Today I googled the meaning of the song “Alicia” in Clair Obscur and it reminded me of my best friend who is no longer with me.
All the songs in the game have meanings. “Gustave” is another song that I lament about. It tells of how I feel about the important people in my life who are no longer with me.
This game has such intricate story. I know these characters are fictional. As the fox in Le Petite Prince says, “if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world… I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.”
The music, story and art harmonizes in a way that caused me to sit and be sad for hours. The melancholy environment, the inevitability of death and the sorrow love eventually causes. It’s so fucking beautiful!
Just the start, losing Sophie to the gommage, the setting and music ties it all so damn well together. It’s beautiful and tremendously sad. The whole thing is such a masterpiece of what games can achieve. A game where the gameplay isn’t the best or groundbreaking, but combined with the art, music, tone and story, it flies up to one of the best games in recent years. If not more.