Not surprisingly, I have more to say about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive). In yesterday’s post, I was mentioning a few things that I didn’t like about the overworld. I was Googling something related to the game (spoiling myself about some of the bosses in the meanwhile, unfortunately, but this is always a risk when Googling), and I came across people who were not happy about the lack of markers on the map.
That was something I mentioned yesterday, and I was gratified that some people echoed what I had said in my last post. One was that it was hard to find optional bosses that they had left for later because they were not marked on the map. I have been reduced to keeping a map of the game open with the NPC/boss I’m trying to find marked on said map. One guy said he was keeping a journal of all the NPCs.
I’ve thought about doing the same, but I don’t take good notes. I’ve tried and tried, but I just don’t. Partly because I have awful handwriting, but mostly beacuse everything is important to me. I tried to take notes when I first played Elden Ring (before they patched in where the NPCs were), and they were awful. I read them back, and I had no idea what the hell they actually said.
I beat that boss yesterday, and I wanted to clean some stuff up. I found one of the charismatic bosses (waay fucking harder than the area and pretty fucking annoying)–or rather, I went back to fight him. I had fought him earlier, and he destroyed me. That was several hours earlier, and I was much stronger now! And he destroyed me yet again. And I got sent waaaaaaaay back to the last place I camped. So I had to travel waaaaaaay across the map to get back to him–and I could not find him.
My god. I was frustrated. I looked it up and kept the map up so I wouldn’t get lost again. I found him, camped (so that would be my save point) and rejiggered my party. And I utterly destroyed him. This happened with the other three or so chormatic bosses I fought as well. I struggled the first time, mixed things up, and then destroyed them. Part of that mixing was looking the boss up to see what they were weak to and then making my party fit that.
I don’t like these bosses. I understand why they’re in the game, but they’re just tiring. And boring. Endless combos with erratic rhythm–actually, this is one of my problems with the bosses in general in this game. I know that it’s on purpose, but my god. Long and erratic combos are not fun (for me, obviously).