You come throughout a ton of NPCs in Crimson Desert. So many who followers have decided which of them are excellent to be besties with. However there’s one NPC that nearly each single participant cannot stand as a result of they at all times mess issues up each time they arrive round.
Yann is one in every of Crimson Desert’s main characters and is carefully tied to the revival of the Greymanes, Kliff’s faction that fell aside within the early components of the sport. As you search to reestablish your brotherhood, you encounter and save Yann a number of instances all through the game’s 60-hour-long campaign, primarily as a result of he is the sort of drunk who shoots first and asks questions later. This will get him into all kinds of pointless and avoidable bother, which is why many of the neighborhood hates coping with him.
Scrolling by the sport’s official subreddit pulls up all kinds of threads decrying how “awful” and “grating” a personality he’s. The consensus is similar: There are too many quests involving him, most of which require that you simply both rescue him from some peril he found himself in (most likely due to playing, consuming, or each) or listen to him complain as you slowly follow him on horseback. He is giving that one pal you roll your eyes at each time they present up, as a result of they in some way at all times want saving.
It’s time so as to add Yann from Crimson Desert to the “Most annoying characters in video video games” checklist pic.twitter.com/HNHj81tJQh
— Arron Automata 🤖 (@Arron_TK) April 1, 2026
Yann is essentially the most unlikable and annoying facet character that I’ve ever seen in a sport.
I really like Crimson Desert however how does he handle to damage each cutscene with that sort of vitality and at all times will get into bother is past me, I want I might block him😭 pic.twitter.com/F1GAJ3Vxva— NikTek (@NikTek) April 15, 2026
The hate for Yann is so palpable that players want him either dead or outright removed from the game, labeling him a “disgrace” to the Greymanes and the most annoying character in Crimson Desert.
GameSpot content material supervisor Ben Janca would not have nice phrases for Yann, both, calling him “terrible” when requested why he dislikes the character in Slack DMs.
“Nearly each time I bear in mind coping with him, it is after I’m cleansing up a multitude he made,” Janca mentioned. “He is actual fast to leap to combating and would not suppose first a lot. It will get to the purpose the place you are identical to, ‘Whelp, Yann’s again at it once more,’ and I’ve to go drag him out of no matter mess he is gotten into earlier than we are able to proceed.”
It’s not all bad for the dual-wielding Greymane. When Yann’s in fight, he’s fairly efficient, dispatching foes with ease prefer it’s simply one other journey to the grocery retailer for him. The issue, although, is that when he is in fight and dispatching foes, he tends to only dip out, leaving you to scrub up his mess. After which the cycle continues. It seems Crimson Desert players just don’t have time for that.
Crimson Desert is without doubt one of the hottest video games out proper now, promoting some 5 million copies because it launched on March 19 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X|S. Regardless of an AI controversy that ought to draw extra scrutiny, gamers are loving their time in Pywell as they discover their means into area, seek for one of the best drip round, and watch NPCs stay their lives–as lengthy as that does not embrace Yann.