Play it on: PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, Home windows PCs (Steam Deck YMMV)
Present purpose: Possibly 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 am going out into the world and chat with folks about video games, this one retains arising. 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 Ultimate Fantasy and different JRPGs.
In our final couple of entries of the Weekend Information, I’d mentioned that whereas I’ll 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 implausible plot and premise, however its characters are what actually pushed me over. It is a crew of complicated 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 superb, traditional Ultimate Fantasy, these characters clearly want one another to get by means 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 residing in concern of powers that loom over you.
Stuff like this is the reason I’m a lifelong lover of Ultimate Fantasy VII and VIII (IX additionally has these parts, after all, however I haven’t spent sufficient time with that one). So if you happen to’re in search of one thing to play and have ignored my suggestions for Clair Obscur the previous two weeks, perhaps the third time’s the allure!
Significantly. This is likely one of the most pleasurable experiences I’ve had enjoying a sport prior to now 10 years not less than. — Claire Jackson
