While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has joined the likes of Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona in showing that games big on turn-based JRPG vibes can shift copies, its creative director feels "the prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone."
Speaking to Automaton, creative director Guillaume Broche and lead programmer Tom Guillermin reflect on creating a turn-based game in an age where the developers behind many of their influences have since moved on to action-based games to chase new crowds.
