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[clair obscur e33] just starting up first the first time! expect spoilers as I go through
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I decided to start by listening to the full title song and I feel like I can tell this game is going to absolutely wreck me
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all I know going in is what they showed in the trailer so, uh, nothing lol
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it is interesting that for a game known for French songs, the title song is in, I think, occitan? which is spoken in parts of France but not French, so I can only understand like 2 lines where they say maiella? isn't here, and neither is Alicia, i think?? I'm not 100%. ill probably look it up after i finish the game
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they understand the assignment
they understand the assignment
Rabbit Witch
are you playing in the original french
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this game is beautiful!
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Rabbit Witch
: no, I want to make sure i understand fully and my French is a bit rusty atm
Rabbit Witch
just make sure you get the mime outfits for everyone
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wait but maelle is here so either she dies, she's a figment of my imagination, or I mistranslated. they all seem highly possible
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idk if it's just me but my cs with Sophie kept having glitchy lines in it and it was very distracting
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combats a bit finicky still. I can't quite tell the timing on the dodges/parries
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opening bit was beautiful. they really did a great job setting the tone and making you really invested right from the get go
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every time they said Tomorrow Comes my mind went to Les Mis and One Day More, and I wonder if that was intentional
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you know
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I was wondering how they were going to handle having so many expeditioners bc you can only control so many people in a game before it becomes clustered
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I did not expect them to murder everyone 5 seconds in
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what a brilliant cutscene, though
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also I'm just saying if they did take from les mis that didn't really end well for anyone either soooo /concern
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.. she's dead, right, and were just hallucinating? she's not wearing shoes and that's weird
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noco mentioned Verso, I think that was also in the title song?
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why do it feel like maelles nightmare is more prophecy? we will all die and she will be the only survivor
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Is that the moon from majoras mask
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alas i don't know the password
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need to stop here for the day bc its raid time but I'm very impressed with the game so far. beautiful graphics, beautiful music, and a very gripping story I feel
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I like that wraith bro comes with us to upgrade stuff lol
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I love the gestrals 
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oh guitar guy is playing the title screen theme
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there's a neat jazzy Diddy in this one area, I'm vibing
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Oh I guess I should gottacatchemall since he's the one that recommended I play
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This game is so good!!
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Also fun piece of trivia: The composer had never done music for a game before. They just found them on sound cloud and liked their work enough to hire them.
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oh wow, thats insane
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the music is phenomenal
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ALICIA she's in the title song too
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is it just me or, despite only being able to sew part of her face, does she look like maelle a little bit??
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also weird that maelle and Alicia (presumably the paintress?) are in the same verse with whoever verso is
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(lune technically there too but I'm thinking that refers more to the moon)
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I'm thinking my translation was incorrect, that its not saying there aren't here bc they are, unless they're actually created entities, but idk how that would work
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maybe white hair man created them? idk, prob more likely that I got it wrong
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anyway, off to go meet esquie and then ill probably go to bed
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lmao the password scene
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oh this guy!
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I think people like him a lot
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this dynamic with Francois is amazing
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verso name drop! I wonder if that's white haired guy
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I love esquie
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this journal entry 🤣
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"those who know not, that they are not" to maelle... maybe the translation isn't that she's not here, it's that she doesn't exist, like she isn't actually human, and my she's created by something conspiracy theory is correct. all we know about her is that she's an orphan, and we just assume she was always here, yeah? I guess possible she was plopped in
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and no one noticed
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idk why though but she and the paintress look similar, so maybe she's actually a painted creation so that the paintress may experience humanity, which is why she shouldn't be here?
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in the prologue, it was suggested that the paintress might also be stuck in the cycle (which is beginning to seem true) and that she's lonely so maybe maelle is her way of not being lonely?
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idk lol I'm sure I'm way off but thats my current running theory
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oh no oh no they're going to kill Gustave
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noooo
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I invested so much shit into him
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he's the main character
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surely this is just going to ffviii disc 1 me right and he's just pulling a squall and will somehow live, right?
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...right?
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fuck
pastel ranma
YEAH
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I felt a lot of things about Gustave biting it
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(and I'm not finished with the game so idk if he somehow comes back)
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verso!!
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what gets me is how many outfits you can get for him when they kill him in act 1 lol
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oh no I can no longer write in the journal 😭
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At least Verso can use Gustave's weapons
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yeah i did discover that lol small graces
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and maelle apparently writes in the journal now, so that's heartbreaking