Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Fan Wins Ridiculous 8-Hour Boss Battle With 10,545 Successful Parries and No Dodges

Eight hours and much than 10,000 parries later, a Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 superfan is being praised for beating 1 of the game's toughest bosses successful frankly ridiculous conditions.

Underpowered but undeterred, Reddit idiosyncratic Recordbreaks has posted a screenshot showing that they bushed the ace beardown Duollistes brag aft managing 10,545 palmy parries — which feels similar much than I've completed successful the full game.

The brushwood took 8 hours, 2 minutes and 36 seconds, during which clip Recordbreaks says they "took 1 interruption possibly for astir 5-10 minutes" successful bid to spell get snacks, past "went backmost to it."

Duollistes defeated. Image credit: u/Recordbreaks.

Added to Clair Obscur past period arsenic portion of the game's highly-anticipated farewell update, Duollistes is housed wrong the caller Endless Tower location. This country hosts a bid of bosses that are designed to supply immoderate of the toughest challenges successful the deed role-playing game, though they inactive shouldn't instrumentality the mean endgame subordinate anyplace adjacent 8 hours.

"Only crushed it took maine this agelong is due to the fact that I haven't decently built Verso for harm successful the millions yet," Recordbreaks admitted, saying his squad was inactive astir level 80. "He was doing possibly 200,000 harm per deed and that's if Roulette was moving successful my favour which it wasn't astir of the time."

While immoderate fans person said Recordbreaks could simply person discontinue the battle, sorted their physique past restarted, the immense bulk of fans are praising the subordinate for putting successful an existent enactment shift's worthy of clip to bushed the brag anyway.

Most surreal of all, however? Throughout the full battle, Recordbreaks avoided dodging to the constituent wherever not a azygous palmy dodge is recorded, opting alternatively for the tougher enactment to parry attacks each time.

"22 parries a minute, beauteous overmuch 1 parry each 3 seconds," 1 instrumentality noted, aft doing the math.

"Bro that's a full-time occupation spent for that brag and 10k parries damn," admired xXxZeroTwoxXx. "Congrats bud."

"Why? Cuz I felt similar it," Recordbreaks replied, erstwhile asked the crushed for their perseverance. "How? With sheer volition and determination. What's incorrect with me? Haven't gone to a therapist to enactment that retired yet."

With enactment connected Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 present complete, fans are already speculating what mightiness travel next, arsenic the game's developer has teased that Clair Obscur was a "franchise name" and Expedition 33 was conscionable 1 communicative wrong its universe. In the meantime, you tin drawback up connected the afloat spot notes for Expedition 33's last update here.

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