Spoilers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ahead. Players who have not finished the game should proceed with caution.
Maelle is one of the original characters in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and some could argue she’s the strongest party member thanks to her skills. Maelle is the youngest team member on Expedition 33 as she was tired of waiting around. Also, having lost her biological family, she grew attached to Gustave and wanted to keep him safe.
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As serious as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is, there are a lot of moments of levity from jokes to optional costumes. Let’s review Maelle’s best costumes and rank them based on their cool factor and how well they fit Maelle's character.
WARNING! Spoilers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ahead.
7 Sakapatate
Fight One-Puncho In Gestral Village
The Sakapatate costume is kind of a joke costume in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but players can get it in Gestral Village. There is an NPC there named One-Puncho, and all players have to do is get 9,999 in one hit, which is tricky without the right build. If players achieve this request, they will get the costume and accompanying hairstyle.
Every character can get a Sakapatate costume, and it makes them look like the Gestral patchwork fighters in the game. It’s not a cool-looking costume by far, but it’s fun to don and enter serious cutscenes for laughs on the second playthrough.
6 Civilian
Purchase From Geranjo
The Civilian costume is a drab brown attire for Maelle, which will make her fit in with the time. Honestly, it’s a great costume to use if players want to imagine she’s about to chase Indiana Jones down on a quest around the globe.
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Players can buy it from Geranjo, a merchant, who resides on an island near the Stone Wave Cliffs in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. A good haircut to match the Civilian costume is the French Bob. This side quest is more involved, as there is a location behind Monoco's Station called The Carousel, and players will have to break ice to get this literal carousel up and running again.
5 Skirt
Go Through The Manor Door In Stone Wave Cliffs
The Skirt costume is a more traditional French outfit for the early 1900s, which is presumably when this game takes place. When players find Maelle after the ship crash, she will be in an interdimensional place called The Manor, which holds many secrets. Doors to The Manor are located around the world map or in dungeons, and this one is located within Stone Wave Cliffs.
Voluminous is a good hairstyle to pair with Skirt, which must be obtained by fighting the Mime in Tainted Cliffs. Mimes are recurring mini-boss types located around the world in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which typically give players costumes or hairstyles as rewards.
4 Baguette
Fight Mime In The Reacher
The Baguette costume is another one players can get by fighting a Mime. This one is located in the upper part of the map in an optional dungeon called The Reacher, which is one of the more unique locations in the game.
This outfit comes with the costume and accompanying hairstyle, which is more like a hat choice to complete the stereotypical French look. Also, on the back of Maelle is a literal baguette, and the only bad thing about this costume is that she doesn’t use the baguette as a weapon. That would turn the costume into a 10/10, mirroring silly weapons in other RPGs like Cloud’s Nail Bat in Final Fantasy 7.
3 Obscur
Purchase From Kasumi
The Obscur costume is presumably named after the game, although players don’t get it by fighting the later Clair Obscur mini-boss. Instead, they can buy it from Kasumi, another merchant, who is residing within Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s Forgotten Battlefield.
Obscur is close in design to the default Expedition 33 costume for Maelle, except it is all black and has a weird armlet protruding from her left shoulder. It’s another callback to Final Fantasy 7’s Cloud because he, too, has a big old shoulder armlet.
2 Expedition
Unlock In Act 1 Automatically
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is already in the running for Game of the Year as both the press and fans love it to pieces. That certainly means fans are going to dress up as these characters at various conventions as well, and the costume that will appear the most will assuredly be the Expedition.
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This is the default costume for most characters in the game, and it is arguably one of the better military uniforms to appear in an RPG. The black and gold colors work well together, and that extra bit of purple adds some royalty to the mix.
1 Pure
Talk To Grandis Fashionist As Maelle
Expedition is a classic costume, but the Pure costume is one worthy of a true hero. It is an all-white military outfit close to the Expedition costume, which players can get in Monoco's Station. They can talk to an NPC, Grandis Fashionist, with Lune, Maelle, and Sciel separately to get their Pure costumes in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
For Maelle, a good matching hairstyle will be Short White, which can be purchased from Sodasso, who is hanging out near Visages on the world map. Many RPGs have given party members iconic white suits near the end of their adventures, like in Bravely Default 2 and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, so Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just wanted to get in on the mix too.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 92 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- April 24, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Sandfall Interactive
- Publisher(s)
- Kepler Interactive
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Number of Players
- Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Playable
WHERE TO PLAY
- Genre(s)
- Turn-Based RPG, JRPG, Fantasy
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
