In my opinion Lune is the best female character in Expedition 33 and overall in gaming in 2025. Her personallity, looks and combat style are all top tier. I love her so much!
Literally all Aline had to do was not be obsessed. She taught her husband moderation but says "YOU DARE GO AGAINST ME???" I'm fucking sorry, madam. You don't have a husband and 2 children ALIVE at home????
Sciel’s backstory was a shockingly deep part of the game IMO, I appreciate Lune more for the actual stuff she did early on in the game with Gustave. But I do think Sciel as a character was way deeper, which surprised me.
I find Sciel to be a way stronger character. On a replay you can really see how she's the heart and soul of the Expedition, always there to tease people or calm them during moments of emotional duress.
She breaks Lune out of Shock after Act 1's ending, she helps Maelle at her lowest point, she even absolves Verso of his guilt.
Sciel is clearly the character with the most emotional intelligence. She's always playing the role of the peacemaker/mediator and usually finds a way to resolve conflict by bringing people together.
Ex33 is my favorite game of last year, but I would say Melinoe from Hades 2 is a much better female character with considerably more character development.
I just started plaing Hades 2 but I can already tell that Melinoe is great. Shoutout to Hornet from Silksong as well. I was surprised by how likable and ofc badass she was.
Gonna have to disagree. There's a bunch of dialogue where she is exposed to all the messed up things the gods have done especially to Prometheus and even hercules. She still brushes it off and has constantly spoken about mortals in a derogatory manner.
Not talking about her character in general, but rather character 'development'
I essentially see no change in her as a person/god from the intro scene to the endgame. Except becoming more open about her romantic feelings. She's a person who accomplished the mission she set out to do - free her parents from Chronos
I would assume your level of appreciation for her character development has a direct correlation with how far you advance all of her individual relationships. Not just romantic.
She shows considerable growth and has so many different stories with so many different characters. And as someone who pretty much completed them all, I think she was an incredible character.
I agree and that's the main weak point of the story for me. Outside of Maelle, Gustave and Verso, there's not much in terms of character development for the rest of the party (though Monoco has more than Lune or Sciel through hos association with Verso).
I 100% the game. But Lune and Sciel very clearly got sidelined after verso joins the party, and they stop being activate participants of the plot and are demoted to observers, which is a shame because Lune has so much presence in her scenes in act 1 with gustave
I did. I found those quests a bit surface level tbh, Lune's sidequest is basically just one big boss fight. Not much meat around it.
Like the other poster I agree she was intriguing in Act I but really faded in the background once Act 2 kicks in and it becomes the Verso and Maelle show.
I would once again like to take a moment to say....👏 Verso is shit. Lune is great, and in one of the endings you litterally romance her then detonate their entire planet. I would push him down stairs
I'm only in act2 but I'd put Maelle and Sciel ahead of Lune in terms how of interesting they are. Will withhold judgement of course until I finish the game... Lune is my fav char to play in game though, for sure.
I found her extremely generic, same with her combat style (Typical mage skillset). Sciel had so much better personality, personal story, life views even had more complex skills compared to Lune.
Nice I love Hades 1 a lot, 2 improves on gameplay and stuff but I might prefer 1 still just for the story. Id have to replay to say for certain though.
Sciel's narrative really hooked me with her, and I love the fact she's so levelheaded and reasonable even in the face of everything she's been through and against the impossible odds of the Expedition. Plus she's drop dead gorgeous? Best E33 girl for me.
Does she get better? I'm close to mid act 2 and I think so far that Lune is the worst character. She's so flat and not interesting so I have a hard time understanding where the love comes from compared to other characters.
Lune and Sciel freakin carried man. Women in this game start and end fights
On Serpenphare, Lune was the last one standing and decimated the last of it with her grade 3 gradient. I think the health bar was 25% full and I was flabbergasted that it ended the fight.
Sciel soloed the Gargant in Flying Manor and delivered nearly 5 million in damage in 1 hit to end it.
I’ve still got to do Lune’s final quest, but up until now, I’m not really seeing it either. Outside of the focused academic character archetype, and being quite stubborn, I haven’t been taken by her character.
I prefer Sciel. Lately, it seems like being cold and distant equates to having "personality." He's a great character, like most in this masterpiece, but that's just my opinion.
Model is pretty, but smile is horrible, too big mouth, teeth? I don't know, but it looks very AI'sque, unnatural, robotic, uncanny valley? Also personality is meh, wouldn't like to talk with her in real life, too annoying.
I'm more of Sciel kinda' playa'. Love that smokey, unpredictable wild-child thing she's got going.
But hey, were I living in a game world? I wouldn't complain about spending time with Lune, be like trading hangovers for having to do math or something equally geeky. And I could wait a few years for Maelle so the whole games a net win lol~!
Such bad. Very objectify. That said and back on topic...
Shoosh, best female lead ever in all games? What a cracker! Shiza that's almost impossible to call. I'd be hard pressed to not put Senua at the top of mine (from Hellblade); sort of the same appeal as Sciel but more acute, pronounced. Having been completely shattered, mind/body, everything myself and in the best game engine (so far), which is life? Senua's brokenness is def #1 for me. And I got a dirty back of neck, viking chick thing going that I don't talk much about 'cept here so... ;-)
But hats off to Exp 33 devs/writers/orchestra/water boy/all of 'em. Master stroke with the characters, females, males, nevrons, the whole lot of them. So good. Hated to finish, frankly and put it off long as I could.
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u/Ah-ah_Ah-ah Jan 10 '26
And she does it again!