#Expedition 33’s huge open world is so value exploring, if just for the power to ‘slay’ like by no means earlier than – Destructoid

It solely is smart that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s characters would have a big selection of wonderful vogue types to customise with. The French positive are trendy.

The turn-based RPG sport has a large array of costumes and haircuts to gather, from the ridiculous and foolish to serving seems in essentially the most severe method doable, and I’ve been having a blast within the open world attempting to purchase and acquire all of them.

After sticking with default seems all through the sport’s storyline in order to not sully the bottom expertise, I’ve gotten far more adventurous with my social gathering and have been serving seems whereas serving parries and dodges towards all kinds of nasty Nevrons as I edge in direction of the tip sport.

As I rushed by way of the story to complete my overview of the sport, I remained laser-focused on the primary missions and content material with out straying an excessive amount of from the linear path, however every little thing adjustments if you get to behave three and unlock the power for Esquie to fly.

I received’t say something greater than that for story spoilers, however having the ability to brazenly discover the map is the place a few of the most enjoyable might be had, and positively a few of the most enjoyable and audacious outfits to gather, just like the Danseuse outfit for Lune and Sciel.

I discovered Lune’s Danseuse pores and skin and instantly fell in love with it after getting it as a reward from a Nevron instructing dance strikes within the Frozen Coronary heart dungeon. I needed to efficiently parry about 15-20 of her strikes in succession with the intention to get it, so now I’m going to put on it with delight.

But in addition, it’s an extremely ethereal look. Mixed with the French Bob coiffure, Lune is successful the competitors for best-looking Expeditioner in my crew in the intervening time, however that may change at any time. The percentages-on favorites among the many neighborhood to date are the swimsuit costumes, for apparent causes, however I think about that will change over time as extra are found.

I can’t counsel sufficient to actually get into the weeds and filter the map, particularly as you advance in direction of and even move the climax of the story. No worries, there’s no “level of no return” right here both. When you end the story, you return to the checkpoint proper earlier than the ultimate mission and might do no matter you want within the open world. And actually, you’ll wish to end the story earlier than exploring the map anyway, as a result of a few of the enemies present in dungeons and wandering the map itself are means too tough to struggle till you’re totally leveled up.

The Continent is crammed with mysteries and prolonged dungeons bursting with numerous worthwhile objects. Frozen Coronary heart had every little thing from a number of boss fights with rewards, particular Pictos, and different objects like Color of Lumina to select up. However there was additionally a vendor who had one other costume to promote me, so I’m now obsessive about looking each nook of each focal point on the sport’s huge map.

The sheer quantity of costumes within the sport, together with the truth that they’re free to search out and unlock (apart from a handful included within the Deluxe Version), is such a refreshing factor in 2025, as is seemingly every little thing else concerning the sport. And due to this, I wish to look pretty much as good as I can whereas nailing satisfying parries throughout the continent.

I’m nicely on the best way in direction of maxing out the degrees of my characters to maximise our “joint slay” each relating to vogue and one-shotting enemies with highly effective parries, and I actually don’t see myself quitting the sport any time quickly, though I completed the story over every week in the past.

As you possibly can see above, I’ve had Sciel let her hair down, I gave Verso a beret and sun shades together with a bad-ass crimson and black outfit, Maelle has gone pure white together with some brief white hair, and Monoco is wanting devilishly good-looking in a Gestral tuxedo. I like all of them a lot.

However now it’s your flip. Present me your Expeditioner vogue. Pontificate within the feedback under together with your favourite outfits and haircuts for our heroes.