At the end of the day how was he relevant to the overall plot?

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At the end of the day how was he relevant to the overall plot?

Don't mind me, just posting my theme
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He was REALLY important to Maelle so more than most characters, given that she and Verso might as well be the only two characters who matter.

Not at all because the entire point of the game was about desandre family members only and lumierians are just side characters and its ok if their children die

wdym without him the Riddler might have flooded Gotham

He got people soijacking in the first hour when the game still had gravitas

I like the theory that Gustave physically looks like a young Renoir with real life Verso’s personality.

He's definitely some kind of amalgam of the Desandre men, which is why Maelle wanted to fug him. She's a hopeless incestfag.

Incest shit aside. There is definitely something there. Heck, Gustave looked a lot like real life Verso

didn't this guy get killed by voldermort?

He's pivotal to the plot and is an amalgamation of the real Renoir and Verso's personalities. He's the best father and brother Maelle/Alicia had, in a literal sense because he's the best of both worlds. Intentionally done by the writer to hit us with the same feeling of loss the Dessendre family feels after losing Verso.

if lumiere and gustav weren't important, the ending wouldn't be so conflicting and one-sided

In gameplay too, Verso just straight up replaces Gustave in every way except for his central mechanic. The fact that they fight 90% the same way means they're definitely based on the same person.

So what wrote? But when do they point they out? I think it would have been a nice twist if they actually revealed that Gustave was an amalgamation of Renoir and Verso.

This, without him Maelle would probably hate her life in Lumiere too and see it as not much better than the real world.
He's also extremely important to humanize the painting people and does it better than Sciel or Lune.

I still don’t understand why they had to kill him? Would have been nice to see him and Verso becoming bros

solely to make me laugh my fucking ass off

Maelle’s character arc

I miss him bros

Aline really love her son

so much so she made Paint Renoir wear it

Makes you think.

PRenoir had massive Aura

Don't worry. If some of the dev play any Atlus RPG, they might copy the : ADD NEW GIRL DLC that dramatically change the story And it will still not be Gustave!

Why did they hire Charlie Cox for it

WHY DIDN'T MAELLE BRING BACK GUSTAV AT THE SAME TIME SHE BROUGHT BACK LUNE AND SCIEL reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Because she didn't have his chroma, since he died somewhere else.
This also shows you that the people she brings back are the real deal and not just copies.

They should have had an optional sidequest when they did try to bring him back and Maelle realizes she can’t do it until she defeats her father.

I liked the general vibe of not over-explaining stuff. Made my brain feel all tingly when figuring stuff out for myself.

Me too.

Clair Obscur soundtrack is good in the worst way possible. It's good in the moment, but I never once thought "I should save this song for later." It's no Corridors of Time or Pushing Onwards. It's just shit that sounds good in the heat of the moment.

without his lumina converter, no expedition would ever reach the paintress. the closest were the 60s but i view them as THE gag expedition anyway. also verso and monoco kept on jobbing left and right without the lc tech that chadstave invented.

hasn't listened to Lumiere or Une Vie à t'Aimer for hours on loop

I'm sorry your taste sucks

Maielle's envisioning of the accepting version of her dad.

vgm with lyrics

lmfao
fell for the "it's not in a language I understand so it's actually okay" meme

It's good in the moment, but I never once thought "I should save this song for later."

Meanwhile my 2nd monitor ever since beating the game:

I understand french though.

Painting lives don't matter. They should vanish as soon as they become inconvenient to the canvas or their creators. Every single one of them can die agonizing miserable deaths if it would spare Aline, Verso, or Alicia even one second of pain

I don't think that's how it works. Maelle says that people killed by Nevrons have old chroma and that they can't be revived. Only the people that Gommaged can be brought back because their chroma is collected and stays pure

This. Both endings confirm that as fact

A couple of melodies stood out enough that I wanted to listen to them again on their own. But I think only this one has the staying power that I'll want to hear it again even years down the line

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So pretty.

actually knows french

either you're a faggot (actually french) or colonized (brown)

link every song here

This is a good song, but it still feels so "tied to the moment." I think that's the issue with every song in the game. It's not inherently bad to fit this category, and I don't think a video game's soundtrack is lesser for being less listenable outside of the game, but it is something that matters a lot to me personally. I think my whole top 25 have multiple tracks that I enjoy listening to outside of playing them.

If you're limiting it to plot, then Maelle joins Expedition 33 because Gustave does, and Maelle being present lets everything else happen.
If instead of plot you broaden the question to be about the story in general, then there's more to talk about, because I think Gustave's character and POV are more important with regards to theme and tone than they are to the plot.

Maelle dies at the end of act 2 sooo..

Gaining additional memories doesn't kill you.

bring the Bury the Light guy in to do backing vocals

Based based based

I'm on act 2. Am I just supposed to skip every side mission to not overlevel myself? I haven't played since getting Monaco because Duelist and the ice man feet whatever it was called were really fucking easy.

It's the Twilight princess dude.

That was also devs laziness. they wanted to recycle 90% of his animations.

Memories are all you are so yes gaining 80% different memories in a split second would indeed kill the previous you.

She pretty much found out that she is a God. If you find out you're a God do you expect me to believe that your current life isn't gonna change so much you might as well have died and were reborn as a new person?

lure men in with handsome, white, male protag

bait and switch fuck you shortly after

but uuuuh heres some pedo bait to keep you fucking orbiters hanging on

and you all fell for it.

No, not really. He got fridged right at the end of act 1 and doesn't really come up again afterwards. He's just there as a bait and switch and to help introduce us to most of the actual main cast.

Overlevelling doesn't matter in Act 2 because you have a damage cap. For Act 3 you will be overpowered no matter what you do, unless you're purposefully trying to make your chars shit

Well that's god damn gay, am I just supposed to not do any thing against bosses if I want to see their movesets?

Maelle is 16. she can legally fuck who she wants.
the only pedo thing about the game is that they removed her breasts and made her look more like a child with the swimsuit skin.

Strong motivative figure and has the player yearning for the side to protect his him and the lumierians.

My advice for most games is don't bother levelling up or using upgrades unless the game is getting too hard. That's how I played and I didn't become too OP until after doing Act 3 side content

The damage cap doesn't really make a lot of sense when they also deliberately pepper the area with mini-bosses way high in level than you early in the game. It's not uncommon to just walk up to an enemy and get wombo combo'd into oblivion because you weren't meant to fight it just yet....but here it is, right in the act 1 beginner areas.

If you're playing on Expert in Act 2, you'll see every boss' full moveset, even if you're consistently hitting the damage cap. For Act 3, you should beeline for the final boss otherwise you'll be hideously overpowered.

That's what I've had to do throughout the whole game.
RPGs are shit. they need to solve this problem.

Pick your alt route Act 2 cast

Gustave

P. Renoir

P. Alicia

???

I did too. Until I brought him back.

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He invented the Lumina converter which was essential to the expedition's success.

He was there to fulfill the writer’s barely disguised Robert Pattinson fetish

He's the designated nice character that dies to show the audience how DEEP and MATURE this narrative is

you get another white male protag the instant the first one dies tho

Indeed it's a shame it had to be a video game in the end

I really haven't, at least with Dualist.
Or rather I got blindsided by that blood clone move of his before I killed him because he was on a sliver of health. I don't know what I did to verso to make him so stupidly powerful.

bury the light was ruined when I realized he has some sort of lisp

Une vie à peindre 11:00
Une vie à t'aimer 11:00
Une vie à rêver 11:00

Summing to 33 minutes. Clever.

The only thing I don't like about his death is the fact that no other party member dies again
I hate this trope

look the main character died. Nobody is safe. Scary