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clair obscur is beautiful and fun, but what on earth is the point off all the empty corridors? (hexbear.net)

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French noises: the game is blowing up and not without good reason. It's beautiful (awful flickering hair TAA artefacts and weird gormless facial expressions aside), the story is more mature than the usual slop gamers settle for, the style is shamelessly traced from persona five's notes but with unique aesthetic flair. I am a known "video game stories are mostly actively a negative addition" hater and I've been moved to tears. Shit slaps.

I just have one question, what is the point of all the hours you are meant to spend holding down sprint running backwards and forwards through a sequence of empty corridors waiting to find the next actually interesting thing? What does it add? The best defense I can think of is that it gives you time to listen to the great music?

The pacing is whack, it's banging fight. 5 minutes twiddling a joystick and occasionally pressing X, banging fight, 5 minutes twiddling, amazing fight, story beat, time to stop having fun because the overworld section is next!

Can someone please explain?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think that's a bit of a strawman. I am genuinely confused by the number of dead ends, empty loops, samey visuals, and the sheer length of time spent holding forward in an otherwise extremely intentional game.

Obviously doom doesn't work if you just put all the enemies on a flat grey plane. Also though doom starts getting worse at a certain point if you start reducing the enemy density by adding long sections between each fight. Those long sections might get better if you do something with them, like in doom notfour they have heaps of long empty sections at one point where they blather lore at you. I loathed that section but I wasn't confused as to why it was there, they wanted to tell you a story once they sucked you in with boom boom pew pew.

So assume I am not stupid. Have you played the game? why are they as long as they are? as narrow as they are? as empty as they are?