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claire obscure
Whos playing it and whos got thoughts onnett... Took me a while to warm up to the dark souls elements of the battles that everyone was gushing over. Im a turn based purist which is why it took me a while to warm up... but getting the patterns in the boss fights is kinda good
Feels like the ppl who made this are just ppl who grew up playing the same games I did... very obvious Persona/FF10 influence... keep thinking "this is the game final fantasy 13 should have been" Its loaded with optional stuff... main quest got kinda easy but finding the random stuff on the world map that they dont tell you about (which ive been waiting since like, final fantasy 9 for a game to harken back to) is full of crazy difficult enemies Dont love all the menu navigation with pictos and lumina... messes with the pacing having to do all that Very cool and small cast of characters... big fan of "Maelle"... crazy ass story that starts very "in media res" and doesnt reveal hardly any thing till way later. French ah hell... but they lean into it which is funny with the mime costumes and bagguetes and stuff. The music is tight... we love a leitmotif So ya whos playing claire obscure expedition 33... |
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I am the cheese
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I beat it literally last night.
Easily my game of the year so far. Characters, voice acting, story, art style, setting, gameplay, power progression, world exploration its all top tier. And genuinely funny, tragic and heart warming all in its own time. It may be a masterpiece and it goes to show you how much talent is being wasted at Ubisoft |
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Posted about this on the other forums when it launched and this site was down for quite a while.
This is an easy GOTY. Everything Destor said hits the nail right on the head. If it doesn't win an award for at least the music, something is very, VERY wrong. The first game in a long time to make me genuinely react with strong emotions of all varieties. Love the battle system. Reminds me a bit of Mario RPG and Legend of Dragoon mashed a bit. |
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This song hits so much harder after you complete the game.
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I feel like combat is paper mario meets lost odyssey
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I never played Lost Odyssey, so I cannot attest to it. I may need to look into it tho.
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Its top 5 rpgs ever for me. Id recommend goingas far out of way as you have to to play it. Its as good as any classic FF
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My final super boss build def used the shit out of free aim
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at "Simon" atm... could take the time to set up the party so theyre optimized for him and then learn the patterns... mad hard fight
Should prolly just finish the game bc because the optional bosses are way harder than the storyline ones |
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If youre even partially able to take on simon you should go and roll the credits. Youll probably already trivialize the last fight as is but Simon is THE super boss
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But his patterns are crazy. Speed of light was a nightmare for me
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Defeated his first form and then when he came back and started doing everything 2x I thought it was a joke. I thought it was one of those fights you're designed to lose
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I grinded out level 99 in a couple hours at the dark shores (the place with the hand enemies). Between that, all the lumina points I had and my broken af party with Maelle, Lune, and Verso...well, Simon didn't stand a chance. Had a much harder time with Painted Love before I got too skronk.
Anyways, easy GOTY for me. Comparisons to Lost Odyssey are spot on. Both are in my top 5. Clair is prob my number 2 game now with only Chrono Trigger ahead of it. |
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There are two endings. The save after the one big fight allows you to go right back and do the other ending if you wish..... or you can go to any save point and start a NG+
though it sounds like you did most or all of the "after campaign" stuff before you finished Act III, so there's probably nothing left. |
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Now Ossman, go beat up all the mimes.
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100% to all of that.
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Finally getting settled in the new house. IDK if this game has Dolby Atmos enabled, but I'm stoked to do a NG+ with a complete Atmos sound setup and new OLED tv.
God this game is so great. |
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Indy gaming is really on the rise. CO:E33 Hot on the heels of BG3 plus games like Sea of Stars and the thriving retro inspired indy scene...AAA really isnt keeping up.
And it makes sense that it would struggle. There's too much risk with AAA. A single game failing could put a thousand people out of work. That is going to create an industry that must be risk adverse out of necessity. What would be ideal is a return to more double a type titles. Lower budgets with lower risks. Squares team Asano had adopted this strategy and they were able to use their profits to help fund their bugger projects but after their AAA games lost too much money (Avengers/Babylons Fall/Forsaken and even games like FF7R2 underperforming) theyre choosing to bizarrely back off their midtier titles that were turning profit in pursuit of the white whale of success. The industry is in a bad place but i hope games like this show a path to success to the major studios that allows creativity and ideas to be what gets green lit over safety. |
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Yep. Enshittification began once high-dollar execs saw the dollar signs on the industry. Smart money says a lot of them aren't privy to the shitty era of the mid-80s before the rise of the NES.
"Fiscal reports" fuck things over so much anymore. Also shuts down a ton more of the creative sides of things. This game has easily become my #2 overall, only behind Chrono Trigger. For me, and maybe it's just a "product of its time", that game is and always will be the best. That said, I'd be down for a modern "reimagining" of it too. The mobile version is pretty damn good, giving the full FMV sequences during the game, which the SNES version lacked, and the PSX version stuttered badly with. |
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After FF7R I'll never ask for a reimagining again. I'll just play mediocre ports.
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Fair. Perhaps reimagining isn't the correct label. Keep everything the same, just update it with modern tech. It'd be very pretty
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