After Honkai: Starway For a few minutes during a live media preview, I liked what I saw the most. HoYoverse’s Space Fantasy RPG doesn’t reinvent turn-based combat, but the performance was smooth. The combat animations were some of the best I’ve seen from anime games in years. The battle’s turn tracker, team combos, type matchups, and battle animations were reminiscent of games like Shin Megami Tensei And individual 5. But HoYoverse absolutely doesn’t want you to think of it as one of those games. Aside from the apparent identity confusion, my conversation with the developer left me without much optimism about racial inclusion star track‘s space fantasy.
Here’s how star track Works: Although you start with a protagonist, most of your squad will come from finding wives and husbands through the gacha system. You use them to explore maps filled with enemy encounters (rather than real-time combat like in HoYoverse’s current leg Genshin Impact).
Once you encounter an enemy, you begin a turn-based battle. Each of your four party members has two abilities. Some will be offensive while others will be supportive or healing. Each attack corresponds to an element, and using elemental matchups effectively will allow you to break shield bars. Once an enemy is vulnerable, you can use team combo attacks to kick them while they’re down.
Despite the relatively simple combat, the game will feature automatic combat mechanics. This should make it easier to fight daily battles for resources, which is a key feature that some modern gachas use to keep the games alive.
star track will have a main story campaign and regular side quests. It shares similar characters Honkai Impact 3Fish Ling, a HoYoverse rep, assured me there would be no story crossover with their incredibly lore-heavy real-time action game.
Drive Honkai: StarwayAccording to Michalel Lin, another representative of the developer, the development of HoYoverse was a desire to diversify its portfolio from the usual action games it publishes. Second, HoYoverse felt turn-based combat was conducive to “the story we want to tell.” Its design philosophy was driven by a desire to make turn-based combat accessible to newcomers.
However, things got murkier when I tried to ask who the target audience is. The star track In the presentation it was mentioned that the game would feature different cultures. remind me how bad Genshin Impact
“The game takes place in a fictional world,” Lin said. “What we do depends on how intellectual property grows. As a combination of cultures in our world, there is no specific culture that we target. We’ll continue to listen to fan feedback, but we can’t say for sure what the world will be like.”
The year is 2023, and Asian RPGs continue to embrace diversity. This immensely disappointing answer reminded me of Final Fantasy XVI Producer Naoki Yoshida Answer whether this game would include colored people or not. Her response was that her world is fantasy, so it cannot be held to diversity standards at all. star track contains characters that are culturally Chinese, so that feels really crappy his starting signs appear to be even lighter skinned than those in Genshin Impact
When I asked where, I got similarly vague answers star track got inspired. “We think turn-based RPGs are very engaging and have an active audience in the market,” Lin said. It took me a few minutes to remember that persona series has sold 16.8 million units worldwide and was probably at least one of the games alluded to. When I pushed for the studio’s creative inspiration, Lin told me star trackThe team consists of 500 individual developers. It would therefore be impossible to narrow down certain influences.
I can imagine why HoYoverse is so shy individual 5 game in space. It’s probably because the Internet torn Genshin Impact at the start for its similarities with breath of the wildto the point where the developer had to calm down players that the game was more than a clone. But star track will Expected release sometime this yearand people will be able to see those persona DNA embedded in gameplay.
So here is the honest summary of star track: It is a space fantasy game that you will probably like if you are a fan of persona or Shin Megami Tensei Series. Be careful with the gacha system and don’t hold your breath at the improved variety from what we’ve seen so far.