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Expedition 33’s Breakout Success Revives Interest in Lost Odyssey as Director Calls for Remaster

The Game Awards’ most-nominated title credits Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Xbox 360 epic as its model.

Overview

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has drawn wide acclaim for its modern spin on turn-based design and now holds the record for most Game Awards nominations.
  • Creative director Guillaume Broche says Lost Odyssey directly informed Expedition 33’s timing-based, action-forward turn-based combat.
  • Broche praises Lost Odyssey as “one of the best games of its kind” and says it was “the last game that made me cry,” highlighting its emotional impact.
  • He characterizes the 2007–08 Xbox 360 exclusive as a cult classic limited by platform alignment and Western press favoring open-world trends at the time.
  • Lost Odyssey is playable on modern Xbox hardware via backward compatibility, though no remaster has been announced despite Broche’s public appeal.