Jake Baldino describes a wow from the first minutes of Crimson Desert

Jake Baldino of the Before You Buy segment on Gameranx talked on a podcast about a review copy of Crimson Desert. Many systems arrive at once, and the interface is unclear at the start, but the overload, he said, quickly becomes an effect he does not want to write off as marketing. He calls the draw distance unlike anything he has seen. The recording.

The hosts see the hook for dozens of hours in exploration, next to Dragon’s Dogma and Skyrim: a hand-made scene can sit around a corner. Baldino notes that the camera sometimes lives on its own and shows the surroundings instead of the hero. Alex Jordan, known from Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth: Wukong, voiced an NPC unhappy about a pork skewer in a tavern.

One host compared the noise to the period around Elden Ring and did not promise the game would hold it. Launch is 19 March 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.