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Honkai: Star Rail team designs characters with story first, combat second

Polygon.com·Julia Lee·about 1 month ago
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Honkai: Star Rail just celebrated its fourth anniversary on April 25. In those four years, the game has amassed more than 80 playable characters and five unique areas for players to explore. With its unique turn-based combat – which is a bit different from the other action RPGs that now flood the mobile game market – it can be hard to come up with unique playstyles for these characters, as well as gimmicks for these new areas to introduce each year. Alongside the addition of the two most recent planets, Amphoreus and Planarcadia, new "paths" were introduced. You can think of paths like a unique playstyle or class for the characters. The Hunt path usually features single-target DPS characters, the Abundance path focuses on healers, Preservation characters give their allies shields, and so forth. While not all paths have clear rules and gimmicks, the new paths introduced definitely do.…

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