Honkai: Star Rail. I love turn-based RPGs, and it continues to have the best turn-based combat I’ve ever played. The main story also has my favorite fiction trope (a shake-up of a pantheon) and it’s got amazing music, so it just hits a lot of really good spots for me.

Having played a chunk of the demo with Japanese audio, this hasn’t been a literal translation situation. It’s a standard JRPG localization, closer to NISA’s work with the series than XSEED’s that was on the loose side.

Yeah, was a solid move to echo the series opening with the in-game engine.

A roguelite structure seems like a natural fit for the premise, too.

Yeah, I’m not as down on the rebrand as everyone else seems to be, but this logo is a complete failure.

Or buying a lot of MTX in few games.

I know gaming enthusiasts don’t want to hear it, but a huge chunk of the market is people attached to one or two live service games.