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His Noobness Apr 24 @ 3:58am

Whats the Point?

I've played for about 2 hours now and I have to admit that I don't understand the story or see any point in what I'm doing. I get to run 3m or do a fight and then have another cutscene full of melancholy. To be honest, I'm missing a bit of a common thread or a sensible introduction as to WHY I'm on the expedition now and what the point is supposed to be.
Apart from that, the game looks really great, but I have to admit that it hasn't grabbed me at all yet and I involuntarily look at my mobile phone during the cutscenes instead of following along because it doesn't grab me.

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Walker Apr 24 @ 4:04am

its easy i refund it

Noelemahc

Apr 24 @ 4:07am

The world is wrecked. For unknown reasons somehow attached to the Paintress, once a year she paints a number one less than before on the monolith and everyone that age and above gets Thanos'd out of reality. It has become a tradition to send Expeditions made of people who want to make a difference or are about to get Gommaged (the local term for it) to sail towards the Monolith in an attempt to find the Paintress and stop her. Thus far, everyone has died (or to be more precise, nobody ever returned), but you have to succeed because what's left of Paris is running out of people due to depopulation and depression.

It's not that complex, and much more hopeful than many classic JRPGs it clearly tries to emulate.

Last edited by Noelemahc; Apr 24 @ 4:07am

Lunaire

Apr 24 @ 4:18am

Originally posted by His Noobness:
as to WHY I'm on the expedition now and what the point is supposed to be.

You're the next one to die if you don't go on the expedition. You're welcome.

His Noobness Apr 24 @ 4:53am

Originally posted by Lunaire:
Originally posted by His Noobness:
as to WHY I'm on the expedition now and what the point is supposed to be.
You're the next one to die if you don't go on the expedition. You're welcome.

So im dying anyways :D? Nice!

Originally posted by Noelemahc:
The world is wrecked. For unknown reasons somehow attached to the Paintress, once a year she paints a number one less than before on the monolith and everyone that age and above gets Thanos'd out of reality. It has become a tradition to send Expeditions made of people who want to make a difference or are about to get Gommaged (the local term for it) to sail towards the Monolith in an attempt to find the Paintress and stop her. Thus far, everyone has died (or to be more precise, nobody ever returned), but you have to succeed because what's left of Paris is running out of people due to depopulation and depression.

It's not that complex, and much more hopeful than many classic JRPGs it clearly tries to emulate.

Thank you. Then i got the point right. But tbh at the time im not hooked. I'll give it another try

Tails' Cash Explosion Apr 24 @ 6:34am

Wow, I just googled, "Expedition 33 am I supped to know what's going on?" While in the first 30 minutes of the game because the cutscenes have been quite uninteresting to me lol and this topic came up.

I'm of course going to keep going, but it's nice to know I'm not alone in my feelings.