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TopicAnyone else playing Honkai: Star Rail?
HeroDelTiempo17
05/01/23 7:46:42 PM
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I've played all the way through the first world now and I agree the combat is starting to wear pretty thin. This is both due to the simplicity of the system and lack of character variety, imo. Part of it is my pulls (my 5*s so far have been Himeko who is great AOE but limited for boss use, and Gepard who is purely defensive when you get multiple defensive units for free), but part of it is that there aren't a lot of characters for a game so heavily based on team composition and elemental type. There is ONE Imaginary-type character in the game currently and it's a standard banner 5*! It feels like I'm pretty limited, strategically.

When the game is firing on all cylinders, like for the big cinematic boss fights or appropriately powered elite minibosses, it's great, but there's honestly way too much typical JRPG/gacha filler that's either autobattle zone or a brick wall of difficulty you need to grind up to. But I'm in an awkward spot right now where I'm being level-gated by the game.

Also the writing is very inconsistent. There's a lot of charming characters with fun dialogue (fortunately March 7th and Dan Heng are both in this category) but also a bunch of nothing ones you're forced to spend time with (like Gepard). And while I found the tutorial story intriguing, the first world's storyline had a bunch of wasted potential and dragged on a bit too much for me. (Ending rant) I'm so unsympathetic to the whole "covering up the truth so Bronya can be President" angle. Girl your mom sucked and your whole society is based on a sham. Get over it!

I dunno, I'll probably keep playing at least through the initial release content. Genshin also pretty notably has a crap initial area and things get WAY better afterward, but the issues here are a bit more grating so I'm not holding my breath.

edit: oh and my UID is 600665617 if we are adding people. I added the ones here, my ingame name is "Receptacle" but I might change that lol, I was put on the spot

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