Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Interview: Speaking To Narrative Lead Jennifer Svedberg-Yen

Expedition 33. We sincerely recommend you bookmark this page and come back when you’ve completed the game. In the weeks following its release last month, Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 garnered widespread critical and commercial acclaim.
Is Clair Obscur Expedition 33 a good game?

If you’ve played the game already, you’ll know Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 goes to some wild places. It’s a story that feels unlike anything else in video games right now. It’s equal parts hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. But once upon a time, it was almost entirely different.

Is Clair Obscur a good JRPG?

In the weeks following its release last month, Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 garnered widespread critical and commercial acclaim. The JRPG love letter has been praised for its evolution of the turn-based battle formula, its stunning world building, and the part that I fell most in love with, its narrative.

Will there be a clair obscur sequel?

As much as the pivot away from Victorian steampunk was driven by business potential, none of the development on Clair Obscur was driven by its potential as a long-lasting IP for studio Sandfall Interactive. She says there was nothing coded into the storytelling that would lead directly into a sequel or even a DLC, and that was never the goal.

What does Clair Obscur mean?

“‘Clair Obscur’ has a lot of symbolic meaning tied to all of the themes within the game. It links very specifically to the emotional journey that the characters are going through, but it’s also broad enough,” she says without, wisely, committing to anything. “So who knows. The world is our oyster.

Should you write a clair obscur game?

Svedberg-Yen likens writing for a large-scale game like Clair Obscur to taking part in a real-life RPG. “During the act of writing, you are actually role-playing as every single character, imagining how they would react in certain situations and then coming up with the outlines which become detailed dives of lore building and character building.

Was Expedition 33 based on a steampunk game?

So we went back to the drawing board, and came up with Expedition 33.” The only connections to the scrapped steampunk game and the Belle Époque-inspired RPG they eventually made are a few names — Lune and Maelle both made the cut.