Crimson Desert: Introducing Three Brand New Bosses

There’s plentifulness going connected successful Crimson Desert’s unfastened world. From puzzles to castle sieges to blowing up enemies with a conflict robot, there’s a wide scope of activities to get stuck into. But from what we’ve seen truthful far, the existent amusement stoppers are the brag battles. As portion of this month’s IGN First, we’ve already shown you 2 caller ones: the Golden Star mechanical dragon, and Fortain, The Cursed Knight. But there’s inactive much to see. Today, we’re showcasing 3 marque caller bosses: Muskan, Walter Lanford, and Kearush the Slayer. You tin spot protagonist Kliff duke it retired with each 3 successful the video above.

The trio demonstrates a chunk of Crimson Desert’s force standard – Walter Lanford and Muskan are some human, but the erstwhile is beauteous regular successful size, portion the second is an eight-foot powerhouse. And past there’s Kearush, a massive, gorilla-like beast who's really 1 of Crimson Desert’s smaller monsters.

Those “weight categories” assistance separate each boss, but each is defined by their quality set. Muskan is simply a fierce pugilist, lone providing you a fewer seconds of reprieve portion helium charges up his almighty punches and dive kicks. He’s not acrophobic to combat a small dirty, with sweeping kicks knocking your legs from nether you, and choke slams sending you sputtering to the floor. When his fury metre maxes out, he’s capable to unleash a concatenation of blows that repeatedly motorboat you into the air, truthful learning however to debar his lighting-fast fists is the sanction of the game.

Walter Landford whitethorn beryllium nary bigger than you are, but he’s arguably the astir blase of the 3 bosses we’re showing today. Armed with a shotgun, he’s capable to combat efficaciously astatine range. Dodging the wide-spread projectiles is key, but get your timing close and you tin really deflect his blasts backmost astatine him. Should your reflexes not beryllium rather that sharp, you tin rotation up a magic obstruction that collects incoming bullets and fires them backmost wherever they came from. Walter’s anemic to grapples, truthful getting successful adjacent is captious – thankfully you tin usage the “deflect light” skill, typically utilized to find hidden items, to temporarily unsighted him and adjacent the distance. You’ll request to enactment fast, though, arsenic Walter’s equipped with fume grenades that tin assistance conceal his accelerated getaways.

Finally, Kearush the Slayer is simply a monster with nary little than 3 wellness bars - a fight-extending instrumentality that aggregate foes crossed Crimson Desert’s run tin pull. There’s a Hulk-like strength to this fight, with Kearush being capable to ascent the walls and unleash clumsy-but-destructive leaps successful his effort to crook each bony successful your assemblage to dust. As a larger creature, you’re capable to clamber onto his backmost and stab away, Dragon’s Dogma-style, but beryllium cautious - he’s much than blessed to autumn back-first from a large height, truthful fto spell of those shoulders earlier you’re forced to cushion his landing.

All 3 of these fights lone reenforce my feeling that the bosses are going to beryllium the existent stars of the amusement successful Crimson Desert. Every 1 I’ve faced truthful acold crossed aggregate hands-on opportunities has had a unsocial twist, a clever mechanic, oregon simply an breathtaking moveset that kept maine connected my toes. I’ve fought a almighty knight who I crushed with fallen masonry columns. I’ve faced disconnected against an antlered snowfall beast who could origin avalanches that froze maine successful my tracks. And I’ve clambered up the broadside of a elephantine walking mountain, Shadow of the Colossus-style, seeking retired its anemic points successful a conflict of endurance. And I anticipation these are lone conscionable the start. I can’t hold to spot what Crimson Desert’s astir ambitious showdowns are made of.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Executive Editor of Features.