>Act 3 is literally just "go to fight the final boss lol"
This game felt kinda incomplete

do the optional content and it won't feel incomplete.

Well, you can also refight Eveque and Lamp Master five times if you want.

the whole game felt empty

>>713381958
post playtime

>>713381689
Sciel, Luna and almost every character that's not Maelle or Verso are fucking pointless though. The plot is a fucking mess and the game's story sucks. The last half of the game entirely sucks.

They should've just put Reacher and Lumiere as the final two areas and the rest as postgame. If you even think about doing any of the other Act 3 content, you will accidentally oneshot the final main boss

>>713381958
post-playtime clarity

>>713382278
about 50 hours. i just got tired with the open world. it was a mistake.

>>713381650 (OP)
They should implement some journal or quest log after act 3, it's pretty annoying to be one shot by going to the wrong place or wasting time in an already explored place.

>>713382471
they should just mod a mini map, surprised the community hasn't already

>>713382439
Open world? I think you're confused

reminder Clair Obscur: Expedition is the ultimate melanin test. you must be white to appreciate the pure unadultered SOVL that is this game.

>>713382471
If you're too weak the area will have a warning.

As I already stated:
Okay, I’ll say it:
> The characters in this game are incredibly flat and one-dimensional.
> The biomes all look the same.
> The combat system is entirely based on parrying, nothing else matters.
> With the revelation in the third act, nothing makes sense anymore, everything is fake, all the neglected side quests lose their meaning, and the entire game suffers for it.
> The characters recover from the trauma of the third act’s revelation in one minute… realistically, they should’ve gone mad. That’s why I say they’re superficial at best.

>>713382603
I thought nignogs love JRPGs

>>713382471
The location you've already explored have their names on the map, the ones you've located but not explored yet just appear on the map but not named. Very difficult location are red and have danger written below their names. But I agree a quest journal wouldn't be unwelcome.

>whole game is "go fight the final boss lol"

>>713382690
the only true "open world". you can skip everything and just go straight to the final boss. GOTY

this game need an italian dub so baddly

>>713382759
>Zeldanigger once again proving he has played 0 other games

>>713382896
It should've been exclusively in French and the rest of the world should learn to read subtitles.

>>713381650 (OP)
It was definitely rushed, but there's still as much content in act III as the first two. It's just mostly optional.

>>713383190
>a life to dream
Isn't that the title of Alicia's letter?

>>713382635
>The biomes all look the same.
weak bait
>The combat system is entirely based on parrying, nothing else matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aviowEjJjgg&ab_channel=Bouch
>nothing makes sense
brainlet

>>713383247
yup, it's made people like this think there will be some kind of golden route dlc, because they didn't get the game

>>713383169
French spotted
>>713383190
No there is not. Only pointless sidedungeons

>>713383282
>that video
I'm still mad I ignored buffs and debuffs way too much
That guy was taking like 200 damage from each of Simon's hits (even before he had to resort to cheesing him) and for me it was more like 5000
I could have had such a good time practicing him if I stopped getting oneshot

>>713382635
You're retarded, next question.

>>713383448
Dungeons were the majority of the content in the first two acts as well, there's not really a difference.
>>713383494
I think most everyone got "good enough" at parrying and didn't have to worry about buffing defense too much, since if you're not an ultra casual, you probably trivialized the combat's difficulty by the time you get to the final boss. Simon is the filter - either you got-gud and beat him with parries, or you said "screw it" and cheesed with gommage/stendhal. Guys like the one in the video are definitely the outlier.

Isn't that what the final disc of Final Fantasy 7 was? Why are you complaining about it when the French do it?

>>713381650 (OP)
The game is a love letter to JRPGs, especially FF7/8/9 which had a very definite point where the story would stop before you went to the final boss area and let you explore the world and do side quests to get OP, which is just what Act 3 is. They just used an Act structure because swapping discs is no longer a thing. FFVII started disc 3 exactly the same way.

>>713383738
making a thread criticizing e33 is easy (You)s.

>>713383643
You're shitty comic is wrong from the first panel. It's astounding.

>>713383889
most zoomers here started jarpigs with Persona 5

>>713382262
>Sciel, Luna and almost every character that's not Maelle or Verso are fucking pointless though.
That's absolute bullshit. Lune was my MVP in melting Simon. And though I didn't end up using him, Monoco's big bell attack is super fucking busted.
And Sciel has the instant-turn skills and can delay the opponent's turns while also giving the whole team super-rush and all enemies super-freeze. While building up potentially infinite damage scaling in the process.

Maelle and Verso are busted yeah. But you're really underselling the other three.

>>713384369
>While building up potentially infinite damage scaling in the process.
Oh does her x2 damage keep stacking until you attack? Neat
I beat the whole game doing a modest 2 million damage per turn so I never super optimized my shit

I haven't done all of the optional content -- is there ever any explanation for that moment when Sciel beat the mask boss because his weird mask attack didn't work on her, where she said "this mask is me" or something?

>>713383190
>>713383352
Dios mio... what fucking race is that thing?

>>713384614
It means she's sad about her husband dying.

>>713384474
The Twilight damage modifier scales infinitely with how many Sun or Moon tokens you stacked before you entered Twilight.
But she also has that gradient attack that becomes more powerful the more foretell you've applied during the course of the entire fight. And that also scales without limit. And these modifiers also stack, so you can hit pretty damn hard to say the least.

>>713384614
Lots of things are never explained, like when Gustave tries to end himself but Lune appears

>>713383889
> overworld map doesn't loop
> fixed camera areas that are supposed to replicate the pre rendered environments all suck and its hard to see where you are in them most the time
> dont remember any of the character themes aside from Monoco
> its soundtrack felt lacking and it needed some tracks that felt like you were actually on a adventure the game is called Expedition 33
I think it did a horrible job of recapturing the charm of old jrpgs but much like Bravely Default I appreciate the effort they put in

Nobody beats games, it will be fine just like boulders gate 3

>>713381650 (OP)
the game really has a good prologue and that's it. i was caught up in the hype, but now looking back, it's not better than ff13

>>713384614
it's the same as when lune somehow kills sirene -- it makes no sense

>>713381650 (OP)
Standard 'got to disk 3' fare in old jrpgs.

>>713381689
>Do the optional content
>Oneshot final boss anticlimacticly

>>713381650 (OP)
They clearly took some content that was crucial to the story and made it optional because of gamers (rightfully) complaining about games being too long and bloated. If you don't do any optional content the game is like, I dunno, 30 hours long. If you do it all it is more like 60-70.

>>713385859
It's both a good and a bad thing. It feels satisfying to have gotten so powerful that you can easily beat the final boss (like every FF game) but it is bad because it robs you of a climatic finale.

>>713386031
Every main boss after the first one was horribly scaled and can be beaten without even trying, I dunno what the fuck they were thinking

>>713386217
>minmax in jrpg
>get rewarded
surely not

>>713386447
>without even trying

>>713382635
Parrying is worthless from mid game on, the 9999 cap on damage for a single attack makes it high risk low reward when your skills can consistently hit 20k-50k.

>>713386682
>dodgenigger thinks he gets to have an opinion

>>713385859
i finished the story then did the optional content

>>713381650 (OP)
they wanted to an FF6 World of Ruin. so its just exploring, leveling and finding all the OP shit.

>>713386682
Anon you 5 point lumina that removes that cap immediately after you beat the paintress
If anything, the damage scaling is kinda fucked, considering most things will kill you in a single hit even at 99 defense unless you stack defense pictos on top.
It effectively makes all healing skills, items, and the defense stat itself worthless.

>>713386682
you can one shot everything in ACT 3 and completely ignore parry once you find all the uber Pictos anon.

>>713385859
meh, go fight simon

What's the earliest you can break the game by autistically spending an hour in act 1/2 perfectly dodging/parrying a late game boss while doing chip damage?

>>713388309
As soon as esquie can swim you can engage in some good ole CBT and fight the sprong (stick man thing walking around in the water) massively underleveled, and without the damage cap removed.
But if you do manage to beat him you get the cheater picto and can absolutely rape most content up to the paintress with you combine it with speed stacking.

>>713381650 (OP)
kinda regret making my first playthrough expert difficulty. currently midway through act 2 and everything just one shots you at this point if you don't parry or dodge. its literally just dark souls at this point, i use all the good pictos and do optional bosses too.

>>713381650 (OP)
So basically Dragon quest 11 with picrel?

>>713388309
you can go do 1 hp builds as soon as you hit act 2 and get some shield pictos to go with it

>>713387262
>99 defense
No way, you get oneshot at 99 defense when the average picto in the lategame gives 1300 defense?

The game is paced pretty much perfectly if you immediately go finish act 3 IMO. The side content is nice if you enjoy the combat but it's pretty lite on any meaningful character interactions or side quests

>>713389139
all the clea related shit and maelle's quest are pretty important for context
I dunno why reacher isn't main story desu

>>713389270
Kind of, it doesn't really play in that much to the plot though. It's just fleshing out some details

>>713388309
dont see this brought up much but also while doing >>713388525 you can go to dark shores, run past all the enemies and pick up "in medias res" for free perma 3 shields for everyone. this lets you remove all stats from defenses and just unga bunga

>>713381650 (OP)
Many locations are only accessible in Act 3, when we get the ability to fly. It's funny how a regular game can be overwhelming for brown-skinned people. I think anyone who isn't white or Japanese should do something less demanding than video games for entertainment. Maybe watching reality shows on TMZ?

>>713381650 (OP)
Sciel is the most nothingburger of a character ever. Why even include her in the party?

>>713392485
Because Verso kinda falls off late game the same way Gustave falls off early game.

>>713387510
>go fight simon
You mean one shot Simon?

>>713391282
>1080p screenshot
the only one with brown-skin here is you. i agree with the rest of your point but you're dragging the good name of white people through the mud with that screenshot

>>713393273
Let me guess. Are you one of those black people who define their self worth by overpriced sneakers and 8k monitors they bought on credit? Brown people buy 4k or 8k monitors and then cry because they have to spend a few thousand dollars on a new processor and overpriced graphics card and still play at 30fps...

>>713393834
i ain't reading all that cope. don't ever claim to be white while posting a 1080p screenshot again, faggot. you are sullying our image.

>>713382635
Glad someone notes that the parry/dodge mechanic ruins the game in the long run. It being the ONLY way to avoid damage makes ALL late game fights the same. You don’t have ANY interesting gimmicky RPG fights at all anymore in the end game. It’s ALL about avoiding nearly every attack,or making a broken build.

>>713385859
Welcome to literally every RPG. Remember when you spent weeks and weeks going through all the fun, engaging, challenging side missions in Skyrim and then had to go back to the fucking weak ass, boring ass, bitch ass Civil War/Alduin plot?

>>713394227
>interesting
>jrpg combat
Pick one. Because even this basic parry and dodge system is far more dynamic and engaging than any passive turn-based jrpg you can think of.

>>713383985
This. I loathe Maellefags so much it’s unreal. I loathe how act 3 LITERALLY makes her into a different character. She goes from angsty and depressed to a completely spoiled and utterly rotten and hypocritical giga cunt. It’s hilarious too maellefags kvetch about”oh everyone was actually real tho” and “muh verso is a liar and let gustave die”,while she killed the other Alicia without letting verso say goodbye. Highlighting that she is also incredibly selfish and hypocritical. She makes note at the end too her family doesn’t matter(especially Renoir and verso)it’s about HER

>>713393942
Three sentences is too much for a non-white person? I get it. You probably put those words together letter by letter like someone just learning to read? 4k and 8k, Jordan, Apple are much easier. No wonder so many of your kind like this crap.

>>713382262
Genuinely filtered.

I will do a hard second run, maelle is busted, other characters at most take 2 hits to die and she tanks everything it's a monster lol

>>713392485
she is the slut of the team

>>713394445
>LOL,LMAO EVEN

>>713381650 (OP)
It's an homage to Final Fantasy where the game only opens up when when the final boss becomes active.

>>713381650 (OP)
yes its retarded i missed a lot of it my first time and then reloaded to play that stuff

>>713382262
Then why is it one of the most highly rated games of all time you fucking idiot

>>713381650 (OP)
>disc 3 is literally just "go to fight the final boss lol"

>>713395007
>Then why is it one of the most highly rated games of all tim
Such an insanely low bar in today's shitty game industry that any half-decent artsy game can clear it with critical praise.

>>713382262
it helps if your IQ is in the triple digits

>>713392485
Sciel shows that when people are brought back they are still themselves and not just copies in the image of the original. Also she's great.

>>713387510
>endgame is either one shot or get one shot
kind of stinks t.bh

>>713395534
she is verso's stress reliever

>>713382262
This is true and the story betrays its own premise halfway through. The Dessendre family drama takes over and it goes from an odyssey style story where the legacies and sacrifices of those that came before you paved the way forward to a netflix chickslop show. Exploring the world becomes tedious and uninteresting. Scielle and Lune become completely irrelevant, they're literally betrayed by Verso who aimed to genocide their people and throw their sacrifices into the dirt, do one trauma dump, and then fuck him. The narrative treats everyone outside of the painters as fake, so why should you care? And since I didn't give a rat's ass about the Dessendres and their comically stupid tragedy (really? Their son got smoke by their enemies the fuckjng Writers? And the plot is mommy dearest is playing the equivalent of Sims to cope? Fucking lmao). Everything is too childish and immature for me to take seriously. Either the people of the canvas are real and the Dessendres immature and downright evil stupid gods, or nothing is real and fucking matters, in which case the story hinges on how much you care about a clinically stupid, disfunctional, French family.

>>713394227
Exactly, it’s like the devs forgot halfway through that variety is what keeps RPGs fresh. Every boss turns into a Souls-lite reaction test and completely ignores the setup from the first half of the game. No more puzzle fights, no more clever scripting, just i-frame baiting and rolling for your life. Might as well swap your spellbook for a dodgeball.

>>713395849
>Either the people of the canvas are real and the Dessendres immature and downright evil stupid gods
This is the correct take, that's why erasing real innocent people because of their petty family squabbles is fucked up.