Play it on: PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows (Steam Deck N/A)
Present purpose: Truly grasp dodge and parry
I discover one thing new to love about Clair Obscur each time I hearth it up. I’m additionally not alone to find this French-made turn-based RPG alluring. Kotaku’s very personal Kenneth Shepard has given the sport some well-deserved reward this week, and I’m listening to folks spontaneously speaking about it and having associates ask me about it with growing frequency, so it appears to be catching on. This weekend I’ll be leaping again into this partaking RPG and, for those who’re within the temper for one thing tactical and turn-based, I believe it is best to too.
Clair Obscur incessantly feels just like the Ultimate Fantasy of the longer term that I used to think about as a child. And sure, a lot of that has to do with the sport’s satisfyingly distinctive strategy to turn-based fight (there’s additionally an overworld!). Dodging and parrying, which you do in real-time, nonetheless really feel a smidge unfair of their timing to me, however the means to purpose in real-time at enemy weak factors and strategically construct up an offense by making successively good and highly effective strikes with every flip is a intelligent remix of a battle type I really like—and one I used to anticipate from Ultimate Fantasy earlier than the sequence tossed turn-based fight out the window. Now that I’ve wrapped up some footage seize for a latest video of ours, I’m free to dial the problem again as much as its highest setting for some punishment and satisfying mastery over what’s a surprisingly powerful recreation.
The story has but to actually seize my consideration although, so hopefully I make some extra progress. I don’t have any critiques of it but, just a few unmet curiosity. I’m actually intrigued by this “let’s go kill a god” story, however I’m within the part of “okay, recreation, what are you really gonna do with this premise?” I’ve a sense it’s gonna end up neat, the premise and setting are fairly intelligent, however I wish to be received over by Expedition 33. Even when not, although, this fight will certainly fulfill me for a lot of extra hours. — Claire Jackson
