Genshin Impact brought the world of HoYoverse games to a much larger audience than ever before, but Honkai: Star Rail was the game that proved the company's staying power. Several years later, Star Rail is still going strong, even after the launch of Zenless Zone Zero and the impending release of games like Petit Planet and Honkai: Nexus Anima.
At a HoYoverse press event in Seoul, ScreenRant sat down in a group interview with Honkai: Star Rail's lead game designer Chengnan An to discuss the state of the game and future plans. Honkai: Star Rail's introduction of the first playable Aeon, Aha, naturally came up in the conversation, and the developers offered some details about both Aha's development and the potential for future playable Aeons.
First, Chengnan An addressed the tricky subject of making an Aeon playable in combat without upsetting the balance. While power creep always tends to come into the conversation with ongoing live-service games, HoYoverse doesn't want to simply drop an Aeon into the mix and "overcome all the existing characters." In Aha's case, focusing purely on destructive strength would also fail to "fit her personality as an Aeon of Elation."
Aha was chosen as the...
