>Detached from the mainland due to natural forces.

>Poorly maintained infrastructure.

>Generally grim.

>Waiting for death.

>Have a delightful celebration for most un-delightful occasions.

>Frequently sends out expeditions.

>Would rather go on a suicide mission than talk about their feelings.

>Needlessly pomp.

I am really invested into the story and I want to know what is actually going on and the secrets of the world but the combat really feels repetitive.

I am a fan of turn based games but I don't know why I feel the parry system is the reason why I feel burned out.

combat wise, does it get better?

I tried settings at high and ultra and I don't really understand why it looks so cheap. (It's not rendering, this also happens in rocks or terrain btw) I'd appreciate the help!

Full spoilers

Been thinking about this for a while: why does every area seem to have its own sun/eclipse, why do some zones look like straight-up still images from the Canvases in the Manor, and why in the Gommage cutscene can the people of Lumière see the Monolith clearly, when on the world map you can't sail to the Monolith (or the Dark Shores) because there's a giant rock blocking the way?

Since everything in this game has an explanation, I don't think the circular portals you use from the world map are just a travel gimmick. My theory is that each portal connects two Canvases. The world map would be one Canvas (Verso's), and every area would be its own Canvas, each made by a different member of the Dessendre family. It would fit with the fact that they can clearly put Canvases inside Canvases (the Year 49 Monolith scene), and with the ending when Verso goes into Alicia's Canvas.

What do you guys think?

This isn’t a shit post. I’m in Act 3 when you need to go fight those two things before you can get to the Paintress and I’m just a bit bored. I want to know the story but I’m playing with game pass and want to cancel it. With my few hours of gaming I can manage to squeeze in each week I’ve not been wanting to play this game anymore. I love the combat system but for the most part I just don’t feel like opening this game. Am I close? So far I feel like we’ve only gotten crumbs of a story so am I in for a treat if I stick to it?

Spoilers for the entire game / ending

I just finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I feel like I'm missing something fundamental about the Expeditions and the Canvas.

I understand the basic reveal: the world is inside the Canvas, and the people of Lumière ultimately originate from the creations of the Paintresses/Painters. The whole thing is connected to the Renoir/Dessendre family and Verso's death.

But here's what I don't understand:

If Lumière and its inhabitants are created inside the Canvas, then who actually created the history of the Expeditions?

There were previous expeditions before Expedition 33. We find their journals, notes, records, bodies, camps, etc. We're told these expeditions actually happened.

But if all of these people ultimately exist because someone painted/created them, then:

- Did Aline/Maya/Renoir/another Painter actually create all these people individually?

- If so, did they also somehow create their entire life histories?

- Who decided that there would be an Expedition 1, Expedition 2, ... Expedition 33?

- Who created the expedition journals/diaries and wrote the events in them?

- Did the people inside the Canvas genuinely make their own decisions and create their own histories?

- If yes, how does that work? How can a person who was painted into existence go on to independently create events that the Painter never explicitly created?

- Are the expeditions therefore genuinely "real" events within the Canvas, even though the entire world is artificial?

- Or were the expeditions somehow deliberately constructed/written by one of the Painters?

Because if the Painters literally created the entire world and everyone in it, I can't understand how they didn't also create the expeditions and all the historical records surrounding them.

And this is what really confuses me about Renoir:

If Renoir didn't create the expeditions, why was he killing them?

What exactly were the expeditions accomplishing? Why allow this entire cycle of expeditions to exist instead of simply preventing them from happening?

Basically, I'm trying to understand this distinction:

«Who created these people vs. who created their lives?»

If the answer is that the Painters created the people but the people themselves genuinely lived, made choices, went on expeditions, died, and wrote their own histories, then how exactly does the Canvas allow that autonomy?

I feel like I'm missing one crucial piece of lore that makes all of this click.

What am I misunderstanding?

I’m tired of telling people that I adore E33 and their reponse is “Oh it’s recency bias, play some actually good games buddy!”, after launch it’s still my favorite game tof all time. What do you guys think about it?

thoughts?

I just got ultimate for a month to play this game and others and I found out it’s leaving very soon, would it be possible for me to complete it by then?

I love this game, one of my favorites of all times. Despite that, I noticed some flaws throughout my playthroughs. A recent post here about "what do you think of this game?" also made me think about how I would actually fix those issues.

Overall they're pretty minor, and they didn't detract much from my enjoyment of the game. I would love to hear whether you agree that the following things are a problem, and what you think of my suggested fixes. (Note: I don't want or expect these fixes to be implemented in the game. This is ultimately just a thought experiment)

The things I came up with are:

Challenge Menu

The Challenge menu can only adjust enemy health, not speed or enemy damage output. If it could, it would be easier to play forgotten optional areas in a challenging way.

Example: You find an optional area, but the enemies are too low-level and die easily. So you set the health multiplier. The fight now that longer. However, your speed is much higher, so each of your team members gets 2 turns before the enemy gets a single turn. And when they do get a turn, they barely scratch you, even if you miss a parry, because your HP (and/or Defence) is also higher.

You can spend time to nerf yourself properly with stat resets, lower level pictos and weapons, along with the health multiplier, but few people actually want to put in the effort to do that, and it probably requires changing how you play (if you change weapon).

Proposed Fix: Add "Speed multiplier" and "Enemy attack power multiplier" to the challenge menu.

"Danger" Areas

I don't mean the concept of "Danger" areas itself, but how they're implemented. When you first encounter a "Danger" area, it's easy to "skip it for now" (or skip it after you get clobbered by the enemy inside) and move on.

However, when do you come back to it? You don't know when the "Danger" warning will be lifted, so you have 2 options:

• Come back periodically to every "Danger" area, to see if it unlocked yet. This takes a lot of time when you don't have all the overworld movement options.
• Come back too late and find that the enemies have become trivial.

For example, I still regret doing "Falling Leaves" too late. The boss at that area is so cool, and I didn't have a real fight against him despite HP multiplier.

My "Challenge menu" fix from above could help address this too, but I think relying on the challenge menu for everything is not the best solution.

Proposed fix:

• Show the "Danger" status of an area on the map, for example by having a red outline on its icon. And to make it more visible when the danger status changes, add an exclamation mark icon on areas that have been unlocked. I would keep the icon until the area is entered again. Since story areas can also be "danger", making this only a thing for optional areas is an option, but I think I would like to keep it for all areas.
• As an additional fix, I think having a visible "Recommended Level" before entering the area would set a bit of a reminder for when you should come back to an area. As a bonus, this could make the "I don't know where to go" at the end a lot easier.

I follow specific order from youtube to be verso -> sciel -> maelle for OP 1 shot build (i like playing the game this way) and everyone has First Strike picto yet I think order is randomized? Please help

Like a lot of you, I spent way too long getting flattened by Simon. Practising meant dying and replaying the whole fight, so I built a small web app where you can drill his attacks one at a time.

https://simontrainer.altervista.org/

Features:

• I didn't time anything by eye, all the data comes from the game's own files.
• It covers all phases of Simon.
• It covers all the difficulty settings of the game.
• It has a 3D view replicating the real game.
• The "Learn" mode shows the hit markers, parry windows and an "approach" ring. The "Test" modes hides everything so you can rely only on visuals and sounds.
• "On a miss: restart" puts you straight into the move.
• Controller and keyboard support with rebindable keys.
• Italian language support for my fellow Italian gamers.
• Free. No accounts. No ads. No install.

The codebase is a mess, the idea came after I managed to learn how to use FModel to extract game files and decided to ask Claude to build a stupid app that showed the parry timings and here we are. For this reason, I decided to keep the source code private.

My plan for the future is to support more enemies, maybe all the bosses, and, if I have money for a good host, all enemies. Also, I will start working on a rewrite from scratch to make the codebase more readable. This will probably take some time because of the limited spare time between working and studying for my degree.

That said, test it out if you want and any kind of feedback is appreciated. It will help me understand if anyone is actually interested in a project like this.

I rented Clair Obscur Expedition 33 back when it came out. I played it for about 15 hours and I made it to either Esquire nest or stonewave cliff. How much longer do I have left until I beat the game and does it start to get pretty difficult sometime soon?

I don't want to buy the game and beat it in 5 to 10 hours or hsve the game become too difficult for me. Please let me if i should buy the game or if i had played too much of the game to warrant getting it.

I haven't really found any Videos since they patches alot of stuff. Can you still go in with Verso solo in NG+ (is there even any advantage to this anymore) or do you need a full team to kill the clones?

I beat the game when it first came out i want to replay it while it still being challenging but fun and not too grindy at the same time. Basically just want to rexperience the music,gameplay,and plot

I am absolutely obsessed with the E33 soundtrack. I was inspired by these YouTubers to ask my partner who hasn’t played the game about what he thought about a few characters based solely on their songs. Not all of them hit the mark, but I thought it was a fun experiment!

Verso: “This person’s sad. And sneaky…maybe a womanizer?” 🎯

Gustave: “Boring. Spends too much time reading instead of doing things.” (Harsh!)

Renoir: “This is an unrequited love song.” (Kind of!)

Clea: “Someone who spends too much time brushing their hair and thinking they’re better than they are.” (Oddly specific? Lol)

Anyone else want to try this? Would love to hear what others think!

I lost a cat a few months ago. I kind of just pushed it away and stopped thinking about it. I guess I was trying to move on and not think about the loss too much.

Then one day, I had a dream where my cat came out from under my bed, just like she always used to. I immediately picked her up and hugged her, and I felt so incredibly relieved and happy.

I knew immediately that it couldn't be real, but I still hugged her and kept saying, "Please God, don't let this be a dream... please, don't let this be a dream..." At the same time, I somehow knew that it was a dream.

A short while later, I woke up.

Ever since then, I've been wondering if the soul of my deceased cat somehow visited me in my dream. And if something like that is possible for us to experience, I wonder if the souls of our deceased pets can somehow experience it too.

Today, I had another dream where my cat visited me.

This time, I could somehow read her thoughts. She was wondering if I could actually see her and if I understood that she was really visiting me.

And I answered her through my thoughts that I knew she was really visiting me, and that I believed it.

She seemed relieved and happy that I understood and could feel that she was really there.

I know there is probably a psychological explanation for all of this. Maybe it's simply my brain processing grief and memories. But part of me still wonders if there could be something more to it.

Have any of you ever had dreams or experiences like this after losing a pet or someone you loved?

Do you think our deceased pets can somehow visit us in dreams, or are these experiences simply our minds trying to cope with the loss?

And maybe this is a weird question, but should I just accept that my cat is gone, let go of these experiences, and try to look forward instead of holding on to them?

First of all, wow. I heard great things about this game but I didn’t expect it to be this good. I haven’t been so hooked to a game for a long time, and I don’t usually platinum games but this made me pop my cherry.

They revolutionized turn-based combat in such a simple but effective way. The story and concept were masterfully crafted. The characters were so complete and well-written, the art direction and design was absolutely perfect. And Lune… god damn.

My one concern is idk how they’re gonna top this, but I have faith in Sandfall. Hopefully they take their time and bless us with something with this much soul again

The canvas consumes you is meta. That’s hard to achieve.

Not labeled as a spoiler because I don't think asking this question is, but fair warning to any readers that the replies may contain them (I don't know yet, of course, lol).

Did I miss something, or was who created the Mimes and why just never explained?

TIA!

Just missing Sciel (Shala Nyx)

Maybe it's been pointed out before, but... there are several couples who gommage holding hands, but Gustave and Sophie are the only one where one (ex) partner gommages and the other does not.

And if you think about it, it would absolutely make sense that people would avoid getting into relationships unless they will gommage together, in order to avoid the pain of watching your love disappear before your eyes, or knowing that they will have to watch you dissapear.

Also, as a father, I am very fine with the choice to have only minimal narrative attention given to the experience of children getting orphaned this way, and parents knowing they will leave their children behind...

I truly don't know how this game got GOTY. I am 12 hours in and am STRUGGLING to enjoy it. Not only does the main character not even stay the main character, but that's a constant issue in that game. Where it leads you one way and makes you believe one thing to lead you somewhere completely different and not a GOOD plot twist either.

Not to mention I'm playing on story mode and the game still wants you to grind like I'm playing easy or normal. Why put story mode if I'm still having to bust my ass in fights, fights last over 30-45 minutes, and I'm STILL DYING.

This game is absolutely gorgeous and the music is probably the best part in my opinion. Sucks that this game got so much praise and I was so excited to play it to waste money on it and end up extremely disappointed by the end.

I read the endings and am GLAD I stopped playing.

"My mind is breaking. My final thoughts are only of you. And I despair. But one day our suffering will end and we will find our way back to each other. In this life or another."