So...it's been a long time since I've had feelings for a game as complicated as I'm having right now for Crimson Desert. On the one hand, it's easily the most ambitious game to come out in years. The devs are trying to do so many different things that just that by itself is worthy of admiration.
On the other hand, that makes the game so full of absolutely unnecessary crap that you actually have to dig to find the game buried underneath that's actually worth playing. Case in point: you have a whole arsenal of medieval weapons to choose from, each with their own movesets and attack/dodge/parry mechanics, but for some reason they decided the game needed a full suite of pro wrestling moves too. There are so many things you can do that simple actions require button combinations like "L1 + R1 simultaneously, release L1 while still holding R1, then press L1 again." The worst part is that most of those things are so inconsequential that you can probably go through the whole game without ever using them and not feel like you've missed anything.
TLDR: good game, but only if you're willing to put in the hours (yes, hours) of learning how to play it optimally.
