I’ve been playing the third and final beta for Honkai: Star Rail, a free-to-play turn-based gacha JRPG and the next game from Genshin Impact developer Hoyoverse, and generally having a great time. A lot of systems and interfaces have been lifted wholesale from Genshin, but Star Rail’s world, combat, and characters are totally different, and appealing in their own right. I love that combat is broken up by ultimate and follow-up abilities that can interrupt the action queue, adding dynamic and flashy moments to the traditional turn-based formula. It definitely feels like a Hoyoverse game, but it’s scratching a separate itch for me as a big JRPG fan.
