Overwhelmingly Positive

Overwhelmingly Positive

DECISIVE FRENCH VICTORY

Kneel.

Literally nobody cares what reviewfaggots think. Go into reviews and I guarantee you that the checkbox template review will be in the first 10 displayed.

NOOOOOO THE GAME CAN'T BE GOOD BECAUSE THE CEO USED HIS WEALTHY FAMILY'S MONEY TO FUND IT

nah, the game was good

He won...
He'll now conclude his love quest with a boyfried-free Asian girl...

filter out Chinese reviews

98% positive

What the fuck is wrong with the chinks?

Genuine societal barrier, the story doesn't resonate with Asian audiences in general.

Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam

4.91 PSN

4.9 Xbox Store

9.7 User Score on Metacritic

4.7 Backloggd

how did the french do it

would've happened on day one if it weren't for buttmad chinks

Wait, what are the chinks complaining about this time?

GOTY

To really enjoy this game, you have to have the capacity to have emotions. Bugs don't.

They claim the devs intentionally NTRed them.
Really.

Basé...

Not as highly rated as Persona 5 and DMCV

i don't know i don't speak chink, but most of the negative reviews on steam are from them

Paid Reviews

VFX artist self insert: literally me, too good for the world MC

director self insert: DMC nigga with tragic backstory and constant lying schemes

Asian female self insert: woman who gets pushed by her parents to study and work her whole life, then dies

whatevereth did they meaned by this

Gustave death NTR the player

The chinks are the main buyers of the game

being excited that goyslop won again

really wish I wasn't here forever, stuck in this dog shit hobby

What exactly makes e33 goyslop?

hideous UE5 rendering

asset flip-looking enemies and environments

redd!t quality writing

boring ass whiny characters

it's pathetic so many don't even register what garbage this gaym is. just mindlessly CONSOOM.

a small passion project game that reveals sheer degradation of AAA studios who are THE goyslop producers... is the real goyslop, actually

I wish pakis nuked ubijeets.

Anglos, French, Germans, Spaniards, Italians: 99% positive

Chinks: 84% positive

The White Man always wins.

The game is beautiful, has great characters and an interesting story
There, I just refuted you

You're a schizo retard

asset flip-looking enemies and environments

SAAAAAR REDEEM THE ASSET FLIP SAAAR
You are just stringing together buzzwords that don't carry any meaning. Link the game from which the assets were flipped to make E33.

The game

describes a movie

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

I wonder what Russian ratings are

95%

It genuinely tracks with Asian population percentage, it's an anti-gacha

buy an ad.

Oh sorry, forgot to mention the innovative combat system as well, my bad.

Link the game from which the assets were flipped to make E33.

NTA but they did overuse that red grass/flower terrain a bit too much. Not saying it was a bought asset, but someone in environmental design really liked red grass.

Quit calling it a small passion project. They had millions of dollars in funding, enough to afford a bunch of voice actors, an orchestra, and a studio of Korean animators. That’s not Ubisoft money but fuck off with this angle you know is bullshit.

I don't understand how faggots can't stand how poorly the whole thing looks given the hardware requirements.
The performance is simply not acceptable, fuck unreal engine 5.
Whole game looks like smeary shit unless you run it at 4k.

Holy cope
Literally a smaller budget than deltarune btw

Third worlder issue

I'm never playing this shit game no matter how much you shill it.

That's still a small passion project in the industry that commonly has budgets in hundreds of millions.

Sounds good buddy you have fun with your last of us slop or whatever you like to play

You don't have a choice, assimilate or get left behind.

You weren't going to buy it anyway third worlder

JRPG

innovative

gtfo tranny

They're mad about the story. Like REALLY mad. Its like in the 90s where Americans would get upset if your movie had a sad ending.

director self insert: DMC nigga with tragic backstory and constant lying schemes

The director self insert is both Monoco and Verso connection wise (along with the dmc style combat of Verso)
Monoco and Verso are based on his brothers (and verso on Saint Seiya for his name too)

They sold startup equity to French investors for seed money, as you do in every business if you don't have capital.

nobody:

maelle:

That's not what asset flip means. It has a very specific meaning when a developer resells essentially the same game as the old one, but just flips assets and tries to market it as something new. Usually with bought assets too. What you describe is just reusing own assets.

Game stutters no matter what, so keep lying to yourself.
I'm not buying $3000 GPU to play french indie game.

why do tendies hate this game?

I had no issue whatsoever turd worlder

Game is too cis white male coded

can't BELIEVE 3 half starved frenchmen coded this over 30 years....

just finished act 2. it was great. I feel like there should be an inbetween difficulty between expeditioner and expert, though. expeditioner is too easy but expert is pretty much you miss one parry or dodge and you die.

Fertile Aryan queen to elevate your genes, or gypsy and asian hags?

given the hardware requirements

Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB / Intel Arc A380 6 GB

???
Nigger the minimal requirement hardware was released almost 10 years old

It's called not overlevelling

their hardware is so bad it can't run a turn-based rpg with decent graphics.

I don't care about your lies, you blind faggot.

Monoco is his dog

B-BUT THE DIRECTOR IS THE SON OF A HECKING BILLIONAIRE

he made a good game and that's all I care about

maelle

And nobody cares about your brown shithole country where everybody pirates and 0 games get sold

It's fake cope bullshit. There's 0 proof they're related

My GOTY? Drawyhood.
It took 12 years to make.

It was still 94% yesterday, nice. It will probably keep raising too. With games like this one, it's usually like this: at first quite a few people buy because of hype, having no idea what the game is about, and they give it a negative review ("because parry too hard" etc.).
Later, people are more aware of what they're buying. Plus, some negative reviews change into positive after patches.

meanwhile first 10 displayed:

She won.

I'm never playing your Frog pedo JRPG no matter how much you shill it. Turn-based party combat is trash and always will be.

Monoco is Alan Reynaud's dog (lead character artist)
Monoco and Verso relationship in game is based on the director relationship with one of his brother
Verso's name comes from Saint Seiya (Aquarius Camus, Verseau in french) because he and his elder brother would "mock" their little one for being Aquarius (zodiac sign)

who tf are "the writers"

IT BROKE NEW GROUND

DMC 5 is also overwhelmingly positive on steam and Anon Babble insists that it's one of the worst games ever made.
So why do steam reviews matter in this case?

did you not get past the first town? that area runs the worst because it's cluttered with npcs then it's pretty fine. i have a 1660 and was able to play at 60 fps, i did download some tweaks off nexusmods though. but that's just standard "i really need to upgrade my gpu" level shit.

There's two big things they're mad about. Basically they really dislike the Painted Canvas twist and Alicia/Maelle's character development

They feel like the game NTRed them by making them care about Gustave, and they're mad that Maelle starts acting like a bratty addict in the end and that her ending is like a horror movie. They think she should be able to live in the Canvas and be happy forever

Have you played the game?
Hardware requirements have no meaning.
I can run the game with High preset native 1440p 70-80FPS but it stutters because of course it does it's UE5 game.
By default game also uses awful sharpening filter and a shitload of postprocessing and fog everywhere.

??? I ran this shit on Epic settings with a 5 year old 2080 wtf are you using

Serious answer for you mr. frog

1) DMC5 is good

2) This occasion is about dunking on the Chinese

DMC5 is good

Reading the threads about it has led me to believe otherwise

I must have been avoiding those threads. When it first came out Anon Babble liked it. I guess they ragged on the emo faggot caster but that's about it...DMC5 is a good game.

Sequel bait

Whole game looks like smeary shit unless you run it at 4k.

You can also run it on low settings and it suddenly looks way better.
Like genuinely. It's the second best-looking setting for the game.

arent they only allowed to play 2 hours a day or something

How the fuck do I beat Simon, what the fuck. That niggas insane.

they doth meant the same thing the game is about retard-kun
Artists always project themselves into their Art

who tf are "the writers"

Narratively their mention just establishes that while Painters are special, they aren't wholly unique and that other similar forces exist in the world.
And it also serves as an excuse to preoccupy Clea.

So worth a pirate?
What are some good mods for it
Haven't played an rpg in years

this causes me more questions
i'm ok with this
I see. Was wondering if I missed something while playing it but I guess not.

I have a 9070 XT and a 9800 x3d sitting in my closet. When I finally decide to assemble the damn thing it's the first game I'm playing.

What are some good mods for it

It is a very story focused game, so it isn't like you'll be modding new characters in. Just QOL.
Use that engine tweak mod that helps with stuttering if you experience any, maybe turn down volumetric fog, optinally the mod that lets cutscenes run at 60fps instead of 30.
But don't un-letterbox them, you're ruining the cinema.
Optionally some lewd outfits if you're feeling like it but you have to dig for one for the 16 year old girl, Nexus doesn't allow it.

Played it with a rtx3070 and 3700x and it ran fine at med/high

Can't wait

LUNE SEX AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHH

This game could actually fit very well in the Alan Wake/Remedyverse as a prequel centuries in the past.

But don't un-letterbox them, you're ruining the cinema.

faggot

Only have the Nevron quests to 100% the game

Bros... I don't' want it to end
Learn his attack patterns or be a little bitch and make a one-shot build.

Trust the director, there's a reason he only wanted you to see some parts of a scene.

I kneel

NO DAMAGE +10%

How the fuck do I beat Simon, what the fuck.

Channel your inner Zanzibart, like he does.

Doesn't change much I've spent more time tweaking the game than actually playing it.
I just hate how it looks, LODs are constantly changing because of nanite, shadows are popping in and every object in the distance is blurry as fuck. On top of that there are ghosting and dithering everywhere, I hate modern games so much.
I know it's autism but I can't help it.
It still looks much better than before I modded out forced sharpening filter and DoF.
Going from High to low also is not worth it only 10% higher performance for me.

Don't sign your posts you gormless Philistine.

I've been a little bitch and followed two guides to one shot him. Since I'm a little bitch, I dunno why they don't work.

kya ha ha instead of hon hon hon

one job anon

The BG3 schizo is gonna FREAK

why no love for sciel in these breads?

In Maelle's words

PARRY IT

He's already close to roping, don't worry

used goods

Gypsy women are an acquired taste. Maybe for Americans whose only exposure is Jasmine and sultry dances it is appealing, but this is a European game, and most Euros don't have good experiencies with gypsies.
Also Anon Babblecels short circuit at the idea of a non virgin dtf woman

IGN Japan gave the game its lowest review at a 70 because the story is too depressing. I'm not fucking joking.

japs just mad that their shitty final fantasy series got upstaged

this is the same nation that shits itself over Madoka Magica and keeps pumping gacha shit in that franchise like crazy?

alright then

Sciel is a shameful fuck.
She's the type you fuck if you're really horny, but feel weak afterwards because you gave in to temptation.

Prepubescent girls dying makes their peepees hard though.

she gets mogged too hard by Lune and Maelle

This is the same country that made Nier and the Souls series whose stench is everywhere in this game.

turn-troons love the game

Just too bad that the turn-based audience is actually extremely small. kek

I genuinely believe that the inability to interact with any type of media without self-inserting is a mental illness.

Is this game so much better than the previous 32 expedition games?
I mean i havent even heard of the franchise before this one and now you have 20 threads up at any time about this one but nobody mentions the rest of the franchise

Is this game so much better than the previous 32 expedition games?

They were all J2ME games for flip phones and never translated from French

Communist party doesn't approve of sad endings or moral ambiguity outside of ends justify the means situation. As a result the population can't handle media where there is no objectively good ending or no real villains.

As a result the population can't handle media where there is no objectively good ending or no real villains.

From my limited experience with Genshin, this is a genuine mandate.

Based China refusing to accept wannabe wapanese frog slop

Because the Japanese invented this genre and have standards. While everyone else is used to slop.

I want you to imagine how mindbreakingly perfect this game would have been if they went for the anime aesthetic instead of that shitty brown realistic artstyle.
It would actually, unironically be the game of the century.

faggot game by the way

why are eurojank games so much superior to amerilard and jap ones

first game is actually expedition zero

then it goes to 99

?????

Dropped. Frenchies are dumb and cant count.

Japanese

standards

FGO made 260 million in 2024 in Japan alone.

Japan invented this type of gameplay. You can tell by their influence because people are all calling it a JRPG. You don't get to dictate standards to them.

The game's core is a dogshit fucking jarpig. Giving it an anime aesthetic is just going to turn it into Persona.

if they went for the anime aesthetic instead of that shitty brown realistic artstyle

Hey, some people haven't raped their minds into face blindness by incessant anime exposure and can appreciate some different styles.

It's like fallout, it starts at 33

If it's any argument, both Nier Automata and Meduka Meguka got retconned into everyone being alive.

You mean early RPGs like Wizardry diverged as Japan and EU/US normalized different tropes until they turned into effectively different genres.

I kneel

EVROPA RISEN

you’d think the nips would adore this game considering one of the endings is the mc being forced into subservience by his qt yandere imouto for all eternity

This picture lacks diversity...

lel
that's exactly how I feel. She's not ugly but her demeanor and baggage make her not suitable ror anything more than a cheap shag in the bushes

me on the far right

game made by a bunch of whitoids and one (1) Asian is one of the few great games to come out in literal decades

really makes you think…

demeanor

You some kind of faggot that’s scared of flirtatious women?

no danger hairs

few women

white men

Yep, that's what I expexted. Obligatory chinaman on the right for the repetitive work

Im tired of e33 spam

All the characters are brown

yeah this checks out

This picture lacks diversity...

Maelle AKA Jennifer English AKA Shadowheart has a cute blonde lesbian gf, it counts.

French Persona 5 copy/paste but without the soul

Hard pass

I want the moustache genetics of the dude in the middle back.
Here's the OG Sandfall staff Carla lost weight

only 1 woman

I can't kneel any harder bros

and shes not bad and normal looking

they gave starfield a 10/10.

Goyslop

WRPG > JRPG.

because the story is too depressing

They are right though, it's just misery porn. All endings are unhappy grim-ness about which flavour of selfish you want to be.
It's typical 21st century westoid bait where the game asks you to decide who should be centre of the universe devoid of any sense of collective responsibility

NOOOOOOO it should’ve ended like my jrpgs where we save literally everyone with the power of love and asspulls!

It was actually a bittersweet ending but I don’t expect a sperg like you to understand that.

I'm brown

We get it.

Okay, shill me this game.
Show me the ONE coolest playable character in the game so I can pass judgement.

Funny thing about misery porn is effeminate faggots oversell it every single time.
Been through so many tranime and games that retards would swear up and down that it's really depressing bro, made me cwy bro and it's just manipulative, predictable dogshit every single time.

Him.

I want to fuck Verso.

Unironically this

Alicia...

DECISIVE FRENCH VICTORY

Basé.

yeah it's overwhelmingly positive alright...for HIV!!!!

Especially when the game hard punishes self inserting by killing your moral beacon of virtues MC, then if you try and self insert as the second MC and fuck all the women, it's extremely unsatisfying and makes their endings even worse.

basé

Il a évalué?

Pompez-le.

Oh. They're playing Pétanque.

People fap to her. But Lune is fucking rad.

he looks very tired. I hope he got a bonus.
youtube.com/watch?v=3kMbTzomh94

One year of straight of being locked in a house with the singer just composing and having sex can break a man

Look man, I’m trying as best as I can to be 4channy. I bought the game, I tried playing it, but I just didn’t like the combat. Sorry, but it just wasn’t for me. How do I change my opinion so I can be 4channy like everyone else? We need to like Expedition 33 just how we liked Pizza Tower and Vivian James.

Gustave should have been the one in the end fighting to free maelle from the painting. It would tie in to so many themes and scenes from the beginning of the game.

You don't have to like the game, that's fine, but have you tried not being a faggot about it?

I think it would have been even better if Maelle had redrawn Gustave for act 3, but he was acting a bit off character and strange, and in the end it was revealed she edited him to follow her opinions instead

The most SOVLFUL game to come out in years. It's a beautiful masterpiece in every way possible.

Dim dim dam
youtube.com/watch?v=LpNVf8sczqU

Yet spamming the catalog for weeks with shillbot spam isn’t faggy? Have you tried not forcing people into compliance because they don’t want to play your game?

You're mindbroken. You should take a break from the internet and go outside.

The music definitely carried the game, it wouldn't have been nearly as good if it sounded like generic fantasy music instead of the French soul we got.

The game requires good taste and soul to enjoy, I'm sorry over the fact that you have neither just like someone who consooms AI slop.

He's both singing in the choir and playing the guitar there.
He's playing the piano here.
youtube.com/watch?v=p00EF6_b5pI
No coincidence that Lune and Verso play those too lol

youtube.com/watch?v=TcEdif_2PNY
OWOWOWOWO
OWOWOWOWO
*Saxophone*

This guy has to be on here.

The piano and violin always gets me right in the feels. The music would make even the most hardcore killers in prison tear up.

IT TOOK ME FM3 FUCKING DAYS TO BEAT SIMON WITHOUT CHEESE
I'm still recovering from the Endorphine flood after dealing the killing blow

if you don’t comply with the 4channy FOTM you have no taste

So how’s the legacy of your other games like Pizza Tower, Vivian James, Atlyss, etc.? Does anyone even remember those? Because you shilled and bullied people into liking them all the same. Do YOU have good taste?

Wasn't this the first song ever written for the game? Or was it Aline?

You'll understand once you grow out of being a manchild, if that ever happens.

actually fitting that ff16 won best ost last year...
youtube.com/watch?v=gPuSHq-Sl0M
youtube.com/watch?v=kUk9ZIV9BNs

Japanese users on Steam seem like to like the game just fine, I think IGN journo's just a faggot and probably paid off to some degree

You’re trying too hard and it doesn’t make sense because most of the board likes the game lol

Anyone know the OST that plays during the paintress boss fight?

giving a 10/10 to starfield is a clear sign of mental illness.
Even if you were paid a sane person would only give a 9.

Can you name me the last western JRPG that aped Persona and FF?

There are 8 billion people on this earth and the vast majority of them will never play Expedition 33. You cannot force everyone to like what you like, no matter how much you crash out and spam the catalog.

Japanese have an infatuation with France thinking it's a paradise. They even have a syndrome that only pertains to them when they visit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

Volumemetric fog is garbage to hide draw distance that shit gets disables in every game

On PS5 and the game looks fantastic and I had 0 crashes unlike fucking Khazan where I had 2 lol

furthest I got today doing 1v1 with Verso and Monoco, only using parry as a defensive option. First time I finished phase 3 after a single Simon turn with stendhal my Maelle being all tank specced, still took a few hours.

tiny pp asians

Well deserved.

True, there are 8 billion people and now I'm going to move on to the other 7.9999 billion people that actually have some value and are worth talking to.

In my universe the game was an incredible work of utter beauty which ran absolutely fine on my 4070.

youtube.com/watch?v=p79oSkNMhIY&feature=youtu.be

there is a non zero percent chance the game director is a Anon Babble poster, youtube video is him completely mogging the shit out of dmc5, he also speedran sekiro

It ads to the atmosphere.

They had millions of dollars in funding

yes this is what happens when you get a publisher.

enough to afford a bunch of voice actors,

lol if by "bunch" you mean 6 then yeah I guess

an orchestra

it's like 20 people at most and not that expensive.

and a studio of Korean animators.

it's not a studio, just a bunch of independent korean dudes.

Gypsy

Don't be retarded.

Tuff it out nigga learn his patterns. Don’t do a one shot build you’ll cheat yourself.

I didn't like Pizza Tower and I simply avoided Pizza Tower threads instead of being a fag

I really hope you're aware of how retarded you are.

I actually really liked Ciel but in terms of her character arc she probably evolves the least of the party. She’s good for character troupe she fulfills but there isn’t a ton to talk about.

french culture wins

Why are you lying? Japan gave it a 7 because of shit writing and shitty plot twists.

I have found it pretty amusing to look up female streamers as they unlock gustave's and verso's swimsuits. Something about it is pretty entertaining.

... et rougepillulé.

god look at maelles tight little ass holy fuck Viva la Français

One of the big reasons why the drama in this game is so good is because the character emote in very gut wrenching detail. It wouldn’t work nearly as well on a Atlus style and budget lol

For me, all the guys are in suits,
and all the girls are in skirts.
Keepin' it classy'

Have any of them witnessed Renoir's BWC?

Japan gave it a 7 because of shit writing and shitty plot twists

As if we needed more proof of their xenophobic bias.

DECISIVE FRENCH VICTORY

Good for them, they don't have those very often.

what res nibba

What the fuck is wrong with the chinks?

Ubisoft is basically owned by China now.

Not in any of the streams I saw. But that would be fun.

I can't believe the French fries mogged every JRPG in existence on their first try.

I loved the ending of Matephor because it was extremely optimistic and I loved both endings of EX33 because of the moral grey areas they lie in. Maybe try not being a faggot.

Nah, the game is just mid

all the other Gestrals sound retarded

This is Golgra and Noco slander.

Everyone who worked on this game is attractive

french

"white"

They got some pretty fucking impressive voice actors though

The devs

Amazing Gameplay E33cucks lmao

Still only a handful of good images...

There should definitely be an early and easy picto to find called 0.5Xp or even Zero Xp that costs 0 lumina. That way you can explore everything at your preferred strength. Bleak Faith has it. The very first item you find is a 0xp trinket.

Xir got filtered by the joke enemy

Where's all the guys dressed as girls and fat black women?

vee celebrates astroturfed paid reviews now

Post real gameplay then

Literally Qui?

How can you not like the thrill of a perfect sting of parries, you’re missing out, mon ami!

The VFX artist who entirely coincidentally looks like Gustave

Why did Alicia paint her son to have such a huge bulge?

Sounds bad

The other Gestrals are voiced by the devs making nonsense words

Danish

93%

Danes are fucked then.

Too much shit in your ears Ranjesh

youtu.be/vQXk8wJLrDc?t=404

I wish we could use all the party members all at once instead of just 3, they're all so good

It's really weird that there's only 5 members. When your first party dies and your reserves come in it feels weird to only have 2 follow up. Kinda makes me feel like there was originally supposed to be 6 you know like Gustave.

Le Pontife Sulyvahneaux

turn-based slop

i thought this would meant to be an epic soulslike lmao

It's almost like you don't need a bazillion dollar budget to make a good game.

Le Polnareff Sulyvahneaux

One of them complimented Gustaves BWC

Yes Alicia was the first song written for the game

The first bit before the singing comes in reminds me of Hollow Knight

What is the music that plays in Spring Meadows when Gustave is about to shoot himself? It was creepy.

Based

Did you forget their mmo?

Gustav makes all the girls cream their panties.

This is not really a good game though is it? It's just a lof of other games are complete dogshit nowadays.

Have you played it? No obviously.

Nope, you are just used to shit performance.

I pirated the game to see if it was good and it's a masterpiece, bought the game shortly afterwards. Did the same thing with Elden Ring.

You have to let go...

I haven't but everyone is making it look like it's the second coming of Jesus Christ in vidya and all I'm seeing is a JRPG-adjacent game with narrow and linear levels and janky animations.
I shouldn't have said that it's "not really a good game" but I don't see it in the >90 score either.

Monoco's actor voiced François as well

I-I haven't b-b-but

No buts. You haven't played it. Didn't even bother reading any part of your retard nigger post after this.

USE BUFFS RETARD

Seriously though, if you max out speed Pictos with Sciel and slow Simon, you can abuse the turn delay Sciel has to deal plenty of damage and have time to revive anyone if you fuck up.
My personal setup was Sciel on point with the weapon giving max Foretell on any cast and just use an ability to generate 10/20 Foretell followed by using the turn delay, Lune second with Typhoon to give Powerful and Rush while also slowing Simon with other abilities and Verso to machine gun Free Aim shows with the sword that increases burn applications/damage based on your Rank. I could reliably parry the "Slow" Combo, but anything else I just tried to dodge and revived if I fucked up. Then I just used Monoco to immediately break him when the second stringers are thrown out and nuke the last bit of his health with Maelle.
While cheesey, it isn't a one shot build so I didn't feel like I cheated it and just made good use of game mechanics.

studio of Korean animators

They got a dude off youtube and he hired his friends

Basé

But was there anything wrong with what I said?

On their spare time

Anyone who thinks they can contradict the common consensus of a game from people who've played it when they haven't is a retard. What do you think you have that you think your opinion on how good the game is trumps those of people who've played it? What aspects do you think this game is lacking in that you believe brings it doing from it's 90+ score? You obviously have no fucking idea cause you've never played it and you're just a contrarian faggot having a knee jerk reaction to people actually daring to like something.

Damn nigga, chill.

It's not incredible or anything but it's unique and actually good, well produced as well. I still wouldn't ever buy it as there's signs of wokism but it's pretty good. I think ultimately the parryslop kinda ruins the combat, it could have been way more interesting without this at all, completely superfluous mechanic.

Games opening is the sight of a Eiffel Tower bent at the trip

Japs predicted just how pretentious the French truly are

This is basically how I did it too but I didn't even use Sciel, just stuck with Monoco for buffs, slow, and break shenanigans. Maelle and especially Verso were the fast enough to revive and deal damage whenever they needed to.
People really underrate buffs/debuffs in this game

game that tricks you into thinking it takes place in a post apocalyptic setting having destroyed famous landmarks is pretentious

Basically everything is pretentious if you want to paint(heh) with such a broad brush.

10% beat Simon

10% either got gud or bothered to put together or at least looked up how to do bazillion damage one shot autism, that's a lot especially for the amount of people that bought it

I haven't beat him yet cause I have fucking no idea where he is.

I think its technical aspect brings it down a notch. Already said it.

I wonder where Clea would go.

Can Esquie dive for you yet?

chinaman

That's the lead writer.

Well she's mostly aligned with Renoir while carbombing writers on the side

No, that's the chinawoman in the middle.

Yeah I've fully beat the game, there's just too many locations and I can't be bothered going through them all one by one.

It's in Renoir's Drafts, in the big underwater entrance near the Monolith

Alicia isn't chaotic neutral because she does everything for selfish reasons and has no empathy

Monoco is Jennifer's dog. She mentions it in an interview.

that plastic piece of shit 5 euro Microsoft keyboard

Nah it's Alan's

You don't need to look up how to stack offensive lumina plus Verso and Maelle have very simple big damage setups.

Asmongold did this

Thanks anon, will get to fighting him tomorrow.

hey nintendies you can stop seething now

Gustave dying was shitty as fuck. Verso is such a fucking powertrippy cool guy-wannabe dipshit, I couldn't take him seriously at all. Especially since you're just expected to accept him IMMEDIATELY after Gustave's death. It's the one flaw to the story aside from the family drama shit. They really, REALLY need to copy Final Fantasy and make every new CO game completely separate in terms of story and setting, make them self contained and new. I don't think I can handle another game of family drama paint bullshit.

The jury was out on whether the dev team or the game was based but now I know the answer.

It was actually cr1tikal, he made a bunch of videos and streams just gargling on the game's balls for free.

kek

experience true cinematic kino at a sizzling 360p

Chaotic Neutral

At Ubisoft

Clea isn't chaotic, she was the one seething about their guild and their duties and muh wars get your shit together immediately, she's the most lawful of the bunch.

WHERE IS THE LAST BABY GESTRAL I'VE FLEW OVER THE WHOLE MAP TWICE I DON'T WANNA LOOK IT UP BECAUSE I FOUND THEM ALL BY MYSELF WHERE AAAAAAA

The vtuber Yuzu loved it. And then she noticed it even had bulge jiggle physics.

If it does get a Switch2 version the shitposting will indeed drop significantly.
But it won't be because Nintendofans are somehow hating the game. They aren't. It's because you would no longer be able to falseflag by using them.

Did you get the one east of Sirene?

It's called Paintress.
youtube.com/watch?v=Dxa3mYx7zjw

lol shut the fuck up

okay nintoddlller

Just checked, yes...

a soul is necessary to appreciate this game

lmao

There's one north west of visages but outside of that I can't think of any others that were particularly out of the way and hard to find.

brown and blonde hair

no signs of blue, green, purple, or pink hair anywhere

Just as God intended.

what a bitch

I like her big brown ass.
Also I'm just not finding her as useful or as powerful as the rest of the cast. She takes too long to ramp up to the same damage everyone else can dish out much faster.

no POC

this is problematic

Sciel hits her damage peak late act 1 early act 2, she falls behind as Lune and later Verso and Maelle hit their peaks.
She's the best buffslut in the game late though.

why are eurojank games so much superior to amerilard and jap ones

im loving this game but I have a doubt, not about this game per se, back in the day when I played ff xiii I finished the main story but then I notice many areas I left unexplored and enemies I couldnt beat so my question is, how are these games supposed to be played? just farm the same enemies over and over, go to another area and repeat?

The only reviews on steam (and on websites) worth reading are the negative ones.

Well you can't read them here because three quarters of them are Chinese

same
just found the 8/9 today

我个人被韦尔索戴了绿帽子。卢恩是我的妻子,他抽水后甩了她。不推荐

It do be like that.

Huh, waddayaknow, the grills look actually pretty for a change...

Ummm... your chinese

I feel like I'm ascending listening to this
youtube.com/watch?v=MJmCx_tm6ww

French women

All of them have unshaven cunts under their clothes in this very image.

Theres one by the Endless Tower on a floating island

Oh yea forgot about it's like at the very cap of the skybox just south of the tower.

Call me a pussy and you'd be correct but Lune's death stare made me feel sick. She just gives up, what a horrifying deal.

FUCK THANK YOU FINALLY

It would be stupid not going for this, it's basically free money.

For those who come after.

white dudes in their 20s making videogames

oh wow I think we cracked the code for good vidya

I did the same with Baldurs Gate 3. Never actually touched the retail version on console. I was too immersed with the experience modding on PC brings to the game and that's what really made it for me. Same with this game. I have all the women half-naked and other various mods going to customize how I want to go through the game.

the PS5 copy I paid for a week ago won't arrive until June

Is all of Europe out of discs?

mom enters the painting

dad enters it too to get her back

older sister enters it to take them out

couldn't give two shits after some time and calls her lil' deformed sister to come

"lol go there and do something you lil' crispy shit"

alicia enters and immediately fucks up

older sister couldn't give an other two shits and shrugs it off

"lol. Lmao even" she says

alicia spends literally 16 years living as an other person as her memory is gone

dad and mom have become faceless casks of people

literally billions of painted lives lost

painted verso decides to finally end it

painted alicia give zero fucks and is just painting a giant gaping vag on a mountain

gets gommaged and doesn't even say goodbye to verso because fuck you

even though they have been immortality living together for literally 1,000,000 years

everybody loses

So this is the story, or did I get something wrong?

meanwhile mom has already been expelled

Renoir is a mass murderer. How can he be good?

Phase 2 glissando at 4:59

"Gustave" on the right

bet he's happy that every single woman streaming the game said he looked like Robert Pattinson

The dessandres are shitty people, all of them, is the story.

Yeah that was it. The transition is fucking amazing.

Everything he did, he did it got his family and if they weren't batshit no one would have died.
Also

painted people

Shouldn't exist in the first place.

Still murder.

also no fat people

Everything he did, he did it got his family and if they weren't batshit no one would have died.

That's the definition of Lawful Evil though.

She just gives up

She quite literally can't do anything at that point. She can only sit and watch Verso erase her world.

They are literal hate machines.

Wine, cheese, cigarettes and cocaine, a God's diet.

Pretty much yeah. You can drive to some remote villages and maybe find a copy but otherwise the game is out of stock everywhere.

murder

if Aline had ajy self control you could even bring them all back because they are made of ink

Not murder.

I seriously have no idea how anyone could play this game and come to the conclusion that Verso's ending is the better one because "they aren't real bro". It feels like a spit in the face of everything the game explores to just lazily shrug the alternative off.

Just how many people were part of there expeditions? There's literally more than a billion corpses piled up everywhere. Lumiere is a tiny place, where did they fit all those people? If you do the math the first expeditions must have been composed of hundreds of thousands at a time.

Verso's ending is the better one because "they aren't real bro"

You can think that it's the better one, and I do because I believe Maelle's ending implies the Lumierians are robbed of their dignity and turned into puppets, but only as a "lesser of two evils".
If you start talking about NPCs/Sims/ChatGPT I am immediately disregarding your opinion.

They are real.
But almost every human is dead and gestrals don't care

b-but Alicia can bring them back

you saw her ending and how she brings them back as copypastes npcs. And Renoir is taking her back and burning that shit the moment she even starts to die.
Verso is simply the better one because Alicia can carry their spirit and move on, instead of the alternative.

There is a globe in Lumiere that implies the world used to be larger, but after the Fracture it was jumbled together and only Lumiere survived.

it genuinely feels like there’s a disconnect between verso’s ending and everything that comes before it. if the game just wants you to feel like they’re real to trick you into maelle’s ending then shit feels like it was written by a sociopath.

it's fairly obvious just from watching clips of the game that it's not even close to a 10/10 and the whole point of us not buying it is to not waste money. hope that helps

you saw her ending and how she brings them back as copypastes npcs

That's not in the ending.

Verso is simply the better one because Alicia can carry their spirit and move on, instead of the alternative.

Personally I would rather be alive than have some random girl "carry my spirit".

just from watching clips

Retard with a worthless opinion.

I never saw this supposed implication that the people in Maelle's ending were either controlled or fake versions of themselves. Maelle could perfectly bring back Luna and Sciel after them getting gommaged due to her just grabbing their chroma. Once she beats Renoir Maelle is the 100% master of hte painting and has full access and control over the chroma and as such can bring every single person back as they were, not a copy, the originals. Also never see anything about her controlling them. Maelle just wanted a life and the life in the painting was the only one she wanted so I don't see why she would want to basically ruin that life herself by controlling everyone.

test

That's not in the ending.

Look at it yourself.
The devs had plenty of diverse and unique NPC Lumierian models to use here, choosing to only copy paste two models is intentional.

That's not in the ending.

The "people" from the still destroyed lumiere are copypastes and with something that goes beyond a "limited" wardrobe.

I would rather be alive

So there's no ending for you then, the canvas is doomed anyway.

Asians only like stories about killing god and having sex with 12 year old girls.

Test passed, you have AIDS.

NO GODS
NO MASTERS

Once she beats Renoir Maelle is the 100% master of hte painting and has full access and control over the chroma and as such can bring every single person back as they were, not a copy, the originals.

Theoretically, yes. But she can't, she isn't Aline, she's a terrible painter and doesn't even want to try and learn, she just wants to keep the piano concerts forever and ever, everyone frozen in her perfect moment.

stories about killing god and having sex with 12 year old girls.

Chat, what game fits this description.

perfectly bring back Luna and Sciel

People she knew.

can bring every single person back as they were, not a copy, the originals

Which her ending shows she didn't.

wanted a life and the life in the painting was the only one she wanted

Which is a lie and the only thing she cares about is Verso, so she can phone in the rest. Gustave and Sophie are lucky she gave them the only other outfit we see them in.

"look, crispy shit, just get the fuck out of bed and make yourself useful for once, and get in there because I just don't even care, fuck you, don't fuck up"

knows perfectly well that her little sister is now fucked

proceeds to allow everyone to live in eternal damnation for over 16 years

Clea is the ultimate bitch and the most assohole of them all.

oh NO NO NO

Clea is the ultimate bitch and the most assohole of them all.

Built for anal.

have you 3d printed your french gf already?

I'm a professional game dev, my opinion is worth infinite more than yours. You're just some little bitch on the internet

Can't think of any.

dives into the canvas and tells verso to take care of her

She's just tsundere

What game is this from?

The devs had plenty of diverse and unique NPC Lumierian models to use here

The prologue is filled with copy pasted NPCs. Are you saying that was also a deliberate decision by the creators to show them as puppets as well?

So there's no ending for you then, the canvas is doomed anyway.

In god knows how long. I would rather live decades longer than not live at all.

saw post

open my Russian STL sharing telegram group

download Maelle's model

save on my NAS

I don't even own a 3D printer or like Maelle.

I would rather live decades longer than not live at all.

How about your kids then? Their kids?

Everything Stalin did, he did for the benefit of the revolution. Guess nobody can ever be bad.

The prologue is filled with copy pasted NPCs.

Headcanon

the Persona games, for starters. and most other JRPGs have underage fan service and the story is about killing god or gods

Weird self-own there.

The prologue is filled with copy pasted NPCs. Are you saying that was also a deliberate decision by the creators to show them as puppets as well?

Come on anon. There's a difference between having 30 different unique models scattered in Lumiere, and having 2 or 3.

how is that a self-own? you literally give me money. you're my pay pig

Poor frogs did not expect to be this successful.

I can't just ask Stalin to be nice and bring them all back to life with a wave of his hand.
I can ask Aline and Renoir however.

i had the exact same thoughts

then immediately leaves instead of fixing it, which she had the full power of doing so

She is the ultimate "not my problem" person.

Has nothing to do with knowing them and everything to do with those people being made out of specific chroma that retains their entire being for a while.

and verso on Saint Seiya for his name too

how?
I dont watch tranimes

she's a terrible painter

That defeated both Renoir and Aline while being at a chroma disadvantage.

nothing to do with knowing them

But it does? Even verso told her she had to remember them and who they were to bring them back.

She said so herself, she's safer in the canvas.

->

The fact that she didn't immediately revive Gustave, but had to go back to get his essence (chroma) is what convinces me that you are right.
The line about her not being able to bring people back who got gommaged too long ago also pretty much spells it out.

wtf is the deal with all these weird masks

Is all of Europe out of discs?

'fraid so.

She did neither of those things.

Painted Renoir was defeated by Renoir. Without Renoir everyone would have died.
Real Renoir (weakened by aline btw) was defeated by Aline.
Weakened Aline (weakened by renoir btw) was defeated Verso, Esquie and bit of help from everyone else.

there are infinite copies for PC, retard.

3v1

It's because Verso is a liar who puts on different faces all the time.

lmao its well known aquarius "males" are faggots.

Do you not know what a psychopath is and does to blend in among normal society? Are you black?

The people of Lumiere still had kids despite them knowing they wouldn't live past the age of 20. I would say they would prefer to live regardless.
? You can just look around in the city and see the same model everywhere.
Not really when we are talking about a fast moving shot that only shows the back of the models. You can stand in one place in the prologue and see the same model like 5 times in one shot.

If somebody asked if he should blow the world up right now or in 100 years I'd pick the 2nd option. I'd do that because I'm not retarded and because I know that a lot can change from now till then.
How about you? Are you retarded or just pretending?

Poor frogs did not expect to be this successful.

Kepler CEO's to-do list after seeing the E33 reviews

snort the fattest line of coke

call the Vietnamese factories and demand they throw children in the presses to make more disks

go shopping for new indie games to throw money to

this is a game best experienced through a stream, the gameplay is just a series of QTE sequences and a basic rotation you do with characters all the way up to the finale.

Lumiere is soulless and deserves annihilation.

she isn't Aline, she's a terrible painter

It literally showed her bringing back Lune and Sciel. That proves she can bring people back when given access to their chroma.

You don't become a god through cultivation, kill a trillion people who disagree with you, and end up with a slave harem of slutty 13 year olds.

imply there is some WW1 trench warfare between the "writers" and the "painters" going on

people fucking dying and children being burned alive in horrifying terrorist attacks in the middle of Paris like some Victorian Gaza

never talk about it again

What where the writers thinking?

I know it's easy to forget with how beautiful everything else is, but you do have to remember that E33 was a low budget title made by a small team of mostly newbies, headed by some guy who faffed around some mediocre Ubisoft titles for a while.

I never saw this supposed implication

Dude, its not even subtle. Even before you enter the theathre the people of Lumiere look weird.

Maelle could perfectly bring back Luna and Sciel

Maelle, literally, could not bring them back without Verso's help. He told her to "REMEMBER them and how they were", which literally implies she can't shape chroma without using her SUBJECTIVE VIEW of how she thinks they are.

Once she beats Renoir Maelle is the 100% master of hte painting

LOL NO
She's a bad painter, Clea could come any second and obliterate her. She only managed to kick their parents out because they have been fighting and tiring each other out for SIXTY SEVEN YEARS.

and control over the chroma and as such can bring every single person back

ONLY if she can remember them. Which is why she did not bring back JULIE, Verso's true love in her ending.

Maelle just wanted a life and the life in the painting was the only one she wanted so I don't see why she would want to basically ruin that life herself by controlling everyone.

You're talking about the same Maelle that couldn't stand the lumerians and hated them to the point she would rather go on a suicide mission than stay one more year among them. That Maelle?

It literally showed the opposed of that, she didn't know what to do with their chroma.

Because it is, genuinely, not relevant to the events of the game.

What about Gustave, it seems pretty iffy and sus that she couldn't bring back the single person she pretended to like? He wasn't even gommage'd or killed by chroma stealing creatures, so there is literally no excuse.

From Kepler's twitter
nitter.poast.org/Kepler_Interact/status/1915450899771654233#m

The very fact that she's capable of bringing them back PERFECTLY is proof that subjectivity is not a factor. If she supposedly was as bad a painter as you claim and she needed to subjectively recreate them based on memory(the memory thing is clearly a guide for the technique to help her who isn't skilled at manipulating chroma yet not a literal requirement) then the 2 would not be perfect. Of course it's not subjective.

Because Gustave was killed by Painted Renoir his chroma was sent to Aline, when Aline was booted out of the painting, Real Renoir got control of the chroma. When E33 kicked Real Renoir out, Maelle got control over the chroma, and then she proceeded to revive Gustave. She couldn't have done it before this point.

Japan loves fate stay night, a story where the conclusion to a major story line is the antagonist just saying "okay I change my mind lol"

PERFECTLY

Yes...the perfectly in-character Sciel from the events of Act 3 such as...oh wait. Neithe Lune nor Sciel act like themselves in act 3. They've next to zero dialogue outside of camp.

What where the writers thinking?

TPD, probably

Why does it matter that the dialogue happens at camp?

If she doesn't act at all how can you tell she isn't acting like herself?

Phew! It's a good thing all of you jumped on the bandwagon like brainless monkeys!

that jug of water looks very refreshing

Now you're just making shit up. The fact that the camp scenes can be done in either act 2 or 3 is proof that they are identical. I don't think you understand how insanely complex a human being is painted or otherwise.

bro its just totally in-character for Lune and Sciel to never ever speak during the story events of act 3 even tho Lune was the lead theorist during the events of act 1 and 2

You got filtered.

She didn't bring back Gustav at that moment because she only saw Lune's and Sciel's chroma when she's running away from Renior while he's destroying Lumiere in the beginning of Act 3. She says "I can see them" and you can see two trails of the red petals before she clutches them and hops on Esquie to escape.

bro its just totally in-character for Lune and Sciel to never ever speak during the story events of act 3

They do speak.

Your delusion is not an argument.

Good thing you're immune to reactively hating anything that becomes popular to be unique.

Bro, Maelle knew that Sciel tried to drown herself and that her unborn child died because of it because... uhh ... JUST BECAUSE OKAY

You got filtered.

Yes, they support Maelle, unconditionally.

That's not who they were in act 2 and 3.

I never saw this supposed implication that the people in Maelle's ending were either controlled or fake versions of themselves

Maelle just wanted a life and the life in the painting was the only one she wanted so I don't see why she would want to basically ruin that life herself by controlling everyone

There's no smoking gun, but there is enough within the narrative where people can interpret her ending that way.

She repeatedly says she never felt like she fit in in Lumiere, or liked the city, or otherwise enjoyed life there (hence her going with Gustave on Expedition 33)

The rest of the city is still in a post-fracture fucked up state

Esquie and Monoco are seen ushering people in, instead of doing anything to help Verso

Unlike the prologue and other scenes depicting Lumiere (where all the residents have unique models, outfits and movements), everyone but the main cast are wearing near-identical outfits and are near-motionless

This whole scene in pic related

The scene is ambiguous enough to read it as her going full Aline for the whole city. Equally, it's ambiguous enough to think she's only controlling Verso, and that everything else is, actually, fine. In the same way the paint running down her face is either confirmation she's using her Paintress powers, or (given its pattern mimicking Alicia's burns) that the paint is fading, and she's struggling to keep everything together.

In the same way in the Verso ending, you can interpret the body language of the Dessendres as either finally coming together in their grief, or remaining fractured and distant from each other.

tl;dr: it's subjective by design. Your interpretation isn't wrong, but nor is anyone else's. Except the idiots going on about NPCs and simulations, that's like trying to analyse war and peace with food analogies.

Maelle can't make shit up

Why not? I know she's retarded but she's not that stupid.

They would very much want to live, you know.

It's funny that she literally says "at least this will keep you busy until I get back" because she has some busywork to get done for the Painting Guild or whatever. She literally imprisons her little sister for 16 years in a never ending suffering of watching her friends literally horribly die until she has no choice than face death to survive just because she couldn't be arsed to take care of her for the day. It's hilarious.

music carried the game

basically the subtitle for every Final Fantasy since ff7

I guess she just told Esquie to make shit up about about the first time he met her and he went along with it for shits and giggles?
Retard.

two redditors wrote a game story that completely broke the chuds at Anon Babble who are now obsessed with it

imprisons her little sister for 16 years

16 canvas years.
It was probably a month or two.

The scene is ambiguous enough to read it as her going full Aline for the whole city.

What does that mean? Aline never controlled her painted people. They all acted the way they wanted.

Would they? The same girl that tried to kill herself before? Really?

Two redditors refused to hire niggers or trannies and made a good game

Maybe not all of them are bad.

They're just slightly cleaner nationionalist Indians. They are insanely self centered and egomaniacal, they believe they're way more superior than they actually are and demand everything bow to their whims

Why not? Esquie can't be controlled by her.

imprisons

Maellefags delusional

Why else would she have left on Expedition 33 otherwise? That's proof she got past her suicidal tendencies.

Irrelevant. It was 16 whole years in her perspective. And in her pov those were her friends suffering and dying. Imagine subjecting your younger sister to 16 years of trauma and suffering just for kicks.

I'm not going to argue with someone this retarded any longer. Please tell your wrangler that they need to come pick you up.

Japan deriding anything for having shit writing

AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA

I accept your concession.

Why else would she have left on Expedition 33 otherwise?

LOL
Are you seriously asking why would a suicide girl go on a mission with 0% chance of survival rate?

OMG HOW COULD THIS GAME BE SO FUCKING GOOD????

not pictured: niggers, indians, blue/pink hair lesbians

Is there boob physics in this game? Sometimes it seems like there is, but other times, not.

0% chance of survival rate

Learn English before arguing online please Rajesh.
And yes, a "0%" survival rate, as opposed to staying in Lumiere with a 0% survival rate.
They also won in the end, so I guess it wasn't a 0% survival rate after all was it?

iClone Character Creator

Man I wish shit like this was acceptable when I still worked as a games artist, would be nice to skip the shittier 50% of the work

Yes. Play the game. Sciel wants to live.
She even talks about her suicide with Gustave and tells him that she is happy that Lune found him before he could kill himself, just like she is glad that someone found her before she could kill herself.

Is there boob physics in this game?

Ballsack physics too

I get zero stutters on a 3080ti and my frames never dip below 75. And that's rendering at native resolution. For comparison, I'm lucky to break 60 in MH Wilds and it regularly dips into the high 40s/mid 50s. I know people with a 3060 and laptop 4060 and they both run the game fine.

Was this game made remotely or something? That set up looks super slapdash for an office

I'm a Versochad™ but Maelle didn't have her memories. It was by all definitions a prision of suffering and pain. 16 years of depression in a broken city with dying friends, and just so she could read the latest update on the war and send some mail. There is no sugar coating that. Imagine putting a little child sister in a simulation that she thinks is real only to have her watch her now "older brother/father" get eviscerated right in front of her. This is peak evil.

they support Maelle, unconditionally

The *whole* team supports Maelle unconditionally, Verso included. He only flips at the end because he saw Maelle lie about promising to leave the canvas.

As a total aside, you can read that as him just not wanting her to die, but given his lines in Maelle's ending, you can also read that in that moment, he realises she's *capable* of lying, so bold-facedly and so casually, about her decision to never see her father again - and that handing godhood over to such a person wouldn't end well for anyone, herself included.

The authenticity of Sciel and Lune isn't really in question because of that. It would have been a cool detail to imply, given Noco / Monoco's quest line and reincarnation not being resurrection, but there's nothing there currently. It's a pretty straightforward

Well, we just saw our whole world get Thanos Snap'd, but our bestie brought us back and says she can do the same. Pretty obvious that the only shot we have at any kind of future is to go kill another Painter

What were they meant to do, say "hold on, maybe it's best our whole civilisation just got turned to dust, let's consider NOT booting your dad out of the canvas"?

Lune a cute! CUTE!

Wait I thought this game was on UE5? That's UE4

Be sure to stay at home and safe, expedition bulls. You know how the Anon Babblecel gets when they're proven wrong.

iClone Character Creator

They actually got a grant by Reallusion to use their software for free, because indie game, one of the first interviews Guillaume gave was on their website to shill their software for Project W

They swapped over a couple years into development according to some timeline I saw.

Peak older sibling upbringing. Reminder that Maelle matured only thanks to being in the canvas. Otherwise she would keep sitting alone in her room, being the timid child she is and rejecting invitations to being social. Clea is the best sister you could ask for.

Was this game made remotely or something? That set up looks super slapdash for an office

It's a very old photo, before they had publisher funds.
They swapped to UE5 later in development.

ye

Aline was the one that painted over her. Clea was just going to send her in as her current 16 year old self.

Where did the basketball-americans and jeets go?

manlet joke from Benny boy

THAT'S SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER YOU SICK FUCK!

THAT'S SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER YOU SICK FUCK!

Yes, my daughterwife.

But Clea knows right then and there that she got painted over and gave zero fucks. She could have intervened at any moment.

It's crazy how he beat PRenoir no problem but was stuck on the Paintress for two days.

Aline never controlled her painted people

While it's true it's never directly stated, it's heavily implied by Painted Renoir's actions. He never tried to boot Real Renoir out, everything he did between getting his memories back and Maelle gommaging him was to ensure the Paintress v Curator stalemate continued as long as possible.

If he was happy living with Aline in their pre-Fracture world, he'd have run back to Lumiere and let everyone know they had to help the Paintress instead of trying to kill her. Instead, he killed expeditioners on sight and cited his commitment to protecting his family ("not theirs").

And given what Maelle does to Verso when she's in charge of the canvas, she retroactively justifies his actions.

"You won't yet understand, but this is a kindness, not a cruelty."

What the fuck does the chroma pick up sound during Maelle's ending mean?!
youtube.com/watch?v=QEk75rd7hi8&t=620s

Verso doesn't want to play and he's trying to dissociate

Maelle pulls a string

he starts playing

You tell me.

So, they killed the Paintress and thus expelled the mother, then they stayed for years in there (canonically doing side quests) until they killed the old fag. She clearly didn't come back, what was she even doing out there? Bitch slapping and ballbusting Renoir as revenge for taking her out of the canvas?

Maelle pulls a string

Puppetfags are the worst.

That was never a power we saw the paintresses could use but it does make sense thematically

I don't understand your point. Why wouldn't Aline want Painted Renoir to get Real Renoir out of the canvas if that was something he was capable of?
We also know that Painted Renoir and Verso did try to help previous expeditioners. But that Renoir was very paranoid about them being controlled by Clea.

Well, do you have a better explanation?

Reviews? Astroturfed.

Youtubers? Shills.

Steam numbers? Chink bots.

Objective truth? The schizo shitposter squad of Anon Babble.

Yeah we get it.

it does make sense thematically

It fits very well with the detail that Verso doesn't have his scar on his forehead anymore, which he said represents his agency.

I imagine that living in a country that's already horribly oppressive doesn't make playing a game about the overwhelming hopelessness and fragile beauty of life very palatable.

From what I've seen, though, their videogame audience seems to be exceptionally appalling, even by this place's standards. Wukong's dev complained that he'd "wasted his time" attending the game awards, just to get styled on by Snoy's astroturd. The beauty is in the thing itself, not the gay ass awards that get lavished on it, the squealing journo pissants.

It's not really the same sound

Do you think Verso literally strikes a chord at the jumpscare where it cuts to Maelle's painted face? The note plays because Verso noticed something off, not because of some grandmaster puppeteer retardery.

Painted Renoir only helped the 00 expedition because it was the first one and they were looking for survivors. After that he turned against all of the upcoming ones, to protect Aline.

Do you think Verso literally strikes a chord at the jumpscare where it cuts to Maelle's painted face?

You mean diagetically? No.

She was recovering. When she went back in for like 5 minutes during the Renoir fight she got fucked up irl

How do you get unstuck when you're on the world map and can't jump?

It's meant to be a last ditch chance to rescue a narrow loss, not a viable alternative party

Verso doesn't have his scar on his forehead anymore, which he said represents his agency.

Holy shit that's brilliant. Nice noticing of the meaning there.

Painted Renoir only helped the 00 expedition because it was the first one and they were looking for survivors

Nope. He also helped whichever expedition Julie was part of. And she tells us that both he and Verso was trying to convince them that the paintress wasn't the real enemy.

I wonder how the story would've changed if Expedition 60 actually made it back in time to reveal the truth

I don't remember Renoir helping Julie. Mind showing a journal of that? I think at that point it was already established that Renoir was working against the expeditions.

They certainly wouldn't have fucked around for 27 more years trying to get to the paintress that's for sure.

which he said represents his agency.

That's not the reason he gives.

It's in Julie's and Verso's journal.

In fairness

Your brother gets murked by political rivals

Your family has the power and the connections to get justice

However, mom would rather hijack an old VR world you and your brother built as kids to relive home movies, dad would rather spend all his time and energy trying to get her to stop doing that, and your kid sister is just one massive liability after another

Ask said kid sister to go into the VR world to tell your parents to stop bickering and come home

She can't even manage that, and instead gets forced to role-play

"Fuck it, whatever, at least this keeps her out of the way for a bit" is kind of a reasonable justification for The Most Over This Whole Shitshow girl in the whole world. Especially as, from her perspective, this all takes place in like a single afternoon.

Inside the canvas, it was 67 years of brutal war. Outside, for Clea, it was Tuesday.

Maelle ending has her literally enslaving Verso and everyone else to create her own Westworld fantasy perfect place

it's so bad she starts to turn into a paint monster

The more you think about her the more you hate her. I bet she set her home on fire and killed Verso while being a double agent. She is portrayed as an innocent child but in fact she is the biggest fucker of them all. Alicia? More like (((Alicia))).

Verso is far worse.

kept lying to and killing the expeditions for decades

killed his girlfriend Julie instead of trying to talk things out

deliberately lets Gustave die so he can manipulate the rest of the party better

kills his own father

pumps, dumps and kills Sciel/Lune

all so that he can finally die

And real Verso was just as bad, given that Visages was modeled after him.

Was it? I thought it was in Expedition 58's, or whichever one Lune found that made her irate. There it talks about Renoir as if he's still chill.

Verso and Julie's journals more imply that Verso was acting solo there, and Renoir had to come save Verso from getting tortured for information. Personally, I'd think that was where he and Verso cut ties for good.

Verso gets got

Renoir murders everyone to save him, including Julie

Julie's death is a straw too far, and Verso leaves forever, with them giving each other the scars they refuse to heal

Damnit, am I going to have to do *another* run of this game to get some narrative closure? I was so sure about Renoir's stalemate being after expedition 00, rather than further down the line.

Verso is so based, best character

Stop posting brother, you have a piano concerto in 5 minutes.

(Verso) and his father keep saying the Paintress is the solution not the problem.

This gives me the impression that by this point Renoir and Verso are still cool with each other. Which expedition was Julie in?

I was painted

billions must die

Based Sigma Chud. The fact that he had Esquie's flying rock which he cried about every night, but Verso hid it from him anyway makes him an unforgivable asshole, though.

Personally, I'd think that was where he and Verso cut ties for good.

If you read Verso's journal. He is very much on the side of Renoir even after Julie gets killed. Whatever caused them to go their separate ways happened after that.

And real Verso was just as bad

according to his dad of course, and we all know dads completely understand their children.

He's not called "He who Guards Truth with Lies" for no reason.

Which expedition was Julie in?

We don't know. She signs off with "search and rescue". Which could be it's own thing that is searching and rescuing survivors or something. Or it could be part of a larger expedition with multiple teams.

Why was Renoir slaughtering the expeditions? Didn't he want to beat Mommy so she would be expelled?

Renoir is the character I trust the most in the game after Gustave.

Search and rescue is Expedition 0. It was sent right after the fracture before anyone even knew the gommage was a thing.

Isn't Search and Rescue Expedition Zero?

Real Renoir was imprisoned under the monolith. Painted Renoir? No idea.

The grave that Verso looks at with the 0-Armband when everyone buries Gustave, is most likely the grave he made for Julie.
So yeah. Expedition0.

And real Verso was just as bad, given that Visages was modeled after him.

This, I must disagree with. The axons are all fatherly depictions of what Renoir believes are his family's greatest weaknesses / what's holding them back / what's doing them harm.

Seline, She Who Plays With Wonder, is Aline's ability to make the impossible real - and how deadly that gift is, and how careless she seems to be with it

The Reacher, She Who Grasps the Sky, is about Alicia's insatiable ambition and drive to do the impossible - ignorant to its impossibility and detriment to herself (Maelle talks about how he knows she has vertigo, but seems to play it off as how it means he doesn't consider her feelings, instead of seeing he's pointing out she is actively pursuing things that aren't good for her)

The Hauler, May Have A Cool Title But I Couldn't Find It, is a figure that is compelled to carry a whole city on its back. The metaphor is pretty self-explanatory given how Clea presents herself as the one member of the family that is sensible, strong and self-sufficient

They're all metaphors steeped in commentary and come from a place of love. It wouldn't make sense for Visages to be as basic as "christ my son is such a two-faced asshole".

Instead, it's more like

Visage, He Who Guards Truth With Lies, is about how Verso would rather try and protect his family from getting hurt instead of just admitting he'd rather follow his passions in music and poetry

That's actually a lovely sentiment. I wish we knew what The Hauler's title was though.

I don't remember his journal being pro-Renoir, instead he was all "we all deserve to live!" and implied he was still trying to take down the Curator, rather than joining with him to boot Aline back to reality.

Are the journal entries online anywhere? I got them all in NG, but haven't been bothered to gather them all up again in NG+ (and I'm busy trying to beat Simon+, fuck whoever said he didn't get buffed between NG cycles)

The one murdering the expeditions was painted Renoir who was made by Aline to be her dollhouse husband. Real Renoir was the Curator and was helping you

Are the journal entries online anywhere?

youtube.com/watch?v=qJVfZV9XPFY

Finally a good post in this trash pile.

The grave that Verso looks at with the 0-Armband when everyone buries Gustave, is most likely the grave he made for Julie

Oh shit nice catch.

How did they cram in THIS many little details throughout the entire game?

Yeah that's how I interpreted it too, Verso was always sacrificing his own wants to help the family

They have entire journals and backstories written down, they just drip-feed the players little details to make the storytelling more realistic.

Your interpretation of the Reacher contradict Maelle's since she seems to think it is her father trying to tell her to have ambitions and try to reach the sky.
Which to me makes more sense since Alicia doesn't really come of as a very ambitious person.

The question stands. Why was he slaughtering billions of people for Aline, if she wanted to save the world?

That's just her interpretation of it. No one else except for Renoir can really give a concrete answer on what the symbolism is.

Because otherwise their chroma gets trapped in their bodies thanks to Clea's Nevrons.

The expeditions were coming to kill her (force her out of the painting), anon.

Well sure. But your interpretation would hold more water if the Alicia we saw in the game was a very ambitious person.
The Alicia that Renoir knew stays in her room all day.