Black Desert Online Review (PlayStation 4)
Black Desert Online is a sandbox, living-world MMORPG. Experience fast-paced, action-packed combat, hunt monsters, and huge bosses, fight with friends in a guild to siege nodes and conquer castles, train your life skills such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and much more!
Pros:
- Gorgeous graphics.
- 50.40GB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- 20 character classes-Witch, Archer, Wizard, Dark Knight, Ninja, Kunoichi, Valkyrie, Mystic, Maehwa, Musa, Striker, Shai, Tamer, Berserker, Lahn, Sorceress, Ranger, Hashashin, Warrior, and Guardian.
- Character creator-choose class, appearance (hair/face/body/voice), horoscope, action, and beauty album.
- Trial characters are separate and start at level 60 and also cannot earn Silver.
- Servers-PvE and PvP.
- In-game cutscenes.
- MMO RPG gameplay.
- Set character name and a family name that will show on all created characters.
- Opening tutorials with a handful of beginner quests complete with markers and a mission trail to follow.
- Freeform combat that can be described as Devil May Cry like in its velocity and pace.
- Beautiful landscapes and locations to discover.
- Daily login bonuses.
- Constantly scrolling chat window (optional).
- On-screen list of button commands.
- A minimap with icons and markers.
- Full quest control with optional side quests along with the main quests, special events and you can even click navigate on a quest and your character will autorun to the location.
- Supports the DS4 touchpad for chat purposes.
- In-game cutscenes with the option to skip.
- Big boss encounters.
- Fast respawn times of events, interactions, and enemies to kill.
- Black Spirit-can call on him at any time and from him, you can infuse, chat, get quests and rewards.
- Handy previously used tab so you can jump back into the menus last used.
- The menu can be customized in terms of the organization and whether it’s on the left or right.
- Can ping the map for the guild and party members.
- Guild-like a clan and you can get exclusive rewards, quests, and items.
- Play how you want.
- Map uncovers as you play and take quests.
- Gather materials from the land.
- Horse to ride around on, build, and customize boats.
- Pet-assign and rename pets.
- Inventory-handy up arrow displays on items/gear that is better than you have.
Cons:
- Loading times are long.
- Blue screen crashes.
- Loading times on every option change on the menu.
- Character models can take a while to load.
- Lag and rubber banding in built-up areas.
- Easy to miss mission markers.
- Very busy screen with lots of people, markers, explosions, etc.
- Such dense menus.
- So much to constantly take in.
- Tutorials do not cover how upgrading, leveling and crafting works. You can find info eventually but it’s not explicitly explained.
- Everything is just not straight forward or even streamlined in a way that is helpful.
- Requires a lot of commitment.
- The camera can go crazy.
