Expedition 33 Sequel Might Enhance

Sandfall Interactive, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s developer, has damaged the silence after fairly a while to announce {that a} main replace is coming to the sport. It is going to be free and can embody issues like new content material, dialogue, and costumes. This has followers buzzing in regards to the prospects, however past that, most followers are nonetheless locked into fascinated with a possible sequel as properly.

They need to know if a sequel would take as long to launch as Hole Knight: Silksong did. Would the sequel be straight related to the earlier sport, observe a unique plot (just like the Writers at battle with the Dessendre household), or be an authentic sport from Sandfall Interactive as a substitute? Specializing in a direct sequel, let’s go over some issues that will most construct upon what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 began.

Getting The Celebration Collectively Sooner

The Longer You Wait, The Much less Time Gamers Have With The Characters

One of many worst tropes an RPG can observe is introducing occasion members late into the sport. This offers gamers much less of an opportunity to get to know these characters and learn to use them in battle.

Monoco is a good example in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He’s the final occasion member to affix the group, and it seems like too little too late. Hopefully, the sequel will introduce the primary forged quite a bit quickly and provides gamers a possibility to mess around with their occasion make-up extra earlier than the more durable fights present up within the late-game.

A Map

My Kingdom For Steering

RPGs, and most video games, give gamers maps to scour, whether or not they’re exploring a world map, an open-world surroundings, or a dungeon. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t have dungeon maps at launch, making it simple to get misplaced within the huge, twisting world.

There was a map for exploring the overworld map, which was appreciated and really useful, however the dungeon maps have been extra essential, because it was simple to get misplaced. Hopefully, a sequel features a dungeon map and mini-map choices for individuals who wrestle to navigate in video games.

Display Upgrades

From Black Bars To Photograph Mode

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a really fairly sport, however on a technical stage, it is not something revolutionary. It stands out as a result of the artwork type is putting, however simply suppose how a lot better it might look if it achieved a graphical high quality akin to Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth whereas nonetheless presenting the identical painterly type?

That might be an enormous improve for the sequel, and another screen-related modes can be killer. An choice to take away the black bars in cutscenes can be good, together with a photo mode, which is a reasonably primary mechanic in most fashionable video games.

Higher Finish-Recreation Pacing

Don’t Tease The Ending Midway By means of

The sensation of ending a long journey, especially in an RPG, is a good one. Nonetheless, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 misleads gamers as soon as they lastly make it to The Paintress, as a result of it looks as if she is the ultimate boss earlier than the sport’s finish.

Nonetheless, upon defeating her, there may be not less than a 3rd of the sport but to discover, and the overworld opens up much more due to Esquie unlocking his flying capability. On the one hand, it’s a pleasant shock to have a lot sport nonetheless to go, however on the opposite, gamers might have leveled up quite a bit earlier than The Paintress battle, solely to search out out they didn’t have to. Briefly, the pacing could possibly be higher in a sequel.

Switching Between Motion And Flip-Primarily based

And Switching Characters In Battle

Metaphor: ReFantazio was an enormous improve on the Persona system that Atlus helped create. There have been courses, and gamers might battle monsters within the discipline or in turn-based fight, relying on their stage. Permitting gamers to change between these gameplay modes helped fight really feel extra dynamic, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s sequel ought to do that combo as properly.

If Sandfall sticks to turn-based fight, introducing a category system can be an fascinating option to develop the battle system, together with a option to change out occasion members mid-battle like Last Fantasy 10.

One Area, Not A number of

And Extra Mini-Video games

There are many side quests in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, however not loads of facet actions. The mini-games vary from okay (just like the on line casino) to indescribably laborious (just like the platforming challenges). Arenas are a enjoyable distraction in loads of RPGs, however there may be normally just one to go to and it modifications over the course of the sport.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a number of arenas, every with a number of problem ranges that makes revisiting them essential to finish each battle. A sequel might cut back that quantity to 1 and make that enviornment evolve over time as a substitute. Wackier mini-games would even be a plus, as Sandfall Interactive might be taught much more from Last Fantasy, a sequence that’s legendary for its mini-games.

Diversifying Ability Units

Spreading Parts Round

The most effective issues about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s party system is that every character performs in another way. All of them have distinctive ability timber, however these come as a double-edged sword.

For instance, having one character be the grasp of a selected ingredient, like Sciel with Darkish, restricted methods and compelled gamers to make use of characters they could be much less snug controlling in battle. It might be nice to see a sequel give occasion members a extra various elemental skillsets, which could possibly be achieved with a category system.

Save Upgrades

A Cheap Request

Moreover the map, the save sport scenario in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can be baffling. There are a number of save slots that gamers can select when beginning a sport. Nonetheless, they can not manually save a file on these slots after beginning. They’ll’t even copy their save recordsdata to a different space.

Gamers are allowed to return to earlier autosaves, of which there are quite a bit, however they may erase with time, and sifting via all of them isn’t simple. The flexibility to manually save can be an enormous improve for a sequel.

Launched

April 24, 2025

ESRB

Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Sturdy Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence

Developer(s)

Sandfall Interactive

Writer(s)

Kepler Interactive