All you had to do to make turn based look "fun" and "something I would play" was to attach it to a gacha. In Star Rail's defense, the game looks good, animations are wonderfully made and it plays well enough to justify any kind of investment: characters have a lot of charm and it's not as dull as other similar experiences in the same macro-genre of games.
If I had to say something contrarian: I would love to have an actual space exploration and\or better navigation. Instead of putting animations at double speed I wish I could skip them entirely.
Yet I am still salty that when I played turn based games in 2008 I was a boomer and had weird tastes, now it's hip and cool! The audacity. I also stopped playing because "wow this game is awesome!" ads kept filling my youtube essay playlist and I've had enough. Genshin ads aren't as insufferable and make me want to play their game, Honkai Star Rail made me want to unistall it.
If I had to say something contrarian: I would love to have an actual space exploration and\or better navigation. Instead of putting animations at double speed I wish I could skip them entirely.
Yet I am still salty that when I played turn based games in 2008 I was a boomer and had weird tastes, now it's hip and cool! The audacity. I also stopped playing because "wow this game is awesome!" ads kept filling my youtube essay playlist and I've had enough. Genshin ads aren't as insufferable and make me want to play their game, Honkai Star Rail made me want to unistall it.