Back at it again only with a more negative take, not that Star Rail got worse but its issues feel more cock abusive. The drip feed of content in live service stuff always annoyed me, a couple of months just for a few hours of story; "just go play something else" only really works if I enjoy the core gameplay. If coming back for the story yeahhhhhh might as well just youtube that shit, less of a hassle. The turn based combat here gets mind-numbing, everything takes too long even in autoplay with max speed. I've complained to a friend about this, misremembering if it really was this bad and got a simple "just play something else in the background while it autoplays", confirming my suspicion that everyone willingly playing this day in day out is engaging in some secret ring of cuckoldry while the youtube story watchers and booru researchers are sharing intimate times with their partners.
But even playing it for the first time this one felt that the combat here was a necessary evil and was more latched onto the world and characters. I've mentioned that the world felt more alive with its attention to detail in the side stuff, but the way you explore it makes me wanna make out with a shotgun. So moronic that you just teleport everywhere, making me wonder if this is the video game adaptation of the classic movie Jumper that so many of us have been clamoring for. Every sidequest you just zoom around - talk - zoom - combat that you can autoplay - cutscene maybe - zoom again for the ending convo. Just running around would've probably been tedious, but I've felt like I finished quests just for engaging with the map, surely there can be some kind of middle ground? For anyone vacuum-headed enough not to notice the issue and utter the classic "just don't use it" retort, I have to applaud you for making it this far (not talking about this jumbled mess of words). The world believability takes another big hit, of course, in its handling of dailies, with the same old man NPC asking you to get his same walking stick and shove it in his same pooper three days in a row, which promptly convinced me never to do them again (Groundhog Day was fun on first watch).
Heavens forbid something happens to these characters, I like them still (bastard OG Honkai doomers have no power here). Though will probably follow their ventures on YT from now on, gaming too hard can take toll on the neck area (careful doing headtilts in the future fellow gamers).
But even playing it for the first time this one felt that the combat here was a necessary evil and was more latched onto the world and characters. I've mentioned that the world felt more alive with its attention to detail in the side stuff, but the way you explore it makes me wanna make out with a shotgun. So moronic that you just teleport everywhere, making me wonder if this is the video game adaptation of the classic movie Jumper that so many of us have been clamoring for. Every sidequest you just zoom around - talk - zoom - combat that you can autoplay - cutscene maybe - zoom again for the ending convo. Just running around would've probably been tedious, but I've felt like I finished quests just for engaging with the map, surely there can be some kind of middle ground? For anyone vacuum-headed enough not to notice the issue and utter the classic "just don't use it" retort, I have to applaud you for making it this far (not talking about this jumbled mess of words). The world believability takes another big hit, of course, in its handling of dailies, with the same old man NPC asking you to get his same walking stick and shove it in his same pooper three days in a row, which promptly convinced me never to do them again (Groundhog Day was fun on first watch).
Heavens forbid something happens to these characters, I like them still (bastard OG Honkai doomers have no power here). Though will probably follow their ventures on YT from now on, gaming too hard can take toll on the neck area (careful doing headtilts in the future fellow gamers).