r/expedition33

I had to go with maelles ending, but Verso lines, "I don't want this life. "........ Fuck ill never forget this masterpiece

Hi, I'm part of completionist team that runs the E33 Checklists and 100% completion hub at Game Checklists, some of you probably use for which I'm incredibly thankful.

I tried to do something interesting with the progress data people save and track - and pulled the data of LEAST collected items in Expedition 33 in our db. This comes from 4000+ completionist players.

To save you a click, here are the 5 missed items - if you have all 5, you are a literal legend in 2.5% of completionists, at least compared to our database of players - congrats:

The link attached is ad-free and an interesting explainer of why these items are so low, the methodology used and more interesting info. I encourage you to have a look as there is more info in detail

*Rest of the expedition has Anniversary Haircuts at 4.0 % - 4.6 %, Gustave is probably low because, well.. you know why and how his stuff is acquired. This still makes them #2 - #6.

If you have any questions or are interested in some completion data, I can answer:)

I feel like something is going to happen to me..

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I finished and got the platinum for the game earlier in the year and my partner has started playing recently. It’s so fun to sit there and watch him not have a single clue about what is happening.

He just killed the second axon and got the scene back at camp where verso hugs Alicia before Renoir comes up and he just innocently said “that’s just Maelle”. I laughed along and was like “yeah ikr they look quite similar” but he has literally no idea 😂. I can’t wait for his reaction when he finds out!

He was getting bummed out too because he was like “oh I don’t want the game to end when I kill the paintress, I don’t want the story to be over” and I just had to contain myself so bad! It’s so fun.

I don't know if this has been addressed before, I couldn't find anything on a search.

I was watching someone play through the prologue and it struck me as odd how long it takes Sophie to gommage compared to everyone else.

But then I thought, people are being gommaged based on how old their chroma is, so Sophie must be younger than everyone else thats 33. One of the NPCs in an earlier interaction says something about it being Sophie's special day, which previously made me think about it being the day of the gommage, but now I think its refering to Sophie's birthday.

Sophie was born on gommage day. I think further evidence is people being surprised that she is 33, saying they thought she was younger. She was probably actually almost the same age as Gustave, with Maelle saying he is the oldest man in Lumiere. He was probably only a day or two younger than her.

TLDR: Sophie was born on gommage day and is probably almost the exact same age as Gustave. The reason she was the last to gommage is because her chroma was the freshest.

Just finished the game. Amazing, called my wife while I wept. Going in the hall of amazing games for me.

Hello

I recently finished playing ACT 2 and the EPILOGUE of the game and I am currently in the middle of ACT 3. But after the revelation about the painters and Aline and Renoir and the painted creations in the canvas, I have a few questions that I don't seem to understand clearly on my part.

1. From what I understood, Maelle is actually the real Alicia, who entered the Canvas and, because of Aline's powers, was reborn as Maelle. But after we kill the Paintress and everyone inside the Canvas dies, how does Alicia return? And how does she suddenly have Painter-like powers, such as resurrecting Lune and Sciel, and later killing both the Paintress and Renoir at the end of Act 2?
2. At the beginning of the game, Renoir attacks Expedition 33 on the beach and kills most of the expedition members. We also fight him twice before finally killing the Paintress. Is this the painted version of Renoir created by Aline? If so, why is he trying to kill the expeditioners? Was he doing it because he wanted to prevent the destruction of the Paintress and, by extension, save himself from disappearing?

I know some of these questions might have obvious answers, and it's entirely possible I overlooked or misunderstood something. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help clear this up without spoiling anything beyond the middle of Act 3.

Thank you!

I finished this masterpiece earlier today. Wow. Genuinely the best game I've ever played and nothing else gets particularly close.

Every single twist blew my mind, and they kept coming! And the more you zoom out, the smarter and more meaningul the plot becomes. It's genius taken at face value as a story, but if you step back and consider that it's a meta-commentary on gaming, on storytelling, in the passion and role of an artist, it's actually genius (and I don't use that word lightly).

I think it is without a doubt the smartest and most complex story ever told in a single piece of media (which to be fair, I will admit that games have a massive advantage over eg movies and books because they can be so deep and you can do so much with them).

The funniest part is I was gushing about this to my friend group and one of them had the nerve to say he thinks BG3 was better.

I just wanted to sing this game's praises somewhere people would appreciate it. I tried to in the main gaming sub but they're too TikTok-brained and CoD-pilled so I was just downvoted.