Tengo un monitor de 7680x2160, y la única resolución que me permite usar es la de 3840x1080 en modo ventana, no me deja cambiar a 3840x2160, 5120x1440 o 7680x2160. En ventana sin bordes o en pantalla completa tampoco deja cambiar la resolución, siempre se queda en 3840x1080, y la imagen se corta en esa resolución.

El juego es bastante bueno, pero tuve bastante problemas con sttuterings. espero jugarlo en un futuro con estos problemas arreglados

it started crashing every time I try to load the save, verifying files is not doing anything.

El juego es bonito, sí. Y eso sería todo.
NO es un RPG táctico, es una aventura gráfica con combate por turnos.
Para ser RPG en 2025 es muy lineal y el sistema de combate requiere destreza manual (para esquivar/hacer daño óptimo, etc). De tácticas nada, solo pegar y esquivar.

Este juego es una de las mayores vendidas de humo de 2025 y posiblemente de los últimos años. Si te limitas a mirar trailers, gameplays aislados o jugar solo el principio (que es lo que sospecho que hicieron muchos críticos y youtubers que lo ponen por las nubes), efectivamente parece el mejor juego jamás creado, con sus buenos gráficos, su bonita música, espectaculares combates y una historia que parece muy interesante.

Pero todo es una gigantesca fachada. Este juego es un dragón de papel: de lejos parece hermoso y magnífico, pero cuanto más te acercas, más ves las costuras y al final ves que sólo es un bonito emboltorio cubriendo un montón de mierda. El gameplay es absolutamente insufrible, los controles son ortopédicos y el combate carece la profundidad táctica que uno esperaría en un RPG por turnos.

Y la historia ni siquiera es tan buena como tanta gente dice. Sólo es lagrimógena, con muchas escenas pretenciosas y llenas de melodrama para manipular emocionalmente al jugador. Los personajes carecen de carisma (y en el caso de Esquie, incluso son irritantes), el worldbuilding es perezoso y contradictorio, e incluso varios errores garrafales de escritura (más en los spoilers).

Para empezar, la falta de un minimapa en un juego como este en pleno 2025 es totalmente inexcusable. Hasta los primeros Megami Tensei tenían minimapa, y estamos hablando de juegos de más de 30 años. Lo más parecido que hay es una brújula cuya utilidad es prácticamente nula.

A esto se suma que la interfaz es kk, resaltando sólo los objetos recogibles pero no los NPCs con los que puedes hablar o zonas del mapa con las que puedes interactuar, lo que hace que la exploración sea incluso más ortopédica y poco natural.

Todo esto se podría perdonar si el sistema de combate no fueran tan horroroso. En serio, es totalmente infumable. La mecánica de esquivar y hacer parrys está terriblemente implementada y falla la mitad de las veces, ya que las animaciones de los enemigos no se corresponden con el timeframe para hacer los parrys.

El sentido común dice que tendrías que pulsar el botón justo cuando el ataque enemigo conecte con tu personaje, pero en realidad lo que tienes que hacer la gran mayoría de las veces es pulsar justo antes de eso. Por razones que sólo los desarrolladores saben, sólo los saltos dan indicativos visuales de cuando reaccionar. Los demás, lo más que dan son A VECES algunos efectos de sonido.

Fundamentar todo el combate sobre esta mecánica es una idea espantosa. Esto es óptimo para un juego como Elden Ring, Senkiro o los Dark Souls, donde tienes el control absoluto de tu personaje en todo momento, pero en un RPG por turnos, donde no te puedes mover, esto resulta en una ortopedia que hace los combates tediosos e innecesariamente largos, pues tienes que estar siempre pendiente de las animaciones de los enemigos incluso en el encuentro más trivial.

Esto además distrae mucho al jugador, que termina más preocupado de aprender los patrones de ataque de enemigos y como esquivar el próximo ataque que de como optimizar sus recursos y usar sus turnos de forma inteligente, que es lo que se supone que trata todo buen RPG por turnos. Y el juego tiene la profundidad táctica de un charquito. Hay demasiadas pasivas y sólo unas pocas son realmente útiles, mientras que las mejores builds siguen los mismos patrones.

El 99% de las veces, la estrategia óptima es buffar a Maelle y acumular la mayor cantidad posible de quemaduras sobre el enemigo, lo que es un testamento de mal balanceado que está el juego (a los vídeos de bosses muertos de un golpe me remito).

La historia, otra vendida de humo. Empieza como un viaje en una misión imposible y termina como una especie de plagio cutre de Umineko sin más sustancia que pobres plot twists que cualquiera ve venir desde un millón de kilómetros. Porque es extremadamente obvio desde el principio que Maelle es Alicia, Verso es su hermano y la Pintora es la madre de ambos.

Las "sorpresas" de la trama se producen únicamente porque los personajes ocultan información constantemente y las mujeres del grupo son tan increíblemente estúpidas que aceptan claras mentiras como explicaciones aceptables. Atajo de guionista perezoso donde los haya.

El único plot twist que no se ve venir es matar a Gustave a media trama, y no porque sea bueno, sino porque es una enorme cagada narrativa. Hay una razón por la que ninguna historia minimamente seria mata a su protagonista tan pronto, y no es porque a nadie se le haya ocurrido, sino porque es una completa estupidez.

Aún más estúpido es sustituir al protagonista por un nuevo personaje recién salido de la nada del cual el espectador no sabe nada y posee información que el lector no tiene, lo que es otra gigantesca cagada narrativa que genera una gran disonancia entre el lector y la obra.

Sobretodo si vas a meter mecánicas de romance después de que Sophie hiciera foreshadowing al principio del juego de un posible romance entre Gustave y Lune, lo que aparte de demostrar lo rápido que esta adquiere confianza con desconocidos sospechosos me hace pensar que los escritores de este juego tienen algún fetiche con el NTR.

En fin, para ir acabando, una completa decepción y ejemplo perfecto de por qué nunca hay que dejarse llevar por el tren del hype. Si quieres RPG occidentales con una historialmente realmente buena, tienes Disco Elysium o Planescape: Torment y prefieres los JRPGs, tienes Xenogears y sus sucesores.

Hasta Tales of Berseria tiene un drama familiar más interesante y mejor llevado que este juego, por no mencionar que ahí los personajes sí que tienen carisma. Incluso Persona 3 hace una mejor reflexión sobre el dolor y la pérdida que esta mediocridad pretenciosa.

If you have a good reaction and have a lot of free time, I would definitely recommend this game for you. However, I have neither.

Pros:
- Visuals are awesome
- Music is one of the best OSTs I've ever heard
- Good plot
- Great voice acting

Cons:
- Combat is just a jerking on the timings and most of the bosses don't care about your build, they just care about your ability to push buttons during the correct milliseconds
- Saves before the cutscenes that last several minutes in 2025 (hello, Siren)
- Some of the enemy attacks are so poorly telegraphed that you just may start pondering on the good-old orb to understand the motivation of the designers
- Size of the parry and evasion windows feels absolutely random even for the same bosses
- Animations out of the combat are meh
- Lipsinc in the "two speaking heads" cutscenes sometimes goes out of the window (and doesn't come back, obviously)
- Physics of the long hair is broken (long hair starts to clip through the characters)

This was originally a positive review, and I only intended to update it if, as I had written at the time, the game "catastrophically fails" later into it.
I have completed all optional content and gotten all achievements (save for 2 common ones that I can't be bothered with rn) and it was a rollercoaster. To be quite frank, the game isn't worth the 90%+ score it currently stands at, unless you look at it purely from an artistic perspective (even then, eh)


It's initially fine, but for most of Act 1 & 2 of the main story, the combat feels pretty bad. There are two main reasons for this:

• Your attacks's damage are capped at 9999, and you start reaching that cap very early (level 10...), so until Act 3 where the cap is removed, combat is frustrating as you are continuously c*ck-blocked
  
• Simultaneously, despite the damage cap, as you try optimizing your party, you do way too much damage to the story bosses. I've killed major story bosses (the Axons) within 2 turns, and clearly a lot of effort went into them and their mechanics, but you don't get to see it.

At Act 3 of the story, you finally get to play the "real game", and the enemies get significantly tankier, more in line with the side-content. It's really a shame that you have to be 15 hours into the story for the combat to finally become the way it's meant to be, and not this weird watered-down version. It seems most of the main-story combat was simplified for mass appeal, despite the easy difficulty already existing for that purpose.

The deeper you go into Act 3+ side-content, the more frustrating the combat becomes. Imo, this is because the parry mechanic is inherently flawed. On the surface, the parry mechanic is alike the Mario & Luigi games's counterattack mechanic; you can nullify the incoming damage, and do damage on top of that. Very strong already, but in Clair Obscur, each parry also gives you one action point, critical for your action economy, and counterattacks are also the biggest source of stun damage (note: counterattacks can only be done if the last person hit has parried every hit targeted at them).

This makes parrying the most important mechanic of the combat system and something you always want to do, as it is both the best defensive option and the best offensive option. So, how do you balance such an OP mechanic? I don't know, and it doesn't seem like the devs knew either.
The game starts with 1 or 2-hit enemy attacks that are well-telegraphed and with sound cues; In the endgame side-content, enemy attacks can be 10+ hits, with some being unreactable, some changing targets in the middle of the attack - with the delays included, attacks can go for 30+ seconds...
The damage done by each hit gets ridiculous as well, you might have your entire party be oneshot from failing to parry an unreactable hit of a 8-hit AoE attack, on normal difficulty.

In the first half of the game, you go "damnit, I missed the parry", in the second half, you go "what the f**k is this bs". It's honestly disappointing, I like Action-RPGs a lot more than I do turn-based RPGs, it's the reason I bought the game in the first place. Now that I've finished it, I find that I would have preferred if it was just a normal turn-based RPG instead... In its mixing of action and turn-based combat, Clair Obscur ends up being frustrating to traditional turn-based JRPG players, but also frustrating to Action-RPG players by not having the freedom of movement a real Action-RPG would.

Some other things, too:

• Fighting the merchants is a fun idea and a nice change of pace in the middle of a dungeon. Until the endgame anyway, where merchant fights start to become 1v3 fights, which turns them into annoying, painful fights, just to be given the right to buy from them (and the prices are certainly not cheap either!)
  
• The mimes would be an interesting encounter if they were a one-time encounter. As recurring encounters, they're really annoying, especially compared to the other recurring encounters like the Pétanks
  
• One specific fight is baffling: Simon. Simon is a superboss. Very clearly, the last enemy you're supposed to fight in a playthrough, but the fight really didn't feel great. Phase 1 is fine, Phase 2 just is unfair. You do not get healed into phase 2, but you lose your gradient gauge buildup, it was cool finding that out after I saved it during phase 1. First off, why can he just remove your dead party from the battle? What's the point of revive items then? Why is such a mechanic RNG-based of all things, making it entirely luck-based whether your run is over or not? Secondly, yeah, unreactable attacks woven into really long combo, and insane AoE attack with insane damage.
  There's virtually no difference between hard difficulty and normal difficulty for Simon. You get oneshot anyway. And that really shouldn't be the case?? As advertised by the description of normal difficulty, what I expect is a challenging fight where I'll be constantly on the backfoot, not a fight where missing a single parry/dodge wipes out my entire party. That's just not fun. If I wanted that, I would have chosen the hard difficulty.

(This is mainly notes for my fellow french devs)

• Dungeons tell you if they're higher level than you; overworld enemies however do not, which makes for a poor experience of finding out the hard way.
  
• The autosave is wonky. It doesn't seem to ever save in the overworld. When I was going through overworld bosses, after beating 2 and losing to a 3rd one (turned out it was way above my level), I was rolled back so far I had to redo the 2 I had beaten..
  
• The overworld map display is very barren of information. This isn't inherently bad, Elden Ring has that, but see, the key difference is that ER lets you place your own markers on the map so you can keep track of the location of things. A map with no information on which I cannot write the information myself is just bad UX.
  
• The pictos (equipment) system is rough. You cannot upgrade them, you have to hope you'll find the upgrade you need soon, but you're more likely to find an ugrade for some pictos you're never gonna use..
  
• Presumably this is what the "Lumina" system aims to partially address, but that has its own issues; The Luminas get really out of hand during the endgame, as you have so many to keep track of, and it makes any attempt to respec your character pretty annoying.
  
• The weapons system is a bit better than the pictos; you can upgrade the weapons, but you can also randomly find upgrades to weapons for free, and if you had already invested in that weapon, ofc you do not get your investment refunded.. Not all weapons have free upgrades either (or not in areas that you're close to reach), so it's not something you can just patiently wait for
  
• There's a lot of weapons! There's like, ~20 weapons per character, which can widely change their playstyle, and that's pretty cool! However, their damage mostly scales with your character's stats, so you often have to reallocate your character's stats to make the best use of them. This is not free, and while the item it costs is infinitely farmeable, it makes the process unnecessarily tedious and disincentive experimenting with builds.
  
• You cannot reallocate Lumina points???????
  
• You only have use for one Bourgeon skin, so why do all the Bourgeons drop one? What am I gonna do with it?
  
• You can make an argument for not translating "Gommage"; not translating "m*erde" and "p*tain", however, is plain unnecessary and sounds out of place, especially when voiced by British voice actors who clearly do not speak French.

I'm leaving a negative review purely so the devs can address accessibility problems with the game. I am mostly blind and lack of distinct prompts for dodging make the QTE events largely impossible for me to complete without a huge amount of dumb luck on my side. We're meant to rely on sound effects and animations, but this window doesn't feel consistent or well telegraphed to someone with a visual impairment. I can't see the enemy animations well enough to determine what their pattern or timing is meant to be. I didn't have these issues with the Mario RPGs or Lost Odyssey with their QTEs.

Sandfall, you gave jumping a prompt icon so people would know when to jump vs dodge or parry, can you please add a similar prompt for dodging so that I can play the game like everyone else? Sekiro managed this mechanic, why can't you? How did this game get to the end of production and no one commented on this as an obvious problem? Mario RPG and the Paper Mario games got away with this due to insanely high levels of telegraphing and enemy attack design consistency that this game lacks. Please fix it so those of us with disabilities can have the same experience as everyone else.

I see I need to add this for those who haven't played the game - there is no option in game to fully disable QTEs in spite of the devs stating that this was the case. They misrepresented the nature of the feature. There's a button to fully disable attack QTEs, which isn't required as they are prompted, but there is no option to have clearer indicators or the full disabling of the dodge/parry QTEs which are the actual problem. Jumping is fine as that already has a prompt indicator and I don't see why further prompts can't be added for the dodge/parry when jumping was deemed worthy of one (likely because there's no real distinction in the animations). Please stop spreading false information that this feature exists already in the game - it does not.

If you don't enjoy timed dodging or parrying, then don't buy this game.

I was hyped for this game, I saw a few pictures and 1 trailer, was told by many people not to look up too much because even seeing the party could lead to spoilers, I was told, if you love turn based RPGS you will love this.

I do love turn based RPGS, but I do not love this.

I have never seen a game have literally everything be perfect yet absolutely fumble the landing. The dodge and parry system can make or break your experience. If you are good at games like Sekiro or rhythm games ignore everything I said. If you play turn based games because you appreciate the slow and calculated gameplay or have bad reaction time this game will be a nightmare. I do not enjoy having a win or loss be entirely dependent on if i can press a button fast enough, this feel like a bunch of people sat in a room and said that turn based was boring and tried to make it fun. They didn't, they took away what is fun about turn based games for me.

In the early stages a few missed dodges or parries will straight up kill you because the game is balanced around you basically being able to never be hit, but as you go on you can level to reduce damage, but this doesnt mean you can ignore the mechanic now, enemies will start inflicting statuses, attack down, defense down, stuns that take away your turns, marks that make you take more damage, some of their attacks chain up to 5 times making you weave dodges, parries and jumps. I could maybe understand if there was a flash or a button prompt to help you dodge, but there is none of that, or a setting to make dodging easier without setting the whole game to story mode, but there isn't. The devs realized people may not be able to do quick time events for attacks so they added an option to do them automatically, but nothing for dodges, if you cant do one you cant do the other.

I sadly cant recommend this to anyone who likes a turn based game for being turn based.