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Charlie Cox Has Played as Much 'Expedition 33' as You if You Watched Its Trailer Right Now

When you’re as booked and busy as Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox, it makes sense you wouldn’t have much downtime to pull a Thanos and sit under a tree admiring your own work. But that hasn’t stopped gamers from bugging him about whether he’s played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33—the most-awarded game in history—in which he plays a major character, despite his open admissions that he’s not much of a gamer himself. Now, roughly a year since the banner RPG’s release, Cox has revealed that he’s finally played the game… kinda. Speaking with GamesRadar, Cox revealed that he’s played “a bit of” the nearly 50-hour game. How much is a bit? Well, he told the site he’s “played the opening bit for a while and kind of walked around and met the people and garnered the information and all that kind of stuff.” Translation: he’s played the opening moments of the game. To be fair, Clair Obscur‘s got a pretty great onboarding sequence—players are immediately hit in the face with the concept of the gommage, a phenomenon where a giant woman paints a number into the sky, instantly killing anyone of that age by turning them into a pile of dead rose petals. That tragedy sends Gustav (Cox’s character) and his expedi

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Charlie Cox Has Played as Much 'Expedition 33' as You if You Watched Its Trailer Right Now

When you’re as booked and busy as Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox, it makes sense you wouldn’t have much downtime to pull a Thanos and sit under a tree admiring your own work. But that hasn’t stopped gamers from bugging him about whether he’s…

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Charlie Cox Has Played as Much 'Expedition 33' as You if You Watched Its Trailer Right Now

When you’re as booked and busy as Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox, it makes sense you wouldn’t have much downtime to pull a Thanos and sit under a tree admiring your own work. But that hasn’t stopped gamers from bugging him…

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