{"id":4488,"date":"2025-11-07T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:01:22","slug":"video-game-honkai-star-rail-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/video-game-honkai-star-rail-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Honkai – Star Rail (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Honkai:Honkai: Star Rail
<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2023
Rating: T
Time Played: ~4,700 minutes \/ ~78.33 hours<\/p>\n

Having played Genshin Impact<\/em><\/a> by MiHoYo, I thought I\u2019d give their next game\u2014a sci-fi based adventure\u2014Honkai: Star Rail<\/em> a try. While Genshin Impact<\/em> is more of an open-world adventure akin to Breath of the Wild<\/em><\/a>, Honkai: Star Rail<\/em> is a turn-based RPG similar to early Final Fantasy<\/em> games. Both follow the \u201cgatcha\u201d mechanic for obtaining new characters, so a lot of the consumables had similar uses for powering up the characters, just with different names in each game. Surprisingly, while I liked the exploration in Genshin Impact<\/em>, the ability for Honkai: Star Rail<\/em> to run automatically made me like it more.<\/p>\n

Since most gatcha games try to get you to spend money to get good characters and spend even more time grinding materials to upgrade these characters, I can appreciate how I only needed to get one set of the traditional RPG roles to max build out before I could let the game play itself. Grinding in the action-based Genshin Impact<\/em> actively required me to play the game, but grinding in Honkai: Star Rail<\/em> is something I can have running on my phone as I do something else like watch TV or play other video games.<\/p>\n

That being said, as I progressed through Honkai: Star Rail<\/em>\u2019s story (or even special events), I found it a lot more fun to fight in these turn-based battles with characters that had max stats instead of banging my head against a wall for not being skilled enough. The little cut scenes for the characters\u2019 special powers were always a neat little exhibition of their power, and there were plenty of interesting characters to choose from\u2014to where I could auto-grind and build up more characters to swap out from my core team of a healer and tank. Because, after all, the easier I can just collect characters in a gatcha game, the more likely I am going to enjoy myself.<\/p>\n

A great low-stakes turn-based gatcha game, I give Honkai: Star Rail<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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