Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says Oblivion Remastered "didn't seem to harm us at all," it just "drew attention to quality RPGs"

A screenshot of the upcoming PS5 game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
(Image credit: Sandfall Interactive)

JRPG darling 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched just two days after Bethesda shadow-dropped 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion Remastered, which might seem like incredibly unfortunate timing on the surface, but dev🥃eloper Sandfall Interactive and now publisher Kepler Interactive have both been very much taking it in stride.

Despite launching dangerously close to Oblivion Remastered's orbit, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been met with near universal acclaim and remarkably strong sales, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:shi🌟fting a million copies in just tওhree days. Naturally, Kepler is happy with the game's reception, with senior portfolio manager Matt Hand🀅rahan telling he was never worried it would conflict too much with a new Elder Scrolls release.

"We always knew that Expedition 33 had a very specific identity," Handrahan said. "When I was in the press, I saw the Western-style RPG and the Japanese-style RPG as having quite different appeals and audiences. Iꦜ knew plenty of people that would pl🔴ay an Elder Scrolls game that wouldn't necessarily play Final Fantasy and vice versa."

The JRPG nerds here at GamesRadar+, a contingent I'm proud to align myself with, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:have been hypin꧂g up Clair Obscur forꦏ months, l🐽ong before we had any (concrete) inclination that Oblivion Remastered was about to be a thing.

Handrahan said that organic build-up of interest, not to m🍎ention its $50 price tag and availability on Game Pass, helped to keep Clair Obscur from being swallowed by Oblivion Remastered.

"By the time that♏ we rolled around, we had momentum of our own and we felt pretty confident that we could stand beside it," h🐼e said.

"We knew we would have a lot of interest around the game. We were confident in that. And it went as well as it possibly could have done in our eyes. And, actually, proximity to Oblivion didn'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."

The fact that everyone does seem to be talking about Clair Obscur, and specifically about how good it is, could be part of what's pushing Kepler and Sandfall to invest in post-launch content, as one the game's lead writers recently suggested there's a good ཧchance for DLC due to the game's glowing r🐭eception.

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