Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Interview @ RPG Site

RPG Site interviewed Lorien Testard, the composer of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Interview - Capturing the heart and soul of the Expedition through music

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has quickly become one of the standout RPGs of the year, with some discussions of it being a game of the year contender before the game was released to the public. This sentiment has only grown as more and more players have now gotten a chance to explore the Continent and meet Gustave and the rest of Expedition 33 for themselves.

Here at RPG Site, we awarded the game with one of our rare "10/10" scores in our review, with the game sitting at a 9.7 user score and a 9.2 critic score on Metacritic at the time of this writing. It continues to pull in more and more players into its embrace, having now surpassed 2 million copies sold within the game's first two weeks. While its story, character,s and visuals are all remarkable, one of its most talked-about aspects is its masterpiece of a soundtrack, all 150+ songs of it.

RPG Site had a chance to sit down with the game's composer, Lorien Testard, about capturing the soul of this new world through the power of his music.

RPG Site: Well, there’s no better way to start than asking you to introduce yourself, and tell us a bit about what got you into music in the first place, more specifically, composing for games?

Lorien: So I'm Lorien Testard. I’m 30 years old now, so I have three years left before the end *chuckles*. I have a really big passion for video games. I started playing when I was like three years old. My father was working at a video game shop when I was young, so I played, like, Mario Party and Mario Kart when I was really, really young, and really loved the video games for most of my life. I started doing music pretty late - I think I was 16 years old. And I .. I learned by myself for three years, then went to a music school for three years. Then I started doing some stuff on my own, like some music for trailers. I knew from the start I wanted to do music for video games, because it's really what I love and what I wanted to create. So yeah, but it's like a deep love for video games, and I still have a big love for music in video games.

[...]