Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a pretty straightforward RPG, without a lot of opportunities for the player to make story choices - until the very end, that is. That's not to say its story is anything but excellent. Clair Obscur earns its high Metacritic rating in no small part due to its tragically beautiful story, which follows the members of a perilous expedition in a doomed world. Every year, a distant entity known as the Paintress paints a number in the sky, and, a year later, everyone of that age dies. You control an adventuring party sent to stop her.