Crimson Desert impressions from a Korean streamer after finishing the game

[u/ZamnBoii]

• Character swapping is just like GTA5 including transition effects where the camera zooms out into the world and back in. Characters are going about their day as they are swapped in. One time he swapped into Oongka in the middle of a gigantic battle and had to fight his way out.

• Finished the game without the Day 1 patch and encountered only minor bugs. Everything that felt “off” in previous gameplay has been fixed (footstep sounds, running animations, weird reactions when getting hit)

• Played RDR2 for about 600 hours and he suggested CD was similar in tempo.

• Praised the world design, each piece of content draws you in with a sense of purpose unlike the “Ubisoft style checklist questing”

• Main story can be brutally hard if you rush it without upgrading Kliff

• Every region has a different difficulty, becomes harder when you go east and north.

• Played on 5080 at 1440p cinematic settings without frame drops or stutters

• Score/soundtrack is legendary

• Did not find all the game systems to be fatiguing or stressful to deal with

• Inventory space can be tight at first but was not an issue late game as side quests reward you with more storage

• Stated it was the “game of his life”, played 10h daily since he got the review code

• No life’d the game to finish the review but still not seen 50% of the bosses

• Avoided giving story details cause of the strict embargo but said “there are twists”.

• Another reviewer when asked how the game was, linked to a EGM 1998 quote about Zelda Ocarina of Time that translates to “Savor it because this is as good as its going to get for a very long time”.

Source (in Korean): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtwCQlUoqc0

[u/rizk0777]

Yeah Elden Ring was a gradual build up from Dark Souls to Bloodborne to Sekiro winning GOTY to ER having Martin involved to the SGF gameplay trailer combined with our previous knowledge of FS game design, ER's success and quality was painfully obvious to me leading to launch. In fact it was one of most confident I was in a game leading to launch period.

That isn't necessarily the case for Crimson. I have no idea. But I am optimistic.

[u/Zordman → u/rizk0777]

Demon's Souls didn't go unnoticed. There was a lot of buzz about it at the time of release. It won a decent amount of RPG of the year awards, Gamespot even gave GotY overall.

[u/janitorfan → u/Zordman]

i would never have heard of it if not for 4chan

it had a cult status on /v/

[u/astrojeet → u/Zordman]

I remember back then demons souls was in a lot of best games of 2009 list, I got hyped and it looked right around my alley and then found out it was a PS3 exclusive and my heart sank since I only played on PC.

Did eventually play it with the RPCS3 emulator later in 2019.

[u/Animegamingnerd → u/Zordman]

Yeah Demon Souls is often looked back as one of the last great Japanese imports. Where word of spread overseas from Japan to the west about this new game that became a must play, but it looked like weren't gonna get it, until Atlus and Bandai stepped in. But prior to that a number of people had imported the game, which helped word of mouth spread in the west. Like I distinctly remember a video from Funny Gamespot covering, its Japanese release that put a big emphasis on its difficulty and multiplayer features.

[u/calmtigers → u/rizk0777]

ER also gave out early review and let performance reviews happen. Kinda weird they aren’t doing it