral trout]

I tried Murderbot but the narrator put me to sleep.

[coral trout]

All ||One last thought.

Ive been thinking about Verso, he who guards truth with lies. This is a throughout the entire game. Verso constantly lies. And not only him, but his world.

You make a dodge a attack that looks like you are about to get hit but... You still get hit? What you see isn't the truth. The real time to know when to dodge is by the music. Verso hides the real truth with sound/music.

This goes even deeper. The lyrics of many of the songs, talk about the game being a painting, but you can't pick it up because it generally is a language you don't know(fake or otherwise).

I almost think that he was such a liar... That I don't agree with his entire premise. That he died in the fire. He is such a liar, he/the game has lied about everything else in the game, how can I trust that he saved his sister's life? I think he faked his own death. He tried to get the painters and the writers to fight each other, on purpose. Perhaps for the Musicians or maybe... The actors?||

[errant wedge]

tfw the clair

is actually obscur

[halcyon elbow]

This is a theory

I think, in this instance, that ||you have to trust Maelle's memory of the event, and presumably there's remains in that grave||

[coral trout]

||We don't know how this world works, you can jump into paintings... It isn't far fetch a guy can create a fake body.||

And yall were right, I should have went straight to the end and beat the game. I concede to yall.

[coral trout]

It is funny after playing and being so invested in it, I feel like I need to detox from video games for a bit.

All/Undertale ||This is probably the second video game that has told me to stop playing it. Maybe Evoland as well.||

[coral trout]

Act 1? ||Do we ever learn how Gustave lost his arm? I don't remember if we do because I played that act months ago.||

[nova temple]

Full game, alternate ending comic... ||https://www.tumblr.com/amikoroyaiart/793350720540786688?source=share ||

Amiko's art

What if Maelle left the canvas after fixing it.

-# #clair obscur: expedition 33 #expedition 33 #verso expedition 33 #gustave expedition 33 #maelle expedition 33 #verso x gustave #verstave #amiko art #clair obscur spoilers

Tumblr · Aug 30, 2025, 11:56 PM

[coral trout]

Ending ||I do feel like Verso going to Lumiere intended to have everyone live, but then he saw that Maelle was lying and wouldn't ever leave, and decided family over the others.

One odd bit is pReniore? suspects that Clea created Julie? That doesn't really make sense to me....||

[errant wedge]

Full Spoilers ||https://youtu.be/ewt7lycOavU?si=W5Y1MmwsZcPbM0Bs||

[sullen quartz]

I saw a video where someone took the final battle of a Transformers video game and put "Une vie à t'aimer" over it and I just hope this kind of thing becomes a trend because it was awesome.

[errant wedge]

I sometimes forget that Arcane was indeed French.

[merry lance]

Expedition 33: A game so powerful, it reached back in time and made Arcane French

[sullen quartz]

Time to put Une vie à t'aimer over the climax of Arcane, then

[coral trout]

I used to watch edits like this made for Dr. Who all the time.

Today I've been working on installing a new stereo for my car, and to test the speakers I was playing Lumiere.

[coral trout]

Now I get to watch let's plays of others play the game. 🍿

[coral trout]

Act 3 ||I didn't consider that you kill Renior's main paintings and then gave him the painting juice to create a weapon. ||

[coral trout]

Ending ||Small thought, Lil Verso is probably the one who is reincarnating the gestrals. The gestrals probably don't instantly reincarnate people the gestrals because they somehow know that he is tired.||

[halcyon elbow]

This is actually answered in the ||Monoco quest||: ||the gestrals reincarnate slowly as a deliberate choice, because they want to make sure young gestrals are raised properly. But Renoir killed a lot of them, so there are more dead than alive and of those alive many are not adults||

[coral trout]

||Yeah, but I thought deeper about it and came to this conclusion ||

[halcyon elbow]

A pair of guys who finished act 1 spend a half hour wildly cooking up theories about what might happen next: ||https://youtu.be/2TWriYc8kb0 ||

[sullen quartz]

Very cursed image

[coral trout]

||Missing Verso stalking Maelle.||

[errant wedge]

Watching a Jen Svedberg-Yen interview and man the more I learn about the origins of this game the weirder it gets.

She's not a writer or a game dev person by trade. She's a finance person who worked in private equity for a decade.

She met Guillaume on reddit, as you do, and joined his discord server as one of the first 6 peeps to be part of The Plan.

By day she did project management and used her skills from the finance world to help the company be a company.

And the story literally came to her in dreams, she'd just wake up and write down stuff she dreamed.

WTF.

[halcyon elbow]

She met him on reddit applying for the VA job, which she also had no history in

[errant wedge]

It's all just so random.

[halcyon elbow]

Its a large part of why Broche is so opposed to Expedition 33 being used as a cudgel against AAA

Firstly, he likes a lot of AAA games, and secondly, he's like "there's no lessons to be learned here, there's dozens of acts of God that had to happen to make this whole thing come together"

[sullen quartz]

I think the lesson to be learned is that if you want to make a game, you find people online to help you make it. 😁

[errant wedge]

We did it reddit!

[halcyon elbow]

Certainly musicians. In an interview Austin Wintory did with Lorien Testard, Wintory said Moon Studios found Gareth Coker in a story that is basically identical to Testard's

And Coker was successful enough with the Ori games that Microsoft sent him over to 343 to do Halo

[errant wedge]

Is it true that Lorien Testard was actually some dude they found on SoundCloud?

[halcyon elbow]

Its crazier than that

Testard posted a reimagination of the music of Journey to some random French gamedev forum that he'd never been to in his life and which no longer exists

Later that same day, Broche went to the same random French gamedev forum, which he had also never been to in his life, and happened to see Testard's post

Broche contacted him and they had a contract within 24hr

It is true that Testard was on Soundcloud actively, but that isn't where Broche found him

[errant wedge]

By "contract" at that stage I assume you mean "he was invited to the discord server". 😌

[halcyon elbow]

Broche says he "sent a mail", which I believe is how he refers to email? I'm not sure

Testard is, by the way, not technically a Sandfall employee

He was there earlier than some of the original six members that are considered founding members, but composers are very rarely direct employees and apparently French law has some quirks that make it even more desirable to work as a contractor

[errant wedge]

Apparently they got very very lucky that Epic rolled out mocap tech that could operate via smartphone platforms right as they were reaching the stage of development where they could benefit from it.

They basically adopted every bit of tech that Epic created for the Unreal 5 engine transition as it became available.

https://youtu.be/Z7xEXZVKzZc?si=4HjLTXKQ9qSYNKh7&t=1533

[halcyon elbow]

The Sandfall/Korea connection stays strong

[sullen quartz]

As someone who would love to do video game soundtracks one of these days, these kinds of things sound like a dream come true.

[coral trout]

I think the lesson to be learned is...is you want to make a good game, you do it and don't put things in there that would make it a bad one. So many games now days could be a good game, if they just focused instead of trying to add everything or making it too long, or trying to get more money.

[coral trout]

Tbh, I don't see how someone who made Ori would make a Halo game.

[halcyon elbow]

He did a reasonably good job imo with what really is an impossible task

Better than the composers for Halos 4 or 5

[coral trout]

Yeah, if you can read about Mick Gordon, the guy who made the Doom ost if you want to learn more about these things.

[halcyon elbow]

That's actually something Testard and Wintory talked about extensively as well; unlike Gordon, Testard's contract does not involve him getting paid in minutes of music used

As a result, he ended up writing nearly twenty hours of music, and they used about half of it

Nine and a half hours of music is way on the high end even for studios with much deeper pockets, and it was absolutely enabled by Sandfall not getting financially "punished" for accepting more music

Changing how composer contracts are structured is apparently one of Wintory's soapboxes

[sullen quartz]

Another reason to love that incredible musician who is also an incredible human being

[coral trout]

Maybe they can use the other half on a new game.

[errant wedge]

They're not done done supporting E33 yet, Guillaume has said he wants to add a loadouts system.

But also, "Clair Obscur" is gonna be a header to more than just one game.

[coral trout]

||The Pico system is just a better ffix system. ||

[errant wedge]

Currently the game doesn't have a way to save your build tho.

[sullen quartz]

Yeah, giving their first game a subtitle gave me the vibe that "Clair Obscur" was meant to be the name of a series or what could become a series.

[halcyon elbow]

https://x.com/laced_audio/status/1973741254925050087

Laced (@Laced_audio)

For your GRAMMY consideration

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack)

⭐️ Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media - OST by Lorien Testard
⭐️ Best Song Written For Visual Media - "Lumière" by Lorien Testard & Alice Duport-Percier

Listen now:

X · Oct 2, 2025, 1:26 PM

[sullen quartz]

Yes, please, give 'em the Grammies

[errant wedge]

https://x.com/awintory/status/1974127527414341641

Austin Wintory (@awintory)

I'm delighted to stand alongside some esteemed colleagues at the Golden Joystick Awards, for Sword of the Sea!

Now let's all go vote for Expedition 33!

X · Oct 3, 2025, 3:00 PM

[halcyon elbow]

I don't think anything would make Wintory happier than getting bodied by a rando European Soundcloud artist

[analog tiger]

mmm tough competition there

both Silent Hill's and South of Midnight's OSTs are really good

[halcyon elbow]

Act 2 ||https://x.com/tylorhepnerart/status/1974189101172891886 ||

Tylor Hepner (@TylorHepnerArt)

“Want a hug?”✨ #Expedition33

X · Oct 3, 2025, 7:05 PM

[errant wedge]

Carbot Act 3 video is tomorrow.

[sullen quartz]

I don't want to see Deltarune lose best soundtrack 😢

But I don't want to see Expedition 33 lose best soundtrack either 😭

They're both so goooooood

[exotic ember]

It is here || https://youtu.be/SIeLUEDouj4?si=sOmcNm03rhJSNpet ||

And it is tight

[errant wedge]

[quaint gale]

e33 all/carbot ||Wait a happy ending? That's not allowed! 😜 ||

[errant wedge]

"lemme just guilt trip you one more time"

[exotic ember]

Maybe I’ll play E33 one more time before the year ends

[coral trout]

I randomly woke up today really early and saw it pop up on my feed, insta click.

[nova temple]

"Am I the only one who knows how tight this game is?!"

[ionic kite]

So I just learned that my friend

Who I have been watching play the game for months and who just beat the final boss and is currently doing postgame stuff

Has gone through the entire game without equipping any Luminas

I was watching him fight one of the bosses and noticed that ||he had the damage cap of 9999, so I asked why he didn't have Painted Power on||

He said he didn't know how

He beats the fight and goes into the menu, and I tell him to go to the Luminas

He gets the tutorial for equipping Luminas

And that's when I realize what has happened

[exotic ember]

Yeah a friend of mine did that but only through most of act 2

This was right before act 2 || The monolith ||

Shortly after I got this text too

[halcyon elbow]

Guillaume Broche has said he doesn't want to aggressively expand Sandfall but I do think maybe hiring a second and if he's feeling wild a third UI guy might be prudent

[shell minnow]

whoops how did this get in here from the ff thread:

oh. i walked a little further and there's a verso:

[nova temple]

Containment breach!

[shell minnow]

The streams are crossing!

[errant wedge]

Also technically unmarked Act 2 spoilers ||that they are indeed related||.

[sullen quartz]

I've had this game on my mind for much of the day today, despite not having actually played it. Mostly just reminiscing on the characters and story while listening to my favorites from the soundtrack.

[coral trout]

My YouTube recommendations have been filled with [insert musician position] listens to Exp 33 music the first time.

[sullen quartz]

I found a neat little trend of YouTubers sharing shorts of their live reaction to first hearing Une Vie à T'aimer in context. Act 2 ending ||In most cases, they got so caught up in the music as the Renoir boss fight begins that they were blindsided by his first attack, then after Renoir's turn was over and they regained their footing they just sat there listening in awe.||

[coral trout]

||I think I went first and just jammed out ||

[pulsar citrus]

Act 2 || first strike lumina saves the day for me. ||

[halcyon elbow]

This is my favorite genre of E33 video

It happens a lot

[dawn spindle]

I read "this is my favourite genre of E33 game" and I was... confused

one of this days I should learn how to read, but today is not that day

[errant wedge]

https://x.com/The_Ben_Starr/status/1975910801002406132

Ben Starr (@The_Ben_Starr)

Five million copies sold.
Only one way to say “thank you”.
One last *very* small session as Verso.

X · Oct 8, 2025, 1:07 PM

https://fixvx.com/GenePark/status/1975911456253292891

Gene Park (@GenePark)

a preview of the new Expedition 33 story planned soon. new playable area, new boss battles, new costumes.

QRT: GenePark
New and free Expedition 33 DLC planned in the coming months as the game hits 5 million sales. I talk with director Guillaume Broche about keeping his studio’s art house spirit despite success.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2025/10/08/clair-obscur-expedition-33-free-update-sandfall-interactive/

vxTwitter / fixvx · Oct 8, 2025, 1:09 PM

HYPE

[dawn spindle]

Wut

[halcyon elbow]

[errant wedge]

TIL the creepy Maelle face used in memes was indeed Sandfall's own creation.

[nova temple]

self-jumpscare

[halcyon elbow]

[exotic ember]

Article says a “hefty update”

“In the coming months”

“Challenging battles for late-game players”

“‘Heavily requested’ quality-of-life upgrades”…”an apparent hint at improvements to the game’s user interface”

So much hype

[sullen quartz]

Soundtrack question regarding a scene in Act 3 ||Simon, the Divergent Star|| ||During the cutscene that plays at the end of his first phase where you hear Clea's voice speak to him and he switches to inverted colors, there's this really cool musical intro that leads into "We Lost" as his phase 2 boss theme. But that intro isn't part of the song and I haven't been able to find it anywhere in the soundtrack. It's got that "Une vie à t'aimer" motif playing on a violin solo with a narsty sub bass layered underneath and it sounds so good and I can't find it anywhere. Anyone else more familiar with this game's music who could point me to that or do we think it's cutscene-only?||

[errant wedge]

I think that particular clean strings-only snippet is cutscene-only.

[sullen quartz]

We have almost ten hours of soundtrack and it's still not comprehensive enough 😭

[errant wedge]

Also just realizing that new boss fights being added means new boss music.

HYPE

In a game where every single boss theme is a banger.

[sullen quartz]

Yes, please

I had "Une vie à t'aimer" stuck in my head all day yesterday

Blessedly

[errant wedge]

It does do that.

I'm listening to We Lost now because of this discussion.

https://tenor.com/view/angelthump-angel-thump-gif-24913730

[sullen quartz]

I also listened to that, like, three times yesterday. I was jumping back and forth between those two tracks.

[sullen quartz]

...Guess who listened to "We Lost" again? 😛

[exotic ember]

Omg more game means more music period. HYPE

[sullen quartz]

Just when I thought I couldn't fall in love with more E33 tracks, now I'm loving Until Next Life and Aux Lendemains Non Ecrits.

(Stupid keyboard wasn't letting me add the accent to the last word)

[errant wedge]

Orphelin is a remarkably badass track for fighting trash mobs in an optional zone ||tho it is one of the most important sidequests in the game||. Not even a boss theme.

[halcyon elbow]

They had to get Ben Starr drunk to get him to agree to sing for this

[sullen quartz]

I heard 😆 Not that I'm glad someone would get drunk, but I'm just saying he did real good.

[coral trout]

Exp 33 act 3 ||Was thinking about "He who guards the truth with lies" and how it would have been a lot heavier if it was "he who guards the lies with the truth".||

[coral trout]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/sandfall-says-clair-obscur-expedition-33-winning-goty-isnt-something-we-aim-for-and-even-though-it-would-be-a-nice-little-bonus-its-rooting-for-megabonk/

Should I play Megabonk? 🤔

[errant wedge]

It's a goofy lookin roguelike by a solo developer.

If you're into that then yeah.

https://fixvx.com/IGN/status/1977132490080108767

IGN (@IGN)

Charlie Cox reacts to finding out Glen Powell wants to be in the Clair Obscur movie:
"Oh, there goes my part then!"
#nycc https://t.co/gVfZEEkhDh

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Oct 11, 2025, 10:01 PM

[analog tiger]

do you like vamprie survivors?

[sullen quartz]

Robert Pattinson as live-action Gustave or nobody

[coral trout]

It was good.

[analog tiger]

then yeah megabonk is great

it's vampire survivors meets risk of rain 2

[coral trout]

https://www.screendaily.com/news/conclave-the-brutalist-composers-lead-winners-at-2025-world-soundtrack-awards/5209964.article

Lorien won!

[errant wedge]

https://v.redd.it/kxprbswkjtvf1

[sullen quartz]

I just watched Carbot Animation's video on Act 3. (all spoilers) ||So, uh... how do we get the François ending? A Life With Clea sounds better than the other two options. 😜 "Une Vie Avec Clea" would probably slap as a track.||

[coral trout]

||Dlc.||

[errant wedge]

Some fun gruesome enemy details:

||https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8BEyOQ||
||The Dualliste is wearing multiple Expedition flags. The Troubadour is also wearing one as a cape. The Ramasseur is wearing multiple Expeditioner armbands which makes sense considering it is wielding severed arms.||

||https://www.artstation.com/artwork/V209kP||
||The Creation and Aberration are both just straight up made of people.||

[nova temple]

There has been a development... https://bsky.app/profile/irunoart.bsky.social/post/3lv7jupjb4225
https://bsky.app/profile/irunoart.bsky.social/post/3m3puvb4wls2v

Iruno 🎨🍂 || Autumn Shop Update LIVE✨ (@irunoart.bsky.social)

I present to you ✨ Goosetave ✨

Look... I've been playing Untitled Goose Game lately and couldn't resist...🤣

#Expedition33 #Gustave

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Bluesky · Jul 30, 2025, 9:10 PM

Iruno 🎨🍂 || Autumn Shop Update LIVE✨ (@irunoart.bsky.social)

✨ We are Goosepedition 33! HONK!! ✨

#Expedition33

-# Iruno 🎨🍂 || Autumn Shop Update LIVE✨ (@irunoart.bsky.social)
I present to you ✨ Goosetave ✨

Look... I've been playing Untitled Goose Game lately and couldn't resist...🤣

#Expedition33 #Gustave

Bluesky · Oct 21, 2025, 5:41 PM

[halcyon elbow]

Act 3 ||https://x.com/joshstrifehayes/status/1980935311430647932 ||

Josh Strife Hayes (@JoshStrifeHayes)

Expedition 33 sequel idea:

Alan Wake is the head of the Writers and everything gets REALLY confusing.

X · Oct 22, 2025, 9:52 AM

[errant wedge]

DLC development 👀
||new Clea dialogue||

[halcyon elbow]

||UN VIE AVEC CLEA IS REAL||

[nova temple]

[exotic ember]

Heck yeah!

[sullen quartz]

||UNE VIE AVEC CLEA, YES||

Maybe this DLC will help answer the question I asked twice on this server but never got an answer for:

Act 3 ||Why is Clea so hot?||

[pulsar citrus]

Isn't the answer just || why not? ||

[rocky raptor]

Prologue ||Haven't finished, saw the Grommage. ;_; This is uh, hitting a little closer than I expected. Grandfather isn't doing well, and a relative got diagnosed with an aggressive (but luckily hasn't spread) cancer...||

[rocky raptor]

Act 1 ||And with that buckwild intro out of the way, I need to sleep||

[rocky raptor]

Act 1 ||Ah, the great anxiety of trying to decide how to level up a character when I have minimal knowledge of the game and what'll be available later||

[errant wedge]

While re-specs aren't free in this game they are pretty plentiful, you'll get more Recoats than you'll ever need by just by progressing normally.

In general tho I recommend just leveling Agility and Vitality.

[rocky raptor]

Act 1 ||What even is the dodge and parry timing xD||

[coral trout]

||Most of the sound ques should help you know when to dodge/parry.||

[halcyon elbow]

It is extremely tight

Dodge is longer than parry on the front end

There is a pretty consistent melee dodge sound that is buried underneath some of the other noises happening that make it a lot easier to parry

[rocky raptor]

unfortunate for me then

Also, dithering aside, god damn this game is gorgeous

[exotic ember]

Yeah I hoarded mine and then never used them

[exotic ember]

Can be said about every aspect of the game

I’ve been really into this song

[rocky raptor]

Act 1 ||Picked up Maelle. Like her stance mechanic. Probably done for the night though. Storms coming through the area and don't wanna risk losing power while in the middle of the game.||

...Was thinking I might need to add location tags, but considering just how late to the party i am im not sure there's anyone popping in here i could spoil xD

[fallow geode]

Location Tags will also be useful to stop anyone who knows more than you spoiling extra things

[exotic ember]

Also, location tags for those who come after

[errant wedge]

Glam and Jebus will probably be playing eventually.

[rocky raptor]

My only bit of theorizing and my only bit of contemplation atm
Act 1 ||Currently guessing Gustave has a heart condition. Also find it interesting how they've just...completely decided to not explain how people have magic now so far xD||

[sullen quartz]

"This game... is so tight!"

[exotic ember]

Absolute cinema

[rocky raptor]

Act 1 ||Post-Flying Waters|| ||Maelle's Nightmare|| ||Time loop??||
More general mechanics ||I'm looking at some of these weapons and wondering why in the world i'd ever use them again xD||

[rocky raptor]

...oh
||Apparently all weapons get perks at higher levels...the game just isnt showing what those perks are for some of my weapons right now. weird.||

[pulsar citrus]

Gen mech || another reason to alternate between weapons even of the same element is that they might have different stat preference.

Weapons have Stat preference associated with them and the grade and the number below them actually is added to the attack power of the weapon.

What I mean is if you have for example Gustav and you have invested on Defence Stat on him and if there is a weapon that gives defence weapon a grade then equipping it would give you more attack power depending on how much you have invested in Defense. The Better the Grade, the better the Attack Power added for a single point.

A Weapon has 2 Grades in it. So you can the investment of 2 attributes to also increase the attack power.

If you want a Vitality-Speed build or Defense-Luck build. The weapon specifications are interesting point to keep in mind of.||

[rocky raptor]

Act 1 ||Wish there was an in-game list of enemies once i've encountered them.||

[errant wedge]

Stat preference doesn't really matter til Act 3.

Until then you increase your damage primarily by just leveling up your weapons.

[rocky raptor]

The music won't stop playing in my head

This is both fine, and utterly devastating, cause it's a single 4 second loop of just one part 😩

[pulsar citrus]

Which part?

[exotic ember]

Yeah that’s a common side effect of experiencing peak in this form

[dawn spindle]

I got the defeat screen music stuck in my head for a very long time

[pulsar citrus]

ahhh yeah the thing you would hear in the sleep. It is significantly long so that each defeat actually hits hard.

[dawn spindle]

It's also one of the best songs too

but I obviously got the defeat few seconds on loop in my head

[exotic ember]

I got the defeat vocal motif. That “oooooooo clairrrrrr obscuuuuuuu”

[dawn spindle]

Yep

[errant wedge]

It's actually brilliant how that motif gets used in <spoilers all> ||Une vie a peindre, at the end, to represent how no one is winning in this situation.||.

[sullen quartz]

Oh, is that where that plays?

[errant wedge]

Yeah it is the end of that song.

[sullen quartz]

I'm one of those guys who hasn't played the game, but has listened to the soundtrack a lot, so I knew exactly what musical moment was being referenced. Now I know where it plays in-game. Neat!

[sullen quartz]

||Une vie à peindre was all I knew it from||

[errant wedge]

Ah peeps who have played the game hear it quite often lmao

[sullen quartz]

I look forward to the day I'll be one of those peeps 😁

[errant wedge]

Also ||Une vie a rever|| is the most obscur piece of the whole Nos vies en Lumiere trilogy ||seeing as it plays at the end of a long sidequest|| but the second half of that song is just continuous 🔥 .

[sullen quartz]

Act 3 ||My favorite part of une vie à rever is actually the choral segment at the beginning. Not only is it really pretty, it plays during one of the most important and beautiful cutscenes of the game.||

[errant wedge]

Do you know which song has the instrumental version of that fast-tempo section that begins around the 5:20 mark in ||Une vie a rever||? Carbot has used it in his videos a couple times but this actual section has lyrics.

Ok apparently it's from the Release Date Reveal Trailer music according to Shazam.

Which also contains the instrumentals for sections of ||Une vie a t'aimer||.

[sullen quartz]

Crazy how we have about 10 hours of released music for this game and it still feels like not enough.

[pulsar citrus]

we see the potential and hunger for more

It is the same with the story

Me mostly: Man I just want a perfectly finished story in a game that isn't stretched out or anything.

Me when a game does that: Okay but what about the Second Breakfast?

[sullen quartz]

Act 3 ||Abyss|| ||I've had to rely on a YouTube rip to find that one segment of music that plays during the beginning of Simon's second phase where we hear Clea's voice. It's one of my favorite musical moments, but it's missing from the soundtrack. It's like an intro to "We Lost", but it starts out as just a violin and a low sub bass synth and it's so cool.||

I think I've finally narrowed down my top five songs in the game's soundtrack: Lumière, Une vie à t'aimer, We Lost, Monoco, and Golgra. Granted, my "favorites" playlist for E33 is over three hours long. 😅

[pulsar citrus]

Non E33 Player: Oh you didn't narrow it down at all

E33 Player: Oh wow you really cut a lot out huh... props..

[sullen quartz]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKOqZLL0Og||

Act 3 spoilers, what you hear at the beginning of this track is the moment I'm referring to as not being on the soundtrack

[halcyon elbow]

There is a Bonus Soundtrack that has about an hour and a half more music, much of which is alternate versions of what the game has. You may find what you are looking for there

(Including the version of Until Next Life that cut Ben Starr and made it into the game )

[sullen quartz]

Shame

He's got a good voice

I wonder why that version wasn't included. IIRC it was Lorien's idea to have Ben sing along. He pulled him aside and asked him directly about singing in it and Ben (drunkedly) agreed.

So why not include that one?

[rocky raptor]

I can't recall the context of the song but it goes "la la la la la la" xD

[merry lance]

Hmm, is it "la"s, or is it "Dim-dim-dam-dada, dim-dim-da-dada, dim-da-lilam"

If so, we're lucky and it's Lumière, a known ear worm. If not, we may need to wade through an ocean of leitmotifs...

Oh, though it could be (Act one) ||a Flying Waters song!||

[errant wedge]

Umm, wrong thread.

[rocky raptor]

...ugh discord

[errant wedge]

https://www.instagram.com/stories/curieux_orchestre/
https://v.redd.it/eq0gfczrixxf1

Sandfall and Orchestre Curieux have finally done a full-force concert in Paris, obviously the main destination of their current tour.

Including a live version of Une Vie a T'aimer. And appearances by the voice actors.

There are spoilers in that reddit thread! Not safe for peeps who haven't completed the game.

[errant wedge]

A smol Word of Jen
||https://x.com/expedition33/status/1983213498550075435||

[halcyon elbow]

https://youtu.be/PVj-jl3d2cw

(This is answered in the first five seconds, and is not the interesting part of the clip)

[halcyon elbow]

https://youtu.be/IqVrL2i8KO8

[dawn spindle]

If I didn't have a test in 2 days I'd be going to that concert 😭

[errant wedge]

https://fixvx.com/maxence_cazorla/status/1983590833854066694

Maxence Cazorla (@maxence_cazorla)

Chills. Literal chills. ❤️‍🔥

#clairobscurexpedition33 #expedition33 #APaintedSymphony #live #soundtrack #concert #videogames #playstation #xbox #steam https://t.co/AuEopRATkh

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Oct 29, 2025, 5:44 PM

[halcyon elbow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opuVAmZ4pnc

Spoilers right off the rip

All ||Did you know Expedition 33 is only 41 gigabytes? Probably smaller than the Minecraft server the Dessendre family are fighting on||

[errant wedge]

Baguette Halloween was a huge success!

It's such an easy cosplay to put together. The only annoying bit was the checkered cloth not actually being able to hold the prop baguette, so I just carried it around everywhere.

I will reuse it on December 11th, and when the concert comes around next year.

[exotic ember]

I had a Halloween party and it didn’t occur to me until the night before that I should make a costume but I figured it was too late. Would have 100% done Baguette

Next year

[errant wedge]

It was great! I'd planned to be a Gustave Baguette for a couple weeks, since the cosplayers at NYCC had already laid the trail (in Amazon's logistics chain) for those who come after.

I took it to a Manhattan block party, and then to a house party hosted by a friend in Brooklyn.

Gamers recognized game, but non-gamers also seemed to like it. Got called a "sexy mime" once (we take the compliment), most interpreted it as either a mime or a French painter. An actual Frenchman gave me the 'my culture is not your costume' treatment (in jest, highly).

People also loved messing with the goofy floppy prop baguette and debating the benefits of prop vs actual bread.

One downside I guess was that the glasses were so opaque that you can't make eye contact with anyone. And being full tint shades they actually make it harder to see at night. So they had to come off eventually, i.e. downgrading to a Verso Baguette.

[errant wedge]

This video is . Did not expect Bricky to just do an art history lesson.

[merry lance]

Tomorrow Comes.

[boreal galleon]

I think next year I'm going for a full expedition setup

[sullen quartz]

I was at a Halloween party where a woman was dressed up in a typical French "Onion Johnny" type of outfit, and I randomly asked her if she was dressed up as any particular character (discreetly hoping it was an E33 reference). But no, she was just dressing up as a typical French girl.

The fact that she naturally had a remarkably uncanny resemblance to Jennifer English may have influenced my wondering at that. 😆

[errant wedge]

Best costume: https://www.reddit.com/r/expedition33/comments/1olo05y/i_was_the_33_from_clair_obscur_expedition_33/

[boreal galleon]

Should’ve just been like, “Hey question, did you get that from defeating a mime or buy it off a Gestalt?” XD

[exotic ember]

E33 All || Gotta dress up as the chromatic troubadour and just start prancing around everywhere ||

[sullen quartz]

I think I just converted someone to listening to the E33 soundtrack. Will see later how far he gets into the rest.

[obtuse pond]

Ending fanart/meme: || https://www.tumblr.com/comickergirl/792500309619523584/that-guitar-solo-wouldve-worked-on-me?source=share ||

'Tis a Silly Place

That guitar solo would've worked on me.

-# #my art #silly comic #coe33 #coe33 spoilers #clair obscur: expedition 33 #clair obscur spoilers #expedition 33 spoilers #renoir dessendre

Tumblr · Aug 21, 2025, 2:39 PM

[nova temple]

lots of good art & reblogs in that blog too

[sullen quartz]

||I can already hear the "En noir, ses yeux tristes!"||

[halcyon elbow]

Zis game is so tight

[exotic ember]

Kinda want to replay it again in December if I can make the time somehow

Or maybe I’ll wait for that big update with all the QoL features

[pulsar citrus]

all ||best day to do it is 33rd dec

next best is 2nd jan

next bes is 3rd dec||

[errant wedge]

https://fixvx.com/thegameawards/status/1987216315850105251

The Game Awards (@thegameawards)

We're just 33 days away from #TheGameAwards on Thursday, December 11.

Click here to add the event to your calendar: https://www.addevent.com/event/7c256r4w6kvn

vxTwitter / fixvx · Nov 8, 2025, 5:51 PM

33 days away? Huh what an arbitrary number.

[halcyon elbow]

https://tenor.com/view/coincidence-i-think-not-coincidence-i-think-not-the-incredibles-gif-5096707

[nova temple]

December 11... x3... 33...

Hmm!

[halcyon elbow]

https://x.com/barbozari/status/1987183072056647846

Barbozari 🏳️‍🌈 (@Barbozari)

Parry it! #Maelle #Expedition33

X · Nov 8, 2025, 3:38 PM

If this sweater doesn't exist yet it should

[errant wedge]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7Di7mjdoC/

expedition33official

We took some of the cast of Expedition 33 on a trip to see the Eiffel Tower, and then we forced them to paint it on a tiny canvas.

Here’s how it went!

Featuring:
@the_ben_starr
@billiefb_voiceover
@charlotte_hoepffner
@estelledarnault
@jenniferjenglish
@maxencecazorla
@richkeeble

Likes

8798

Instagram

[halcyon elbow]

Ben looks bizarrely American in that video

[nova temple]

Chat, I think I think it's time to retire this channel. It's been a little while since any of us played the game, we can leave quarantine and just use #1342603794370007050 for our E33 needs... until we get another Clair Obscur

I'll give it like a day for one last round of art/meme/whatever shares, but otherwise we've got a city canvas to burn

[halcyon elbow]

🫡

Or until the DLC

[fallow geode]

dang, just as I was going to (finally) return to cleaning up Act 3 now I'm done with Skong

[nova temple]

Or until the DLC

[silver pawn]

I also need to go back and finish Act 3 at some point. Life has just been lifeing lately! Soooooon….

[dawn spindle]

Same

[coral trout]

🫡

[errant wedge]

Until next life 🫡

[merry lance]

For those who come after.

[halcyon elbow]

DLC comes, as does a sequel

[nova temple]

I think I, in turn, will leave us with "You will know love. You will know pain." https://x.com/expedition33/status/1922697821184049591/

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (@expedition33)

You will know love.
You will know pain.

X · May 14, 2025, 4:57 PM

And with this, we put a lock on this post. It's been a journey, y'all. When we get more Clair Obscur we'll consider either reopening this, or creating a new post for whatever else comes our way. Until then, Expedition 33 departs for #1342603794370007050 👋

[nova temple]

Hey, gang. Anything new announced recently? Any awards win?

[errant wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/clair-obscur-clair-obscur-expedition-33-expedition-33-33-clair-gif-13372527364953386407

[merry lance]

We Continue

[fallow geode]

nothing important

[brisk orbit]

hey

I might buy this and play it alongside hollowknight

[fallow geode]

I don't think I would recommend that
E33 is likely to suck you in, and then you'll forget where you were in HK

[unreal oasis]

E33 act 3 all ||I’m going to have to man up and beat Simon when I get back to this game||

[coral trout]

😎

[fallow geode]

(but it's on sale, so absolutely buy it now)

[coral trout]

https://tenor.com/view/weareback-wereback-wearebackbaby-hangover-the-gif-18475016

[brisk orbit]

Why did this chat die?

[nova temple]

Most people were some with the game

[merry lance]

It grew inactive

[fallow geode]

most players finished

[halcyon elbow]

E33 new area ||I think they're teeing up an Esquie fight||

[merry lance]

Unfortunately we can only stare each other in the face and go "Game's Tight" for so long

[nova temple]

We don't want to keep a bunch of channels up for no reason

[fallow geode]

Game is tight though

[brisk orbit]

oh I see how this was released way before silksong

[coral trout]

I finished my reactions then the chat died.

It was my fault. 😭

[nova temple]

Alternatively, you kept it alive past its expiration date 😛

[brisk orbit]

ok I am downloading it!

[halcyon elbow]

E33 new area ||A VERSO TOPHAT????||

[fallow geode]

new feature

though it's missing Pictos and Skills, I'll take it

I can finally delete all my lumina screenshots

[brisk orbit]

hmm
maybe I'll play it after completing silksong

[coral trout]

I got too much to take a SS

[fallow geode]

Sounds like you just have everything enabled at that point

[halcyon elbow]

Its just throwing Pictoses at me

[exotic ember]

My weekend is now spoken for

[halcyon elbow]

I've been playing for ten minutes and gotten four lmao

[exotic ember]

I can’t wait to jump in

[coral trout]

I have more enabled than disabled.

[exotic ember]

For them to sweep and then immediately have this drop is such a chad move though

[coral trout]

I think I might have deleted exp 33.

[exotic ember]

E33 all minus dlc || Ahh yes, the verso ending ||

[fallow geode]

New Area ||😭||

[exotic ember]

I want to click. I will not click

[halcyon elbow]

New area ||There's a piano that only plays Verso's music regardless of who plays it||

[merry lance]

I need to train myself not to click E33 spoilers anymore...

[exotic ember]

Tomorrow Comes

[errant wedge]

Tomorrow Comes

And I have the day off, I'm gonna game 😎

[exotic ember]

And they have FSR4 now so things may look better with even better performance I guess, which is cool

[exotic ember]

https://tenor.com/view/congrats-nice-happy-for-you-congrats-nice-happy-for-you-gif-1927193140186872022

[errant wedge]

9 Game Awards total
Best Independent Game
Best Debut Indie Game
Best Performance
Best Roleplaying Game
Best Art Direction
Best Score and Music
Best Narrative
Best Game Direction
Game of The Year 😎

[unreal oasis]

I gotta finish off the final boss in lies of P then I’ll have the weekend free for this

[fallow geode]

New Outfit || ||

[halcyon elbow]

Lorien cannot stop cooking

[nova temple]

Pathologically incapable

[fallow geode]

New Pictos ||"Empowered Healer: Using a Healing skill gives 50% more damage for 1 turn" Typhoon Lune just got GOATed||

[exotic ember]

And then shadow drop the DLC “thank you” update. Mic drop

[errant wedge]

Not to mention opening the show with frickin' Une vie a taimer.

[halcyon elbow]

Also throwing new weapons at me

[sick yew]

Hopefully it can stay alive long enough for me to get to it (probably some time around the new year, maybe a bit earlier depending)

[halcyon elbow]

||Lune weapon looks cracked. Monoco weapon might be the go-to for gunslinger Monoco. Verso weapon looks extremely mid. I'm not Scielpilled enough to pass judgment on that one||

[merry lance]

Oh, there's a trailer for the patch that I'm not going to post because I'm not going to watch it

[halcyon elbow]

Well

I haven't had to parry yet

[merry lance]

They have flag settings for that now

[fallow geode]

It's a red area for me, I have a couple of times

New Trailer (NSF Kon) ||Wow that's very suggesting Esquie fight. "Au revoir Mes amis"||

[halcyon elbow]

New area, Endwalker ||This game really just hit me with the "a test of your reflexes||

This is bizarre even by E33 standards

[sick yew]

Quick question for y'all: Does the deluxe edition have any actual content? I'm seeing that it includes some...skins?

[fallow geode]

Just outfits iirc

They're good outfits though

[halcyon elbow]

Also

Give Sandfall money

[sick yew]

Kon

Am grad student

Who just spent way too much at Dragonsteel

[pulsar citrus]

Oh my god yes

[brisk orbit]

Fully downloaded!

should I go for Expert, chat?

omg

Im putting on my headphones for this

[brisk orbit]

||Raphael?!? What?||

This game is very beautiful

Maelle's voice reminds me of Shadowheart

||I wonder who the Paintress is||

[coral trout]

||Then you'll be not amazed to learn that she is the Shadowheart VA.||

[brisk orbit]

Awesome!

||67 years ago. Lol this has to be a joke||

[brisk orbit]

||Crazy how used to her scream I am||

[brisk orbit]

this game is so cool!

[halcyon elbow]

This Gustave guy kind of sounds like that guy who played Daredevil in that Netflix show a decade ago

[brisk orbit]

🎶Don't be afraid~🎶

[nova temple]

that's one weird sentence, but yeah, I get it

[brisk orbit]

lol didn't mean to make it weird

||I was reacting to her reaction when I hit her during our duels||

[exotic ember]

Oh no, new E33 player at the same time as new content. Land mines return

[boreal galleon]

Not safe for Ookla the Angry \ Warframe 1999 ||If I had a nickel for every character that Ben Starr played where they were an extremely powerful grumpy older brother I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but weird that it happened twice||

[exotic ember]

Ff16 || Was he angry there too? And was he an older brother? Maybe? Can’t recall. Only got through part of the game ||

[boreal galleon]

Haven't played it either but I am willing to bet there is definitely anger

[halcyon elbow]

Yes FFXVI qualifies

It is his niche

[merry lance]

I thought his niche was "British Man"

[brisk orbit]

I loved ff16!

[nova temple]

Where is the trailer for 1.5?

Oh, it's in the patch notes, it was just scrolled weirdly

[errant wedge]

https://youtu.be/C_Gp_ZHwaUQ?si=yYom5sNnV2SFCEL9

Zhis one?

[exotic ember]

https://tenor.com/view/yanatwt-gif-22814884

Friend sent me this

[halcyon elbow]

You'll be happy to know Clive is in this game as well then

As is Gollum

As in actual Andy Serkis

[halcyon elbow]

1.5 ||I see what your friend did there||

[pulsar citrus]

I feel the same.

I have yet to find an opportunity to update the game and play because of exams.

I want to play it so much that I might as well play them in between my exams

[brisk orbit]

act 1||We can make canps? Wow||

||Just like Bg3!||

[merry lance]

Oh, it's highly recommended you label your spoiler blocks. The typical format is <act> ||<dungeon/plot point>|| ||<what you want to say>||

[brisk orbit]

Act 1 ||Still figuring out how these Luminas work||

[halcyon elbow]

https://x.com/the_ben_starr/status/1999293264114122951

Ben Starr (@The_Ben_Starr)

Jennifer English. ❤️

X · Dec 12, 2025, 1:40 AM

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I’ll be starting up on the new content tonight

It’s just a question of whether I skip Riftbound or not

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The fact that I don't understand the lyrics of the songs makes it better for some reason

[halcyon elbow]

They're full of spoilers

The early music is in a non-French French-adjacent language so as not to spoil French speakers straight out

[brisk orbit]

Act 1 ||The chest thing where I have to shoot 3 keys reminds me of God of War||

[halcyon elbow]

You will find a lot of mechanics that remind you of Other Game

The influences for E33 are many, varied, and worn on the sleeve

[merry lance]

E33 all ||You know what'd be hilarious? If authors started congratulating specifically Jennifer English for her award at TGA.||

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Act 1 ||I'm just putting my points into Might rn||

[halcyon elbow]

Oh, that is a bit of a trap stat

It isn't super clear but all the stats can affect damage (based on weapons) and some of the other ones do natively, and Might does nothing else for you than damage and that's easy to come by in other ways

I believe Agility and Vitality are the recommended early game stats these days

[merry lance]

I think might in the super early game is still viable, but I haven't crunched the numbers/consulted the meta

[brisk orbit]

hmm ok

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New Region ||lmao Child Verso is doing parodies of Francois? ||

This place is just beautiful. Spent a moment just vibing and thinking "yeah... that's my GoTY".

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Act 1 ||Fighting Chromatic Throuble dude||

[halcyon elbow]

Environmental artists can't stop cooking

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Got em!!

Act 1 ||Wait.. This was an optional boss?||

[halcyon elbow]

||All the Chromatic enemies are optional boss versions of existing enemies, with alternate animation sets||

Many such cases. A ton in this game is techincally optional

[brisk orbit]

huh

ok

[halcyon elbow]

Basically all worth doing

At least for me, I found just about everything this game had to offer to be fun, with like one specific exception

[brisk orbit]

Act 1 ||Ok now I found the way forward. I'm fighting Goblu now||

[halcyon elbow]

Next boss ||https://tenor.com/view/carbot-carbot-animations-carbotanimations-expedition-33-expedition-33-goblu-gif-11632816350890667913 ||

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New Bossfight ||Clair and Obscur Duallistes||

[halcyon elbow]

||Any of the new weapons standing out to you?||

[errant wedge]

I haven't tried em yet.

One major global balance change ||Breaking Death no longer fills enemy break bars on Auto Death, it applies a chunk of break to one enemy. If the character actually dies to an enemy hit then it will fill the break bar of one enemy.|| So they saw my cheese End Bringer build and nerfed it.

This specific boss fight ||has uh, considerably more health than Simon and literally has no break bar. Like they just do not take break damage from any source. They are immune to the mechanic.|| That being said I still have an enormous action economy edge over them thanks to Sciel's Litheson build and, well, parries.

[brisk orbit]

I'm already at 18%? I don't want this to end!

I need to sleep though its 6am

[errant wedge]

New Content ||These new superbosses are no joke! They're all aggressively anticheesed and tuned to withstand endgame builds.||

[sullen quartz]

||For context, I'm pretty sure this game released before that number became a meme. Blame the internet, not the game. 😆||

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https://tenor.com/view/emperor-star-wars-good-goooooood-evil-gif-12447951

[errant wedge]

New boss victory screen just the stats no boss details, that was fun. Spoilered anyway because some people might consider the numbers to be spoilers.

They did not add any Steam Achievements so anyone who was 100%ed is still 100%ed. However the reason to fight the new bosses is: they're there, they are more game, and game is tight.

[pulsar citrus]

https://tenor.com/view/exp33-expedition-33-absolute-cinema-gif-1030585456183951033

[pulsar citrus]

Loooool love the bracelets

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I wonder what Clair Obscur means

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Light Dark

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Act 1 ||I'm supposed to go to this Ancient Sanctuary to find the Gestrals, but I see all these unexplored parts. I guess I'll explore them first..? Dunno if the story will lead to them or not.||

[halcyon elbow]

More specifically, it is the French version of an Italian art phrase, chiaroscuro, which refers to an art style that relies on high contrast

Very stark images

Endings

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I just knew that was going to be a meme

I feel like he knew what he was doing

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Act 1 ||Omg this parkour course is so annoying. I hope it's worth it.||

[halcyon elbow]

He is very aware of the previous meme and almost certainly knew he was going to get re-memed last night

[halcyon elbow]

It is just fashion and achievements

[coral trout]

||Oh no you found the only up inspiration ||

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Act 1 ||I want to be a Gestral when I grow up!||

||Oh to live in a fantasy world such as this!||

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hmm

Act 1 ||Foretell..?||

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why agility?

[fallow geode]

More agi = more speed = more turns

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Act 2 ||https://x.com/hajima_7/status/1919429462652837917 ||

하지Mara고✨Divinity hype! (@hajima_7)

that spiderman meme but its Noco and Monoco 💜

#ClairObscurExpedition33 #Expedition33

X · May 5, 2025, 4:30 PM

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Act 1 ||Wassup with these places with fixed camera angles?||

[halcyon elbow]

Old JRPG reference, they just have loot

Not really explorable, just pretty loot drop

[dawn spindle]

would any of you recc doing the new content after the end or irrelevant?

[halcyon elbow]

Irrelevant

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Oh yeah I can’t eat during opponent turns

I think past me enabled a flag

Act 3 || This Chromatic Portier is BEEFY. I think I should let myself die especially because it just healed itself to full. It was at like 3/4 health after 15+ minutes doing millions of damage repeatedly ||

[dawn spindle]

okay, I'm back to that one fight where I left it last time

let's see if i remember anything of it

[exotic ember]

Oh yeah just was at a casual x100 enemy life multiplier

Oops

Okay yeah 10x was more reasonable

Onwards to new content

Verso’s Drafts || I think this is what the board game candy land would look like if it were a video game ||

[dawn spindle]

I can still parry the same exact attacks i could last time, and died to the same exact attacks as last time

good news I remember, bad news,I've not magically improved without practice for some reason?

Act 3 ||past Renoir's Draft|| ||Abyss|| ||Now that I can do phase 1 perfectly it has become rather tedious because I do phase 1 perfectly, die to the first attack of phase 2 (which is 95% of the time the light speed one) and then restart again 😭 I'll get it eventually, the fight doesn't cease being cool though 😌 ||

[nova temple]

Oh no, I am in my one-shot build, not "play the game" build...

[errant wedge]

(New Content) Wallpaper Lune moment

[errant wedge]

I really like the balancing of the new bosses. Even the region boss is not a pushover, but the superbosses are tuned assuming you're dropping 10 million damage hits on the regular. None of that meme-ass "just Stendhal him" any more. In fact now you want to build to sustain that DPR.

I've killed two superbosses so far and they were .

[errant wedge]

Second one was not this chomky tho.

[merry lance]

Same, and it's been long enough that I don't remember what a reasonable normie build looks like...

Maybe I should just start a new game...

[nova temple]

I am going to bet on being so overleveled that it doesn't matter how suboptimal my build is

carry me, machine gun build

[errant wedge]

In the new content?

[nova temple]

yeah

[errant wedge]

Hmmm ok.

I'll say the trash mobs are just trash mobs regardless.

[nova temple]

Alternatively, I am going to bet on being a parry god

[dawn spindle]

||just did a casual 10 million hit here by mistake, that said I can now parry the first few attacks of this attack, so getting there||

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More Lune ||channeling a spirit bomb||

Actually I wonder if you can enter Photo Mode in cinematics.

[fallow geode]

the trailer showed doing it in a fight 🤔

cutscenes have a different menu though

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😡 😡 😡

[dawn spindle]

you can

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[dawn spindle]

I've been seeing it on every single skip

which have been a few so far

I think I'm done for today

Learnt: the first 2 hits of that one attack

it has been 2.5h

(it might not seem like it but I'm having fun)

[dawn spindle]

nevermind, consistently 4

[dawn spindle]

(this was a small lie)

[brisk orbit]

I'm gonna take a break, bros

I'm gonna take it slow to make it last longer

[fallow geode]

back to HK then

[dawn spindle]

okay, I am done for reals for the night

[fallow geode]

how much is coincidence? how much was planned?

[errant wedge]

[nova temple]

I keep telling you, it's all fake

[river wolf]

Act 1 very early ||I bashed my head against that very strong early enemy and killed it :3 maybe going all into attack wasn't the best idea... I oneshot me every time||

[merry lance]

This is the way

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Just wait until the winning numbers for the powerball are 04 24 20 25 12 powerball number 33

[errant wedge]

Just saw a video of someone beating the new strongest boss in the game and Sandfall themselves were in the comments congratulating them.

There ain't no way I'm ever beating that. Ain't no shot. Like I can kind of tell how its tells are working ||the number of vertical light flashes and the spacing of the lights tells you how many afterimage hits are coming and how far apart they'll be|| but the precision of execution needed for that is .

It is 10 times stronger than ||Simon||. Oh hell no.

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I can finally start the new content in earnest

Verso’s drafts || Franfrans with party hats and googly eyes on the shell. And the hair! ||

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You have my attention

VD || Omg the esquie statues are interactable and influence whether bath Gestral says he feels where or whoo. I love it. ||

Wow I missed this game

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They saw the dunking on superboss videos and took it personally

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VD || Omg they actually have an area in here called candyland ||

[errant wedge]

I'm still gonna try to take down the third superboss tomorrow, I think I can beat that one with some practice.

But that one, the final final boss, I am just not gonna. Spooky might be able to but I think it'll take him a week.

Overall the new boss difficulty ranking IMO is (all new boss name SPOILERS) ||Osquio || (not a "super"boss, just a normal boss) < ||Chromatic Lampmaster|| < ||Duollistes || < ||Clea Unleashed|| < ||The Divergent Star||.

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There are multiple new super bosses? A week? Omg, I should have been grinding all weekend!

Much whee

[errant wedge]

I don't look forward to Usha getting stuck fighting chadlier and chadlier bosses forever and never actually completing the story.

She will need to kill the one she's fighting right now tho because that's needed for the 100% but that guy is straight up obsolete now.

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VD || Barbapapa is funny ||

Dang I’m hyped for these new supers

Oh god Im going to have to re-read every lumina

First new enemies are dope

Oooo this battle theme is sick

[halcyon elbow]

They spicy

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VD || The new one that makes every third hit of a skill do double damage is very spicy.

Burn build Maelle says hi ||

The naysayers are so wrong

I stand by how deserving this game is of all the love and praise

VD || I’m on 10x enemy health multiplier and still skipping turns so I don’t kill things too quickly lol. Yet this fight they still died too fast because of burn from earlier in the fight before I realized ||

[halcyon elbow]

Memetically driven opinions are always fascinating to me and the amount of people who've suddenly decided 1) Expedition 33 okay-at-best and 2) Expedition 33 is not an RPG or is a lesser RPG for Reasons is so wild to me

[merry lance]

I can see an argument that E33 isn't a roleplaying game by some modern metrics, but those same metrics would mean the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest franchises don't have any RPG entries

[brisk orbit]

Alicia itade nai

[merry lance]

As always, it boils down to "what do you mean by <genre>"
And here I'm safe from the "Days since last genre discussion" sign!

[errant wedge]

You're not safe, null is in this forum too.

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Alright so I got a party wipe

VD || My Lune does nothing and Monoco isn’t quite cutting it either with the current build. So if main squad dies it’s rough.

Maybe 10x enemy health isn’t entirely needed at the moment lol ||

VD || Or maybe I actually don’t ignore weak points and stuff this time lol ||

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I wonder who Alicia is

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VD || Nevermind. 10x enemy health is the right call ||

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Opening ||The first Gommage scene was so beautiful. I can't stop thinking about it.||

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Oh yeah I showed my gf the new area earlier and started a fight and I mentioned how I put enemy health at 10x and her response?

Laughing as she looks at me and asks “What is wrong with you?”

This is not the first time she has asked this of me in relation to this game

Far from it

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Yeahhh… this game truly is an absolute marvel in so many ways. Excited for you!

Omg

This fight

VD || The Gestral in candyland who calls you a worm. It’s literally this https://youtu.be/yj6JbgMdrZo?si=0WpSCyMl4Y3iM4IH. I love it so much ||

[halcyon elbow]

I thought of exactly that video

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VD || Feint is hilarious. Start each turn with 4 barbapapa stacks and the 5th hit deals 600% more damage? ||

[halcyon elbow]

VD ||This guy even does the parry sound on some of the fake swings||

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This game is such a masterpiece

I love sandfall

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VD || Oooo I didn’t fully consciously clock that ||

VD || Monoco riding the ride and just grabbing the seat from below The goat ||

VD || Chromatic Machinapieds || || Oh. My front team died immediately lmfao ||

The fact that Lorien just keeps cooking with music too

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VD || I really need to get my B team up to snuff ||

[halcyon elbow]

In the grand AA tradition set forth by Larian, Sandfall also seems pretty incapable of stopping cooking

Just

Across the board

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VD || Elemental genesis on lune is only dealing around 500k lmfao. Meanwhile burning canvas on Maelle without double damage buff from Sciel and with not a ridiculous number of burn stacks is doing like 13 million ||

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Yeah I’m excited to see more of what they’ve cooked up

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VD || This area is pretty big ||

Pretty awesome

VD || Arch nemesis of esquie? Is it going to be dark esquie? Do we get to fight an enemy esquie? An imposter!? ||

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VD || Oh esquim seems like a neat weapon ||

[merry lance]

||Until I get a name, I'm calling him Esquien't||

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VD || Omg trigger happy is going to be so good for my verso build ||

I have met my match

VD || The seesaw ||

Nevermind

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VD || Licornopieds was a beefy one at 10x lol. 144 million damage dealt. Frenzy seems very nice 👀 ||

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VD || ROAE ||

|| Osquio cutscene was incredible. 10/10. Osquio fight seems pretty brutal. Excited about that. I think he will be a tomorrow fight though. I’m sleepy and I think my ability to learn his patterns and react to all his speed is going to not be there right now ||

[brisk orbit]

NO

I'm at 37%

already

For those who come after!

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Act 1 ||This boss reminds me of Margit.||

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Act 1 end ||GUSTAVE!?! WTF!||

Bruh I just cried

[nova temple]

Welcome to the game

[errant wedge]

Keep the 10x HP modifier so it's consistent with the rest of the zone.

[coral trout]

all? || Idk how I missed this for three days.

https://youtu.be/dR-Cdm7fIoI ||

[halcyon elbow]

Skrimit posted it at some point

[fallow geode]

Definitely All

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ding ding da dada

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VD || ROAE || || I forgot bosses have multiple phases lol ||

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https://tenor.com/view/martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-absolute-cinema-meme-martin-scorsese-meme-martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-gif-7188464701423971028

VD || ROAE || || That was a really fun fight and a fun set of cutscenes. Just got whoo'd

"I'm glad I got to experience that for myself" 😭 ||

VD || ROAE || || My team is now entirely Le Osquad ||

[errant wedge]

Third new superboss down.

For all the crazy gear that Verso / Lune are getting this DLC, Maelle got a ridiculous weapon that severely obsolete Medallum.

[errant wedge]

With that weapon I've done some messing around trying to get singular highest damage number I can and so far it's 234,232,309. That being said that number was without Fortune's Fury or any of the Shield-related Luminas being (+30% mult from Shield Affinity and potential +20 to +90% mult from Powerful Shield).

So we are looking at the potential for Maelle numbers exceeding 1 billion on a short setup time (as in, before an enemy moves).

We don't talk about Sciel numbers because those are uncapped (you can stack one type of card forever) and you can make them go endlessly high depending on how many turns you spend.

Does that kind of damage help against the new final final superboss? Well, it doesn't hurt. It does make that fight easier. But it's not like the old schlub ||Simon||, this boss is anticheesed and you can't just do a single damage number big enough to just win.

[errant wedge]

Actually that number was without the Roulette lumina either so if you want to gamble on a single hit, over 2 billion is possible.

[pulsar citrus]

Act 3+ || Renoir's Drafts|| || This is it guys, I had thought to beat Simon fair and square with no cheese builds. Today, I had to admit that I can't do it. My fingers are just not capable of mashing the parrys enough.

With the new update coming with a nerf to a Cheese Verso build I had my eyes on.

I decided to just beat the guy with the cheese build before updating my game.

I am just waiting to see what new stuff is there for me now.||

[errant wedge]

Ask if you want to know where the DLC is. It's awesome.

[pulsar citrus]

will ask

all I know is that it is Christmas themed

[errant wedge]

||It's near Lumiere, if you're facing the Monolith it's off to the right. It is brightly colored and quite visible from the air.||

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Act 3 DLC all || Are all three new super bosses in endless tower? Planning on checking them out when I get home ||

[errant wedge]

||Yeah||

[brisk orbit]

Buying these beautiful hairs is the only use I found for my chromas!

omg

[brisk orbit]

I just made the connection!

Act 2 ||It's Verso ain't it||

[exotic ember]

Time to make some hot cocoa and then start up on these new super bosses. Will hop in VC and stream them

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Nothing wrong with that!

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I ultimately kept it at 10x until I had it down fairly well and then dropped to 2x when I was ready to move to the next fight.

My thinking essentially is that I like the modifier to ensure I get to see all of the attacks and have the fun of learning to parry each. But then I don’t necessarily need the long grindy fight once I do

[fallow geode]

some weapons and pictos can only be bought from merchants

or they'll have a higher level version of one you already had

but fashion is always the true end game, so there's nothing wrong with buying hair

[exotic ember]

Wait it seems like there are 4? Since there’s technically (E33 all) || a new Simon? ||

Oh wait I went back and viewed the older message talking about the different ones

I see now

For some reason I thought there were 3 new super bosses

[errant wedge]

Yes there are 4. I was celebrating the defeat of the 3rd out of the 4.

Speaking of.

I may have said I wasn't gonna beat him.

BUT THEN I DID.

The final superboss is dead.

https://tenor.com/view/gg-meme-dank-cursed-khat-gif-21280690

The reward:

And with that, au revoir Expedition 33. 🫡 I'm heading back over to Control for now.

But some day, I will NG+.

[halcyon elbow]

I'm still half expecting a full paid DLC's DLC

[exotic ember]

I wouldn’t complain

I’d buy it twice

[errant wedge]

I'd pay for this one if they'd let me.

[exotic ember]

Also I just realized I should go back to 1x health for the super bosses

[exotic ember]

Same tbh

Happily

[exotic ember]

This game is so tight

So I checked out all the new super bosses. Haven’t beat any of them yet. I kept kinda bouncing between them and showed some people on the discord stream some of the new content stuff

But the new supers are super cool

E33 DLC super bosses || Divergent Star || || I figured out the mechanic behind his attacks and confirmed I had it right. So now it’s just a matter of getting it consistent without messing up at all. Granted I’m curious to see what follow up phases look like ||

E33 DLC Super bosses || Clea unleashed || || This is the one I checked out the least. My current guess is that I need to get a counter attack to bring down her invulnerability. So I’ll need to get her down. Clea I imagine may be one of the harder fights for me because I didn’t really get any of her patterns down in the OG fight as well as I’d like, as I killed her too fast ||

E33 DLC super bosses || Chromatic lampmaster and duollistes + divergent star || || These are both really cool. I think duollistes are the coolest from a visual perspective. The two of them weaving attacks in together is sick.

Lampmaster is really fun. Tricky fight for me because some of the delays are tough.

I think Divergent Star at least based on phase 1 actually seems like the easiest of the new super bosses since the rhythm is so consistent. But we’ll see if things get shaken up by subsequent phases if there are any ||

Pretty tired so I’m going to have to call it for tonight but I look forward to continuing to work on these bosses. I need to stop bouncing between them though because that doesn’t make learning them and getting their patterns down any easier

[exotic ember]

I suppose there’s always buying it on another platform just to give them more money lol

[brisk orbit]

I have Alicia on repeat on my spotify

[pulsar citrus]

AAct 3 + DlC || Verso's Drafts || || Oh snap this place looks sick as hell. I guess I can see why I would think this was a Christmas themed area from the trailer but I guess it isn't. I am excited to fight some clown Grandis ||

[exotic ember]

Ahh yes, le game awards special

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Language warning https://youtube.com/shorts/vrCMl5zK-LU?si=5Cnf6q41yB-aLSmr

[river wolf]

act 1 idk how to tag stuff ||there is a weird mime here who i only deal like 10 damage per hit, are they worth killing at this point? lol||

[halcyon elbow]

[Act] [Zone name] [What you want to say] is how we've traditionally done things around these parts

[river wolf]

okay okay

[halcyon elbow]

There is an answer here, if you want it

[river wolf]

idk what the zone is called

i guess what i am asking is, is this a gimmick fight i should be able to do rn or a come back later moment

[halcyon elbow]

Gimmick

[exotic ember]

Yeah I think it’s safe to say that generally you should be able to handle what you come across. Content that is beyond your level is denoted by marking a whole zone as Danger in red text at the entrance to the zone in the over-world.

@halcyon elbow Would you concur or am I forgetting something?

[merry lance]

That sounds about right

(Though later in the game "Danger" is more of a suggestion)

[halcyon elbow]

Some of the overworld boss fights its hard to tell

Some of those are "come back later" for sure, but some of them only look like that

[reef iron]

||yeah there's a method, you just have to figure out what it is||

[river wolf]

||yeah killed it already :3||

[river wolf]

should i be using colour of lumina

[errant wedge]

Where are you so far?

You can't use it until after a certain point but it is basically buildcrafting capacity.

[river wolf]

i can use them now thats why i am asking lol

[errant wedge]

Yeah you should use them.

[errant wedge]

https://fixvx.com/superhys/status/2000615104090341472

400k sales between the TGA noms til the awards, then 200k more since the wins have pushed it over 6 million total. Plus 100k+ Gamepass subs playing it since the noms. Acclaim does drive sales. Swen's Prophecy holds.

Rhys Elliott (@superhys)

Damn! Huge spike in Expedition 33 copies sold since the Game Awards (@alineaanalytics estimates)

It sold an extra 200K+ copies since: 76% on Steam, 21% on PS5, and 3% on Xbox. Around 52K Xbox players accessed E33 via Game Pass for the first time, too.

Free Substack link in bio.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Dec 15, 2025, 5:13 PM

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 ||I wonder what Rush does||

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 ||Alicia... Is Alicia Maelle..?||

||(don't answer)||

||I wonder what all these spending time with our camp mates will lead up to||

[nova temple]

That's easy, ||it gives you speed, and speed makes you act sooner/faster/more often||

[errant wedge]

@exotic ember I'm in the stream chat but I'm gonna be mostly AFK in here for about an hour.

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Okay so uhh E33 DLC Superbosses || Divergent Star || || Got through phase one. I will not be doing phase 2 for now because my secondary team is… not good ||

[errant wedge]

Wait I thought you were going after ||Chromatic Lampboi||.

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Yeah right when you left I went to || Divergent Star ||. Then I did || Duo || a couple times. And now I'm back on || lamp ||.

I really have been playing so terribly all night lol

[errant wedge]

I think they're all a decent step up from anything that existed pre-DLC yeah.

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Yeah they're all very challenging. I love it. But even compared to yesterday I'm playing significantly worse haha.

I do think || TDS || is not going to be doable for me without really beefing up || Lune and Monoco || though

[errant wedge]

Yeah lol my lumina was uh, more evenly distributed.

You have Chad Verso and everyone else is living in poverty.

[exotic ember]

Maelle has lumina too! Though still like 150 or so less I think. Over 300 overall though

Which is better than the 170 or so the others have

[errant wedge]

Looks like I ended with ||320 Verso, 300 Maelle, 260 Sciel, 220 Lune and 170 Monoco||.

And about 150 unspent.

[exotic ember]

Huh, nice. I should grind out some lumina at some point so I can actually take on || TDS || for real. Will need to figure out how to build my team for that fight

I feel like I'm making progress on || lamp || at least

[exotic ember]

E33 DLC superbosses. I finally got the || lampmaster ||! || That cutscene was so badass my god ||

I'm going to be so tired tomorrow morning

[rocky raptor]

Think im close to the end of Act 1. Had to stop earlier cause i got a massive headache.

[exotic ember]

Hope you feel better soon!

[exotic ember]

Having just watched a video from someone who picked up E33 after it won GoTY, it really does have by far the strongest opening of any game I’ve played. Absolute masterclass

[errant wedge]

Nice! And yeah that cutscene is where I got...

[errant wedge]

...these screenshots from. Not Photo Mode, just spamming printscreen while that badassery went down.

Now that you have the ||Esquium|| build in place you should be quite set to take down ||Duollistes|| and ||Clea Unleashed||. The weapon was built to ||disincentivize people doing nothing but Stendhal|| but the spice they gave it in order to do that was... intense.

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 ||The Dualliste is my favorite boss so far. I'm at the point where I beat Renoir btw.||

[shell minnow]

Mmmm I should finish this game at some point

[nova temple]

It's got Ben Starr in it

[halcyon elbow]

If you didn't know

He can be hard to spot I'm told

[pulsar citrus]

Oh wow you're at some fire speed

[shell minnow]

I'm banning the both of you

[nova temple]

you can't ban us, we are in act 3, and you aren't

you don't even know how tight this game is just yet

[halcyon elbow]

Imagine not knowing how tight this game is 😔

[nova temple]

couldn't be me 😔

[errant wedge]

Absolute

[exotic ember]

Jokes on them, I was never on || Stendhal ||

[exotic ember]

Yeah those cutscenes are so stunning. Great screenshots

[errant wedge]

Goddammit you broke the combo

[halcyon elbow]

https://tenor.com/view/clair-obscur-gif-3997765438463569121

[exotic ember]

Oops

[shell minnow]

I'm in act 3!!!

Act 3 ||I did Monoco and Lune's side quests already and I was in uhhhh I think Clea's workshop when I left off?||

Act 3 ||I kind of can't remember if I had already fought the third Axon at the top of the mountain for Maelle's quest, but I remember that's what I was supposed to do for her||

[exotic ember]

I think I do genuinely have a problem because I kinda want to eventually do a NG+ challenge run dealing damage exclusively via counterattacks, with no revives, no pictos to cheat death, etc

[shell minnow]

Act 3 ||I also briefly dipped into Renoir's Drafts I think, but it was scary in there so I left||

And then. You know. Silksong. And Hades 2

[errant wedge]

The DLC superboss saga made me realize I'm actually considerably better at parrying than I thought I was, considering I hadn't had to do much of it in Act 3, but I don't think I find it interesting enough to ever play counters-only.

[merry lance]

Your problem is that E33 is too short

[errant wedge]

I honestly do wonder where they're gonna go from here. An actual expansion? I don't think there is space in this setting to fit a whole like expansion-scale thing, there was space to do something small like ||Verso's Drafts|| but not much more.

We know they're gonna do more Clair Obscur but don't know if those will actually be connected to this universe at all.

[fallow geode]

E33 Act 3 ||New Painting Who This?||

[errant wedge]

I'm pretty sure they'll keep the "reaction turn-based" combat model going forward.

[halcyon elbow]

Yeah they can cycle through different Final Fantasy jobs for a couple more games at least

[errant wedge]

E33 ALL ||I'd be interested in seeing new Painters for that matter, not the Dessendres.||

[fallow geode]

||Or the Writers?||

[errant wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/alan-wake-alans-awake-alan's-awake-awake-alan-gif-14005579214609789099

[exotic ember]

Add another 30-40 hours on PS5, if not more, since my PC save time tracking seemed to trail behind the Steam time tracking by about 20 hours. And given that note about time in game over screens not counting towards time played.

And I spend a lot of time in game over screens

[exotic ember]

I honestly was of the expectation that this was going to be it for new content.

I wouldn’t mind being wrong, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they focus on the next game.

Definitely hoping they do keep the core gameplay with the turn based + parrying and all that

I do very much want to know more about (E33 all) || the writers ||

[errant wedge]

I wonder at what point in development they decided to put Clair Obscur as the franchise name and had the confidence that they'd do well enough to keep making games under that header.

[halcyon elbow]

Some time after the reboot, at least

The pre-reboot name was We Lost

[rocky raptor]

I wish there was an ingame way of tracking enemies cause trying to remember all the different enemy types and all their resistances and weaknesses (which are often not intuitive) is getting :/

[dawn spindle]

I don't think it's very relevant besides with bosses? and I think with bosses you're more like required to learn it at the moment than remember

[rocky raptor]

i find it pretty relevant

[halcyon elbow]

All ||https://fixvx.com/vicky___221b/status/2000947721478529292 ||

vicky221b (@VickY___221B)

"Escape, yeah. That's what I wanted"

#ClairObscurExpedition33 #VirtualPhotography #FramedSC

vxTwitter / fixvx 💖 1.4K 🔁 157 · Dec 16, 2025, 3:14 PM

[merry lance]

The GotY converts Youtube Meta is well underway

[halcyon elbow]

Mhmm

[nova temple]

I should really go play that patch, huh

It weirdly takes a long time to launch...

[nova temple]

1.5 ||This game is so tight||

[errant wedge]

Bad news Kon, this game is tainted: https://fixvx.com/nyanomancer/status/1915991305257210323

Nyanomancer (@nyanomancer)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears as though Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 used generative AI for these textures.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 26, 2025, 4:48 AM

Yeah they patched it out but hey if it's poisoned once can you ever trust it?
https://fixvx.com/nyanomancer/status/1917435885429150176?lang=en

Nyanomancer (@nyanomancer)

Excellent, the AI generated textures in Clair Obscur were indeed placeholders and were replaced with custom assets. The other AI generated poster that was present in the starting area (don't have a screenshot of it now) was also removed.

QRT: nyanomancer
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears as though Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 used generative AI for these textures.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 30, 2025, 4:28 AM

They've even admitted to it, the frauds.

[pulsar citrus]

An Almanac type thing? Yeah it would be cool. Seeing how Sandfall isn't averse to adding some cool QoL features this could also easily fit right in.

[halcyon elbow]

Yes, and I won't be playing their next game either or buying DLC

I'm prepared to do the same thing for CDPR or anyone else

Hard line

Its so simple

[errant wedge]

CDPR already used it in Phantom Liberty for the Polish voice of Viktor.

[halcyon elbow]

Well, I'm out then

Didn't know that

I won't knowingly be party to it though

If it means I won't play games made after like 2022,

Obvious and easy moral question. Won't pay for stolen goods

[errant wedge]

That's basically gonna be the case.

[river wolf]

skrim you are coming off as extremely salty about someone else's media comsumption choices lol

[errant wedge]

Hey at least I'm not a transphobe playing Hogwarts.

[sullen quartz]

If anything, I see this as learning from a mistake and trying to right a wrong, seeing as they did remove those assets and replace them with ones they created. I'm still a little disappointed myself, but even as anti-AI as I am, I wouldn't say it totally ruins it for me.

[pulsar citrus]

Not to mention even Brandon was considering in around 2020, to do some stuff with NFT until the fans made him realise that no the good things said about it are not true at all.

So he learned from those things and is now of a different stance.

[halcyon elbow]

"Use" is present tense. Disqualifying for me

[pulsar citrus]

I think the way talked in the message it seems the fact they used AI was just a byproduct of using Unreal Engine 5 as the scaffolding for the game.

Not to say your decision to boycott is even slightly wrong in anyway.

[halcyon elbow]

I'd love to believe that

I don't

[pulsar citrus]

I do think using your consumer rights to send a message is very good

[river wolf]

And you know, this is the thing about using Ai as "placeholders", impossible for them not to slip through the cracks and into the final product

[rocky raptor]

To note, Unreal 5 stuff is not genAI stuff
One of those frequently conflated things

So while as far as we know they did use genAI for some placeholder textures, that's not the same as the AI tools in UE5

[pulsar citrus]

Ah shucks is that so

[rocky raptor]

(It drives me crazy trying to parse through devs talking about using AI these days to figure out which kind they mean)

[nova temple]

I don't know, maybe being in tech when all of tech is riding this train has desensitized me to it a bit (perhaps for my own sanity), but there probably are reasonable and acceptable ways to use this technology, especially during the prototyping stages of development. It's difficult to navigate tradeoffs, both as a consumer and a producer. In a hypothetical scenario, training data issues aside, is it meaningfully different to take a character model shipped with the engine, and painting over it, vs. to generate one and paint over it? Does it matter of my early build has generated textures instead of white boxes? Does the answer change if taking these shortcuts allows human creatives to create more? It's a gnarly subject, but I have to believe that if this tech is here to stay - and I think it is, in one form or another - then the best course of action is to support the lesser evil; because zero tolerance policies feel to me like they will end up hurting people in the end. I have to believe that the game I experienced, with all the things I love about it, came from humans, and surely that means something

But I am also so so tired of... everything

[halcyon elbow]

The thing for me is, these are things I want, but do not need, and until we live in a society where we have sensible controls on how AI is trained and used and disclosed, I simply can't have anything to do with it for things I merely want

As is, it is wholesale looting of artists who cannot defend themselves

One of the most squicky moments recently for me was Cohh Carnage interviewing Amelia Tyler about ARC Raiders' use of AI, asking if she thought is was ethical

She did not

And he told her to her face that he didn't care enough for it to stop him

He was obviously asking for her "permission" and then decided that he didn't care when she wouldn't give it to him

[nova temple]

Yeah, that's probably not a unique incident either...

[rocky raptor]

yeah my opinion of Cohh has tanked

The baseline thing for me, is that while there are numerous known and documented issues with using genai tech in every way it's being used, I have yet to see someone actually demonstrate to me a way in which its use is actually a positive, that does not first require them actively ignoring every bit of harm it's actually doing, or almost worst just deluding themselves into believing it's creating a positive effect when it's at best neutral and thus pointless.

[nova temple]

I think a lot of people might be afraid that if they don't at least keep a pulse on how things develop, they'll fall behind - or be left behind

but that's probably firmly in a general enough territory that I feel like I should restore the channel back to its purpose

[rocky raptor]

👍

[rocky raptor]

Finished Act 1
...I gotta go do dishes and clean

[dawn spindle]

and process

[exotic ember]

Act 1 || Clean the tears off of your desk and controller? 😭 ||

[rocky raptor]

||Didnt cry that much. Mostly shocked. I kept expecting him to die from a heart attack based on some moments from the start.||

[dawn spindle]

||It took it a bit for me to actually process it, then I cried||

Act 2 minor (safe for mori) ||It was when I started Act 2 that it actually... finished sipping in to my brain||

[rocky raptor]

...idk if it's a bug or some weird mechanic i dont get but sometimes the parry indicator doesnt play and it's driving me insane

[dawn spindle]

The indicator?

Like the button isn't lit up on the side?

[sullen quartz]

Act 1(?) question ||Anyone got any theories as to why all the music tracks for the Manor aren't included in the OST? Monsieur Testard has said he's saving all the Manor tracks for another little project of his that has yet to come. What do you y'all think that could be for?||

[rocky raptor]

there's a sound effect

[dawn spindle]

Right

The sound effect should be there for all melees, but it is odd or sometimes not there at all for ranged or magic attacks

[rocky raptor]

fighting a boss where sometimes its attacks have the sound and sometimes they dont
and its the same attacks

[dawn spindle]

Oh, that's odd

I've definetely encountered some audio bugs in the game

There's one enemy that ignores my audio settings and does all the sound at max volume and it was triggering me so bad 😭

[dawn spindle]

Never seen this tho

[rocky raptor]

yrah like, i got halfway through the fight with no effect, then suddenly the effect appeared, so i was like "oh, is it a time or sucking thing?" but nope
died, started over, sound effect hasnt reappeared in any of my other attempts

[brisk orbit]

Stars are the apples of the sky.

[rocky raptor]

Act 2 ||I have no idea what im doing wrong with Chromatic Hexga. It's literally just stopped taking damage now.||

...im going to lose my mind

[rocky raptor]

i had to look it up. ||shoot the crystal. which i originally tried, but when nothing happened after shooting it i decided it mustnt be a thing. you have to shoot it multiple times before anything changes or reacts||

[nova temple]

Yeah, almost everyone bricks on that fight a little bit

[dawn spindle]

I sure did

Its unintuitive enough I thought it was a bug

[nova temple]

I think the problem is the lack of visual feedback

[dawn spindle]

||there's no feedback to shooting the thing of any sort, I did try a few times but not enough||

[rocky raptor]

||yeah you have to shoot it like, 4+ times before anything happens||

[errant wedge]

NG+ comic (let's say E33 Act 3 spoilers) ||https://www.instagram.com/p/DR0BKjTgl8E/?img_index=1||

amikoroyai

New game plus things 🤭

#clairobscurexpedition33 #expedition33

Likes

12597

Instagram

WTF Instagram embeds now. But it has multiple pages so also not a useful embed.

[nova temple]

Embeds work... sometimes

More reliably for more popular posts, but it feels kind of random

That said, lots of good stuff on this account

I run into it regularly in my feed

[rocky raptor]

Act 2 ||There's something very funny about the way the game systems work. Some of the skills for the characters are hard locked. Can't even see them.
...And so were like half of Gustave's. Which tells me he either comes back, or these unlock in NG+||

[errant wedge]

It is a weird but very much intentional choice.

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 ||Going to fight Sirene right now! First Axon btw||

[brisk orbit]

got em

[brisk orbit]

||I wonder how to counter Exhaust||

[pulsar citrus]

|| Anything that cleanses status effects.

Burn, Exhaust, Curse, Charm... These all are status effects. ||

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 ||Got the mask Axon first try!||

[brisk orbit]

||Ew. Barf wine||

||And I just messed up the relationship between Sciel and Verso. That's so annoying!||

[nova temple]

yum yum

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 ||I'm at the part where I'm supposed to go to the paintress. I wonder if there's an act 3.||

||Why is she crying? 😭 😭 😭 ||

[brisk orbit]

||A trip down memory lane||

[rocky raptor]

...
Act 2 ||I think...I just realized I forgot to redistribute Verso's attribute points...which would explain some problems I was having.||

[brisk orbit]

Une vie a t'aimer is awesome!

Reminds me of "To Sail Forbidden Seas" from ff16

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 final? ||I've been fighting her for like 2 hours now. Haven't been able to figure out much of phase 2||

[brisk orbit]

||Why do they like to dance so much? omg 😡 😡 ||

||ok. I'm continuing this tmr||

||And I expected things to be more answered at this point, but I still have no idea what's going on||

[exotic ember]

Dang you really are breezing through the game!

[rocky raptor]

...there's a hotfix out that is for some reason taking 30 minutes to apply
waht

[rocky raptor]

Act 2 ||Chromatic: Wipes entire party in one hit.
Me: Bet||

[brisk orbit]

I wonder if there's a big twist at the end

Continuing!

[nova temple]

https://tenor.com/view/chubby-dance-twist-gif-9203463

[brisk orbit]

Ugh

one more try

If I fail, I'm having a rest

[brisk orbit]

Act 2 final ||There's a phase 3? omg||

I'm wearing my headphones for this!

[brisk orbit]

E33 All ||Idk if tagging this Epilouge would spoil it for other people. Anyways, this is crazy!||

[brisk orbit]

E33 All ||Act 3?!?! WTF||

E33 All ||Crazy. So this was basically a matrix?||

[nova temple]

https://tenor.com/view/hue-huehue-huehuehue-duck-laugh-gif-4916860

[brisk orbit]

E33 All ||How are they okay with being a... creation? Something not real? Something not from the real world?||

E33 All ||This just made E33 one of my favorite games ever!||

E33 All ||I thought I didn't have the 3rd Gradient attack because I rushed and didn't explore enough!||

[exotic ember]

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

[brisk orbit]

E33 All ||I'm flying around with Esquie right now. Idk what to do. Do I fight these leftover bosses, or do I go and fight Renoir?||

||If I move forward, it does feel like I'm rushing and missing some amazing content like this flying serpent over here||

[nova temple]

You get a save just before the end, so you can always go back and clear the map

I cleared the map first and ended up overleveling the final zone pretty drastically. You can buff the enemies now though, so that's less of a concern

If it were me, I would do at least the character side quests first

[brisk orbit]

hmm ok thank you

I want to spend some more time with the characters!

Anyways, I've been saying Clair Obscur out loud every time I die, hearing the sound in the Expedition Failed screen, and I'm getting pretty good at pronouncing "Obscur"

But I still can't pronounce Renoir

[dawn spindle]

Can you say Noir?

[brisk orbit]

nope

[dawn spindle]

I see, if you want, it might be easier to learn the pronunciation of the syllables separately

[brisk orbit]

Ohh

That's much easier nice

[brisk orbit]

E33 All ||There weren't any side quests in Act 1 and 2, right..? I hope I didn't miss any. ||

E33 All ||I hope the Alicia song plays when we see her. I'm doing her side quest||

[dawn spindle]

||not as side quests, there's a lot you have access to during those Acts in the map but not as side quests like what you're doing now||

[exotic ember]

E33 act 1 ending - seeing the mocap here is so wild and cool
|| https://youtube.com/shorts/cmIOX5Zbnqc?si=Ke-tg1TVrCHBeGCO ||

|| Guillaume just sitting in the corner is for some reason sending me a bit ||

[rocky raptor]

Act 2 ||This beach platforming challenge is driving me crazy when the bloody game refuses to read a jump input||

[errant wedge]

Act 2 ||If you ain't going for 100%ing I'd suggest staying off the Gestral Beaches, they're intentionally terrible.||

[merry lance]

Act 2 ||Personally, I didn't find them too bad apart from Volleyball, but I might've just been lucky||

[rocky raptor]

||but swimsuits||

[brisk orbit]

E33 All ||I just defeated Alicia with no damage taken! And believe me when I say I parried every attack!||

[nova temple]

https://tenor.com/view/maelle-expedition-33-win-gif-8593410447886639541

I wish we had a good "parry it" GIF

[dawn spindle]

I wish

[brisk orbit]

Ohhh

The picto has a yellow frame if it is Lumina-ed

[brisk orbit]

E33 All ||Omg Golgra is taking forever to beat.||

[pulsar citrus]

|| Golgra is something you tackle with a Solid build and some grit to beat. ||

[exotic ember]

|| I think it took me like 5 hours just to beat her with my whole team. A large portion of that was just leaning to beat her once ||