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I started watching a let's play of Clair Obscur (not me wanting to hang out with all the cool kids and experience a game I have no chance of playing, oh no), and as of the time of writing, I just got to Monoco's Station.
This game is very French, and I fucking love it. Even though the LPer is playing with the English dub, which is full of British VAs, and I also love that, the Frenchness pervades everything. And it reminds me how much I have liked French media that I've experienced in the past (and I also came to the realisation, I think, that this is a big part of why I love Pizza Tower - McPig (the main dev) is French-Canadian, but his (art)work is very European feeling*, and I really like that).
The whole "previous people have tried and failed to do X repeatedly" is one of my favourite tropes, although IDK why because it's really depressing when you think about it! Ohhhh maybe that's also why I like roguelikes? It's a similar principle in a different form.
ANYWAY. It is a thing I like, and I like the horror induced by finding remnants of the people who came before you (even though here, in this game, some of them are slightly lighter than others, but then you have The Forgotten Battlefield, shudders).
I like Verso more than Gustave - I think Gustave just hit the wrong side of Hugh Grant Brit Stereotype for me (because of how Charlie Cox was playing him, and in part how he was written). But I did enjoy his interactions with Maelle, they felt very well observed and rendered. And I like Verso's interactions with her as well, they feel really good.
Sciel is absolutely Doing It For Me, love her SO MUCH. Mad the person I'm watching play this isn't using her at all, but whatevs, I guess.
I am also shipping the HECK out of her and Lune.
I love Monoco's voice actor, and could listen to him talk all day. (I also appreciate Ben Starr's vocals, but he's not quite doing it for me in the same way. He does have a nice voice, though).
I know spoilers for the whole thing, because the way I ended up getting hooked into this was spoiling myself. I don't know if I would have continued otherwise. THAT SAID, I spent the day before yesterday thinking "Nah, I'm not that into it," only to spend a lot of my shift at work thinking about it. So. Evidently WTF do I know?
Anyway, part of my point was, I'm not going to mention spoilers past what I've seen, partly because I think I'm already misremembering and getting some stuff mixed up. And even saying that, I knew Gustave was going to die, and yet I still jumped when he did, because I was taken by surprise, even though as that scene was unfolding, I was like, "Oh no, this is not good, I am not getting good vibes here."
I think I agree with a commenter on one of the VODs I watched that getting Verso immediately after isn't the best thing. Like, maybe he could've showed up for the bit he does, and then joined a little later on? IDK.
Anyway, I think that's all I have to say for now. Maybe there will be more later, I don't know right now!
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*It's not specifically French, as such, like it doesn't give me ligne claire vibes, but it's definitely something not American feeling, anyway. IMO.
This game is very French, and I fucking love it. Even though the LPer is playing with the English dub, which is full of British VAs, and I also love that, the Frenchness pervades everything. And it reminds me how much I have liked French media that I've experienced in the past (and I also came to the realisation, I think, that this is a big part of why I love Pizza Tower - McPig (the main dev) is French-Canadian, but his (art)work is very European feeling*, and I really like that).
The whole "previous people have tried and failed to do X repeatedly" is one of my favourite tropes, although IDK why because it's really depressing when you think about it! Ohhhh maybe that's also why I like roguelikes? It's a similar principle in a different form.
ANYWAY. It is a thing I like, and I like the horror induced by finding remnants of the people who came before you (even though here, in this game, some of them are slightly lighter than others, but then you have The Forgotten Battlefield, shudders).
I like Verso more than Gustave - I think Gustave just hit the wrong side of Hugh Grant Brit Stereotype for me (because of how Charlie Cox was playing him, and in part how he was written). But I did enjoy his interactions with Maelle, they felt very well observed and rendered. And I like Verso's interactions with her as well, they feel really good.
Sciel is absolutely Doing It For Me, love her SO MUCH. Mad the person I'm watching play this isn't using her at all, but whatevs, I guess.
I am also shipping the HECK out of her and Lune.
I love Monoco's voice actor, and could listen to him talk all day. (I also appreciate Ben Starr's vocals, but he's not quite doing it for me in the same way. He does have a nice voice, though).
I know spoilers for the whole thing, because the way I ended up getting hooked into this was spoiling myself. I don't know if I would have continued otherwise. THAT SAID, I spent the day before yesterday thinking "Nah, I'm not that into it," only to spend a lot of my shift at work thinking about it. So. Evidently WTF do I know?
Anyway, part of my point was, I'm not going to mention spoilers past what I've seen, partly because I think I'm already misremembering and getting some stuff mixed up. And even saying that, I knew Gustave was going to die, and yet I still jumped when he did, because I was taken by surprise, even though as that scene was unfolding, I was like, "Oh no, this is not good, I am not getting good vibes here."
I think I agree with a commenter on one of the VODs I watched that getting Verso immediately after isn't the best thing. Like, maybe he could've showed up for the bit he does, and then joined a little later on? IDK.
Anyway, I think that's all I have to say for now. Maybe there will be more later, I don't know right now!
~
*It's not specifically French, as such, like it doesn't give me ligne claire vibes, but it's definitely something not American feeling, anyway. IMO.
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I was thinking about the bodies you find and how it parallels to FFX and the graves on Gagazet. It's really effective.
Having Verso instantly after Gustave isn't the best, but I gotta admit, I am a sucker for Ben Starr's voice.
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(Like, I like blue mages in principle, which is what Monoco basically is, but I bet the other characters can do anything he can, and possibly better, and it's not required for them to learn it off enemies).
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