{"id":1190181,"date":"2026-02-17T04:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kNAKLvzdDfjcfGJJfZeaKU"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:56:35","slug":"clair-obscur-expedition-33s-publisher-says-oblivion-remastered-didnt-seem-to-harm-us-at-all-in-fact-it-may-have-helped-everybody-was-thinking-and-talking-about-the-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/clair-obscur-expedition-33s-publisher-says-oblivion-remastered-didnt-seem-to-harm-us-at-all-in-fact-it-may-have-helped-everybody-was-thinking-and-talking-about-the-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&#8217;s publisher says Oblivion Remastered &#8216;didn&#8217;t seem to harm us at all&#8217;, in fact, it may have helped: &#8216;Everybody was thinking and talking about the genre&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&#8217;s publisher has <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/obscurvion-hits-gamers-as-clair-obscur-expedition-33-publisher-pokes-fun-at-its-unfortunate-collision-with-oblivion-remasters-shadow-drop-omg-its-like-barbenheimer\/\">poked fun at the Barbenheimer-esque situation<\/a> between its own stellar JRPG and the Oblivion Remaster, it doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s harmed Sandfall&#8217;s hit at all. Clair Obscur <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/its-official-clair-obscur-expedition-33-is-a-hit-selling-over-1-million-copies-in-3-days-and-beating-metaphor-refantazios-steam-peak-despite-being-on-game-pass\/\">landed very well<\/a>, gathering over 1 million sales in under a week and an all-timer critical reception.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/expedition-33-publisher-elder-scrolls\">The Game Business<\/a>, senior portfolio director Matt Handrahan at Kepler says he&#8217;s pretty sure that&#8217;s down to Expedition 33 having something special to offer gamers, because hey, turns out they&#8217;re also two very different games:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always knew that Expedition 33 had a very specific identity,&#8221; Handrahan says, &#8220;When I was in the press, I saw the Western-style RPG and the Japanese-style RPG as having quite different appeals and audiences. I knew plenty of people that would play an Elder Scrolls game that wouldn&#8217;t necessarily play Final Fantasy and vice versa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is fair enough. RPGs and JRPGs are very different beasts. While the differentiation between the genres has been one of debate (and some controversy), it&#8217;s very much a &#8216;you know it when you see it&#8217; situation. Bethesda&#8217;s catalogue has a very different set of mechanics when compared to your Personas and Final Fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>Especially since &#8220;Western-style&#8221; RPGs have leant further and further away from turn-based combat. Both due to mistaken genre conventions that haven&#8217;t really borne out, but also thanks to their roots in the CRPG&#8217;s penchant for real-time pause and the like. If we&#8217;re comparing JRPGs to Bethesda RPGs specifically, the narrative experience is completely different, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there were other aspects,&#8221; Handrahan adds. &#8220;Like the price point we were at and the inclusion in Game Pass \u2026 so we knew we would have a lot of interest around the game. We were confident in that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually,&#8221; he continues, &#8220;Proximity to Oblivion didn&#8217;t seem to harm us at all. In many ways, I think it just drew attention to quality RPGs that week and everybody was thinking and talking about the genre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While shadow-dropped games can absolutely <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/the-elder-scrolls\/devs-lament-oblivion-remastereds-surprise-release-as-todd-howard-eats-their-lunch-i-noticed-a-complete-stop-in-game-sales-from-about-2-pm-onward-on-oblivion-day\/\">cause major issues for smaller developers<\/a>, I&#8217;m personally glad Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 managed to squeeze its way into the gaps left by the Oblivion Remaster. It&#8217;s certainly a game that deserves the attention, having swallowed 60+ hours of my attention into a time vortex last week.<\/p>\n<p>I think Handrahan&#8217;s bang on the money here, too\u2014to the point where he&#8217;s almost stating the obvious. Ol&#8217; 33 and Oblivion Remastered are both extremely different games with different core audiences. That&#8217;s not to say there isn&#8217;t some overlap, but the charming jank and open world of Bethesda&#8217;s classic is a complete apple when compared to the orange of Clair Obscur&#8217;s mind-bending, tightly-written plot and strict narrative. The town of the gaming industry was, in fact, big enough for the two of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"5770f7dd-8ff2-4107-9d2f-3e44ae90f804\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best cozy games\" data-dimension48=\"Best cozy games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:685px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"2btpGUUeNoUT67HBRbro3G\" name=\"metaphor-refantazio\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/clair-obscur-expedition-33s-publisher-says-oblivion-remastered-didnt-seem-to-harm-us-at-all-in-fact-it-may-have-helped-everybody-was-thinking-and-talking-about-the-genre.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"685\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-cozy-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"5770f7dd-8ff2-4107-9d2f-3e44ae90f804\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best cozy games\" data-dimension48=\"Best cozy games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Best cozy games<\/strong><\/a>: Relaxed gaming<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-anime-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best anime games<\/strong><\/a>: Animation-inspired<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-jrpgs-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best JRPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Classics and beyond<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-cyberpunk-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best cyberpunk games<\/strong><\/a>: Techno futures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/best-gacha-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best gacha games<\/strong><\/a>: Freemium fanatics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/clair-obscur-expedition-33s-publisher-says-oblivion-remastered-didnt-seem-to-harm-us-at-all-in-fact-it-may-have-helped-everybody-was-thinking-and-talking-about-the-genre\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33&#8217;s publisher has poked fun at the Barbenheimer-esque situation between its own stellar JRPG and the Oblivion Remaster, it doesn&#8217;t seem like it&#8217;s harmed Sandfall&#8217;s hit at all. Clair Obscur landed very well, gathering over 1 million sales in under a week and an all-timer critical reception. In a recent interview with The Game Business, senior portfolio director Matt Handrahan at Kepler says he&#8217;s pretty sure that&#8217;s down to Expedition 33 having something special to offer gamers, because hey, turns out they&#8217;re also two very different games: &#8220;We always knew that Expedition 33 had a very specific identity,&#8221; Handrahan says, &#8220;When I was in the press, I saw the Western-style RPG and the Japanese-style RPG as having quite different appeals and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/clair-obscur-expedition-33s-publisher-says-oblivion-remastered-didnt-seem-to-harm-us-at-all-in-fact-it-may-have-helped-everybody-was-thinking-and-talking-about-the-genre\/\">Read 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