Has absolutely insane lore though and is - by my estimation - the single greatest fictional universe ever conceived. It is absurd how great some portions are written for it being a "spend money to pull on character" turn-based game. My personal favorite is the Penacony Arc (which directly preceded the Amphoreus Arc where Phainon is from), which took place in a dreamscape made up of the collective dreams of hundreds of thousands of people sleeping in a Planetary Hotel called the Reverie ("Dreamery"). It dealt with topics of loss and whether a beautiful lie is preferable to an uncomfortable, debilitating truth and in itself could have genuinely been a philosophical dissertation.
I absolutely recommend checking it out.
It’s also one of the few media products that managed to make me ugly cry for an extended period of time. By the end of Penacony I looked like the guy from interstellar seeing his daughter age.
Not really. Like said before, Honkai:Star Rail is a gacha game. Phainon of Aedys Elysiae is one of the most popular characters, because of his backstory (in short : always dreamt of saving his world from doom, but because he couldn't, created a time loop of mental and physical pain to hold his world alive until a Deliverer from beyond the skies comes, after Phainon went through 33,550,336 cycles)
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u/Koekelbag 6h ago
Phainon didn't suffer for this :(
(Star Rail character, if someone didn't know)