Various news outlets and media have posted their hands-on and impressions for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 today:

Xbox Wire

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/03/03/clair-obscur-expedition-33-preview/

IGN

https://www.ign.com/articles/clair-obscur-expedition-33-the-final-preview

Kotaku

https://kotaku.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-rpg-preview-turn-based-1851767119

Eurogamer

https://www.eurogamer.net/playing-clair-obscur-expedition-33-for-three-hours-has-confirmed-all-my-hopes-and-fears-about-this-gorgeous-new-action-rpg

Xbox Era

https://xboxera.com/2025/03/03/clair-obscur-expedition-33-hands-on-preview/

Easy Allies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycAczZbh2s

RPG Site

https://www.rpgsite.net/preview/16967-clair-obscur-expedition-33-preview-this-may-just-be-standout-rpg-2025

Gamesradar

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/clair-obscur-expedition-33-isnt-the-classic-turn-based-rpg-ive-been-longing-for-but-its-combat-is-somehow-even-better-than-what-i-wanted/

ACG …

For some examples:

• Belief: Doom was installed on a pregnancy test.
• Reality: Foone, the creator of the Doom pregnancy test, simply put a screen and microcontroller inside a pregnancy test’s plastic shell. Notably, this was not intended to be taken seriously, and was done as a bit of a shitpost.

• Belief: The original PS3 model is the only one that can play PS1 discs through backwards compatibility.
• Reality: All PS3 models are capable of playing PS1 discs.

• Belief: The Video Game Crash of 1983 affected the games industry worldwide.
• Reality: It only affected the games industry in North America.

• Belief: GameCube discs spin counterclockwise.
• Reality: GameCube discs spin clockwise.

• Belief: Luigi was found in the files for Super Mario 64 in 2018, solving the mystery behind the famous “L is Real 2401” texture exactly 24 years, one month and two days after the game’s original release.
• Reality: An untextured and uncolored 3D model of Luigi was found in a leaked batch of …

I’m not scared just terrified to have that Pudge as my team mate 🙄 you know why….. 😏

https://reddit.com/link/1j2qt17/video/4zmqooedyime1/player

Going to draw other characters soon (Lash is definitely James)

Many broken heroes in the game right now, including Calico, Sinclair and Holliday, but the fact I don’t see anybody talking about a team having a 60% chance to win before the game even started because they have a Seven makes me wonder if people are just biased against new heroes or something. For reference, Holliday has 49% WR in Eternus lobbies and 47% overall. Sinclair has 53% WR in Eternus lobbies and 47% overall. Calico has 51% both in Eternus and overall. Yet literally the conversation is always about Calico, Holliday and Sinclair for some reason. Can we nerf the 60% WR hero? It’s crazy that in a game with 12 players, merely having that one character on your team is already tilting your chance to win that much. All these numbers are from tracklock and from last 7 days to account for games in the new map only.