Played for about an hour, and it became immediately apparent that this is basically a sci-fi Genshin reskin. Down to the UI layout, cutscenes still being unskippable and the same shitty gacha system that seldom gives you actual characters. I know for a fact that this is a game that, like Genshin, will not respect anyone's time, asking you to spend days gathering space mushrooms or some bollocks just to be granted the privelege of being able to level up characters in a turn based RPG. Obviously, I don't know that last bit for sure, but seeing how derivative the game is of Genshin in the first hour, I don't think it's unfounded, and my patience has its limits.

This is typical gacha slop wherein the waifu slot machine was designed first, and then the game around it, made to get you addicted and waste as much of your time as possible. But people are going to eat it up anyway and act like this kind of game design is actually good and acceptable.

Addendum:

holy shit guys just please play any other turn based rpg I don't care if "you don't like turn based combat but this game is good!" there're infinitely better entry-level rpgs/rpgs that appeal to people who don't like the genre I'm on my knees

Reviewed on Apr 28, 2023


2 Comments


11 months ago

i'm glad mihoyo has destroyed any faith i had towards them ever making a product worth anyone's time other than playing the game one handed, because space shit without a 'realistic' art style is the easiest way to sucker me into a game and i'd have been so pissed with myself if i got tricked into playing more of their garbage

8 months ago

100% respect you don't like it (i got burnt out on genshin and its microtransactions/grinding aaaages ago personally, and even star rail can tire me out after a while of playing) but just in case anyone else reads this i do wanna clear up some factual inaccuracies here. the ui is pretty identical to genshin's (in the same way tower of fantasy is despite that one not being a mihoyo game), but star rail has TONS of QoL improvements that people have been asking for from genshin for years, like the higher resin/tbp cap, WAY more generous rates of currency, and completely viable free characters that you can use up to endgame. half my team is still just made up of free beginner characters you're given during the prologue/first chapters and they're some of my most powerful fighters and i've never paid a dollar for the game, i have more than enough to get any character i want just from doing the story and sidequests and logging in a few times a week to grab the log-in bonuses