In the MMORPG world, Korean-developed games have dominated as well, from Lineage to the most recently released Lost Ark here in the West. Yet Korean culture and its influence have steadily grown in the last few years here in the West, with more and more KPop and K-Dramas taking center stage, especially thanks to platforms like YouTube and Netflix putting them in front of mainstream audiences. Anime, JPop, and more have been in the cultural zeitgeist for decades, while Chinese action movies have dominated and influenced Hollywood for decades as well.
This is something the Pearl Abyss team talked to us about during the Calpheon Ball, with executive producer Jaehee Kim touching on the idea that the team could start to add Korean influences into the game after focusing on servicing the global community since its launch.įor many of us here in the West, when we think of Asian influence on culture, our minds more often than not go to Japan or China. It’s been refreshing to see, slowly but surely, Pearl Abyss’ designers ebb and flow across the range of real-world influences they have to play with. Classes like the Hashashin come to mind, and my personal favorite, the Lahn, doesn’t share any of the design language of a medieval knight. Throughout the years that Black Desert has been in operation, the MMO has slowly started to lean into non-European settings.
However, the upcoming Land of Morning Light does feel this way because, at its core, it is a fundamental departure from the design language that has defined the world of Black Desert, instead opting for something closer to home for its Korean developers. Last year’s expansion content, the Mountain of Eternal Winter, had some elements that weren’t quite inspired by the European setting roots of BDO, but it didn’t feel like such a departure that it was unfamiliar.
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