What if Genshin Impact were turn-based?
Take Genshin Impact, make it turn-based, and crank the anime dial up to 11 and you have Honkai: Star Rail, the next game from MiHoYo.
The free-to-play game just entered its final beta and the dates on its Apple App Store and Google Play Store page suggest it might release in April. The game's final beta started on February 10, andBefore MiHoYo made Genshin Impact, it was making Honkai, a Evangelion-inspired sci-fi action series in which Earth is stuck in a battle with a malevolent cosmic force of the same name.
You play as one of two main protagonists and explore planets with a crew of four characters. Each character has elemental attacks and plays a particular role within your team comp. It's a gacha game, so building a strong team to face harder and harder foes as you complete story and event missions is the whole deal. It even has Genshin Impact's artifact system , incentivizing you to craft and grind for better and better gear.and was floored by its impressive combat animations.
The fact that it's turn-based helps elevate its flashy battles. Genshin Impact's most difficult fights are frantic and you start to value character abilities over the characters themselves. In what I've played of Honkai: Star Rail, you spend more time with each character as you build up to your strongest attacks. Enemies have elemental weaknesses and you have to plan out your abilities to weaken them before you set off your powerful ultimates.
Honkai: Star Rail isn't open world; instead, it lets you explore portions of a planet as you progress through the story. There are chests and lore documents to loot, but the focus is on its cast of space explorers and the looming threat of the Honkai.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
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