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5 min readThis Game F*cked Me Up
Asmongold finishes Expedition 33 and immediately starts arguing with chat about the ending. The game presents a choice: destroy the magical canvas that contains a copy of your dead brother, or stay inside it forever with him. For Asmongold, this isn't a choice at all. "Verso was the only right option," he says flatly. "It was the obvious option. It's not even a question."
The Canvas Problem
The entire story revolves around a family destroyed by grief. The mother painted a canvas containing a piece of her soul, creating a fantasy world where her dead son Verso still exists. The daughter Mael enters that world and refuses to leave, even as her body deteriorates and her family falls apart. The father Renoir wants to destroy the canvas so everyone can move on.
Asmongold frames the conflict in stark terms. The people inside the canvas are not real. They are creations, like video game characters. "There is no universe in which a video game character has a soul," he says. "It doesn't exist." When chat pushes back — arguing that the canvas people suffer, that they believe they are real — he doesn't budge. "If there is an AI that thought it was real and you deleted it, is that an evil thing to do? Answer: obviously it's fucking no."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Opening & Initial Cutscene** - Asmongold watches a cinematic from the game *Clair Obscur: Expedition 33*, showing a mother saying goodbye to her newborn daughter.
- 2 (02:49) **First Reaction & Initial Confusion** - Asmongold expresses shock and confusion at the game's story and setting after the opening cinematic.
- 3 (07:00) **The Curator's Dilemma & Family Conflict** - The central conflict is introduced: the father, Renoir, wants to destroy the canvas to save his daughter, while Alicia wants to preserve it to keep her brother's memory alive.
- 4 (14:03) **The Painter's Power Revealed & A Betrayal** - Asmongold learns the mechanics of the world and witnesses a major betrayal by a character named Maelle.
- 5 (18:42) **A New Goal: Resurrecting the Dead** - The stakes are raised as Maelle proposes a plan to bring back everyone who has died in the canvas, using the chroma left in their bodies.
- 6 (20:58) **The Core Theme: A Family's Cycle of Grief** - A character named SK explicitly states the game's central thesis: the entire world is suffering because of one family's inability to process their grief.
- 7 (23:34) **Party Dynamics & Side Content** - Asmongold explores the game's systems, including skill trees, party management, and side quests, while commenting on the characters' relationships.
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