Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

The bifurcated endings of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 present a profound metatextual interrogation of creation, grief, and agency within fabricated realities. Through Alicia's choice to perpetuate the Canvas and Verso's resolve to dismantle it, the game articulates a dialectic between escapist idealism and existential acceptance. Alicia’s ending, wherein she reconstructs Lumière, functions as an allegory for the human impulse to mythologize memory, preserving a simulacrum of the past as a bulwark against oblivion. In contrast, Verso’s destruction of the Canvas constitutes a radical repudiation of nostalgia, positing that authentic existence necessitates the painful embrace of loss and impermanence. The metanarrative thus elevates Expedition 33 beyond mere fantasy, transforming it into a meditation on the ethics of world-building and the ontological cost of sustaining illusions.

This is game is a masterpiece.
Weebfaggots and Anon Babbleirgins cannot comprehend complex narratives.

Cool but consider the following:

hehe metasexual

I remember you in February threads kek. You were schizospamming this game would flop, that it would get a 70 metascore.
You must be seething to a level we can't even gasp ahahahah

You could do a prompt like this for any jrpg to make it sound more intellectual than it is.

TL;DR The endings are both not clair nor obscur, but shady

dude grief is... LE DEEP

Excellent post.
Can't wait for the writers family story.

Paper Mario TTYD

Mediocre

Found the fatlus slob

That's gay
The endings of the game are good, and the story as a whole, because it's clearly written by someone that had watched grief destroy a family and it's something many people have experienced first hand. It's written from the heart, whereas 99% of stories these days aren't, making it hit especially hard

it was a fake world all along

none of the characters were real people

wooow 2deep4me

because the story resonated with me personally, I declare that it must be written from the heart because... because I just say it is, OK!?

Go to your dilation appointment troon

Weebfaggots hate this simply because it isn't

Minna-san if we defeato shitty adult oto-san with the power of friendship you will all be turned into real life people and we are all going to live an happily ever after full of rainbows and unicorns outside the painting

The game is made by weebs and is a love letter to tons of weeb stuff.
The idea that this is the anti weeb game is invented by people who have hopped on a bandwagon made by weebs

This game has already become "Good game. Insufferable fan base." Fucking midwits overthinking a poorly written family melodrama.

I want to metatexually integrate with the redhead uoh... If you know what I mean.

The idea that this is the anti weeb game is invented

No one invented anything, weebs are saying that themselves, see

You can tell a game is a masterpiece when it hasn't even been a month but you have people caring it "pretty good but horrible fanbase"

That is a squeenix or fatlus fanboy that somehow can't tell both studios were major inspirations for this game

Consider this: the entire family deserves to die for their actions far more than the inhabitants of the Canvas. They shouldn't get away with cosmological levels of torture.

The constant crying about “Muh Golden ending with gustave” shows how stunted some anons are.

Good game. Insufferable fan base

Yes, gatekeeping faggots and keep them away from the good stuff will always be morally correct

Have you SEEN the Lumina converter? Gustave would have soloed the demiurge with just a bit more time, if pVerso and Renoir weren't such self serving bastards.

Holy reddit

Grief is le deep, France :|

Grief is le deep, NIPPON :OOOOO

This is game is a masterpiece.

the entire family deserves to die for their actions far more than the inhabitants of the Canvas.

I agree with that statement.

the real life family deserves to die because... le fictional characters in muh canvas are suffering

MOOOOM REDDITOR IS SIDING WITH HIS IMAGINARY FRIENDS AGAIN

Your mother deserves to die because she enabled all your suffering.

This is a brainlet, non argument.
The family is fictional characters too.
In the world of the game, both are worlds are real.

test

l-le imaginary

You don't get to create sapient life then disavow it and kill it with the grace of flushing a toilet then act like it doesn't matter simply because they lacked the power to resist. A God that destroys its creation on a whim is a tyrant.

what if FFX and DS3, but lame, gay and European

Brilliant.

Good thing the guy wanting to destroy said life didn't create it.

Well if your mom gave birth to thousands of people for selfish reasons and brought into an unsustainable existence where they end up struggling, suffering and dying in vain, then yes, your mom deserves to be tortured and killed.
Remember, she kept painting new babies knowing very well they would become orphans, if that's not evil, I don't know what is it.

Its made by self-hating weeebs who copy the tropes and themes, but cannot bear themselves to fully embrace the anime aesthetics and Oriental philosophy

The whole Painters reveal was interesting lore-wise, but it completely dropped the stakes/urgency of everything we do and did in the game, which kind of sucked.

No, just creating one person is enough, Your mother deserves to die.

You gave up too easily, you're very weak.
Weebfags have empty heads, next.

They are basically the bad guys from Sword Art Online: Alicization.

It insists upon itself.

these people deserve to die because they created other people who now have the capability to suffer and die

well, uh, my mother doesn't count though

Your convictions are weak.

Most mothers don't kill their babies.

Neither does Aline.

these people deserve to die because they created other people who now have the capability to suffer and die

You're retarded, and your analogies make no sense.
The painters are the one causing the suffering.
Try again, I'll give you a hint because you're too dumb, try using God as an analogy.

The painters are the one causing the suffering.

But not the painter who created them.

who now have the capability to suffer

there's not a single proof creations in the painting are sentient, not a single one
may as well have been the creator controlling them subconsciously like puppets

Creating life knowing very will it will get butchered soon after, just because you're sad.
This is selfish, vile, frankly is plain evil.
Aline is far worse than Renoir.

Play the game.

there's not a single proof creations in the painting are sentient, not a single one

You're roleplaying as them, and you're sentient.
There, I just proved they are.

It's like you put a thesaurus in a blender with some laxatives, ate the whole thing, and then the resulting diarrhea became this post

Too many words op. Post bullet points.

Your mother had you knowing that you will experience hunger, sadness, pain, the loss of loved ones and ultimately death. Fucked, isn't it? She deserves to die, which she will in her sleep tonight if you don't reply to this post.

ChatGPT, can you summarize this post for me? I don't have the attention to read this novel.

self reporting as intellectually disabled

lmao

I'll use big words to make it seem like what I'm saying is really smart, while actually it's really simple logic that anyone with half a brain could come up with

Here is your >(you)

Creating life knowing very will it will get butchered soon after

Gustave was such a sick fuck for even suggesting having children. His parents too but they at least got what they deserved.

My only complaint is the endings feel forced bad for no reason. Why can't Maelle just mercy gommage Verso? Why can't Maelle just create a new canvas and paint her same friends there? Why does Aline leaving the painting mean everyone has to die?

I chose Maelle because painted Verso wanted to destroy everything for his own selfishness, but instead of just being about putting thousands of painted people over one whiny painted person, the ending makes Maelle get basically addicted to the painting and will have the same shit happen as her mother where she will die if no one forces her out.

Have you been asleep throughout Act 3 or something?

I'm talking about the two endings so clearly I beat the game. It's just that both endings take the most negative interpretation and then try to blame you for it.

Like just gommage Verso's whiny ass, tell your friends this isn't the end, you're going to repaint them, and then get out of the painting so you don't die, then make a new canvas. Maelle is a paintress, she can make her own canvases just like little real Verso did

maybe YOU should play the game ;)

Why do some people insist on having a happy ending?

It doesn't have to be happy, but it just feels forced when they could just be rational about it and everyone is happy.

You can blame the Japs for that.

I mean, she could erase Verso in her ending that would make it much better(assuming Aline doesn't just repaint him), but she would still stay there until she dies, and the Canvas gets erased afterward anyway.

Play the game again this time turn on the subtitles you can understand the story.

But she doesn't have to stay there until she dies, and especially now that she's a a paintress who can draw them at any time, it makes zero sense to do that.

It's like if you had regular meth right next to the 'exactly like regular meth except it doesn't kill you' and you just took the regular meth for years straight until you overdosed. Literally just walk out and create a new painting at any time wtf lmao

just kill your brother again even though you are already traumatized by his first death

just repaint him and make a new canvas when you are a shitty paintress having to rely on her mother's Chroma to do the most basic things

just get out of the painting when you don't want to leave this world and think your father is going to take it away

Yeah, why isn't Maelle a completely different character? This is totally forced.

She doesn't give a shit about her brother. She resents real Verso him for ruining her life, realizes he was a piece of shit based on his painted personality, and she hates him for killing Gustave.

She keeps him there as a perverted torture subject, not because of grief/trauma, and well deserved

Oh you're just shitposting.

That would be painted copies of the painted people.
It would not be actually them, they would be the impressions she had of them, and I assume many of them would suffer from the same impostor syndrome as painted Verso.

didn't ask

You faggots will gobble anything up won't you? They are ubislop devs reusing assassin's creed's main conceit. Painters vs writers is just Assassin's templars without the need for the Animus.

man posting this unironically did the real 4 chan get abducted in the hack or smt?

She literally recreated them once and they acted totally identical. Can't be that hard.

buncha articles and posts coming out saying this is a jrpg if it were good

actually it's the WEEBS saying it's anti-weeb

really counting on that goldfish memory when you do this huh

forced to tardwrangle your entire family

holy fucking kino

Ok.

fuck me how much hp does this guy have

You're under 20 aren't you?

35 or 40 millions iirc

most people that picked maelle's ending are unironically zoomers yeah

my wife

This discussion has to be driven by zoomers. Verso's character and motivation is excruciatingly explained in the game. Verso believes he is not real, it makes him sad to be a copy of another person, and he finds out Alicia will die if she stays in the painting. Real Verso gave his life to save hers, painted Verso does the same. This is it, there's not a lot more driving him.

looks like a dude

Real Verso gave his life to save hers, painted Verso does the same. This is it, there's not a lot more driving him.

Shhh zoomer aren't supposed to get this, because adults suck (they don't realize they're almost reaching 30s)

Persona 5 ruined an entire generation

people are irrational let alone when emotionally compromised

That makes every fictional character I have played in videogames real.

That means I can marry Hatsune Miku!!!!! SUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET GOKU ANONS OH MY SCIENCE

MAELLEFAGS DESERVE DEATH

I can almost see how the original ending of this game was you play as Gustave leading the party against Verso at the end, and then choosing "save Alicia" or "save the Canvas" but then someone (you know who) came in and "I don't like this" and changed it.

My FUARKING hero...

That means I can marry Hatsune Miku!

Missed your chance. Better luck next time.

Every single game in this image is a good game, yes even Undertale which I did not personally care for.

Jokes on you I can just draw another REAL Hatsune Miku ;)

fuck you simon i wanna fight it

No you can't.

Bro what? JRPGs and by extension Japanese media are obsessed with melancholic endings. If a Japanese company had made this Verso and Lune's relationship would have been much stronger and one of them would have died tragically even though you fucking win, and it would have been much less impactful than what we got. What you're saying would have been GOOD. I'm fucking sick of everything having to be bittersweet fucking tragedy, just make a straight hero's journey with a happy ending fucking hell.

I'm butthurt because people kept enjoying the game even after being yelled at

I'm butthurt because people are yelling at the game so I have to position myself in the middle

Which one are you? You sound weak either way.

Why can't Maelle just create a new canvas and paint her same friends there?

I don't think that part works. I think those people are those people because they are made out of that specific chroma that has their memories and personalities and you can't take it out.

Why does Aline leaving the painting mean everyone has to die?

Renoir has a pretty good reason for wanting to smash the thing once nobody of his family is in there anymore.