J(e)RPG comes out with

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J(e)RPG comes out with

well-written characters

mature story and deep themes

incredible OST

breathtaking visuals

epic multi-stage bosses with memorable designs and a huge variety of attacks

fun, strategic combat where each character has their own mechanics/synergies, and a ton of depth with lumina tinkering

parry/dodge system combined with learning enemy/boss movesets makes each encounter gripping and exciting even if the strategy elements have become a bit stale

a huge and detailed overworld with a ton of side content and attention to detail

Weebs:

NOOOOOO YOU DON'T GET IT!!! We want infantilized characters, cringy japanese "humor", tired tropes, gay anime artstyle, enemies and bosses that are throwaway fodder pulled straight from the digimon reject pile, and braindead formulaic combat where you just do the same thing every fight!!!

The genre has stagnated into this weeb-pandering trash in the last few decades. One game finally bucks the trend and is a fucking great game to boot, but instead of just enjoying it, you have to cry and bitch that it's not your usual churned weebshit sIop.

Expedition 33 didn’t just raise the bar—it set it on fire and dropkicked it into a crowd of grown-ass men who unironically argue about which anime high schooler is “best girl.” Weebs found dead in a ditch with 400 hours logged in Atelier Pudding Simulator XX and nothing to show for it but a dopamine addiction and a criminally suspect “taste” in characters.

Let’s be honest: 95% of JRPGs are just hentai with turn-based combat. You boot it up and within five minutes, you’re stuck listening to some squeaky-voiced toddler-thing telling you how much she loves cake and dreams of opening a bakery. Meanwhile, the protagonist is a blank-faced loser who accidentally gropes someone every three scenes because “lmao awkward” is apparently still a plot device in 2025.

These games are written like the dev team hasn't talked to an actual adult woman since 2003. You’ve got 1) the childlike idiot savant, 2) the emotionless sexbot, 3) the tsundere gremlin with daddy issues, and 4) the walking fetish checklist in a school uniform. And they all inexplicably fall in love with the same damp slice of white bread carrying a big sword and no personality.

And don’t even start on the “deep lore.” Oh wow, another evil god sealed away 1,000 years ago by the chosen one who also has amnesia? Revolutionary. This garbage isn’t storytelling—it’s copium for grown children who can’t face reality, so they hide in fanservice hellscapes that cater to their stunted fantasies.

Expedition 33 shows what happens when you treat your audience like actual people instead of mouth-breathing manchildren. It delivers characters with dimension, a story that matters, and ZERO creepy bathhouse “bonding” episodes. It’s proof that you can make a great RPG without leaning on 12-year-old waifus and soulless anime tropes.

Burn the waifu shrines. Unplug the RGB keyboards. Delete your “wholesome” anime folders. The golden age is over.

Long live Expedition 33.

this guy is just copy pasting his posts from another thread, if you were wondering

I love rpgs it is my favorite genre but i have played this for 5 hours now and it just feels really bland? I see 90 metacritic scores and calling it a masterpiece and i just dont really get it. The story i dont even know what is going on very much the characters are whatever the world is pretty but generic and i cant remember the music at all. I keep seeing praise for combat but paper mario and marion and luigi have done it for years and its really easy and kind of repetitive? Does it get better or is it just overrated cause i am feeling the latter but still not as trash as final fantasy has gotten

Fuck off.

When Expedition 33 came out, the actual takeaway from players was "Mainstream JRPGs need to return to turn based combat" and all your journalist crony buddies came to their defense "no no, Final Fantasy is good!"

And now that a few weeks have passed, all the coordinated hit pieces are coming out with "the real lesson we learned is that "JRPGs need adult characters (disregarding Maelle as the lead heroine) and to throw away the culture that inspired it".

You people are fucking disgusting industry manipulators.

First half of Act 1 is a 7/10
Second half of Act 1 is an 8.5/10
Act 2 is a 9.5/10
Act 3 is a 8.5/10

The music is great. There is a *ton* of it though, which is why it's maybe less memorable, since they don't typically stay on one track very long

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He's been blatantly spamming threads and posts and what I assume hes trying to do is make mods ban discussion though anyone with a brain can pinpoint it to this dude

Mediocre game, mentally ill fanbase

Its a shill campaign. The game is mid

Mainstream JRPGs need to return to turn based combat

Why?

Your shit taste is terminal. I'm sorry anon.

holy shit i just farted bigly

dude i'm not reading all that

you’re stuck listening to some squeaky-voiced toddler-thing telling you how much she loves cake and dreams of opening a bakery

Look, I haven't played a JRPG made after 1999 (Pokémon doesn't count) but what game are you referring to?

Lol u redditors mad

dude i'm not reading

Checks out.

Is it really genuine bonafide weebs or falseflaggers and Stillbirth fags?

t.Falcomfag.

muh mature

i haven't played it, i might still, but not every story needs to be completely and fully grounded in real life. one of the goals of some types of fiction is escapism. "infantilized characters, cringy japanese "humor", tired tropes, gay anime artstyle, enemies and bosses that are throwaway fodder pulled straight from the digimon reject pile, and braindead formulaic combat where you just do the same thing every fight" as you put it is fine in some types of media and it's why there's demand for it, even if it's a thing you don't like.

I haven't played it yet

then shut the fuck up retard

make me

E33 niggers say that this game has no shilling and all discussion is organic yet I see threads EXACTLY like this one constantly.
Very curious.

An absolute masterpiece. Genre defining. What this game did with music, character development, combat, and the most evocative storytelling I’ve ever born witness to is a true miracle. We may never see anything like Clair Obscur again. But let’s all be grateful the stars aligned to receive something this beautiful if not just once.

Have not played a RPG this good in a long time. Its everything wished Rebirth would have been

cope more Square tranny

One of the best games iv ever played. Everything about it is great. If this doesn’t win game of the year then it’s definitely rigged.

Dropped it in the prologue, I pretty much knew at that point it would have pretentious dialogue and story.
Deleted it when they landed and it took like 10 minutes for them getting wiped out cutscene to end.
Its just very drawn out and unappealing.
Didn't hook me at all, Greedfall 1 also made by french devs hooked me more than this game tbqh.

They are rage-baiting.

well-written characters

mature story and deep themes

Pic unrelated

all these posts 1 minute apart

hmmmmm

I'm not a fan of turn based combat games so I was adamant about this one. But after hearing tons of positive feedback with not a single negative comment, I decided to try it out. Not only is it incredibly well written (I am a writer and am very critical of writing), but the combat is actually really fun as not only is there the standard turn based strategy, but there are also several real time options that keep you on your toes and keep the combat fun and challenging. As far as the story goes, I thought the initial idea was somewhat hokey but the way it unfolds is absolutely brilliant. There are a ton of twists and turns you won't see coming, and it has one of the most well written villians I have ever seen, who has an absolute point that I totally agreed with. The story tackles how grief can comsume people, and is extremely emotional. I was left speechless at the end of it all. Absolutely wonderful job in every aspect, and totally worth your time.

Ah yes, this must be the organic discussion I've heard so much about. How fortunate that we don't have any sort of IP counter of thread IDs...

What did the square tranny mean by this

Director said himself he is directly inspired by japanese franchises
Stop trying to make this fake outrage into a thing

YWNBAW tranny weeb
You lost
France won
Korea Won
China won
Japan is IRRELEVANT nobody cares about your tranny games for pedophile subhumans.
The director only said that because he has to be professional. I bet 100% that he feels this way as well

Hands down the best game I have ever played in my life. It doesn'T even come close, the story, the music, i'm getting chills just thinking about the OST

retard

This has got to be the most astroturfed game I have ever seen, just look at this post you can't tell me that is a sincere natural post

using 4chanX to un(you) himself

I can do the same

The best game I have played in my life. Beautiful, original, breathtaking, a trip you can never forget. It is like Planescape: Torment meets Final Fantasy. Clair Obscur shows that there are still people who put PASSION and LOVE into making games.

Why don't jannies nuke these blatant Anon Babbleshit threads?
Their pay should be halved.

It's falseflaggers.

game sold like hotcackes in Japan

people that play jRPGs love it

The shizo that is spamming BG3 threads has now switched to E33.

NOOOOO IT WASNT MADE BY SQUARE OR NINTENDOO AAAN OO I AM GOING INSAAANE THIS IS FAKE THIS MUST BE FAKE DELETE THIS OMG AAAAAAA

mental illness

Copypasted FF rip-off with angsty underage girls in swimsuits, beach chapters, japanese humor (tm) and babby's first gnosticism plot

So what makes it really that different?

everything is fake in my mind which doesnt fit my narrative

I bet you vote Trump too

idk anything about jrpg except that they're gay and expedition 33 is a jrpg, so you're gay too. it's dat simple

It's good, but fuck me that's one hell of an astroturfed game.

I love rpgs it is my favorite genre but i have played this for 5 hours now and it just feels really bland?

but enough about metaphore

slop comes out

retards praise it

is forgotten the next month

You will remember it when it wins GOTY

Wanted the happy ending award

forced as fuck
you are embarassing yourself

YWNBAW

well-written characters

mature story and deep themes

lmao
Literally nothing happens until the very end of act 2. The game is just one massive curveball.

J(e)RPG

Good, you finally learned your place.

weeb-pandering trash

You're telling me a genre panders to its intended audience? Wow. That's crazy.
Fuck off retarded tourist, stick to your Fortnite.

Maelle's Ending

Lies to Renoir

Ignores Verso literally begging her to let him die and how he doesn't want to live like this

Doesn't even fix Lumiere

Created a Younger Verso while having the first painted one become old

Implications of mine control

Is dying from overuse

Verso's ending

Holds Maelle as she fades and assures her she will be alright

Hugs Esquie and Monoco as they fade

Holds Schile's hand as she fades

Silently apologises to Lune

The Dessandre Family actually gets closure and begins to heal

Alicia sees her friends in the real world before they fade away, showing that despite them being gone they are still with her

If you genuinely think Maelle's ending is the right one.. you are the definition of retarded.

So it’s true that the devs are nepo babies who bought shill bots?

never seen an ubisoft shill campaign before?

The genre has stagnated into this weeb-pandering trash in the last few decades

JRPGs are weeb-pandering trash? REVELATION OF REVELATIONS!