Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ramps up the difficulty gradually if you're staying on the main path. However, if you decide to explore a bit more, you'll come across enemies who'll gommage you before Maell can yell "Parry it!" Whether it's Simon or the titular Clair and Obscur, there are plenty of tough bosses to fight. But the game's hardest obstacle is not an enemy at all, it's math.
I don't remember anything and I'm scared.
At two separate points in the game, you'll have conversations about the gommage and when it's time for certain characters to turn into petals – the first is between Gustave and Maell, while the second is with a young Gestral. On both counts you're provided with multiple options for when the respective character will gommage, and players are feeling absolutely out of their depth.
As pointed out via a video montage by aset_water on Reddit, a lot of streamers struggled with getting the right answer. "What’s really hilarious is that if the stream chat is shown in the video, there's almost always someone in the chat making the same mistake too," they said. As a person whose brain switches off when numbers are involved, I can...