The Japan Game Awards have origins as far back as 1997. It represents the Japanese gaming industry at-large, but it will sometimes highlight the achievements of developers worldwide. As such, the nominees for its main awards are limited to the homefront overall, but global teams do garner praise - Viewfinder, for instance, won the Game Designer Prize just last year.
All of this is to say, it's not inconceivable that a Western dev will get a great nod from the Japan Game Awards. Nevertheless, it comes as some surprise that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 nabbed one of the coolest trophies of all: the Breakthrough Award.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a lock for a Game of the Year nomination at December's TGAs, and our site's hardly alone in consistently singing its praises since its April launch. We'll probably have a sequel, or DLC, or a sequel and DLC, or - you know - there's more from this universe, one way or another.
Of course, so much of the discourse that has swarmed Clair Obscur since its initial batch of intensely positive impressions has been about its turn-based approach to combat. Fans the world over have gone on at some...
