The art direction and level design really does the heavy lifting here. Linear sections weave back into hubs and combine into a very coherent if gamey-feeling world. If you're familiar with some of the older Tales games you'll feel right at home. They are glorious messes of corridors that somehow combine into very logical level layouts. And that is not just its turn-based combat but also the way you explore its worlds. It wants to be a PlayStation 2/ PlayStation 3 Era Japanese RPG. Honkai: Star Rail wears its influences proudly on its chest. There is also a much larger focus on the story here, but everything else is very similar to Genshin's basic gameplay loop. Sure, you have your light-hearted anime antics and sense of adventure but there is a certain kind of melancholy underneath it all. If you want buzzwords, then Honkai: Star Rail is probably best described as a mix of Final Fantasy X, Phantasy Star, and the Tales Series.Ĭompared to Genshin, there is a noticeable difference in tone. Only that instead of playing an open-world action title, you're playing a fairly linear RPG. You follow a big main quest that'll take you to new places and introduces you to all kinds of colorful characters. If you have played Genshin Impact before, the overall set up setup and structure might be familiar to you already. Honkai: Star Rail is an intergalactic space odyssey where your protagonist after waking up without any memories is thrust into adventure. Some of the characters make an appearance and the setting is largely the same.

The game's premise is relatively simple in a ‘lose' sequel to the mobile action game, Honkai Third Impact. Honkai: Star Rail is the latest game in the Honkai series of games of miHoYo's extended HoYoverse.

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