Some commentators highlighted the lower Crimson Desert scores

After the first reviews, Russian commentator Anton Logvinov collected the lower scores on his channel and reminded readers that he had doubted Pearl Abyss’s promises back in 2025. The tone of the post is satisfaction that the hype now has reservations.

The aggregators in this note sit elsewhere: Metacritic at 77–79, OpenCritic around 80–81. That is a middle band, and for the genre not a collapse, even if individual write-ups are harsher.

The same account recalls his earlier rankings: he called Dragon Age: The Veilguard one of the best games of its year, and in a personal top 30 for 2025 he placed Avowed above Mafia: The Old Country, Cronos and Hollow Knight: Silksong.