Crimson Desert Hands-on on a Handheld

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Crimson Desert is the sort of glee-generating, open-world graphical powerhouse that clearly isn’t designed to be played on a handheld PC.

But after spending more than 125 hours with it on my handheld of choice, I’ve only really run into two issues: the text can be so small for my aging eyes that I occasionally have to use a magnifying glass to read it (please try not to imagine what that looks like, it’s sad) and the chance that I’ll throw the game across the room in a boss-fight-induced rage is much higher than if it were running on my chunky desktop.

Boss fights aside, Crimson Desert is the sort of game I’ve been waiting for without really realizing it was the exact sort of thing I need in my life right now.

I happen to be traveling for the month, and my only gaming form of entertainment is my iPhone and the beefy ROG Xbox Ally X. It also happens to be (currently) the worst month of the year in terms of Trump-driven rage, dystopia, and depression.

In short, I needed a comforting distraction but didn’t have my desktop handy to help wth that.

You can read the full column, which was first published March 19 on Game.