Play it on: PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck YMMV)Present aim: Perhaps end the story? (If I’m able to say goodbye?)
One other weekend, one other few days I shall be enjoying Clair Obscur.
Of all of the pleasures and surprises of Expedition 33, one was notably surprising: It’s making me social! As I’m going out into the world and chat with individuals about video games, this one retains developing. It appears, from my small pattern dimension anyway, that this sport is a rewarding nostalgia journey for us 30-somethings who grew up enjoying a ton of late-‘90s-era Remaining Fantasy and different JRPGs.
In our final couple of entries of the Weekend Information, I’d stated that whereas I could have been having fun with different points of it, I wasn’t completely offered on the sport’s story but. Effectively people, that’s modified. Clair Obscur has a improbable plot and premise, however its characters are what actually pushed me over. It is a crew of advanced 30-somethings (nicely, 32-year-olds and one 16-year outdated, to be exact), pondering how they need to reply to a disaster. Yeah, that’s fairly relatable proper about now.
Like in a superb, basic Remaining Fantasy, these characters clearly want one another to get by way of the unexplainable journey they discover themselves in. In that, the story additionally supplies me with some headcanon-adjacent metaphors about getting older, counting on others, and dwelling in worry of powers that loom over you.
Stuff like that is why I’m a lifelong lover of Remaining Fantasy VII and VIII (IX additionally has these parts, after all, however I haven’t spent sufficient time with that one). So for those who’re on the lookout for one thing to play and have ignored my suggestions for Clair Obscur the previous two weeks, perhaps the third time’s the attraction!
Significantly. This is likely one of the most fulfilling experiences I’ve had enjoying a sport up to now 10 years not less than. — Claire Jackson
