Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Retrospective - The Death Of Art
Dark Harold
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a lot of things, but beyond all the accolades, perspectives, and situations, what is this game on a deeper level? But more importantly, what does it say about the state of art and how we look at that in video games?
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction: The Comment
03:08 - Thesis Statement
06:55 - Act 1: Context
07:38 - a. Sandfall and Kepler
16:38 - b. The Building Hype
20:54 - c. Narrative Shift
29:51 - Act 2: Clair Obscur
31:24 - a. Lumière
37:29 - b. The Continent
47:46 - c. Action and Combat
59:53 - d. Pictos, Lumina, and Other Mechanics
1:07:32 - e. Gustave, Act 1
1:18:20 - Act 3: Expedition 33
1:22:02 - a. Spoiler Alert
1:28:03 - b. Verso, Act 2
1:47:28 - c. For Those Who Come After
2:00:02 - d. The Monolith and The Paintress
2:17:07 - e. Awarding Catharsis
2:24:36 - f. Maelle, Act 3
2:44:28 - g. The End of Expedition 33
2:56:24 - Conclusion
3:00:05 - Epilogue
WARNING: Act 3 will be FULL SPOILERS. Watch up until Act 2 of the video for a spoiler-free look at the game.
Sources:
Citations: https://haroldthefool.raindrop.page/e...
Trailer Footage: @sandfallgames, @NintendoAmerica, @Playstation on YouTube
Additional Gameplay: @worldoflongplays1, @PineappleExpressGaming on YouTube
"Thank You" Update Gameplay: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Verso's Draf...
Further Recommended Viewing:
'We Lost' Trailer: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Demo from 202...
Tom Guillermin's GDC Talk: Clair Obscur Expedition 33: Small Team, Ma...
Ted Brooks' Video: We Don’t Play Games Anymore… We Just Argue...
TotoroTV's Video: We Replaced Art With Discourse and it Make...
Music (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Soundtrack):
Prologue: Lumière - Le Grand Café de Lumiere, Spring Meadows - Battling Breeze
Act 1a: Spring Meadows - Burial of the Lights, Flying Waters - Goblu, Spring Meadows - Linen and Cotton, Gestral Village - Gestral Market, Flying Waters - Submerged Lights
Act 1b: Our Drafts Collide, Gestral Beach - Is It A Gestral Or A Volleyball?
Act 1c: Spring Meadows - Nightfall, Spring Meadows - Cello Motifs, Aline
Act 2a: Lumière, Lumière - Lumière à l’Aube, Lost Voice, Lumière - Nocturne pour Lumière (Violoncelle)
Act 2b: Flying Waters - Electric Tides, World Map - Forlorn, The Manor - Our Painted Family, Ancient Sanctuary - Lake
Act 2c: Stone Wave Cliffs - Lampmaster, Gestral Village - Golgra, Flying Waters - Rain from the Ground, Ancient Sanctuary - Gestral Summer Party, Ancient Sanctuary - Path on the Roots
Act 2d: The Manor - Alicia's Birthday Party, The Manor - Honeymoon in Lumière, Gestral Beach - My Grandma Hits Harder
Act 2e: Un 33 Décembre à Paris, Spring Meadows - Beneath the Blue Tree, Spring Meadows - Tomorrow Is Here
Act 3a: Gustave
Act 3b: Verso, Forgotten Battlefield - Over the Fallen, Stone Wave Cliffs - The Last Thing You'll See, Firecamp - Sciel, Firecamp - Lune, Monoco's Station - Ice's Caves, Monoco, Tout ce que je suis pour toi, Old Lumière - Reverence
Act 3c: For Those Who Come After Instrumental, Forgotten Battlefield - Dualliste, World Map i In Lumiere's Name, Visages - Ideal Mental, Sirene - Poeme d'Amour
Act 3d: L'Amour d'une Mere, Une vie a t'aimer, Aline, Paintress
Act 3e: Une vie a rever
Act 3f: Lettre a Maelle, World Map - Children of Lumiere, Whee Whoo Days, Lune, Sciel, The Reacher - Mémoires, Lumière's Opera - Continuer à t'aimer (Piano), Gustave (Music Box)
Act 3g: For Those Who Come After, Gustave, Une vie à peindre, Our Drafts Collide
Epilogue: Maelle, Alicia (Violin), L'Amour d'une Soeur
Full Soundtrack: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soun...
Music (GameChops - Licenced Under Creative Commons)
Intro: Alicia by Super Piano 64
Outro: Aux Lendemains non Écrits by Super Piano 64
Full Album: For Those Who Come After ~ Clair Obscur: E...
Music (Other Games):
Fanfare from Final Fantasy VII
I Can Do Anything / Finale from The Boys
Pumpkin Head Guy from Night In The Woods
MEGALOVANIA from Undertale
Weird Autumn from Night In The Woods
Aeris' Theme from Final Fantasy VII
Shapes from Night In The Woods
Silksong from Hollow Knight Silksong
Field of Hopes and Dreams (Credits Version) from Deltarune
#clairobscurexpedition33 #foryou #fyp
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Retrospective - The Death Of Art
Dark Harold
1,672 views
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a lot of things, but beyond all the accolades, perspectives, and situations, what is this game on a deeper level? But more importantly, what does it say about the state of art and how we look at that in video games?
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction: The Comment
03:08 - Thesis Statement
06:55 - Act 1: Context
07:38 - a. Sandfall and Kepler
16:38 - b. The Building Hype
20:54 - c. Narrative Shift
29:51 - Act 2: Clair Obscur
31:24 - a. Lumière
37:29 - b. The Continent
47:46 - c. Action and Combat
59:53 - d. Pictos, Lumina, and Other Mechanics
1:07:32 - e. Gustave, Act 1
1:18:20 - Act 3: Expedition 33
1:22:02 - a. Spoiler Alert
1:28:03 - b. Verso, Act 2
1:47:28 - c. For Those Who Come After
2:00:02 - d. The Monolith and The Paintress
2:17:07 - e. Awarding Catharsis
2:24:36 - f. Maelle, Act 3
2:44:28 - g. The End of Expedition 33
2:56:24 - Conclusion
3:00:05 - Epilogue
WARNING: Act 3 will be FULL SPOILERS. Watch up until Act 2 of the video for a spoiler-free look at the game.
Sources:
Citations: https://haroldthefool.raindrop.page/e...
Trailer Footage: @sandfallgames, @NintendoAmerica, @Playstation on YouTube
Additional Gameplay: @worldoflongplays1, @PineappleExpressGaming on YouTube
"Thank You" Update Gameplay: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Verso's Draf...
Further Recommended Viewing:
'We Lost' Trailer: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Demo from 202...
Tom Guillermin's GDC Talk: Clair Obscur Expedition 33: Small Team, Ma...
Ted Brooks' Video: We Don’t Play Games Anymore… We Just Argue...
TotoroTV's Video: We Replaced Art With Discourse and it Make...
Music (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Soundtrack):
Prologue: Lumière - Le Grand Café de Lumiere, Spring Meadows - Battling Breeze
Act 1a: Spring Meadows - Burial of the Lights, Flying Waters - Goblu, Spring Meadows - Linen and Cotton, Gestral Village - Gestral Market, Flying Waters - Submerged Lights
Act 1b: Our Drafts Collide, Gestral Beach - Is It A Gestral Or A Volleyball?
Act 1c: Spring Meadows - Nightfall, Spring Meadows - Cello Motifs, Aline
Act 2a: Lumière, Lumière - Lumière à l’Aube, Lost Voice, Lumière - Nocturne pour Lumière (Violoncelle)
Act 2b: Flying Waters - Electric Tides, World Map - Forlorn, The Manor - Our Painted Family, Ancient Sanctuary - Lake
Act 2c: Stone Wave Cliffs - Lampmaster, Gestral Village - Golgra, Flying Waters - Rain from the Ground, Ancient Sanctuary - Gestral Summer Party, Ancient Sanctuary - Path on the Roots
Act 2d: The Manor - Alicia's Birthday Party, The Manor - Honeymoon in Lumière, Gestral Beach - My Grandma Hits Harder
Act 2e: Un 33 Décembre à Paris, Spring Meadows - Beneath the Blue Tree, Spring Meadows - Tomorrow Is Here
Act 3a: Gustave
Act 3b: Verso, Forgotten Battlefield - Over the Fallen, Stone Wave Cliffs - The Last Thing You'll See, Firecamp - Sciel, Firecamp - Lune, Monoco's Station - Ice's Caves, Monoco, Tout ce que je suis pour toi, Old Lumière - Reverence
Act 3c: For Those Who Come After Instrumental, Forgotten Battlefield - Dualliste, World Map i In Lumiere's Name, Visages - Ideal Mental, Sirene - Poeme d'Amour
Act 3d: L'Amour d'une Mere, Une vie a t'aimer, Aline, Paintress
Act 3e: Une vie a rever
Act 3f: Lettre a Maelle, World Map - Children of Lumiere, Whee Whoo Days, Lune, Sciel, The Reacher - Mémoires, Lumière's Opera - Continuer à t'aimer (Piano), Gustave (Music Box)
Act 3g: For Those Who Come After, Gustave, Une vie à peindre, Our Drafts Collide
Epilogue: Maelle, Alicia (Violin), L'Amour d'une Soeur
Full Soundtrack: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soun...
Music (GameChops - Licenced Under Creative Commons)
Intro: Alicia by Super Piano 64
Outro: Aux Lendemains non Écrits by Super Piano 64
Full Album: For Those Who Come After ~ Clair Obscur: E...
Music (Other Games):
Fanfare from Final Fantasy VII
I Can Do Anything / Finale from The Boys
Pumpkin Head Guy from Night In The Woods
MEGALOVANIA from Undertale
Weird Autumn from Night In The Woods
Aeris' Theme from Final Fantasy VII
Shapes from Night In The Woods
Silksong from Hollow Knight Silksong
Field of Hopes and Dreams (Credits Version) from Deltarune
#clairobscurexpedition33 #foryou #fyp