Crimson Desert’s Chaotic Combat Is the Best Kind of Messy – Until Bosses Show Up

Pearl Abyss has created a fantastic combat system but restricts its potential in boss fights.

You can’t suplex a giant gorilla.

A nonsense statement in almost any game except Crimson Desert. But Pearl Abyss’ open-world romp combines one of the broadest combat systems ever – you can clothesline enemies, body slam them, punch them, kick them, shield bash and stab them, shoot them, blind them, …