Honkai: Star Rail is a free-to-play strategy game from miHoYo. As the fourth installment of the globally popular Honkai series, it features a mix of old and new characters from other games such as Honkai Impact 3. However, it focuses on a 3D tactical role-playing approach, allowing you to build teams and fight monsters and other creatures.
As the latest miHoYo title, Honkai: Star Rail definitely meets expectations. It has top-tier graphics comparable to Genshin Impact, a familiar roster of characters from the Honkai series, plus a turn-based fighting mechanic all make it a title to watch out for.
Honkai Impact 3rd is a free-to-play 3D action role-playing game that mainly utilizes hack-n-slash combat gameplay alongside other genres. As the spiritual successor to Houkai Gakuen 2, it follows the story of an elite group of young Valkyrie warriors who fight against the deadly Honkai beasts in their alternate version of Earth. The Honkai series’ popularity spawned numerous other media like anime series and other connected games.
One of these is Honkai: Star Rail, which uses some of its beloved characters but places them in an alternate universe. Thus, the characters you meet here ultimately have different lives, beliefs, and even personalities. Some aspects of them still remain the same, however—like their preferred fighting style and acquired power. In this game, though, the combat system uses a four-unit party for turn-based battles.
Aside from the combat, there are also elements of open-world and dungeon exploration present in the gameplay. Plus, the game’s story is rich and narrative-driven here. However, it can feel like it has lazily reused some assets from both Honkai Impact 3rd and Genshin Impact, due to its spin-off nature. For one, the character roster screen looks far too similar to Genshin Impact’s and has even confused some players.
With a handy enemy-tracking tool, players can easily keep an eye on opponents anywhere on the map. This will allow you to either avoid any sudden battles or look for specific enemies in order to collect materials that will help you level up your characters and their Light Cones. Players will now also be able to communicate with friends in the chat function. Previously, this feature was only used to communicate with the in-game characters.
With new companion missions for characters like Silver Wolf, Luocha, Yanqing, and Bailu. Honkai Star Rail also has its own version of rate-up banners where players can obtain limited-edition characters within a certain period of time. There’s also a dedicated banner for you to obtain special Light Cones, which are cards that you can equip your characters with in order to boost their base stats.
Honkai: Star Rail’s version 2.3 update, also called Farewell, Penacony, will bring a dramatic conclusion to the Penacony saga. It will also introduce new five-star characters, Jade and Firefly the Stellaron Hunter. At the same time, there will be banner reruns for Ruan Mei and Argenti. The update will also introduce the Divergent Universe, and events Origami Bird Clash and Stellar Shimmer will transpire for a limited period.
All in all, Honkai: Star Rail is a great game to try out if you’re either a fan of miHoyo’s games or beautiful strategy JRPGs in general. Not only does it boast beautiful graphics that can easily play on multiple platforms, but it also features several characters that have been given new makeovers. While this is a spin-off, it’s good enough to be an introduction to this franchise.
Version
199.958.751
License
Free
Platform
Android
OS
Android 13.0
Downloads
16K
Developer
miHoYo Limited
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