Medieval skydiving is not even the weirdest thing Crimson Desert crammed into this exhaustive new trailer

pcgamer.com:

Singleplayer open world adventure Crimson Desert, by the developers of MMO Black Desert, reemerged after a long period of silence with a new gameplay trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live today. It was quite the reintroduction to a game we didn't yet know much about because based on that whirlwind trailer it appears that Crimson Desert is a action game with *checks notes* everything?

The new trailer «portrays the story of the main protagonist, Kliff, who is investigating events that transpire in the region of Hernand and embarking on a journey of exploration through a vast open world,» Pearl Abyss says in a press release today. «Crimson Desert depicts the story of mercenaries fighting for survival on the expansive continent of Pywel.»

It's a brightly colored world with lovely lighting and uncannily pretty characters, which is no surprise for anyone that's passingly aware of Black Desert. What did surprise me was just how much the trailer felt like an exhaustive bullet list of features. And not (necessarily) in a bad way.

Things I'll be doing in Crimson Desert, based on this trailer:

That's a long list already and I feel I may have even overlooked a couple features. Some are stock-standard RPG stuff, sure, like quests taken from notice boards and its third-person action combat that looks quite technique-heavy.

But the fact that it's jamming together a Rockstar-like vehicle theft system, quite a bit of climbing and verticality, lots of horse mechanics, and climbable bosses is, frankly, a lot. I'm reminded of watching the Craftopia trailer for the first time and thinking they couldn't possibly cram a single other idea into the thing.

This is one I've been quite eager to hear more about and though I'm wary of the apparent