Platinumed Clair Obscur Expedition 33 at 66 hours. 10/10. Game of the 9th Generation so far.
Everything I look for in a Platinum aside from one mistep by the developer making one collectible missable which in the end didn't matter cause speed running to the end of NG+ gave me all the EXP I needed in 15 minutes as opposed to farming the same mobs for hours and hours but asides from that, no need for meta gaming or guides (mostly, they help clean up the few collectible you haven't found naturally), lots of bronze trophies and fun ones too. Gets you checking out lots of side stuff that probably wouldn't have been engaged with other wise. It helps that the game is so phenomenally brilliant too and everything within it is so fun. I would say this would be an 80-90 hour Platinum if you don't break the game cause there are a lot of fights to get through and those fights can get very long and some are extremely challenging playing Legit, no game breaking trickery. I done 75% of the story on Expert difficulty, half of the end game on normal and half on easy after I broke the game and started one shooting everything. You can see rested assets here all over the place but it works because of the story of the game and only adds to world, they did better with what they had than AAA studios do with 2000 people and 400 million and asides from that one collectible they really considered the platinum too.
Now the game is so absolutely fantastic I went ahead and started a fresh save file and straight bavk into it. Truly an master work of a game and now I get to use the two characters and styles of play I avoided the first time so there will be fresh stuff, gonna try and not really mess with Lumina and just enjoy the game again and try to rely on skill based play and counters on normal difficulty. This is a piece of art that stands up with anything in any museum in the world.







