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Black Desert Online Review
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Black Desert Online is a unique and beautiful sandbox fantasy MMORPG, with little or no endgame to speak of.
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Black Desert Online is an MMORPG by Pearl Abyss.
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the game is great in all aspects except the progression, it just takes so long to progress in this game.
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In short, this is one of the WORST games I have ever played based on some of the points highlighted below.
"Character Creation": Good.
"Class": Few good classes to choose from but the game is so bad that it doesn't really matter.
"Story": Ok at best
"Performance": Terrible. Stutter. graphics load in patches and it's the only game that crashes on my PS5 and it does often.
"NPCs": Terrible. They seemed to be from early 90s. Very annoying to watch their stupid animations.
"Music": not good
"Bosses": not good. Sad because some of the classes have good movesets but it's pointless because enemies are just not entertaining to fight with.
"Regular enemies": not good
"Quality of Life": I have not experienced such a horrible experience in any of the games. It feels almost everything is behind senseless grinding and/or micro transactions. Just to list a few, Inventory management is terrible, sort of encourage you to buy more space or just live with the limited amount of character and town inventory space. Gear upgrade system is horrible. When upgrade fails enhancement goes lower by one step i.e. all the materials you used previously meant nothing. In case of accessories, failing enhancement would mean you will lose the base accessory and the one you are trying to enhance. For pet upgrade you use 2 pets. Whether you succeed or not, you will lose one pet either way. Mount upgrade is also tedious. You cannot use one outfit that you buy from Pearl shop between two characters even though they are from the same class. I can understand if they are from different class. A premium outfit could be around $35 (assuming $1 = 100 pearls). Everything can be made a bit easier in this frustrating game if you spend a lot of money to buy materials from Pearl Shop for enhancement/upgrades/convenience. There is no fast travel. You get some traveler maps (RNG) one time use to fast travel but overall you just use horse or run to your destination in big open world. One big part of the map is desert
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Great graphics; however, the near unlimited options made the game confusing and overwhelming. Even the tutorial was not very helpful and too long.
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Black Desert Online is a unique and beautiful sandbox fantasy MMORPG, with little or no endgame to speak of.
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