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Clair Obscur gets it - a strong and simple hook goes a long way


How often does a game grab you from the very beginning?

You, as Gustave - a character who bears an uncanny resemblance to the perfect-faced actor Robert Pattinson - make your way to the docks of Lumiére for the festival of flowers there. Lumiére, the city, bathes in a kind of golden grey, overcast light as you run through it, and the rich, luxurious colours of flowers - deep reds and blushing pinks - carpet the streets all around. You and everyone else on the docks of Lumiére look out to sea as the Paintress emerges to change the number 34 to 33, and in doing so, makes anyone above the age of 33 disappear in an eruption of petals and colour.

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