Don’t Play Crimson Desert Like a Soulslike, And You’ll Be Fine

You’ve probably heard by now that Crimson Desert is a tough game. In fact, you might have even experienced it firsthand if you’ve been playing it, especially if you’ve managed to get to its first big ego check of a boss fight. Some reviews have even given Crimson Desert a lower score on account of its difficulty, which is understandable, but perhaps only from a certain point of view. Difficulty is mostly subjective, but games have been known to stretch that idea by pitting players against bosses they couldn’t hope to overcome due to obscure mechanics or impossible learning curves. Crimson Desert does tend to look like one of those games if you approach the main story’s boss fights too early, but there are ways to work around those difficulty spikes, and it starts with not trying to play it like a Soulslike game.