I was wondering why everyone was so promoted Pure obscure: expedition 33The field is a debut game from Sandfall Interactive, an independent French studio with less than 30 employees, and over the past five years it has attracted mass partnerships in video games and films. Expedition 33 Has loud Including Andy Serkis, Charlie Cox, Shala Nyx and Jennifer Inglish. This received It was raised Pacific drive Publisher Kepler Interactive in 2023, and that was The first showcase Xbox 2025. Despite the fact that the game did not come out until April, the Story Kitchen has already signed up to turn it into Field
At least, Expedition 33 It seemed a light game that you can fall in love with.
After the game a little more than three hours Expedition 33I understand all this – excitement, fast love and quiet excitement caused by writing the game, acting, world and mechanics. Expedition 33 Innovative and absolutely amazing.
Expedition 33 He feels a prestigious drama created in a surreal, slightly Gothic 3D landscape. He was tonally flooded with melodrama, and visually it reminds it Game of ThronesBut with the styles of Belle époque and the mountains of devilish magic. The Kingdom of Lumière was absorbed in a powerful existence called Piertress – it draws a new number on the tower every year, and all people of this age instantly die. She counts for more than half a century, at first killing the oldest citizens, and she simply drew number 33. Lumier people send annual expeditions to stop the cluster, but so far they have been met by death. The heroes of the expedition 33 have a year to live.
When we meet with gustav in preliminary viewing, for expedition 33 cases are not very good. His party was ambushed for the mysterious gray-haired man-and-and-and-and-off man that he should not exist in this world, and Gustav alone. Gustav has a robot’s magical hand and very French mustache, and he goes through magnificent forests and dark, wet caves to track other survivors. He really finds, but only after he almost kills himself in despair. Lyun, a strong -willed and scientist magician, appears just in time to save Gustava from himself, and together they meet with Mell, a closed, but strong adoptive sister of Gustav.
Your party supports six game characters in a full game, but preliminary viewing is focused on these three. Prestige-dramatic vibrations stem from their interaction, and especially their personal clashes. In one screening, the moon and Gustava are sitting around the fire on a starry night, shouting to each other about the ethics of utilitarianism. Between the tyrades, Gustav shouts: “Fuck a mission!”
Ultimately, their intensity will subside, and the conversation returns to a previously kind space. At the end of the scene, shots in Lyun, who grinks and says: “Fuck a mission? Really?”
Gustav shyly replies: “Sorry.” And suddenly I deeply invested in the relationship between the Moon and Gustav, as well as with Mell and all the friends that they came to save. It doesn’t hurt that these KAT scenes are really magnificent, with realistic skin textures and dirty spots in large pictures and beautiful performances of all actors.
From the cat -scenes to the fight, Expedition 33 shines.
The environment in preliminary viewing is becoming more and more surrealistic, since Gustav, Moon and Mall travel closer to diet, which is hidden through deep seas and extensive land. They travel through raw areas destroyed by magic, boulders soaring in the air and richly decorated buildings, accidentally built into odd places, broken and inhospitable. Anthropomorphized breeds -breeds roam the lands, and there are pieces of chrome – currency, in fact, to find, and some updates are hidden from the line path. We are not saying Recognized The levels of shine, but the minimum sense of curiosity is definitely rewarded.
When studying, you can change among the party members without interrupting, and the moon became my obvious favorite. Instead of running, riders, high-speed, several inches above the ground, and its embodiment is like soaring through a dream. The launch (or very quickly resembles) in the game feels great, like the system of fighting, which spills you through the gaps and in buildings. There are also raised hands and ropes of light that act like elevators, and all this works.
The fabulous feeling of a dream only crystallizes only in flying waters, a region that looks and behaves as if it is at the bottom of the ocean – bubbles, shipwrecking, whales and everything else – but without a drop of water that can be found. You breathe, walk, run and jump here, as usual, but there are fish schools floating through the air, and Waterlina is visible high above you. This is wonderful trippy.
I could spend the rest of this preliminary viewing, just waking up Expedition 33A fairy-tale environment, characters and enemies, or its first-class letters, music and graphics, but let's talk about the battle.
Expedition 33 It is a rotary game with a clear influence of JRPG, but it adds a turn to the traditional combat system: fast time. Your party members have the opportunity to use the item, expand a specific skill or ordinary attack, plus they have a free move that can lubricate enemy weak glasses before a full blow. There is an elementary weapon for equipment and updates, and each character works on a distinctive combat mechanics. Gustave has a reloading system that raises its robot’s hand for a special move, Lun uses elementary spots to fold specific damage, and Maelle switches between the three fencing positions. Balance of healing, amateurs, defensive movements and attacks is a delicate dance in Expedition 33And the preliminary viewing really began to sing, as soon as all three participants were beautifully leveled, put forward and compressed various types of elementary damage.
Unlike the traditional step -by -step game, in your attacks of skills there are clues in real time, as well as perform these bonus damage and effects. The Final Fantasy series played with this idea to mix success, but in Expedition 33 This is a critical, precisely configured system, and I like the stress that it creates. Rapid time elements fill the familiar step -by -step loop with the help of a thorough form of clarity, adding several additional dopamine strokes to the classic press and reserve rhythm. Each QTE invitation is difficult without punishing, and not just offensive movements that receive real -time treatment. Evasion, parrying and jumping are the necessary skills in Expedition 33And these mechanics require your attention at every turn of the enemy.
In short, no, you cannot install the controller during the battle in Expedition 33The field and yes, I'm completely here for this.
Maybe this is because each character affects a dramatic pose whenever their turn, but there is a distinct personal talent in battle (and this is a wonderful thing in my book). Meanwhile, the soundtrack of the game echo Nier: automatic And Tetris: EffectIn general, even the battle bosses can be a little emotional experience.
In the interests of maintaining this preliminary viewing up to 3000 words, I am not going to go into the specifics of updating trees and types of resources, but I will say that I found these systems purposeful and responsive. I was pleased with how often my party leveled out, it was enough for each character, and the consequences of my manipulation with the indicator were immediately obvious in battle. Rest assured, Expedition 33 This is RPG.
Although this is only based on preliminary viewing, Expedition 33 It seems incredibly polished. He not only smoothly plays at the macro level, but also gives the smallest details correctly, including voice memories, a tactical feedback, which begins when the battle point is in the range, an opaque text field, which is both readable and unhindered integrates into every stage, and the ability to put a rose in Gustava’s hair, even in draws. The entire preliminary view is impressive.
However, I'm interested Expedition 33 is too much Impressive, technically speaking. I played a preliminary viewing on a stable 1080p/60 on the game PC with Super RTX 4070, and I did not encounter any problems, but blocking up to 60 frames in 1440p was outside my installation. It is like a game that is broken by a lot of hearts and PC details. And this is not just a PC – I am curious to see how Expedition 33 Will work on any console that is not PlayStation 5 Pro.
But this is the consideration of the time of review. Pre -viewing for Expedition 33 It illuminates why Sandfall Interactive received so much attention and support before starting. Expedition 33 It consists of beautiful contradictions: it is JRPG, but it comes from the Western studio. This is a fantastic RPG, built outside of restrictions Dungeons and dragons Rules for sets. I am an indie -game that looks, sounds and feels AAA. Most, Expedition 33 Refreshes.
Expedition 33 GIT PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S April 24.