Clair Obscur: Expedition 33ramps up the difficulty gradually if you’re staying on the main path. However, if you decide to explore a bit more, you’ll come across enemies who’ll gommage you before Maell can yell “Parry it!” Whether it’s Simon or the titular Clair and Obscur, there are plenty of tough bosses to fight. But the game’s hardest obstacle is not an enemy at all, it’s math.
At two separate points in the game, you’ll have conversations about the gommage and when it’s time for certain characters to turn into petals – the first is between Gustave and Maell, while the second is with a young Gestral. On both counts you’re provided with multiple options for when the respective character will gommage, and players are feeling absolutely out of their depth.
Clair Obscur Players Are Struggling With Gommage Math
As pointed out via a video montage byaset_wateron Reddit, a lot of streamers struggled with getting the right answer. “What’s really hilarious is that if the stream chat is shown in the video, there’s almost always someone in the chat making the same mistake too,” they said. As a person whose brain switches off when numbers are involved, I can very much relate.
“Subtractive factorials really mess people up,” pointed out one comment, after which the entire thread was filled with comments explaining how the math problem works. I’m sure many of them are correct, it’s just that I never bothered doing the math and just kept selecting answers till I got the correct one.
The second conversation, with the Gestral, had players more prepared. Some even brought out calculators and notepads in order to get the right answer. However,Sandfall Interactive decided to mess around, as it didn’t matter which option you chose, the Gestral didn’t know the answer either.
“Yeah, for that one Gestral math question I literally messed up so many times doing it in my head that I just got a pen and paper to properly get the answer,” said another player. “It was really funny to learn that it didn’t matter what answer you picked.”
