"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Faces Sales Struggles in Japan, Despite JRPG Influences

"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Faces Sales Struggles in Japan, Despite JRPG Influences.

Something seems off about the game's ratings. It appears to be highly niche, with hardly anyone playing it, even though reviews and memes are everywhere. There's definitely something suspicious going on.

it already sold 2 million cope and seethe.

What's with the recent mindset that every game needs to hit a million on steam charts or else it's "suspicious"?

Of course it did, bots can't buy physical copies

zoomers and third worlders
literal retards who can't into abstraction

Selling 2 million copies is considered a failure for every major company.

this indie studio with 33 staff is totally botting guys

it's not the japanese being weird as usual I swear

not kawaii enough for nippon tastes

Truth it, it was just kinda cringe.

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Fandom on Khimari Ronso, a quiet stoic cat not talking much.
1005 words on Story and Character section
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Two bubbly happy go lesbian warrior strong types

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Uhm Consumerbros? The characterbuilding seems kiiiiinda cringe!!? Explain urselves!

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Sandfall isn’t a major company

for triple A studios who spent twice the games budget on marketing yes. not for 30 frenchmen in a basement

"Major company" isn't a metric anyone uses when determining profits, retard.

we made 50 million dollars in profit!

yea but you only sold 2 million copies and that's considered a failure for "major companies"

but we made loads of money and we are all rich now

You're incredibly stupid.

Japan has always had shit taste and doesn't even make good games anymore so who cares

It doesn't have JP dub, nothing suspicious about it

MC isn't a clueless teenager who never touched a woman

No loli/tsundere/megane character

Actual dialogues and not just tropes

Yeah I'm not surprised the japanese don't understand what to do with this game

How come this game buck broke Anon Babble so hard?

The game is popular with spiteful westoids who see it as an "own" against Japan, of course it would be less popular there.

EA and ubisoft pay to shill here hard. So the success of this must have set off alarm bells. You can notice that all the shitting on the game came weeks after it's release, it took that long for the indians to get mobilized and receive their orders. I'm dead serious about this.

Stocking issue.

HORNLESS
HORNLESS
KHIMARI IS SMALL RONSO

HURRRRRR????? PEOPLE LIKE GAME... BUT ARTICLE SAY IT NOT BIG IN JAPAN????? SUSPICIOUS! GRUG THINK GAME IS ILLUMINATI PSYOP!!!!!

a nearly 25 years old classic available on 7 platforms and its 20+ years old sequel

versus

a game released less than 3 weeks ago on 3 platforms

all games struggle in japan unless it's
1. Nintendo
2. gacha/mobile
it's always been this way

you saw news about one country and decided that means no one in the entire world is playing it

Makes sense. It probably took them by surprise. Now they understand how such a success is threatening them in the long run.

indie studio

backed by millonaires

Shut up nigga

Reddit toursists got activated by it and won't stfu. Good thing they're newfag to use generals.

japniggers overwhelmingly buy physical

check jap Amazon

game is sold out

The publisher didn't print enough discs because they didn't expect it to sell

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It's not a major company and Major companies are out there bragging about 2 million "players" instead of sold copies.
Expedition 33 was on day 1 gamepass, btw. You lost.

Its a new IP. New IP selling like 500.000 is already considered a huge sucess. E33 somehow is marching to big franchises sales number and someone is dumb enough to say its a failure

What the fuck

backed by millonaires

Holy shit, millionaires?
Nigga I'm a millionaire in net worth and wait until meats are on discount to buy any.

it doesn't have a japanese translation, what the fuck did you expect?

Insane cope

Yea, sales numbers on japan were like 9900, pretty clear they printed like 10.000 copies because didnt expect to sell

it's pretty interesting, generally JRPG style games are only big in asia but this one is huge everywhere else.
blue is higher relative search volume

The japanese can't even pronounce the name. Neither expedition or claire obscure. They had to rename it Something 33.

can you fund my indie studio please?

nobody asked

Didn't they have a shitty physical print in the first place?
What can you expect? It's a hit everywhere else.

aaa games spend 850 million in pajeets to make their game and then another 1.2 billion to hire guatemalans to fix the pajeets' work

they then spend 4.6 billion dollars in marketing

disappointingly Over The Shoulder: Maximum Slop 4 only sold 68 million units on its first day. we are shelving the series

meanwhile

jacques, messieur and gerard meet up in a boulangerie, download le Unreale Èngin le Cinq

buy $50 worth of assets, $450 worth of croissants

release their game in 2 weeks

sell 2 million copies

retire and die an early death from lung cancer and multiple venereal diseases

it's not difficult to wrap your head around

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I read some Japanese forum.
The audience has two complain:

No Japanese dub

All the physical copies in their local store are sold out and they cannot buy the game

Something seems off about the game's ratings.

There are plenty of 6s and 7s. And they all say the exact same thing more or less.
That it's an alright game but does absolutely nothing new.

Because publishers don't post sales figures to hide the fact that most games aren't doing very well.
So we have to get creative.

That means it's flopped, there's no way it's broken even with just 2 million sales.

Oh yeah that would do it

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It's an AA game with a budget that probably doesn't hit 10 million.
They've more than recouped their budget.
The tiny team helped.

An advantage...

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Racist nips, big deal

Sales Struggles in Japan

If they had really wanted to sell a lot of copies in Japan, they would have made a Japanese dub.

It appears to be highly niche, with hardly anyone playing it

Who are you trying to fool with such blatant lies?

Never forget:

Nier: Automata sold only 198,500 copies during its first week of release in Japan

how do we solve the unfunny low effort schizo thread problem on Anon Babble?

Majo ones with 500 bullshit jobs
This game was made by 33 people retard

Japs are slaves that have no time for anything but mobile games unless they become hikkineets

He doesn't know all the animation were made in Korea

japs have shit taste, we already went over this fifteen years ago

Why does Anon Babble have such a hard time understanding the current state of japan? They are not only overwhelmingly more casual now than the west, but also still don't own gaming pcs or consoles other than the Switch or mobile phones. NO game is going to do well in japan in current year unless it's also on Switch.

Damn it was a disaster in Japan

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PS5): 9,825

Can I play this game even if I haven't played all 32 prequels?

That's every single english speaker in the country

the Japanese are retards with shit taste, nothing new

>No Japanese dub

are those apes really that chauvinistic they can't even stand to experience the froggery in it's native form?

$450 worth of croissants

They literally celebrated the launch of the game with croissants and wine.

I think they didn’t really make enough copies. It’s sold out on Amazon Japan and in retailers there

western made game bombs in xenophobic country

Slowtaku really did migrate here huh

Japs dislided this DEI slop

I am surprised!

what about the game is DEI

not a real turn based game despite being advertised and disguised as one

dumb nihilistic messaging [33] number used in satanic freemasonry still a total fly over sheep’s heads

gay dark souls campfire system

kills off the most compelling character within the first couple hours

removes basic game mechanics like a mini map for sake of being pretentious as most French people are

abrupt and out of place comedy on the level of Disney made by and for retards

hallway simulator level design

dumb gimmick mechanic for each character

game has guns that are for the most part useless and feels terrible to use

stupid ap system you have to constantly build up which is boring and tedious just to do moves

parry and dodge poorly implemented just to force engagement with stupid enemy attacks that are wind ups and fake outs and get to do long combos for no reason other than artificial difficulty.

blatantly ripping off game that were better in the past playing it off as “inspiriation” or a “tribute”

no save game button instead have to rely on unreliable auto saves because lazy devs

Game is shit

zoomers literally are too stupid to understand games like Yakuza Pirate hitting 24k concurrent and selling maybe 500k copies on PC and 1 million total make Sega vast amounts of money because of the lower dev turnaround and cost
Their brains are melted by social media so they only can comprehend

BIG NUMBER CHART GOOD SMALL NUMBER CHART BAD

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lol not going to read that gay shit
Expedition 33 is a smash hit
cope
seethe
and rope

The Japanese don't want to play as old men.

with hardly anyone playing it

??? It's all over Twitch and Youtube. Most of its playerbase is female.

Japs have shit taste, they buy their animeslop like it's cookies
Every time I see Japan's game sales it's always the 12th sequel to some random JRPG being at the top of the list

Most of its playerbase is female.

source: I made it up

Every character is a shitskin, made on French gov's cash, promoted by Macron himself.
It's just a "good" game, bro!

dialogue that doesn't treat you like a retard

protagonists are above the age of 16 (except one)

it's actually funny

no golden ending, just a cruel final choice where some people inevitably get fucked over

the grizzled old men know best and the women are drama queens and in the wrong

like fucking poison to nipponese sensibilities

Artificial hype, game's mid and Westards only bought it because all their favorite streamers told them to

self hating brown delusional over white people in a game several shades whiter than he

LOL

steal persona 5 ui

claim your a jrpg

wonder why nips who are soulless corpocock sucking bug people aren't buying

Sure is a mystery retard

mid

back to Tik Tok, junior
fucking zoomer shitstain

your a

ESL

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Every character is a shitskin

every character is white or a magical creature except Lune and Sciel

made on French gov's cash

you made that up, and even if it were true all it would mean is that the French government is willing to invest in good works of art unlike Muttistan

promoted by Macron himself

how does it feel to have worse taste than King Macaroni himself?

Good thing AA is not AAA

to be fair, Anon Babble has worse taste and is worse at video games than fucking RetardEra. Let that sink in. The days of Tribes vs Reddit are long over.

Actually the number is going down. You're 76 games behind.

Skip the 50s, they're pretty shit.

a terrible side effect of letting shitskin pajeets on the internet.

I am a native European. Get better takes, race-mixed mutt.

every character is white

"American white", in other words a middle-eastern looking, light brown shitskin.

French government is willing to invest in good works of art

Or propaganda. Considering how much they love their migrants, and them beheading French people, I doubt that art in on their mind.

how does it feel to have worse taste than King Macaroni himself?

Why does this sack of shit suddenly got interested in games, for the first time in his life? Playing it together with his tranny wife, I bet.

people blame the Fappening or Chanology, or the US 2016 election, but there is a direct inverse correlation to the chart that shows jeets and jeetlikes getting internet through the 2010s to now and Anon Babble post quality.

I am a native European

the East India company trafficking your family doesn't make you native, you faceblind brown retard

saar why do 'native European' make the English talk type so bad?

Sciel is white. Anyone who thinks she isn't is simply doing a HURR MEDITERRANEAN EUROPEAN IS NOT EUROPEAN
Sciel looks like a French farm girl from the south of France.

If the game is goty like the shills claim, surely it would have sold in Japan, too. They probably just didn't run their shill campaign over there.

I am a native European

Pollack
Or Irish.

Rajeesh, just because you're posting from your London apartment it doesn't make you European

"American white", in other words a middle-eastern looking, light brown shitskin.

they all look extremely French. If you were actually white you would know what a frenchman looked like.

They sold out since the devs thought the Japanese market wouldn't like it.

Sunk cost fallacy? My whole family lived in Baltics for hundreds of years.
Because not every European has English as their native language, shitskin.

the Russian Tatar rapebaby is telling us what French people look like

Sunk cost fallacy

that's not even what it means, ESL

I baltic very white, FRENCH are not white!

LOL I called it, it's a LARP

Because England isn't part of Europe.

The irony of Asiatic rapeblood telling the French they aren't white is very comedic

2 million at 50 dollars for a AAA game is bad

it's not AAA you moron

So, they look like shitskins now?

that's not even what it means, ESL

It failed to work once, and you are still trying. That's what it means.

I baltic very white, FRENCH are not white!

Shitskins in the game are not French people, they are middle-eastern Ahmeds.
The fact that you accept them as whites, means you are a race mixed shitskin yourself.

nah, even if it were AAA
lmao
pic rel: it's you

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BALTICS

HAW HAW HAW
You're the Canada of Europe.
Canada's entire identity is screeching that they aren't American. Yours is screeching that you're not Russian.

Please, tell the class again how you wearing your socks up while FILTHY RUSSIAN SWINE wear their socks down.
Now go eat a big bowl of your national dish. Blorscht. It's totally different from Russian borscht and also the Russians didn't invent it, you did and the stroganyiv too.

Baltic. Hahaha, you were more respectable when I thought you were Pakistani. Fucking BALTIC

fuck off Genghis Khan rape baby
You will never be white so your obsession with it is weird.

Ok, but digital copies are available in Japan, too so that's not an excuse. Game's popularity is just a result of Billionaire Daddy's ability to run a massive astroturfing campaign, and millions of retards fell for it.

I'm indian (not brown) and I rate the game 9/10 (10/10 if Maelle had more swimsuits)

I don't care about Russians. All I can say is that they are a white minority in their migrant shitskin filled country. This is very sad.

FF 16 sold like shit in Japan too, what's your point?

New IP selling like 500.000 is already considered a huge sucess.

Not in a post-Genshin world.
A huge success would be making $1 billion in a year.
Selling 2 million in a month at $50 when you're a company financed by multiple major publishers is definitely far from a major success.

It's a pasta

You are a race mixed shitskin, you don't even know how white people look like if you accept a semitic face with light brown skin as white.
Face blind mutt.

The Xenoblade games all flopped

Xenosisters...

Shitskins in the game are not French people, they are middle-eastern Ahmeds.

Gustave, Renoir, Maelle, Verso and Clea all look like they were ripped straight from a street in Toulouse.

Lune's dirty feel
Imagine the smell

So, a Pakistani immigrants.

Sir Anon if you wanted 100% white people in your game (you are gay cause asian women are hot) you shouldn't have allowed yourself to become minority in your own country (I suppose you are french).

Pitor I don't give a shit what you, the rape blood, considers 'white'. Your skin is grey and pallid, your blood is AIDS and vodka.
Get glasses if you think anyone other than Lune is not white. Your disgusting drooping eyes are slanted and myopic, obviously.

IS THAT A FUCKING TAN

REEEEEEEE YOU ARE NOT WHITE

this might be confusing for your vodka-addled mind Aleksandr, but there are places in Europe that actually get sun more than 3 days a year. Now get back to the arms factory, Ukraine needs more artillery shells

Your skin is grey and pallid

Oh, nice. A projection from a white passing mutt.

E33 is pretty much as least woke as you could get these days

I think people were right when they said this is mostly just a JRPG for white people.
White people pretend to like anime, but deep down they really don't, they just latch on to what they think is popular and find the rest of it icky and problematic.
Keep the "anime-ish" writing and get rid of the icky problematic stuff and white people will be all over it.

Very impressive for a small indie studio.

Yes. 99% of the shit is written for literal retards, which is why shitskins love it so much.

Stop making me like the French.

where are the upslanted downs syndrome eyes?

the fetal alcohol syndrome lack of philtrum?

the straw-like thinning hairline?

these people are clearly not white.

Grim.

slavniggers

I've never seen 'Jews' spelled like that before.

You mean remove the bad writing and the writing gets good. People love anime, JRPGs are just garbage when it comes to writing and for some reason don't even come close to VNs.

complaining about bad writing while praising anime

name 3 anime with genuinely good writing released since 2024.

You mean remove the bad writing

But that didn't happen, so that's definitely not the issue.
It simply needs to be said, European anime "fans" are simply posers.
They're fake.
They put up a facade.
What we're seeing now is simply them going mask-off.

this is what shitposters have to do to try to attack the game because every other angle has failed hilariously

no you don't understand the CEO has a rich family so that makes the game le bad, please play big studio AAA shit instead!

They're fake.

They put up a facade.

Anime is a medium. You can be a fan of anime without shovelling "nipponese isekai haremfaggotry #878" down your throat on the regular.

after 8 years and a rerelease

But you're not a fan, that's the thing.
Just like someone who says they're a "fan" of video games but only plays the latest heavily-marketed slop is also a poser.

Haven't seen anything really good for 10y (maybe bit less), stopped watching 4y ago.
But the writing is good, definitely better than most RPGs europeans like. Not having obnoxious characters is already better than most.

E33 was not heavily marketed. At all. I was interested in it from the Xbox Showcase but it only gained traction after release when people realised it was actually reall good.
Let me give you another example, I love high fantasy but I refuse to waste my time reading the endless erotica garbage churned out by braindead women on a weekly basis. I doesn't mean I'm a fake fan, it just means I have standards

E33 was not heavily marketed. At all.

You forgot to change your filename shill

releasing a couple trailers even month or so is not heavy marketing, not even by AA standards

I heard about it from Anon Babble on launch day. There was more marketing for shit like Last Epoch.

Nah you're projecting hard, you're a close-minded faggot with a narrow horizon.

Anything that shows up in a major publisher's showcase and has multiple 10+ minute-long showcases dedicated exclusively to it is heavily marketed, especially if it shows up multiple times.
That's like saying Doom The Dark Ages wasn't heavily marketed.

I know you don't know this because you don't play video games, but that's a screenshot from the game, dumbfuck
Can you be brown somewhere else? This board is for people who play video games and don't seethe at not being able to afford them.

that's because it's on Goy Pass. Microsoft drowns us in a deluge of shit that nobody cares about and it had a negligible role on the actual reception of the game. Most of the actual marketing was done by people playing the game and realizing it was actually good and recommending it.
Hence why the steam charts show the game actually increasing in player count on the 2nd and 3rd weekends, a rarity even for AAA games

Game's shit, melodramatic cringe for women and femboys and I won't buy it no matter how many copies it sells. It being unpopular in Japan is just a good sign that japanese game aren't gonna be influenced by this goyslop built upon developer lies, and that's what I will keep playing.

cuckeine

Zoom was released with a whimper, I heard more about the last one.

that's because it's on Goy Pass.

And?
It's still heavily marketed. When you try to present a game that's heavily marketed and funded by a giant publisher as some kind of indie darling underdog story it just reveals you as being a giant poser.

Hence why the steam charts show the game actually increasing in player count on the 2nd and 3rd weekends, a rarity even for AAA games

AAA games haven't had good player retention in decades, them having a huge launch and cratering a few weeks later has been the norm for quite awhile now (see Monster Hunter Wilds for a good example).

Japan hates it because it isn't melodramatic shit for women. Their bugman mind is incapable of understanding CHADnoir or CHADso.

Zoom was released with a whimper,

The game isn't even out yet, m8.

Yeah, see? I don't even know.

reading the endless erotica garbage churned out by braindead women on a weekly basis

that doesn't count as high fantasy

White people pretend to like anime

We don't like your fucking slop zoomzoom trash you fucking faggot.
Anime has been nothing but garbage for 2 decades you larper.
I was lurking on Anon Babble when you weren't even born zoomoid.

name 3 anime with genuinely good writing released since 2024

2024

Shit artificial time constraint, anime hasn't been good for years.

That doesn't change the fact that anime like Steins;Gate Code Geass and 86 completely trounce this game in terms of writing.

There are people out there who enjoy talking about games far more than they play them. Reddit, Anon Babble, and twitter are their homes and what their life revolves around.

A lot of people glazing e33 clearly haven't played much of it, and a lot of people shitting on it also haven't played it but are convinced that it's popularity is a conspiracy. You'll have 3 or more multihundred post threads up at the same time of people talking about the lore, the bosses, getting filtered by act 3's boss HP spike then completely breaking act 3 with stendhal, other retards crying about how expecting them to parry is unfair and that no jrpg (it isn't a jrpg) should ever have an active element, while at the same time elsewhere people will be posting about how no one ever talks about the story or gameplay and just talks about the girls. Other niggerfaggots spam low quality threads as either false flags or they feel like they deserve their own when there's 8 other threads active already.

It's like a bunch of loudmouth retards are just making things up because they have no identity outside their toys and fandoms so they need to be part of a side on something, any side, it's why some people jerk it off as a small indie project with 3 developers while other people say it had thousands of developers and only succeeded because the lead guy has a rich family, it's bizzare

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Faces Sales Struggles in Japan, Despite JRPG Influences.

Based on what? How much should a physical PS5 game sell in Japan?
You're really fast to decide that it's a flop for some reason.

based Japan!

My anon, what a completely normal non-shill reaction. If you think vidya games are expensive (especially when they're on gamepass and torrent) you should ask for a raise.

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(((Steins;Gate)))

Code Gayass

86

lol

Imagine if the admins rangebanned geos from India or Redmond, WA.
The amount of spam and shills would drop drastically.

Steins;Gate Code Geass and 86

They really don't. I don't dislike them but SG is overrated and both 86 and CG had decent S1's with bad S2's. CG especially had a lot of stupid asspulls without much thought into whether or not the things they did made sense, and at the end the whole villain's motivation was the same shit we've seen a billion times before: "I want to create a utopia at the expense of people's freedom". Fucking gundam seed destiny did that, come up with something else for once

It is though.

muh anime le heccin bad

Why are all E33 enjoyers like this

Anime has been trash for at least 10 years

It's a Euro game.
Euros have never been big on anime, that's always been more of an Asian and American (including LatAm) thing.

brownoid can't recognize a screenshot taken from ShareX and thinks it's a secret company 'shill'

mentally ill, brown, and retarded
the trifecta

he doesn't know

Euros have never been big on anime

Are you kidding? The French love it. They're the biggest weebs outside of asia.

I've always thought anime was fucking gay. Dragonball Z? More like DragonBall ZZZ. I never liked Naruto or Avatar or YuGiOh neither. It still amuses me how people will call me racist for this opinion despite the fact I've been learning Japanese for the past 16 months.

Anime is very popular in Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany, possibly in other European countries as well

Liking popular shonen != liking anime
It's like saying that all the people who exclusively play GTA, sports games, and CoD love video games.

It's always this.

Devs love JRPGs so much they try to make their own

some ignorant normies like it because it's "not anime"

Retards on Anon Babble now try to push this narrative that JRPGs bad

It's all so obvious and tiresome.

So a small company thats prob worth less than 20mi needs to make 1 billion in profits for their game to be considered a success? And your standard for success are games that exploit people addicted on gambling?

Fuck off

Liking popular shonen != liking anime

I'd agree if I hadn't posted One Piece MANGA sales.

It's irrelevant because the same argument applies to manga.
Liking popular shonen != liking manga.

post-Genshin world

Running a casino really isn't a good comparison standard.

They even have their own comic industry, pretty sure I saw some generic weeb shit some years ago and found out it was french

watched the most entry level slop aimed at 14 year olds

judges all anime based on that

Worthless opinion

Because Japanese players aren't interested in ugly characters and graphics. It also takes more than ripping off Persona and Legend of Dragon's combat to make a splash there.

I'll give you Code Geass but Steins;Gate and 86 aren't even 7/10 shows.

Liking manga != liking manga

Nah, get fucked. If One Piece Manga sales are that high, you know that other stuff is popular as well.
This isn't spics and DBZ.

ugly characters and graphics

you can say a lot about E33's flaws but it's certainly not ugly

The male MC is too chad for them and they can't self insert cause they are used to pathetic high schooler MCs

Cool, let's see the top 10 selling manga in France, I can almost guarantee that it'll be nothing but popular shonen just like America.

cute girl next door

Yup, it's all a big conspiracy and you figured it out with your big brain.
The game isn't actually great at all, it's just a big plot to fool you specifically but you're just too smart, OP.
Good job. This is why you have so many friends.

Japanese people are alergic to any media that lacks 2 of 3 critical traits

school setting

teenage male protagonist

V/N romance system

a game can lack any one feature but more than that is box office suicide

What's all that brown stuff on her face? Vitiligo?

French don't bath

So why do they like Monster Hunter so much when it has none of that?

dirt

Post the top 10 selling manga in Japan while you're at it and see how it compares.

Avatar is the only one I've "watched", barely 3 episodes before I gave up and that's only because a buddy recommended it to me. And that Nier Automata anime. But I don't really count that one. Not terrible but the entire time I was thinking I could be playing this instead of watching it. The rest I took one glance and was put off immediately by their repugnant art styles and goofy as fuck characters.

Guild association is a surrogate for school settings, every lazy ass fantasy anime uses them
that little negro boy that joins the expedition is the teenage male protag

Another angle

Why you are busy shitposting, I have a legitimate question.
Am I going to unlock the ability to deal more than 9999 dmg per hit later in the game? I just can't understand how I can kill this fag in 2 turns. Even with slow, rush, spamming 9999 multi-hits I can only deal ~50% hp before he runs off.

You should have posted the Jap top 10 and call it French

JRPG: as divorced from reality as possible
WRPG: try to be as realistic as possible

I just don't see Japanese wanting to play as this dumb beardy reddit looking guy. And a lot of dumb reddit schlubs don't want to play as a young attractive Japanese boy. Shouldn't surprise anyone.

At the end of act 2.

Yes, start of act 3

So is Gustaf gay or what's the deal there?

Yeah, start of act 3. If you stack offensive luminas it breaks the game so use with caution.
Like you don't even need to use stendahl. Going from 50,000 damage in a turn to 60 million damage in one hit is just fucked. I still think they should have kept a cap on damage or rebalanced it so that you can only get broken damage on really lengthy setups

It is mid

furry

namefag

can any good soul tell me since when this kind of faggotery is allowed on this shithole?

no it doesn't count if it's popular

also, if it's not popular that means I win

LOL 4chins argues like a 5 year old, IQ of one, too.

I don't think there's a statistic for that. You'd have to go yearly.

He looks like a dirty pajeet with a unibrow. No.

He looks like a dirty pajeet

LOL seething brown jealous hands typed this post

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He's traumatized. His oneitis died in his arms and his entire life was spent on studying the expeditions, teaching apprentices, training to fight, and coming up with a breakthrough invention to finally have a chance only to see everyone slaughtered instantly. A lot of people clearly had high expectations of him or had given up hope already. The only thing keeping him alive was Lune interrupting his suicide and wanting to save Maelle, basically.

He looks like a dirty pajeet with a unibrow. No.

gtfo, street shitter. here's hoping for India/Pakistan mutually assured destruction.

It's been almost 20 years since I came to this site. The furries have never fucked off in that entire time, but even they are a small evil compared to the bbc spammers and e-celeb dicksuckers.

hmm maybe it's the non-stop shilling and normalfags eating it up

JRPG for white people

brown* people

Imagine be jealous. Oh wait you don't need to.

Imagine be jealous. Oh wait you don't need to.

what were you trying to say here, ESL nigger?

people found out it was turn-based and told their normie friends to not buy it. Normies only buy turn-based games if it has RTWP or anime characters.

Lovers Lab doesnt have a maelle nude mod

where do i get it?

This game is basically the Legend of Dragoon 2

Why are you skitzoposting? Why does the jap audience matter?

Every Japan is pedofile.

Why does Anon Babble only focus on Japanese sales instead of worldwide. I've noticed this a LOT here. Especially with the weird Famitsu threads.

Mihoyo has 5000 employees and they make gachashit, how is that even comparable
Sandfall, the guys that made E33, has... 33 employees

Far more than 33 people worked on the game, significant portions were outsourced to foreign studios. The difference is that they outsourced to like koreans and poles rather than indians

Nepobaby's billions ain't worth shit in Japan

Yea I'm thinking based.

hey guys, look at us, we made a """'J"""'RPG even though we're not Japanese

Japanese people don't give a fuck about your pretentious astroturfed game

>Japanese people don't give a fuck about your pretentious astroturfed game

They may not but your bitch ass is still in here crying about it on their behalf. Make it make sense, little bro. Goofy as fuck.

japanese prefer a shonen kids storyline. This game is too "adult"

Why should I given a flying fuck about what sliteyes think? Why do you care about those tasteless retards?

Far more than 33 people worked on the game

Not that anon but even with the contracted animation studio, it'd make the devs just 40 people. And there aren't even any guarantees that these contractors did anywhere close to as much work as the actual sandfall devs.

How many threads are you fags going to make about this. Not a single one has worked. Sorry turns out Anon Babble likes the game.

You haven't even played it. This is just more culture war nazi bullshit and you faggots need to go back to twitter.

Not niche at all on playstation, it has 23k player ratings which is fairly huge for a single month.

Oh no, we made $85 million over our marketing and production budget!

FUUUUCK if we were Sony or Microsoft we'd be $200 million in the hole!

This can't be happening reeeee

Dude, you only won $50 million in the lottery? That doesn't mean shit, a guy one time won $500 million

This is the first game made by an indie studio with less than 50 people working there. If you think marketing plus budget came even close to $100,000,000 then you are high as fuck lol

STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS GAME, STOP PLEASE, PLEASE...

Yes, were you under the impression that all countries want to hear other languages? My lady wants to watch all movies in Spanish, even shit that was made in America with renowned dubs in English. Pretty much only enthusiasts really care about retaining the purity of the original work.

Im just tired of the insane shilling campaign. I've never seen a game as blatantly astroturfed as this one.

Because it shows that this game only 'succeeded' in the West due to massive shilling and astroturfing. You don't think it's suspicious that Japs don't care about a game that should appeal to them in theory?

S;G is aggressively mid. I don't even think highly of videogame stories but there are some I would put over it.

What is it about E33 that draws stupid people to it?

how is this a culture war game when after the first 20 minutes there's no black people and there's no homosex?

Why should I given a flying fuck about what sliteyes think? Why do you care about those tasteless retards?

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She's so uncanny looking. Like a brown person with dyed hair and green contacts

It appears to be highly niche, with hardly anyone playing it,

I literally didn't even hear about this game from you faggots. A coworker invited me over to his house to play it.

The reality is that people are secretly hungry for another Paper Mario game, and this takes the edge off. I'm actually amazed Nintendo hasn't tried to sue them over some faggy """gameplay patent"""

Sciel is black retard.

Dark skinned people are always freaked out by white people with light colored eyes.

What is bubbly and happy about them?

wait really? man not being color blind sucks, i never realized that.

Don't talk back to me, faggot.

it's a good game that a decent number of anons on Anon Babble like, and that sends idiots on Anon Babble into a seething rage spiral

this is a white person according to Anon Babble pajeets

Dishonored was a good game made by French people. Is this game Dishonored? Yeah, I didn't think so.

BEACH RAFT VALLEY WAS DESIGNED BY A FUCKING PSYCHOPATH

What people have somehow failed to realize over the past 15 years is that Nintendo GENERALLY go for companies or people that will take money away from them. Which is why Pokemon fangames/romhacks taking money from Patreon or donations or whatever the fuck get targeted and why romhacks like Pokemon Clover are still good to go. Palworld is being targeted because Pocketpair are trying to swing their big balls in Nintendo's face and going 'neener neener' and taking away Pokemon's main source of revenue which is merchandise. Not to mention Pocketpair went directly to fucking Sony for their merchandise which was very obviously intentional by them.

Not anime weeb enough for them

While that may be true, in my case I just don't like to see anyone or anything succeed. I like to see everyone and everything fail.

Not sure, japan has shit taste. They just want anime aesthetic over and over and over and over and over and over. The same boring generic JRPG formula over and over, where you just spam attack for 98% of the game, and only engage with spells and shit during bosses.

That's if they aren't a soulless mobile game addict.

You are simply mentally ill.
I'm sorry.

This is a studio of 30 people and the game took 10 million euros to make.

Go to twitch right now and report results.

Why not juat buy it online?

Sciel is a tanned farm girl.

Sandfall is tiny...

fandom

kill yourself

Oh non non non mes amis....

no value quote post

smug anime girl

It's like poetry.

This sounds like an over production problem than anything

everybody complains about COD

COD is dead COD is dying COD is dead COD is dying bro click my youtube videos

always on most played lists, best selling game of pretty much every year outside of when Rockstar decides to give a shit and that Harry Potter game

makes billions in microtransactions every month on top of being a top selling retail game

The internet is not a real place and should not be taken as the barometer for anything.

PS5 is a dead fucking platform in Japan anyway, that's hardly the most useful measuring stick for a game's success. Now if it struggling to sell on the Switch or Switch 2 in Japan then maybe there'd be something worth talking about.

32y/o protag is too old for nips and the hebe is unromancable

protagonists are all adults save one teenager

Yeah it's a mystery why it didn't do so hot there.

Not enough 14 year old girls with DDDD tits running late to school with a toast in her mouth running into beta mc and planting her pantsu into his face for Japanese taste.

conveniently forget to mention it's ps5 sales and no one gives a fuck about sony in japan anymore

it'll sell well once it gets the inevitable switch 2 port

I never heard of this... am I supposed to be surprised nobody in Japan has either?

Japanese people only play 3 games.
Mario Kart
Monster Hunter
And
Gachashit

Brown hands typed this post

E33 was not heavily marketed. At all.

Judging from the sheer amount of astroturfing on the board, I'd say they're paying a lot for marketing.

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Make game heavily based of jrpgs

Don't make a Japanese dub

gigabased frogs

Ugly photorealism slop

Anon Babble actually plays a game

wants to talk about it

this is inconceivable to the shartoid

Reading through this thread and it's hilarious how like half the thread is people hating the game for the sole reason that it got popular

Par for the course in this place. The only site that has as many miserable people as here is reddit. Crabs in a bucket, all of them.

Provide evidence, manpreet streetshitter.

Japan plays mobile gachashit exclusively.

japs being petty because the french btfo their entire lifes work

E33 is the future of jrpgs whether they like it or not.

>Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Faces Sales Struggles in Japan, Despite JRPG Influences

source:
pushsquare.com/news/2025/05/clair-obscur-expedition-33-struggles-for-sales-in-japan-despite-jrpg-inspirations
you didn't link the article because it would immediately leave holes in the argument

the title managed to move just 9,800 copies on PS5, following its launch on the 24th April. As always, we must reiterate that these charts do not count digital sales — but they should still provide meaningful insight into a title's overall popularity.

It was already known that Clair Obscur had a very limited print on physical media, and we don't know the Japanese numbers for digital.

30 frenchmen in a basement

Does he know?

shilling

you fucking retard, with what fucking money? the reason people are talking about it is because it has way more cultural impact than the raw money that could have been poured into it. it resonated with people

might be because it got rated cero z.

it must have been a rough few months with all the successful mainstream games that people like. won't anybody think of the poor party poopers on Anon Babble!?

Neither expedition or claire obscure

this is retard talk. It's easy enough to say エクスペヂション out loud

Stop falling for stupid engagement bait for fucks sake. You'd think you people would be more in control of yourselves considering how bombarded you are with this shit every single day.

FPBP. this thread is truly exposing the masses of buckbroken shills & turd worlders seething @ successful vidya made by a small passionate team.

over 300 replies of fucking nothing instead of addressing the fact japanese localizations are often not dogshit

エクスペヂション

anon...

it sold out on PS5 in Japan within 2 weeks of its debut

by the whiteness vested in me
i dub thee honorary aryan.

People love anime, JRPGs are just garbage when it comes to writing

That's completely backward. Most anime are based off manga that peter out and finish with tacked on endings that conclude nothing after being drawn out for the sake of it, while JRPGs are at least free to be finished products that actually move towards definite conclusions and tie up their themes, plotlines and writing arcs in a complete form.

The idea being pushed that there were always a ton of people who specifically loved FFX and have been waiting years for a "real turn based RPG" just like it for decades, and have played nothing else that satisfied them, but don't give a fuck at all that this new 'turn based' game is mainly about timing button presses to avoid damage instead, and yet these hyper FFX obsessives (who've seemingly never heard of FFX-2) also "find anime cringe" and really wanted a western game with safehorny designs and made with mass produced slop art all along.

Most successful japanese stories are inspired on something that westerners originally invented.

Berserk (dark european medieval fantasy)
One Piece (pirates)
Dragon ball (blonde muscular guys fighting each other)
Ghost in the Shell (Descartes body-mind concept)
Shingeki no Kyojin (zombie apocalypse with giants)
Sousou no Frieren (european medieval fantasy)
Fullmetal Alchemist (european alchemy)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Freudian psychology and christianism references)
Xenogears (same as Eva)
Almost all FFs ever (european medieval fantasy)
Almost every isekai ever made (european medieval fantasy)
Boku no Hero Academia (american super-hero comics)
Umineko no naku koro ni (Agatha Christie mysteries)

These are the ones from the top of my head. Must have more.

how come no one has any theories on obvious AAA botting? how come when an indie succeeds, corpo cock suckers immediately construct tin foil hats? same company, same engine, same performance problems, same random dead cat bounce.

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every major company.

there, your mistake

not wanting to hear andy serkis voice as renoir is a crime

Is the game overrated? Absolutely, it is an 8/10, 8.5 at best. It's still better than, and a breath of fresh air, compared to 99% of the complete shit that has been pumped out over the last 7 years.