Play it on: PS5, Xbox Sequence 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 will probably be enjoying Clair Obscur.
Of all of the pleasures and surprises of Expedition 33, one was notably sudden: It’s making me social! As I’m going out into the world and chat with individuals about video games, this one retains arising. It appears, from my small pattern measurement 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’ll have been having fun with different elements of it, I wasn’t completely bought on the sport’s story but. Properly of us, that’s modified. Clair Obscur has a incredible plot and premise, however its characters are what actually pushed me over. This can be a crew of advanced 30-somethings (nicely, 32-year-olds and one 16-year previous, to be exact), pondering how they need to reply to a disaster. Yeah, that’s fairly relatable proper about now.
Like in a very good, traditional 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 offers me with some headcanon-adjacent metaphors about getting older, counting on others, and residing in worry of powers that loom over you.
Stuff like for this reason I’m a lifelong lover of Remaining Fantasy VII and VIII (IX additionally has these components, in fact, 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 allure!
Severely. This is without doubt one of the most fulfilling experiences I’ve had enjoying a sport previously 10 years a minimum of. — Claire Jackson
