Crimson Desert

"If you hadn’t already guessed, Crimson Desert is a behemoth of an RPG that threatens to eat up all your time. If only it wasn’t primed to frustrate and test your patience as much while doing so."

"From the makers of Black Desert Online comes their first spectacular foray into the single player market."

"Crimson Desert is an RPG that rewards the patient player. The more time you spend in its world, the more you understand its systems and the more you enjoy what it has to offer. And when that happens, it becomes …"

"Crimson Desert is a dense, daunting game that rewards players who invest with dedication. It is also a game that has immensely changed at launch and will continue to evolve through the efforts of Pearl Abyss and its community. While …"

"It&s;s simply one of the biggest games I have ever played, with an astonishing amount of high-quality content, an absurd amount of complex puzzles, and a world so gigantic that I still haven&s;t come close to seeing everything after 100 …"

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"Crimson Desert is among the best fantasy open-world games in years. While the narrative is thin and the controls complex, the incredible world density, sandbox mechanics, incredible combat and stunning visuals make Pywell a continent worth visiting for anyone looking …"

"It’s highly ambitious and one of the most intriguing triple-A games I’ve played in years, but I just wish so many parts of the whole weren’t inherently flawed. Now my journey in Pywel has come to an end, I’ll be …"

"The studio clearly took liberal inspiration from other games, but I hope that there can be something more looking toward the future. Crimson Desert has something special buried beneath its surface, if all those unneeded layers can be cut out."

"As it stands on release, the best parts of Crimson Desert are buried deep under layers of absurdity."

""Fantastic exploration, amazing systems, but ultimately bugs and lots of idiosyncrasies bring this one down a peg or two. ":"

"Crimson Desert&s;s sandbox playground and beautifully crafted world do a lot of the heavy lifting to just about overshadow its confusing elements, generic story, and boring characters. What&s;s here is an overwhelming amount of content and the bones of an …"

"I can confidently say that Crimson Desert is a modern masterpiece, despite its shortcomings."

"Crimson Desert offers one of the most impressive worlds in gaming, but the deeper you go, the more it asks you to meet it on its own terms."

"Even in its current state, Crimson Desert has the potential to become my game of the year. If the console performance is still good and the day-one patch perhaps even fixes a few annoying issues, the action-adventure could even climb …"

"Crimson Desert is a victim of its own ambition."

"A vast world and even vaster array of MMO-like activities mix with glittering fidelity in Crimson Desert, but what good is it without much character, texture or charm?"

"By both accident and design, there are times when clarity and user-friendliness temporarily disappear, and the game’s rough edges and opaque mechanics overshadow the fun. A lot of games over-promise and under-deliver. Crimson Desert is not one of them."

"Vast and obtuse in a way that is going to frustrate some and exhilarate others, Crimson Desert is a fascinating journey, even when the destination isn&s;t all that."

"Crimson Desert is huge, and it&s;s beautiful, but it can&s;t pull itself out of the bog standard narrative trenches. Combat feels clunky, especially when facing off against one of the many frustrating bosses, and there feels like there is little …"

"It might not always be the most cohesive game, mixing high fantasy with steampunk and sci-fi elements, but there&s;s nothing else quite like it, and I can&s;t help but be impressed by how little restraint Pearl Abyss has shown in …"

"For the first few hours of Crimson Desert, I spent much of my time as Kliff, a Greymane warrior rescued from an untimely death by supernatural forces..."

"We can&s;t fully recommend Crimson Desert in its current state on PS5. Far too many technical issues - of varying shapes and sizes - hold the experience back.But given time, and despite its obvious narrative shortcomings, Pearl Abyss&s; fantasy outing …"

"Crimson Desert is a flawed but breathtaking, annoying yet fantastic, game of excess that has managed to infuriate and delight me in almost equal measure."

"Crimson Desert is an odd game for me to place, I enjoyed it for the freedom I had to make my own story and for all the combat and systems but I wasn’t a huge fan of the narrative; even …"

"Crimson Desert is an extremely ambitious open-world adventure, and that ambition is what makes it both incredibly cool and gobsmackingly infuriating in almost equal measure."

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