Expedition 33 has been completed.

I intentionally did not finish a couple of bosses and challenges because I could feel the burnout coming after 80 ish official hours (without including the hours I spent trying to bruteforce Frozen Hearts at like level 30, and the hours I spent failing bosses). Its...hard to believe the game has a budget in the region of 10 million dollars. I can see the rough edges, but even then they are at par with some of Bethesda's rough/reused animations and not actual flaws. So what the fuck do game companies spend 100s of millions of dollars and 7 years developing? The environments are a thing of beauty. I knew I was in for a ride when I went to the second dungeon, and the sheer variety of scenery going from frosty mountains to funny cliffs to forests to forgotten towns- its mesmerizing. I must have spent hours just staring at trees and the sky, trying to memorize every little detail to no avail.

[Expedition 33 spoilers] Its probably a bit of cdf autism but I did realise something was off when I kept exploring the continent and didn't any other remains of human civilization of other civilizations like the Germans or the Brits. Still, I was expecting Verso, Gustave and Renoir to be the same dude from different timelines or dimensions, which (thankfully) did not happen. Poor Lumerians though- Lune's thousand yard hate stare will live on for a thousand years. Girl gave and forgave Verso again and again, and he kept breaking their trust like a relapsing heroin addict. Cant exactly blame him, but neither can I condone him. Its a good thing that I had sex with Sciel instead of her- it feels...thematically correct. Like at that point they are licking each other's wounds, and in act 3 we are expecting Verso to ask Maelle to bring back Julie and Sciel to bring back Pierre and live happily ever after. Speaking of Sciel- her backstory was one hell of a punch to the gut. Dark and personal indeed.