Highlights

  • In games like Mass Effect, morality choices shape outcomes, but the Praises of High Morals in Honkai Star Rail are strange and far less important.
  • The statue that players get for achieving a Praise of High Morals has a weird design and description, setting the tone for the silly morality system right off the bat.
  • Though they are usually earned by doing good deeds, Praises of High Morals in Honkai Star Rail can also be obtained in odd ways like scaring workers.

Role-playing games often use morality systems to give players a choice to mold their character’s personality and possibly influence the game’s ending. Mass Effect has multiple outcomes that play out according to that character’s morality choices throughout the story, and others have morality systems that offer little to no effect on progression. There are also morality systems that punish the player for making corrupt choices by adding more difficult obstacles, like Dishonored’s Chaos. Then, there’s Honkai Star Rail’s Praises of High Morals, which is just plain odd.

The ongoing main story of Honkai Star Rail is quite linear, but the game does provide side quests with multiple outcomes that trigger according to the player’s choices. A great but emotionally-charged example of this is the Envision a Rose Forthcoming quest in Penacony, where the player can help an NPC reckon with their dark memories. At the end of this quest, the player's choice will determine this character’s fate for good, which is a heavy burden to hold either way. Some aspects of the game’s morality system, like Praises of High Morals, are less significant and provide much-needed relief from the game’s often serious and high-stakes storyline.

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How Honkai Star Rail’s Praise of High Morals Works

Some players have probably already encountered a Praise of High Morals while talking to a random NPC or just exploring a new map. Its graphic features a bald, muscle-clad, and faceless statue giving a thumbs up. It has a scale on its back and a trophy base for its lower body. The description only adds to this item’s bizarreness, as it states that the item is a result of the player’s good moral standards manifesting into a physical form. There are various ways to obtain this item, including, but not limited to:

  • Watering the strange plant in Herta Space Station twice.
  • Filling out the feedback form in the Goethe Grand Hotel.
  • Interacting with a dubious Courier Package in Aurum Alley, surrendering it to the police, and declining the reward.
  • Scaring Goethe Grand Hotel employees by hiding in the closet.

Some conditions for acquiring Praise of High Morals range from mundane to outright ridiculous. On one hand, deeds like watering a plant are morally good things to do. On the other, getting a Praise of High Morals trophy for scaring workers is hilariously contradictory. Some of these situations are missable, so hardcore completionists may want to consult a guide on how to get Honkai Star Rail’s Praise of High Morals.

Honkai Star Rail’s Praises of High Morals Lets Players Get Away With Hijinks

What’s even funnier about the Praise of High Morals is that it’s meant to be consumed, not necessarily collected. There are different ways to use this trophy, and they’re just as funny and confusing as the collection methods. In Jarillo-VI, the player can consume their Praises of High Morals to fish out coins from a wish fountain, mess with dumpsters, get a Dazzling Golden Watch, and investigate a suspicious-looking suitcase near the cable car platforms.

This item can also be consumed on Xianzhou Luofu to unlock some funny situations, and one such instance is during the Mini-Neutron Bomb mission. The player can find a bomb in a pile of boxes near the Starskiff Jetty Anchor and find out that they can’t just throw it away because it will explode once it leaves their hands. They’ll then receive instructions from Jing Yuan on what to do with it when they get to Dragonprayer Terrace.

The player can follow his orders and surrender the bomb to Qingzu, causing it to somehow explode, or chuck it in a lake by consuming six Praises of High Morals. Doing this doesn’t detonate the bomb, and the player can gain three Praises of High morals back by reporting that it’s been destroyed. They'll get the "How I Learned to Stop Worrying" achievement either way. It seems that the Praises of High Morals are gained through mostly good deeds, but they can also be consumed to do some morally dubious things, which can be seen as a bleak take on the duality of human nature.