Clair Obscur Developers Visited Square Enix's Offices For a 'Rich Exchange' Of Ideas

The statement implicit the absorption of role-playing games has raged connected for years. There's been a small other substance to the occurrence successful 2025 with the occurrence of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 though, arsenic its a turn-based RPG that wears its inspirations close alongside the 33 connected its sleeve.

Now those links are reality, arsenic respective members of the Clair Obscur squad precocious visited Square Enix's offices and met with immoderate of the improvement leads there, including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth manager Naoki Hamaguchi and Visions of Mana manager Ryosuke Yoshida.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 crippled manager Guillaume Broche, shaper Francois Meurisse, and method manager Tom Guillermin, arsenic good arsenic steadfast Kepler Interactive's CEO Alexis Garavaryan, took the travel retired to sojourn the Final Fantasy publisher's offices. In a societal post, Hamaguchi described it arsenic a "creatively affluent speech of visions and ideas."

Guillaume Broche, Francois Meurisse, Tom Guillermin from Sandfall, and Alexis Garavaryan from Kepler—creators of EXPEDITION 33—visited the Square Enix bureau for a creatively affluent speech of visions and ideas.
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It's surely not uncommon for video crippled developers to sojourn 1 different and speech thoughts. Hamaguchi posted astir Stellar Blade manager Hyung-Tae Kim visting not agelong earlier the Sandfall Interactive crew, and plentifulness person made the travel to studios similar Kojima Productions.

Still, the developers down a wildly palmy turn-based role-playing crippled visiting the workplace of Final Fantasy, which has been much and much successful the action-RPG realm arsenic of late, was undoubtedly going to disturbance up fervor. Despite games similar Octopath Traveler 2 being rather good, determination is ever a hunger for a instrumentality to turn-based, specifically for Final Fantasy.

Set speech the online discussions, though, and it's truly large to spot originative minds successful the abstraction coming unneurotic similar this. A rising tide tin assistance each ships, and 1 would anticipation that an speech of ideas present would person affirmative outcomes for some Square Enix's aboriginal ventures and immoderate Sandfall Interactive gets up to next.

Regardless, it volition apt beryllium astatine slightest a small portion earlier we commencement proceeding astir Clair Obscur's successor or the adjacent Final Fantasy, successful either the VII Remake continuum oregon Final Fantasy XVII. Plenty of clip to acquisition what's retired now, mull it over, and ponder the imaginable the role-playing games that travel after.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.