Holy fucking hell.

Are you ready to deal with your own grief anons?

>>713568225 (OP)
Friendly reminder: no one bought this game due to its own merits as a game but as a protest against the AAA industry and developers like Ubisoft and Bethesda.

>>713568225 (OP)
Is this worth watching the story on YouTube?

>>713568804
Nah. If you played / watched Prey 2017 or Star Ocean 3 they you should know what toe expect from Expedition 33.

>>713568886
I mean... No I haven't played or watched either of those

>>713568942
Even better; the plot twists (both of them) were so stupid they will waste the time you will spend watching the story.

>>713568225 (OP)
Yes, it's time to stop painting.

It actually did force me to confront some trauma I had. My older brother died when I was 14. I'm the youngest of 5 siblings so I never knew him that well. I felt bad about it but what hurt the most was seeing how it destroyed my mother.

>>713568886
>Everything is le fake
I'm tired of video games writing and I'm tired of /v/fags jerking off said writing

Play the fucking piano verso

>>713568225 (OP)
>what I expected: a mysterious story full of occult symbology and legenda
>what I got: a faggot game with faggot dialogue and faggot story written by a french faggot and a woman
not cool breh.
I was willing to give western games a chance in hopes things might be changing, but I was done dirty.

>>713568225 (OP)
>Are you ready to deal with your own grief anons?
No
I live far away from my parents and I dread the day I won't be there for them

>>713568225 (OP)
I'm glad this game didn't come out last year, as my mom passed. I hope this wins GOTY.

>>713568225 (OP)
It's pretty rad, yeah.

>>713570009

>>713568225 (OP)
There is no grief when I look upon Maelle.

>>713570306
but anon, the game is full of occult symbols
you just have to look for them (hence: occult)

>>713568326
100% the shilling for this game felt like a psyop

>>713578037
It's a good game

>>713568225 (OP)
This game is garbage

Now that the dust has settled we all agree that Verso and Renoir were right right?

>>713568225 (OP)
My grief at not being able to parry anything in Simon's second phase, lmao

>>713579721
It's really not that hard anon.

>>713568225 (OP)
i hope my grief is never this earth-shattering

>>713568326
>but as a protest against the AAA industry and developers like Ubisoft and Bethesda.
Which it earned by being anything those devs have shat out in like 10-15 years. Crazy, huh?

>>713578521
>>713578595
The duality of man

>>713568225 (OP)
Ever play Eternal Sonata?
They probably thought they were the first...

>>713568326
aww sweet, new schizo post

>>713568326
I bought it on its own merits. We can tell you're brown.

It's definitely a game made for white people. About grief, family values, art, legacy.
If you're brown (it's ok), these themes won't talk to you as much and you will probably not like the story.

>>713568326
>t. none-white

>Get to Act 3
>Everything has insane HP and it just becomes a counter game
I wish the Picto UI was just a bit better because changing shit up for special fights is annoying.

>>713568326
Very brown post

>>713575218

>>713568326
I pirated the game on release date after following it since the first trailer

>>713568326
I preordered the game and I knew that it would be amazing from the first trailer. You just have shit taste.

>>713578994
Of course. The whole game is basically a woman moment.

>>713590569
The start is a bit hard but eventually it becomes too easy again.

already memoryholed
while deltatroon will live on in schizoheads at least for another year before the next chapter drops
se la jeus quox as my dads uncle use to say

>>713578994
The game never paints them (har har) as directly wrong in earnest. At worse in a "Having to take an extreme with people who can't move on as long as they have their scapegoat". If Maelle/Alicia and Aline would just not spend their life 24/7 in the damn painting this wouldn't have even needed to happen. Yet both of them couldn't use in moderation and would rather die in the fantasy world then accept and move on with reality, forcing the removal of the fantasy outright even if it was in a way living and breathing.

>>713568326

>>713568326
You're been on 4chan for far too long and now suffer from severe irony poisoning due to too much doomscrolling.

>>713578994
They always were. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to use emotions as an argument.

>>713579721
Then I have good news for you.

I know nothing about this game other than that it keeps getting shilled here. What is it even like? What's it about? I've never seen someone mention it

Kill yourself, subhuman shitskin.

>>713568804
>Is this worth watching the story on YouTube?
A lot of the dialogue is delivered in gameplay. So watching the cutscenes will leave you a bit confused.

>>713569771
>Everything is le fake
Nothing in the story is fake. You're brown.

>>713570306
>what I expected: a mysterious story full of occult symbology and legenda
Why did you expect that?

>>713578037
>the shilling for this game felt like a psyop
Past tense. We got him. It only took four months of concerted posting with a secret budget larger than most countries' GDPs, but we finally convinced a brown 4chan poster that a good videogame is good.

>>713593593
It's the most talked game of 2025 on Google Trends, the highest rated game ever on most platforms, has 180k reviews on Steam, but yeah it's probably not discusses on your tranny discord.

>>713568326
even if that were true that is still a very justifiable reason to purchase it

>>713578994
People who disagree
>teenage girls
>people with daddy issies
>emotionally stunted manchildren
Which is most of /v/.

>>713578994
yes, it's obvious

>there's a giant woman who paints numbers in the sky every year and a bunch of people die because of it

Stopped playing right there and uninstalled, what a ridiculous premise.

>>713568225 (OP)
Why should I care about the Dessendres? What are their redeeming qualities?

>>713595707
What are the redeeming qualities of any human, really.
The only difference is that at least they aren't 100% going to die anyway a couple months after the game ends.

>>713595705
You can't make bait like this when that happens 2 minutes into the game

>>713568326
If it was true any AA/indie would have a tremendous success retard.

>>713590569
You're supposed to explore the world and do the character quests to level your chars a bit

>>713595754
Bait?

>>713568326
I pirated it then bought it because the opening few hours were certified kino.

>>713568225 (OP)
>grandfather died at 91 in 2020 of covid putting an end to his Alzheimer before he became a vegetable
>greatgrand mother died next year at 104, has in great shape for a women her age (born in 1917).
>uncle died 3 month ago of aggressive prostate cancer (get regular check guys seriously), one of my cousin in his 20's was devastated.
>other grandpa has oesophagus cancer treatment work well for the moment but I work in clinical trial and I know that type of cancer is hard to treat.
>family dog is in its last month of life
We all know we have to say farewell to our loved one but it's still hard.

PARRY IT

>>713595753
>What are the redeeming qualities of any human, really.
I'm sure there could be plenty depending on the person/people in question. I'm asking specifically about the Dessendres.

>>713568326
That's not true
It was only true with wu kong or whatever it was called that people bought it out of protest

>>713568225 (OP)
are you ready to stop shilling?

>>713568886
I already played Prey 2017 so I guess I just need to play SO3 then I can skip this astroturfed game for good

>>713593526
>MILK I HAVE TO MILK THIS SHIT WHERE IS THE MILK TRUCK!

>>713596530
As far as Renoir and Verso go, their devotion to their family.
Alicia has her good points.

>>713579721
>almost have Simon down, up to probably 95% parry accuracy
>decide to go full damage to see if I can beat him
>thinking I might wanna try the lumina for increased at low health cause Simon always puts you at 1 HP anyway
>trying a run with auto death + auto revive so I can start the battle at 1 HP immediately
>equip breaking death cause why not
>verso has breaking attack so I just break Simon immediately to do massive damage
>Verso has a skill that extends the stun
>I also made all my characters be pure speed cause nothing else matters in this fight
>keep him stunned
>he doesn't get one attack in
Oops. I think that's the first time in my life I ever _accidentally_ cheesed a boss
The irony is that my original 1 HP plan didn't even work cause the auto revive puts you at full health

>>713598538
increased damage at low health*

>>713598405
>>713598405
>As far as Renoir and Verso go, their devotion to their family.
Besides the obvious. Their devotion to their family does the Lumerians no good.
>Alicia has her good points.
Wanting to enslave a population all for herself is also not great for the Lumerians.

>>713599179
I be slave for she

>>713568225 (OP)
It's a good game, sadly has no replay value. But people saying it'll walk ass backwards into GOTY are Dark Souls/Elden Ring addicts that love anything even remotely soulslike.

>It's turn based
Yeah, it's a turn based version of Soulslike parryslop combat style

>>713568804
not really. the bait and switch hits harder when your playing the actual game.

>>713568326
You are a fucking moron. Here's your (You)

>>713568326
>bethesda
they've been making large open world procedurally generated games since before your dumbass was born, why do you faggots want them to change? if their games aren't to your tastes, move on.

>>713568225 (OP)
Absolute kino

>>713599778
Once you play this fight in NG+ you notice.

>>713568326
Honey, new cope just dropped!

>>713568225 (OP)
I truly grieve for a few dozens of hours I spent on that shit only for it to conclude with
>HAHA FAGGOT NONE OF IT IS REAL AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AMOUNTS TO NOTHING GOTCHA RETARD
Also I am entirely convincing that 99% of people intensely fellating this game didn't reach act 3.

monoko was such a lazy character design from a combat perspective

>>713599895
>NONE OF IT IS REAL

>>713599895
your iq cant be above 90

>>713578994

Only if you completely disregard all the living (for a given value of life), sentient beings of the painting. Ideally Maelle/Alicia would let them be and step out but is saving her and her family worth the cost? Renoir and the others don't even consider that, the only regrets they have is destroying the last "living" reminder of their son (specifically Verso's soul, not the painted copy).

I wish game actually tried to take on that subject in greater detail (it addresses it but rarely and without using that to enhance the conflict) but it might've been too much. I also thought that the ending where Maelle stays inside would end up with the painting destroyed by outside forces. Come to think of it, why is that not a solution? Would that cause all the people inside to be trapped/die?

>>713600356
>Would that cause all the people inside to be trapped/die?
Probably, otherwise renoir would have burned the canvas with Aline inside. They project their souls onto the canvas I guess.

>>713599830
Notice what? I didn't see any smol Paintress next to her

>>713568326
I haven't played a Ubisoft or Bethesda game in 15 years.

>>713568804
The story is nothing special. Play it for its mario rpg inspired gameplay

>>713568225 (OP)
I lost a friend to QAnon. His brother died a couple years prior. Kept thinking of him as I played this game.
Thats why it's essential we fund Ukraine to kill slavs.

>>713599895
>AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AMOUNTS TO NOTHING GOTCHA RETARD
You're retarded you know that right?