Star Rail doesn't waste your time, and it plays like a modern RPG-with some free-to-play gacha game caveats.ĭitching the open-world structure established in Genshin lets Star Rail focus on building a meaningful cast of side characters through quests and stray conversations. Here, that stuff is tucked away in text logs and item descriptions. The steady pace of the plot and its surprisingly articulate writing help avoid the misery of having to sit through long stretches of worldbuilding like you're forced to in Genshin.
Your main character, the Trailblazer, and her two crewmates travel to different planets and wade into the politics and problems of the locals. Options to gather experience & crafting materials opens up early, and there's a familiar Trailblazer Level system that serves to gate content getting harder as players begin to complete more and more adventures.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. Daily text messages from characters serve to add a bit of the mundane to an otherwise grand scope, with discussions about coffee helping ground the budding relationships as the Astral Express seeks to unseat sinister powers. Aside from main story progression, there are a multitude of side quests, dailies, and character-specific story quests.
There's also simply more to do at launch in Honkai: Star Rail than expected.
There's no Paimon-style character bumbling through scenes that would otherwise be emotional or intense - the closest thing is Pom-Pom, the Astral Express conductor, whose lack of presence in key plot moments makes them much more palatable when they do inject some humor into the narrative. From the get-go, it's obvious that some of Honkai: Star Rail's design is informed by lessons that would have been learned from Genshin Impact's vocal player base.
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