Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Star Charlie Cox Says 'Any Nomination or Credit' Should Really Go To Someone Else, Following The Game Awards Nomination

Daredevil histrion Charlie Cox has said that immoderate awards helium mightiness triumph for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should truly beryllium fixed to his character's French question seizure creator instead.

Speaking this play astatine an lawsuit successful Mexico, Cox said helium was "thrilled" to beryllium recognised but believed that immoderate recognition should spell to idiosyncratic else: his quality Gustave's question seizure artist, who had physically brought the relation to life.

"Yes, I'm thrilled for this nomination," Cox acknowledged. "I've said this earlier and I deliberation it's important to say: there's an astonishing French actor, by the sanction of Maxence Cazorla, who did astir each of the question seizure for that relation successful that game.

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"So immoderate information oregon recognition I get, I truly person to springiness to him — I judge that the show of that quality is truly down to him, and my dependable was conscionable portion of that process."

Cox has been nominated for Best Performance astatine The Game Awards, arsenic portion of Clair Obscur's record-breaking 12 nods. Indeed, Cox volition request to combat disconnected contention from 2 of his chap Clair Obscur co-stars, Final Fantasy 16 dependable Ben Starr and Baldur's Gate 3 histrion Jennifer English, who are besides nominated for their enactment successful the aforesaid game.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is besides up for Best Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Audio, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Independent Game and Best RPG, arsenic good arsenic the ceremony's coveted Game of the Year gong.

This isn't the archetypal clip that Cox has made wide helium really had precise small to bash with the making of Clair Obscur, contempt performing the dependable for 1 of its astir salient characters. Back successful June, the histrion said helium felt similar a "total fraud" anytime idiosyncratic gushed to him astir the role-playing game, and admitted helium had recorded each of his lines successful astir 4 hours.

The pursuing month, Cox was asked astir Clair Obscur again and admitted helium was inactive to play it, and needed to bargain a caller games console first. "I retrieve being successful the workplace and thinking, 'This is beautiful, the visuals are extraordinary,'" Cox said. "They've travel a agelong mode since Mario 64, which is astir apt the past machine crippled I played."

In IGN's 9/10 reappraisal of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we described it arsenic a "modern RPG classic," adding: "In truthful galore ways, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 reminded maine of galore classical and modern RPGs I love, but developer Sandfall genuinely understood wherefore those games are peculiar and made the pieces it borrowed its own."

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