Summary
- One optional late-game fight in Clair Obscur pits players against annoying enemies for a challenging battle.
- The trio of Clair, Obscur, and a Mime is tedious to fight due to tricky dodging, buffing, and shielding abilities.
- Beating these enemies only rewards players with a cosmetic item, making the hassle not worth the effort.
This article contains minor location spoilers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Despite being a relatively linear game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a wide variety of optional content for players to find, including boss battles, cosmetics, and helpful skills in the form of Pictos. Players who are dedicated to seeing all Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has to offer will likely scour the map searching for hidden areas that contain these secrets. However, exploration-minded players have likely come across one hidden boss fight and decided against engaging once they realized what they would be up against.
Like most RPGs, Expedition 33 features a spectrum of enemy difficulty, made even more distinct by the game's reactive turn-based combat that allows players to dodge, parry, and even jump over incoming enemy attacks. Learning the timing for these abilities is a huge part of finding success in Expedition 33, but some enemies provide a far greater challenge in this regard than others. And there is one fight in the game that can cause players major headaches in this regard, leaving many players to skip it entirely.
One Optional Late-Game Fight Pits Players Against Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Most Annoying Enemies
Clair, Obscur, and a Mime Do Not Make for a Great Time
|
Enemy |
Weakness |
Nullification |
|---|---|---|
|
Clair |
Dark |
Light |
|
Obscur |
Light |
Dark |
|
Mime |
N/A |
N/A |
Perhaps three of the most tedious enemies to fight in Expedition 33 are a Clair, an Obscur, and a Mime. There is one optional boss battle located within the late-game location of The Monolith that features all three of these foes in one fight. While players are likely familiar with fighting each one individually throughout their journey through the Continent, a battle against all three is enough to make many pull their hair out.
What makes these Nevrons in Expedition 33 so annoying is the difficulty in dodging their attacks, combined with their tendency to buff one another. Both Clair and Obscur have slow, drawn-out attack patterns that are difficult to dodge or parry with perfect timing. Clair also tends to shield its allies, while Obscur will cast Enrage on its allies to allow them to act twice in one turn, with both being able to debuff the player's party. The only upside is that each has a distinct weakness to either Light or Dark damage, running counter to their primary elemental type.
A solo fight against a Mime in Expedition 33 can be a pain on its own due to the Mime's high defense prior to being stunned and its tendency to shield itself on turn one. Combine this shield ability with Clair's ally-shielding skill and the Mime's similarly tricking window for parrying or dodging attacks, and players could be left fighting this trio for quite some time.
Players can use Maelle's Breaking Rules skill or Monoco's Chevaliere Piercing skill to get around enemy shields.
The Reward for Beating this Expedition 33 Boss is Hardly Worth the Hassle
For players bold enough to see these Nevron and decide to engage them in battle, the reward may be slightly underwhelming. Players can earn the Voluminous haircut for Maelle by defeating this trio of Clair, Obscur, and a Mime. While players hunting for every cosmetic in this game might be happy to receive this reward, others who commit to the painstaking effort to defeat these enemies only to receive a cosmetic item may be disappointed.
For players who have battled all the Mimes in Expedition 33 up to this point, encountering the Mime in The Monolith flanked by a Clair and Obscur, knowing that a new cosmetic is the likely reward, is enough for many to turn tail and leave. This fight could be more appealing if it also offered a reward that improved gameplay, such as a new weapon or Pictos. However, the tedium of learning the tricky timing of these enemies' attacks and dealing with their buffs, combined with a lackluster reward, makes them a clear battle that players will want to avoid.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 92 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- April 24, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Sandfall Interactive
- Publisher(s)
- Kepler Interactive
WHERE TO PLAY
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Genre(s)
- Turn-Based RPG, JRPG, Fantasy
