Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida advised not to call Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 a turn-based RPG, he says it could scare off players who see the genre as OUTDATED 😳

Speaking at Busan Indie Connect, he revealed he told Sandfall Interactive to lean into “reactive turn-based combat” instead, to hook people who usually skip JRPGs.

Yoshida tried the demo about two years before release and loved the mechanics, but turn-based JRPGs just weren’t trendy back then