Talking for everybody concerned within the improvement and launch of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we wish to thanks, each single one of many followers, for what an unimaginable yr of success our sport has had in 2025. As a present of thanks, we’re dropping a serious content material replace to the sport on PS5 proper now (without cost!).
The biggest inclusion here’s a brand-new stage, “Verso’s Drafts”, that includes new environments to discover, battles to battle, and loads of surprises to find. The biome has a really childlike, wonderland-style aesthetic, impressed by Verso’s childhood, however you’ll see extra cutscenes that elaborate on this within the replace.
It goes with out saying that Lorien Testard’s musical magic is again too, with new tracks added for the extent.
“I lived the creation of the final songs of the OST as a farewell to this complete journey and to the characters who’ve accompanied my life and creativeness for 5 years. I’m joyful to know that right this moment it was only a goodbye… We had the possibility to compose music for a really particular stage, a deep and playful a part of Verso’s childhood. Who would have thought he liked sweets a lot when he was youthful?
“It gave us the chance to have a number of enjoyable, to bop and to chuckle whereas creating these songs; you may even hear Alice’s pure laughter in one in all them! After which the time got here to write down the final observe of the album… as soon as once more, the time to say goodbye. I don’t know what tomorrow will deliver, if will probably be clair or obscur, however I do know it’s inside that in-between that desires blossom. Thanks for dreaming with us.”
– Lorien Testard, Composer, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Check out the Thank You Replace Trailer, that includes Verso’s Draft right here:
You’ll discover a plethora of unlockables in Verso’s Drafts too. There’s 13 new weapons to unlock, some having an analogous vibe to the child-like environments within the stage (sweet scythe, anybody?). 16 further Luminas are additionally accessible to unlock – including much more customization and choices to your fight. There’s additionally a bunch extra costumes and hairstyles for every character, some look very stylish, and a few… deliberately goofy – I received’t spoil it right here, however you may wish to attempt the working animation in a few of them.
Followers will probably be delighted to know, after many many requests, that we lastly added a photograph mode within the sport! To not brag, however it’s a reasonably in depth one too you may add filters (33, to be precise) and results, change the angles, area of view, shade grading, and even change the placement and colours of the lighting (with 10 totally customizable lights!).
Our Senior Gameplay Programmer, Florien Torres, shares his perception: “It is possible for you to to make use of this throughout cinematics, which we anticipate folks will get very inventive with. With the picture mode digicam, you may journey an infinite distance with out collision – mainly, the group needed to go all in and provides full entry to the participant, that means they might entry bizarre places, even beneath the map and type of ‘backstage’.”
We’re extraordinarily excited to supply this to our followers and see what masterpieces they’ll create with these new instruments.
This isn’t every part after all, there’s many QoL options added that gamers will recognize, together with including filters when trying to find Lumina’s, having the ability to save preset Lumina loadouts, and having the choice to desert battles (if you would like, no judgement right here). We’ve additionally added extra textual content language help, so the sport is extra accessible, the brand new language additions embrace: Czech, Ukrainian, Mexican Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, bringing the entire variety of supported languages to 19, with extra deliberate for the long run.
You may additionally catch on the very finish of the trailer; an additional difficult shock awaits! And it received’t be the one problem for gamers to beat – you may anticipate finding a slew of latest boss battles for late-game gamers throughout the Countless Tower. Parrying your means up the tower will reward gamers with all new Pictos, costumes, and a bunch of different gear.
We will’t specific our gratitude sufficient, however we hope this replace helps specific it ultimately. Followers can play Verso’s Drafts as a part of the brand new Thank You Replace accessible now on PlayStation 5!
