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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s Monoco Is Named After A Very Special Member Of The Game’s Development Team

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sam Woods

Published Apr 30, 2025

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Esquie is a fan favorite character in Clair Obscur, with demand for a plushie.
Monoco, named after Sandfall Interactive's office dog, is popular among players.
Other characters in the game, like Petank and Sakapatate, have clever pun-based names.

Very minor spoilers for some of Cla♍ir Obscur: Expedition 33's characters ahea♛d.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a rich cast of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:loveable characters. While the human gan😼g are all great, though, it's the non-human characters who seem to ♔have stolen the spotlight.

lune looking into a glowing cavern in clair obscur.

Japanese Players Are Struggling With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Name, So They've Given It Its Own One

Time to play t♉he hit new video game, Something 33.

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Esquie has become Clair Obscur's fan favorite, with high demand for a plushie leading to the deve🎉lopment 🐻team confirming that they'd love to make one. However, hot on Esquie's heels are Gestral characters like Noco and Monoco, who have also garnered high praise.

It's the latter where things get interesting, with party member Monoco seemingly named after a special member of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:C🙈lair Obscur: Expedition 33's development team.

Monoco Is Named After Sandfall Interactive's Office Dog And Happiness Manager

monoco page from sandfall interactive staff page.

A quick glance at shows one staff member who's not like the rest — Monoco, a very good dog who has been designated as the team's happiness manager. It's evident that with their unique name and spelling, this is who Expedition 33 🦋member Monoco is𓄧 based on, or at least his name.

While Monoco's (the dog) role at Sandfall is unclear, outside of making everybody happy, they do have two favorite games: Eating Woo༒d and Chasing Broomsticks.

If you remember, Eating Wood was a 2018 Game of the Year contender, so it's a really solid choice. Chasing Broomsticks is a mor𓄧e interesting pick, though. It was a 2007 Xbox Live Arcade title that launched to a mixed reception but has since gone on to garner a cult following. The dog has taste.

monoco stands next to verso in old lumiere in clair obscur: expedition 33.

Monoco isn't the only name that the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team has been clever with, as a has shared some of the puns the S🦩andꦓfall Interactive team has used.

Petank,🎉 Clair Obscur's versi🍎on of Persona's Treasure Hand enemies, is named after French game, Pétanque, in which players throw small metal balls, similar to the way Petank attacks. Sakapatate comes from the phrase 'sac à patate', which is used when adults carry something, like children, over their shoulder, and Esquie is likely named after French judge and philosopher, Montesquieu, because in the game you can mount Esquie.

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