How Clair Obscur’s developers made Expedition 33 extremely French

There are so many ways to describe Sandfall Interactive’s 2025 RPG Clair Obscur Expedition 33. Moving, beautiful, exhilarating. Game of the Year frontrunner. But, perhaps most obvious, after a glance at its mime enemies and characters clad in berets with baguettes at their back, is French. The game is French AF, wearing its inspirations proudly, which makes sense; Sandfall was formed by French game developers.