>A very rough draft trailer for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has resurfaced online five years after it was initially posted, sparking conversation about just how far the game has come. Sandfall Interactive's debut game has taken the world by storm, selling millions of copies in its first two weeks, and briefly reigning as the highest rated game of all time on Metacritic. Screen Rant's own review of Clair Obscur scored it a 9/10, citing its pervasive passion for classic RPGs alongside its "undeniable originality and obvious quality" among its redeeming qualities.
But few fans today know that Clair Obscur once looked very, very different. A rough draft trailer was originally posted to Reddit by the game's creator Guillaume Broche, then seeking voice actors to garner investor interest in the work-in-progress. It's reproduced here in a Reddit post by Palmoleum:
The trailer is markedly different from the final product: premade assets and text-to-speech character voices aside, there are some set pieces that look weirdly sci-fi. That's not to mention mouse-and-keyboard controls that look wholly different from today's Clair Obscur's Persona-inspired battle menus, and a story and title that seem unrecognizable. The use of premade assets and lack of human...
