In Honkai: Star Rail, you discover the galaxy on a flying prepare blessed by a (presumably) useless god. You accumulate anime pals and battle anime enemies. It is mainly Genshin Affect in house, and you can play it free of charge subsequent month.
In a stream earlier as we speak, developer MiHoYo introduced that Honkai: Star Rail will launch on April 26 with preloading obtainable on April 23. PC gamers can seize the sport by way of its official launcher or the Epic Video games Retailer.
The sport’s first story arc, or model (regardless of this being its debut), known as “The Rail Unto the Stars” and might be your introduction to its sci-fi world. Honkai: Star Rail takes place in the identical universe as 2016’s Honkai Affect third and even options a number of returning characters. However you need not play the older recreation to know the brand new one. It takes place a few years sooner or later and has a separate story.
Honkai: Star Rail is a free-to-play gacha recreation like its predecessor, so there are many characters to roll the cube for, every with numerous skills that can assist you in its slick turn-based fight. Enemies have elemental weaknesses and it’s important to construct a crew to use them.
Genshin Affect gamers might be aware of constructing four-person groups and equipping them with grindable gear, however Honkai: Star Rail is not precisely an open world recreation. You journey to planets and discover them to progress a semi-linear story about an invading pressure of evil monsters. Your essential character—who will be both male or feminine—has one thing known as the “Most cancers of all Worlds” in them, which looks as if one thing you may be attempting to repair because the story continues in future updates. In any other case… yikes.
I performed loads of the sport’s final beta take a look at and was struck by its over-the-top fight animations and legitimately humorous writing. In comparison with Genshin Affect, Honkai: Star Rail feels slightly extra grownup and much more on-line: there are jokes concerning the metaverse and a complete textual content messaging system with emojis. There’s additionally a sidequest the place you speak to a plant.
The sport pulled in over 5 million pre-registrations (opens in new tab) final month, which could imply Genshin Affect may have some competitors—if you happen to can name it that.
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