Much has been made from the truth that the yr’s most up-to-date breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing sport known as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small crew. (It has simply offered its two-millionth copy). It’s a tempting narrative on this age of blockbuster mega-flops, live-service video games and eye-watering budgets: scrappy crew makes a prolonged, uncommon and exquisite factor, sells it for £40, and all people wins. But it surely’s not fairly correct.
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