Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[rusty_shackleford]

Wanted to add, I think it was @Oyster Sauce who laughed about not liking the dork souls dodge mechanic and that an enemy did "just 3%" of his health upon not dodging.
You die in 1 hit if you don't dodge/parry on normal difficulty vs bosses, this is his weakest attack.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight that boss yet? Shrug. The game is barely based on stats but how well you can time dodge/parries, therefore it barely has RPG mechanics. You could probably beat the entire game without assigning a single attribute/skillpoint/upgrade your item with good enough dodging.

Hope that makes it clear why I don't like the game.

[methoxetamine]

Wanted to add, I think it was @Oyster Sauce who laughed about not liking the dork souls dodge mechanic and that an enemy did "just 3%" of his health upon not dodging.
You die in 1 hit if you don't dodge/parry on normal difficulty vs bosses, this is his weakest attack.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight that boss yet? Shrug. The game is barely based on stats but how well you can time dodge/parries, therefore it barely has RPG mechanics. You could probably beat the entire game without assigning a single attribute/skillpoint/upgrade your item with good enough dodging.

Hope that makes it clear why I don't like the game.

That's a strong optional boss, there's "Chromatic (x)" bosses all over the place (I've seen maybe 7 so far) and they're all giga ****** compared to everything else around. The story bosses are not even remotely close to that powerful. Anyway you can learn their parry combos if you try it a few times, it's really satisfying to kill a boss you have no business fighting just because you got gud and learned to defend against his attacks

Infact since I've done all of the Chromatic bosses and optional areas and explored a lot, the story bosses are very underwhelming in comparison, though it's totally understandable that it's balanced like that

[rusty_shackleford]

Wanted to add, I think it was @Oyster Sauce who laughed about not liking the dork souls dodge mechanic and that an enemy did "just 3%" of his health upon not dodging.
You die in 1 hit if you don't dodge/parry on normal difficulty vs bosses, this is his weakest attack.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight that boss yet? Shrug. The game is barely based on stats but how well you can time dodge/parries, therefore it barely has RPG mechanics. You could probably beat the entire game without assigning a single attribute/skillpoint/upgrade your item with good enough dodging.

Hope that makes it clear why I don't like the game.

That's a strong optional boss, there's "Chromatic (x)" bosses all over the place (I've seen maybe 7 so far) and they're all giga ****** compared to everything else around. The story bosses are not even remotely close to that powerful. Anyway you can learn their parry combos if you try it a few times, it's really satisfying to kill a boss you have no business fighting just because you got gud and learned to defend against his attacks

Infact since I've done all of the Chromatic bosses and optional areas and explored a lot, the story bosses are very underwhelming in comparison, though it's totally understandable that it's balanced like that

I don't like it and I want the person who decided to put soulshit in a turnbased game to suffer

[methoxetamine]

I wouldn't want every turn based game to do it by any stretch of the imagination but it's a very fun change of pace for me

[rusty_shackleford]

haha we're adulting in our writing, we're so adult, we use ****

ADULTING DIALOGUE.webp

[7Trickster]

Wanted to add, I think it was @Oyster Sauce who laughed about not liking the dork souls dodge mechanic and that an enemy did "just 3%" of his health upon not dodging.
You die in 1 hit if you don't dodge/parry on normal difficulty vs bosses, this is his weakest attack.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight that boss yet? Shrug. The game is barely based on stats but how well you can time dodge/parries, therefore it barely has RPG mechanics. You could probably beat the entire game without assigning a single attribute/skillpoint/upgrade your item with good enough dodging.

Hope that makes it clear why I don't like the game.

That's a strong optional boss, there's "Chromatic (x)" bosses all over the place (I've seen maybe 7 so far) and they're all giga ****** compared to everything else around. The story bosses are not even remotely close to that powerful. Anyway you can learn their parry combos if you try it a few times, it's really satisfying to kill a boss you have no business fighting just because you got gud and learned to defend against his attacks

Infact since I've done all of the Chromatic bosses and optional areas and explored a lot, the story bosses are very underwhelming in comparison, though it's totally understandable that it's balanced like that

I don't like it and I want the person who decided to put soulshit in a turnbased game to suffer

I think it's overtuned on some enemies but it's a welcome addition. It makes the gameplay more reactive = so more engaging. You even get rewarded with not only damage evasion but doing counters with big pp damage.

If it was just pure turnbased with some limit break-like mechanics, might aswell call it Final Coomery 13

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

[KOS-MOS]

As before every game had to be an open world. Now every game have to be a Dark souls-like. That's so creative!

[KOS-MOS]

haha we're adulting in our writing, we're so adult, we use ****

I recognize this same syndrome in FF16's “adult” writing here.

[logincrash]

Watched the first 40 minutes of gameplay to check out Charlie Cox' voice acting. Goddamn, the game looks ugly. And it's all because of Unreal Engine 5. There's smog everywhere and everything looks floaty and the hair looks like ****. I ******* hate it so much.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

As before every game had to be an open world. Now every game have to be a Dark souls-like. That's so creative!

A lot of games are already Dark souls-like which I actively ignore like it’s bubonic plague.Never like the idea of playing a game of Simon as a central gaming mechanic in all enemy encounters.

[Nemesis]

I can't unsee Gustave looking like a digitized Robert Pattinson.

[Finarfin]

Looks similar to his role in The Lighthouse

[ArcaneLurker]

Wanted to add, I think it was @Oyster Sauce who laughed about not liking the dork souls dodge mechanic and that an enemy did "just 3%" of his health upon not dodging.
You die in 1 hit if you don't dodge/parry on normal difficulty vs bosses, this is his weakest attack.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight that boss yet? Shrug. The game is barely based on stats but how well you can time dodge/parries, therefore it barely has RPG mechanics. You could probably beat the entire game without assigning a single attribute/skillpoint/upgrade your item with good enough dodging.

Hope that makes it clear why I don't like the game.

Don't many other games have a timed parry mechanic, why do you think it's Dark Souls?
It has nothing to do with Dark Souls, it's to do with making turn-based gameplay more engaging, hence why there's an event on attack skills too.
It's not the first game to do something like that.

[Mortmal]

The leveling system is similar to Dark Souls, and the parry and evade system can be just as unforgiving. You also find little bits like souls hidden here and there in secret places. But it also draws from many other games, like Nier or even Zelda. That first village, for example, is clearly inspired by Zelda's design. It is clearly made by people who love video games and have actually played them, radically opposed to corporate slop.

[KOS-MOS]

Wanted to add, I think it was @Oyster Sauce who laughed about not liking the dork souls dodge mechanic and that an enemy did "just 3%" of his health upon not dodging.
You die in 1 hit if you don't dodge/parry on normal difficulty vs bosses, this is his weakest attack.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight that boss yet? Shrug. The game is barely based on stats but how well you can time dodge/parries, therefore it barely has RPG mechanics. You could probably beat the entire game without assigning a single attribute/skillpoint/upgrade your item with good enough dodging.

Hope that makes it clear why I don't like the game.

Don't many other games have a timed parry mechanic, why do you think it's Dark Souls?
It has nothing to do with Dark Souls, it's to do with making turn-based gameplay more engaging, hence why there's an event on attack skills too.
It's not the first game to do something like that.

"making turn-based gameplay more engaging"

so turn-based gameplay for those who dislike turn-based gameplay?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Wanted to add, I think it was @Oyster Sauce who laughed about not liking the dork souls dodge mechanic and that an enemy did "just 3%" of his health upon not dodging.
You die in 1 hit if you don't dodge/parry on normal difficulty vs bosses, this is his weakest attack.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight that boss yet? Shrug. The game is barely based on stats but how well you can time dodge/parries, therefore it barely has RPG mechanics. You could probably beat the entire game without assigning a single attribute/skillpoint/upgrade your item with good enough dodging.

Hope that makes it clear why I don't like the game.

Don't many other games have a timed parry mechanic, why do you think it's Dark Souls?
It has nothing to do with Dark Souls, it's to do with making turn-based gameplay more engaging, hence why there's an event on attack skills too.
It's not the first game to do something like that.

"making turn-based gameplay more engaging"

so turn-based gameplay for those who dislike turn-based gameplay?

Yes.

[ArcaneLurker]

"making turn-based gameplay more engaging"

so turn-based gameplay for those who dislike turn-based gameplay?

It's still turn-based, isn't it? It's either more engaging or not.
Some of the people that hate turn-based, hate it because it's not engaging. Others will still hate it regardless of the change.

[fork]

Imagine comparing this to Dark Souls, wtf?
Because it has QTEs for everything (attacks, jumps, parries) while being turn-based?
Dark Souls is real-time combat and doesn't have any QTEs at all, it's the exact opposite in every way. Yeah, I know DS has parrying, and wow, it's a small time-window, who would've thought. But you don't have to parry, you can block, roll through or evade attacks entirely by spacing (in ******* real time).
I swear, modern discussion about video games (and everything else for that matter) is beyond ********.
There's no hope.

[fork]

Yeah, the "game" is ****.
What the **** is going on, everything is ****.
Time to consider suicide again I guess.

[KOS-MOS]

"making turn-based gameplay more engaging"

so turn-based gameplay for those who dislike turn-based gameplay?

It's still turn-based, isn't it? It's either more engaging or not.
Some of the people that hate turn-based, hate it because it's not engaging. Others will still hate it regardless of the change.

So the bastardization of turn-based gameplay, since square enix proclaimed it was too boring for the modern audience and kept making it less and less turn-based.

[ArcaneLurker]

So the bastardization of turn-based gameplay, since square enix proclaimed it was too boring for the modern audience and kept making it less and less turn-based.

Autist, there's no such thing as purity when it comes to gameplay systems. It's either fun or it isn't.
This isn't even made by the people who make Final Fantasy.

[rusty_shackleford]

It's not fun and it has nothing to do with rpgs
It even restarts you right in front of enemies when you die so you just keep fighting until you memorize the dodge window.
Adding guitar hero to turn based combat is not fun

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

It's not fun and it has nothing to do with rpgs
It even restarts you right in front of enemies when you die so you just keep fighting until you memorize the dodge window.
Adding guitar hero to turn based combat is not fun

Oh god that’s ******* awful.

[KOS-MOS]

So the bastardization of turn-based gameplay, since square enix proclaimed it was too boring for the modern audience and kept making it less and less turn-based.

Autist, there's no such thing as purity when it comes to gameplay systems. It's either fun or it isn't.
This isn't even made by the people who make Final Fantasy.

I'm more informed about this game than you and I don't even play it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/clair-o ... d-the-rpg/

https://screenrant.com/a-tiny-clair-obs ... asy-games/

[KOS-MOS]

I found it odd how much the mainstream media supported and cheered this game.

Dei + modern "turn-based" gameplay, I get it now.

[ArcaneLurker]

So the bastardization of turn-based gameplay, since square enix proclaimed it was too boring for the modern audience and kept making it less and less turn-based.

Autist, there's no such thing as purity when it comes to gameplay systems. It's either fun or it isn't.
This isn't even made by the people who make Final Fantasy.

I'm more informed about this game than you and I don't even play it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/clair-o ... d-the-rpg/

https://screenrant.com/a-tiny-clair-obs ... asy-games/

See? It's not made by the people who make FF.
I don't even care about this game fyi, you just started arguing with me like a petulant mestizo. Thanks for stopping by, autist.

[KOS-MOS]

Autist, there's no such thing as purity when it comes to gameplay systems. It's either fun or it isn't.
This isn't even made by the people who make Final Fantasy.

I'm more informed about this game than you and I don't even play it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/clair-o ... d-the-rpg/

https://screenrant.com/a-tiny-clair-obs ... asy-games/

See? It's not made by the people who make FF.
I don't even care about this game fyi, you just started arguing with me like a petulant mestizo. Thanks for stopping by, autist.

You seem too hurt not to care about this slop game. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings by criticizing your goty, I hope you're okay buddy

In any case, inspired by Final Fantasy, the same franchise that went to hell by throwing turn-based gaming in the garbage can to appeal to the non-existent “nodern audience”. I'm not surprised

[ArcaneLurker]

Pareces demasiado dolido como para no preocuparte por este juego mediocre. Siento haberte ofendido criticando tu juego, espero que estés bien, amigo

En cualquier caso, está inspirado en Final Fantasy, la misma franquicia que se fue al garete al tirar los juegos por turnos a la basura para atraer al inexistente público moderno. No me sorprende.

I don't like loli pfp autists arguing with me about their pedantic turn-based purity. It grates on me.

[KOS-MOS]

Pareces demasiado dolido como para no preocuparte por este juego mediocre. Siento haberte ofendido criticando tu juego, espero que estés bien, amigo

En cualquier caso, está inspirado en Final Fantasy, la misma franquicia que se fue al garete al tirar los juegos por turnos a la basura para atraer al inexistente público moderno. No me sorprende.

I don't like loli pfp autists arguing with me about their pedantic turn-based purity. It grates on me.

"loli pfp"? So you don't know Xenosaga, a turn-based JRPG. Yeah, that explains a lot. Enjoy your modern french rpg slop, it's ok if you like ****, none is perfect