It is the video game event of this first half of 2025, and it is French!
The Clear Dark Game: Expedition 33, released on April 24, 2025 is a demented success, both critical and commercial, since it has passed at 1 million copies in just 3 days. The demand is such that it is difficult to obtain a copy: on France Info the manager of a Parisian Micromania store, testifies: “As soon as we receive it, it leaves during the day, immediately. We are out of stock, moreover today ”. Even the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, publicly praised the work carried out by the Montpellier studio Sandfall Interactive on Instagram.
A fountain well known to Lyonnais
Expedition 33 is a role-playing game inspired by Japanese Cadors of the genre such as Final Fantasy or Xenoblade, but taking place in the fictitious city of light, in France, in a dark and fantastic setting of the Belle-Epoque. And if we are talking about it today in the columns of progress, it is because a player has noticed a very special detail: in a certain area of the game, we can see … the fountain of the Jacobins!
A find that he immediately shared on the Reddit forum, a supporting photo, and it is clear that the monument was faithfully modeled. As for its location in the game, the fountain would be “in one of the rooms in the manor, the bathroom”.
A Lyonnaise behind this music “which gives goosebumps”
But that’s not all! Friends of Lyon, we will add a layer of chauvinism by stressing that one of the most praised elements of Clair Obscur, namely his soundtrack, also has a link with our territory. This music which “gives goosebumps”, as another user of the Reddit social network comments, was composed by the Vauclusian Lorien Testard, accompanied by singing by Alice Duport-Percier.
This former student of the Lycée Condorcet began choral singing at the Saint-Priest Conservatory, before joining the mastery of the Lyon Opera, as indicated by the biography available on her website. She subsequently specialized in old directories at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon while obtaining, in parallel, a state diploma in singing at the CEFEDEM Rhône-Alpes in 2016.
In addition to his participation in the Yellow Sock Orchestra project, a symphonic orchestra specializing in the soundtracks of films and anime (One Piece, Naruto, the attack of the Titans and the films of the Ghibli studios), the soprano therefore lent its voice to the light band of Clair Dark: Expedition 33, a titanic content of 154 songs for about 7 hours of music. And whose main theme is called… Alicia!
