Honkai: Star Rail is a stylish permutation of modern turn-based RPGs. Our review:
Honkai: Star Rail is supposed to be turn-based, but its battles move at the speed of a character action game. Plan your moves right, and your team will dash and dodge around the screen as if you're in direct control. Sharp tactical decisions will earn you a swift victory, but the real reward is watching its dazzling, anime-inspired battles play out.
Star Rail's cast of anime protagonists fits its elastic tone, which fluctuates from the heroic optimism of a space opera, to the dark comedy of a Nier game, with a lot of Final Fantasy 14's soap opera storytelling mixed in. Your main character, the Trailblazer, and her two crewmates travel to different planets and wade into the politics and problems of the locals.
Once you leave the space station in Star Rail's intro, which acts as the hub for important characters and side quests later on, you're dropped into Jarilo-VI, a frozen planet that shares the same problem as the Trailblazer. Jarilo-VI was tricked by one of the universe's gods and given a Stellaron, a seed of disaster that helps civilizations prosper before it mutates and curses them for eternity.
Star Rail accelerates the tactical strengths of the best turn-based RPGs to create an adaptable experience for all kinds of players. You can brute force—and even auto-battle—fights against weak monsters and not worry about matching elements, but some difficult encounters force you to engage with the elemental system. Missions and repeatable encounters, like the Calyx challenges , funnel you items to increase your character's level, their Light Cones , their Relics , and their Traces .
Star Rail accelerates the tactical strengths of the best turn-based RPGs to create an adaptable experience for all kinds of players. Combat encounters only last a few minutes, but the rapid exchange of potent attacks intensifies every second. Mistakes are felt immediately, which trains you to quickly adapt and experiment with different team compositions.
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