As the hulking monstrosity lurches towards us, a stitched together abomination that looks like a huge, corrupted Edwardian-period children’s toy, Expedition 33’s youngest team member, Maelle, draws her rapier and issues a battle cry that seems to reach far beyond her attitude to embody her fighting style. Maelle’s delivery of “Finesse and grace!” sounds like a ideological riposte to the grotesqueries of the broken world around her, as well as its Nevron denizens. It feels like a mantra Maelle is determined to live by in this apocalyptic, dying world to the very end, regardless of if she and her companions reach and best their adversary, the mysterious and calamitous Paintress. It also feels apt in describing what surely will be the most elegant and excitingly fresh new RPG of 2025.
CLAIR DE LUNE
Welcome to the dark fantasy world of Sandfall Interactive’s , a distinctly western evolution of the classic turn-based combat JRPG. Maelle and her fellow team members from Expedition 33 – a group tasked with venturing forth from their city of Lumière