Recent reviews by PaN!C

What a game ! Very unique ! Very fresh . Ironic, its strength come from taking from every other successful game, making a fantastic patchwork.

You take Zelda TOTK as foundation, blend it with Assassin's Creed / RDR2 gameplay cover by the lastest technical marvel and you got Crimson Desert.

+ Open World never seen before . So vaste, so full of life !
+ Beautiful game from head to toes
+ Solid 60 fps (and more) max setting (cinematic option) on 4090
+ Full RayTracing
+ Display distance is unbelievable
+ Seamless world even outside/inside transitions!
+ Dubbing from every character in the world . That's a lot of people !
+ Crowded
+ Day/Nigh Cycle
+ Time in game is a thing
+ Dense forests
+ Flying Isles (Botw/Totk)
+ Caves
+ Biomes
+ Partial destructible environment
+ Temperatures (Zelda Botw / Totk style)
+ A lot of verticality

+ EXPLORATION ! Elder's Scrolls vibes
+ Fight ! Assassin / Action / Musou style
+ Hunting game
+ Bounty
+ Fishing
+ Cooking
+ Mining
+ WoodCutting
+ Camp Building
+ Camp Liberation (Ubi style) with effect on the map
+ Gambling
+ Fist Fighting
+ Arm Wrestling (yep)
+ Trading
+ Managing (camp missions, camp trading)
+ ChiFouMi
+ Stealing
+ Pickpocket
+ Flying
+ Mounts
+ Climbing
+ Crafting
+ Smithing
+ Refining
+ and more...

+ Some extra like Crane, Robots, ...

+ Many "Zelda Temple" with enigma varying from easy to Wtf-Is-That-♥♥♥♥
+ Architectural, candy for the eyes
+ Cinema! by cutscenes
+ Combats are from "Street Fighter / Tekken" lite
+ No hand holding
+ Historical Fantasy
+ Magic Fantasy
+ Industrial Fantasy
+ Animals (dogs, ...) as extra companion
+ Learn skill by observing !
+ Learn skill by reading

+ A lot of different bosses
+ A lot of armors
+ A lot of weapons
+ You can evolve your gears
+ Lite Rpg tree

- Inputs can be convoluted since you can do so much in this world. Just have to get use to it. It's okay.
- So much on screen sometime (forest + shadow + combat particules) the screen look like 140p youtube even in 4k all max setting.
- Story is a bunch of non sens with epic moments.
- Secondary Quests are mostly fetching
- Can be tedious long term
- Main protagonist is a John Wick Character. Very few words, less personality.
- Popping is quite present.

How did they do that game without an entire country at work is a wonder .

As solo player, people are quite chill. As a coop player, death is normalcy.

If you take the game as a PVP game first, it's a very good game.
If you take the game as a PVE game first, it's not a very good game.

+ Pretty
+ Climbing (by hand or zipline)
+ Crafting : Gadgets / Weapons / Gears / Heal
+ Pressure from other players
+ Big maps
+ Nice community
+ Rotating Events for every maps (snow, night, ...)
+ Arcs variety (robots ingame)
+ Lobby by attitude (aggressive with aggressive, carebear with carebear)
+ Limited time by session (less than 30 min, half of it just roaming to a point then extract to another point)

- Cheating, cheating everywhere
- If you don't extract, you lose everything (except 1 or 2 items). Pure waste of time. Can be a chain of games.
- Already looted places - Pure waste of time
- Very grindy
- Awful missions
- Limited/short backpack + weight
- Limited/short "base" inventory
- Limited/short stamina - Slow recuperation . Run, wait for the stamina, run, wait for the stamina, ...
- Pve is boring quickly
- Limited time by session (less than 30 min. Often less. Half of it just roaming to a point then extract to another point)

it's a dead Battlefield. More a COD with (sometime) vehicules than a classical Battlefield though.

+Movement are from BFV and excellent.
+Shooting is fine.
+Gadgets are alright
+You can play restricted/unrestricted weapons mods.
+Pretty
+Optimized
+Lots mods (Breakthrough, rush, conquest, deathmatch, king of the hill, ...)
+No agents/heroes.

-Map are meh at best, tiny to medium, some are dead right unplayable on specific mods (breahthrough i see you).
-Menu UI is atrocious.
-Weapons spread is sometime unbelievably maddening
-Netcode is a classical BF experience and you'll die a lot "through corner walls" while moving.
-Xp bonus countdown continue even not ingame (clever...).
-Not a lot different vehicles
-No sea/marine maps and/or vehicles
-Can't zoom enough to spawn on ally if on/near a flag
-Portal is a joke
-Lot of mods which mean hard to find a complete server
-Game is flatlining with player count.
-Destruction is a gimmick.

-Lots of random bugs : you can't throw grenade and have to respawn, Mouse vanishes on the spawn map, people can climb to normally inaccessible rooftops, sniping/zeroing is busted, servers cycle the same 3 maps, vehicles don't spawn and explose, goal score is frozen/bugged, you can piggyback your drone, light is blinding inside to outside, scope/zoom blur not on focus, scoreboard don't let you go back to the game ...

It's fun more sometime.

Edit : Months later, still so many UI bugs, breaking game bugs. Still so many autoaim with controllers and players that know where you are everytime.

3 games in 1. A lot of modes. Replayability for each missions. Event with famous actors irl over the years. Precise gameplay. Beautifull game. A lot of possibilities to resolve each objectives. What more is needed ? Excellent game !

Straigth from Hollow Knight, we're back baby \o/. As beautiful, as oniric, as difficult than the former. And only for less than 20 . Impressive ... again !

The game is good and brutal. Even thouth the structure is quite apparent (Corridor, room, demons, new weapon, corridors, room...), it's probably the best in the genre.

Edit : May 2025.
Could not launch the game with a rtx4090 / 5950x rig.
Some C++ packages install, updates and reboot and the game functions. Vulkan stutters on my 4090.

Excellent sandbox survival game, probably the most feature rich one out there.

It includes a day/night cycle, seasons, dynamic weather, driving, mechanics, noise, sports, sickness, hunting, scavenging, electricity, water, insulation, barricades, construction, crafting, farming, eating, drinking, and more.

For example, if you eat excessively and don’t exercise, you'll gain weight, which will reduce your stamina and might even make you sick. You also need to wash yourself and your clothes, and make sure they dry if they get wet. That level of realism.

Multiplayer and modding support are major bonuses.

However, the game is played in Ironman mode, meaning there’s no save-scumming, death is permanent. Quality of life improvements are needed, as crafting and building can get tedious. The camera perspective can also be unforgiving, one bite from a zombie, and you're done. And, the game's release has been slow.

As old as the game is, you can't play above 1080p without the in-game windows becoming ridiculously tiny. Can't read quest or see inventory... Wait for fix.

Incredibly unbalanced.

Very good game !

Good:
- Very pretty
- Cool exploration
- Fantastic and huge map
- A lot to discover/craft/cook
- Excellent base(s) building
- Not that stressfull time limited fog (ENshroudED)
- Gliding
- Solo/Coop with game complete personalization
- Rpg mechanics
- Digging
- Destruction

Not good:
- Atrocious fighting gameplay.
- Dumb AI
- Auto Aim