At the just-held "Oscars of the game industry", that is, at the 2023 TGA Awards Ceremony, "Honkai: Star Railway" (hereinafter referred to as "Star Rail") defeated "Final Fantasy 7: Eternal Crisis", "Monster Hunter Now" and other well-known IP derivative mobile game works in the game industry, and won the crown of the best mobile game, showing the strength of Chinese games in this world-world video game event.
Star Rail" won the award, and players were naturally the happiest. Because in addition to getting more recognition for your favorite games, miHoYo officials will also give out a lot of benefits to help win the award. At the beginning of the month, after "Star Rail" won the Game of the Year awards from the App Store and Google Play, "Star Rail" players have already mentioned the Star Qiong benefit. If there's anything cooler than the benefits of white prostitution, it's white prostitution twice.
In fact, judging from the performance of "Star Iron" for more than 7 months, there is not much suspense about winning the mobile game of the year. Since its launch, the results of "Star Iron" have been impressive, and it is still an all-round type at home and abroad. Whenever the card pool is updated, it will inevitably top the best-selling list of domestic mobile games, showing stable and continuous operation capabilitiesIn overseas battlefields such as Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, the performance of "Star Rail", which was launched simultaneously around the world, is also very eye-catching, and it has repeatedly hit the best-selling list. In a bunch of domestic mobile games, "Star Rail", which has only been in service for half a year, is like a leader.
The newcomer who debuted for half a year has such a performance, naturally because of his excellent quality. After all, players have always voted based on their actual experience, and the only thing that can make them willing to pay for it is the quality of the game's fun and charm.
During the beta phase of Star Rail, many industry insiders who had experienced the game content expressed the argument that "miHoYo is crazy", on the grounds that miHoYo actually used top-notch audio and video resources at any cost for a turn-based game. Even compared with miHoYo's previous works, the "evolution" of Star Rail is obvious: the characters are more finely modeled, their expressions are richer, and their movements are more natural. With the combination of still high-level background** and character dubbing, whether it is a cutscene CG, real-time calculations, or in the battle process and daily dialogue, "Star Rail" can easily fill the player's sense of substitution and immerse players in an audio-visual feast.
Some people say that on the two-dimensional turn-based track, miHoYo drove a road roller.
With the top-level music and painting expression as the foundation, the core selling point of the second game has become handy to create a character image. Through a variety of performances, activities, texts and combat performances, "Star Iron" has portrayed a rich and three-dimensional image for the 38 characters in the game, from the young and energetic beautiful girl, the cold on the outside and the hot on the inside, to the Buddhist fishing workers, the introverted and elegant general, many unforgettable characters quickly left a distinct impression in the hearts of players, and naturally became the core motivation for players to hoard resources and draw cards.
In terms of core gameplay, "Star Iron" also responded to the question of "no novelty and no pleasure in the turn-based system" with actual performance - enough mechanics and changes have been added to the design, the characters have various attributes and fate, and the basic combat mechanism also has variables such as action sequence, combat skill points, weak click breaks and energy recovery, etc., so that not only can Meng Xin intuitively understand the combat mechanism, but the "Strength Party" boss can also play his own mind in a bunch of mechanics and team selection.
As a relatively relaxed atmosphere and relatively suitable liver degree, the "ability to fry stalks" of "Star Iron" is also a major feature. The development team not only planted countless memes in the ontology tasks and texts, but even made the entire event into memes.
For example, in the "Future Market" task launched some time ago, the enemy faced by the player is a group of company employees who regard "corporate culture shock", "punishment", "cost reduction and efficiency increase", and "training" as skillsThe "Aether Front" event, which is based on the gameplay of catching pets and fighting, is a direct tribute to the predecessors of the turn-based game "Pokémon", and various familiar storyboard performances have surprised "Pokémon" players. The recent "Fox Zhai Strange Ambition" event combines supernatural events with Internet live broadcasts, and constructs an Internet in cyber ghost hunting, with so many gameplay and stalks that players are overwhelmed.
With such a game content foundation and industrial hard power, it deserves to win the best mobile game award in the 2023 TGA.
Of course, for "Star Iron", which has only been on service for more than half a year, a best of the year is worth celebrating, but it is not worth staying too much. Just like the game's slogan: "May this trip eventually reach the planet", I believe that the journey of the Star Dome Train will always be an endless sea of stars.