Now, its people live penned into a single steampunk-esque city called Belobog. The adventure that unfolds next is a classic RPG plotline: Catastrophe hit the planet and transformed its mild climate into a nearly unlivable wintery hellscape. Hook from Honkai: Star Rail runs around the city of Belobog. Eventually, the train hits a snag on an icy planet called Jarilo-6. You accept, and your new colleagues welcome you aboard a bougie luxe lounge car headed by a bunny mascot named Pom-Pom. They wake up on a space station, where they meet Dan Heng and March 7th, two characters who travel from world to world aboard an interstellar train called the Astral Express.Īs the Trailblazer, you help the two clear out an enemy threat of robots on the space station, and the leader of the Astral Express - a Greek goddess of a woman named Himeko - invites you to join the team in the hopes that you can uncover more about your past. After the insertion process, the Trailblazer forgets everything about their past, except for Kafka’s name. You start off playing as the Trailblazer, a person who has had a cosmic power called a Stellaron inserted into their body by a mysterious woman named Kafka. While fans of Genshin Impact and similar mobile games will recognize several of the systems in Star Rail, its designers take this game in a new direction by blending turn-based combat with more linear dungeon exploration, rather than giving players an open world. Honkai: Star Rail is currently available to play on mobile devices and Windows PC (where I played it for this review), and will come to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 eventually. Honkai: Star Rail marks another massive release from Hoyoverse, the studio behind the breakout hit Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3rd. But even in the rush of its confusing early moments, Honkai: Star Rail presents a fractured sci-fi world that shimmers where it breaks. You will step into the shoes of the Trailblazer, who’s not a person so much as a bodily receptacle of mysterious cosmic power that can bring disaster to entire planets. Secret organizations will steal the memories of strangers and wrap them up in membranes that look like bubbles. You will meet a girl named March 7th who wields a comically tall bow that fires glittering, bunny-shaped snowballs. In space and in anime, almost anything can happen.

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