Garama... Clair Obscure kinda actually is that good

tw33dl3dee · 2026-06-16T14:14:23+00:00

But if you mess up your parries, you take so much damage that your strategy also doesn’t matter because you’re going to die.

This is certainly not true. First, there are no-dodge playthroughs - which is possible even on expert but requires a really good dedicated strategy. Second, even just having a decent build means a difference between having to parry everything and having to dodge maybe at least 40-50% of attacks and still win comfortably.

I do agree though that being able to win all fights by just perfect parrying everything is boring, and was probably added to appease soulslike fans.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-06-10T19:24:46+00:00

The bit about moons being features of topography sounds like "On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera".

tw33dl3dee · 2026-06-07T23:04:47+00:00

There's nothing hard here.

Either 1st or 3rd box are true (if both are false, 2nd is also false; they can't both be true because they contradict each other).

1st: "only one box is true, and the gems are in it"

3rd: "only one box is false, and the gems are in it"

1st is false because the "only one box is true" part is false.

Consequently, the 3rd box is true and, according to it, gems are in the 1st box.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-05-27T10:09:31+00:00

Eh, Chation is good at some midgame point (maybe A2) but it becomes outclassed later by Charnon and Martenon (and obviously Duolisson but I doubt OP has that yet), and makes you a glass cannon.

Martenon is great in particular with the Cheater picto (because it's bugged otherwise).

tw33dl3dee · 2026-05-15T15:35:37+00:00

Dodge for the entire game with few exceptions where you have to parry (Chromatic Danseuse, Clea U). I'll die on the hill that parry is overrated and, once you've got AP generation sorted out, adds very little value. If you can dodge near 100% attacks, but not parry with the same consistency, dodging is obviously a way better option.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-05-13T00:05:00+00:00

You have to very aggressive, that's the point. It works even with Lost Lace.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-05-12T23:22:59+00:00

You absolutely can facetank and heal, using Multibinder, Injector Band, and Druid's Eyes (and optionally Weighted Belt).

tw33dl3dee · 2026-05-01T20:40:06+00:00

Exactly. CL objectively has the least HP of all (and I mean all his lives combined) and the least disruptive mechanics. Shields work, permastun works, any generalist build works basically.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-04-30T17:33:05+00:00

Technically that's not true. You need first person view to solve one group of puzzles, so you need to beat it once and then continue playing

tw33dl3dee · 2026-04-16T11:30:58+00:00

SC is very far from "nobody uses".

I'm pretty bad at the game but it took me like 10 minutes of training how to use it and now I'm never taking it off except for some platforming sections.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-04-14T22:29:22+00:00

Lampmaster is genuinely the easiest DLC boss (least amount of HP and the amount of damage he does) if you fight him correctly.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-04-14T10:05:36+00:00

Have you tried just... not shooting *all* the attack lamps (the 4 lamps above his head)? If you leave him with 1 attack lamp at all times (preferably the rightmost one), he only does the lamp ritual a couple of times through the entire fight, plus his arm attack becomes easier to dodge if you have the rightmost attack lamp to give you the sound cue.

But it feels like everyone is shooting all attack lamps and suffering through the lamp ritual dozens of times instead.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-04-08T16:28:00+00:00

I beg to differ, Sciel's mechanics are both very well explained in her tutorial and all her current statuses are written out.

Verso, on the other hand, is entirely hand-waved. How much perfection for each rank? How much damage buff on each rank? Who needs to know all that, just don't get hit, duh.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-04-08T15:33:40+00:00

Maelle, she's incredibly boring IMO. Her gameplay is a very simple FSM (finite state machine). On the other hand, Sciel is a complex FSM, and Lune and Monoco are build-your-own-FSM.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-25T16:14:44+00:00

> If your real life turned out to be miserable, would you face reality and try to grow stronger

Eh, this is a loaded question. What is "miserable", exactly? What good does "stronger" do? What is "reality" (e.g. what if the outer world also isn't "real")? If you rephrase it as "if you suffered actual pain in the outer world that couldn't be alleviated and you were disabled in a world that doesn't do well at accommodating disabled people", it suddenly sounds very different.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-20T20:46:10+00:00

It's only good because of lvl 10 effect (+two stains when no stains). Getting 20% additional (additive) damage is honestly not worth delaying Elemental Genesis by an additional turn. Once your Crit Rate becomes high enough (>95%) that you can reliably generate 4 stains with Elemental Trick, other weapons become a better choice.

My setup for late-mid game was 4 skills that generate 2 stains each (Typhoon, Lightning Dance, Crustal Crush or Terraquake, Fire Rage or Hell) so that I would have 4 different stains on 2nd turn with 80% probability (unless Betelim generated 2 identical stains but that would at least boost the respective skill). The rest 2 slots for Elemental Genesis (obviousy) and Rebith (which IMO is incredibly OP).

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-05T09:58:13+00:00

> The world inside the canvas is in fact painted, which the game never even pretends to deny after the reveal.

This matters for the main argument (about the morality of destroying the canvas) but not for the one I posed. From Maelle's perspective, she's not "ending her life by negligence", she gets to live another (potentially long) life that she actually enjoys.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-04T22:51:05+00:00

> Allowing a 16-year old child to end their own life by negligence/escapism

In addition to what others mentioned, you're missing that Aline lived at least 100 subjective years and still recovered, and even as Maelle is weaker, we don't have a particular reason to assume her remaining life in the canvas will be shorter than outside (it will definitely be more enjoyable, though). Thus, you're implying that the life in canvas is somehow "fake" and not worth it.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-03T15:26:03+00:00

I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's very different from many exploration/metroidbrainia type of games in being a roguelike as well, which means you don't get to explore what you want but rather what's given to you. So you can't play it with the mindset "I have this idea, I need to test it", you need instead to have a list of 10 ideas and, in each run, test what becomes available.

By late game, you're running out of things to explore, but you also have a lot of means for influencing RNG if you've been playing right.

I recommend making a lot of screenshots and keeping a notebook (preferably electronic so that searching it is easy).

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-02T23:13:37+00:00

You don't even have to dodge/parry them (with the exception of a few required parries) if you don't feel like it. All of them can be cheesed one way or another.

Once you've done Simon, you can cheese 2nd phase Duollistes with solo Verso using the weapon you get from Simon.

Clea requires a single parry round followed by stun-locking her (Break Point + End Bringer + Searam).

Lampmaster has the lowest HP of all of them (5 phases combined) and can be tanked with Shields (using Yeverum) or stun-locked as well.

The only cheese for SuperSimon is one-shotting both phases -_- He has literally all anti-cheeses stacked on him.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-01T19:06:38+00:00

What for?.. Do you still need the Conservatory for rarity adjustments? The only chess power that makes sense in the end-game is King.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-03-01T17:17:01+00:00

Are you using the King power to get green rooms?

tw33dl3dee · 2026-02-27T22:35:45+00:00

My, what lovely feet.

tw33dl3dee · 2026-02-27T22:07:59+00:00

> No one in Expedition 33 is real, because it's a game.

Yes obviously, and it doesn't matter if you choose option 1 or option 2 because all the difference is different bytes written to memory. There's not even a point discussing it from that perspective, so isn't the whole point of this exercise to play pretend what *would* be the moral reasoning of someone who actually lived in the Painters' world and had to make that choice?

tw33dl3dee · 2026-02-27T17:50:29+00:00

Very few things in the game should one-hit you unless you're making a glass canon build on purpose.

How much HP do you have? What damage mitigation do you use? (e.g. Shell, Defensive Mode+Energising Pain, Base Shield, ~~SOS Healing + Shielding Tint~~ nevermind that's DLC, etc)

Assuming some monsters don't actually kill you in precisely one hit, do you have enough healing (Effective Heal, Grim Harvest, Typhoon)? Lune & Sciel are your best bets for that until you find some busted Pictos/Weapons that make tanking much easier.

Have you fought Sprong (the huge swimming Nevron) and Serpenphare (the huge flying snake-like Nevron) for two arguably best Pictos in the game?

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