Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Obtain all trophies.

Embark on the Expedition.

This trophy is awarded for completing the Prologue section of the game.

Find your way through Spring Meadows.

This trophy is awarded for completing Spring Meadows, the first story section of the game.

Find your way through Flying Waters.

This trophy is awarded for completing Flying Waters, the second story section of the game.

Find your way through Ancient Sanctuary.

This trophy is awarded for completing Ancient Sanctuary, the third story section of the game.

Find your way through the Gestral Village.

This trophy is awarded for completing Gestral Village, the fourth major story section of the game.

Find your way through Esquie’s Nest.

This trophy is awarded for completing Esquie’s Nest, the fifth major story section of the game.

Find your way through Stone Wave Cliffs.

This trophy is awarded for completing Stone Wave Cliffs, the sixth major story section of the game.

Find your way through Forgotten Battlefield.

This trophy is awarded for completing Forgotten Battlefield, the seventh major story section of the game.

Find your way through Monoco’s Station.

This trophy is awarded for completing Monoco’s Station, the eighth major story section of the game.

Find your way through Old Lumière.

This trophy is awarded for completing Old Lumiere, the ninth major story section of the game.

Defeat the first Axon.

This trophy is awarded for defeating the first of the two Axons.

The Axons are located in the area Visages and Sirene which are both available after completing Old Lumiere. You can complete the Axon areas in whichever order that you want, but it is recommended to complete Visages first as the area is easier.

Defeat the second Axon.

This trophy is awarded for defeating the second of the two Axons.

Reach the Monolith.

This trophy is awarded for reaching the Monolith, which is the twelfth major story section of the game.

Defeat the Paintress.

This trophy is awarded for defeating the Paintress, which occurs at the end of the twelfth major story section of the game.

Defeating the Paintress awards the Pictos Painted Power, which you should equip to level, and then equip the Lumina on all characters immediately after to break the 9,999 damage limit for the rest of the game.

Return to Lumière.

This trophy is awarded during the story when you return to Lumiere during the end of Act 2 of the story.

Reach the end.

This trophy is awarded for defeating the boss at the end of Old Lumiere during Act 3 of the story.

Discover all of Esquie’s abilities.

• Rough Terrain Traversal – Unlocked at the start of Esquie joining your party.
• Water Traversal – Unlocked after completing Stone Wave Cliffs main area.
• Coral Traversal/Expedition Escape – Unlocked after completing Old Lumiere main area.
• Flying – Unlocked at the start of Act III.
• Underwater Diving – Unlocked after reaching Esquie relationship level 6.

Find all of the journals from prior expeditions.

This trophy is award for obtaining all 49 Journals throughout the game. This trophy is missable as one journal requires you to obtain the Old Key item in the second section of the Prologue, which allows you to obtain a journal in the Old Lumiere main story area. If you miss obtaining the Old Key then you currently cannot obtain this Journal, locking you out of the trophy during your current playthrough. If you play into NG+ you must obtain all Journals again, as collection of Journals is reset in NG+. Because of this it is recommended that you make sure you obtain the Old Key in the Prologue, then pick up all Journals in your first playthrough.

Journals appear as a light blue prism which are interacted with throughout the game world. The first Journal is obtained automatically during the first story section Spring Meadows and shows the visual of how Journals appear, with the majority through the rest of the game needing to be picked up manually. Outside of the one locked behind the Old Key all Journals can be obtained at any time, and you can revisit any other area to collect missed Journals.

If you are wanting to play through the game getting every collectible during your playthrough you can follow the Collectibles Guide, if you want to clean up Journals at the end of your playthrough you can follow the Journals Guide.

» All Collectible Locations Guide

» All Journal Locations Guide (coming soon)

Finish all of the Nevron quests.

This trophy is award for completing all 10 Nevron quests. Throughout the game you encounter white Nevrons (monsters) who will speak with you and have specific requests, which when you complete give a reward. The first Nevron you encounter during the story in the Spring Meadows area, with the rest being spread throughout the main and side areas through the rest of the game.

To finish the quest you must make sure you fully exhaust the dialogue with the Nevron to receive the reward from them. In some interactions you give the Nevron something and have an automatic dialogue, but must speak with them again to actually receive the reward and complete the interaction. If you believe you have completed all quests but the trophy has not unlocked, it is likely because you didn’t fully speak with one of the Nevrons, and will need to return to each and make sure you’ve exhausted their dialogue (fighting them with the extra dialogue after is not required).

This is marked as Missable as the Nevron located in the endgame side area Floating Cemetery asks you to kill it after you complete the first part of the interaction, to which you must agree to do to receive the reward and complete the quest (needs further confirmation, may not require this).

» All Collectible Locations Guide

» All Nevron Quest Locations Guide (coming soon)

Beat Simon.

Simon is the strongest boss in the game, and will put your avoidance skills (or build overpowerness) to the test. He is recommended to only be faced once you have completed all other trophy requirements and side areas.

The main mechanic unique to Simon is that if he kills any of your party members and they aren’t immediately revived by a Pictos/Lumina effect, he has the potential to remove them completely so they can’t be revived. This means you should set up your party with abilities that either prevent party members from dying or revive them on death. He will also steal your shields out of turn order to shield himself. When he gathers Chroma around a character he will also instantly set their health to 1 regardless of what they were at, and this can’t be avoided. Otherwise he only does a handful of combo attacks which are relatively easy to parry or dodge.

Simon is a two part boss, and if you die in the second part you need to do it again, though you do get the XP reward each time to make up some of the pain.

In the second part he will return any defeated part members and become significantly more powerful. Now he attacks with longer combo strings, and any time he swings his sword for normal combos there is a second hit that occurs immediately, so always be prepared to parry or dodge twice in a row. He will still steal shields, set character health to 1, and remove dead characters during this part of the fight, so you need to make sure you are prepared to avoid his attacks.

When he gets below half health, he will use an attack that will instantly remove your current party, even if they are at full health, forcing you to use your backup party, then become significantly stronger, doing even longer combo strings. There are two ways to deal with this, either set up your other two party members so you can finish him off (possibly moving one of your main three to come in with the backup party) or take him out before he performs this attack. Because of how much more involved his attacks become after he forces your second team in, taking him out from above half health is the preferred method overall. The best way to do this is typically using the strong Maelle setups, or either Verso or Maelle’s level 3 Gradient attacks to deal massive damage to the boss. If you’ve been playing with Maelle as your main damage dealer then you want to stick with her as your main for this fight. Give her the Pictos/Lumina First Strike and Cheater to always have her go first and output as much damage as possible. During the second part of the fight sit on the Level 3 Gradient charge until you have him just above half health, then set up a mark/burn combo on the boss and use Gommage with Maelle when she is in Virtuouse stance.

If you are struggling to defeat Simon you can view the grinding method mentioned under  Survivor to fight the Gestral Merchant in the area and level your characters to 99, along with grinding extra Colour of Lumina to equip more Lumina on your characters.

Win all of the Gestral games.

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» All Gestral Game Locations Guide (coming soon)

Beat Clea.

Clea attacks by summoning other Nevrons to deal damage to you, so you need to pay attention to what she is calling for the types of attacks to avoid. When you are hit she will heal herself at the end of her turn, so you need to avoid being hit if at all possible, and try to deal large amounts of damage to her to bring her down. The Nevrons she summons do a large number of attacks in quick succession and can be hard to see at first, so it may be better to try dodging instead of parrying all the time just to avoid damage.

Clea is weak to Void, so using Maelle with Cheater Pictos/Lumina (reward from  Sprong) and her skills Last Chance followed by Sword Ballet is a good way to deal large amounts of damage to her. Switching your other party members to Void damage weapons if possible is also a good idea. You should have plenty of Recoat at this point in the game so don’t be afraid to use some to set your party up around dealing with her. You should also make sure you’ve completed all of Maelle’s relationship levels, as her level 3 Gradient Attack does a huge amount of Void damage and can potentially instantly kill Clea if she has around half health remaining. Don’t be scared to use it if you start downing your other party members.

Reach the top of the Endless Tower.

The Endless Tower is located on the cliffs in the southwest portion of the map, and involves a series of 33 increasingly difficult fights against versions of most enemies throughout the game. Enemies start at around the level of the end of the story and increase to a level around the level of the hidden bosses. You can and should start working on the tower throughout the endgame cleanup, as this helps to level your characters and is potentially more interesting to not do all battles in a row. Unfortunately, repeating the fights doesn’t award extra Chroma or XP so you can’t grind fights in the tower to level up. There is a method for level grinding explained at the end of the walkthrough.

The Endless Tower includes 11 Stages with 3 fights in each, for a total of 33 fights that you need to beat. It includes fights against almost every possible enemy in the game, including Chromatic versions of enemies and a unique fight against the Paintress and Curator. If you weren’t using Monoco before now you can unlock almost all of his skills through the fights in the tower.

Stage 9 Trial 3 is where the fights starts becoming more out of the ordinary, including mechanics from other endgame locations on top of the normal Chromatic Bosses. This trial includes two Evique that will shield each other if they are not stunned, so pay attention to which has the shield icon if they are both still active as the shielded one will not take any damage.

Stage 11 Trial 1 is again the Dualliste and Mask Keeper, along with a Chromatic Moissonneuse. Try to immediately get rid of the Moissonneuse as it is the weakest, then the Mask Keeper and the Dualliste last. The Dualliste has the most health of the three and is easiest to deal with on its own. Use Maelle’s level 3 Gradient Gommage on the Dualliste to deal a massive amount of damage when it is available.

Stage 11 Trial 2 is against a Chromastic Clair Obscur, a Creation, and a Lampmaster. The Clair Obscur is priority to deal with, as it can silence your party if you don’t avoid its attacks, making the fight extremely difficult. On your turns make sure to shoot the Lampmasters lanterns to stop it getting an extra turn to shoot at you then focus it next. Finally deal with the Creation on its own. Pay attention for if the Creation inverts your characters, as you don’t want to heal anyone directly, but reviving while inverted is still fine.

Stage 11 Trial 3 is against Painted Love, which is a duo fight against the Curator and the Paintress simultaneously. They both share a health bar, so you can’t focus specifically on one or the other here. You can use this to your advantage in some ways though, such as marking one of the two by shooting on one turn, then leaving the mark on the other for a later attack. They also shared a break bar, so if you have a skill such as Radiant Slash on Verso you can break both of them at the same time as long as you hit them both at once. If you don’t, it consumes the break bar for both of them with only one of them being stunned. If you do only manage to break one, focus your attacks on it while it is stunned for maximum damage output. Utilizing Maelle’s Gommage Gradient is very useful here, especially if you can break and mark one of the two. Depending on your setup you can almost one shot the boss with it.

Find all of the Lost Gestrals.

The first one is encounter directly in your path in front of the Esquie’s Nest main area. Afterward you will find them throughout the game, with the final ones requiring Esquie’s Flying ability unlocked during Act 3. Whenever you rescue one you can return to Sastro located in the side area of the Camp to receive various rewards.

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» All Lost Gestral Locations Guide

Beat the Serpenphare.

During the fight Serpenphare will alternate between sucking up all of your party’s AP, then applying rush to itself along with a large number of shields. The main problem through the fight will be dealing with those factors, so before you start make sure you’ve equipped skills on characters like Verso or Maelle that allow you to fill their AP during turns. Shooting the boss is useful for getting rid of its shields, but note that when you shoot it this doesn’t do damage due to the AP absorption effect. Pay close attention to your turn order along with this, and if needed use your Energy Tints to feed AP to later characters in the turn order.

An easy option is to set up Maelle having the Breaking Rules skill to absorb all shields, use Sekarum weapon to hit through shields or Barrier Breaker to break all shields on a marked enemy, and use Cheater Pictos/Lumina on her (reward from Sprong), and then Last Chance followed by one of her strongest attacks on the second turn if you remove all shields the prior turn. Watch out as after it absorbs a certain amount of AP it will explode and stun itself, but this explosion also deals massive damage to your party if you don’t dodge it.

Beat Sprong.

Sprong attacks in “stages”, performing a different action in each stage. Stage 1 is a single attack that hits all party members, Stage 2 is casting debuffs on each party member one at a time, Stage 3 is a series of 5 attacks hitting all party members, Stage 4 it will charge an extermination attack, and finally Stage 5 it will use the extermination attack to hit all party members with Dark damage. After it goes through each Stage it starts over, repeating the Stages but getting stronger each cycle (Stage 1 hits twice instead of once for example). Once you defeat it, you receive the Cheater Pictos as a reward. Cheater is very useful for setting up strong combos with characters like Maelle because it allows you to always take two turns in a row.

Solve the Painting Workshop’s mystery.

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» Painting Workshop Guide (coming soon)

Reach relationship level 7 with Sciel.

Further interactions become available as you progress through the story, with the final interactions becoming available from the start of Act 3.

Sciel is the third party member, joining at the end of Gestral Village, the main area after Ancient Sanctuary.

Reach relationship level 7 with Monoco.

Reach relationship level 7 with Maelle.

Maelle is the second party member, joining a short way into Flying Waters, the main area after Spring Meadows.

Maelle is the only character with an interaction that can be “failed” if you answer something incorrectly, rendering the trophy missable. In her final level 7 interaction you are presented with a “(Truth)” and a “(Lie)” dialogue choice. To complete the interaction you must choose the “(Truth)” option, choosing the “(Lie)” option doesn’t give the relationship level or unlock Maelle’s final Gradient attack. If you accidentally pick the wrong option or want to see both outcomes, reload a prior autosave and make sure you pick “(Truth)” to complete the interaction properly.

Reach relationship level 7 with Lune.

Reach relationship level 7 with Esquie.

Upgrade a weapon once.

Note you can receive duplicate weapons as drops through battle and this will upgrade the weapon to the higher level of the new one, but this doesn’t count for this trophy. It specifically requires upgrading a weapon with materials.

Fully upgrade a weapon.

Perfect Chroma Catalysts are limited through the playthrough, only be awarded from some high level enemies or quest interactions late in the game. You are guaranteed to get a handful while completing endgame objectives (defeating Serpenphare, defeating bosses in Clea and Simon’s areas) so you can upgrade some weapons to max without going out of your way to find them.

Weapon level ranges and the required upgrade material:

• Level 1 – 3: Chroma Catalyst
• Level 4 – 9: Polished Chroma Catalyst
• Level 10 – 19: Resplendent Chroma Catalyst
• Level 20 – 32: Grandiose Chroma Catalyst
• Level 33: Perfect Chroma Catalyst

Consume a Lumina point.

Reach level 33.

You should reach level 33 on a character around halfway through the game once you have unlocked all party members.

Reach level 66.

You should reach level 66 near the end of the game, depending on how many side activities you do. If you don’t do any side areas during Act 3 then you probably won’t reach level 66 before completing the story.

Reach level 99.

Completing all other trophies without any extra grinding will then get you to around level 90 on your main party after the final side areas.

Once you have finished everything else, you have two ways you could go about reaching level 99. You can play into New Game+ if you want to do another playthrough of the game, as enemy levels are raised for the second playthrough. If you want to more quickly reach level 99, the best way is to continually fight the Gestral Merchant located in Renoir’s Drafts by the Golden Tree flag.

If you didn’t locate the Merchant earlier go to the Renoir’s Draft > Golden Tree flag, then go down the ramp into the area with the building. Behind the enemies there is a ramp that allows you to grapple up to the building where the Merchant is located.

Fighting this Merchant involves a fight against it and two other enemies, and if you beat it without being damaged it awards around 2.1 million XP. The best method to do this is either using Verso or Maelle and setting up their combos that allow you to hit all enemies at once with a large amount of damage. With Verso this involves using the Chevalam weapon to start at rank S then using the Phantom Stars skill. With Maelle this involves setting up a combo with the skill Last Chance to switch to Virtuose Stance (or using a weapon starting her in Virtuose Stance) then using the skill Phantom Strike. Whichever you go with you want to equip them with Pictos/Lumina such as First Strike and Cheater, then any you have that increase damage based on them being the only active character.

If you were using Maelle as your main damage dealer already, she is the easier one to go with, and you want to try and set up her first turn by shooting the Merchant to burn/mark them, and her second turn use Phantom Strike to take out all enemies in one hit. With the correct setup this takes about 30 seconds per run, and you can immediately fight the Merchant again without needing to go back to the flag to respawn enemies. Once you get at least one character to level 99 you will earn the trophy.

You can also use this method to grind if you are struggling with the beating Simon, as other party members receive 50% of the XP awarded to the active party member, and beating the Merchant also awards Colour of Lumina almost every time, allowing you to grind that to equip more Lumina on your characters.

With Gustave, use a fully charged Overcharge that Breaks an enemy.

The earliest and easiest location to earn this is against the Mime located in the Prologue. Mimes always start the fight but putting up a wall which gives them very high defence until they are broken at least once. With this fight in the Prologue using Overcharge is the only way to break the Mime, so you just need to spend your first turns getting the charge level to 10, then use Overcharge to break the Mime.

With Lune, consume Stains 4 turns in a row.

This is able to be performed with Lune’s initially unlocked abilities, Ice Lance and Immolation. Start by using Ice Lance to generate an Ice Stain and a Light Stain, then keep switching back and forth between using Immolation and Ice Lance. Immolation will consume an Ice Stain, then Ice Lance will consume the Light Stain generated previously. After performing 4 skills in a row consuming Stains like this you will earn the trophy.

With Maelle, use Percée on a Marked enemy while in Virtuose Stance.

Later in the game there are very easy ways to perform this, such as by using Last Chance to immediately switch to Virtuose or with a weapon starting her in Virtuose, but at the start you will need to use something such as the skill Swift Stride, which switches Maelle to Virtuose if the skill hits a burning enemy, which you can cause with her early skill Spark. Then before her turn or during her second turn you need to Mark the enemy you want to hit, which is done using skills or certain Lumina effects which can apply Mark. The earliest to do this with is the Marking Shots Pictos found on a side path in the Flying Waters main area. Use this to mark an enemy by shooting them, then use Percee in Virtuose Stance on the Marked enemy to deal huge damage and earn the trophy.

With Sciel, consume 20 Foretell on a single target during Twilight.

If you want to set this up early, the best method is using Focused Foretell to continually apply Foretell, then use a skill like Dark Cleansing that doesn’t consume Foretell, but is a Moon skill which will allow you to switch to Twilight without consuming applied Foretell. When not in Twilight enemies can have a maximum of 10 Foretell, so you will need to switch to Twilight once to be able to apply up to 20, so will likely need to go through two rotations of Twilight and hit the enemy on the second rotation using a skill like Twilight Slash which will consume all Foretell in one attack, awarding the trophy.

With Verso, reach Rank S.

If you aren’t great with parrying/dodging, this can seem tough early on. The easiest early method is using his skill Perfect Break, directly in the center of the skill tree. This skill can Break an enemy, and if broken immediately sets Verso to Rank S. The alternate effect on the skill reduces the AP cost at Rank B, but this isn’t required to receive the effect of changing to Rank S on Break.

With Monoco, cast an Upgraded Skill 4 turns in a row.

To set this up with Monoco you will want to make sure you have at least one skill equipped for each of the 4 normal masks. Some skills also gain extra effects specifically on Almighty Mask, but you can cast any other Skill on Almighty Mask and it performs the upgraded version. The larger problem while trying to perform this will likely be Monoco’s AP as he isn’t generally a self sufficient character without a bunch of extra Lumina abilities, so if you are trying to do this and keep running out of AP you can use Energy Tint on him with other characters in between his turns.

Beat the Chromatic Pétank.

To fight it you need to chase it down to the far south of the area through the water and around to the dead end where its platform is located.

This Petank is unique in that it won’t flee itself, but it will summon the other variants of Petank to attack you and protect itself, and these will flee. You need to try and focus the two Petank it spawns to help so that they won’t flee, while still attacking the main one. Using the Cheater Pictors/Lumina obtained from defeating Sprong is very helpful for this so that you can focus on multiple at a time with multiple turns. The Petanks also typically stay stunned for longer than one turn which prevents them from fleeing, so always try to stun them if possible.

Acquire all of Monoco’s skills.

If you don’t want to worry about cleanup, it is recommended to keep Monoco in your main party after he joins, and you should unlock all skills while working through the story and endgame content. If you don’t want to keep him in your party, then it is possible to clean up the majority of the skills by using him in the Endless Tower, as the fights in the Endless Tower include most enemies through the game, only having a handful of skills which you need to cleanup elsewhere.

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» All Monoco Skills Guide (coming soon)

Unlock all playable characters.

Unlocking Expedition members occurs automatically during the story. Monoco is the final party member unlocked when you meet him in the main area Monoco’s Station in Act 2.

Use a level 3 Gradient Attack.

During battle you then you need to charge the Gradient Attack bar to level 3 and use the attack with any character. The Gradient bar at the start is charged by consuming AP with skills, so you generally need to be facing a strong group of enemies in a long fight to charge to level 3. If you are struggling with this you can equip certain weapons, Pictos, or Lumina that can increase the bar charge during fights through other methods such as Critical Hits or using Items, but you are more than likely going to be able to use it while working through all of the endgame areas and bosses as the level 3 attacks are a huge benefit to dealing with the high level enemies.

Find all 33 music records.

Note that this trophy seems to be able to unlock early, likely because of the duplicate record from the Prologue. If you pick up both of them the trophy can unlock when you pick up the 32nd unique record, instead of all 33 unique ones.

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» All Record Locations Guide (coming soon)

Break a Paint Cage.

The first Paint Cage is encountered at the start of the Flying Waters area along the main path when you receive a tutorial about how they work.

Break an enemy.

Defeat a boss without taking any damage.

This trophy is awarded for defeating any boss enemy during the game without taking damage from them. Bosses are typically denoted by having a health bar with their name at the top of the screen, though this doesn’t apply 100% of the time (for example Francois in Esquie’s Nest doesn’t seem to count, and Mime’s do not count).

This is missable as it is theoretically possible to defeat every boss in the game while taking damage, though with the large number of bosses and Chromatic enemies counting toward this it is likely you will earn it while working through the game, and there are some easy options to leave to guarantee that you can return to them later and earn the trophy.

A couple potential options for this are:

• Chromatic Lancelier – In the Spring Meadows area (the first one of the game) you can encounter a Chromatic Lancelier optional boss. Chromatic enemies are effectively boss variants of normal enemies, having much higher health and damage output but generally the same attacks as normal versions of the enemies. When you encounter it, the Chromatic Lancelier is a bit higher level than you will be during the story, but is beatable with some effort. If you want to easily earn the trophy it is recommended to skip this boss and come back to it when you are doing cleanup at the end of the game.
• Monoco – When you reach Monoco’s Station you are required to fight Monoco before he joins the party. If you missed the Chromatic Lancilier or don’t want to purposely leave bosses he is a good option mid game that you shouldn’t need to go out of your way for. He is weak enough that you can break him after he takes two turns where he does easier to avoid attacks, allowing you to finish him off while he’s stunned. If he does the relentless combo try dodging the entire time. If you want to keep trying against him you can reload the latest save after the fight which puts you right before the fight when you enter the room.

Witness an optional scene at camp.

Unlock Esquie.

This trophy is awarded for unlocking Esquie, which occurs at the same time as completing Esquie’s Nest, the fifth major story section of the game.

Defeat the Mime in Lumière.

This trophy is awarded for beating the optional Mime enemy in the Prologue section of the story. There are other Mimes throughout the game which award Outfit items like the one in the Prologue, but this trophy requires specifically beating the Mime in the Prologue.

While exploring the Main Street with Sophie, continue to the far end but don’t go down to the dock (there is a “confirm dialogue” before you do this which progresses to the next area). On the right side near the stage with dancers is a Mime. Interact with it to start a battle, which will also award a record when you beat it. You can retry this fight as many times as you want if you get knocked out. Note this Record can be obtained later if you didn’t obtain it here, but you would need to fight the Mime on a new save or in NG+ if you missed it first playthrough.

All Mime fights function basically the same, with the Mime putting up a wall immediately which causes it to take very little damage. You must Break the Mime to break the wall, allowing you to damage it effectively. This is an easy opportunity to earn the trophy  Overcharge for breaking an enemy with Gustav’s fully charged Overcharge ability.