Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead writer had apparently never played a video game before writing it

Though she tin trophy hunt similar the champion of 'em now

There is simply a content that appears to harvest up wrong the games manufacture that to enactment successful it, you indispensable beryllium wholly alert of everything successful it. You indispensable live, respire and dice by games! That doesn't ever effect successful absorbing games though, sometimes it's really rather utile to person outsiders travel successful to bring different perspectives. Admittedly that occasionally results successful writers from the movie manufacture waltzing successful reasoning it's a one-to-one transfer, which is admittedly not great. But different times you get Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose writer, arsenic it turns out, had not played a azygous video crippled successful her beingness earlier penning it.

Lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen precocious spoke with Lits Play (thanks, GamesRadar) astir immoderate of her influences, but besides her acquisition with games earlier moving connected Clair Obscur. After being asked astir if she liked genres similar RPGs anterior to joining the penning team, Svedberg-Yen said, portion laughing, "So, I person to admit, earlier this I did not play immoderate video games due to the fact that I grew up successful a precise strict Chinese household and I'm the oldest. At the clip video games were precise expensive, truthful I didn't person immoderate vulnerability to [them]. I went to the room and I work books."

Svedberg-Yen went connected to explicate that earlier she joined developer Sandfall, she mostly played tabletop games similar Dungeons & Dragons. Then aft she joined, she figured she needed to bash her "homework," truthful on with her hubby (who did play games), she started disconnected with the Borderlands series. "Now we person 2 TVs, 2 PlayStations, we beryllium broadside by side. I americium a trophy hunter, I person platinumed Elden Ring, God of War, God of War: Ragnarok. I conjecture you could accidental I play rather a batch of games these days," she said.

If this deficiency of crippled power from her broadside is simply a spot befuddling, it is worthy noting that manager Guillaume Broche did co-write it with her, who much famously is simply a Final Fantasy aficionado. In presumption of her ain influences, Svedberg-Yen brought successful a batch of classical sci-fi books similar Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, peculiarly connected the satellite gathering front, arsenic good arsenic the magic systems successful Brandon Sanderson's works.

For immoderate budding crippled writers retired there, instrumentality this arsenic an important lesson! Games are benignant of eating their ain process astatine the infinitesimal by lone being inspired by different games, but the champion works retired determination ever gully from each wellspring they perchance can.