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I let the complains about the controls and boring MMO style quests scare me out of buying this day one. After putting nearly 30 hours in I have not had any issues with the controls and yeah a few quests are pretty boring but most of those are small little side quests. That being said Crimson Desert has one of the most insanely detailed worlds i have ever seen. And 30 hours in i am still discovering gameplay mechanics. I really feel like this game is endless.

If i could give a neutral review I would I dont hate the game but theres to many glaring issues to recommend it.

Edmund once compared "cheating" in Isaac as eating a 250 dollar steak in one bite. However he considers basic QoL things or resetting till you have a chest room at the start cheating, and he really doubles down on this view in this game. His steak for this game is a legit fun Tactical RPG but instead of eating it bite by bite. you are fed slivers of steak while the waiter shows you his favorite method of sorting spoons. every so often the waiter either gives you another sliver of steak or feeds you a lump of ♥♥♥♥ or stabs you in the leg with a fork or outright reaches down your throat and pulls steak out of your stomach. If you played Isaac this game progresses like Isaac but instead of keeping an item you unlock in the loot pool forever making a mistake or not knowing the metagame will take those items away from you. And I wont even get into the insane QoL issues this game suffers from.

Edmund has the groundwork for a great game here but his laziness and stubbornness will likely keep this game down until mods end up fixing it for him.

What I wanted from the demo all this time. Though i feel its a little easier then the demo

Most of my playtime was in the demo, but progress carries over, so I likely have around 10 hours total. I’m a huge fan of Touhou; however, I’ve always felt that ZUN made a big mistake giving fans such free rein with Touhou fan games, since so many of them end up being low-effort or lazy asset flips.

This is one of the few Touhou fan games that really shows the good side of the doujin game scene. No other game lets you chokeslam Sakuya as Flandre or suplex Alice as Mokou. The skills can get absolutely crazy when stacked, and you can end up with some wildly overpowered builds.

My only real downsides are that the levels get boring pretty quickly, and I wish there were more randomness in which level you get, like in other roguelikes. Performance is also pretty rough, but I can look past that since the dev team seems really small.

Also, if the devs see this: I would pay double the base game price for a Utsuho DLC. The game could really use a projectile-focused character, and she would fit that role perfectly.

I really want to give this game a positive review but the devs clearly don't understand how to make the Danmaku aspects of the game work with the rest of the game. First i'd like to say the art style is great and the devs really know the lore of Touhou the story can be a little fan fictiony at times but that part of the charm. But the The boss fights are very unfair and not fun at all. The camera angle is really bad and is the biggest problem with the boss fights. Literal all the other issues I would be forgiven if the camera was top down during the bosses. But that leads to to how unforgiving the fights are in general. There is no I-frames after being hit. Bullets can Cancel, Stun, and Knock you all at the same time. When you're shield runs out you're left to just hide or dodge, unable to attack till it refills. I feel that making the shield part of the game is the biggest reason the Devs chose to make the bullets so harsh and they would have had a better game if they went with a life bar with health pickups or even just a 1 hit KO with lives. I really wish i could recommend this game but unless the devs fix the camera i cannot.

Walked away from the game near the end of the tutorial and got kicked for afk. Go to play the game once i was back and it wont let me start unless i finish the tutorial i already finished. Uninstalled it right after that.

Though short and mostly on rails I really liked the world and story. I hope the developers do more with the world they created here.

Literally everything wrong with modern shooter games. Your average game will consist of 10 minutes of sneaking around. then .2 seconds of combat. and once you die you get to enjoy 4 minutes of the menu showing you micro transaction and other modern online game slop while you wait to get back in to the actual game.

Match making has killed this game for me. I dont know if the whole EOMM thing is true, But be prepared to get 10 matches of good team work and comp. then 10 more matches of 4 Hellen Keller's that instalock DPS and will REEE if you tell them to switch. Unless you have a full team of friends you will know if you're gonna lose the second you see the team comp. I absolutely hated Overwatch's match making but at least that only made you lose 3 or 4 times to enforce its 50/50 win rate. This punishes you for way longer while trying to keep you playing by tossing you a boring bot match in between absolute slaughter fests.

Really great follow up to the original. I cant wait to see what Doekuramori does next.