A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 fan has found hidden title explanations for the sport’s enemies and different characters buried throughout the recreation’s recordsdata, which give an intriguing have a look at a few of their origins.
The descriptions — a few of which even embody hyperlinks out to Wikipedia — had been found by reddit consumer Accountable-Race-575 and seem to have been supposed for growth workers translating the sport’s textual content into different languages.
After all, Clair Obscur is developed by French studio Sandfall Interactive and is closely influenced by French language and tradition, and the reasons right here look to be an try to make sure as a lot of the sport’s unique references make it by into different languages. So, how a lot did you see?
A few of the title references are easy. A notice for the Nevron enemy Potier explains that its title merely means “potter”, as a result of “it is an enemy that makes use of pots.” Truthful sufficient. The trumpet-wielding Troubadour, in the meantime, makes use of the identical title as that of a French minstrel or composer. Is sensible.
Barbasucette is a mix of the French phrases for beard (“barbe”) and lolipop (“sucette”). Licornapieds is the smushing collectively of unicorn (“licorn”) and ‘with ft’ (“à pieds”).
In case you hadn’t guessed already, the annoying Petank enemy — a fast-moving ball on legs that likes to run away — is a reference to the French boules recreation Pétanque. Lastly, it is confirmed that Gestral fighter Ono Puncho is certainly a reference to anime hero One-Punch Man (and Sandfall even offers a Wikipedia hyperlink to particulars of the anime for additional clarification).
My favourite notice is the one for a gestral named Limonsol, whose title is solely defined as an “inside joke.” No additional element is supplied, apart from a request that the title to be transliterated. Why Limonsol? Placing my detective hat on for a second, I’m wondering if this may very well be a reference to the French vitality drink Nocco, which is available in a Limon Del Sol taste. Nocco is, after all, the title of one other outstanding gestral character. Cheers to that.
Nonetheless after extra from Clair Obscur? One remaining replace to the sport arrived in December with new challenges and boss fights, and you’ll make amends for the total patch notes for Expedition 33’s remaining replace right here. Already although, after all, followers are already speculating what may come subsequent, Sandfall has teased that Clair Obscur is a “franchise title.”
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