Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Music Review

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RPGFan checked out the Music of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33:

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Music Review: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Original Soundtrack

French studio Sandfall Interactive appears to have hit the motherlode with their debut title, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. As I write this review, Clair Obscur has the highest number of concurrent players on Steam that any traditional/turn-based RPG has ever achieved. Additionally, RPGFan's own review by Zek Lu awards the game a 99 out of 100, with the sound subscore hitting a perfect 100! Additionally, the Clair Obscur soundtrack has recently topped Billboard's "classical" and "classical crossover" album charts (source: vg247). Clearly, the musicians who worked on this game did something right.

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Lead composer Lorien Testard, alongside vocalist and co-composer Alice Duport-Percier, has created over eight hours of music for Clair Obscur, presented in Laced Records' digitally-published Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Original Soundtrack. As we enter a new era of game music production where eight-hour scores have become the new standard, I've developed a simple, subjective metric for evaluating the quality of such lengthy musical tomes. After listening to the entire album, do I want to hear more? Put another way: does the music overstay its welcome?

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