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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI (www.polygon.com)
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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

So you didn't play it, and yet your opinion is more important that that of those who did. Got it.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And never will. The total selling point is "a deep story" and but I haven't heard single specific that sounds deep or even interesting.

    You come off like the kid who insisted I play Persona. It's not that deep, try some more adult media. We have a guy here on Lemmy who highly recommends A Brave New World 🥲

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Seems like you really just don’t like Persona.

    This isn’t Persona.

    As far as I understand it, the comparisons pretty much end at the combat system / gameplay mechanics.

    Without giving away too much, you have a world where, every year, everybody of a certain age is erased. Every year, those with one year left to live set out to try and stop that from happening - and for ~77 years, none of them have returned.

    This sets the stage for exploration of grief, loss, and associated trauma. In most games, there’s death everywhere but the emotional side is relegated to a 3 minute scene with sad piano music before the characters get back to the action. In this game, they drill a lot deeper and it really makes the characters come alive.

    They’ve nailed the blend of sadness, joy, and even comedy.

    This is all then set in a backdrop of some of the most visually interesting environments ever presented in a videogame with a completely insane musical score that brings all of those moments to life, the game is effectively a frisson machine.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a good TV series. But doing a turn based game with a good story is like a musical movie with a good story.

    I'll never play it or Baldurs, spoil away. It's the gameplay I find so boring and immersion breaking.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago*

    I’ll add to the other comment for anyone else that’s actually open to new things, because I traditionally don’t like turn based games:

    The combat is excellent and the enemies are varied. Party members have fun synergies with both your team and the enemies, and the Pictos system adds a ton of flexibility for each character. You can have some crazy setups, at one point I gave a character the explosive death + instant-death perk which let me skip a lot of the easy battles later on.

    Plus there is a parrying mechanic that is challenging and rewarding!

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