{"id":357308,"date":"2026-01-09T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=406251"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:58:12","slug":"if-expedition-33-can-be-easily-broken-blame-final-fantasy-x-says-its-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/if-expedition-33-can-be-easily-broken-blame-final-fantasy-x-says-its-director\/","title":{"rendered":"If Expedition 33 can be easily broken, blame Final Fantasy X, says its director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The director of Clair Obscur, Guillaume Broche, has recently acknowledged that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/expedition-33-is-not-going-to-change-the-course-of-square-enix-and-final-fantasy\">the title Expedition 33 might be too easy<\/a> for some players, especially in the final boss fight. <strong>During a conversation with Edge magazine, Broche explained that many players chose to complete side content before facing the climax of the game<\/strong>, which led to a combat experience that was less challenging than the team had anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A game inspired by the classics, also for the bad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The structure of Expedition 33 is inspired by classic RPGs from the PS2 era, such as Final Fantasy 10, where players have the freedom to either advance directly to the final boss or dedicate themselves to exploring additional content. <strong>Broche admitted that, while the intention was to allow those focused on the narrative to jump from the end of Act Two directly to the end of the game<\/strong>, it resulted in many players completely surpassing the recommended difficulty levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VaLOc1FpSo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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During a conversation with Edge magazine, Broche explained that many players chose to complete side content before facing the climax of the game, which led to a combat experience that was less challenging than the team had anticipated. A game inspired by the classics, for better or worse The structure of Expedition 33 is inspired by classic RPGs from the PS2 era, such as Final Fantasy 10, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":357317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[7719,7665,9568,1566,20472,9588,19946,7009,20473,4348,1102],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-357308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-clair-obscur","tag-clair-obscur-expedition-33","tag-expedition-33","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-10","tag-final-fantasy-x","tag-guillaume-broche","tag-jrpg","tag-ps1","tag-ps2","tag-rpg","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357449,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357308\/revisions\/357449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357308"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=357308"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=357308"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=357308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}