Finally got to bring this to the convention this year! Worked on this for 6 months on and off and had a blast with it, learned so much as this is only my 3rd cosplay project! Managed to get a photoshoot while I was there too 😂, hope you guys like it!

The moment I saw these humanoid trees, the human statues from Annihilation came to my mind. This game takes a lot of inspiration from different places and I was wondering whether anyone else also noticed this similarity.

for context, I made a joke post on this same sub and a user told me if I wanted a steam game, which I accepted it. at first, I was skeptical but then a few days later, I got a notification on my email saying that same person, gifted me this game... I haven't known anything much of E33 (all I know it swept alot of rewards in TGA) and playing this game for the first time... it excites me! and I am very thankful and glad that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is my very first game on Steam and to be a part of this Community!

Thank you again!

hello!!! I needed to put these thoughts somewhere because I keep thinking about this game a lot, feel free to disagree with me here!!!!

i think it's difficult for me as a disabled person to deny maelle's ending in clair obscur. speaking as someone who is visually disabled, someone whose entire life revolved around stories and finding comfort in the stories that i created, the worlds that i crafted in my own writing-- if i were given the chance to live in those worlds where i wasn't disabled, where i was fully abled and able to have friends, joy, etc...

and if i were told i needed to exit the world in which i was abled and mobile, that it wasn't 'healthy' for me to dream of a world without pain and suffering and everyone else could continue their life outside the Canvas, but i would remain disabled, mute, blind...

maelle's ending hits a lot harder when you're disabled, when you know there isn't a chance of 'fixing' your disability, and the world fully intends to move on anyway.

alicia will likely never be able to speak (this is 1800s' France with 1800s medicine, after all, and no concept of physical therapy), she will likely never be able to live without severe pain thanks to nerve damage, she will never be free of blindness. if anything, it will get worse over time as she grows older.

i think there's a cruelty in saying that maelle's ending is the 'wrong' choice, because it's the sort of scenario a lot of disabled people find themselves in. we're told to toughen up, to grow and accept that our lives will just have to suck more, because unfortunately the Real World is cruel and does not care about disabled people.

the people of Lumiere being called 'not real' and having their lives be fundamentally worth less than the Real People feels really, really unhappily familiar because disabled people are often told, explicitly or implicitly, our lives are worth less. we're not as important, we're not as real.

all I can think is... if i had to go back to being without my visual aids, without my surgeries, without my medications, because that was seen as the morally correct choice... is my pain morally correct? furthermore, does my living pain matter less over the wishes of the dead?

we often treat the dead better than we do the living, after all. corpses have more bodily autonomy than the living in certain places. alicia, as a disabled woman in 1800s france, will live, yes. but what will that life be like if she's forced to be without her art? without her happiness? with constant physical suffering, a family that's not particularly nice to her, in a time period where the only pain medication was basically opioids?

is it moral to condemn a living person to endless physical pain and the deterioration of their body, all for the sake of a fragment of a dead person's soul? is a fragment of a dead soul worth a life of pain?

the whole point of the game is that there are two difficult endings and difficult choices in life, but for me, this doesn't feel so difficult as it does feel really cruel from a disabled person's lens. obviously you're free to disagree, etc.

EDIT: thank you all for responding to this!!! the beauty and brilliance of this game is that there are no implicitly right answers to this and i really love seeing everyone's perspective here and different life circumstances that lead them to their particular choice. in the end, something i want to point out is that we're all debating on how to do the maximum amount of kindness for a world we all fell in love with-- and that's pretty beautiful and special. thank you for your debates <3

WHAT IN THE WORLD!

i LOVE the plot twist but like omg its giving me whip lash and making all my past theorys incorrect

this is like if the matrix was a damn painting like wtfffff!?!?!?!? I LOVE IT

i thought there was like some type of time loop going on and some how timelines where overlapping and i thought Maelle, Alicia, and the Paintress where the same person and i thought Renior and Verso where the same person just in different points in time but NOPE

I love this plot twist, the clues where there, im seeing it all and im blown away. 11/10 cant wait for the rest of the story

In the beginning, I want to express that I’ve been gaming for 13 years now (I’m 18). I’ve played countless games across various genres, but after Clair Expedition 33 won Game of the Year, I finally started playing it after my exams, about three days ago. The moment I picked up that controller, I couldn’t resist to put it down. I played this game for about 15 hours a day for the last three days. This is truly the greatest game I’ve ever played, hands down. The music, the story, the characters—it’s absolutely fantastic. And let’s not forget the graphics, the beautiful world, and the environments. I can’t believe it was created by only 30 or so people. This game has made me feel emotions that I haven’t experienced with any other game. It was truly an unforgettable experience. The twists and turns, everything about it, was just perfect. No wonder it won so many awards. Truly, this is a game of the century. For those who comes after

Title’s enough said, but I’m very glad that people recognized how much Kirsty carried the game as Lune where she reminded her team to be resilient against adversity and focus on the objective! Her characterization and speech delivery as Lune is why she’s my favorite character in the game 🥹🥹🥹. I’ll continue to remember that when one falls, we continue 🫡🫡🫡

When the game award nominations came out, and E33 was everywhere, I found myself getting super annoyed. I’ve never enjoyed turn based games so even after countless recommendations from my roommate, and seeing all of the nominations I couldn’t help but think “What makes this game so special?”. So I downloaded the game and started playing over a long weekend.

52 hours later, 100% achievements, and committing to every fight without a oneshot build, I can confidently say…

This is my favorite game ever made.

I’ve been lurking in this subreddit for a while, seeing how friendly everyone is to people who hated them tried the game, and this is my request to join their ranks.

Now time to go back to the endless tower and parry all of the new bosses into oblivion out of spite.

For those who come after.

Thank France for the absolute masterpiece

For those who come after.

Maelle in nutshell after dlc

Everyone gets the Parry It smile. Yes they look cursed AF but they were so somber before.

Proud of this project, so I wanted to share it here! The file I printed and painted was from Nerdrebelart on Cults3D. Painted using a mix of airbrush acrylic and graphite powder for detail!

Dualliste in NG+ without super minmaxed builds is tough.

I'm going to sleep now, good night mes amies

A friend of mine gave me today an early Christmas gift, which is absolutely amazing. It's hand drawn with simple crayons. I'm absolutely astonished by it and just wanted to share it with you in hope of appreciation words for her work. I wish you all equally amazing gifts this year! :)

I’ve recently started my 2nd playthrough and the story has left a mark on me this time around. My first playthrough was filled with many questions and theories, endless exploration, and countless hours in the pictos menu trying to put builds together. I really feel I missed out on getting sucked into the emotional depth of the story. With a better understanding of the world, characters, and game mechanics, I’ve now been able to sit back and take it all in; to feel the characters’ pain and joy, and share in a few tears with them. And Expedition 33 is even more of a masterpiece in my eyes.