Summary
The newly announcedHonkai: Star Railcollaboration event withFate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Workshas had no details revealed so far, but it does have the potential to fix one ofGenshin Impact’s biggest blunders. The turn-based RPG developed by HoYoverse will receive a special collab event with the popular anime series during the third quarter of 2025, though a more precise release window has yet to be revealed. The new collab was the final announcement in theHonkai: Star Rail2.4 livestream, though it has no connection to the upcoming patch – the event merely served as a stage.
During the special event, HoYoverse announced several of its planned contents for the upcoming period, including the return to the Xianzhou Luofu, the gameplay kits for Yunli, Jiaoqiu, and March 7th’s Hunt form, limited-time events, special quality-of-life updates, and more. There is a lot of content planned with therelease ofHonkai: Star Rail2.4, but, despite that, a lot of attention is shifting toward theFate/stay nightcollab. The future collaboration has a lot of potential, including the chance to retcon a mistake that HoYoverse made withGenshin Impact, and that it later tried to bury.
Honkai: Star Rail May Get A Brand-New Path Sooner Than Expected
One of Honkai: Star Rail’s non-playable Paths may soon become playable, according to a new leak about one of the Trailblazer’s upcoming forms.
Honkai: Star Rail’s Fate Collab Could Finally See HoYoverse Make Meaningful Collab Characters
HoYoverse ventured into the world of collabs with the promising announcement that Aloy, from PlayStation’sHorizonseries, would be added toGenshin Impactas a means of promoting the release ofHorizon Forbidden West. The collab started to derail when the release of the PlayStation game by Guerrilla was delayed and news around Aloy’s release started disappearing. Even withHorizon’s release months away, HoYoverse released Aloy as a playable character inGenshin Impact.Aloy was received poorly among players of the community due to her incredibly disappointing gameplay kitand because obtaining Aloy was limited to PlayStation players.
Furthermore, Aloy’s Constellations are unexistent and unobtainable, with no prospect as to when they may arrive, if they are ever added at all.
Aloy’s release inGenshin Impactset a stain on HoYoverse’s reputation for collabs, which is whyHonkai: Star Rail’s collab withFate/stay nightis equally exciting as it is terrifying. The recent announcement is exciting because the turn-based RPG now has the chance to correct the mistake made by its sister game and bring what is a great collaboration with the anime series. On the other hand, it does warrant caution, as the new collab could suffer the same fate asGenshin Impact’s collab withHorizon, resulting in lackluster characters that don’t live up to the expectations created around them.
What Honkai: Star Rail’s Collab With Fate Needs To Prosper
The Event Could Bring Forth Worthwhile Playable Characters & Even A Story Arc
This time around,it does not seem like HoYoverse’s collab is tied to an upcoming release that has the potential to be delayed. So far, a newFate/stay nightseries has not been announced and there have not been rumors of it happening any time soon. It does seem that the upcoming collab could avoid one of the factors that impacted theHorizonevent in the past. Of course, the biggest problem with the previous event is that Aloy was released, disappointed players, and then left aside as if the collab never happened in the first place.
Ultimately,Honkai: Star Rail’sFatecollab could avoid these problems by following some steps. The first is that, if the anime’s characters are adapted into the game, they are done so in a meaningful fashion.Simply adding a character from a popular series with a terrible gameplay kit is enough to ruin them, so characters like Archer or Saber need to have a positive impact on gameplay and be worth using in team comps. The next step is not limiting access to them through a specific platform. A large portion of the player base being left out would be disastrous.
For now, it is uncertain if the anime’s characters will become playable.
Additionally,the collab would be a lot more effective if the characters’s addition was not random, but explained through some sort of event, especially one with a narrative arc. Given the RPG’s space-venturing nature, the existence of theFateuniverse withinHonkai’s own universe could easily be explained, and that could very well lead to a Stellaron crisis that has the Astral Express meeting the characters from the anime. Of course, all of this is speculative since HoYoverse hasn’t revealed any details as to how it will occur.
Newest Fate Series' Ending Leaves Ample Room For New Anime Adaptation
Fate/Strange Fake’s approaching end of publication means the series has reached a definitive ending, good news for the upcoming anime adaptation.
Nevertheless, the prospect of the game’s collab with such a popular and rich anime series sounds extremely promising, even if it does make players worried given the company’s past attempts at in-game collabs. Hopefully, HoYoverse has learned its lesson withGenshin Impact, and the upcomingHonkai: Star Railcollab withFate/stay nightis a much more meaningful one.
