To master Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on high difficulty levels, you need 2 important gamer skills – and the head of the role-playing game proves that he has them
How hard is Clair Obscur? Although the role-playing game features a turn-based combat system, you still have to actively dodge your opponent’s attacks during their turns. Here, especially 2 important gamer skills are required: dodging and parrying.
Even on easier difficulty levels, you must skillfully avoid damage, otherwise the stronger fighters in the role-playing game will mercilessly take you down. On higher difficulty levels, it’s even possible to go down with just a single hit.
The head of Clair Obscur is a real gamer who can dodge and parry
What are these videos of the head? As colleagues from gamesradar discovered, Guillaume Broche, the CEO and Creative Director of Sandfall Interactive, the developer studio behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, is a big fan of the action game Devil May Cry.
Broche was looking for volunteers on Reddit five years ago to lend their voices for some characters for free, so that the studio could present a demo of the role-playing game, including spoken cutscenes, to potential investors. This is how Jennifer Svedberg-Yen came to the game, for which she later worked as the lead writer (via BBC).
Through the Reddit account that Broche used for the post, one can get to the developer’s private YouTube channel. He shared a video in the Devil May Cry subreddit where he defeated a notorious boss enemy in Devil May Cry 5 without taking a hit:
In total, there are 6 such “No Damage” videos on the CEO’s channel. Each of these videos clearly shows that Broche is a gamer who can dodge and parry – similar to what is required of you in Clair Obscur.
Devil May Cry is, like Clair Obscur, an RPG. It relies on action-packed combat with fast attack sequences. Here too, it is especially necessary at high difficulty levels to avoid taking hits skillfully.
Gamers celebrate the head for his videos
This is how the community reacts: Some gamers have now discovered Broche’s YouTube videos and are flooding the comment section. Many write praise for Clair Obscur, others commend his skill and understand now how the parry system of Clair Obscur came about.
However, you can also play through the role-playing game by not dodging or parrying enemy attacks – at least that’s what one player managed to do on Reddit. How he managed this can be read on MeinMMO: Player finishes Expedition 33 without dodging or parrying once, to prove that you don’t need “gamer reflexes”
