

Can she really be bad? Likewise, it’s letting us see her interactions with Silver Wolf and perhaps see that maybe she isn’t as potentially malicious as our later Astral Express encounter and Xianzhou Luofu experiences with her suggest.

We’re someone who is setting the story in motion. Editor’s Note: There are no spoilers for Honkai: Star Rail’s story or Kafka and Dan Heng’s background below.īy having the player be Kafka when Honkai: Star Rail begins, it helps provide a greater opportunity to question her motives and morality. In both cases, it can feel a bit different than the typical exposition or character questline, and it works to the benefit of the game in many ways to make its storyline, lore, and even gameplay better.

With Honkai: Star Rail, we’ve seen HoYoVerse employ this mechanic both with Kafka and Dan Heng, two people with major roles in the story. It can happen briefly to serve as a way to introduce a person or a story element. It isn’t unusual for a game to occasionally shift protagonists.
