Monstadt, Liyue, Inazuma, Fontaine, and Natlan. These are the five complete regions of Genshin Impact, and we calculated that their combined Archon quest length was about 74 hours. Hoyoverse isn’t beating the Honkai Star Rail favoritism allegations, though, as new figures show the time it takes to complete each HSR world, and it’s kind of a shocker. Despite coming out an entire three years later and having one less region, Honkai Star Rail’s main quests will take you… 74 hours.
That’s right – the last five years of Genshin history are exactly equivalent to the two and a half years of Honkai Star Rail lore, according to time at least. A post on Reddit divides the worlds up to explain the calculation – while the Space Station took a little less than two hours, the time gradually increases, with a chill six to eight hours for the next two worlds. Then Penacony’s 18-hour quest appears, with the list culminating in a whopping 39.5-hour main quest in HSR’s most recently released world, Amphoreus. The post also includes the amount of time quests would take you if you skipped every piece of dialogue that you could – and Amphoreus is still somehow six hours long.
To many, these quests are what make Hoyoverse games so interesting and enjoyable, so the lore-lovers are getting fed. We can only imagine that HSR recently bringing in a ‘skip’ button for dialogue was a reaction to the players who prefer combat or gacha elements to quests – presumably, Amphoreus, and to some extent Penacony, were a bit of a headache to some. With the feature, Hoyoverse is essentially patting you on the back and telling you it’s okay if you enjoy the lore dumps a little less.
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