I spent an hour fighting 4 of Crimson Desert's bosses and learned to embrace the hack-and-slash, but it wasn't enough to kill its giant enemy crab

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There are things aboutCrimson DesertI wish I’d learned quicker.

Crimson Desert has all of that, yes.

But in other ways, it plays closer to a hack-and-slash than any of its contemporaries.

Staglord can take a beating, which makes him perfect for testing out Kliff’s wealth of abilities.

Combat is less precious than many of its third-person action contemporaries.

Fighting the next boss, Hexie Marie, is even more intense.