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Crimson Desert makes a strong first impression with its stunning visuals, detailed environments and satisfying combat. Exploring the world can be rewarding and the action delivers some exciting moments throughout the adventure. Unfortunately the game struggles to maintain that momentum. The story aims to be an epic tale but ends up being surprisingly forgettable, with characters and plot points that rarely leave a lasting impression. The pacing doesn't help either, the game feels much longer than it needs to be with repetitive missions and stretched out sections that make the experience drag. Another major issue is how many gameplay mechanics are packed into the game. It constantly introduces new systems and activities but many feel unnecessary or underdeveloped. Rather than creating a richer experience, the constant mix of mechanics makes the game feel unfocused as if it never fully commits to what it wants to be. Performance is also inconsistent at times, with occasional bugs and frame drops that can break immersion. While the combat remains entertaining, some encounters prioritize spectacle over depth and the controls can occasionally feel clunky. Ultimately Crimson Desert is an ambitious game with moments of genuine brilliance but its excessive length, forgettable story, uneven pacing and overloaded gameplay prevent it from reaching its full potential. Fans of open world action RPGs may still find plenty to enjoy but it's hard not to feel that a more focused experience would have been a much stronger one.

Crimson Desert Review 10/10 An absolutely phenomenal game, and one of the best games I've ever played. This game gave me everything I've ever wanted in gaming. Every feature I dreamed of having in a single game is here. In so many ways, Crimson Desert is one of the greatest games ever made. Thank you, Pearl Abyss. You should be proud of what you've created. See you in the next review. Pros Combat The combat is simply the best and most enjoyable I've ever experienced in any video game. This isn't the kind of game where you spam one button to win. Every fight requires you to think, adapt, and use strategy. Most bosses are designed around skill and tactics rather than mindless button mashing. Movement The movement system is one of the game's strongest features. You can perform around five different jumps, climb almost any surface, glide through the air, swing from trees to launch yourself, and so much more. Traversing the world feels incredibly natural and satisfying. Graphics & World The visuals are breathtaking, even on high settings. Nearly everything you see can be explored. See a mountain? You can climb all the way to the top. The world constantly rewards curiosity. Gameplay Variety Crimson Desert combines an incredible amount of content into one game. Cooking, farming, horse taming, home decoration, and many other systems that you'd normally find in completely different genres all fit together surprisingly well. Kingdom Management The game also includes strategy mechanics. You can manage your camp, expand it, send companions to gather resources, construct buildings, and eventually build an entire city. You can even dispatch your companions to assist allied forces. Exploration Exploring the world was genuinely one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had in gaming. Traveling far away from home, discovering strange places, encountering unique creatures, beautiful landscapes, hidden paths, and breathtaking locations made every journey memorable. Words honestly can't do this world justice. It feels alive, magical, and unlike anything I've seen before. In my opinion, this is the best exploration system I've ever experienced. Puzzles The puzzles were excellent. They broke up the action at just the right moments and were genuinely fun to solve. They weren't overly complicated, but they were creative and well designed. There are many more positives, but listing every single one would make this review far too long. Cons Story Presentation The story itself is good, but the way it's presented isn't. It often feels like you're playing the second game in a series. Important events happen, yet you don't feel emotionally invested because you don't really know the characters or what happened before. It's difficult to become attached to the story. Main Character Kliff is a great protagonist, but he barely speaks throughout the game. Because of that, the voice performance feels underused, and it's hard to connect with him on a deeper level. Either give him more dialogue or make him a fully silent protagonist. Weapons & Armor There isn't much difference between weapons or armor. Once they're upgraded to the same level, they all feel almost identical. The only major distinction comes from the Abyss Gears, which add unique effects and abilities. Weapon Progression Choosing a weapon mainly comes down to appearance. Finding a legendary weapon doesn't feel nearly as exciting as it should because the statistical differences are minimal. Before anyone says, "How can you give it a 10/10 when it has flaws?" No game is perfect. The positives are simply so overwhelming that they easily outweigh the negatives. For me, Crimson Desert is a masterpiece. (This review has been translated by ChatGBT from arabic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PwvsYIlLpQ The massive continent of Pywel offers an absolute playground for anyone who loves open exploration and constantly discovering new secrets. The sheer variety in gameplay, shifting seamlessly from brutal, wrestling-infused melee combat to riding mounts, gliding, gathering, and tackling wild side activities, makes the world feel endlessly addictive to get lost in. The story is actually surprisingly engaging and way better than expected, doing a solid job of grounding Kliff's journey and keeping you invested in the fate of the Greymanes. On the technical side, the visuals look gorgeous across the vast landscapes, and the optimization holds up well. It is a fantastic, content-packed adventure that rewards players who just want to explore every corner of the map. Also, the developers are doing a great job at updating the game with a bunch of QoL and they are actively listening to the playerbase.

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Hm au yes Crimson Desert... Quite possibly the most well done single player MMORPG that is keep getting cooked (see, that well done phrase is a cooking related phrase), at least for now, who knows how it's gonna be in the next year. It is a single player MMORPG, where exploration, camp management, outfit management and combat are the strength of this game, especially the combat, it's unlike what you typically find in the genre. The combat relies on something that you can call as a class-less RPG build system where you have to unlock move sets via the "character XP system", you also have to choose what kind of weapons you want to use and here is where the game combat gets very interesting because you have many options that you can combine, the system let's you switch from a sword and shield combat move sets to a 2 handed spear move sets however you have to unlock that specific weapon switch moveset skill first, there are quite a few of weapon type combinations that the game offer including unarmed or fists only type combat move sets that is actually complex to master with some players even comparing it to actual fighting game move sets. But that's still not all, the game also feature a decent explorations with specific exploration tools that are being used to manipulate several types of environmental puzzles, the crazy thing is that some of you combat moves are actually need dtonsolve some types of the puzzles, and vice versa, some of exploration focused move sets are actually usable for combat... There are still quite a lot of more complexities with both the combat and exploration beyond what I talked in the above, for example combat is generally epic with at the minimum half a dozen enemies you have to fight, but in most of missions both on the main quests and side quests as well as Ubisoft games outpost liberation style "missions" you have to fights dozens or hundreds of enemies at once, at first this can feel tedious, but once you're in the rhyme with the combat mechanics and have unlocked certain amount of move sets and skills that's where the game is on its greatest strength. That being said, the exploration is also tied heavily into that potential enjoyment of the game because you have to do a lot of exploration in this game to be able to unlock many things, the skill points that is needed to be accumulated to get certain items that allows you to unlock move sets in this game can be gathered via killing enemies and defesting bosses yes but a significant amount of that also come from explorations and then there's the puzzles, and here unlike many modern games (so games that are made from the 2000s and above) there's almost no hand holding here and many of the environmental puzzles are really hard, heck as I mentioned before, that your combat move sets are actually used to explore? The game never tells you that, you can actually stumble upon a puzzle that you cannot complete because you don't have the right ability to solve it. Exploration in this game is also open for you to do after some sort of prologue in the game, you can go to other side of the map provided you have the right tools/move sets after that prologue, the world in this game is one of the biggest in the genre, and there are also interconnected web of floating islands above the land that you can explore, some quite important unlocks happens there as well and at some points in the main campaign you're also forced to visit and explore as well. And all of that is still like left than half of what you can do in the game here, I told you there's a camp management system, you can farm in this game, you can run a ranch, you can run a wagon trading, you can gather camp crews and send them in various missions in this game, including build projects like say building a bridge somewhere on the map or take over enemy outposts and the crazy thing is that your camp crews would actually be on those locations executing their missions in real time that you can see (and participate in combat missions), there are also quite many of mini games and side activities in this game from fishing to participating in various martial arts tournaments or even playing the in game pinball machine. Then there's the quite extensive character outfits customizations as well, the whole thing is quite complicated but I've spent close to 100 gameplay hours alone changing different outfits and customizing them because they can look that good and very different from what their default looks look like, and there are actually reddits and discord servers where players have been showing off their in game cosplay and I kid you not players have been making their characters look like many things from other game characters to anime and other pop culture characters just by customizing the outfits in this game. All of that have Intold you that the game has 3 different playable characters with their own unique move sets, with their own unique air travels as well, yeah I forgot tontell you that the playable characters can fly in this game to different degrees of limitations... Oh wait you can ride dragons in this game, one of them being an actual fire breathing dragon. There's also 2 or 3 types of mechs in this game, yeah, mechs that can shoot machine guns and cannons. There's also like 2 dozens of different type of mounts now, aside from variouz types of horses, you can ride bears, wolves, tigers lions etc.... There's also any kinds of pets, from dogs and cats to something crazy like literal metal skinned birds, and one of the "dragon" is also your pet. Oh you also have your own house that you can decorate, some of the decorations are quite important because you can store your customized outfits in wardrobes. So yeah this game is insane that way, what's the caveat? Well aside from the lack of modern hand holding mechanism, there's theutterly terrible story telling innthe main campaign, and then the side quests are literally MMORPG side quests, just go there do this type of quests, don't expect Witcher 3 or modern cRPG level of story telling in this game... And lastly the game have some jankiness on their mechanics, thehame have some specific ways for you to do things in this game that other games of this nature never needed, but I'd argue that this is kinda necessary here due to the sheer amounts of stuffs that you can actually do in the game. And lastly, I think it's recommended that you actually look for guides from outside media like YouTube or some communities that are into this game to help you understand or actually finding stuffs in this game, this mau seem like a bad thing if you're certain type of purist but for most players I don't think you can get the most out of this game without external guide. Now move on to the technicalities, the game looks amazing when you cranked up the graphics setting up to maximum, but then it also became as heavy as may recent AAA games that people often complain about, there's also some graphical glitches when using graphics tech like ray reconstruction, but when you are willing to tone down the graphics a bit the graphics/performance ratio becomes quite amazing when you consider the game world scale of this game and that you can go almost everywhere without seeing any loading screen in a game this big. I also happily report that the game have a near flawless 21:9 ultrawide display from the beginning, including in the cutscenes, there's no weird pillar and envelope boxing black bars that often somehow exists in many other AAA games... And lastly the game seem to be heavily invested Bu the developer, they're still adding features and improving the game, in fact the game itself has been quite thoroughly being overhauled compared to it's first release state back in March of 2026, and this while I've stopped playing the game, I've eagerly awaiting what they will bring in an expansion. Welp I'm about to run out of word space in this review...

Just play Red Dead Redemption 2, its emerassing how RDR2 is 8 years old and does everything Crimson Desert does but 10x better. How are we going backwards and how are games becoming worse... I swear people calling this a masterpiece or game of the year must have played only slob games the past years so they are used to slob. This game definitly is really good for helping me to fall asleep. I'd play this for an hour or so before i go to bed and i get sooo tierd and bored that i sleep like a rock afterwards.

It's boring. The story is boring. The world is boring. You have ultimate freedom and a huge sandbox but it's just boring. Some direction, some story, some characters who's names I remember and actually care about interacting with. Just something to do that actually engages would be amazing. Just go and play Skyrim or Red Dead again.

i put alot of hours in to try and complete so take my opinion for what its worth. i eventually quit the game before completing really anything. The game is way too big. Terrible controls. Nonsensical story. Button mashing combat. Frustrating environmental traversal. And seems to be a ripoff of a dozen other games. i understand the addictive nature of the game. I have people in my circle who love the game. i seriously tried. I got enough hour out of the game to be satisfied giving the developer my money. That said i would not recommend the game and regret spending the money on it. It was work to play it. As in i fought the game and its controls the entire way.