For: PC From: Pearl Abyss Rating: ★★★ Imagine, if you will, a scenario. You are a bandit in a fantasy world. You spend your days looting travellers on the road and scraping by however you can. Suddenly a masked figure dismounts from a horse and walks towards you. You and your friends draw your swords. There are 10 of you and only one of him. But before you can move, time literally slows down and the figure, seemingly unaffected, walks over to a tree. He uproots it with his bare hands and slams it into three of your buddies. You realise you have made a grave error. Now, imagine you are that masked figure, because that was one of my combat encounters in Crimson Desert . The rest of this review is purely subjective opinion, but that moment is objectively a 5/5 experience. Crimson Desert is an open-world action fantasy adventure game where you play as Kliff, a member of the Greymanes, who are attacked by a rival faction, the Black Bears.…