It's a turn-based RPG and I like those but it's a JRPG and I dislike those. I beat it too.I rarely feel as conflicted about a game as I do about Honkai: Star Rail. When Persona 5 came out you could buy super overpowered Personas that let you basically one shot the game… I don’t think Persona 5 is pay to win cause who cares what others do? It’s a single player game. They could sell a god mode where you can’t die and it won’t bother me. Like sure it was easier for them but how’s that change anything for you? P2W only really matters if you’re actually competing against someone and they can beat you cause of how much the spent. It’s like being mad someone used cheats or mods to beat a single player game. Sure it might be easier for them but who cares? It’s their game. You can still win, even if they pay a billion dollars it can’t stop you. I’m saying single player doesn’t matter for p2w cause no matter how much anyone pays it won’t hurt you. But regardless of bragging they both still win. Infact it’s the opposite, people brag more when they don’t pay and beat the same game. The games has the same difficulty for everyone and no one claims ‘you didn’t beat it’ if you don’t pay. What are you talking about with the AI being at 50% so it’s not a win? That’s the opposite of my point. Huh? I don’t see how your chess analogy is anything like what I said. Or that Ayaka skin is also waaaaaaay below the new Senti skin inspired by Jojo (both 4* skins) because the first one just has a tamed outfit change, while Senti has a total change and even a recolor of her skill effects. Same thing would be saying Dilluc skin is way below Elysia HoHE skin (both 5* skins), since the first one barely changes skills while the other changes colors, the whole skills, the companion and even the battlefield. The point is, your statement was messy and you mixed Dilluc skin with different battlesuits from Honkai, and they aren't the same thing, you can't compare default Dilluc vs Dilluc with a skin with Kiana White Comet vs Kiana HoFin because the last two are different characters. There's no PvP and truly no difficult content, unlike Honkai that requires us to have the newest valks and gears to compete, that system shows its flaws more and more as time goes by. In Genshin you can still use Kaeya, Lisa or Amber if you really like them, even if they're quite weak compared to other chars like Ayaka, Baal or Hu Tao. Honkai has soooo many powercrept valkyries. Characters are relevant in Genshin lol that's one of the best scenarios in gachas.

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