Do you know the risqué sex dialogue in Expedition 33? Or the man in the trash can? We have 3 secrets that you overlooked at the start.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a role-playing game that has had a lot of work and love put into it. However, the developers have also slipped in a little joke here and there, hiding some secrets – including a humorous sex scene – so absurdly that you can’t find them by chance. We will show you 3 of these secrets that you can find within the first few minutes of the game. Most of you probably just walked past these secrets without thinking about it.
The Sex Scene with the Special Twist
After you meet Sophie with Gustave, you need to accompany her to the harbor until the “festivities” of the event begin. Along the way, you can talk to various NPCs and interact with some objects.
Among them, you will find the door of a hotel (on the left side of the path). If you click on the door, you can hear the moaning sounds of a man and a woman behind it. Sophie humorously notes that people celebrate this festival in very different ways. Some wouldn’t go to the harbor and would rather approach it a little more passionately.
The catch is that you can click this door an infinite number of times, and each time you will hear slightly different moaning sounds.
If you click the door a total of 30 times, however, something special happens: There is a small dialogue. The two very busy-sounding individuals behind the door speak directly to you:
They tell you that at first, it made the whole thing somehow more exciting that you were secretly watching, but gradually it becomes a bit creepy and for them, it’s also a bit tiring to have to perform at full capacity all the time under observation. It would be nice if you could finally move on.
The Aliona Plaza
Shortly after Sophie joins your group, you come to a large plaza with some NPCs you can talk to. The developers dubbed this plaza “Aliona Plaza.” However, the reason for this is not obvious, and you only find out if you have very keen hearing.
Because 3 of the speakable NPCs there have the same voice actress. Both Marie (the woman with her daughter), Estelle (the artist), and the children with the Gestral masks are voiced by Aliona Baranova.
Aliona Baranova is the partner of Jennifer English, who voices Maelle in the English version. Baranova was asked if she would also like to voice a few smaller NPC roles.
Having one person voice multiple roles is common in most games. Normally, the corresponding NPCs are placed far apart to avoid drawing attention to the limited number of voice actors. However, Sandfall Interactive, the developer of Expedition 33, deliberately placed all these NPCs almost right next to each other to perfectly execute the joke of “Aliona Plaza,” where several characters are voiced by her.
Probably, no one would have noticed if Baranova and English hadn’t revealed this in a live stream on YouTube:
The Man in the Trash Can
Also on the way to the harbor, you will find, as you did throughout the whole city before, trash cans distributed everywhere. When you click on these, you get the same message, that this is just a regular trash can.
On the way down to the harbor, there is another trash can on the left side that you can also click. The first time, the game says it is also a trash can like any other. The second time, the message looks a bit different. On the third click, a voice is heard, and the “man in the trash can” speaks to you.
The man tells you that he has been hiding in the trash can for over 6 months. His hope is that the painter might not discover him and not realize that he has also turned 33 and is experiencing his last day today.
As a reward, you get a Lumina point that you can later use to improve your character.
These are just 3 of the smaller secrets that can be discovered in Clair Obscur, and the game is full of them, as there is so much to discover. However, exploring everything can also become a disadvantage, as it might ruin the epic finale of the game.
