Honkai: Star Railcame out swinging hard and hitting the goal of being a casual, but engaging RPG that can rival with most current RPGs available on the market. The ambition is high and it shows throughout the whole game from top to bottom, making it a challenge to find things that would make the game better if tweaked.
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While the pros of the game more than outweigh the cons, there is always room for a little improvement. Below are some things that could make the game go not from good, but from great to top tier, as it stands currently.
8The Ability To Skip The Dailies
One huge positive toHonkai: Star Rail being a linear experienceis how streamlined the daily quests are once they are available to you. No longer do you have to travel from waypoint to waypoint and on foot only to fight the same boss you always fight.
However, because of the turn-based nature of the game, you’ll have to play your battles one after the other in quick succession without the option to quickly battle them and skip combat. While auto-play does alleviate this somewhat by not requiring you to be hands-on, it would still be nice for those who need to but don’t have time to sit with their phone open.
7Streamline The Science Fiction Terms
Science Fiction can be an amazing way to explorevarious social themes and ask yourself questions about the theoretical future. If the world is built right, you can slowly immerse your audience into a world with mechanical marvels we can only dream about.
Trying to keep the balance between making a world feel fleshed out and overwhelming your world with terms that are new to the player. Star Rail does its best to toe the line, and for the most part, it does a good job. However, some of the elemental names and paths can be confusing for newbies.
6Controller Support For Phones
The biggest improvement between this game and Genshin Impact on mobile devices is the maneuverability in combat. You don’t have to worry about your thumbs sliding everywhere but the ‘joy stick’ on the screen and instead just have to simply input your commands. It feels nice to have that stability if you are on the phone.
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However, you still have to move about the maps manually to get to your next objective. The teleportation modules alleviate this some,but controller support for mobile phoneswould take the experience to the next level.
5Give The Trailblazer More Voiced Lines
For a silent protagonist, the Trailblazer is quite an amusing character.Whether they’re professing their admiration for the trash cans littered around Balabog, or trying to get out of doing favors only for them to fail, their deadpan sense of humor and inner thoughts make them a pleasure to play.
Which makes their lack of more voices lines an absolute crime! Why give us the cute personality, only to sprinkle it in like a pinch of seasoning, leaving us eagerly awaiting the next burst of flavor? The voice acting for the Trailblazer is underutilized, but hope a future patch or two will introduce more lines.
4Make The Simulated Universe More Visible
Herta, the owner of the space station you start the game in, is working on a huge video game that transports your body into a universe of her making. The Simulated Universe works like a roguelike game where the enemies and rewards are procedurally generated. The Universe is a good way to get level-up items, but the biggest draws are the five-star Light Cones, which are strong. It’s a fun way to get good gear for free.
Yet, if you aren’t going out of your way to go over to Herta’s office to run the gauntlet, it can be easy to forget you have to go over there. Her office is tucked away in a back corner of the space station, and unless you go into the menu and manually find it, the game does little to remind you to do it daily outside the battle pass.
3Gaining The Ability To Customize Artifacts Without The Battle Pass
Relics have gotten an overhaul in Honkai: Star Rail by gaining the ability to customize the buffs you get when you level them up, Meaning, you can now customize your five-star relics to your specific needs as long as you have the materials for them. You can get one from the battle pass too.
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The caveat though, is that you can only get the item only once a season, meaning you’ll have to wait another month or so before you can customize another relic, slowing down the process. Giving players another way to earn the customization item would be a great boost in power.
2Give The Characters More Lines During Combat
As the Trailblazer, you are going to get into numerous fights over your journey and a pattern will start to set in as you deal with mob after mob. Each character in battle is fully-voiced with their unique catchphrases. Everyone’s personality shines during this.
But, once you’ve been grinding for hours going through dozens of enemies, the same voice lines can weigh on the nerves a little. Perhaps down the road, they’ll add some additional voices to give the game a continued sense of being fresh, just as Genshin did in later patches. The comparisons to Genshin are bountiful; seeing as it was the previous game to this one and employs similar elements, it makes sense.
1Update The Story Often With Care
There was a lot of care taken when it came to writing the narrative of HSR. You can feel it throughout the story as it explores themes of living with grief, betrayal, and found family. There’s also a certain boss battle that will hit you straight in the heart and pull on its strings (if you know, you know).
If the story keeps on track, you are going to be in for an emotional ride that you don’t expect coming from Hoyoverse. The other games have their positives in the story as well, but because you are first-hand in the conversations instead of having someone serving as your mouthpiece, it feels a lot more personal. This might not technically be going from good to great, but the story deserves to be told as best as it can.
