Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Developer Accepts Ending Criticism From Completionist Fans Who Levelled Up And Left Final Boss Battle 'Disappointed'

The developer down Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has acknowledged leaving immoderate completionist fans who wanted a "challenging" last brag combat "disappointed" astatine its difficulty.

Speaking to Edge mag (via GamesRadar), Clair Obscur pb crippled decorator Michel Nohra said helium regretted not making it clearer that the game's last brag should beryllium fought arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to acquisition the conflict astatine its optimum level of challenge.

Nohra noted complaints from immoderate completionist players who recovered themselves wanting much of tougher fight, having continued to level up by mopping up each the game's broadside content. But this was thing Clair Obscur's squad hadn't expected, Nohra explained, arsenic they weren't definite if players would bask the crippled to the grade that they did.

"The lone happening I regret is not making it clearer that if you privation the intended trouble for the boss, you person to spell bushed it now," Nohra said.

"Often, radical don't privation to decorativeness the game, truthful they bash each the broadside contented earlier finishing it, due to the fact that erstwhile the communicative is over, you're usually little motivated to bash the broadside content. And that's thing I underestimated, which made radical that wanted a challenging extremity brag combat consciousness a spot disappointed. I don't regret doing it the mode we did it, but [we could have] had much mentation astir your prime [in Act 3]."

By mode of an explanation, pb programmer Tom Guillermin said it had been "a astonishment for america [that] radical were doing each azygous happening determination is to bash successful the crippled earlier going to the last dungeon," having antecedently been unsure however agelong players would instrumentality astir successful the game's satellite erstwhile the quality to spell bushed the last brag became available. "We're blessed astir that," Guillermin added, "but we didn't spot it coming."

For players seeking adjacent tougher challenges, the game's last DLC added a caller country afloat of the hardest fights successful the crippled — and players person been having amusive with their ain originative ways to marque these adjacent harder. Last month, 1 intrepid expeditioner spent 8 hours notching up 10,000 parries against 1 of the DLC's toughest caller bosses successful frankly ridiculous conditions.

As for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's immense popularity and success, its caller expanse astatine The Game Awards 2025 speaks for itself. So what's next? Well, with enactment connected Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 present complete, fans are already speculating what mightiness travel next, arsenic the game's developer has teased that Clair Obscur was a "franchise name" and Expedition 33 was conscionable 1 communicative wrong its universe. In the meantime, you tin drawback up connected the afloat spot notes for Expedition 33's last update here.

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