Baguette, potato bag, light, sailor, beret, tower eiffel destroyed, Belle Époque, Renoir, Gustave, Maelle … France has been playing on the video game scene for more than a week. A cooking to which we owe Clear Oscure: Expedition 33, the first game of Montpellier Studio Sandfall Interactive. A real pearl that shook players from all over the world.
A week after its launch on April 24, this narrative game that plays in the third person, which mixes action and fights a shift, was praised for its originality and renewal of the RPG style, its clear inspiration and admitted to the side of the saga Final Fantasy While injecting a very French touch of modernity. A voluntary “French touch” that the game teams were disturbed throughout history and that offers a unique aesthetic to the title, far from the usual codes of the genre.
A deserved success and praised by the President of the Republic in person this May 1.
Sandfall Interactive joins the long list of studies that make France radiate internationally as Arkane (Dishonor, Deathloop), Does not settle (Life is strange, remember Me), Asobo (A plague story, Flight simulator) or Dream Quantic (Heavy rains, Detroit) and newcomers like Randisc Studio (Sennaar songs). A dynamic and creative sector whose ability to impose a style, narrative sensitivity and an artistic audacity continue to hit the thugs with the players.
France in DNA and pride
It should be said that Clear Oscure: Expedition 33 He is French in his DNA as in his representation. Therefore, we find extremely clear references of the city called Lumière, the names of its heroes (Gustave, Maelle, Renoir, Moon …), artistic inspirations for the sets and the characters (the beautiful epoque and the art decco, the visual style that leans on the side of black romanticism and the surrealism of Magritte in Delacroix …).
France also flows to writing that takes very hexagonal literary themes (death, mortality, revolt, emotion …), but also in French elements as the great words that are put in French in the text even for the English version, the wand or the sailor … and simply the name of the game of the game Dark, dark, Name of the literary and artistic movement maintained in the title in VF, or its central character, this painter who with a brushstroke rewrites a new light figure to throw the shadow in an entire kind of erased age of the surface of the world.
It is this particular atmosphere, this new gameplay both in real time and in the turn -By -gurn, this maker music and this attractive story that touched the players and the press, put France again to the center of the game card of the moment. Because the strength of the sand fall is to have known how to put its French leg in a style of play that was believed forever framed by the Asian codes of the genre.
A winning bet of a small independent study, carried by the daring Kepler (Tchia, Sifif…), which has also become figures with more than one million sales (excluding downloads in the Xbox game). For many followers, is the Final Fantasy They have been waiting for years to renew the genre. The renewal will be French.
Source: BFM TV
