While the French studio Sandfall Interactive had revealed some of its inspirations behind the game of the next role -playing game. Clair Oscur: Expedition 33 Earlier this month, it turns out that inspirations are even deeper. Speaking to Giant Bomb, the creative director Guillaume Brooche has revealed that, among other things, Clair Oscur: Expedition 33 He was also inspired by the works of Studio Ghibli.
When asked about the study behind the Japanese culture and its media, Brooche revealed that the study had seen Studio Ghibli films “probably 25 times.” Brooche also said that the game composer, Lorien Testard, was also inspired by the music of the films such as Princess Mononoke, My neighbor Totoroand Kiki delivery servicewhich was composed of Joe Hisaishi.
When it comes to the artistic style of Clair Oscur: Expedition 33Brooche also talked about how developers wanted to capture the meaning of the adventure and wonder what is often present in the works of Studio Ghibli. He mentions movies like Energetic and Howl’s Moving Castle As examples of the feeling of astonishment that the study is looking.
“Our director is not enormous in Japanese culture, so every time we discuss this it is as if he brings his, more western influence,” said brooch. “And I try to bring it more as oriental influences, and create how this type of strange mix we have.”
The co -founder and producer of Sandfall games, François Meurisse, previously spoke about some of the game inspirations for Clair Oscur: Expedition 33. Among many other things, RPG is apparently inspired by games such as shift classic. Final FantasyWith Meurisse specifically naming Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9 and 10. There are also influences from Sekiro: Shadow’s die twiceEspecially when it comes to defensive options, since players can stop attacks with buttons pressures correctly hard.
“Those are great childhood games for Guillaume [Broche]Our game director, “said Meurisse, talking about Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9and 10. “I wanted to have a little feeling that I imagined would have remained in the modern Games of Final Fantasy, if they had continued doing shifts. But he also mixed many different inspirations. Definitely. Final Fantasy And the JRPG are the preeminent game heritage we have. The defense system is more inspired Sekiro and of the software games. It has this type of rhythm element and a more real component. More skills based. “
Clair Oscur: Expedition 33 It is scheduled for its launch on April 24. The game will reach PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. It is resulting to be a very anticipated title, with the study revealing that he had crossed the milestone of one million lists of desires today.
The launch date of the game is also more or less put into stone at this time, since the study had announced last week that it had become gold. For more details about Clair Oscur: Expedition 33Check out one of his most recent characters that focused on the Magician Lune.
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