The subsequent recreation from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive gained’t essentially observe the identical artwork model or style, its inventive director has urged.
In an interview with the Washington Put up, Guillaume Broche mentioned that regardless that Clair Obscur has been an enormous success with greater than 5 million copies bought, that doesn’t essentially imply it’ll go together with the identical system for its subsequent recreation.
The article notes that the sport’s parrying characteristic and the flexibility to stay energetic throughout an enemy’s flip was impressed by Satan Might Cry and the Mario & Luigi RPG video games, however that it was too early to inform if Sandfall would lean heavier on motion subsequent time.
“We don’t need to be constrained by story, artwork model or gameplay in no matter we need to make subsequent, so nothing to say,” Broche informed the publication. “We simply need it to really feel genuine, and made with love.”
Elsewhere within the article, Broche mentioned the massive upcoming replace for Clair Obscur is the studio’s approach of thanking the gamers for the sport’s success.
“It’s not precisely a full-blown downloadable content material growth factor, but it surely’s what we name a ‘thanks’ replace,” he defined. “Now we have obtained a lot love from our group and gamers, we simply need to thanks for becoming a member of us.”
The replace, which is in improvement for all platforms and doesn’t but have a launch date, will embody a brand new playable atmosphere, providing “new enemy encounters and surprises to find”.
It additionally provides new late-stage boss battles, new costumes and “much more surprises followers can sit up for”.
In a separate interview in August, Broche defined that the addition of the parry mechanic wasn’t added to make the sport enchantment to gamers who didn’t like turn-based RPGs, and was purely a design alternative made with gameplay in thoughts.
“It’s not like we added the parry system and constructed such a story expertise as a result of we needed to keep away from our recreation going through prejudice,” he informed Automaton. “We simply did it as a result of we needed to do it.”
