For me, anyway

I rarely feel as conflicted about a game as I do aboutHonkai: Star Rail.

It’s a turn-based RPG and I like those; but it’s a JRPG and I dislike those.

Watch it and make up your own mind.

A woman holding a sci-fi-looking electric guitar prepares to play a power chord in Honkai: Star Rail.

Honkai: Star Railis the fourth game in the Honkai series, and the first to be turn-based.

I just, yeah, wish those characters weren’t as anime as this.

People who fight using guitars or magic cameras or whatever?

Cover image for YouTube video

A turn-based game with these production values?

Just c’mon let me mod it so it feels less pandering.