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[McTraveller]

So I caved to the propaganda and started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Wow is it a good game so far.  Fantastic characters. Fantastic world-building. Gameplay that is sufficiently challenging for my timing-based-game-deficient eye-hand coordination.

It's also astonishing how much is in the game for something supposedly created by a team of only 30 people.

It does suffer from some linearity, and some typical fantasy tropes, but overall this is a 9/10 in my book. The only thing keeping it from a 10 is some minor technical stuff (immersion-breaking glitchiness getting stuck on terrain, for instance).

Anyone else playing?  Please use spoiler tags as appropriate.

Spoiler: I'm currently at... (click to show/hide)

trying to get Esquier's help. Probably spelled it wrong but whatevs, going by memory. Only tried once to duel the 'Chef' but got one-shot, so not feeling up to that right now. I'm assuming I can go back.  The village of paintbrush-mannequins is... amazing.

[Il Palazzo]

This is way beyond my potato's capabilities, but I'm curious. Is this some Euro JRPG dadgame or what? I can't get a sense for it from the trailers.

[McTraveller]

Think Final Fantasy vibes, with a mixed turn-based and twitch-timing combat; combat is "zoned" like the early FFs but you get it by touching enemies that do appear on the map.  Setting is French, not Japanese.  Characters are also more human-like than anime waifu.  So yes, it's more JRPG than western RPG.

Lots of character customization (attribute points, weapon affinities to attributes), but they are "pre-set" characters.