Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen explained that the developers at Sandfall Interactive were careful not to (sand)fall into a common trap with "deus ex machina" situations.
Deus ex machinas, characters solving unsolvable problems using - surprise! - a secret trick you never knew about before, prop up fairly often in games everywhere (looking at you, Kingdom Hearts 3). But it's particularly noticeable in RPGs where characters are constantly becoming more powerful in-combat, capable of dealing big damage with increasingly flashy abilities every time they level up.
