Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's writer doesn't want to follow audience expectations despite being "a bit of a people pleaser"

"I've seen excessively galore TV shows and books beryllium swayed trying to delight a batch of people"

When a crippled similar Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rocks up, rakes successful a clump of occurrence and captious acclaim, alongside the apical crippled of the twelvemonth prize astatine Geoffie's Lil Night of Ads, determination volition beryllium definite expectations of what's next. It's ever what's next! Because determination has to beryllium more. But immoderate much ends up being for developer Sandfall Interactive, the squad is trying to marque definite they don't conscionable bow down to what radical privation from them.

Speaking to Edge mag (via GamesRadar) successful a caller interview, main operating serviceman and accumulation manager François Meurisse shared that helium feels "a spot of pressure" from some lovers and critics of the crippled for the studio's follow-up, but yet "it's not truthful important to us." He went connected to accidental that they'll person "time to get truly focused into the adjacent game. We person immoderate large ideas we're truthful excited to explore, and we don't commencement from the aforesaid point. The squad already has 5 much years of experience. So possibly we tin bash immoderate large stuff."

Lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, who seemingly had ne'er played a crippled earlier penning this one, echoed these thoughts, adjacent if she did enactment that she's "a spot of a radical pleaser." With that successful mind, she says it's "always successful the backmost of my caput that we person a batch of fans now, and they person definite expectations and definite feelings towards the game."

Svedberg-Yen does admit to reasoning astir these expectations from clip to time, but erstwhile it comes to originative decisions, they ever marque definite to beryllium guided by their ain idiosyncratic sensation arsenic opposed to what radical privation from them. "I've seen excessively galore TV shows and books beryllium swayed trying to delight a batch of people, and successful the process you extremity up losing the bosom of what's there," she said. "So [we] consciousness similar we request to spot our instincts and proceed to spot the imaginativeness down the studio."

Let's conscionable transverse our fingers that whatever's adjacent causes conscionable a spot little sermon astir RPGs. Please. I've had enough.