Each character is from one of seven different elements, and hitting an enemy with an elemental weakness allows you to break them, which will push them further back in the turn order and usually do a little bit more damage.' This allows you to mess around with turn orders and sequences, lets you hit enemies while they’re vulnerable, or make sure you heal or shield before a big boss attacks. 'On top of that, each ultimate can actually be activated at any time. This bit from our Honkai: Star Rail review sounds pretty great, too.

Its mix of normal, special and ultimate attacks sound right up my street, and cor, I do love a disruptible turn queue, not gonna lie.

Really, though, I just want to see what its turn-based battles are like. Here's hoping there are lots of interesting language options to try to make it more digestible. I like to think I've built up a reasonably good anime nonsense buffer over the years, as much of my early 20s was spent watching various series through gritted teeth where I knew 100% I wasn't the welcome or target audience for it, and I enduringly put up with its terrible fan service and raging hormonal idiot men far longer than I probably should have.

Very, is probably the answer to that, which may prompt me to turn it off faster than its gacha stuff depending on how grating the English voiceover is. She's spent more time playing it than I have, so why not have a listen to what she has to say about it in the video above?Īnother thing I want to test my tolerance levels against is just how anime it is. But I am intrigued to see exactly how well it plays with just the free characters you get at the start, and I'm heartened by what guides writer Rebecca has said about it this week, and how well it plays with those freebie party members. I don't intend to spend any money playing Honkai: Star Rail, and if I ever get the feeling that I should be paying money, I'll be switching it off and uninstalling it. Yes, I know it's a gacha game, and yes, I hate gacha stuff as much as the next person. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

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