Michael Lin & Fish Ling Interview: HoYoverse's Honkai Star Rail

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is a new turn-based, space fantasy game where players must travel across planets to uncover answers about a great evil threatening the universe. The title comes from HoYoverse, the developer behind the massively popular games and. Just exiting its final run of beta sign-ups earlier this month, is slated for release some time this spring.

The game draws great inspiration from Eastern fantasy in both its silkpunk visuals and unique storytelling, following a protagonist who's been injected with Stellaron — which has been described as seeds of ruin — in a world full of powerful, evil gods called Destructions. 's combat marks HoYoverse's first foray into turn-based battles, and players can expect a wholly different experience than in previous games from the developer. The protagonist will traverse the world on the Astral Express, the inspiration behind the title's name, as they seek to uncover the mysteries behind the Stellaron.

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HoYoverse's Senior Director of Global Business Development Fish Ling and Global Business Development team member Michael Lin sat down with to discuss the world of, its fantasy inspirations, and what players can expect from the game.

Screen Rant: I'd love to first just hear about how this whole idea started out and how it's grown from the beginning.

Michael Lin: Sure. So the game is a space fantasy RPG. So a bunch of the development, consisting of 700 people for the game itself, are big fans of sci-fi, and are big fans of turn-based RPGs. And we felt that the turn-based combat system is something we have not done before in the company yet, in all our previous games. It's still a viable genre to base the game on, and we felt that