#clair-obscur

#clair-obscur

It's the latest edition of Morning Checkpoint, brought to you from my in-laws' basement in western PA where the wind chill has temps near zero. I'm currently blogging with an original Xbox to my right and the Sega Genesis version of Shaq Fu to my left. I am trying to put the finishing touches on my January backlog plans.

Fresh off its Game of the Year win, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a new, free update that adds additional levels, upgrades, and boss fights to . If it's been a while since you checked in with Verso, Maelle, and the rest of the expedition, maybe, I dunno, go practice your parrying before you head into the new content, because even the sickos who were already dodging the game's most elaborate onslaughts are having trouble with these challenging fights.

Fresh from sweeping the Golden Joysticks and poised to do the same at The Game Awards, Sandfall Interactive's phenomenal debut RPG is one of the most buzzed-about releases of the year, so it should surprise no one when we announce that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the biggest new third-party game launch on Xbox Game Pass of 2025, Microsoft announced in a new blog post.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the acclaimed RPG from first-time developer Sandfall Interactive, has sold 4.4 million copies, according to staff members at the studio. Sandfall's official sales figure, however, still stands at 3.3 million units sold by the end of May. The game seems to have since sold over one million copies across supported platforms. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Sells 4.4 Million Copies Sandfall Interactive team members revealed the latest sales milestone in an interview with French creator Antoine Daniele during a recent Twitch livestream.

"Guillaume Broche, Francois Meurisse, Tom Guillermin from Sandfall, and Alexis Garavaryan from Kepler-creators of Expedition 33-visited the Square Enix office for a creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas," Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi wrote on social media on Thursday.

Laced Records opened pre-orders for the physical editions of Clair Obscur's soundtrack, including a 6LP box set with 63 specially mastered tracks.

One of the things that eases the Gustave-to-Verso transition is the fact that he immediately inherits all of the weapons you collected as Gustave.

"That was me at three in the morning trying to come up with something. I needed to write seven relationship dialogues for Esquie!"

Somehow, with all the other wild shit happening in the early going in Clair Obscur, a golem made of bits of wood and burlap sacks who beats people to death with his dead partner who's a living paintbrush comes off as just another day at the office.

"Once a year the Paintress, a giant god-like woman, wakes, paints a number on a monolith and everyone whose age corresponds with that number dies."