Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[Suede]

I managed to get all the achievements yesterday, most of the side bosses are quite easy since you can cheese them with OP builds, specifically with Maelle. Just go into Virtuosa Stance with Last Stand and then use Stendahl, usually kills in one hit (there's a whole bunch of pictos and luminas you need equipped too but I'm not going to explain it all). Only the hardest optional boss in the game gave me trouble, I couldn't do it because he has some really annoying moves, it wasn't until I looked up a guide and all it took was getting a new weapon for her that starts here in Virtuosa Stance on her first turn, solved all my issues. This is my main criticism too though, the balancing for a lot of the optional parts of the end game are weird, there's no really middle ground, it's either get really good at parrying or just break the game with the OP pictos and Maelle's ridiculously good skills. I'm guessing it was intentional, but I'm still hoping it's something they can balance out better in a patch, or give us a new mode or something.

Anyway, I played this on Xbox with Game Pass, so I went ahead and bought a physical copy on PS5 and I'm going to do it all over again for the platinum. I think it's hitting me now just how special this game is, I've been listening to a bunch of tracks from the OST since last night. I also saw that French President Macron congratulated the team on its success, and the director was on the news talking about the game the other day too. I've also heard they have another milestone to announce, I'm going to guess either 2 or 3 million sales reached. I'm blown away by how successful this game has been for the devs. Amazing to see.