Honkai: Star Rail – Sparkle and Misha revealed for update 2.0

Completing the line-up alongside Black Swan
Honkai: Star Rail – Sparkle and Misha revealed for update 2.0
Honkai: Star Rail – Sparkle and Misha revealed for update 2.0 /

Update 2.0, which is scheduled to be released in early 2024, will introduce Sparkle and Misha to Honkai: Star Rail. This completes the line-up of additions you can expect to see from the patch alongside the already revealed Black Swan.

Sparkle is another 5-Star character and follows the Path of The Harmony, making her a support unit. She deals Quantum Damage, which is actually going to make Quantum the first type in the game to get characters following all available Paths – congratulations! If you’re planning on going to town with full Quantum teams in the future, make sure to grab Silver Wolf while she’s still on the Honkai: Star Rail 1.5 banners, as she’s a crucial enabler for such a team composition.

Sparkle's design is very Japanese-inspired. Leakers originally knew her under the name Hanabi / HoYoverse

Sparkle is voiced by Lizzie Freeman, who plays Yanfei in Genshin Impact and has a whole long list of anime roles under her belt as well. Here’s the official description for Sparkle:

"I'm not exactly a person loaded with cool skills, and dreaming big isn't really my thing. But, ya know, my latest thing is... getting myself into the Genius Society! Ha, I'm so ready to give it a go. Reckon anyone will buy it?" A member of the Masked Fools. Inscrutable and unscrupulous. A dangerous master of theatrics engrossed in playing roles. A woman of countless masks and many faces. Wealth, status, power... None of this matters to Sparkle. The only thing that can lure her interest is "amusement."

Misha is a new 4-Star character coming with the update. He deals Ice Damage and follows the Path of The Destruction. Voiced by Cat Protano, who’s had roles in games like Genshin Impact and Warframe before, this character looks deceptively like Genshin Impact’s Furina at the first glance.

Misha seems to be a bellboy. Will the Trailblazer and March 7th's hotel trauma continue in 2.0? / HoYoverse

 Here’s the official description for Misha:

"I'm going to work really hard, so I can save up and explore the stars just like grown-ups do!" A lovable and thoughtful bellboy of The Reverie Hotel. He wishes to become an intergalactic adventurer like his grandfather. He is extremely hardworking and is skilled at fixing a variety of machines. He also had a fondness for sharing interstellar rumors with guests. He hopes he can grow up faster and looks forward to embarking on his own star-treading journey.

There we have it: Black Swan, Sparkle, and Misha will be the Honkai: Star Rail 2.0 characters you can obtain via the banners.

Before this trio can join as playable Honkai: Star Rail characters, another one will be introduced during the version preceding update 2.0. We’ll hear more about Ruan Mei, Dr. Ratio, and Xueyi in the upcoming Honkai: Star Rail 1.6 livestream.

Honkai: Star Rail codes: all active redemption codes in December 2023


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg