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Breaking Down Expedition 33 – Full Spoiler Dive into Story, Bosses, and The Ending(s)? | TWIG | Gaming Podcast
Thu, 15 May 2025
Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan, and John go full spoiler-mode on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. From the game’s hauntingly beautiful world to its bold story choices and jaw-dropping ending(s), we spill all the beans. This is absolute PEAK gaming experience. We break down how Expedition 33 makes its narrative so emotionally impactful, and how it stacks up among the greats of the genre. If you've finished this video game—or just want to know what all the hype is about—this is your definitive Expedition 33 breakdown. Your weekly hit of gaming news, deep dives, and everything video games—from the Video Gamers Podcast. Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, and Gaius Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1 Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Expedition 33 and why is it significant?
Hello, fellow expeditioners, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. Today is the day. Today is the day we enter the monolith, put a stop to the Pinterest, and end the gommage once and for all. Today is the day we go full spoilers for Expedition 33. That's right. There is so much that needs to be talked about that we're heading back and talking all the things we couldn't talk about before.
But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he might not have loved Expedition 33, but he's about to have his mind blown because he has no clue where this story goes. It's Ryan.
Is that how that works? Like, I'm just gonna just have my mind blown from it? I mean, I figured I was gonna bring this pillow and take a nap real quick.
Dude, Ryan, if you listen, I know it's fun for you, man. But man, if you've ever been more wrong in your life, I don't I don't know how to be honest. But with that said, the story in Expedition 33, we're going to talk about. And if you don't think this story sounds amazing, well, then we need to check.
Chapter 2: What are the major spoilers we need to know?
I'm ready to hear it, buddy. I'm ready to hear it.
All right. And joining us, the man who shed tears with me, the man who grieved with me, the man who understands the emotional journey and toll this game can have on you. It's John.
Hello. Hello, everyone. Yeah. Josh, I still haven't recovered, man. I still I beat this game. I don't know. A week and change ago. And I'm still recovering from it. But I gotta tell you, the one little bit of reprieve I've got is the fact that I think this is probably the first double deep dive in video game pod...
we have done rust a couple times yeah we have we've done rust and then we did like a return to rust like a year later um but i think oh take it back deep rock galactic we play deep rock galactic and then we had somebody go legendary and say hey i'd actually like you guys to play this again there's been a lot of changes so deep rock and we were like don't twist my arm well it's in rarefied air i think
uh, obscure is, is certainly in the, in the top two candidates for game of the year so far. And with the amount of hype that's getting and with GTA six off the table, I am thrilled to be diving back into, uh, into this world with you guys tonight.
So here's the thing with this. I know because we did our initial deep dive where we gave our impressions of the game. We kind of broke the game down for people, what it's about, that kind of thing. I don't know that I have seen more people in our community pick up a game and play it together at the same time as this.
And one of the things that we know from experience and we are seeing from our listeners and the people in our community is this game, you absolutely need somebody to talk to about this game after you beat it. I mean, it is literally like I can't tell you how many people have been like, I just beat act two. And they're like, dude, DM me.
I need to talk to you about what happened, you know, or where the story is going and stuff like that. So this is your warning. Officially, if you have not played Expedition 33, do not listen to this episode unless you are a weirdo like Ryan. And you're just like, dude, I'm never going to play this game. If you're never going to play Expedition 33, number one, shame on you.
Number two, shame on you again. And then number three, then you can maybe understand why this game is so great. Because we're going to spoil everything. everything in this episode. So, I mean, I don't know how much more I can warn you. Spoiler alert, big flashing red lights. You know, I just, I don't want anybody being like, I can't believe you guys spoiled this.
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Chapter 3: How does the story in Expedition 33 emotionally impact players?
So, okay. So, you know, this is, I will say this as act one's over, we're in act two. This is where I started getting like these, these spidey sense of like the Pinterest is not what the Pinterest seems in this game. And I remember even going to work because I, you know, I was the only one that was playing it at this point.
And my, my buddies were asking me about it and they're kind of talking and saying, what, what makes this game special and all that. I'm trying to explain the story spoiler free a little bit. But I kept saying, I have a theory about the paintress. I don't know why, but I don't think that the paintress is bad. Like, I think that, you know, they're all going to try to kill her.
But for some reason, I feel like this game is going to have this twist or something. Oh, boy, does it? But to me, the twist was the paintress is not this evil creature anymore. Maybe she's trapped there. Maybe she's misunderstood, that kind of thing. But did you get any of that kind of hinting at this point in the game too, John?
Yeah, well, I think they did a really good job of foreshadowing a lot of this stuff without really selling the farm. There is a line of dialogue early in Act 1 where they say the paintress almost looks sad. And I was like, there's something to that. And then even as you kind of get closer and closer to the monolith, she is not, like, physically positioned in a stance of power.
She's, like, almost weeping. I love that.
Absolutely, dude. She is. She's got her head down on her arms, which, like, she looks like she's crying. Like, legitimately, that's the pose is if somebody was sitting on the ground crying...
So now I want to ask, like in these types of games, then even in like movies and stuff, do you guys typically try to, when you're playing it or watching it, do you try to figure out what's coming up next or what is going to happen? Or do you just...
like to live in them because i i tend to like to just be in the moment and almost not think about the future and experience what's happening so i can almost react to it real time and not just be constantly wondering so you you josh you said i'd love trying to figure out like it's just a challenge to me to be like okay this is this is what i think this is what i don't think this is what i think the twist is that's coming up
Yeah, I mean, that's just the way my brain works because it's like when you start to tell a story like this, and again, this goes to how masterful this game is because, you know, John said it too, like they give you these nuggets, like a second playthrough of this game, you would pick up so many little glimpses and hints and things like that.
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Chapter 4: What are the standout characters in Expedition 33?
That it's like in looking back at it, you're like, oh, my gosh, dude. Like, again, even the pose of the painter, she looks like she's crying. She looks like she's mourning or something. And then it's like, why would she look that way? If she's this super evil being that's just wiping out an entire age of people.
You know, so I kind of approached this and I remember bragging about it going, ah, here's my theory, dude. The Pinterest isn't bad. They're going to have something where, you know, she's a good person or something like that, or she's been corrupted and now they have to go cure the source of the corruption or something like that. Um, I, I was a little bit.
So, yeah, I, I think Ryan, well, I think I'm more like you. I like to experience it as it's happening. If for nothing, I had this terrible experience with my wife who we went to Scotland a couple of years ago. And one day we were kind of having like a hangover recovery day. And we decided to get a bunch of like cheeses and cured meats and watch Braveheart, which he'd never seen.
And I loved Braveheart growing up. Absolutely loved that movie. Put it on. And right when the, gosh, what's her name? The female protagonist at the beginning gives young William Wallace the flower.
Oh, yeah.
Sarah goes, oh, she's going to die. He's going to basically declare war on the English. She called out the whole thing. I was like, oh, man. Just totally ruined this movie. I want to be in the moment and experience it with the characters and not worry too much about what I think is going to happen. And honestly, man, some of my very favorite movies have an ambiguous tone to them, like
uh, memento is one of my favorite movies. Yeah. And, and that's a movie where I think you learn a little more about it every time you watch it. And I could see this being that type of game. Also, the more you, if you were to play it again, two, three times, you would be able to just interpret the story just a little bit deeper.
Okay, so let's skip ahead a little bit in Act 2, because ultimately you wind up working your way towards the Monolith. Somehow your ragtag party of people is getting closer and closer to actually facing down the Paintress. Along the way, we meet Monoko as a kind of mid-game party member that you come across. I did not really care for Minoko that much. He is very strong.
I'm very attached to my party already. We've got CL, we've got Mayel, we've got Luna, we've got Verso at this point. I'm used to these people. I'm not sure that I want to just play this new character that is also weird. He's a guest role. I loved his sense of humor and his voice acting and stuff, but I kind of
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