Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Devs Made Crazy Bets Before Release on the Game's Final Metacritic Score, and Everyone Lost

By my count, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has present won implicit 30 antithetic awards crossed 10 antithetic grant shows, arsenic good arsenic our ain Game of the Year grant and a heap of different nominations. It's settled happily astatine a 92 professional people connected Metacritic and a 9.5 idiosyncratic score.

It's a really, really bully game. But seemingly its developers genuinely had nary thought however bully their crippled was earlier it was released, arsenic demonstrated by a fig of silly bets they made connected what the game's metascore would be, each of which they lost. As a result, a fig of Expedition 33 devs are connected the hook present for dying their hair, doing stand-up comedy, getting tattoos, and more.

This comes from our caller interrogation with Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, a writer connected Expedition 33. According to her, the game's commercialized and captious occurrence were wholly unexpected. The squad didn't deliberation it was a atrocious game, to beryllium clear, but they weren't expecting arsenic overmuch arsenic they got. "There are interior bets connected the squad of what we thought the Metacritic people would be, and past if it is implicit that, they person to bash immoderate dares oregon bash immoderate things, similar get a tattoo, dye their hair, oregon antithetic things," she said.

I needed to cognize more. I asked if anyone had gotten a tattoo, and she says she wasn't definite if they had done it yet, but a fewer radical were expected to.

"There's a full database of things that radical person to bash if the Metacritic people is supra a definite number," she continued. "Some radical person already... I deliberation 1 idiosyncratic had to devour a chicken, a roast chickenhearted successful 1 sitting wrong a definite magnitude of clip portion different idiosyncratic beatboxes. There's a batch of random stuff. One idiosyncratic had to dye his hair. He did bash that." She past clarified helium dyed it pink, and added that different idiosyncratic has to bash stand-up comedy.

I deliberation idiosyncratic has to bash stand-up comedy.

"None of america truly expected this, truthful everybody lost. Everybody mislaid their bet."

But contempt everyone technically "losing", it's beauteous evident that the squad truly "won" successful the occurrence of Expedition 33. And Svedberg-Yen says they, of course, admit that:

"I deliberation evidently we're each very, precise appreciative of the monolithic effect from the fans and the players. It's conscionable incredible. I deliberation 1 of the bully things is it does mean that the studio's aboriginal is financially secure, which is simply a truly bully thing. In the midst of what's going connected successful the broader industry, that is precise overmuch a blessing and thing we don't instrumentality for granted. So I deliberation it's going to beryllium conscionable support our eyes connected the prize, effort not to get distracted, enactment focused connected the creation and the joyousness and the crippled that we privation to make."

We spoke to Svedberg-Yen connected so galore different topics, including the wild, winding roadworthy she took to becoming a writer connected Expedition 33, the affectional inspiration for each of the main characters, and if determination volition ever beryllium a "canon" ending for the game. You tin work our afloat interrogation with her close here.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].