After escaping the invasion, you eventually team up with members of the Astral Express, a train that can travel through space. You start the game by waking up in a space station that’s being invaded by an evil alien coalition. Though HoYoverse has spoiled me with Genshin’s evergrowing world of Archons and vast regions, I was impressed to see the developer still go above and beyond for Honkai Star Rail’s sci-fi story and characters. If you still think Star Rail’s gameplay is too slow for your liking, HoYoverse also added a 2x option to speed up your fights. Rather than being tedious and unnecessary, Honkai Star Rail’s turn-based gameplay teaches players to take their time analyzing their opponents before even landing a single attack. I used Dan Heng as a heavy hitter that could deal critical damage and take out enemies without having to break their shields. While Honkai Star Rail teaches you to exploit enemy weaknesses, you can find your way around fights by building characters a certain way. Deploying multiple enemy waves with some of them having one or no weaknesses, these fights teach you how to plan your attacks out and build the right team composition. Since Genshin only gives sequences to 5-star characters, HSR’s detailing for each character’s ultimate adds a bit more personality when you use them in battle.Īfter you’ve learned the elements and characters’ moves, the game occasionally throws in a significantly harder fight to test your mettle. One nice touch is that all players have thrilling ultimate sequences. The game allows you to use up to four ults at once to give you the upper hand in tough battles. Once full, you can use the ultimate immediately after the current turn. Upon executing actions and taking damage from opponents, characters will build their ultimate meter. If you hit an enemy with their weakness in exploration mode, you can inflict extra damage and even affect them with an elemental status like Burn or Frozen. You can also preemptively strike opponents even before the fight begins. If you break the shield of an opponent, the opponent will be stunned, giving you a few extra turns before they recover their shield. Similar to Genshin Impact, characters can use elemental skills to exploit the weaknesses of certain opponents for extra damage to their health and shield, identified by the red and white bar respectively above their head. You enter fights with a party of up to four characters and take turns attacking the enemy troop. While turn-based mechanics is quite the departure from Genshin’s action RPG elements, Honkai Star Rail flawlessly executes the battle system with flashy character skills and fast-paced action sequences. Honkai Star Rail’s turn-based gameplay is easy to learn and fun to master Screenshot by Joseph Asuncion/ONE Esports The latest title in the Honkai franchise, Star Rail steers away from the previous installment’s hack-and-slash gameplay (Honkai Impact 3rd) for turn-based action akin to Persona 5 and Final Fantasy.Ī Genshin fan since day one, I had my doubts on whether or not HoYoverse could deliver an even better RPG experience than Genshin’s breathtaking open-world adventure, but I stand corrected.Īfter participating in the game’s second closed beta test, I can say that Honkai Star Rail looks like the next best game for Genshin players, and here’s why. Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse is shooting for the stars with its tactical RPG, Honkai Star Rail.
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