{"id":20231,"date":"2025-09-26T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/i-was-falling-hard-for-clair-obscur-expedition-33-then-it-betrayed-me-at-the-final-hour-dominik-diamond\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:37:27","slug":"i-was-falling-hard-for-clair-obscur-expedition-33-then-it-betrayed-me-at-the-final-hour-dominik-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/i-was-falling-hard-for-clair-obscur-expedition-33-then-it-betrayed-me-at-the-final-hour-dominik-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"I was falling hard for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 \u2013 then it betrayed me at the final hour | Dominik Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried my hand at this year\u2019s French arthouse gaming hit, but after an intense initial infatuation, the relationship hit the rocks<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t just observe art; we have a relationship with it. Whether it\u2019s music, paintings or movies, the artist does their bit \u2013 but it\u2019s the involvement of our own psyche that completes the circle. This is even more true for games, because we don\u2019t sit for 100 hours in front of the Mona Lisa.<\/p>\n<p>Relationships with art change over time. I appreciated animation more when I was a younger man. I appreciate jazz much more today. I find the Mona Lisa alluring or boring depending on what mood I am in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/sep\/26\/i-was-falling-hard-for-clair-obscur-expedition-33-then-it-betrayed-me-at-the-final-hour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e90ca147b4676f7fea7af84871fa7fbe09dd16e1\/816_0_2698_2160\/master\/2698.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=40f91857a9d587c3f389b4b789428aa9\" title=\"I was falling hard for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 \u2013 then it betrayed me at the final hour | Dominik Diamond\" \/>I tried my hand at this year\u2019s French arthouse gaming hit, but after an intense initial infatuation, the relationship hit the rocks<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t just observe art; we have a relationship with it. Whether it\u2019s music, paintings or movies, the artist does their bit \u2013 but it\u2019s the involvement of our own psyche that completes the circle. This is even more true for games, because we don\u2019t sit for 100 hours in front of the Mona Lisa.<br \/>\nRelationships with art change over time. I appreciated animation more when I was a younger man. I appreciate jazz much more today. I find the Mona Lisa alluring or boring depending on what mood I am in. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried my hand at this year\u2019s French arthouse gaming hit, but after an intense initial infatuation, the relationship hit the rocks We don\u2019t just observe art; we have a relationship with it. Whether it\u2019s music, paintings or movies, the artist does their bit \u2013 but it\u2019s the involvement of our own psyche that completes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/i-was-falling-hard-for-clair-obscur-expedition-33-then-it-betrayed-me-at-the-final-hour-dominik-diamond\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I was falling hard for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 \u2013 then it betrayed me at the final hour | Dominik Diamond<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}