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PETER HOSKIN reviews Clair Obscur Expedition 33: Ooh la la! Welcome to the fancy French game where beautiful people battle Belle Epoque monsters…


This is an extraordinarily beautiful game, in everything from its expansive landscapes to the nuances of its characters faces.

But it also features more real-time elements in the style of Dark Souls: you’ve really got to be quick and accurate with your button presses to evade incoming attacks. A character artist works on Clair Obscur, Expedition 33 at the headquarters of Sandfall Interactive, a video game studio in Montpellier, southern France In fact, the biggest difference might be that Tempest Rising has ditched the beloved filmed cutscenes in between C&C’s battles — in which actors such as Tim Curry got to chew wholesale quantities of scenery — although it’s replaced them with very similar-looking digital versions.

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