Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Developers Hid The Meanings Behind Dozens of Character and Enemy Names Within The Game's Code

A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 instrumentality has discovered hidden sanction explanations for the game's enemies and different characters buried wrong the game's files, which springiness an intriguing look astatine immoderate of their origins.

The descriptions — immoderate of which adjacent see links retired to Wikipedia — were discovered by reddit idiosyncratic Responsible-Race-575 and look to person been intended for improvement unit translating the game's substance into different languages.

Of course, Clair Obscur is developed by French workplace Sandfall Interactive and is heavy influenced by French connection and culture, and the explanations present look to beryllium an effort to guarantee arsenic overmuch of the game's archetypal references marque it done into different languages. So, however overmuch did you spot?

Some of the sanction references are straightforward. A enactment for the Nevron force Potier explains that its sanction simply means "potter", due to the fact that "it's an force that uses pots." Fair enough. The trumpet-wielding Troubadour, meanwhile, uses the aforesaid sanction arsenic that of a French minstrel oregon composer. Makes sense.

Barbasucette is simply a operation of the French words for beard ("barbe") and lolipop ("sucette"). Licornapieds is the smushing unneurotic of unicorn ("licorn") and 'with feet' ("à pieds").

If you hadn't guessed already, the annoying Petank force — a fast-moving shot connected legs that likes to tally distant — is simply a notation to the French boules crippled Pétanque. Finally, it's confirmed that Gestral combatant Ono Puncho is so a notation to anime leader One-Punch Man (and Sandfall adjacent provides a Wikipedia nexus to details of the anime for further explanation).

My favourite enactment is the 1 for a gestral named Limonsol, whose sanction is simply explained arsenic an "inside joke." No further item is provided, different than a petition that the sanction to beryllium transliterated. Why Limonsol? Putting my detective chapeau connected for a moment, I wonderment if this could beryllium a notation to the French vigor portion Nocco, which comes successful a Limon Del Sol flavor. Nocco is, of course, the sanction of different salient gestral character. Cheers to that.

Still aft much from Clair Obscur? One last update to the crippled arrived successful December with caller challenges and brag fights, and you tin drawback up connected the afloat spot notes for Expedition 33's last update here. Already though, of course, fans are already speculating what mightiness travel next, Sandfall has teased that Clair Obscur is simply a "franchise name."

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