Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is no exposition, all context clues

I’m tired of displaying in video games. Don’t think me wrong-I love when the world is well-developed in a game and the lore is well developed. But I don’t like to communicate with an NPC that doesn’t talk like a real person and just talks to me about their imaginary religion or place of birth as they are reading from Wikipedia. This has been a fresh change of speed to play Claire Ozer: Campaign 33Sandfall Interactive’s first game is today. I am in 15 hours, and I still have to attend any external exhibition.

In fact, I have not yet seen anything that I will describe as “exhibition”. Clear tools You need to collect the plot on the basis of context indications. And this experiment is very disturbing, especially because it’s a video game and it is a medium where I bring a spoonful of storytelling and world -making facts to the place of boredom. Even to like something Death StandingKnown for its unique and strange world, is full of characters that explains how it works at every step. (Now, actually Understanding Any of these explanations is another story, but they are there.)

At the beginning of Clear toolsThe main character Gustav passes through his hometown to meet his friend Sophie, 34 years old, this is a serious fact that he and others have mentioned with strange seriousness. She is apparently going to participate in some kind of event called Gumij, but of course, you just say the word passing through the word. No one is really going to tell you what it is. Instead, you’ll just look at the couch with a sofa-which is also a former girlfriend, anyway, which is another fact that you only have to come together from a comfortable dialogue-to-gumage. Wearing a specific dress and being adorned with flowers is apparently a part of it. Gastu gives a flower to add the couch to its necklace.

When you walk around the city, you may know that there is no 35 or older age. It is just a world full of young adults and children. And the NPC you talk about has some existence or straightforward. You can walk with a huge pile of furniture. Gumage participants are giving all their worldly properties, when you click on it, a toll tip will explain. Hmmm

Finally, the gumj is actually. Residents of this place go to the coast together to celebrate it. Above the water, the shining number in a great structure is “34”. When the gumage begins, a long haired, male personality appears in front of this structure. With the wave of his hand, the figure “34” space “33.” Changes with. And as she does it, every flower wearing a person returns to the soil-including friends of Gustava-the fog of the flowers of flowers becomes vapors in a fog.

Though Clear tools They never say that the number 34 is compatible with the age of each person who becomes a vapor like this-and now, all the 33-year-old children in this world are about to be destroyed by this mysterious tendency. In one of the later scenes, one character says it has been going on for “70 years”, and references to other characters “count” show that it may start with 103 -year -old children, then 102 years of age, and so, in the current number, up to 33, the current number. Once again, none of it has been made to you. You just have to keep it together.

Similarly, everything has been done so far. The characters talk about the other creatures of this world and the nature of their reality in such a way that if they are already living their lives. They do not bother to stop and work hard to say what is happening. In most video games with a complex imaginary layout, the main character in the main character is to add such specifications to ammonia or a bacterial water out of fish, so that you always ask a question and exhibit in response. But Clear tools Just not doing it. This is a bold bold selection, and it is an actually in which. Respect

I didn’t finish Clear tools Still; As I said, I’m in about 15 hours. But I know I’m bent, and the main reason is that I Even then Don’t understand what is happening. I am riding it together, though, in every way. Without the display of boring, every line is important. Dialogue and environmental stories are the key to telling me what’s happening here, and I really had to pay attention. I can only hope that more game authors take notice of how cool this decision is, and how much it can pay when players are interested in a story and its mystery.